Topic: Donetsk, Kharkov, Lugansk - way to Russia. - page 89. (Read 734937 times)

There is a big rift between German industry and bankers.

Needless to say the former will end up on top and Merkel

will soon be fired. After the loss of the Crimea and Donbass

there´s very little left for the western mob in Ukraine except

headaches so things should quiet down gradually into the

spring. Without anything worthwhile stealing the western mob

isn´t going to back the Kiev regime for long and its military

isn´t worth jack except for killing defenseless people so it´s a

foregone conclusion.

russians killing russians =/

Alexander Bednov "Batman" was killed in an ambush by his own people.. some kind of power struggle?

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=645103348927507

Something very bad is going on here. Not good for novorussia.

Does anyone have more info.

German industrials are going crazy over lost Russian business

so now is the perfect time to squeeze some German banks.

The Russians should immediately announce that they´re

suspending payments on foreign debt. The European banking

situation is so pathetic that it´s enough to kick in the door

and then the whole rotten edifice will come tumbling down -

to paraphrase Uncle Dolphie.

Russia prepares 11th humanitarian aid column to be sent to Donetsk and Lugansk republics.

Russian Media Attack Belarus: a Warning for Minsk



The past few weeks have seen an unusual increase of anti-Belarusian activity in pro-government Russian media and blogs.

The Kremlin has not yet used its strongest media tools. However, the manner of the attack is in some respects similar to the information warfare which preceded Russia's annexation of Crimea.

In the face of the unfolding economic crisis in Russia and Belarus and the Belarusian presidential elections scheduled for 2015, this could signal a new shift in the relations between Russia and the regime of Alexander Lukashenka.

Second-tier media in action. Is more to come?

First, the widely-read pro-Kremlin blogger Aleksandr Shumsky has published a detailed post saying that Belarus was a natural part of Russia and suggesting that Russia should actively prevent attempts of a pro-Western revolution in Belarus.

Then, the popular entertainment TV channel REN TV on December 20 aired a half-hour long film about Belarus claiming that the West is preparing a coup d’etat in Belarus, criticising both the Belarusian opposition and the regime of Lukashenka.

Failing to spell the names of some Belarusian politicians and media outlets correctly, REN TV told its viewers about Western-sponsored bloody revolt being prepared in Belarus. This film came out as part of a three hours long marathon of anti-Western propaganda, along with conspiracy theories and homophobia.

The influential nationalistic online publication Sputnik & Pogrom is regularly publishing articles denouncing the right of Belarusians to have an independent state, denouncing the existence of the Belarusian language and culture.

Russian media portray the Belarusian democratic opposition as Nazis and accuse Lukashenka of being weak

Other publications have in the past weeks been even more aggressive in criticising things like the growth of popularity of Belarusian traditional clothing or the non-Russocentric view of Belarusian history by Belarusians.

Some of the articles, in a typical manner, portray the Belarusian democratic opposition as Nazis and accuse Lukashenka of being weak and opportunistic. The fact that Lukashenka has maintained good relations with Ukraine in 2014 is also a topic for hysterically critical publications on different levels.

Although the media participating in this campaign do not always have a formal affiliation with the Kremlin, in today's Russia there can be no illusions as to the orchestration of such things or at least their approval by state ideologists.

Anti-Belarusian propaganda has not yet reached the scale that the propaganda targeting Ukraine or the Baltic states in the past. For instance, first-tier nationwide TV channels have not yet been seriously involved in the latest round of attacks. However, this scale has certainly become the largest since a series of anti-Lukashenka films titled The Godfather aired in 2010 on the Gazprom-controlled TV channel NTV.

Lukashenka as the long-time hero of Russian nationalists

Russia's annexation of Crimea and the war in Eastern Ukraine, motivated by Russian nationalistic slogans, were preceded by a long-term information campaign. Numerous books, magazine articles and films aiming to discredit Ukrainian statehood, the Ukrainian language and culture, to demonise the Ukrainian independence movement, have been published over the past two decades and prepared the foundations for the tragic events of 2014.

At the same time, over the past years there has almost been no similar propaganda targeting Belarus. Russian nationalistic circles have never needed to resist growing Belarusian nationalism.

Lukashenka has been viewed as a hero and even as a desired ruler of Russia

The authoritarian regime of Alexander Lukashenka, established with direct Russian support and enjoying serious political and financial aid from Russia over the past two decades, has always had an ideology very close to Russian (or Soviet) revanchism.

