President of Russia Vladimir Putin: Mr Prosecutor General, colleagues,
Earlier this year, we celebrated 300 years of the Russian Prosecution Service, once again emphasising its significant role in the history of the Fatherland, the development of our society and the building of the foundations of a rule-of-law state.
During the annual expanded meeting of the Prosecutor General’s Office Board today, we will sum up the results of your work in 2021, considering the current situation, and will discuss objectives for the short and long term.
I should note that over this latest period, the prosecution bodies have maintained positive momentum with respect to a whole range of key performance indicators. Prompt intervention by prosecutors helped to protect the social rights of over 1 million citizens, including paying almost 20.5 billion rubles in wage arrears.
Prosecutors of different ranks receive members of the public, showing a higher effectiveness rate. The number of appointments increased by more than 11 percent last year, exceeding 1 million people. Statistics show that the majority of issues reported by people were resolved. The Prosecutor General personally took charge of the most critical cases.
Here is what I would like to say in this connection. There are a number of appeals filed by our citizens concerning the issues they raise regularly but which often take years to resolve – this is what we must focus our attention on. I would like to say that prosecutors’ efforts on a specific issue are not always effective for objective reasons or because of [the lack of] funding or because of the regional and local authorities’ policies. Nevertheless, members of the prosecution service must work together with regional and municipal teams, involving the federal authorities to deal with the essential aspects of the problems each particular person is facing. I ask you not to take a formal attitude to these matters, limiting your work to reporting on the prosecutor’s response measures taken, but to really work towards the settlement of problems at the given level.
Next, it is largely thanks to your contribution that the number of unjustified inspections of businesses has decreased. You have cut short the propaganda of extremism in the information space and the illegal activities of some NGOs.
The prosecution agencies must continue improving their performance in the key areas, giving more attention to the protection of legitimate civil rights and freedoms, including social and labour rights.
Of course, I simply must mention the unprecedented sanctions pressure the Western countries have put on Russia over recent years. As all of us are aware, this pressure increased after we launched the special military operation to support the Donbass people’s republics.
The Government and our regions are taking large-scale measures to support the citizens of Russia, and we must ensure the uninterrupted operation of these social protection mechanisms at all levels. I am referring, in part, to the timely transfer of pensions, payments and benefits to low-income and large families, and the enhancement of employment assistance programmes.
In this connection, I would like to ask prosecutors, acting within the framework of their authority, to develop a special system to oversee compliance with laws during the implementation of support measures for people and all the key, socially-oriented programmes.
The state is also there to support the key manufacturing sectors, which employ millions of people in our country. The Russian economy has everything it takes to operate in a stable and uninterrupted manner in this new reality.
At the same time, it is the freedom of entrepreneurship and flexible business mechanisms that ensure that the market gets the goods it needs, help mitigate deficits and smooth out price surges. I would like to urge you to make sure that all the rights of entrepreneurs are complied with and to create a business-friendly environment for them.
However, if someone abuses their monopoly or engages in behind-the-scenes price-fixing, both the anti-trust watchdogs and the prosecutor’s office must respond in a timely and concise manner.
Russian businesses have been acting with a lot of dignity these days. Many small and medium-sized companies have yet to recover from the pandemic, but they are now facing new barriers related to the aggression against Russia, which took on the form of sanctions. In fact, aggression through sanctions – this the only way I can define what it is going on. In this situation, we need to do everything to support Russian businesses and use all the available means to this effect, including by reducing the administrative burden.
Of course, there are spheres that require inspections, especially on matters affecting people’s lives and health. In all other situations, we decided to declare a moratorium.
We need to let Russian businesses and those of the foreign companies who continue, against all odds, performing their obligations in good faith, work in peace. We need to shield businesses from excessive, unjustified and unnecessary controls. We have all the instruments we need to do this.
Of course, we must be firm in curbing any impairment of rights of businesses receiving state support or preferences. The system to support entrepreneurs must operate in all clarity and create a business-friendly environment.
Colleagues,
I would like to specifically discuss the tasks facing the prosecution agencies and the entire law enforcement sphere in connection with the special military operation in Donbass and Ukraine.
The special operation has exposed multiple violations of international law by Ukrainian neo-Nazi groups as well as foreign mercenaries. We are referring to extreme atrocities such as killing civilians, using people, including children, as human shields, and other crimes. Flagrant provocations against our Armed Forces, also with the use of resources such as foreign media and social networks, also require a thorough investigation.
