In 2014 Ramzan Kadyrov, the head of Chechnya, drove across Grozny at the speed of 241kh. The local Police department suspended his driver’s license. He said that he needed his driver’s license because he worked and practically lived in cars, and because he was always traveling. When they didn’t budge, he mounted a horse and said that he would have difficulties to perform his duties as a head of Chechnya, because of the problems connecting to the internet while on a horse.
It’s easier for Kadyrov to be connected to the internet while riding a horse, than for the European Union to occupy Ukraine without having to pay for this occupation politically, socially, and financially. Jean-Claude Juncker said during a speech in The Hague on Thursday March 3rd, that “Ukraine will definitely not be able to become a member of the EU in the next 20-25 years, and not of NATO either.”
Ukrainians immediately saw this as a positive sign, and explained that European Union doesn’t want a super power like Ukraine to become its part. “Europeans are afraid that Ukraine will swallow Europe. That’s why they want to wait.”
After two years of NATO occupation Ukrainians demonstrate a peculiar mix of despair, denial and delusion. What they refuse to demonstrate, though, is delight.
The spy agency for the occupier, the CIA has listed Ukraine as #2 in the world among the countries with the highest death rate. Lesotho is #1.
Ukraine’s GDP growth is #222, right above Yemen. Inflation is #225 out of 226.
Anyone who gloat over these facts, please understand that Ukraine is still populated by the Russian people. The fact that they are occupied by NATO members and terrorized by fascists armed gangs is reflecting in the speed with which the population of Russian people is shrinking in Ukraine. The US and Europe need the territories of Ukraine without its people, that’s why they have created these conditions for unprecedented since the Great Patriotic war death of population. [source]
Interesting to notice, that #3 on the list above takes the EU member Bulgaria. #5 and #7 are the EU members Latvia and Lithuania.
Rumor has it that President Putin asked Russian businesses to stay in Ukraine a bit longer. Yesterday, during the closed session with the heads of Russia’s leading companies who expressed desire to get out of Ukraine, Putin said that he couldn’t tell them what to do, but they should have some patience. “There is still a chance,” he said.
Despite of embargo and sanctions against each other, all regions of Ukraine have continued trade and business activities with Russia. [source]
The hope that the power might be soon changing in Ukraine immediately spread among the faithful. [source]
The political map of Ukraine by regions has not changed much since spring 2014. Here, you see the liberated regions. Regions in red are the regions of resistance, regions in red with barbed wire are regions with the mass terror unleashed against population. Regions in grey are those who sit quietly and try to pretend that nothing has happened. Regions in dark red and black are the four regions with the strong junta and Right Sector presence.
“I thought we would become poor after Maidan, but we just instantly turned destitute.” “I even turned my fridge off; it’s empty and a mouse starved in there to death.” The population wants Maidan #4. Everyone blames Russia. Pro-Russians blame that Russia has not invaded. Pro-Maidanites blame that Russia “invaded.” No one ever demonstrates understanding that they live in the NATO occupied country. NATO is a military alliance and not known for successfully rehabilitating economies of occupied countries.
The problem for the Russian population is that so called “true-Ukrainians” believe that the more they kill people, the better their life will be. How and where this “better life” will come from, they don’t know. They are convinced that several million wrong people stand between them and the “European” lifestyle . Considering that 20,000 of Russian people are reported missing. About 10,000 are rotting in jails for political “crimes,” and about 7000 reported murdered. Those who have not died, arrested or immigrated, are facing very uncertain future.
From this perspective, the German’s calls for Russia to help Ukraine’s economy seems like a provocation. “Sometimes I have the impression that Moscow and Kyiv are not fully aware of how serious the situation is,” German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier declared at the ‘Normandy Group’ meeting on March 3 in Paris.
The UN recommends Ukraine to sell their products to…. Mongolia. And also Turkmenistan, Serbia, Morocco, Egypt and Uzbekistan. All those countries that the New York based UN apparatchiks don’t believe to exist. The European Union market that was promised to Ukraine during Maidan is not on this list. The initial brilliant idea of Washington’s neo-cons was to use Ukraine as a free-trade path to Russian market. Does anyone know why didn’t it work out?
“Ukraine’s needs have not diminished but because of the urgency and weight of other events it has found itself displaced for public attention.” So says former EP President Pat Cox , following the European Parliament’s Needs Assessment Mission to the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine.
They issued “European Parliament Report and Roadmap on internal reform and capacity-building for the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine”
Moved by sheer gratitude, members of the government of Ukrainian, immediately dubbed the authors of this masterpiece of irrelevancy as “morons” and “retards.”
They are especially angry that the EU tries to turn Rada into a “soviet type parliament under their rule.”
This is one of those uncommon occasions when I have to agree with them.
This week the Nuland appointed Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk is finally ready to resign, almost resigned, or will be resigning in near future. The US wants their woman, a US born neo-liberal Jaresko, to become a Prime Minister. Poroshenko and his backers want their own person, a current Speaker of Rada, Grossman. In the most bizarre ethnic re-aliment ever, Bloomberg News spelled Grossman’s last name as “Hroisman.”
I suspect that the “true patriot” Ukrainians don’t read Bloomberg News as much, and missed this fearless new spelling, because they see Hroisman as Grossman, with all the relevant emotional discharge.
Chinese Xinhua reports that Poroshnko wants a new government formed by March 29th. “It is in the interests of Ukraine that the government should be approved on March 29,” Poroshenko told reporters during his visit to the eastern region of Kharkov.
Truth be told that since Ukraine is being used as an excuse to continue the economic, political and information wars on Russia, the situation will only be getting worse.
