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пятница, 1 мая 2026 г.

Let's speak about american socialists!

Since 1 january 2026 the mayor post of the capital of world capital holds typical socialist Zohran Mamdani. I thoot it would be fair to start from him🤔

Let's learn his biography:

Zohran Kwame Mamdani was born on October 18, 1991, in Kampala, Uganda, the only child of postcolonialist academic Mahmood Mamdani and filmmaker Mira Nair

"postcolonialist academic"☝️ Not a physicist, not a chemist, not a talented engineer or doctor... Well!

Mamdani was one of 23 Ugandan students in the 1963 group of the Kennedy Airlift, a US-funded scholarship program that brought hundreds of East Africans to universities in the United States and Canada between 1959 and 1963. Mamdani graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Pittsburgh in 1967.
He was among the many students in the northern US who made the bus journey south to Montgomery, Alabama, organized by the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee in March 1965 to participate in the civil rights movement. This was during the time of, but distinct from, the Selma to Montgomery marches. He was jailed during the march and was allowed to make a phone call. Mamdani called the Ugandan ambassador in Washington, DC, for assistance. The ambassador asked him why he was "interfering in the internal affairs of a foreign country", to which he responded by saying that this was not an internal affair but a freedom struggle and that they too had gotten their freedom only last year. Soon after, Mamdani learned about Karl Marx's work from an FBI visit

Look! He produced nothing, made no scientific discoveries, and, in short, was not noted for any creative activity. He merely studied at the expense of the American taxpayer. But after just two years of studying in the US, he began "fighting for rights."

BTW what kind of activity the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee was engaged?

By the mid-1960s the measured nature of the gains made, and the violence with which they were resisted, were generating dissent from the group's principles of nonviolence, of white participation in the movement, and of field-driven, as opposed to national-office, leadership and direction. By this time many of SNCC's original organizers were working with the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), and others were being lost to a de-segregating Democratic Party and to federally-funded anti-poverty programs. At the same time, the Committee took positions on international affairs that alienated establishment supporters: opposition to the Vietnam War and, in the wake of the Six Day War, criticism of Israel.

The main critics of the Vietnam War were the Soviet Union, which closely collaborated with the government of North Vietnam under Ho Chi Minh. And the same Soviet Union was the main critic of Zionism after the defeat of the Arab coalition in 1967. Incidentally, I haven't heard a single word of indignation about the occupation of territory intended for the creation of the country of "Palestine" by Egypt (the Gaza Strip) and Jordan. Let me remind you that the Soviet Union voted by three votes for the partition of Mandatory Palestine. I wrote about this HERE. And first time Soviet Union helped to young jewish state counting on the Jews to help the Soviet Union push its line in the Middle East. But by the 1950s, the Soviet Union had completely sided with the Arabs, actively pumping them with weapons.

Soviet representatives on the Security Council consistently defend the General Assembly resolution on the partition of Palestine of November 29, 1947.
In response to M. Shertok’s telegram, Comrade Molotov reported in his telegram of May 18 that “the Government of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics has made a decision to officially recognize the State of Israel and its Provisional Government”.
...the USSR's position should consist of defending the General Assembly's decision of November 29, 1947, on the partition of Palestine and the formation of Jewish and Arab states in Palestine. At the same time, it is necessary to decisively reject any proposal to expand Transjordan at the expense of Palestine, which to a certain extent may be supported by some Arab states (for example, Syria, Saudi Arabia, Egypt).

But... western socialists don't care it🤔 Socialists are generally bad at causal relationships.
Socialists also have their own anti-colonialism: if Western capital pushes its interests - it’s "bad"; if the Soviet Union does the same - it’s "good".

Mamdani's father also learned Karl Marx's works! Well Let me introduce you to some moments in his biography which could look "awkward" for his fans
What's interesting else?

Mamdani returned to Uganda in early 1972 and was employed by Makerere University in Kampala as a teaching assistant, at the same time conducting his doctoral research. He and most Asians were expelled later that year by Ugandan dictator Idi Amin because of their ethnicity; Amin intended to "reclaim" businesses and properties.

What we should to know about Idi Amin in this case?

Throughout the first year of his presidency, Amin received key military and financial support from the United Kingdom and Israel. In July 1971 he visited both countries and asked for advanced military equipment, but the states refused to provide hardware unless the Ugandan government paid for it. Amin decided to seek foreign support elsewhere and in February 1972 he visited Libya. Amin denounced Zionism (He was probably offended that they weren't giving him anything for free🤔), and in return Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi pledged Uganda an immediate $25 million loan to be followed by more lending from the Libyan–Ugandan Development Bank. Over the following months Amin successively removed Israeli military advisers from his government, expelled all other Israeli technicians, and finally broke diplomatic relations.
The Soviet Union under Leonid Brezhnev grew increasingly interested in Uganda as a strategic counterbalance to perceived Chinese influence in Tanzania and Western influence in Kenya. It dispatched a military mission to Uganda in November 1973. While it could not supply the financial level available from the Western powers, the Soviet Union opted to provide Amin with military hardware in exchange for his support. The Soviet Union quickly became Amin's largest arms supplier, sending Uganda tanks, jets, artillery, missiles, and small arms. By 1975, it was estimated that the Soviets had provided Amin's government with $12 million in economic assistance and $48 million in arms. Amin also sent several thousand Ugandans to Eastern Bloc countries for military, intelligence, and technical training, especially Czechoslovakia. East Germany was involved in the General Service Unit and the State Research Bureau, the two agencies that were most notorious for terror. During the Ugandan invasion of Tanzania in 1979, East Germany attempted to remove evidence of its involvement with these agencies...
In June 1976, Amin allowed an Air France airliner that had been scheduled to fly from Tel Aviv to Paris but had been hijacked by two members of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine – External Operations and two members of the German Revolutionäre Zellen to land at Entebbe Airport.

Well... This is how the Soviet Union united the proletarians of all countries. And for some reason, everyone united around so-called "Palestine", whose occupation by Arab countries from 1948 to 1967 no one, including the Soviet Union, condemned. But as soon as they began to suffer defeat, everyone immediately became "anti-colonialists."

BTW this is words of first PLO-chief Ahmad Shukeiri said in 1962 to soviet ambassador

Shukairi said that he was even in favor of Jordan not only retaining part of Palestine, but that all of liberated Palestine would be annexed to Jordan. The main task is to liberate Palestine and eliminate Israel, regardless of whether Palestine is independent or annexed to Jordan

I already wrote about it - READ HERE

This is what the so-called Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, which included the NY mayor's daddy, condemned.
I don't see any point in discussing the rest of her biography—everything is perfectly clear here. Let's move on to his mother:

Mira Nair was born in Rourkela on 15 October 1957, the daughter of social worker Praveen Nair and Indian Administrative Service officer Amrit Lal Nair...

Again "social workers" and "administrative employees," that is, in simple terms, typical bureaucrats🤔

She studied at Miranda House — a college for women at Delhi University — where she majored in sociology...
After turning down the offer of a full scholarship to Cambridge University in England (later saying "I had a chip on my shoulder about the Brits") in 1976, aged 19, she moved to the US to attend Harvard University on a scholarship.
That's why I am neither a photographer nor writer, I like to work with people, and my strength, if any, is that. Working with life

And icing on the cake😃

In July 2013, Nair declined an invitation to the Haifa International Film Festival as a "guest of honor" to protest Israel's policies toward Palestine. In posts on Twitter, Nair wrote: "I will go to Israel when the walls come down. I will go to Israel when occupation is gone...I will go to Israel when the state does not privilege one religion over another. I will go to Israel when Apartheid is over. I stand w/ Palestine for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI) and the larger BDS Mov't." Nair was praised by PACBI, which said her decision to boycott Israel "helps to highlight the struggle against colonialism and apartheid

It is more than obvious whose methodology this lady is broadcasting🤔

Well, it is these same individuals with highly questionable "achievements" who have introduced the world to the new mayor of NYC.