At the same time, it is also necessary to suppress any crimes on the territory of the Russian Federation in the most decisive manner. This morning, the Federal Security Service thwarted a terrorist group that planned to attack and assassinate a well-known Russian television journalist. They will definitely deny this now, but the facts and evidence are irrefutable.
In this regard, I would like to say the following. To our surprise, high-ranking diplomats in Europe and the United States are urging their Ukrainian satellites to use their resources to win on the battlefield. Our partners in the United States are using such strange diplomacy – diplomats are even calling for this. But as they realise that this is impossible, they try to achieve a different objective instead – to split Russian society, to destroy Russia from within. But here, too, there is a hitch; this hasn’t worked either. Our society has shown maturity and solidarity; it supports our Armed Forces and supports our efforts to ensure Russia’s ultimate security and help the people living of Donbass. This actually means support for our people living in Donbass. So when they failed to achieve their information goals – they continued to fool their citizens of course, using their monopoly position in their countries’ information space and in some other countries, but they failed here, on the territory of Russia – they switched to terror, to arranging the murder of our journalists.
In this regard, it should be noted of course that we know the names of all the Western handlers, of all members of Western services, primarily the CIA, who are working with Ukrainian security agencies. Apparently, they are giving them such advice. This is their attitude towards the rights of journalists, towards the dissemination of information; this is their attitude towards human rights in general. All they care about is their own rights, some cherishing imperial ambitions, others holding on to their colonial past in the old-fashioned way. But this will not work in Russia.
I am asking the Investigative Committee of Russia, and all investigative bodies to record such crimes in detail, to identify their masterminds and perpetrators, to initiate criminal cases and bring them to trial, as they should. Prosecutors and investigators should carefully study these and all other facts, collect the necessary evidence to make a case, which should be used in court proceedings, including at the international level. Let me emphasise that such evidence should be accumulated for all the crimes committed by neo-Nazis and their accomplices, starting with the coup d’état in Kiev in 2014, which paved the way for civil war, bloodshed and violence in Ukraine.
Next point. We should pay special attention to people arriving to Russia from Ukraine, from the Donetsk and Lugansk people’s republics. As of today, they number nearly one million, including over 100,000 children. People who had to leave their homes are not always in possession of the documents needed to get material aid, medical support, and to enrol children in schools or kindergartens. I urge the Prosecutor General’s Office to render these people legal assistance and protect their rights, including by reviewing their applications within the shortest possible timeframes. It is hard for these people, help them.
Colleagues,
As before, coordinating the law enforcement agencies in the fight against crime remains among the absolute and most important tasks facing the prosecution service. Yes, the fact that an almost 100-percent solve rate has been achieved with regard to the gravest crimes can be described as a good result.
But the statistics are not so good as far as the solve rate for thefts and fraud is concerned. I discussed this in detail at the Interior Ministry’s board meeting in February. I would like you to offer proposals on how to change the situation and improve the solve rate for these crimes.
The prosecutors should also be more proactive in fighting extremism. It is important to consolidate the positive results achieved in this area and put a firm stop to any actions directed at interfering in Russia’s internal affairs from the outside, destabilising our society, and fomenting xenophobia, militant nationalism and interfaith enmity. And, of course, it is necessary to respond without delay to any instances of spreading on the internet radical ideologies and false information that provoke violations of law and order or preparations for illegal actions. They are often organised from abroad, and this is done in different ways, with either information or money coming in from those parts.
As before, protecting the rights of minors is among the priorities of the prosecution agencies. It is necessary to follow more closely and impose more severe punishments for crimes committed against children and adolescents, as well as to take additional measures to radically reduce the number of offences in this area, including pre-emptive and preventive measures.
Next, we should focus on checking how the federal budget funds are spent, primarily funds allocated for federal and national projects, as part of our fight against corruption. But, of course, we should not forget about the municipal level and the regional level, and also keep an eye on the funds spent to fulfil the state defence order and develop the defence industry.
You should pay close attention to some other important areas, including skilled support for government cases in court, environmental protection and management, and oversight of compliance with the rights of inmates of detention facilities.
I am confident that the prosecutors are well aware of the scope and importance of the tasks facing their agency and will do all they can for their effective implementation.
Colleagues, I want to thank the heads and the personnel of the prosecution service for their dedicated work.
I wish you new, significant achievements. Thank you very much.
“It is important to consolidate the positive results achieved in this area and put a firm stop to any actions directed at interfering in Russia’s internal affairs from the outside, destabilising our society, and fomenting xenophobia, militant nationalism and interfaith enmity. ”
What a stroke of genius to bring in Kadyrov’s battalions! After all what Chechnya went through!