Retirees in Kiev were attacked by youngsters from the Right Sector death squad Azov, fought back, beat the fascists up, chased them away and held a meeting. It looks like people finally realized that if they don’t fight, they won’t survive.
On March 17th, people came on the demonstration called “People said Yes to Soviet Union” and were attacked by the neo-Nazi thugs. The meeting started with a speech of Natalia Vitrenko, a Doctor of Economy and a former deputy of Rada.
From recently declassified by the US State Department transcripts of the talks of Gorbachev with the leaders of the Western countries. This is what he said on September 6, 1991 to the Minister of Economy of France Pierre Beregovoy.
M. S. Gorbachev. “About Ukraine, we need to mention Ukraine separately. With all that You are hearing from Kiev, don’t draw hasty conclusions. It should be noted that amongst people of Ukraine there is a strong movement for the Union. In Ukraine there have been some dramatic events recently, but we managed to stop their development. Although Ukraine declared its sovereignty and independence, it should remain a full member of the Union. I want to tell You confidentially, not for the press, the following. Once Kiev announced the Declaration of independence, the delegation of Donbas miners arrived here. Keep in mind that Donbas, the South of Ukraine, and Crimea is eleven million of Russians. By the way, the day before, Crimea declared its sovereignty. Breaking the ties between Russia and Ukraine would be drama for both republics, especially Ukraine. Therefore, we believe that these relationships mustn’t be cut, but taking into account the desire for independence, of course, it’s necessary.”
It’s my deep conviction that the post of the Prime Minister was an “award”for Pierre Beregovoy for his role in unlawful dissolution of the Soviet Union. In May 1993, soon after becoming a president he was found with a bullet hole in his cranium. Miracle, they didn’t notice an ice pick.
Meanwhile, the official Kiev is still fighting with the Russian language. Genadiy Balashov a mini-oligarch and the leader of libertarian party “5.10” the same who called to shoot everyone wearing St. George ribbon in 2014, came out with the initiative to transfer Ukrainian language into Latin alphabet.
The process of reengineering the Russian ethnicity in Ukraine continues.
For those who like history, historical pictures of Soviet time Kiev, 1960-1965. It truly was a city-garden with blooming flowers and chestnut trees.
News in Brief
1. Logic: following the attempt to burn Russian embassy in Kiev
Yakob Levin: Pity that it’s just an attempt
Tatyana: Pity that it wasn’t an Israeli Embassy
Yakob Levin: Any scum that raises a hand against Israeli Embassy, will regret this for a long time.
2. Mom, where do the Nazis come from?
Here is the brief History of a Nazi who claims to be a Ukrainian nationalist and patriot. Meet: Bogdan Butkevich.
Once upon a time there was a country called the Russian Empire. And there was a man, Rafail Gohman, who lived in this country. When he came of age, he married a local girl name Leya Butkevich, and Rufail took his wife’s last name. They had several children one of them was named August. August had a son named Georgiy. In 1944, he was drafted and was fighting in Europe where he was captured by the Germans. He survived, and after the war he returned back from Germany, got married and had a son he named Konstantine, who lived in beautiful and plentiful Kiev on Vozduhoftorskaya street. (Air fleet street) Konstantine got married and had a Nazi… I mean a son named Bogdan Butkevich. Bogdan Butkevich is one of the most outspoken Ukrainian nationalists, a follower of Stephan Bandera, who in spare time is a devoted follower of Chabad Lubavichi ultra-nationalist terrorist Jewish organization.
That’s what I mean when I tell you that these people are pretending to be us. Bogdan Butkevich claims that he speaks from “all Ukrainians” demanding to kill all the Russians in Donbass.
3. Here is a blog of an Iranian who lives in Russia now. Look at these pictures. These are images of white Christian Americans, Germans, French, British people conducting unspeakable cruelty and crimes in Algeria, Europe, American States, India 70-60 years ago.
4. The US Embassy in Turkey warned the US citizens about the possible terrorist attack two days prior to March 13 explosion.
5. “Russians, be prepared. It looks like they are going to hang Ukraine on us.” [source]
6. Ukrainians are destroying the ecology of their country with unprecedented speed [source]
Novorossia Donetsk Lugansk
1. On March 23, a real “Stalingrad” took place in Avdeevka according to the Ukro-media [source]
2. Dancing with death in small-town Donetsk, by Mark BARTALMAI, the Vineyard of the Saker-German, March 9, 2016
3. March 20th during the Service in Odessa cathedral, Mitropolit Agafangel (Savin) of Odessa
called for the unity of the Orthodox Churches. He said, “We strongly reject the imposed path leading society to legalize same-sex marriage and other sinful concepts that directly contradict our faith. And we will never accept these “Western values”, as they are incompatible with Orthodoxy. Let us try harder to pray to our Lord Jesus Christ through the prayers of the Queen of Heaven and the host of the saints to God to grant us the strength to overcome this temptation, and for our Holy Church to stand among the waves of heresies and schisms, while maintaining the purity of the Apostolic faith”. [source]
Russia
1. The Hidden Story of Crimea’s Economic Success [source]
2. Morshansk, a town in Tambov Oblast, got a new Police officer [source]
3. New RU government’s consumer protection site [source]
4. Preliminary numbers of birth and death in Russia in 2015. Natural growth of population was 32,100 (30,400 — в 2014 г.)
Contrary to popular believe, it’s not the Muslim areas, but Central (+4%) and North West Russia (+2.7%) had births increase. Sevastopol that had always lagged behind Crimea, in 2015 had higher than Crimea birth rate.