Mamdani lived in Kampala until the age of five, when his family moved to Cape Town, in South Africa's Western Cape province... He later said that the experience of living in Cape Town "taught me what inequality looks like up close ... [and] that justice has to be more than an idea; it has to be material"

In this phrase we hear the sacramental "take away and divide" typical of the proletariat.

The family moved to the United States and settled in New York City when Mamdani was seven, and he was raised in Morningside Heights. He has described his upbringing as "privileged", saying, "I never had to want for something, and yet I knew that was not in any way the reality for most New Yorkers."

Typically words of champagne socialist - kid from a bohemian family, fawning over the crowd

Mamdani attended Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine, where he co-founded the school's chapter of Students for Justice in Palestine. He was a regular contributor to the campus newspaper The Bowdoin Orient, covering politics, culture, and sports in his column, "Kwame's Column". In January 2014, he co-authored an op-ed in the Bangor Daily News urging Bowdoin to join the American Studies Association's boycott of Israel and criticizing the college's president, Barry Mills. Mamdani graduated from Bowdoin in 2014 with a bachelor's degree in Africana studies

As we say "apple falls nearby the apple-tree" means "like father like son"😃

As far as I know, Mamdani the son was never seen in creative or scientific activity, just like his ancestors. That is, a typical loudmouth demagogue demanding justice at someone else's expense.

Mamdani is a fan of hip-hop and has composed, performed, and produced rap music. Under the moniker Young Cardamom, he collaborated with his best friend, Ugandan rapper HAB (Abdul Bar Hussein), whose origins are in South Sudan

A little bit of his creativity

Only 1.3 million views in 6 years. Definitely creativity like this is interesting for not very wide group of people🤔 He doesn't sell creativity as a commodity, to profit from it and share the proceeds with the poor, as creative people like Willem Dafoe (although there are many questions about its apparent asceticism, but that is a separate topic🤨) do. No! He prefers not to bother too much, but simply "take and share."
BTW the video went viral not because of the rapper's talent, but because of the inclusion of Madhur Jaffrey, the legendary actress and food critic, who played the role of a "cool grandma". It's a classic example of exploiting someone else's authority and connections (remember the director mom!) to create the illusion of popularity.

In their music, they addressed social issues in Uganda, such as corruption and "black and brown relations", as well as colonialism. Young Cardamom and HAB were nominated for "Rookie of the Year" at the inaugural Ugandan (UG) Hip Hop Awards...
Mamdani entered New York City politics as a volunteer for Ali Najmi's campaign in the 2015 special election for the 23rd district of the City Council

If Mamdani is so concerned about Uganda, why did he become mayor of New York? To turn New York into Uganda?🤔 Maybe he should have turned Uganda into New York? No?🤨 Oh yes, it takes work, and no one in the Mamdani family is accustomed to working.
Incidentally, Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, among others, proclaimed in their Communist manifesto enforcement of universal obligation of labour. But... Mamdani is a patrician🤔 Or what else should we call it? Doesn't the reader see some contradiction to Marxism, which both his venerable daddy and he himself adhere to?🤨
Marx and Engels declared the abolition of classes, but... it seems we can't do without classes. The poor remains of Marxism's founders are tossing and turning in their graves, because classes haven't gone away! And the ruling class has become the "red bourgeoisie" or nomenklatura like Mamdani. Their "labor" is an interpretation of reality. They don't build houses, fix teeth, or code software. They "create meanings" that allow them to justify the expropriation of the fruits of labor from those who actually work.

But why are we only talking about Mamdani? Let's take a closer look at his komsomol colleagues!😃

Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s newly appointed tenant advocate called to “seize private property” and blasted homeownership as a “weapon of white supremacy” in a series of pro-Communist social media posts.

Meet Cea Weaver! New NYC tenant advocate called to "seize private property" blasted homeownership as "white supremacy"...

"Private property including and kind of ESPECIALLY homeownership is a weapon of white supremacy masquerading as ‘wealth building’ public policy."

But... her daddy manages rental property and her mommy is a professor at a prestigious college and boasts a $1.6 million home in Tennessee - https://nypost.com/2026/01/07/us-news/zohran-mamdanis-tenant-advocate-cea-weaver-breaks-down-crying-when-asked-about-hypocritical-gentrification-comments/ Just almost like Friedrich Engels parasitizing on his rich daddy!😃
If that's not hypocrisy, then I don't know what hypocrisy is🤔

She previously coordinated the statewide organization Housing Justice for All and was a central figure in the campaign that led to the passage of the Housing Stability and Tenant Protection Act of 2019. A member of the Democratic Socialists of America, Weaver has advocated for rent strikes and regulations that prioritize housing for community use rather than profit.

As always, justice is at someone else's expense, the main thing is not at one's own

Go to next person! Lina Khan

Khan was born on March 3, 1989, in London, to Pakistani immigrant parents

Another "depressed"! Why I'm not surprized?🤨

She grew up in Golders Green in the London Borough of Barnet. Her parents, a management consultant and an employee of Thomson Reuters, moved to the United States when she was 11 years old. The family settled in Mamaroneck, New York, where she and her two siblings attended public school
The racial makeup of the town was 88.93% White, 2.80% Black or African American, 0.12% Native American, 3.12% Asian, 0.05% Pacific Islander, 2.91% from other races, and 2.06% from two or more races. Hispanic of any race were 10.92% of the population.
The median income for a household in the town was $84,213, and the median income for a family was $118,774 (these figures had risen to $108,702 and $144,834 respectively as of a 2007 estimate). Males had a median income of $81,249 versus $42,703 for females. The per capita income for the town was $57,822. About 2.9% of families and 4.5% of the population were below the poverty line, including 3.7% of those under age 18 and 7.1% of those age 65 or over.

Not bad place to be pakistani "depressed"🤔

At Mamaroneck High School, Khan was involved in the student newspaper. After high school, she studied political science at Williams College in Massachusetts. She spent her junior year studying at Exeter College, Oxford through the Williams-Exeter Programme at Oxford. She was the editor of the Williams College student newspaper and wrote her senior thesis on Hannah Arendt. She graduated in 2010 with a Bachelor of Arts...
...
Williams College is a private liberal arts college in Williamstown, Massachusetts... Following a liberal arts curriculum, Williams College provides undergraduate instruction in 25 academic departments and interdisciplinary programs including 36 majors in the humanities, arts, social sciences, and natural sciences
From 2010 to 2014, Khan worked at the New America Foundation, where she engaged in anti-monopoly research and writing for Barry Lynn at the Open Markets Program. Lynn was looking for a researcher without a background in economics, and he began critiquing market consolidation with Khan's help

Critiquing market consolidation without a background in economics?🤨 Ok-kay...😏

Who's next?
Jahmila Edwards

...a top official in the city’s DC 37 union... DC 37 is the city’s largest public sector union, representing more than 150,000 active city workers employed across the municipal government. As associate director, Edwards has helped oversee the powerful union’s public policy and political operations.
The union was a key supporter of Mamdani during the 2025 mayoral race.

Typically "nomenclatura" which I wrote above

Edwards is also the district leader for Brooklyn’s District 43, which spans Crown Heights and Prospect Lefferts Gardens, and the founder of Stash Queens, a Brooklyn-based cannabis company, according to her LinkedIn page.

You know here I remembered one of my favorite song os Black Sabbath where are this words

You work your life away and what do they give?
You're only killing yourself to live
Just take a look around you, what do you see?
Pain, suffering, and misery
It's not the way that the world was meant
It's a pity, you don't understand
...
I'm telling you, believe in me, nobody else will tell you
Open your eyes and see the lies, oh yeah
Smoke it! Get high!...

🤔

Great song, Gteatest group! R.I.P. Ozzy!😢

Let's shift to another "proletarian"!


