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[nsk96]

Besties of Black Swan Bay (4738 words) by NSK117

Fandom: 龙族幻想 | Dragon Raja (Video Game), 龙族 - 江南 | Dragon Raja Series - Jiang Nan Rating: Mature Summary: Self-insert fan fiction that I wasn't sure I'd post but here I am posting because the universe and my friends said so: Hoping to save Chime Gen, I get thrown into the world of Dragon Raja and end up at Black Swan Bay in the clutches of Herzog and Bondarev. Watch as I try to find a way to survive and learn who my true allies are.

First two chapters of my self-insert fan fiction are posted y'all. I'm embracing my cringe. I can't believe I started writing this in 2022

#besties of black swan bay #self insert #dragon raja #dragon raja fan fiction #fan fiction #dragonraja #bondarev #dragon raja bondarev #herzog #dragon raja herzog #nsk

[bobbiedebruyn]

Williams Racing 2024 Team Launch + Williams Driver Academy

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[egosweetheart]

me and some friends are running a calorum campaign set like 5 years after crown of candy, and its taken over our lives??? anyway ive made a LOT of art for it

#calorum #calorum campaign #dungeons and dragons #d&d #dnd #original characters #oc #long post #i have three guys i play #three of them and none of them are ok #oc: leandre deschamps #oc: bichette toutau #oc: hamrick bondarev #they are a cherry a blueberry and a ham respectively

[tomorrowusa]

The apologists for Putin's Russia – both Trumpsters and tankies – say that Ukraine must "negotiate" an end of Putin's illegal invasion.

Those folks are either oblivious to Russia's recent history of negotiations or are intentionally ignoring that history for political reasons.

In the years leading up to Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, diplomats lost their authority, their role reduced to echoing the Kremlin's aggressive rhetoric. BBC Russian asks former diplomats, as well as ex-Kremlin and White House insiders, how Russian diplomacy broke down.

This was four month's before the invasion.

In October 2021, US Undersecretary of State Victoria Nuland went to a meeting at the Russian foreign ministry in Moscow. The man across the table was Russia's Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov, who Ms Nuland had known for decades and always got along with. Mr Rybakov's American counterparts saw him as a practical, calm negotiator - someone they could talk to even as the two countries' relationship frayed. This time, things were different. Mr Ryabkov read Moscow's official position from a piece of paper and resisted Ms Nuland's attempts to start a discussion. Ms Nuland was shocked, according to two people who discussed the incident with her. She described Mr Ryabkov and one of his colleagues as "robots with papers", the people said (the State Department declined to comment on the incident). And outside the negotiating room, Russian diplomats were using increasingly undiplomatic language. "We spit on Western sanctions." "Let me speak. Otherwise, you will really hear what Russian Grad missiles are capable of." "Morons" - preceded by an expletive. These are all quotes from people in positions of authority at the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs in recent years.

If you are thinking that this doesn't sound like serious negotiating, you are entirely correct.

This attitude didn't begin in 2021, it's been ongoing since at least 2007.

The first signal that a new Cold War was beginning came in 2007 with a speech Mr Putin made to the Munich Security Conference. In a 30-minute diatribe, he accused Western countries of attempting to build a unipolar world. Russia's diplomats followed his lead. A year later, when Russia invaded Georgia, Moscow's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov reportedly swore at his UK counterpart, David Miliband, asking: "Who are you to lecture me?" Western officials still thought it was worth trying to work with Russia. In 2009, Mr Lavrov and the then-US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton pressed a giant red "reset button" in relations, and the two countries seemed to be building co-operation - especially on security issues. But it soon became obvious to US officials that their Russian counterparts were simply parroting Mr Putin's growing anti-Western views, says Ben Rhodes, deputy national security advisor to former US President Barack Obama. Mr Rhodes recalls President Obama having breakfast with Mr Putin in 2009, accompanied by a folk orchestra. He says Mr Putin was more interested in presenting his view of the world than discussing co-operation and that the Russian leader blamed Mr Obama's predecessor, George W Bush, for betraying Russia. As the Arab Spring, the US involvement in Libya, and the Russian street protests unfolded in 2011 and 2012, Mr Putin decided that diplomacy wouldn't get him anywhere, Mr Rhodes says. "On certain issues - Ukraine in particular - I did not get the sense that [diplomats] had much influence at all," says Mr Rhodes.