5. This season Russia sells the record amount of grains ever [source]
6. Russian scientists are testing new anti-cancer medication based on principle of boosting immune system
7. Russia’s Investigative Committee reports about the results of search and seizure that took place in the house of Natalia Pelevina, one of the organizers of violent anti-government protests on Bolotbanya Square (Center Moscow) in May 6th, 2012. Pelevina is a executive secretary for the Independent Human Rights Council, a member of ultra neo–liberal Party of national freedom (PARNAS) and a member of the of the Federal Political Council of PARNAC. She is also a director of the US State department funded NGO Democratic Russia Committee.
Among documents that the Investigative Committee retreated was financial reports proving that “May 6th Committee” has been financed by NED.
8. How the Shot Russian Opposition Leader Boris Nemtsov Accumulated One Billion Dollars [source]
9. Mayor of Yekaterinburg Roisman came out for a demonstration of 400 pro-junta Ukrainians. [source]
10. Info-graphic The main submarines and surface combatants in the USSR and in Russia 25 years apart
11. Russian communists came to the US Ambassador John Tefft for support in upcoming elections [source]
12. The US Ambassador john “Color revolution” Tefft feeds cookies to communists [source]
John F. Tefft, a Russia hater who served as US Ambassador to Ukraine, Georgia and Lithuania and promoted the invasion of South Ossetia while in Georgia, the current crisis and the resurgence of fascist forces in Ukraine and the rabid Russophobia and demonization of Russia in Lithuania.
13. Sausages trump patriotism everywhere, but Russia [source]
14. Russians have less money, but more trust in their government, says John Helmer. [source]
15. It’s their grief, not ours
“It Is Federica Mogherini.
“She began crying right at the press conference on the terrorist attack in Brussels.
“I’ve never seen tears European official, when terrorists killed our children in Beslan, when terrorists bombed our houses, and subway stations, when they downed our planes, when our people were burned alive in Odessa, or Ukrainian fascists are killing our children in Donbass. They were mostly grinning, sometimes expressing sympathy, but never forgetting to say that it was this “regime” to blame.
“Where am I going with this?
“It is time for us to realize that they don’t consider us to be human. We are for them, as some Africans, or the Chinese, are not human. They say: “Well, died, what is there to grieve? Let’s go on with Halloween and have fun. It’s just some Africans, Russians, Chinese… In a framework of freedom of speech we will make cartoons out of their tragedy.”
“We must know the most obvious thing – they don’t consider us as “their own”. There is no such thing as a “white brotherhood”, or a unique “European universal values”. They have their own people, and they have their own grief.
“We should start treating Europe, European values, and Europeans accordingly. They are not “ours.” It’s their grief, not ours. It’s their pain, not ours. It’s their war, not ours. It’s their problems, not ours.”
Dear Scott,
Thanks a lot for your situation report on Ukraine.
Reading the first few paragraphs, I could not help but laugh out loud. It sounds just satirical, even more so if I try to take it as real. May it help to shake more Ukrainians awake.
Best regards,
Marcel
I found the sight of Mogherini crying utterly pathetic I must say. Like the author of this article rightly pointed out, where were the European tears for the victims of Beslan, or for victims of terrorist atrocities when they take place in Lebanon or Nigeria or Iraq or Pakistan or any other non western country?
It is very obvious the “west” only considers western lives to be relevant and important and non western lives dont amount to anything in their view. In my view American “exceptionalism” is only an extension of this western world view which in itself is a leftover from colonial and imperial times. As an interesting point in all Hollywood westerns we have native Americans depicted as savages whose only interest is in scalping their “victims”, the public is never told it was actually the French who introduced this gruesome practice before it was adopted by the indians. I mention this because of the images shown in the Iranian bloggers blog above and in it it
can clearly be seen that white westerners have long had a morbid and sick fascination with decapitating their victims ( anyone see any similarities with the rabid jihadists currently running riot in the world today ?)
The chickens are slowly begining to come home to roost for the west. Prepare for many more tears Mogherini, the “west” deserves every single thing that is coming its way and plenty is. I am NOT charlie.
Of course she cried. Another 34 law obiding tax-payers gone while Brussels needs every cent they can possibly squeeze out of us.
I agree, and probably she was thinking about the possibility of loosing her well payed job…
“They are especially angry that the EU tries to turn Rada into a ‘soviet type parliament under their rule’.
This is one of those uncommon occasions when I have to agree with them.”
Haha, serves them right. Ukro-trash and Euro-trash really deserve each other. They are “in it together”, no? Scott’s conclusion (in agreement with the former kind of trash) to the effect that Banderastan’s renowned Parliament would become ‘Soviet’ is, however, dead wrong. The Ukrainian SSR was a normally functioning, industrial society enjoying the very real Soviet welfare benefits. The deranged animals running amok in what passes for “Parliament” these days would have been locked up where they belong; inside the asylums. The Soviets were right about the connection between bourgeois ideology and mental illness.
Very true.
Beregovoy was french PM for a year before suicide allegedly after cooruptions scandals against him.
I remember back in the day,s medias and politicians were shocked, they didn’t expect their badmouthing of him (whether justified or not) would conduct him to suicide if that’s what happened of course….
he was of Ukrainian descent from his father, born in Izium, making him almost half Novorussian
“We should start treating Europe, European values, and Europeans accordingly. They are not ‘ours’. It’s their grief, not ours. It’s their pain, not ours. It’s their war, not ours. It’s their problems, not ours.”
A verdict as epic as the Russian national anthem!