Mysonne Linen
Mysonne “the General” is an independent hip hop artist and criminal justice reform activist from the Bronx whose singular work with impacted communities has made extraordinary contributions to stopping violence. As Paul Robeson said “Artists are the gatekeepers of truth. They are civilization’s radical voice”.
As a member of the rapid response group Justice League NYC, and in his role as a valued member of Women’s March, Mysonne helped lead national demonstrations against police brutality and gun violence, including leading the 250 mile March2Justice from New York to Washington, DC in 2015 and organizing the Women’s March NRA2DOJ march in 2018

Most popular his composition with 980 thousands views also created 6 years ago

But it's not most interesting!

Zohran Mamdani has picked Mysonne Linen, who was in state prison for armed robbery, to advise him on the criminal justice system...
As reported by Fox News and the New York Post, he was convicted in 1999 of two armed robberies involving taxi drivers, in cases where both victims identified him in court.

The robber will be a criminal justice consultant!🤣🤣🤣

BTW What is Paul Robeson famous for?

When Paul Robeson first arrived in the Soviet Union in 1934, he was greeted as an international celebrity, one of the world's greatest singers. An idealist, Robeson believed the social climate in the USSR was healthier than in the United States. Wanting to shield his son from racism, he brought him to Moscow. The Kremlin, of course, knew of Robeson's idealistic views on Soviet society, successfully concealed the harsh reality of Soviet life from him, and transformed him into a devoted Marxist-Leninist. In 1939, Robeson returned to the Soviet Union again—this time to pick up his son. War had broken out in Europe, and Robeson considered it dangerous to leave him in Moscow. When he returned ten years later, in 1949, newspapers hailed him as a hero of the Spanish Civil War, where he reportedly risked his life to perform for the soldiers of the International Brigades. Robeson, along with his renowned accompanist Lawrence Brown, gave three concerts in Moscow, after which he embarked on a tour of the country...
...Upon Robeson's return to the United States, following a triumphant tour of the Soviet Union, the authorities revoked his passport, citing his anti-American statements. During one of his concerts in the USSR, Robeson said in Russian, "I was, am, and always will be a friend of the Soviet Union."
When, after performing several songs, Robeson launched into the next, I shuddered in surprise. I had heard this sad Jewish song about the people's centuries-long suffering before and suspected it would anger the party leaders present at the concert. Did Robeson, who saw only the good in the Soviet system, know about the existence of anti-Semitism in the USSR? He probably did, and most likely, he understood what he was doing. His voice was sobbing, a call to end the humiliation, beating, and extermination of Jews. He sang in Yiddish, but I was sure that even those in the audience who were hearing this sad song for the first time sensed its message... Robeson allegedly asked Khrushchev whether Western newspapers were telling the truth about the existence of anti-Semitism in the USSR. After this, according to my interlocutor, whose honesty I had no doubt, "Khrushchev, known for his irascibility, flew into a rage and accused Robeson of interfering in the country's internal affairs"...
...when word spread of Robeson's conflict with Khrushchev, the broadcasts ceased. I never heard him on the radio or read about him in the newspapers again. He was erased from the collective memory of the country he admired. He was a favorite of the Soviets as long as he blindly followed their ideological line, but he became a pariah as soon as he questioned the justice of their domestic policies.

From the book of Robert Robinson "Black on red"

Ramzi Kassem

https://www.financialexpress.com/world-news/us-news/who-is-ramzi-kassem-mamdani-taps-lawyer-who-once-defended-al-qaeda-linked-prisoner/4093230/

New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani announced on Tuesday that he is appointing Ramzi Kassem as the city’s chief counsel, the top legal position in the city. Mamdani is set to take office on January 1, 2026.
Kassem has a history of defending high-profile and controversial clients. Kassem served as the lead lawyer for Ahmed al-Darbi, who in 2014 pleaded guilty before a US military commission to charges linked to an al-Qaeda attack on the French oil tanker MV Limburg off the coast of Yemen, according to Fox News. The attack killed one civilian and injured several others. Al-Darbi was convicted in 2017 and later transferred to Saudi Arabia in 2018. At the time of al-Darbi’s transfer, The Associated Press and The New York Times reported that Kassem said, “While it may not make him whole, my hope is that repatriation at least marks the end of injustice for Ahmed... He had 16 long and painful years in captivity.”

He saved terrorists from pork. I think that's all we need to know about him🤔

Where would we be without America's leading communist? Meet Bernie Sanders!

Here we have the same leftist activism as in the case of the New York mayor's dad. Note, it's imperative to emphasize that he was born into a "working-class family"—the same as the bolsheviks.

Ideologically a democratic socialist, Sanders is regarded as one of the main leaders of the modern American progressive movement.
Born into a working-class Jewish family and raised in New York, Sanders attended Brooklyn College before graduating from the University of Chicago in 1964. While a student, he was a protest organizer for the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) and the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) during the civil rights movement. Sanders is credited with influencing a leftward shift in the Democratic Party after his 2016 campaign. An advocate of progressive policies, he opposes neoliberalism and supports workers' self-management. He supports universal and single-payer healthcare, paid parental leave, tuition-free tertiary education, a Green New Deal, and worker control of production through cooperatives, unions, and democratic public enterprises. On foreign policy, he supports reducing military spending, more diplomacy and international cooperation, and greater emphasis on labor rights and environmental concerns in negotiating international trade agreements. Sanders supports workplace democracy and has praised elements of the Nordic model.

Almost Communist manifesto, but don't you dare to ask him about private property😃

“Do I own three residences? Yeah, I do,” Sanders said in an interview with Lex Fridman.
He then laid out the details: “I live here in Burlington, Vermont. We live in a middle-class neighborhood. Nice house. Guess what? I’m a United States senator and I own a home in Washington DC as do most senators — you live there year after year … And guess what? Like many thousands of people in the state of Vermont, I have a summer camp. It’s a nice one on Lake Champlain. That’s it.”
Now how did I get the money? I wrote two best-selling books, including this book on capitalism. It was [a] New York Times bestseller for a while,” he said.
“I don’t really give a damn about money. I drive a car that’s 11 years old,” he said. “I don’t have a Rolex watch, would not be interested in it.”
In addition to his civil rights activism during the 1960s and 1970s, Sanders was active in several peace and antiwar movements while attending the University of Chicago, becoming a member of the Student Peace Union. He applied for conscientious objector status during the Vietnam War; his application was eventually turned down, by which point he was too old to be drafted. Although he opposed the war, Sanders never criticized those who fought in it and has strongly supported veterans' benefits throughout his political career

It's great to be a "conscientious objector" when you're not in danger of being drafted😏

He was briefly an organizer with the United Packinghouse Workers of America while in Chicago... After graduating from college, Sanders returned to New York City, where he worked various jobs, including Head Start teacher, psychiatric aide, and carpenter. In 1968, he moved to Stannard, Vermont, a town small in both area and population (88 residents at the 1970 census) within Vermont's rural Northeast Kingdom region, because he had been "captivated by rural life". While there, he worked as a carpenter, filmmaker, and writer

He is a butcher, a carpenter, and a director... in a word, "a jack of all trades".

😃
During the 1980 presidential election, Sanders was one of three electors for the Socialist Workers Party in Vermont...
After resigning from the Liberty Union Party in 1977, Sanders worked as a writer and as the director of the nonprofit American People's Historical Society (APHS). While with the APHS, he produced a 30-minute documentary about American labor leader Eugene V. Debs, who ran for president five times as the Socialist Party candidate.

What do we know about this candidate? Let's read on!

His father, who came from a prosperous Protestant family, owned a textile mill and meat market...
Debs attended public school, dropping out of high school at age 14... In December 1871, when a drunken locomotive fireman failed to report for work, Debs was pressed into service as a night fireman. He decided to remain a fireman on the run between Terre Haute and Indianapolis, earning more than a dollar a night for the next three and half years. In July 1875, Debs left to work at a wholesale grocery house, where he remained for four years while attending a local business school at night.