Awesome!
With all due respect to this great thinker, leader and rational human being – why does he continue to waste time and his precious energy referring to *western diplomats and diplomacy* and *foundations of rule of law state*.
We Anglo-Khazari-Zionists pretenders DO NOT GIVE a single iota/smallest thought for *diplomacy* and *rule of law* etc., that has been discarded for the past 70 years.
Just this week the victorious re-elected French-Zionist banker scumbag, Macron signed a decree doing away with *French diplomats*. Apart from apparently sending military equipment to Kiev under the cover of *Diplomatic baggage*…
At least remember, in those good old days, that President DeGaulle when he visited the USSR even spoke Russian…apart from telling NATO/USA to go hell, But not JFK..
VVP then deals passionately with Russian pensions –
Dear VVP in the West none of our *leaders/politicos/mafia* in the Empire of Lies give a damn/a fig about pensions – Pfizer Vxx etc, gutted pension funds, stress, and depression will take care of that under the un-divine guidance of Schwab, Rothschild & co.,
EUTHANASIA for us USELESS EATERS of the NATO groupies…
Please take a 4 day rest by Lake Baikal, fishing and walking – you need a much needed break for your own health and for the Russian people today and tomorrow.
President Vladimir Putin – you are the best..
Forget about but not Forgive the the cursed West..
I’m afraid the typical lazy, or laissez-faire, western decadence is evident in that comment.
Do you not see that President Putin is promoting Regime Change here in the rotten decadent cess-pool that the West was flushed into?
So how about it – Regime Change, here, to make Soros blush?
@ winston_hitler
I second your motion, including the praise for VVP (VeryValiantPerson) who has seen, a tad too late, the light. However he, recalcitrantly still calls the enemy “partners”!!! They return his politeness with insults; “insane, mass murderer, war criminal”, etc. Saintly patience! (PS – This reminds me of another invention of mine eight years ago on a post on a Donbassian blog. Using an image of a Russian icon, I removed the face of St. Someone and replaced it with a photo of VVP. It went viral! )
IWinston…it’s called holding the moral highground…. it cost nothing….like good manners
Perhaps the recognized contradiction can occur given:”That the world is not the embodiment of an eternal rationality can be conclusively proved by the fact that the piece of the worldthat we know–I mean our human reason–is not so very rational.” Nietzsche
“You have cut short the propaganda of extremism in the information space and the illegal activities of some NGOs.”
Up to here, the speech shows a very hands-on president. Some could say “someone else wrote it” but this is Putin. He worked on this speech himself. What a style, “celebrated 300 years” of this prosecution service. It’s not that others can’t say something similar based on fact; they lack the finesse. Most politicians don’t give you a presentation like this. Don’t know about Europe or Asia, if there’s someone there.
No extremism allowed! It is allowed in the United States and it’s anti-extremism that is increasingly not allowed. MSNBC has made a very big decision, I see. It used to be just one commercial. In the last week, I noticed that families shown on TV more often include a homosexual or lesbian couple together with standard images. A girl goes to her house, the other girl opens the door and they face each other sideways to the camera (sisters or college roommates, you think). Then they come close as if to kiss – and the camera is off to the next couple, message given. They are now doing it much more aggressively. What a decision! No one can stop it, no one tries, no one says a word. Millions do but they’re regular folks watching TV. People don’t count when no leaders and laws exist against this Extremism that is forbidden by law in Russia (the promotion of this).
Be aware, Saker bans anyone who challenges the official Covid or vaccine narrative. That has been the official policy on this site set in summer 2021.
Plenty of well known blogs ban COVID hijacking.
Cut it out, we have a major problem in Ukraine!
True. The Saker took a while to recognize the official lies concerning events of 9/11. He may yet come around to recognizing the real agenda behind Covid-19.
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Please get back on topic.
The Moderator.
“@ it should be noted of course that we know the names of all the Western handlers, of all members of Western services, primarily the CIA, who are working with Ukrainian security agencies. Apparently, they are giving them such advice. This is their attitude towards the rights of journalists, towards the dissemination of information; this is their attitude towards human rights in general. All they care about is their own rights, some cherishing imperial ambitions, others holding on to their colonial past in the old-fashioned way@”
Putin seems to be issuing a threat here to well known CIA handlers instigating terror attacks.
I live in France, and am used to political diversion, deceit, empty words, disconnection from reality and such.
I read almost all M. Putin’s speeches that Saker offers here, and it is always a pleasure – read what a genuine state servant does. Humility and focus on what was done and is yet to do.