Well it is their moat,, not ours.. But they dont stay inside it so it all becomes OURS.. Lacking pigmentation, the try to over compensate for it by a superiority complex and try to teach those who have had over 5000 year history, the values of civilization.
The Chinese were wrong.. So wrong.. Those undeserving of civilization should have been bought to kneel and embrace civilized behavior.. Not the barbarous inferiority complex they try to compensate for. The US has now refined this to a new level of civilization, the slave trade has not stopped, it now permeates the entire world under the free trade and equality umbrella. The slaves are hidden deep inside factories instead of out in the open tilling fields and mines. Well not just factories, South Africans are tolling for min wage 2 klicks below ground digging for the gold to sell at below cost to keep European civilization going. How is this different than the Romans who did the same.. Both are forced to do it to live and survive..
More consideration on that the current events are more like the Reichstagsbrand, than having anything to do with “unexpected developments” – maybe the so called “Refugees” crisis is not the end of the darn EU, but the elite’s well-designed last attempt to rescue it and to turn it finally and openly into a full scale dictatorship:
The same is valid for pseudo-islamic terror.
Refugee Crisis: Using Chaos To Build Power
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-03-24/refugee-crisis-using-chaos-build-power
Check out Tass and dninewsday…Moscow blames Kiev for humanitarian situation in ukraain. Lavrove says Rus is cvommitted to ensuring Donbass to Minsk, but USA musdt ude its “specitivity” of its relationship with Kiev to ensure ukraine fulfills Minsk which is the only route to settlement although nuances remain in details of the full implementation……4 hr meeting Kerry with Putin…..meanwhile Donbass cvlaims ukr is bringing in more foreign mercenaries to the front. ….ukr military steals humanitarian aid……Rus has now delivered over 60000 tons of aid to Dobass.,..ukr does not want rus banks to operate yet their own finance people admit if rus banks fdail or move out the ukr economy is dead and buried…..Kharkiv and Kherson may follow Crimean example…because they do not believe ukr propoganda…..lawyer defending a rus military person in uk found dead…Sakaashvilli says tycoons must be imprioned in ukr to save it…..president of ukr analytical centre says ukr econmic situation so bad due to Jaresko etc.reforms are designed for destruction of industry and economy…every second financvial loan is in arrears….EU complains about subversive ukr exports to Eu..must comply with Eu standards rather than for example exporting contaminated foods…..anna-news also has articles re Groisman, latest MFA weekly summary…..usa sanctions are permanent cos Crimea is permanently not ukrainian….Kiev still shells Donbass,Osce does some things but never enough…….UN says Minsk in jeopardy as Minsk does not work(note calls for Minsk 3 by ukr and OSCE seem to have fallen away)…..says 9000 dead by the ATO ,over 21000 injured……usa will no longer give money for reforms cos 2m dollars been stolen for example…….a n unfinished hospital for mothers and children will yet bve repoened yet again by deputy prime minister(somehow seems symbolic and representative of the entire ukr situation)…..maybe Scott can accurately translate ann-news node55424 where something odd re ukr sabateurs dealing with own troops??????……..and 54111 has something re ukr national football team being given guns to go to europe with but lack of ammo means they ditched the guns??????…..report of anthrax in kharkiv…..and an athlete is offering self as a date to raise money for the ATO……
Cheers Scott.
Postscript…sadly anna-news is carrying an articvle node55404 that many Donbass people are in serios catastrophic financial trouble because of the financial and economic situation there! No money to pay utilities, disconnections,….people en masse begin to express their discontent……remember ukr has witheld pensions, otherr bebefits and owes losads of millions to people in Donbass but their seems to be no redress available or posible…..
South ukr nuclear power station shut down emergency due to continuing problems trying to operate the rus systems the american way….other day operatives refused a state command to constantly vary the output which they were not designed to do…..head of red cross kiev dismissed due to their operatives selling off humanitarian aid eg food,medicines…to local shops and pocketing the money
Apologies for spelling in both….it is cos I use the tablet not the pc, but using that ain’t no guarantee either….sighs.
What the hell do the Russian communists have in common with John Tefft? :-(
It seems to me that Russians are beginning to live the feelings expressed in the magnificent poem The Scythians by Alexander Blok.
I have read this poem several times and it never ceases to create a strong impression. I will share it with you with the hope that it will help some anglozionists to understand the deed feelings experienced not only by Russians, but by more and more “real” people with heart and brain observing this old world rushing to perdition.
‘Panmongolism – fierce the word may seem, yet how I love its sound’
Vladimir Solovyev
Millions are you – and hosts, yea hosts, are we,
And we shall fight if war you want, take heed.
Yes, we are Scythians – leafs of the Asian tree,
Our slanted eyes are bright aglow with greed.
Ages for you, for us the briefest space,
We raised the shield up as your humble lieges
To shelter you, the European race
From the Mongolians’ savage raid and sieges.
Ages, yea ages, did your forges’ thunder
Drown even avalanches’ roar.
Quakes rent Messina and Lisbon asunder –
To you this was a distant tale – no more.
Eastwards you cast your eyes for many hundred years,
Greedy for our precious stones and ore,
And longing for the time when with a leer
You’d yell an order and the guns would roar.
This time is now. Woe beats its wings
And every adds more humiliation
Until the day arrives which brings
An end to placid life in utter spoliation.
You, the old world, now rushing to perdition,
Yet strolling languidly to lethal brinks,
Yours is the ancient Oedipean mission
To seek to solve the riddles of a sphinx.
The sphinx is Russia, sad and yet elated,
Stained with dark blood, with grief prostrate,
For you with longing she has looked and waited,
Replete with ardent love and ardent hate.