Debs dropped out of school because he was drawn to the romance of the railroad.
A fireman on the Terre Haute-Indianapolis line earned around $1.10-$1.25 per shift. With a six-day workweek, that came to $28-$32 per month. This was quite a decent salary for a teenager.
By comparison, an unskilled laborer could earn 75 cents per day. In Indiana at that time, $30 per month was enough not just to survive, but also to buy decent food and rent (in Debs' family, this was essentially pocket money, as he lived with his parents).
For comparison, that same 1870 dollar is equivalent to approximately $25-$30 today in purchasing power (CPI), but when measured through "cost of labor," it's closer to $300-$400. This means his monthly income was equivalent to $8,000-$10,000 today, based on the economy of that time.
It's not clear what he had to complain about in such conditions?🤨

It reminds me of a certain modern figure🤔

Musk arrived in Canada in June 1989, connected with a second cousin in Saskatchewan, and worked odd jobs, including at a farm and a lumber mill.

As we can see, some people work hard, while others get involved in political activism.

Debs was the Socialist Party of America candidate for president in 1904, 1908, 1912, and 1920 (the final time from prison). Though he received increasing numbers of popular votes in each subsequent election, he never won any votes in the Electoral College. In both 1904 and 1908, Debs ran with running-mate Ben Hanford. They received 402,810 votes in 1904, for 3.0 percent of the popular vote and an overall third-place finish. In the 1908 election, they received a slightly higher number of votes (420,852) than in their previous run, but at 2.8 percent, a smaller percentage of the total votes cast. In 1912, Debs ran with Milwaukee mayor Emil Seidel as a running mate and received 901,551 votes, which was 6.0 percent of the popular vote, which remains the all-time highest percentage of the vote for a Socialist Party candidate in a U.S. presidential election. Though Debs won no state's electoral votes, in Florida, he came in second behind Wilson and ahead of President William Howard Taft and former President Theodore Roosevelt. Finally, in 1920, running with Seymour Stedman, Debs won 914,191 votes (3.4%), which remains the all-time high number of votes for a Socialist Party candidate in a U.S. presidential election.
Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., who crisscrossed the country last year on a Fighting Oligarchy tour with Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., spent over $550,000 in 2025 on private jet travel for himself using campaign funds, a Fox News Digital review of Federal Election Commission (FEC) filings found.
The majority of the spending came in the first two quarters, which cover up until July. That is also when Sanders and AOC had the majority of their tour stops across the country.
In April, between stops on the tour, Fox News Digital exclusively obtained a photo of Sanders boarding a luxury Bombardier Challenger private jet at the Meadows Field Airport in Bakersfield, California. The source also indicated seeing the New York congresswoman boarding the private jet as well.
The pair were subsequently also seen in footage obtained by Fox News Digital exiting the plane in Sacramento later that evening, near where the self-identified democratic socialists hosted a second rally in one day.

It reminds me about one ideologist of this religion

Marx made a trip to Holland where a prosperous uncle generously handed him one hundred and sixty pounds. This was enough to put Marx on his financial feet, pay off his debts and give him a new start. But with money in his pocket, Marx decided to take a tour of Germany. He visited his mother in Treves, preceded to Berlin, undertook a number of drinking excursions with his old friends, had himself photographed and generally played the role of a gentleman of leisure...

Meanwhile

In 1852 his little daughter, Francisca, died. Two years later marked the passing of his young son, Edgar, and two years after that a baby died at birth.

You really shure they care about "workers rights" or so-called "genocide" in Gaza?🤨

And finally, our "beloved" Biden vice president and, fortunately, failed US president – Kamala Harris!

What do we know about his parents?
Harris's 1978 book Capital Accumulation and Income Distribution critiques mainstream economic theories, using mathematical modeling to propose an alternative model for thinking about the effects of capital accumulation on income inequality, economic growth, instability, and other phenomena. He has worked extensively on analysis and policy regarding the economy of Jamaica.

Distribution and inequality - the main tools of typical marxists. In simple words: take away and divide but with the use of abstruse phraseological units, idiomatic expressions, complex mathematical "proofs" and, of course, emotions - without emotions, a marxist is not a marxist.

During the early 1970s, Harris often went with her mother to Chennai, India, where they stayed with her maternal grandfather. She learned to wear traditional Indian dress and speak a few phrases of the Tamil language.
Shyamala was friends with African-American intellectuals and activists in Oakland and Berkeley.

"Enlightenment"! Where would we be without world-famous enlightenment? And definitely in India, preferably in the dirtiest places, so we can be as "enlightened" as possible and then discuss it with the "intellectuals" in San Francisco.


🤣I love this episode!

Unfortunately, South Park isn't what it used to be.

A fierce fighter against "global warming" and the corresponding rise in sea levels recently purchased an $8 million villa right on the shores of this ocean with her husband. It's somewhere here

Kamala, listen to what Bernie Sanders says!

Sanders views global warming as a serious problem, and advocates bold action to reverse its effects. He calls for substantial investment in infrastructure, with energy efficiency, sustainability, and job creation as prominent goals. He considers climate change the greatest threat to national security

What we should to know about her husband?

Emhoff opened his own firm with Ben Whitwell in 2000, which was acquired by Venable LLP in 2006. Emhoff became managing director of Venable's West Coast offices. Among his clients were Walmart, Merck, and Dolarian Capital. Emhoff was one of the lawyers representing Taco Bell's former advertising agency TBWA in a chihuahua-centric case.
Emhoff joined DLA Piper as a partner in 2017, working at its Washington, D.C., and California offices. He earned $1.2 million per year partner. Following the announcement that his wife would be Joe Biden's running mate in the 2020 United States presidential election, Emhoff took a leave of absence from the firm. After the Biden–Harris ticket won, the campaign announced Emhoff would permanently leave DLA Piper before Inauguration Day to avoid conflict of interest concerns.

So, you, a naive leftist fool, are literally protesting against the corporations you "hate", whose interests the former vice president's husband defended. By the way, let's not forget who Biden's vice president was.

She began her law career in the office of the district attorney of Alameda County. Harris was recruited to the San Francisco District Attorney's Office and later to the office of the city attorney of San Francisco. She was elected district attorney of San Francisco in 2003 and attorney general of California in 2010, and reelected as attorney general in 2014.
Harris was the junior U.S. senator from California from 2017 to 2021 after winning the 2016 Senate election.

Something tells me that our acquaintance was not accidental🤔 Kamala and Doug are said to have met on a "blind date" arranged by a mutual friend in 2013. Their union is a perfect symbiosis of power and capital, which is almost automatic in California. At the time, Doug Emhoff was a managing partner at Venable LLP. It represents industry giants before... government regulators.
The wife decides who to punish, while the husband works for the firm that defends those who could be punished. It's not just a conflict of interest; it's a vicious cycle. Even if Doug didn't personally prosecute cases against the state of California, his status as a partner meant he received a percentage of the firm's profits, which profited from "solving problems" with his wife's agency.

Well... maybe enought for now🤔
As a final appetizer without comments

Ana Murguia remembers the day the man she had regarded as a hero called her house and summoned her to see him. She walked along a dirt trail, entered the rundown building, passed his secretary and stepped into his office.
He locked the door, as he always did when he called her, and told her how lonely he had been. He brought her onto the yoga mat that he often used in his office for meditation, kissed her and pulled her pants down. “Don’t tell anyone,” he told her afterward. “They’d get jealous.”
The man, Cesar Chavez, one of the most revered figures in the Latino civil rights movement, was 45. She was 13. Ms. Murguia said she was summoned for sexual encounters with him dozens of times over the next four years.
Recently, more than 50 years later, Ms. Murguia learned that a street near her home in the Central California city of Bakersfield was in the process of being renamed. City officials want to name it in honor of her abuser.
Ms. Murguia and another woman, Debra Rojas, say that Mr. Chavez sexually abused them for years when they were girls, from around 1972 to 1977. He was in his 40s and had become a powerful, charismatic figure who captured global attention as a champion of farmworker rights.
The two women have not shared their stories publicly before, and an investigation by The New York Times has uncovered extensive evidence to support their accusations and those raised by several other women against Mr. Chavez, the United Farm Workers co-founder who died in 1993 at the age of 66.
Between 2014 and 2023, the SPLC secretly funneled more than $3 million in donated funds to individuals who were associated with various violent extremist groups including the Ku Klux Klan, Aryan Nations, and National Socialist Party of America
According to the indictment starting in the 1980s, the SPLC began operating a covert network of individuals who were either associated with violent and extremist groups, such as the Ku Klux Klan, or who had infiltrated violent extremist groups at the SPLC’s direction. Unbeknownst to donors, some of their donated money was being used to fund the leaders and organizers of racist groups at the same time that the SPLC was denouncing the same groups on its website.

