LOL:) Russia (Sputnik of course) has now reacted on the Stockholm Pride Parade.
https://sputniknews.com/viral/201808061066987074-sweden-supreme-commander-lgbt/

The Swedish Armed Forces have invested heavily in this year's Pride and officially announced participation in eight different events in Stockholm and Gothenburg.

Invested heavily? Lol:) They didn't.
It's a small part of a recruiting campaign.

Russia has never been, nor are now, friends to any peoples on their border.

Actually Russia (post Soviet Union) has regarded Finland as a friend. But Putin changed all that when Russia annexed Crimea and intervening in Donbas.
Now Finland doesn't have so many Russian ethnics, only 75,000.
However Estonia has about 25% Russian ethnics with the eastern town Narva with more than 90%...

As for Russian energy it is mostly Central Europe that want energy from Russia.
Especially Germany that has closed down all their nuclear plants after the Fukushima disaster.

The construction of Nordstream 2 has been a hot potato here within the Baltic Sea countries.
For instance Russia and Germany wanted to build it on both the Swedish and Denmark economical zone.
And Russia wanted that their construction team should work on Gotland and Karlshamn, Blekinge near Swedish military locations!
Big No from both Denmark and Sweden.

As for Russian energy it is mostly Central Europe that want energy from Russia.
Especially Germany that has closed down all their nuclear plants after the Fukushima disaster.

Unless absolutely necessary.
Why would any Intelligent Leadership make their economy's and peoples pawns of Russian energy?

Could it be because Russian energy is much cheaper than other countries available to Germany?
And Germany need a lot of energy to keep their industry and economy going.
Energy that they by themself cannot produce.

The Russian nuclear submarine "Orel" (Eagle) has practiced in the Baltic Sea with 24 cruise missiles on board, according to the news agency Tass.
http://tass.ru/armiya-i-opk/5419359
The submarine is powered by two nuclear reactors and has previously suffered severe fires. As far as is known, it's the first time a Russian nuclear powered submarine with cruise missiles "Гранит" (Granite) capable to be equipped with nuclear weapons has been practiced in the Baltic Sea.
According to the FOI's assessment, the submarine brought 4 nuclear warheads. Remaining missiles can be conventional warheads, according to FOI.

https://www.svt.se/nyheter/inrikes/rysk-atomubat-med-kapacitet-for-24-karnvapenrobotar-ovade-i-ostersjon
"Orel" is a sister ship to "Kursk", the nuclear submarine which sank in 2000 after a torpedo exploded on board and the entire crew of 118 people died.

The Group of Friends of Georgia at OSCE, Canada, Czech Republic, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania,
Poland, Romania, Sweden, Ukraine, the United Kingdom, the United States of America has issued a joint statement to mark ten years since the Russian military invasion of Georgia in August, 2008.
https://twitter.com/Vienna_Emb/status/1026800803984666625

LOL:) Russia's Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova captioned this "With my colleague from work."

Here's another pic of them together she posted, it was on July 26 at a festival in Baku organised by Emin Agalarov.

Oh. Perhaps Emin Agalarov is not so familary.
He writes and performs songs in English and Russian and is widely popular in Azerbaijan and Russia.
He is the son of Azerbaijani-Russian oligarch Aras Agalarov, head of the Crocus Group (ru).
Here is a documentary about Aras Agalarov,.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H4egcwghdN0&list=RDH4egcwghdN0

https://www.dw.com/en/dw-journalist-paulyuk-bykowski-arrested-in-belarus/a-45009922

DW journalist Paulyuk Bykowski arrested in Belarus

Authorities have not spelt out why Paulyuk Bykowski, who works for Deutsche Welle's Russian service, was taken into custody. DW has lodged a protest with the Belarusian ambassador in Berlin.

Authorities on Wednesday arrested Deutsche Welle journalist Paulyuk Bykowski in the Belarusian capital, Minsk.

Belarusian authorities did not give any reason for the arrest.

"The investigating committee came to me," Bykowski, who works for DW's Russian service, wrote on his Facebook page on Wednesday morning.

His wife, Volha Bykovskaya, later confirmed to DW that a search team took away a computer, tablets, phones, pen drives, discs and bank cards from their apartment. "The search took about two hours," she said.