Yet how will ever you perceive
That, as we love, as lovingly we yearn,
Our love is neither comfort nor relief
But like a fire will destroy and burn.
We love cold figures’ hot illumination,
The gift of supernatural vision,
We like the Gallic wit’s mordant sensation
And dark Teutonic indecision.
We know it all: in Paris hell’s dark street,
In Venice bright and sunlit colonnades,
The lemon blossoms’ scent so heavy, yet so sweet,
And in Cologne a shadowy arcade.
We love the flavour and the smell of meat,
The slaughterhouses’ pungent reek.
Why blame us then if in the heat
Of our embrace your bones begin to creak.
We saddle horses wild and shy,
As in the fields so playfully they swerve.
Though they be stubborn, yet we press their thigh
Until they willingly and meekly serve.
Join us! From horror and from strife
Turn to the peace of our embrace.
There is still time. Keep in its sheath your knife.
Comrades, we will be brothers to your race.
Say no – and we are none the worse.
We, too, can utter pledges that are vain.
But ages, ages will you bear the curse
Of our sons’ distant offspring racked with pain.
Our forests’ dark depths shall we open wide
To you, the men of Europe’s comely race,
And unmoved shall we stand aside,
An ugly grin on our Asian face.
Advance, advance to Ural’s crest,
We offer you a battleground so neat
Where your machines of steel in serried ranks abreast
With the Mongolian savage horde will meet.
But we shall keep aloof from strife,
No longer be your shield from hostile arrow,
We shall just watch the mortal strife
With our slanting eyes so cold and narrow.
Unmoved shall we remain when Hunnish forces
The corpses’ pockets rake for plunder,
Set town afire, to altars tie their horses,
Burn our white brothers’ bodies torn asunder.
To the old world goes out our last appeal:
To work and peace invite our warming fires.
Come to our hearth, join our festive meal.
Called by the strings of our Barbarian lyres.
30 January 1918
Magnificent, I agree. Thank you! I printed it out and saved it to my Poetry folder for presentation to the local Poetry Club.
A deep fierce quality that is so well balanced by the tenderness of another by Blok, as deep in tenderness, as the Scythian steppe is vast, which I shared last month:
There are moments
When the relentless
Thunderstorm of life
Doesn’t touch us
And someone
Lays his hand
On our shoulder and
Looks in our eyes.
And for that moment
All daily life
Disappears in the dark
Abyss without bottom
While over the abyss
Rises a rainbow
Of silence…..
.
Hi Scott (or Saker), have you got any information on the rotation of the troops by kiev? Weren’t there supposed to be the replacement of those who have served a year or so in the Donbass, being replaced with newly called up conscripts this month?
And any news on how far the DPR/LPR have got with banking services there, since they were cut off by kiev? Likewise with (international too) postal services?
Thanks.
Ralph,
thanks for your questions. It makes my life easier. I will try to prepare answers to your questions for the next week SITREP. As far as I know the banking system is Russian. The republics use rubles, dollars, Euros, and hryvnias. Last time I checked, the public sector salaries and pensions, and college students scholarships were paid by Russia. Russia also pays for schools and hospitals.
The postal service is via Russia. I have seen pictures of packages addressed “Donetsk Russian Federation” on them.
I will get back to you in regards to the Ukrainian military troops rotation.
OK Scott, thanks very much.
Pierre Beregovoy has never been “awarded presidency of France”. He became the Prime Minister of France in 1992, during the second term of François Mitterrand as the President of France (1988-1995).
Dear Anon:
You wrote: “Pierre Beregovoy has never been “awarded presidency of France”. He became the Prime Minister of France in 1992, during the second term of François Mitterrand as the President of France (1988-1995).”
I beg to differ. He wasn’t elected. He didn’t “become” the PM by some magic powers. He was appointed by Mitterrand.
Beregovoy called Mitterrand “god” in his face. Pierre Bérégovoy, whom Mitterrand named “to succeed her (a previous PM) – not with any enthusiasm but because he had no alternative…)
https://books.google.com/books?id=-gNOAgAAQBAJ&pg=PT467&lpg=PT467&dq=Beregovoy+called+Mitterrand+the+%22god%22&source=bl&ots=XCGfm-pjTT&sig=KsY2-KPCyaT7_xVarkYQS_tbys0&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjh-LW7mNzLAhWK1CYKHR0KAFwQ6AEIHDAA#v=onepage&q=Beregovoy%20called%20Mitterrand%20the%20%22god%22&f=false
Judging by a few transcripts that are available and these two books, Beregovoy was a go to person in the efforts of the Western intelligence services to break the SU apart, most likely because of his “Ukrainian” heritage.
It’s my deep conviction that the post of the Prime Minister was his “award”. Soon after he was removed, “suicided,” as were many other actors of these events. Because, they knew too much.
Russia has been conducting an investigation of the breaking apart of the Soviet Union. The country was broken apart illegally, against people’s will and the results of the referendums, with the numerous violations of the Constitution, and after the bloody putsch. At some point there will be lawsuits filed over this, and there will be a court process.
1. Western Intelligence and the Collapse of the Soviet Union: 1980-1990: Ten Years that did not shake the world, by David Arbel, Ran Edelist
2. How World Politics is Made: France and the Reunification of Germany, by Tilo Schabert, Barry Cooper
https://books.google.com/books?id=haREbYL4la8C&pg=PA6&lpg=PA6&dq=Mitterrand+Pierre+Beregovoy.+soviet+union&source=bl&ots=GoBsQg1F0h&sig=trC48mse0PZwL4689pJjCznIocg&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiRieT6lNzLAhWLGx4KHXHOB7QQ6AEIIjAB#v=onepage&q=Mitterrand%20Pierre%20Beregovoy.%20soviet%20union&f=false
Hi Scott, very interesting. Thank you as always. I want to live through the day when the CCCP gets back its legal status.