I suppose it's not the end🤔

суббота, 28 марта 2026 г.

Young martyrs of iranian regime

Like their brothers in faith iranian ayatollas use children as a cannon fodder on the battlefield and as an child-shield on the UN tribune




Russian "strategic partners" are not lagging behind

Remember this? They vow to sacrifice their children for the sake of the arab "god" allah and his "prophet"

They say they will not spare the children if they act against their regime.

It cannot be ruled out that the "girls' school" on the IRGC base was intended for such "mujahideen children"


суббота, 28 февраля 2026 г.

How much is the pride of a russian ivan worth?

I've already wrote about russian Northern Sea Route
Now russian propaganda media "rossiyskaya gazeta" corresponds:

"The 2025 total is 37.04 million tons", the Ministry for the Development of the Russian Far East told Rossiyskaya Gazeta. Furthermore, the volume of transit container cargo increased 2.6-fold, reaching a record 400,000 tons, according to Maria Polyakova, head of the Digital Transformation and Sustainable Development department at the Federal Autonomous Institution "Vostokgosplan."
According to her, in 2025, hydrocarbons—liquefied natural gas (LNG), oil, and petroleum products—accounted for 86%, while containers and general cargo accounted for 11%. Large domestic cabotage (Murmansk-Vladivostok, including continental Russia) is practically not transported via the NSR.
The NSR is the world's shortest route from Europe to Asia, running through the Arctic zone and part of the Pacific Ocean. It is entirely under Russian control. Compared to 2014, cargo traffic along this route has increased more than ninefold, reaching 3.98 million tons. Compared to 2024, there has been a slight decline (0.36 million tons). Experts attribute this to sanctions, which have only become more stringent in recent years. However, cargo traffic along the NSR is still lagging far behind the original plan. Even after all the adjustments to the route's capacity, it was expected to handle up to 80 million tons in 2024, up to 150 million tons by 2030, and up to 220 million tons by 2035. The main shortfall was due to the postponement of oil, gas, and coal mining projects, as well as LNG production facilities. Furthermore, US sanctions were imposed on the latter, significantly hindering the export of products from already operational facilities.

During the same time, their main competitor (as they consider it) the Suez Canal transported 522 million tons - 14 times more. And this is solely due to the activity of Yemen's Houthis in the Red Sea. In 2023, during "peacetime," the Suez Canal transported up to 1.5 trillion tons of various cargo - 42 times more!
During 2025 only LNG-ships carried 30.627 million ton (MT), container ships - 72.453 MT, tankers - 246.851 MT...

"russian ivan" is made to be proud of his icebreakers, emphasizing their "exceptionality", but no one tells to "russian Ivan" how much this greatness costs him - the Rosatomflot enterprise is entirely owned by the russian tsar and is not obligated to report on the volume of profits or losses to anyone except the tsar.

Why don't we take a look at the 2024 results from the official website of this department?

In 2024, it amounted to almost 37.9 million tons, more than 1.6 million tons more than last year.
The Rosatom State Corporation summarized the cargo traffic along the Northern Sea Route (NSR) in 2024: cargo traffic amounted to 37,893,531.9 tons. This is almost 37.9 million tons, exceeding the previous record by more than 1.6 million tons.

Invariably, on the anniversary, there are victorious reports about new records, emphasizing the significance of the visit of the tsar himself😃

The 65th anniversary of the nuclear icebreaker fleet was not only a year of further cargo transportation records. In January, we laid down the keel of the icebreaker Leningrad, and in November, we launched the Chukotka. The significance of both events for the country was underscored by the participation of Russian President Vladimir Putin.
In 2024, a record number of transit voyages were made – 92 – and a record for transit cargo was set – over 3 million tons. This is almost one and a half times more than in 2023.

It's a pity there isn't a single number that's a multiple of 65🤔 But!☝️

With the support of specialists from the Federal State Budgetary Institution "GlavSevmorput," the largest container ship in history (ICE 1, length 294 meters, draft 12.3 meters, cargo capacity 4,843 TEU) navigated the Northern Sea Route in 2024. The vessel crossed the Northern Sea Route on September 11 near Cape Zhelaniya and exited the NSR on September 17 near Cape Dezhnev—the vessel completed the entire voyage in less than six days.

The largest container ship in history! WOW!😯
In 2025 they repeated this "record" with the such vessel

What do we know about this type of vessels?

As we can see, Panamax class vessels with a declared capacity of 5,000 TEU are already quite outdated. The new Panamax ships can hold up to 15,000, but even that isn't a world record. For example, 20,000 TEU or more are quite typical for Suezmax-class container ships.
Thus, the apparent “advantage” that they proudly declare is destroyed by the elementary capacity of the new type of vessels.🤔
BTW What do we have here?🤨

The Istanbul Bridge was built in 2000. It has ice class Ice-1, a length of 294 meters, and a container capacity of 4,843 TEU. In 2024, it had already transited the NSR under the name Flying Fish 1 (Istanbul Bridge and Flying Fish 1 - it's the same quite old renamed ship), becoming the largest container ship among transit voyages that year. Its deadweight is 66,781 tons, and the cargo volume during the 2024 transit voyage was approximately 41,000 tons, including 664 twenty-foot and 1,727 forty-foot containers.

Based on the fact that 1 40-foot container is 2 TEU: 1727*2 + 664 = 4118 TEU. This means that the actual cargo transported was 15% below the capacity of this type of vessel.
And if we accept the assumption that one empty TEU weighs about 2 tons, its contents can weigh about 10 tons, if they are planned to be transported from the port in container ships in pairs by road, since the maximum gross weight of a container ship is 44 tons (if more, there will be a penalty for overloading, minimum mass of the container truck is 11 tons), then in fact it was underloaded by at least 7,250 tons net. It's 11% of deadweight. Do you think it is effective?🤨

Therefore, comparing the Suez Canal route (estimated 27 days) with the NSR route (approximately 20 days) shows a time reduction of 7 days or 26%. The difference in distance is 2,706 miles: 10,540 miles via the Suez Canal versus 7,834 miles via the NSR, also about 26%.

They certainly have plenty of self-confidence😃

They also wrote that 11% of the cargo transported consisted of containers and general cargo. Almost all of them were transported by the nuclear-powered lighter carrier Sevmorput. Her capacity only 1336 TEU.

UPD They are intending to build ice class 7 container ships!

The United Shipbuilding Corporation (USC) design department is working on Russia's first container ship with record capacity for operations in the Arctic latitudes of the Northern Sea Route (NSR). This was reported by the USC press service. It is noted that the vessel is unique in the world in terms of its combined characteristics. The customer for the container ship is JSC Rosatom Arctic.

Of course, the russian ivan will pay for this, but now some "Li-xi-qing" from China will join him😃

To ensure year-round passage along the Northern Sea Route, we are implementing a project with Rosatom to build Arc7 icebreakers. Naturally, the cost of such vessels is higher than that of conventional vessels. Therefore, we hope that the Chinese and Russian governments will be able to develop some support measures and special subsidies for shipbuilders. This would help reduce business costs.
According to Alexey Mavlyutov, CEO of Safetrans Line, while a typical container ship with a capacity of 2,000-3,000 TEUs costs approximately $30-40 million, an Arc6 or Arc7 class vessel of the same size would cost $240-260 million. Furthermore, a fully operational container line requires an average of 5-6 vessels.

