🏭⚡️Power of Siberia 2: Fueling China’s rise, sealing Europe’s decline

Russia, China, and Mongolia have agreed to build a new pipeline that will divert gas once destined for Europe.

The pipeline could give China a new competitive edge, while Europe's economy slides downhill, experts say.

"By rejecting Russian gas and cutting supplies from Russia, Europeans essentially created and worsened a shortage in their own market," Igor Yushkov, an expert from Russia's National Energy Security Fund, tells Sputnik.

Self-made economic disaster

👉 The EU failed to invest in new fields and infrastructure. At some point, supply could no longer keep up with demand. Cutting Russian deliveries only deepened the problem

👉 High gas prices drive up electricity costs, making European goods pricier than Chinese ones and less competitive on global markets

China: From strength to strength

👉 Additional gas deliveries from Russia along multiple routes, including Power of Siberia 2 - a pipeline with a capacity of 50 billion cubic meters - secures enough gas for decades to come, ensuring China can maintain low production costs

👉 Unlike Europe, China isn’t limiting its supplier base, and Russia is a reliable partner

"Russia has provided China, in fact Asia, with all the trump cards to win any competition. Europe can only look on and keep asking themselves why shooting themselves in both feet was ever considered a positive condition to self-impose," Paul Goncharoff, veteran financial analyst and general director of consulting firm Goncharoff LCC, emphasizes.

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🇨🇳😎 China’s Victory Day Parade was so BASED, Americans genuinely thought it was AI-generated

Maybe because their own parades are just so lame?

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📹No choice, no voice: Ukraine's conscription nightmare continues

Volodymyr Zelensky’s thugs continue implementing forced conscription in Odessa amid resistance from locals who clearly don’t want to be sent to the front lines.

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🚨🇷🇺✈️ 'FLYING KREMLIN': RUSSIA’S PRESIDENTIAL JET REVEALED

The domestically made IL-96 is the aircraft that carries Vladimir Putin to pivotal international events.

◻️ More than just a plane—it's a mobile state control center

◻️ Equipped with advanced defense systems & secure communications

◻️ Nicknamed the "Air Residence," it includes offices, meeting rooms, a medical unit, and living quarters

◻️ Always flies with backup aircraft for maximum security

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☢️🇮🇷 IRAN FREEZES NEW COOPERATION WITH IAEA

Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi declares:

🔶 No new agreements until current talks finish

🔶 IAEA must establish a new framework for cooperation

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🔊 Musk has no choice but to rejoin the GOP — Trump

In an interview, the US president stated that Elon Musk is "80% super genius" who has "some difficulty," and predicted his inevitable return to the GOP.

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🚀 US vows to beat China in the '2nd space race'

Acting NASA Administrator Sean Duffy tells Fox News:

◼️ Artemis II (April 2026) will take a crew of 4 people around the moon

◼️ Artemis III (mid-2027) will keep crew on Moon for up to 12 days — far longer than past missions

◼️ Plans include a permanent base camp and eventual Mars missions in the 2030s

Duffy added that China wants to send its manned mission to the Moon before the United States.

"China is making huge strides in its space program... We know that China wants to overtake us. We will not let that happen."

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📹 LIVE: Maria Zakharova holds a weekly briefing from the Eastern Economic Forum

This week's Russian Foreign Ministry briefing is taking place in Vladivostok at the anniversary 10th Eastern Economic Forum.

👉 Watch live in our Telegram

❗️ Lavrov will represent Russia at UN General Assembly in September — Maria Zakharova on the sidelines of the Eastern Economic Forum.

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❗️ Zelensky's security guarantees for Ukraine are unacceptable, they are "guarantees of insecurity" — Maria Zakharova on the sidelines of the Eastern Economic Forum.

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☢️🇷🇺 Rosatom plans to create a large cluster of nuclear power industry facilities in the Far East, Rosatom CEO Alexey Likhachev said.

"We will not just come here, to the Far East. We will actually create a large nuclear cluster here," Likhachev said at the Eastern Economic Forum.

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❗️ Moscow will take into account military threats Europe creates on border with Russia — Zakharova

"We will take into account the threats to national security created on our border when building a complex mechanism to respond to them," Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said.

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🔊 Russia's financial mechanism in Africa 'breaks SWIFT system as such' - PSB Bank deputy chair

New financial mechanisms go beyond Russia's relations with its foreign counterparties, said Mikhail Dorofeev, Deputy Chairman of Russia's PSB bank.

"We are opening new offices in Africa... The system is already global, reaching the level of exchange within it and beyond Russia," he noted.

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