Simple words, fact of the matter, practical needs of the state and of the people, and related goals and plans. It is very likely that those exposed plans are not a surprise but we’re prepared and set up before hand, with the concerned parties, with serious structure, schedule and budget at least in draft. The president is prepared, and leading staff of the day should better be too, and the audience feels it.
Always an introduction with respect towards the audience and the host, actual proof of knowledge and understanding of the case, some follow up on previous occurrences…
It is like bread : nothing fancy, maybe even a little plain, but actual food for the day, reliable, steady, sufficient.
Putin’s speeches remind strongly of two asian sayings.
À Zen one : style without style is the ultimate style.
À Taoist one : true words are not beautiful, beautiful words are not true.
It doesn’t mean truth can’t be beautiful. It is about what you see first : beauty, or truth? Putin doesn’t give you a choice, thinking about his style would just hinder the work at hand. Hence, pure clear, functional words, no attempt to beauty. Maybe he didn’t think about it, maybe he just does his job.
And there stands the beauty, like a dancer : bare moves, no make up, sense of ease… Years of hard training, steel underneath.
No surprise Russians feel commited to their country. For the west, It is easier to despise the good ones than to catch up with them.. This explains that about almost everything western today : too much work to fix ourselves, too much pride to face our own truth.
Long words. I just wanted to thank the Saker for showing us what a true president does. Among things, he inspires.
Here is Beijing’s view on the Paris election – extremely interesting.
A strategically autonomous France is important for Europe: Global Times editorial
https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202204/1260329.shtml
There is an old American managerial rule – a greenhorn blurts out the obvious truth at a meeting is poopoed, and jaundiced ‘senior management’ console him later – “of course you were right, but it cannot come from you”. newbee.
So will Macron steal lePen’s thunder, do a full deGaulle, if you know what that means?
Nope. Macron is a neoliberal Atlanticist critter through and through. Given that he no longer has to worry about re-election, I’d expect him to go full bore NATO freak.
Thanks for your comment. Straight out of my own perception of Putin, Russia and semantics.
The Taoist one is however somehow confusing.
Anyway, maybe the pragmatic Chinese sees Macron’s re-election as as geopolitical stabilizer, I took it as a confirmation of Europe’s final cultural death.
France being Europe’s cultural metropole for centuries, French charm, romance, philosophy, style and art. France in front first European country who adopted ME knowledge about the water cycle, among others.
Saw a French reportage about African migrants deliberately being mixed up with Ukrainian refugee girls, Macron re-elected, the illusion about Europe fade and fade. Its pathetic.
The usual French bs in Africa, ME and Ukraine……….. are we not better than that? Not!
….this regard, it should be noted of course that we know the names of all the Western handlers, of all members of Western services, primarily the CIA, who are working with Ukrainian security agencies. Apparently, they are giving them such advice. This is their attitude towards the rights of journalists, towards the dissemination of information; this is their attitude towards human rights in general. All they care about is their own rights, some cherishing imperial ambitions, others holding on to their colonial past in the old-fashioned way. But this will not work in Russia.
I am asking the Investigative Committee of Russia, and all investigative bodies to record such crimes in detail, to identify their masterminds and perpetrators, to initiate criminal cases and bring them to trial, as they should……
Captured NATO officers (perhaps hundreds) will be given war crimes trials
I have thought for several years that Russia would someday find a new monetary system that the West does not control, and only then would they and could they seek redress for all the wrongs. That time has arrived.
@James Speaks
A new monetary system was a given since Nixon threw the switch in 1971 to remove gold from being exchanged for diluted ( printed to infinity ) USD, thereafter having to be backed by oil, i.e. the “petrodollar.”
Russia and China combined, hold more gold in reserves (conservatively 35,000 metric tonnes ) than all the other central banks globally. If Russia is now officially divorced culturally, politically, economically, morally, spiritually, and financially from the west, then why follow the western playbook of a pandemic. Or is the divorce a smokescreen to keep the plebs occupied and controlled as all wars do when the debt based monetary system is set to implode. Xi and Putin have known the end game since they began their alliances as a bridge to a new multipolar world order and a bulwark against the decay and decadence of the US led west in 1971.
Putin and Xi are sleepwalking the West into a situation where the West must use rubleyuan to purchase fuel and fertilizer, but wait, there’s a case in the Russian courts awarding damages to Russia, Syria, Palestine, Iraq …. Which must be paid before delivery.
And it’s all legal!