The arrival of Maria Zakharova as spokesperson for Russia's Foreign Ministry in 2015 signaled another deterioration in diplomacy.

[W]ith Ms Zakharova's arrival, foreign ministry briefings became a spectacle. Ms Zakharova often yelled at reporters who asked her difficult questions and responded to criticism from other countries with insults. Her diplomatic colleagues were going the same way. Mr [Boris] Bondarev, who used to work for Moscow's mission to the UN in Geneva, recalls one meeting where Russia blocked all proposed initiatives, prompting colleagues from Switzerland to complain. "We said to them: 'Well, what's the problem? We are a great power, and you are just Switzerland!' "That's [Russian] diplomacy for you," he says.

Getting back to the eve of the invasion. (emphasis added)

Mr Bondarev recalls a dinner in Geneva in January 2022 when Mr Ryabkov, from the foreign ministry, met US officials. US First Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman hoped to avert the invasion of Ukraine through 11th-hour negotiations. "It was awful," says Mr Bondarev. "The Americans were like, 'Let's negotiate.' And instead Ryabkov starts shouting, 'We need Ukraine! We won't go anywhere without Ukraine! Take all your stuff and go back to the 1997 [Nato] borders!' Sherman is an iron lady, but I think even her jaw dropped at this. "[Ryabkov] was always very polite and really nice to talk to. And now he's banging his fist on the table and talking nonsense."

The war hasn't changed things.

Ukrainian authorities complain that Russia is once again offering ultimatums instead of compromises, such as demanding that Ukraine accepts the annexation of occupied territories. Kyiv has no intention to negotiate under such conditions, and its Western allies publicly support this decision. Russia seems set on relying on its military machine, intelligence services and geo-economic power for influence - rather than diplomacy.

Some people won't like hearing this, but the only way to end this war is militarily.

Judy Dempsey is a nonresident senior fellow at Carnegie Europe and editor in chief of Strategic Europe. At Carnegie Europe she writes:

Negotiations can only begin if Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky is in a strong enough position to set the terms. Those terms are not just about restoring Ukraine’s territorial integrity. They are about ensuring that Russia does not attack or threaten Kyiv again. An end to the war is about ending Russia’s imperial ambitions in this part of Europe. [ ... ] It is not enough for leaders and defense ministers to say ad nauseam that they will support Ukraine “for as long as it takes” or that Ukraine must win. How is that going to happen if the country is not provided with the essential military equipment? And if there are mutterings in some Europeans capitals and in Washington that the Ukrainian offensive has not been quick enough or effective enough, the reason is that Ukraine lacks the military support to achieve it. [ ... ] The war is a test for Europe in particular and the West in general. It is about security, conviction, and trying to uphold values based on the pursuit of democracy. Ultimately, that’s what the Ukrainians are fighting for. A fudged compromise will damage the West and appease—indeed embolden—Russia and its supporters.

Exactly. This is not just an unprovoked war against Ukraine, it's a war against the West and liberal democratic values.

#invasion of ukraine #diplomacy #negotiations #russia's war of aggression #russian imperialism #sergei lavrov #vladimir putin #maria zakharova #victoria nuland #sergei ryabkov #boris bondarev #judy dempsey #hillary clinton #wendy sherman #ben rhodes #россия #русский мiръ #агрессивная война россии #владимир путин #путин хуйло #сергей лавров #сергей рябков #борис бондарев #руки прочь от украины! #союз постсоветских клептократических ватников #геть з україни #вторгнення оркостану в україну #україна переможе #слава україні! #героям слава!

[girlactionfigure]

GENEVA, May 23, 2022 — Russia’s counsellor to the United Nations in Geneva has resigned, the most senior diplomat to defect since his country's invasion of Ukraine began in February, according to an exclusive report by UN Watch, an independent non-governmental human rights organization based in Geneva.

“Never have I been so ashamed of my country,” wrote Boris Bondarev, in a statement shared with diplomats in Geneva.

"Boris Bondarev is a hero," said UN Watch executive director Hillel Neuer, who is currently participating in the Oslo Freedom Forum, an annual gathering of human rights dissidents.