Six times more expensive than ordinary container ship!🤣 Their standard Panamax 4843 TEU is underloaded, and this armored "barge" will weigh even more!🤣
End of UPD

But that's not all! Let's look at map, which the PR people from the "court" PR agency "Atom-media" (obviously a subsidiary of "Rosatom") won't talk about, drawing a beautiful high-latitude route, possible only for 4-6 weeks during the summer navigation season (Flying Fish 1 a.k.a. Istanbul Bridge passed the NSR in august-september, there is pack ice there in winter)

It's Kara sea

Here locates Ob'-Yenisei bank with depth around 7-8 meters

The 2025 navigation season confirmed that the Yenisei Gulf is a zone of constant risk and continuous excavation.
According to the latest sounding data (PRIP Zapad 2025), the situation at the Yenisei River bar is a roller coaster: Without human intervention, the bar (the point where the river meets the sea) can drop to 7.4–8.1 meters. This is the depth of a river tram, not a sea tanker.
After dredger operations (like the Yenisei-204 in 2025), the depth is maintained at 10.6–11.8 meters. Minimum draft of obsolete (5000 TEU) Panamax is 12.04 meters.

No one would send a large container ship to the Arctic — it's obvious it would get stuck there. The Northern Sea Route lies over the continental shelf and is itself shallow, with significant areas of undersurveyed seabed. The draft of a container ship, with a beam of 59 meters, is 15 meters, to which must be added the clearance between the bottom and the hull. And in some places, guaranteed depths of 12 meters are possible along routes that are very easy to deviate from in the conditions of drifting ice fields...
At the Eastern Economic Forum, Yevgeny Ditrikh, CEO of the State Transport Leasing Company (GTLK), stated: "We know that there are plans to build up to eight ice-class container ships with a capacity of up to 6,000 TEU each. The total investment could reach up to $2.5 billion. GTLK is ready to act as a partner and participate in the financing of the construction."

Over a distance of just a couple of cable lengths (about 400 meters), the depth can jump from 10.8 m to 7.4 m. This is due to the deposits of sand and silt that the river carries into the bay.
The Yenisei is Russia's deepest river, and it functions like a giant conveyor belt for sand. A single storm in the Kara Sea can displace sand and bury a newly dug channel. Captains receive operational alerts (ORI): "At such-and-such a sounding, a depth of 9.3 meters was detected instead of 11 meters."
Ice-class tankers transporting oil from the Sever Bay terminal or products from Dudinka have a draft of approximately 11.5 to 11.8 meters. This means they pass the bar "on their bellies," sometimes with less than half a meter under their keels.
In 2025, an entire flotilla of dredgers was deployed on the Yenisei.
More than 56,000 cubic meters of soil were planned to be removed from the shallows and the bar alone. The main goal is to ensure the passage of ships to Dudinka (Norilsk Nickel's port), where the maximum permitted draft is currently fixed at 11.8 meters. If the depth drops by even 20 cm, tankers will have to be underloaded, leading to losses amounting to millions of dollars.
The depth variations on the Yenisei Bank are a chaos that excavators are trying to control. Just because you see a depth of 15 meters on the map doesn't mean you'll be able to navigate it. You need to check the latest soundings for the current week. A few meters of error here isn't just about running aground; it could block the only outlet for the region's entire Arctic export pipeline.

Over the next five years, the total volume of dredging in the Northern Sea Route (NSR, Northern Sea Route) alone will amount to 60 million cubic meters...
...in 2026–2030, the projected volumes of maintenance dredging alone exceed 25.49 million cubic meters (in 2026—3.93 million cubic meters, in 2027—4.78 million cubic meters, in 2028—5.09 million cubic meters, in 2029—5.75 million cubic meters, in 2030—5.79 million cubic meters)...
...in projects already underway, the volumes of capital dredging will amount to 4.4 million cubic meters, and in prospective projects—almost 30 million cubic meters.
"This is only for maintaining the facilities in working order, but there are also major dredging volumes for the construction of new port facilities."
"That means, over the next five years, in total, in the NSR waters alone, we're approaching a volume of 60 million cubic meters. These are colossal volumes that we need to accomplish," noted the head of the Hydrographic Enterprise.

Now let's estimate the cost of dredging alone:

The cost of dredging for individual projects in the western Arctic and the Baltic has increased almost fourfold in 2023–2024, reaching 3,000 rubles per cubic meter of excavated soil of 2–3 complexity categories.

In 2020, the approximate cost of extracting 1 cubic meter was approximately 625 rubles.:

As of August 11, 2020, over 1 million cubic meters of bottom sediment had already been removed.
The work will be carried out in two stages and will be completed in 2022.
The total dredging volume will be approximately 60 million cubic meters.
Funding for the reconstruction work will amount to 37.5 billion rubles.

Based on the now clearly outdated 3,000 per cubic meter, we find that the cost of dredging will be around 180 billion rubles, which is currently more than 2 billion dollars🤔
Who's funding this? Here's the answer:

The cost of the LNG terminal is 95.7 billion rubles, and 70% of the project is financed by the Russian state budget.

In other words, russian Ivan will pay around 1.5 billion dollars from his own pocket. Isn't that a reason to be proud?🤔

Mikhail Mishustin approved a plan for the development of the Northern Sea Route through 2035... The total funding for the plan's activities is nearly 1.8 trillion rubles.

Average annual expences will about 138,46 billion rubles (1.733B$) since 2022 till 2035.
BTW The Ukrainian war at that moment goes around half a year, blitzkrieg didn't happened but they believed that victory was already close and everyone would soon start playing by their rules

Reader, perhabs you don't understand all these numbers without comparison🤔 Well, why woldn't compare with this?

Novorossiysk Commercial Sea Port (NCSP) PJSC's net profit under RAS increased by 4.5% year-on-year in January-September 2025 to RUB 35.434 billion (442 million $), according to the company's report.
Revenue amounted to RUB 27.384 billion, up 6.7% compared to 2024.
Novorossiysk Commercial Sea Port is one of Russia's largest stevedoring groups. The holding company's assets are located in Novorossiysk (Krasnodar Krai), Primorsk (Leningrad Region), and Baltiysk (Kaliningrad Region). Transneft is NCSP's largest shareholder, with the state owning 20%.

Let's look at Novorossiysk...

The Port of Novorossiysk handled 80.3 million tons of cargo in the first half of the year, topping the ranking of Russian seaports by cargo turnover.

...Primorsk...

...and Baltiysk

Very important numbers for our comparison

JSC Novorossiysk Commercial Sea Port (NCSP Group) is the third largest port operator in Europe and Russia's largest commercial sea port operator...
In 2017, the company oversaw a cargo turnover of 143.5 million tons. The company handled about 18% of total cargo turnover in Russia in 2017.

They tell us that the cargo turnover of these three ports in 2017 was 3.8 times greater than the current cargo turnover of the Northern Sea Route. Or only one Novorossiysk port cargo turnover more than 2 times greater than NSR

For your information also:

Last year, the Murmansk Commercial Sea Port handled 9.73 million tons of cargo.
This figure is 30% lower than the 2024 result, when the port’s cargo turnover amounted to 13.97 million tons.

For now on I hope you understand the numbers which I tell much better🤔
And with all this understanding we can turn back to the funding of dredging on Ob'-Yenisey bank

...in 2026–2030, the projected volumes of maintenance dredging alone exceed 25.49 million cubic meters (in 2026—3.93 million cubic meters, in 2027—4.78 million cubic meters, in 2028—5.09 million cubic meters, in 2029—5.75 million cubic meters, in 2030—5.79 million cubic meters) The cost of dredging for individual projects in the western Arctic and the Baltic has increased almost fourfold in 2023–2024, reaching 3,000 rubles per cubic meter of excavated soil of 2–3 complexity categories

2026—3.93 million cubic meters - 11.79 billion (around 149.24 M$), in 2027—4.78 million cubic meters - 14.34 B (181.5M$), in 2028—5.09 million cubic meters - 15.27 (193.3M$), in 2029—5.75 million cubic meters - 17.25 (218.35M$) and in 2030—5.79 million cubic meters - 17.37 B (219.87M$).
That is, the costs of annual dredging operations alone in the Ob-Yenisei Bank area will amount to between a third and almost half of the profits of russia's largest cargo operator. All this is only to make the passage of gas carriers with a relatively small draft suitable. And all this, in fact, comes from the pocket of the average russian taxpayer.
By the way, this is not the NSR's bottleneck; the Sannikov Strait is about 13 meters deep, and dredging here could result in far more daunting figures🤔
The depth of the fairway of the Dmitry Laptev Strait is even shallower - about 8 meters.