When in history has any president of the USA addressed federal prosecutors in such a manner, focused on the rights of citizens and small business? My guess is never.
such a catcht 22 aint it?
Open up society for business/innovation while shutting down the avenues for corruption…
All the while prosecuting the deserving parties for warcrimes…
Back when…the Czar decided…🙄
Well, at least the khazar maffia has moved on from the territorry…to rosier fields…mabbe the folk can get a hand on the poblemo.
fingers crossed.
I have always been of the opinion, that the expression of “denazification” shall present future undefinable problems…
No catch and certainly not the 22 version.
To have a truly innovative society you need to shut down the avenues of corruption.
It worked rather well in Norway until we found that blasted oil, and tied our future to the dollar.
Look, It is the human condition to make deals. AFAIK.
I have done it. Prolly make some more b4 I am done.
I have accepted some of the values/rules society has offered me for some space.
Some. Others – not so much.
Why I like the idea of homogeneous societies(tribes) is, that large grift outs.
Actually, I have found, that Norway has dealt better with the surplus, that others had…no?
Stay on topic or any further comment will go to the trash. Mod.
Except for this one. Watch the Pascha service that took place at Christ the Savior Cathedral in Moscow, which lasted about four hours, beginning at 11:00 pm and going until the wee hours of the morning. President Putin was there, too. You just can’t judge based on your ideas and be fair about it.
There must have been incredible music – is there a link?
Russia needs to take this fight overseas. Engage in clandestine activities in enemy countries. A derailment of a train shipping military vehicles to ukraine, and things like that.
prolly better me and You are not in the driver seat mate…😌
But why – to get it out of their jurisdiction?
It seem there’s an awful lot of commenters who want Russia to stoop down to western levels.
I wonder why?
Because moral high level does not do you any good and does not save Russia other than your own feeling-good. That’s just a response to the awful lot of naive do-good, feel-good commenters here who have no sense of reality, don’t care about Russia’s survival and are only obsessed with their noble ideal. Russia needs to stoop down BELOW western levels if not TO.
Russia should treat those who cooperate with it in a thoughtful manner. Those who seek to do ti harm must be deal with without consideration at this point. If they are willing to kill journalists and shoot up schools, they´re no good.
Well if they don’t already they had better learn they are involved in a savage street fight,not a boxing match,just today a Moronic British Government minister said British weapons being sent to Ukraine should be allowed to attack the Russian Federation,thats a declaration of war its that simple.
“why – to get it out of their jurisdiction?”
Because Russia’s enemies are out of their jurisdiction. You can’t figure it out yourself?
doesn’t sound like a ”crazy man” to me.
Four points about this speech:
1) The openness of the government of Russia for the world to see, as demonstrated in this presidential message, is something real. It shows neither the substance nor the spirit of a dictatorship.
2) The work scope of this prosecutor agency is something that is hard to imagine or compare since it covers so many areas (amazing) including “environmental protection and management” and even justice against war crimes and “provocations” committed inside Ukraine, where they must gather the evidence for the respective trials.
3) It must be confusing to Russians, after his Empire of Lies Speech, to listen to these words from him: “To our surprise, high-ranking diplomats in Europe and the United States are urging their Ukrainian satellites to use their resources to win on the battlefield. Our partners in the United States are using such strange diplomacy – diplomats are even calling for this.” There’s a saying in Spanish, “to erase with your elbow what you wrote with your hand” (I think something close exists in Russian), and that’s what he does here even though I guess he does not mean to. It is all the more confusing since, in the same paragraph, he accuses the same two – Europe and the United States – of seeking to kill Russian journalists (in Ukraine, as the text reads later): “So when they failed to achieve their information goals – they continued to fool their citizens of course, using their monopoly position in their countries’ information space and in some other countries, but they failed here, on the territory of Russia – they switched to terror, to arranging the murder of our journalists.”
I haven’t seen the speech video, if there’s one, to judge better, but this part is wrong even if spoken with irony.
4) “Let me emphasise that such evidence should be accumulated for all the crimes committed by neo-Nazis and their accomplices, starting with the coup d’état in Kiev in 2014, which paved the way for civil war, bloodshed and violence in Ukraine.”
I reiterate my understanding based on his own statements that he intends to take control of all of Ukraine and apply this law in all of it. Apparently, Ukraine will be annexed to Russia.
Point 3) is about the word “partners” in the speech.
“The Government and our regions are taking large-scale measures to support the citizens of Russia, and we must ensure the uninterrupted operation of these social protection mechanisms at all levels. I am referring, in part, to the timely transfer of pensions, payments and benefits to low-income and large families, and the enhancement of employment assistance programmes.”
