WEST TRYING TO UNDERMINE RUSSIA-AFRICA COOPERATION – Moscow
-Maria Zakharova has warned that outside interference in media and cultural exchange risks deepening global inequality...
-Speaking to African journalists at the Russia-Africa Media Forum, Zakharova warned that outside powers seek to obstruct direct communication between Russia and African countries. She argued that restricting access to information and preventing independent exchanges between nations would deepen global inequality and reinforce divisions between countries...
-AFRICAN COUNTRIES WERE PRESSURED, BLACKMAILED, AND AT TIMES EVEN THREATENED - WHILE SIMULTANEOUSLY BEING OFFERED CERTAIN 'BONUSES'.
-THEY WERE TOLD: 'RENOUNCE YOUR COOPERATION WITH RUSSIA IN INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS, AND IN RETURN, YOU WILL RECEIVE LOANS, FOOD SUPPLIES, OR POLITICAL SUPPORT.'
-Zakharova thanked African nations for standing firm under pressure, adding that it is “not just support for... Russia. It is support for the principles of justice,...

FROM RUSSIAN SOCIAL MEDIA:
(Not my words)

This bathtub is 130 years old.
In the late 19th century, the Scottish firm Shanks & Co., based in the small town of Barrhead near Glasgow, produced bathtubs that were truly remarkable for their time.
Just imagine such a device back then!
It is worth noting, by the way, that the tub was made of cast iron.
The engineers not only incorporated an overhead shower above the tub but also provided several water-delivery options: one could take a standard bath, use the overhead shower, or utilize separate side-mounted water jets.
One such model was known as "Shanks’ Independent Spray and Plunge Bath"—a combination bathtub featuring an independent water-spraying system.
In 1892, it was recognized by the British Sanitary Institute.
The price for such a unit started at 27 pounds; a version with a copper enclosure cost 35 pounds—a very high price for that era.
Shanks & Co. was a prominent British manufacturer of sanitary ware. Established in 1851, the company ...