But of course, dredging is far from the only price to pay for the irrepressible pride of the russian ivan!

So is this a lot or a little?
Look!

Regions where the birth rate in 2023 was below the Russian average will receive additional funds to implement birth rate-boosting programs. Approximately 75 billion rubles (0,949B$) will be allocated to 41 regions between 2025 and 2030.

Quite comparable order of numbers🤔 And it's for 5 years!

Samolet has asked the government for a 50 billion ruble (625M$) preferential loan. The developer explained its move by citing the need to optimize financing to avoid rising real estate prices. RBC has reviewed a letter from Samolet CEO Anna Akinshina to the government requesting a 50 billion ruble preferential loan for up to three years. The company's CEO sent the letter to Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin in mid-January. An RBC source in the government confirmed the developer's request.
Samolet is a Russian development company. It is the largest developer in Russia (as of 2025) and the second largest developer in Moscow (as of 2025), with over 5 million square meters of housing under construction. In 2024, the company commissioned over 1.3 million square meters of real estate.
Samolet topped the Forbes Russia 2024 Confidence Rating of Russian Developers
Some more numbers for comparison (PRESSon THIS TEXT if you wondering)
According to preliminary data, the Russian federal budget for 2025 was executed with a deficit of 5.645 trillion rubles (71 billion $), or 2.6% of GDP, the Ministry of Finance reported.
Revenues last year increased by 1.6% compared to 2024, reaching 37.284 trillion rubles (471.9B$).
The volume of federal budget expenditures for this period increased year-on-year by 6.8% to 42.928 trillion rubles (543.4B$).

I recommend paying special attention to this:

Oil and gas revenues decreased year-on-year by 23.8% to 8.477 trillion rubles, primarily due to a decline in the average oil price. However, their revenues remained above the baseline.
Baseline oil and gas revenues amounted to 8.393 trillion rubles.
Additional oil and gas revenues to the federal budget totaling 84 billion rubles will be credited to the National Welfare Fund (NWF) in 2026. In the fall, the Ministry of Finance estimated the potential additional oil and gas revenues that could be credited to the fund in 2026 at 78.3 billion rubles.

Of course not all very bad!

"In 2025, subsoil users in the Magadan Region produced 55.1 tons of gold and 312.5 tons of silver. Gold production increased by one ton compared to the same period last year."

The gold price reached the mark of 176297 for 1 kilogram which means that magadanians mined gold worth about 9.7 billion dollars or 777 billion rubles
But this is "gross". To calculate "net", we need to use the method AISC

AISC covers a wide range of costs:
Exploration and study costs (sustaining): Expenditures necessary to sustain current operations, not for expansion.
Direct production costs: Labour, energy, consumables, and royalties.
Sustaining capital expenditures: Investments required to maintain production levels, such as equipment replacements and mine development
Administrative costs: Corporate overheads related to running the business.
Environmental and closure costs: Reclamation and mine closure provisions.

OPEX operating costs alone (diesel fuel, spare parts, explosives, chemicals) amount to no less than 330 billion, and the purchase of new bulldozers, drilling rigs, and technical support will cost another 115 billion. Without taking into account taxes, salaries, etc., 770 billion has already been deflated by half as minimum.
And almost all these money were burned on Ukrainian War

In 2025, units of the Special Operations Center "Alpha" of the Security Service of Ukraine inflicted massive losses on the Russian air defense system. The total cost of the enemy's air defense assets destroyed and disabled is estimated at approximately $4 billion.

Thus, the "russian ivan" did not receive a single penny of profit from the Magadan gold.

I think this should be given attention too:

...foreign minister claimed last week that Europe has imported more from Russia during the war than it has spent supporting Ukraine.
"During the same period, we have imported Russian oil and gas to an amount of €201 billion," Stenergard said. "And then, if you add the other imports, then the total is €311 billion."
Europe's imports from Russia have plunged by around 89% since the start of the invasion, according to Eurostat, but remain substantial.
Research from the independent Centre for Research on Energy and Clean Air (CREA) indicates the EU's member states have purchased more than €216 billion in Russian fossil fuels — including oil, refined products, pipeline gas and liquefied natural gas (LNG) — since February 2022.
The EU is, however, still the largest buyer of LNG. Its top five importers — Hungary, Slovakia, France, Belgium and Romania — paid a combined €938 million for Russian fossil fuels in the month of October 2025 alone, CREA reports.

And for comparison, the entire Moscow budget for 2025 was approximately 5.121 trillion rubles (64.82B$) in revenue and 5.583 trillion (70.67M$) in expenditures, deficit is 461.1 billion (5.738B$). This means that Moscow accounts for essentially one-eighth of all of Russia.
BTW Enacted State Fiscal Year (SFY) New York State Budget for one fiscal year (April 1, 2025, to March 31, 2026) is $254.3 Billion

Russian liquefied natural gas (LNG) supplies to the European Union (EU) in 2025 exceeded pipeline supplies for the first time, according to data from the European think tank Bruegel. Russian LNG exports to the EU last year totaled 19.9 billion cubic meters, while pipeline supplies totaled 18.1 billion cubic meters.

All thanks to those billions from russian ivan's pocket spended on dredging on Ob'-Yenisei bank
As we know, 56% of all transportation along the NSR is LNG: In 2022 it was worth 15 billion euros, in 2023 - 8.1, in 2024 - 7.2 and in 2025 - 6.8. Summary - 37.8 billion euros or aproximately 44,5B$
Should "ivan" be happy? Let's see🤔

The foreign shareholders of the Arctic LNG 2 project—France's TotalEnergies, China's CNPC and CNOOC, and a consortium of Japan's Mitsui and JOGMEC—have declared force majeure regarding their participation in the project. This could result in Arctic LNG 2 losing its long-term LNG export contracts, and NOVATEK will be forced to finance the project independently. Meanwhile, the Chinese and Japanese companies have requested US authorities to exempt LNG supplies from sanctions.
Each of them holds a 10% stake in Arctic LNG 2. NOVATEK itself owns 60%. Each shareholder has the right to receive LNG in quantities proportional to their stake: NOVATEK receives 12 million tons per year, while the foreign shareholders receive 2 million tons each.

It means only 60% from 44.5B$ - 26.9B$ will remain in russia.
The cost of the project itself is about 25 billion and it still needs to be recouped

The cost of NOVATEK's Arctic LNG 2 project has increased to approximately $25 billion from the initially announced $21.3 billion.

Of course, the cost of excavating just one sandbank isn't the whole story!
For a single icebreaker, fully loading the RITM-200 reactors costs approximately 5-6 billion rubles (62,5-75M$) This is the cost of the fuel assemblies only (active zone)!

The RITM-200 nuclear reactor, with a capacity of 174 MW, is the company's key scientific and technological innovation. The RITM-200 is a twin-reactor system with reactors producing 175 MW of thermal power each. This is greater than the capacity of the KLT reactors used in modern nuclear icebreakers (they have 140-150 MW). At the same time, the RITM-200 is almost twice as light and compact, requiring less material consumption and occupying less space on the vessel, making it more cost-effective. The RITM-200 will use fuel enriched to 20% uranium-235. It will be refueled every seven years, with a planned service life of 40 years.

According to Rosatomflot procurement documents, the maintenance of one floating technical base (FTB) (crew, special communications, radiation monitoring systems, electricity, and routine maintenance) costs approximately 450-600 million rubles per year. There are two such ships (Imandra and Lotta). These are essentially floating nuclear facilities with spent fuel pools and high-precision cranes.