Unimaginable in the US, and another – if not the primary – reason this socialist country must be destroyed.
Ah, to be able to dance once again and sit at the same table and drink schnaps? Unbelievable?
https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/international-news/russia/before-obamas-neocon-war-on-russia/
Something serious is going on now: Nuremberg II to be held, in due course, at Donetsk/Luhankst! And I claim credit for it!
The Kremlin, in its wisdom (perhaps they knew more than I (!) refused to heed my advice back in 2014 to be more assertive and proactive to prevent the emergence of the a hostile regime in Kiev and enhance the safety of the Donbass. I blamed The Saker for not passing on my gratuitous advice because, I presume, the boss was so cock-sure about VVP’s infallibility that any suggestion contrary to his wisdom was a heresy. Crest-fallen by my failure to move mountains, I kept quiet an refrained from giving further advice on such high matters as geostrategic posturing and diplomacy.
Muttering in silence for eight years, I was suddenly brought back to action, to wit, giving advice, by the SMO thunder and, guess what (?), I dared to breach the injunction and, last week or thereabouts, I gave another piece of my wisdom to the Kremlin: to set up the prosecutory machinery to gather evidence of the crimes committed and being committed by whoever is involved in the Ukrainian disaster, perpetrators and the accessories before and after the fact (anyone willfully involved, including the foreign promoters up to the senile resident in the painted white Black House.
To my amazement WWP promptly got wind of it and set the prosecutory wheels in motion – although he failed to give my due credit for my clear hints.
Thanks Saker!
If you are so persuasive, could you please turn your attention now to the US leaders and their NATO sidekicks and convince them that instead of the national suicide they organize in their countries they should opt for the individual experience, like some oligarchs appear to have started?
@ ariadna
Sorry, I’m not going to waste my talents on a lost cause; beyond even me and not even Hercules could clean this huge Augean Stables.
The Straussian invasion of the US and transformation into the Hegemon made it beyond redemption even if sanitized by swarms of fissile-bearing Sarmats! Like cockroaches, that parasitic vermin has a tendency to survive even in the most hostile environments. Anyway, hope they invade Mars and burn their boats.
As to the Hegemon’s sidekicks in Europe, there is some hope yet. De Gaulle did nor resurrect this time but there is a beating soul there hidden under the millennial stoneworks of cathedrals and castles to remind the plebs that there is an alternative reality to impending doom.
I don’t see anyone flippin sides yet, just a lot of fishing going on.
About 2 days ago (on Saturday, April 23) the CNN reported that two Russian oligarchs and their families were found murdered. I have not heard or seen it after that. Was it fake news? If it happened, what did Russian authorities say? (btw I watch CNN for perverse urge – kind of ‘mortification of the flesh’ …)
I saw that on Telegram several times. One case is in Spain and the other in Moscow. The official theory seems to be “murder suicides”. But I don’t know I might suspect murders.But it’s too early to say.
I’ve read where about six or more oligarchs and their families have been murdered or suicided lately. Several of them have Gazprom (Russian Gas Company) connections. I don’t have any more information about that.
No clue as to the perpetrators of these crimes, but there are Russian mafias that kill people in other countries. I know of one case first hand. He was a high oil executive working in Russia in the late 90s or soon after (of Shell, I think). He was moved to Brazil. He had a problem with the mafia in Russia. They told him they would kill him. He shared all this in Brazil with a friend who recounted all this where I was present. In Brazil, later someone broke into his bedroom at night and killed both the wife and him in their bed with sharp instruments. There were no notes left, nothing stolen – a hate crime.
Financially, Intellectually, Morally & Socially the collective west is teetering on the edge of the precipice. Things on ground are real ugly, more so by the day and the public displays of mental health top to bottom is a cause for concern. Navigating your way through a pathetic sea of zombies is proving increasingly difficult . With governments doubling down on previous failed policies, the English stiff upper-lip is now full blown rigour mortis.
