Posted on 11/03/2018 1:42:21 PM PDT by CondoleezzaProtege
At a ceremony marking the centenary of Russia's military intelligence agency, Putin, in comments likely to be seen as provocative in the West, saluted its operatives for carrying out daring special operations and said they provided a model for a future generation.
The GRU has been in the spotlight since two men whom London blames for the Skripal poisoning admitted on Russian TV they had been in Salisbury on the day of the attack, but said they had only been there to see the city's famous cathedral spire.
The GRU was founded as the Registration Directorate in 1918 after the Bolshevik Revolution. Soviet state founder Vladimir Lenin insisted on its independence from other secret services, which saw it as a rival.
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We were the only three doing the actual pamphlet contest hat I seen. It was NOT easy. You really had to read stuff and solve things.
The orange boxes a trash bins.
Have you ever seen so many in a small place?!
I counted 15 and I am sure I was not seeing them all!
We were eating and my wife handed my a piece of garbage and I said: Oh look... I don’t even have to get up I can just drop it in the bin next to me. Then my wife pointed out to me all the other trash bins and I said: That’s crazy!
So we walked by the Wall. There is always the largest crowd at where these men are kissing.
My wife said that it has been in the news that the Romanian Mafia has been running gambling games at The Wall like 3 card Monty. SDo looks like the cops are coming down on them now.
Enjoy it——personally I DETEST malls,even upscale ones.
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Here is a spin wheel line. It moved fast.
Mall picture. Before I took this picture I removed a half filled plastic bottle of water from on top of the rail. "rail". And put it on the floor. You have to wonder about some people.
Leaving. You can see fire display shooting smoke. This mall was in the news today not just for being new but because each day of the first three days opening there have been fire alarms and they had to clear the whole mall out of people. I told my wife: Look no wonder they have alarms, they got flamethrowers all over the place!
They were selling Ray-Ban sunglasses for 210 euros. I got three pieces of cake and two glasses of orange juice for free there. My wife had cake and two glasses of champagne.
Sounds like fun,especially the champagne.
My granddaughter spent 6 weeks in Berlin early last year as part of her semester abroad-——she loved it. It was VERY cold when she was there,but she is used to that. She loved the pub scene.
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Yowza! Fascinating.
Your daughter is precious!
Thank You Very Much CondoleezzaProtege!
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