Martin from SEB
I would like to see that too.Last time I’ve visited UdSSR was in 1985.I have spent two weeks in Moskau,Leningrad and Kiev.It was beautiful,we were hosted in first class hotels in the best conditions.I will remember those days with great nostalgia forever.We were treated like their best friends.
“I beg to differ.”
How?
Please read carefully both what you wrote and my comment.
In your article you stated that Beregovoy was the President of France (quote: “Pierre Beregovoy was awarded the presidency of France”), which is false.
I merely pointed out that Beregovoy has never been the President of France, as you claimed, but merely the Prime Minister of France.
Please do not confuse the readers.
Thank you.
I fixed it.
I doubt the Ukrainians will be selling much to Mongolia. As ridiculous as it sounds,the Mongolian government reported that Ukraine actually asked them for “reparations” for Genghis Khan’s invasion of Rus in 1241. On a related story Tunisia wants reparations from Italy because of the Roman Empires invasion of Carthage a couple of thousand years ago.
And on a more serious note (extremely serious). The attorney defending the 2 Russian ex-soldiers kidnapped from Donbass and who are on trial in Kiev for “terrorism” disappeared.His body has now been found in a shallow grave.All his evidence and defense files are missing. And the Ukrainians refuse to postpone the trial for the defense to gather replacement evidence.
https://www.rt.com/news/337189-lawyer-russian-killed-ukraine/
It makes my blood boil :(
Murdered: Lawyer for Russian fighter kidnapped, ‘drugged, wired to a bomb’ in Ukraine
A lawyer who defended a Russian citizen accused in Ukraine of being a Russian terrorist has been killed. His body was found buried in a rural area three weeks after his disappearance in Kiev. The abductors allegedly used a bomb to keep him from escaping.
Aleksandr Aleksandrov and Evgeny Erofeev were detained last May in the rebel-controlled Lugansk Region in Eastern Ukraine. Kiev said they were agents for Russian military intelligence and charged them with a number of crimes, including waging an aggressive war against the country and terrorism, as it considers all rebels terrorists. Both the rebels and Moscow insist that the two Russian citizens were volunteers who joined the Ukrainian civil war after resigning from the Russian military……
https://www.rt.com/news/337189-lawyer-russian-killed-ukraine/
Lind
I can’t pause wandering on how long the Russians wait before they crash that regime once and forever.
@ Lind: I can’t pause wandering on how long the Russians wait before they crash that regime once and forever.
“Ages for you, for us the briefest space”
http://russia-insider.com/en/business/hidden-story-crimeas-economic-success/ri13539
I can’t agree with the part of article concerning Crimea, because I know people there and they tell me a different story.
A large milk factory was closed last year and the milk is supplied from Krasnodar, over the ferry. Not sure of the reason, something along the lines of “not profitable”.
A highway from Simferopol towards Kerch and new bridge is already partially built from Simferopol to Feodosiya. The other part is stuck because someone somewhere “lost” the money. Something like the disappearance of 100 generators supplied by Russia almost 2 years ago, obviously just in case Ukraine cuts electricity (like they did). The people responsible for that were all promptly fired in November, and the court cases would be well under way by now. Same will happen in Feodosiya soon, I’m sure of it, and the rest of the highway will be completed well before the bridge.
On that note, I am being told that Russian authorities have cracked down on corruption and bribes fiercely more than a year ago (as soon as the situation was settled a little). People changing their passports and other documents were so used to Ukrainian style of “greasing the wheels” that they habitually tried to do the same, to which the frightened clerks reacted with fear and words “no more of that, or we will be fired and arrested”.
This is from regular people living there, not from some journo picking and choosing what to write.
From these same people I am told that wages and pensions were actually HALVED in December last year. The reasoning for this is a large number of Ukrainian refugees who are only interested in having a peaceful life. If the wages are left as they are, they will quite comfortably afford the rents while occupying Russian workplaces. The government didn’t see other way to get them out of Crimea except to make life unaffordable. For a while, everyone will have it hard, but the wages will be normalized within a year or two.
I’m sure that the Russian government wants to prepare the situation for the next census, which they would prefer to show a very small percentage of Ukrainians. Therefore they will have a rock-solid argument against any cries to “return Crimea”.
In any case, I would rather trust a report from our Auslander who lives there, than some journo.
Last, here’s a joke:
Poroshenko is sitting at his laptop asking Google “OK, Google. How do I return Crimea?”
Google: “You have already returned Crimea. Did you mean ‘how do I repay our debts?'”
:)
Hi, Mikie.
How is Australia this time of year?
Any chances for a source on 50% wages reduction to “drive away” Ukrainian refuges?
many thanks
might be intresting too-
“Ukraine is assigned the role of a grain exporter which is not to have even the most primitive processing industries.
According to The Politnavigator, it was stated by the former MP Andrey Pavlovski, now acting as an expert on social issues, at a press conference in Kiev. He criticized the Ukrainian minister of Economics Abromavichyus who insists on the abolition of the labor records but does not propose to develop industrial production”
https://dninews.com/article/only-15-million-people-remain-ukraine-20-years
cf few years ago population was 52 million…………………..
well my in-laws pensions have trebled in value compared to what their pensions were worth under ukraine before the accession………………..
later stuff
The object can be any mine, not to mention the other industrial enterprises, which are in excess in the Donbas and the accident at such enterprises, where derelict warehouses can store the products of the chemical and biochemical production, and the production of hazardous waste and the accident can acquire the dimensions of environmental disaster.