Whatever the problems, we cannot say the same about the country that may be conquering another ultra-rich country like Ukraine. Nightvision commented two or three Sitreps ago that no matter the expense and costs, they would be more than compensated by the conquest of some regions of Ukraine. Greeks, Romans – nobody disagrees with the value of such gains. What’s a “recession” or even a “depression” if Ukraine ends up being part Russia as a candid Putin in a bear-like way said might happen? He just said that it could lose its statehood. He makes up for too candid by giving or endorsing diverse messages sometimes. Here, for example, I got a little confused when he said to the prosecutors that the SMO was about helping the people in Donbass and then gave them a large assignment in Ukraine that you have to be basically a Ukrainian to fulfill. I imagined the poor agency (‘poor’), which has to protect and facilitate business, ensure welfare checks are sent, look after the environment and its management, prevent fraud and theft (which they were told needs to be improved), listen to and solve more people complaints, and what not, and on top of all has a big assignment in Ukraine, asking: “Nothing more?” Whoever heads that agency and does well, forget about Zakharova or Medvedev! That would be the real star. In the U.S., that person would have a lot to say in his campaign speeches for president: “And how did I do in Ukraine? This many Nazis are in jail…”
“…the English stiff upper-lip is now full blown rigour mortis”
Perfect metaphor. May NATO get its comeuppance soon, in our days.
Can you imagine President Pudding giving such a long and sombre speech?
It is becoming clear that kiev and their western backers have decided to engage in acts of terrorism inside Russia, since they are not having success on the battlefield. Russia will have to start engaging in psyops and sabotage/destabilization operations beyond its borders. The EUSUK axis is willing to take this beyond ukraine, so Russia must do so, too. The last thing the EUSUK axis and kiev will do is fight fair. It’s not in their nature.
There is only one chance left to save Mariupol — a blow to Transnistria” – Butusov
In Ukraine, they openly declare preparations for an offensive on Transnistria.
“Ukraine has the legal right to demilitarize the military facilities of the Russian troops threatening us…This will make it possible to capture Russian prisoners for exchange, eliminate the threat of a breakthrough by Russian troops, seize large arsenals of ammunition, and release two Ukrainian brigades that stand on the Ukrainian-Moldovan border,” said Butusov
fairly obvious when ur losing a war start a new one. nato strategy no doubt . multiple purpose as well.
He is only a journalist, right? Who is he?
No sooner said than done (or at least initiated), eh?:
“Series of Explosions Rock Transnistria’s Ministry of State Security Building: Correspondent”
https://sputniknews.com/20220425/series-of-explosions-rock-transnistrias-ministry-of-state-security-correspondent-1095043993.html
As referenced in Mister Putin’s exemplary presentation:
“Vladimir Solovyev, Russian Journo Marked for Assassination, Says Plot Linked ‘Directly’ to Zelensky”
https://sputniknews.com/20220425/russian-journo-marked-for-assassination-says-murder-plot-linked-directly-to-ukraines-zelensky-1095039168.html
‘… The FSB, Russia’s main domestic security agency, announced earlier in the day that they had arrested Russian members of “National Socialism/White Power”, an international neo-Nazi group, who were planning to kill Solovyev on the instructions of the Security Service of Ukraine. The detained members of the neo-Nazi organisation have given confessions, and indicated that they planned to flee abroad after killing the journalist. …’
Last night both CNN and Fox News featured a rather long segment examining the idea of the US placing sanctions on a woman they called “Putin’s girlfriend” and the “three or four” (they were not sure) children they have together. The pretty-face-empty-head CNN anchor, Erin something, expressed frustration that “the tyrant” is so secretive that they were not able to establish if she was his wife or just a “girlfriend.” This naturally is infuriating for the citizen of country whose president once chuckled with a reporter asking him if he prefers briefs or boxer short and he, the “man from Hope”, obliged her with a reply, because … people want to know. Years before a “reporter” asked Betty Ford how often she and the President made love. She also obliged: “as often as possible.”
In this case he whole discussion was a lot more astoundingly inappropriate, in fact bordering on criminal. “Will this make Putin stop his war on Ukraine?” was the question. The idiot Jesse Watters was enthusiastic: “Let’s squeeze her! That’s bound to hurt him. She must have access to Putin’s personal wealth.”
Many people, citing various instances of egregious behaviors of aggression against various countries, say the US behaves like a Mafia don. That is really a slur on the mafia gangsters who always had a Sicilian code of honor whereby no matter what punishment they meted out to their enemies or competitors, they never specifically targeted their spouses or children. It was considered a despicable, cowardly act, unworthy of “made men.”
Not only did both CNN and Fox discuss in all seriousness this proposal to “put pressure on the Putin regime,” but CNN had Gral Petreus as a guest and asked his opinion….
Whatever he is, the general may be at least astute enough to sense that a military man discussing the idea of “squeezing” the “girlfriend” of the president of another country does not support the cackle “Russia is losing, OTAN-supported Ukraine is winning” but, on the contrary, it illustrates the despair of a loser of the lowest category of thugs. So he equivocated and started rambling about Russia’s military being “depleted, exhausted and demoralized.”
