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If you're a Slavic language speaker, you will understand this completely made-up language. So how does one create a language that can be instantly understood by hundreds of millions of people?
⚠️ Two important updates on the Trump/Zelenskiy/Biden scandal:

1- Our Ukranian correspondent was told by Ukrainian officials and activists that there was no open investigation into the company Joe Biden’s son was working for when Biden pushed to get a top prosecutor fired.

“Ironically, Joe Biden asked [then-Prosecutor General Viktor] Shokin to leave because the prosecutor failed [to pursue] the Burisma investigation, not because Shokin was tough and active with this case.”

The arguments, facts, and evidence in an American political drama with a spotlight on Ukraine:

https://www.rferl.org/a/why-was-ukraine-top-prosecutor-fired-viktor-shokin/30181445.html
2- In the meantime, Trump has confirmed that he told staff to freeze almost $400 million in aid to Ukraine before taking the phone call to Zelenskiy where he allegedly pressed him to investigate political rival Biden.

But he also said he froze aid to push European nations to put up more money to help Ukraine.

https://www.rferl.org/a/trump-confirms-he-withheld-ukraine-aid-did-it-to-pressure-europe/30181569.html
Where does your country fall?
In 2005, Belarusian leader Alyaksandr Lukashenka called ethnic Poles a "fifth column" bent on destabilizing his regime. The Polish community faces limited opportunities for education in their language and the number of people identifying themselves as ethnic Poles dropped by nearly 25% between the census taken in 1999 and the one in 2009. With another census coming up, some activists are calling for more Poles to report their identity as Polish, hoping bigger numbers will give the minority a stronger voice.

https://www.rferl.org/a/ethnic-poles-belarus-census-remember-who-i-am/30190010.html
A Russian state TV segment may have accidentally shown more evidence about a notorious, shadowy private military company, believed to be owned by a Kremlin-allied tycoon, and likely to have a major presence in the Central African Republic.

It all started when a reporting crew from state-run First Channel television flew to the Central African Republic to investigate how Russia was ostensibly helping to stabilize the impoverished, violence-ridden country.

https://www.rferl.org/a/a-state-tv-slip-up-u-s-sanctions-a-french-children-s-video-new-scrutiny-for-putin-s-chef-and-russian-mercenaries-in-africa/30193717.html
Russian opposition figure Aleksei Navalny's Anti-Corruption Foundation has been labeled a "foreign agent" by Russia's Justice Ministry, which says it received more than $2,150 from abroad. The new classification means the Foundation may have to submit regular reports covering its sources of funding, objectives, and spending.

Navalny demanded that the ministry publicly provide evidence that the Foundation "has received at least one penny of foreign money."

https://www.rferl.org/a/russia-navalny-s-foundation-labeled-foreign-agent-/30207382.html
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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy says he didn't know military aid from the United States had been held up before a phone call with President Donald Trump that is at the center of an impeachment inquiry.
Zelenskiy told the October 10 news conference that he didn't think there were any conditions attached to him meeting Trump, including launching an investigation involving the Bidens.