RUSSIA’S #WARTIME #ECONOMY NEARS COLLAPSE: Despite maintaining strength throughout the war, Russia’s economy is nearing a breaking point. Plummeting #oil prices and massive debt in the defense sector threaten a systemic banking crisis by 2026, as reported by The Washington Post. https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/12/22/russia-war-economy-ukraine/
@timkmak Russians doing russian things.
They didn’t get nicknamed ’orcs’ for nothing.
@timkmak
The funny thing is: Shchedryk is not a Christmas but a New Year's Eve song (Shchedryj vechir, "generous evening" which is 31 December). Only in North America it got rebranded into a Christmas song since there was no similar singing tradition on New Year's Eve.
Fun fact #2: Carol of the Bells based on Shchedryk is a thing only in North America, maybe in Great Britain too (since their popular culture is strongly influenced by US), but it is hardly known in continental Europe.
Never forget: Russia is a terrorist state.
“[The enemy] is destroying the home where such a great song was created that inspires everyone…Yes, it was born in Pokrovsk,” priest Oleksandr Soldatenko said of one of the world’s most well-known Christmas carols.
#Russians have surrounded it from three sides, infiltrating the city center and capturing it district by district.
This year, the city of the carol will likely mark its last #Christmas under Ukrainian flags before it is completely reduced to ashes.
The birthplace of that song, he said, is now “soaked in blood.”
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