The enemies of the DNI, writhing in its death throes, not shy in the media in Washington practicing dollars. In the Donetsk People’s Republic Ukrainian military caught in the preparation of sabotaging industrial facilities on the territory of the NPT, including the chemical industry.
“Intelligence noted the arrival in the area of the settlement of Arkhangelsk special purpose units for planning and conducting security operations in the area of responsibility 57 and 58 teams … APU Spetsnaz units will prepare sabotage of industrial facilities. According to the documents, signed by General Lunev, the objectives of chemicals should be enterprise in the territory of the NPT, as well as industrial, railway infrastructure, “- said the deputy commander of the army corps of DNI Eduard Eduard Basurin.
He added that intelligence DNR also verified the information from intelligence sources, who reported on the preparation of the special forces of the APU terrorist attacks against representatives of international monitoring missions.”
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llegal transactions exposed in the “People’s Control”. The counterfeit alcohol is carried out at the state Distillery. This was stated by deputy sectarian association Andrei Antonischak.
“There are two companies – GP” Ukrspirt “and concern” Ukrspirt “. The first type includes 41 plant, and in the Group – 39 factories that have since 2010 are in a state of liquidation. But their condition is very advantageous, because the plants slowly driven “black” alcohol “, – said MP.
He noted that to identify counterfeit alcohol production plants in the state is not difficult.
“There are underground shop, and there are entire factories are being run on time. And it is very easy to determine: by the number of electric power consumption and heat, “- said Antonischak.
People elect stressed the need to create a task force to combat the production of counterfeit alcohol.
“What is happening in state factories – the responsibility of law enforcement agencies, who simply turned a blind eye to the obvious violations of the law. I think at the highest level should be established, at least, the investigation team on this issue. This is a problem that must be addressed, because we are talking about the public interest. Excise with the “black” alcohol no one pays, ”
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“Ukrainian fascist invaders invading Donbass, immediately began the repression of dissidents who disagreed with the ideals of Ukrainian neo-Nazism. Many were simply shot, not afraid of responsibility, committing a crime in front of many people.
Concerned citizens DNI made a documentary film about the true circumstances of the death of the former chief of police Debaltsevskogo Gorotdel Eugene Yukhanova.
Locals in the past occupied Ukrainian neo-Nazis Debaltsevo, told reporters that they had seen with their own eyes, and shown the place where Ukrainian punitive cynically shot police colonel.”
http://www.anna-news.info/node/55522
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false flag
As the intelligence service said in Ukrainian fighters carried out the undermining of houses previously mined in the village Verhnetoretskoe. Scene with special effects was carried out to give this picture as the shelling of civilian troops DNI territories in Ukraine influence.
“It is known that Ukrainian law enforcers have started to undermine the previously mined residential houses in the village Verhnetoretskoe. On-site work Ukrainian journalists, who will be given a Ukrainian propaganda as a firing DNI “, – said in the Defense Ministry.
Previously, the Defense Ministry reported DNI upcoming provocations. has been deployed, in particular, a group of “1 + 1″ Ukrainian TV channel to shoot imaginary consequences of attacks”
http://www.anna-news.info/node/55518
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Tymoshenko claims the savchenko situation is already solved by obama merkel v Putin….http://www.anna-news.info/node/55516
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At the solemn meeting dedicated to the anniversary of the SBU, Poroshenko told, how carefully the service struggled with agents of the Russian FSB and completely cleansed from them. Rather, it was the people who did not take a destructive course manuals supplied by Washington. Security services for two years, starting with the coup d’etat, led by Pentagon gang of “president” of Ukraine considers the fact natural.
According to him, over the past 2 years SBU showed dramatic changes in its composition and work, we have changed the quality of its employees.
“SBU demonstrated effective update, clarification from the representatives of foreign intelligence services, demonstrated a high level of professionalism,” – Poroshenko said.
According to him, thanks to reforms today the credibility of the Security Service employees is as high as in the Ukrainian army. “We paid for it and trust the blood service lives of employees,” – said Poroshenko. Presumably denunciations to help solve personal problems, write regularly.
Poroshenko believes that the Crimea from Ukraine sailed just because these “agents” that contributed to the FSB. Recognize own provocative actions against the destruction of the state, “President” does not intend to.”
http://www.anna-news.info/node/55512
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other bits:unless gas price is negotiated soon, it will be set at full market price for ukr who cannot afford that, so it will not be sold…
ukr inflation is highest in wotrld rankings…..
not a single ukr university is listed in prestigious Academic Ranking of World Universities…….
the only safe way-and profitable for employees and companies who do it, is armed accompaniment of rent collectors, debt collectors…………….
murderers effectively go free-Bloody Poroshenko regime continues to release a policy of responsibility for those who commit serious crimes in their worst interest.
Thus, the Pechersk district court of the capital Maidan refused to continue the house arrest of Ukrainian neo-Nazi who killed Olesya elderberry – criminal Denis Polishchuk.
The prosecutor’s office requested a transfer Polishchuk under house arrest since April 2 and continue the investigation.
However, the court rejected the request. If prosecutors do not appeal against the court’s decision, the April 2 Polischuk will be free.