FTB "Imandra"

FTB "Lotta"

"Rossita" nuclear waste cargo vessel

When the fuel is unloaded from the reactor, it can't be transported directly to the Urals — it's too hot (both in terms of temperature and radiation). It must be stored in special storage pools at the Murmansk base for 3-5 years. Based on the volume of fuel for one icebreaker, annual storage at the base costs the state approximately 120-150 million rubles. If an icebreaker operates for 40 years and undergoes five refuelings during that time, a "debt" constantly accumulates in the pools, which Ivan spends decades paying off.
Next comes transportation to Mayak in TUK-120 containers. One such container costs hundreds of millions. Several such "barrels" are needed to transport the fuel from one icebreaker. This isn't a regular freight train. It's a train with escort cars, security, and special platforms.
The Mayak plant charges a fee for receiving and chemical processing. The full cycle of spent nuclear fuel removal from one icebreaker (a one-time operation after the cooling period) costs approximately 250–300 million rubles per year.
Even if all the icebreakers stopped tomorrow, he would still be paying for the pumps, security, and personnel at this base for at least another 15-20 years, until the last assembly was shipped to Mayak, after which he would have to pay for storage at the plant.
Mayak is a state monopoly. The rates for receiving spent nuclear fuel from icebreakers are a commercial secret, but experts estimate it amounts to hundreds of millions of rubles per train. And this money is spent not on development, but on maintaining the safety of a facility that will continue to emit radiation for hundreds of years after the Arctic LNG project becomes a rusty pile of iron.
If we have, say, seven nuclear icebreakers in service (a mix of old and new), then the total "nuclear bill" for the country is approximately 8-9 billion rubles (100-110M$) annually. And that's just the "nuclear portion"! We don't include diesel fuel for auxiliary diesel generators (which are on the icebreaker), oil, food for the crew, helicopter support, and general overhead costs of Rosatom's Moscow office.

On April 23, 2020, State Contract No. 213/3133-D was signed for the construction of the lead nuclear icebreaker of Project 10510, "Lider". The contract price is 199,578,174,200 rubles (almost 2.5B$).

For comparison

The total cost of building a bridge from Sakhalin to the mainland across the Nevelskoy Strait is 600 billion rubles, and without access roads, it will cost "approximately" 300 billion rubles. Sakhalin Region Governor Valery Limarenko stated this in an interview with RBC.

The bridge's location is projected to be somewhere around here. This is the shortest distance between the mainland and the island.

Let me just remind you that the cost of building a bridge to occupied Crimea has increased several times.

Project cost estimates have already increased sixfold since March, as you may recall, starting from a modest 50 billion rubles.
The total cost of the Crimean Bridge project is 227.922 billion rubles.

Do you think this is an accident or an exception?

January 17, 2024. The cost of constructing a bridge across the Lena River in Yakutia will be approximately 130 billion rubles, with the work scheduled to take five years. Deputy Prime Minister Marat Khusnullin announced this at a meeting between Russian President Vladimir Putin and members of the government.
September 30, 2025. The total cost of constructing the Lena Bridge is 174.8 billion rubles.

Let's be patient and watch. I assure you, there are still some exciting events ahead!😃

A russian ivan would probably really like to go on a cruise. What's the deal with cruise prices?


Well! The cost starts from 3.5 million russian rubles (43+ K$) for one person🤔 Who can afford such a luxurious trip? Let's take a look at the salary levels: net median salary in Moscow in 2025 was about 110000 russian rubles (1375$), in Chukotka region about 172000 rubles (2150$). It's worth remembering that the cost of living in Chukotka is significantly higher than in Moscow. And by a number of quality-of-life indicators, Chukotka is significantly worse.
One liter of gas in Moscow costs about 63 rubles, in Chukotka - 76 rubles
And what it means? The median Moscow russian ivan needs at least 31 monthly median salaries, while a russian ivan from Chukotka needs at least 20 monthly salaries. This is assuming they eat nothing at all and don't spend their money on anything else.

What should I say in the end? Make your own conclusions🤔

Finally let's be familiar with this propagandist reaction on falling of cargo traffic volume

The decline in freight traffic along the Northern Sea Route (NSR) in 2025 is insignificant and, on the contrary, demonstrates that the transport artery continues to operate normally. Such fluctuations are natural for any economic system. This opinion was expressed by Alexey Fadeyev, Doctor of Economics and Professor at the Graduate School of Industrial Management at Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University, in an interview with TASS.
Previously, media outlets cited expert estimates and commentary indicating that cargo traffic along the Northern Sea Route had decreased by 2.3% by the end of 2025, with analysts not yet seeing any signs of an increase in volumes in 2026.
"Let's look at how much cargo traffic has actually decreased – 2.3%. In percentage terms, this is only 1/50th of the total cargo volume. This is an absolutely insignificant decrease, considering that the NSR, as part of the Trans-Arctic Transport Corridor (TTC), is a living economic system. Like other sectors of the economy, it is subject to various macroeconomic factors, including changes in sales markets and scheduled repairs at NSR plants, which is normal in any situation and at virtually any time," noted A. Fadeev.

They calm the Russian Ivan so that he doesn't think that the money taken out of his pocket is going to a good cause.😀

According to the expert, the dynamics themselves confirm that the system is evolving and not static. He believes that a sharp increase in freight volumes is not expected in 2026, as the key projects supporting the further development of the NSR and the Third Transport Ring are long-term and strategic in nature. He named Vostok Oil and Baimsky Mining and Processing Plant among such initiatives.
"By 2030, our goal is to reach approximately 109 million tons of freight traffic. I believe there is no reason to abandon our plans yet. It's perfectly normal for them to be adjusted depending on the foreign policy situation, so any decline shouldn't lead anyone to hasty conclusions about the Arctic's inability to cope with something," Fadeyev emphasized.

I suggest we remember this number and return to it in 2030🤔

And by the way russian ivan often says: "These americans can't create the such ships! There are not analogues in whole world for our "peaceful" icebrakers! Ha-ha-ha!🤣"
What can I say to russian ivan?🤔
Let's look at NS Savannah

She was ordered in 1955 and launched in 1959.
The soviet "there are no analogues" (russians like to say "analogov net" what sounds like "analo-govnet" and can translates as "anal-shit") icebreaker Lenin was ordered in 1953 and launched in 1957

How much the soviet icebreaker "peaceful"? Discussional question🤔 She belonged to soviet gosudarstvo (to the power of communist party) and no ordinary person could use it for commercial purposes. There were no commercial purposes in soviet union - сommerce is contrary to communist ideology.
Now she belongs to Atomflot - federal state unitary enterprise and became a museum


It was need to service military bases in the north and and his descendants are needed for the same thing now.
Nuclear submarines are definetly warships. And they are more complex ships in an engineering sense🤔
Look at USS Nautilus ordered in 1950 and launched in the beginning of 1954

On 25 April 1958, Nautilus was underway again for the West Coast under Commander William R. Anderson. She stopped at San Diego, San Francisco, and Seattle, then began her history-making polar transit under "Operation Sunshine", leaving Seattle on 9 June. On 19 June, she entered the Chukchi Sea but was turned back by deep drift ice in those shallow waters. On 28 June, she arrived at Pearl Harbor to await better ice conditions.
By 23 July, she set a course northward. She submerged in the Barrow Sea Valley on 1 August, and she became the first watercraft to reach the geographic North Pole on 3 August at 2315 EDT

The Soviet nuclear icebreaker was still on the slipways, and the American submarine had already surfaced at the North Pole.
Of course, a nuclear icebreaker differs from conventional vessels in some respects, which allow it to move through ice. By the way, the hulls of many Soviet icebreakers were built in Finland, like the hull of the Lenin (switch on subtitles!)

But it remains a surface vessel. It means there is no unique in her construction
And finally - meet USS Long Beach - first nuclear surface warship launched 14 July 1959 just a half year after Lenin launched in 3 december 1959

As of today (March 2026), the United States has 11 nuclear-powered aircraft carriers in service

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