"We are now calling on all other Russian diplomats at the United Nations—and worldwide—to follow his moral example and resign."

"Bondarev should be invited to speak in Davos this week," said Neuer, "and the U.S., the UK and the EU should lead the free world in creating a program to encourage more Russian diplomats to follow and defect, by providing protection, financial security and resettlement for diplomats and their families."

UN Watch recently spearheaded the campaign to expel Russia from the UN Human Rights Council.

The Swiss human rights group also leads a campaign of 30 NGOs at the UN calling for the release of Russian political prisoner Vladimir Kara-Murza, arrested in Moscow in April for opposing the war. UN Watch also invited his wife, Evgenia Kara-Murza to address the UN.

STATEMENT BY BORIS BONDAREV, RUSSIAN COUNSELLOR TO THE UNITED NATIONS IN GENEVA

My name is Boris Bondarev, in the MFA of Russia since 2002, since 2019 until now — Counsellor of the Russian Mission to the UN Office at Geneva.

For twenty years of my diplomatic career I have seen different turns of our foreign policy, but never have I been so ashamed of my country as on February 24 of this year.

The aggressive war unleashed by Putin against Ukraine, and in fact against the entire Western world, is not only a crime against the Ukrainian people, but also, perhaps, the most serious crime against the people of Russia, with a bold letter Z crossing out all hopes and prospects for a prosperous free society in our country.

Those who conceived this war want only one thing — to remain in power forever, live in pompous tasteless palaces, sail on yachts comparable in tonnage and cost to the entire Russian Navy, enjoying unlimited power and complete impunity. To achieve that they are willing to sacrifice as many lives as it takes. Thousands of Russians and Ukrainians have already died just for this.

I regret to admit that over all these twenty years the level of lies and unprofessionalism in the work of the Foreign Ministry has been increasing all the time.

However, in most recent years, this has become simply catastrophic. Instead of unbiased information, impartial analysis and sober forecasting, there are propaganda clichés in the spirit of Soviet newspapers of the 1930s. A system has been built that deceives itself.

Minister Lavrov is a good illustration of the degradation of this system. In 18 years, he went from a professional and educated intellectual, whom many of my colleagues held in such high esteem, to a person who constantly broadcasts conflicting statements and threatens the world (that is, Russia too) with nuclear weapons!

Today, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs is not about diplomacy. It is all about warmongering, lies and hatred. It serves interests of few, the very few people thus contributing to further isolation and degradation of my country.

Russia no longer has allies, and there is no one to blame but its reckless and ill-conceived policy.

I studied to be a diplomat and have been a diplomat for twenty years. The Ministry has become my home and family. But I simply cannot any longer share in this bloody, witless and absolutely needless ignominy.

Hillel Neuer 

#Russia #Ukraine #Boris Bondarev

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

Do him the honor of reading every word. This might be his epitaph.

#Russia #Putin's War #War in Ukraine #Boris Bondarev #warmongering

[nsk96]

A sneak peak into my dragon raja self insert fan fiction because I’m excited to start working on it again. Gotta spoil it a little (a lot):

I get teleported to the world of Dragon Raja with the hopes of meeting Chime but I get sent to the wrong time and place: Black Swan Bay

Besides freezing my ass off, I get captured and interrogated by Herzog and Bondarev. Bondarev is especially curious about how I know their names.

They first suspect I’m a spy until I reveal to Bondarev in private that I know his plans. I make a deal with him to keep me alive in exchange for information about his future. Herzog puts him in charge of keeping an eye on me.

That’s where the one bed trope comes in. Doesn’t start that way though. I sleep on the floor in the beginning 👁️👄👁️

Because as expected, he’s pretty cruel and cold…but then warms up…then gets flirty…then sweet…then things heat up…then betrayal?…then bittersweet…then comforting…then sweet…then super hot…then heartbreak from the biggest betrayal…then sweet again…then bitter af for 2 years because imagine living with a roommate who doesn’t know how to do any chores…

then sweet again…then scary because meeting his family…then heartbreak and loneliness because he’s being an idiot but in a sweet way because he’s worried about my safety…then super hot…then scary because an old enemy resurfaces…then sad because we get separated (don’t wanna spoil how)

I’m still debating on the ending whether or not I stay in that world or come back home. Or when the old enemy resurfaces. Originally planning for the old enemy to show up decades later, but thought it would be better earlier on since Bondarev is more likely to be idiotic at this younger age than later on. Makes for good drama.