Recall the well-known historian and journalist Olesya elderberry killed April 16, 2015 in Kiev, in the courtyard of his house. On suspicion of his murder detained two of Kiev – Andrew Medvedko and Denis Polishchu”
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previous president Yushenko applaudes participants of Odessa events……………Yanokovich must recieve compensation for what happened to him…………….EU court ordered the Ukraine to pay ex-President Viktor Yanukovych and his sons more than 170 thousand pounds (240 thousand dollars) compensation costs under the case of the lifting of sanctions. This was reported on its pilgrim on Facebook ex-Minister of Justice of Ukraine Olena Lukash.
According to her, 24 December 2014 Ukraine withdrew the application for participation in the trial of former Ukrainian officials. 11 March 2015 EU court ruled Ukraine from registries in three cases.
The court also ordered to reimburse the costs of a number of plaintiffs. Thus, Ukraine has to make up for Viktor Yanukovych and his two sons (the youngest son died in 2015), 57 317.50 pounds each, reportsRIA Novosti .
“The bottom line: due to the negligence of the Ministry of Justice of Ukraine the amount of debt already amounts to 171 952.5 pounds”, – wrote Lucas
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Intelligence agencies of Ukraine announced the list of traitors – it included nearly 1,400 people. Most were employees of the SBU, but “changed the oath”, reports TASS . Almost all of them – from the Crimea and Sevastopol. There among the “traitors” workers resorts and sanatoriums, who had the rank and former subordinate to the SBU.”
More catch up from anna-news….eu commisioner for human rights says situation is catastrophic for these in ukraine….eu visits and closes eu funded place for refugees in Kherson…..ukrainian nationalists still scoffs at relatives of the Odessa dead by beating them up…ukr still underestimates in losses in ATO….. SBU still murders people….growth of left wing political parties?…….Kiev motivates its military with photos of new helicopters……Mariupol is being militarilyy strengthened…so many criminals in returning ATO forces…..ukr forces hold military exercises in Kherson to test out posible success if try to reclaim Crimea?…….Japan has loaned ukr 331m dollars……lawllessness increases? eg with someone being nearly killed by gangsters-teeth and nails pulled out and beaten……..Kiev still shells moves around forces probably reinforces them etc……Poro goes to usa with details of latest political reorganising, sorting out of internal conflicts etc…….
Paging Scott! I just stumbled into an article in which Girkin says that “separatists brought poverty and ruin to Donbass”. What’s wrong with him? Link: http://uawire.org/news/igor-strelkov-pro-russian-separatists-have-brought-poverty-and-ruin-to-the-donbas
Grimgerde,
1. Strelkov-Girkin is an agent provocateur and a natoist. Now, he is calling for the fascist regime in Russia, His is so extreme, even his co-agents have started abandoning him and his “January 25th Committee.” It’s just a matter of time before he finds himself in jail.
2. be careful vising the US based sites like uawire.org. It’s most likely a honey-trap collecting people’s IP addresses.
Thanks for the heads up.
Deputies of the “opposition bloc” – the same party thieving bureaucrats and oligarchs, as well as all the other parties of the Verkhovna Rada, posted on the website of the Ukrainian Parliament a draft law on the establishment of so-called “inter-provincial territorial association of Donbass” (MTO).
Authors of the project – a former member of the “Ukrainian choice” Basil Nimchenko people the main oligarch Rinat Akhmetov, Ukraine – Yuri Nikolaev, Sergey Sazhko and Yuriy Moroko, as well as the ex-mayor Sergey Dunaev Lysychansk.
The idea is as follows: MTO Donbass is an integral part of Ukraine, but “has the status of inter-regional association with an independent state administration system on the principles of decentralization and broad powers of local government.” Its border claims Verkhovna Rada.
“MTO Donbass created temporarily and does not constitute an independent subject of the system of administrative-territorial structure of Ukraine”, – stated in the draft law.
At the same time members of the so-called “opposition bloc” offer to provide MTO Donbass special legal status. “On the territory of Donbass MTO are bodies of representative and executive bodies in accordance with the Constitution and laws of Ukraine on local government, taking into account features of formation of authority defined for this area”, – the document says.
MTO Donbass should independently decide on its jurisdiction, the questions in the areas of economic and social development, in particular humanitarian issues – culture, language and identity, freedom of religion.
MTO Donbass, according to the project, create a people’s militia units and coordinate their activities; examines the question of consent to the appointment of heads of the Interior, Security Service and Prosecutor’s MTO Donbass.
The highest representative body of power in the Donbass is the MTO MTO representative assembly Donbass. His chapter must choose 5 years.
The organization and procedure for conducting elections of the MTO set Donbass electoral legislation of Ukraine.
The opinion of the residents of Donbas Ukrainian “legislators” not interested, they want to squeeze DNR and LC in Ukraine, according to Ukrainian deputies favorite expression, “at least a carcass, even a chicken.”
http://www.anna-news.info/node/55709
so even amongst the fraudsters there might be something happening re Donbass, if only to preserve their own skins from impending doom? Kiev increasingly shelling Donbass, 43% of population cannot afford utilities..one third of personal debt is from people who cannot pay for utilities…..Poro says there won’t be any more loans IMF if government doesn’t stable, increasing rotations of troops at the front for escalation, Yarosh might be planning a coup…Uk economists say Poro condones corruption because it has never been so high…wages in Feb fell by 12%..
Firtash says USA kiled ukraine…military destroys forests of Donbass to make fortifications….
BTW
article on russia insider says
the silk road express train from ukraine eventually made its way to china, very late, no return train as noone wanted to send anything back to ukraine….and cost of a container much higher than going through russia. it’s nice to know the ends of some stories………………China has pnly invested c 22m in the silk road project to ukraine, not the billions…………..