Nevertheless, step back and be fair: if Trump was (and still is) proud of having the general of another country assassinated, what’s to object to “putting the squeeze” on a private citizen who is labeled the presidnt’s “girlfriend”?
Shameful times.
The US as a society is disgusting sewage.
Bimbo news from bimbo minds targeting the bimbo pornhub plebs.
Well put. The “adversaries” know it, too, just as clearly. The problem is that those characters cannot read their adversaries, but their adversaries can read them well. The smarter ones see such characters, come to them, outclass them. They end up somewhere in the food chain, inevitably. The smarter ones can make them believe that they are the eaters…we have all heard, “You have to be smart.”
Well and very correct all this.
Those involved in the hijacking of the UKN should be brought to justice.
Be they in UKN or outside.
And Russian FM should refer their complaints and evidence to the US DOJ when the situation in US is rectified so the guilty there can be jailed or extradited to Russia. And the International Criminal Court in The Hague.
International arrest warrants need to put out on Soros, Obama, Brennan, Mueller, Lynch, etc… and various other Obama and Biden administration officials as this whole matter goes back at least to 2012. And then even looker deeper into who was behind them which will take things to the EU.
The Soros financed orange movement and all these “foundations” that Soros and others have setup in UKN and elsewhere need to be thoroughly investigated and laws banning such foreign involvement in local political processes be passed.
Soros and others (Zuckerberg) have hyde often to classify entities as charity or non profit for tax purposes too in all countries including US which is another wrought and that has to be stopped.
Russia also needs to look into the activities of social media linked to Soros & Obama – Facebook, Twitter under Dorsey, etc….and others like Amazon who are conduit for corruption – bribery via supply of goods.
I would in fact, put the all basic information on a large website in Russia for everyone worldwide to see and make their own conclusions as to how guilty these people are.
Since VVP spoke of War Crime Trials, I suppose it’s reasonably on topic to remark about the possible venue for the war crime trials – and observe that venue in Nuremberg 1.0 was, well, Nuremberg – because of the German nazi manifestations there, at least in part. There were, of course, also Soviet Trials in USSR, and elsewhere, such as DDR etc.
I have heard it said by Donesk soldier that “The trials will be held in Kiev.” (where much crime has been planned and committed) Ordinary soldat often have clear views.
Well, that seems reasonable, in terms of form and import, and consistent with History. But of course has certain implications about the Strategy. We have (supposedly) had “plan A”, which has become “plan B”.. and may well imagine “plan C” and so on…and “denazification” goal was never limited geographically, was it?
Then, perhaps, in the fullness of Time, what other proper venues might be chosen? Brussels? London?, Paris?, Berlin? Washington? The captive peoples “deplorables” (nutzlossen) held in Empire of Lies (and Violence) must know what crimes have been done in their names, or Justice is concealed, and cannot be served.
I recall the ultimatum> https://mid.ru/ru/foreign_policy/rso/nato/1790818/?lang=en
Drifting, perhaps, a bit “off topic”, when people wonder what RF “war aims” are, they might re-read the draft (url above), and recall also that those were the “Mr Nice Guy” terms before open combat began – future terms should not be expected to be so generous.
Brother GB also has essay in re> https://gilbertdoctorow.com/2021/12/19/a-surprise-russian-ultimatum-new-draft-treaties-to-roll-back-nato/
I am told that “social media” now censors (or tries to!) the image of the Soviet Flag over the Reichstag…nazis of world are afraid of Justice.And finally, let’s remember that VVP is educated as a lawyer, as well as baptized in Orthodox Church…
“VVP: Let me emphasise that such evidence should be accumulated for all the crimes committed by neo-Nazis and their accomplices, starting with the coup d’état in Kiev in 2014, which paved the way for civil war, bloodshed and violence in Ukraine.”
This is absolutely huge – Putin has revealed that a formal investigation will be made into the Maidan coup, never has a country as large & powerful as Russia investigated & prosecuted a western (US/UK/NATO) instigated coup – & to top that, an investigation of CIA activities as well. The US governing apparatus, & its shadow apparatus (that people like to call the deep state) will go ballistic over this. It will be interesting to watch their reaction.
Yeap… the man is a real man, a real statesman and a real leader… while Western White Civilization has reached her highest level of falsehood and lies.
Both are mystical facts (mystical as in “transcending human understanding”). Some may question the first fact; but, how is he chosen by Yeltsin!