Or maybe there can be 2 old enemies. One early on; that one being someone Bondarev pissed off years ago. Then the second one shows up decades later. A guy like Bondarev is bound to have a lot of enemies anyways. More so after convincing him to take an alternative more legal route to “world domination”. Either way I be ready 👁️👁️ Cinnamon roll ready to fight for her new fam

Also at Black Swan Bay, I make a couple of other friends who also become my besties. A nurse and a chemist. The chemist has a crush on Bondarev so he’s a little sad at first when he sees Bondy boy flirting but the crush is short lived when someone else comes along. The nurse is one of the only nice ones and really cares about the orphans there.

I convince Herzog to let me work for him in the lab. Just to gain his trust to increase my chances of survival. But he starts to get really creepy towards me.

I got art commissioned of me and Bondarev together. I was waiting until I get to this specific scene to post it but progress is too slow so I’ll post it now. I should have posted it last year T~T

Art by @xisewc. Thank you again for this beautiful piece🫶🏼

#dragon raja #dragon raja fan fiction #besties of black swan bay #bondarev #herzog #dragon raja bondarev

[donospl]

Davide Incorvaia / Dima Bondarev “Berliner Suite” [We Insist!]

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#Davide Incorvaia #Dima Bondarev #[We Insist!]

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Un diplomático deserta del Kremlin y revela la mala conducta rusa

Un diplomático deserta del Kremlin y revela la mala conducta rusa

Por Boris Bondarev Durante tres años, mis días de trabajo comenzaron de la misma manera. A las 7:30 am, me desperté, revisé las noticias y conduje hasta el trabajo en la misión rusa ante la Oficina de las Naciones Unidas en Ginebra. La rutina era fácil y predecible, dos de las características de la vida como diplomático ruso. El 24 de febrero fue diferente. Cuando revisé mi teléfono, vi noticias…

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#Autor Boris Bondarev #Diplomatico deserta #Guerra #Kremlin #Moscú #Putin #Total News Agency #Ucrania

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Борис Бондарев русский с мужеством

Борис Бондарев русский с мужеством

Сегодня стало известно, что российский дипломат Борис Бондарев подал в отставку с должности в составе российской делегации в Совете ООН по правам человека в Женеве. Он уходит в отставку в знак протеста против войны России на Украине. Критика, которую он делает, является жесткой и является компромиссом с российской системой. Борис Бондарев решается на другой уровень Письмо Бориса Бондарева Это…

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#Boris Bondarev #Russland

[filosofablogger]

A Few Mini Snippets To Start The Weekend!

A Few Mini Snippets To Start The Weekend!

Just a few very short snippets de snark today – I’m trying to clear out the detritus from my mind before the start of a 3-day weekend!  Speaking of which … to all my friends in the U.S., be safe and sensible this weekend, okay?  I really don’t want to read about drunken driver crashes or other tragedies because someone felt the need to celebrate a bit too much. Want to know just how low the GOP…

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#Boris Bondarev #GOP Governor race in Michigan #Irma and Joe Garcia #Texas school shooting

[toscanoirriverente]

Dopo Boris Bondarev, ex inviato all’Onu di Ginevra che ha lasciato in segno di protesta, decine di uomini del corpo diplomatico moscovita sarebbero pronti a seguirlo

(...) secondo il giornale Kommersant, dall’inizio dell’invasione, decine di diplomatici si sono dimessi dalla carriera, anche se nessuno di loro ha avuto il coraggio di dire che lo ha fatto per protesta contro la guerra. Ma c’è molto di più. Secondo fonti occidentali con buoni contatti nel mondo della diplomazia russa, «oltre cento funzionari sarebbero pronti a ripetere il gesto di Bondarev». E la cosa preoccupa così tanto il Cremlino, che il segretario del Consiglio di Sicurezza, Nikolaj Patrushev, ha presentato proprio in questi giorni un rapporto a Vladimir Putin, nel quale il ministero guidato da Lavrov viene definito «un castello di carte costruito sulla sabbia». Il rapporto farebbe nomi e cognomi degli oltre cento diplomatici in odore di «tradimento», commentando le situazioni di ognuno di loro.(...)