DW lodged a protest with the Belarusian ambassador in Berlin and demanded his immediate release. It stressed that the rule of law must apply to accredited journalists.

Belarus is not Russia.
Despite that Lukashenko is "the last dictator in Europe" he said this today.
https://twitter.com/XSovietNews/status/1027916755149176834

Lukashenko: We are now in a difficult period - the Russians behave in a barbaric way towards us, I publicly say this. They are demanding something from us, as if we are vassals of them, and within the framework of the Eurasian Economic Union EAEC, where they invited us, they do not want to fulfill their obligations

(Guess he want money for nothing).
However the attitude to freedom of press and speech is probably even worser than in Russia.
That's what the DW journalist experienced now.

Why are we not surprised:)
Massive Attack On Swedish News Sites Was The Work Of Russia, US Told Its Ambassadors
According to a newly released State Department cable, the attack was part of a Russian campaign to sow disinformation about NATO. It came as Russia allegedly was stealing US Democrats' emails in 2016.
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/kevincollier/2016-sweden-ddos-expressen-hack-russia-cables

https://abcnews.go.com/International/russian-nationalists-hope-return-czar/story?id=57133945

Their slogan is Orthodoxy or Death. They are convinced Russia should be ruled by an autocratic monarch. They believe the coming of a new czar may be imminent.

The Union of Orthodox Banner Bearers is a small fringe group of Russian nationalists with no political power that stages processions, rallies and even burns books to promote their views.

Clad in all-black and marching with their Orthodox banners, the group pairs a biker club's aesthetic with the gold of religious icons.

"We are striving for the restoration of an autocratic monarchy. Like the one we had under our czars," Leonid Simonovich-Nikshich, the group's white-bearded leader, said.

"It is only possible through the church. In no way is this possible in a political secular way because that would be a dictator," he said.

Isn't this nice?
Austrian foreign minister Kneissel kneels down on Putin.
Russian TV viewers are very happy to see these lovely gestures.

Today it's 50 years ago when Soviet invaded Czechoslovakia.
https://www.rferl.org/a/czech-russia-protest/29445390.html
Today Russia does the same thing again in Ukraine and Georgia:(

Meanwhile the Social Democrats (the party that leads our government and it's also election time) website has been subjected to another cyber attack. The IP addresses are tracked exclusively to Russia and North Korea.

But, in the Russian case, this is not done by voluntary alliances or mutual interests. And that is the problem.

Yes.
And Putin is following the great history (his favorite subject in school btw) of Russia.
Protect Moscow at all cost and use scorched earth tactics on land far from Moscow.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Duchy_of_Moscow
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_policy_of_the_Russian_Empire

While Vladimir Putin bragged about the invincible new missile in his annual speech to the nation in March, a U.S. intelligence report claims each of the four tests crashed.
https://thebarentsobserver.com/en/security/2018/08/nuclear-powered-missile-crashed-barents-sea-intelligence-report-allegedly-claims

Nils Bøhmer, a nuclear physicist with the Bellona Foundation says to the Barents Observer that more information is needed before any conclusions about possible threats to the environment can be taken.
“First of all, it is worrying to learn that Russia actually is testing nuclear powered cruise missiles. But, here we need more facts on the table,” Bøhmer says. He says a crash obviously could damage the reactor, but any harm to the marine environment depends on if the reactor had started at the time of the impact.
“The Barents Sea is an important fishing ground also for Russia, so we all have the same interest in avoiding any leakages of radionuclides,” Bøhmer says.

Cruise missile with Burevestnik nuclear unit
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=okS76WHh6FI

Think Russia has lost the plot. :-) A "manned" robot?

"Little" Igor

LOL:) No problem.
With gopniks like Putin at the helm....


https://meduza.io/shapito/2018/08/21/kalashnikov-pokazal-boevogo-robota-po-imeni-igorek-v-sotssetyah-ego-okrestili-igorem-nikolaevichem

Oh dear...

No difference between Saudi Arabia and Russia.

Oh dear...

No difference between Saudi Arabia and Russia.

<ed> Best add UK too https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-derbyshire-45282166

Police said a 44-year-old man had been arrested under the malicious communications act.