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The Russian navy infantry units landed on the Syrian coast near Latakia as part of the large-scale drills in the Mediterranean Sea. A total of 26 warships including three large landing ships, two minesweepers, the Raptor patrol boat and the fire support ship were involved in exercises.
Campement Rom dévasté : Un recours pour réclamer un relogement des sinistrés
An ironman from Kyrgyzstan named Nurlan Alisherov has a very peculiar and tough skill that makes viewers of his performances cringe. He's known as the hammerhead because the strongman uses his forehead to hammer nails through wood and his Herculean jaw and teeth as strong as steel to pull the nails back out. He's also pulled off several other head-scratching feats with his teeth, including pulling buses and trucks long distances, lifting weights, and even lifting people sitting on chairs.
This is Valerii Kolesnikov, a serving Russian Orthodox priest, who was forced to reconcile his vows of peace with his passion for ancient swordplay techniques and defensive martial arts. Valerii has an unusual life outside of his holy duties at the cathedral in Gubkinsky, in the heart of Russia's Far North. He devotes much of his time to practicing the Japanese self-defense art of aikido as well as fine-tuning his skills with the saber in the ways of the old Russian Cossacks. A young group of students meets with Valerii in a local school gym every week to learn his techniques. Kolesnikov, who stayed fit and played sports as a child, said that studying martial arts gave him good physical form and self-confidence. However, after he took his holy vows, he realised that the aggression of boxing or hand-to-hand combat went against his Orthodox values. That's why he took up aikido, which is based on self-defence and suppressing your opponent’s aggression, as well as Cossack sword dancing, which does teach excellent saber handling skills. Valerii doesn't stop tending to his flock outside the church, many of his aikido and Cossack sword dancing pupils regularly attend religious services lead by the warrior priest himself. It's not always easy to find a compromise between your passions and your principles, but Valerii took it a step further. His religious beliefs only complement his love for martial arts and Russian swordplay.
A screen shown at a briefing by Russia's Central Election Commission shows the expected results of the four presidential election candidates. Incumbent president Vladimir Putin is expected to receive 87.85% of the vote, while Communist Party candidate Nikolay Kharitonov comes in at second with 3.86%, New People candidate Vladislav Davankov is projected to receive 3.76%, and far-right Liberal Democratic Party leader Leonid Slutsky is set to get 2.97%. IMAGES
Sweden joining NATO shows Russian President Vladimir Putin "failed" in his Ukrainian war strategy of weakening the alliance, its chief Jens Stoltenberg says. The Kremlin's invasion not only prompted formerly non-aligned nations Sweden and Finland to come under NATO's defence umbrella, but now "Ukraine is closer to NATO membership than ever before," Stoltenberg adds. SOUNDBITE
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