#Russia #Putin #Ucraina #Boris Bondarev

[gwydionmisha]

#Boris Bondarev #Russian Invasion #Ukraine #Russian Politics #News

[herukapadmajungiansworld]

No Loyalty to Vladimir Putin

No Loyalty to the EVIL

Well done BORIS BONDAREV

JUSTICE FOR UKRAINE 🇺🇦✊🇺🇦❗

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[malicomnet]

Opposé à la guerre en Ukraine, un diplomate russe fait défection à Genève : "Jamais je n'ai eu autant honte de mon pays" - Malicom - L'info sur le bout des doigts.

Actualités du Mali - Opposé à la guerre en Ukraine, un diplomate russe fait défection à Genève : "Jamais je n'ai eu autant honte de mon pays"

Opposé à la guerre en Ukraine, un diplomate russe fait défection à Genève : "Jamais je n'ai eu autant honte de mon pays"

  Boris Bondarev, conseiller à la Mission de Russie auprès des Nations unies à Genève depuis 2019, dénonce le « bellicisme », les « mensonges » et la « haine » au sein du ministère des Affaires étrangères. « Jamais je n’ai eu autant honte de mon pays que le 24 février de cette année », date du lancement, il y a trois mois, de « la guerre d’agression déclenchée par Poutine contre l’Ukraine, et en fait contre l’ensemble du monde occidental ». Boris Bondarev, conseiller à la Mission de Russie auprès des Nations unies à Genève depuis 2019, a annoncé sa démission lundi dans une déclaration partagée avec des diplomates. « Boris Bondarev est un héros », a déclaré Hillel Neuer, le directeur exécutif de l’organisation non gouvernementale UN Watch, qui a publié la lettre, appelant « tous les autres diplomates russes aux Nations unies – et dans le monde – à suivre son exemple moral et à démissionner ». Cette guerre « n’est pas seulement un crime contre le peuple ukrainien, mais aussi, peut-être, le crime le plus grave commis contre le peuple russe, avec une lettre Z en gras barrant tous les espoirs et perspectives d’une société libre et prospère dans notre pays », peut-on lire dans sa déclaration. « Ceux qui ont conçu cette guerre ne veulent qu’une chose : rester au pouvoir pour toujours, vivre dans des palais pompeux et sans goût, naviguer sur des yachts comparables en tonnage et en coût à toute la marine russe, bénéficier d’un pouvoir illimité et d’une impunité totale. Pour y parvenir, ils sont prêts à sacrifier autant de vies qu’il le faudra. Des milliers de Russes et d’Ukrainiens sont déjà morts rien que pour cela. » Boris Bondarev, diplomate depuis 2002, charge aussi le ministère qu’il a servi, et qui était devenu sa « maison », sa « famille ». Ces vingt dernières années, « le niveau de mensonges et de manque de professionnalisme dans le travail du ministère des Affaires étrangères n’a cessé d’augmenter ». Il n’est plus que « bellicisme », « mensonges » et « haine ». Le chef de la diplomatie, Sergueï Lavrov, illustre cette « dégradation ». « Intellectuel professionnel et éduqué, que beaucoup de mes collègues tenaient en si haute estime », il est devenu en 18 ans « une personne qui diffuse constamment des déclarations contradictoires et menace le monde (c’est-à-dire la Russie aussi) avec des armes nucléaires ! » Le diplomate russe ne peut « tout simplement plus participer à cette ignominie sanglante, stupide et absolument inutile ». Le diplomate russe ne peut « tout simplement plus participer à cette ignominie sanglante, stupide et absolument inutile », écrit-il. Y en aurait-il d’autres dans son cas ? Pour Hillel Neuer, « les États-Unis, le Royaume-Uni et l’Union européenne devraient […] créer un programme pour encourager plus de diplomates russes à faire défection en offrant protection et sécurité financière et un endroit où s’installer avec leur famille ».   - Malicom - Actualités du Mali

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#Boris Bondarev #Russie #Sergueï Lavrov #Ukraine #A la une #International