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As the world prepares for the holidays, Kazakhstan is preparing for something else — a new historical landscape, where all things Russian and Soviet are vanishing not only from maps, but from memory.

Four tankers. Two oceans. One message.
December 23, 2025, may go down in history as the day when the world finally realized: there are no safe routes left. On the eve of Christmas, massive explosions erupted in the Red Sea and the Strait of Hormuz, smoke rose above British oil tankers, and emergency meetings began behind closed doors in London....

On December 24, the Kremlin officially announced that Russian President Vladimir Putin had congratulated Ilham Aliyev on his birthday. The conversation was described as "warm and friendly," with both sides reaffirming their commitment to alliance and exchanging New Year greetings.

While the public obsessed over the story of Larysa Dolina losing her Moscow apartment, something far more serious was happening behind the scenes. Quietly, methodically, Russia's top court began preparing for a major reset. A purge — not of apartments, but of entrenched judicial power networks.

While the world focuses on Ukraine and Western sanctions, something is quietly unfolding nearby — a new ideological project with its own map, flag, and schoolbooks. In Baku, leaders of Turkic countries gathered to discuss more than cultural cooperation. They're laying the foundation of a new civilization. With a single alphabet. A new geography....

They gather, they plot, they draw maps — and Russia keeps moving

For years, Lithuania bullied Belarus — closing borders, confiscating property, and parroting Brussels. But the game has changed. Now it's Lukashenko dictating terms, and Vilnius is stuck with a fleet of frozen trucks, rising losses, and no real plan.

"Russia is the perfect ally for the United States."
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