A rebellious Russian politician who filmed himself wearing “lying” noodles on his ears while watching a speech by him Vladimir Putin could be punished.
On February 21, Mikahail Abdalkin, a member of parliament from Samara, southern Russiashared a video of himself watching the state speech of his country’s all-powerful leader.
In the video, Mr. Abdalkin can be seen with the elongated food draped over his ears as he sits at a desk and watches Putin on a computer screen.
In Russian culture, “hanging noodles on someone’s ears” is a well-known idiom for telling someone “lies” or “pulling their leg”.
The Telegraph reports in an apparently satirical post that Mr Abdalkin captioned his video saying: “I fully support it. I agree with everything. Great speech. Haven’t heard anything like it in 23 years. Pleasantly surprised.”
Gennady Zyuganov, the leader of the Russian Communist Party, was urged to watch the video after complaints were raised about Mr Abdalkin’s position.
Alexander Yushchenko, the party’s spokesman, said on Thursday he would watch the video and “will not let it go unnoticed”.
Since the outbreak of war with Ukraine, Russia passed laws under which anyone challenging the Kremlin’s version of events could face up to 15 years in prison. Thousands of demonstrators have been arrested since the start of the war a year ago.
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UkraineThe country’s allies will support it “as long as it takes,” Secretary of State James Cleverly will say when addressing the UN Security Council later today (Friday).
The meeting comes one year after the Russian invasion of Ukrainewith the birthday to be celebrated in the UK and countries around the world.
At a special session of the UN Security Council, Mr Cleverly is expected to emphasize the need to send a “clear message” that Ukraine will be supported as long as it takes, and the conflict doesn’t seem to end anytime soon.
“A year after this terrible war, let’s send this clear message: our support for Ukraine is not and will never be limited in time.
“We will honor the promises we made to the UN Charter and the Ukrainian people and will give the Ukrainians all the help they need as long as it lasts until Ukraine prevail,” Mr. Cleverly will say.
Cleverly will meet his Ukrainian counterpart Dmytro Kuleba and UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres in New York.
Over the past year, the United Kingdom has been one of the most outspoken proponents of Ukraineefforts to push back Kremlin troops, with Prime Minister Rishi Sunak announcing earlier this year that Britain would be the first country to supply tanks to its armed forces.
Mr Sunak said 14 Challenger 2 tanks will be delivered and the war machines will arrive in Eastern Europe next month.
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