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veritanuda@veritanuda

January 17, 2025

HOW AN ENGLISHMAN SAVED RUSSIAN WATCHES ⌚️ RAKETA 🚀

Bold, beautiful, and brave. That’s how I would describe the Russian Raketa watch. A watch worn by those who aren’t afraid to stand out, the daring souls that conquer the space, sea, and polar regions. But the history of the Raketa watch factory goes back 300 years, to the time of Peter the Great. Since then, it has produced the Kremlin Stars, the first watch to go to space, Raketa, and then…it almost collapsed with the fall of the Soviet Union. That’s until an Englishman came into the picture and made it his mission to keep the wheels turning. Meet David Henderson-Stewart, the CEO of Raketa and the man behind its revival.

Thanks to David, Raketa has taken flight not only in Russia but onto the global stage as well. 🌍 I sat down with him in his Moscow creative studio to discuss why making a watch is almost as difficult as sending a rocket into space. 🚀 I also had the opportunity to tour the Raketa factory in ...

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Join Alexander Mercouris Live Stream Today 20th May 2026 at 14:00 EDT, 19:00 London time

Putin is in China, shortly after Trump was in China. The two visits are an extraordinary study in contrasts. Whereas the Trump visit was striking because of the absence of substantive agreements, the Putin visit is packed with them.

That does not mean that the Trump visit was unimportant or a non event. If nothing else it gave the Chinese an opportunity to give Trump and the Americans the strongest warning they have ever given on the topic of Taiwan.

Claims that the warning is the same as warnings the Chinese have previously given are wrong. I have read every readout the Chinese Foreign Ministry has published following a meeting between the US President and the Chinese leadership extending back to the days of Barack Obama and Hu Jintao. No previous warning a Chinese leader has given on the topic of Taiwan has come close to the peremptory and threatening language Xi Jinping used in the warning he gave to Trump. The fact Xi did it in a semi public venue - in a plenary meeting where the ...

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Roger4747@Roger4747

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I hope everybody watched Xi & Putin riding in one of China's High Speed railway systems. They were enjoying drinks on a table that did not wobble and the speed was shown 310km/hr. The people in the US could have this technology if their taxes were not all directed to war.

Zarael@Zarael

June 17, 2024

A quick commentary on the "Piss Summit"

I might not be able to upload much more or do lives for a while

My Fellow Duranianss.

Yes, it's happened again. I have been assaulted by a vicious Malware Bot Virus or whatever 911 Socks is and this thing is bad !

However I wanted to give you a "peace" of my mind concerning the "Piece" or piss, as Elensky calls it, as this thing fell to pieces before it even happened.

Coincidentally on the very SAME DAY this crap happened Saudi Arabia DROPPED the US Petrodollar as a buying currency and NO ONE absolutely NO ONE is talking about this fact anywhere !!!

Hope to see you all asap.

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The Duran@theduran

September 29, 2023

Locals Community Private Telegram Messaging

Locals will be sunsetting the private messaging feature throughout the Locals website. In order to keep our private messaging active we have created a private Telegram messaging group called 'The Duran Locals.'

This is a private channel open only to our Locals subscriber community. In the private Telegram group you can send a message to the group or a private message to Alex or Alexander via a direct Telegram message.

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