In 1995, Lukashenka has de-facto restored Soviet state symbols and reintroduced Russian language as the dominating language in Belarus. The regime has cracked down the Belarusian national revival at the very same time as it has cracked down democracy and human rights.

Therefore, for the past two decades Russian nationalists could have viewed their goals regarding Belarus as almost achieved, with the exception of a formal incorporation of Belarus into Russia. Lukashenka has been viewed as a hero and even as a desired ruler of Russia by many Russian conservatives and nationalists.

Belarus: Kremlin’s next victim or its Trojan Horse?

The activation of anti-Belarusian propaganda in Russian media can be a warning and an indicator of Kremlin’s Belarusian agenda for 2015. For, in late 2014, the danger of an actual annexation of Belarus is higher than in previous years.

Russian society has greeted the incorporation of Crimea with great enthusiasm. Following this, approval ratings of President Vladimir Putin have been at an all-time high. However, towards the end of 2014 Western sanctions and falling oil prices have led Russia into an economic crisis.

The approval ratings are bound to fall, which creates a temptation for the Kremlin to repeat the "small and victorious" enlargement of Russia’s territory. And for this purpose, the compact, controlled and internationally isolated Belarus could be an attractive target.

Moreover, in 2015, presidential elections are scheduled to take place in Belarus. Together with a growing risk of a serious economic crisis in Belarus, this creates vulnerability and a window of opportunities for the Kremlin.

In this information war Lukashenka may just be a Trojan Horse in Kremlin’s hands

This also corresponds with what Gleb Pavlovsky, a former Kremlin ideologue and PR mastermind, said in his recent interview when commenting on the media attack being mounted against Lukashenka "[Putin’s system today] can’t bear any compromises and must turn an insecure ally [like Lukashenka] into an enemy".

Moreover, the criticism of Lukashenka will be a good topic for the Kremlin to turn society’s attention away from the economic problems and the failure of the war in eastern Ukraine, Pavlovsky said.

On the other hand, there is a less widespread opinion out there that in this latest information war Lukashenka is just a Trojan Horse in the Kremlin’s hands. Some Belarusian activists suggest that this wave of propaganda may have been initiated by Lukashenka himself using his regime's influence in the Russian media.

This could help him gain support from progressive circles inside Belarus and get sympathy and support from the West ahead of the 2015 elections. As to Lukashenka's actions in the Ukrainian crisis, several Russian pro-government commentators agree that his actions are being coordinated with the Kremlin or even follow Kremlin's instructions.

“His dependence on Russia is enormous, and everybody understands that”, says an expert quoted by the notorious pro-Kremlin online outlet Vzglyad. Despite all the seeming disloyalty in the situation surrounding Ukraine, Lukashenka is nevertheless continuing on with Belarus' growing involvement into Russia-led post-Soviet integration bodies, writes Viktor Militarev, a Russian right-wing writer and activist, in a column for Izvestia, the largest pro-government newspaper in Russia.

Anyway, if the media attacks on Lukashenka continue and keep growing in terms of their scale and prominence, this time it might indeed be more than just another staged conflict between Russia and its capricious vassal.

Aleś Čajčyc

Alexander (Aleś) Čajčyc is a Moscow-based writer, consultant and member of the Rada of the Belarusian Democratic Republic

http://belarusdigest.com/story/russian-media-attack-belarus-warning-minsk-21055

The Russians have some pretty good moves.

1. They could decide to suspend payments on their debt to Europeans

banks which are underfunded and pretty much insolvent already. This

would have wonderful results for the financial world.

2. They could let the Ruble totally tank, buy up foreign Ruble holdings

with their dollar reserves and then demand  payments in Ruble for exported

energy. This would have wonderful results for the E.U. economy.

To finally unite in the pan Slavic Union

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pan-Slavism#Creation_of_Pan-Slavic_languages

Bиктop ШEHДEPOBИЧ
A вoт и poзoчкa нa нoвoгoднeм тopтe: пpaвитeльcтвo peзкo cнизилo цeны нa вoдкy!
Этo, нaдo cкaзaть, oчeнь вoвpeмя.

B caлoн пaдaющeгo caмoлeтa, блядoвитo yлыбaяcь, вышлa cтюapдecca c бecплaтным бyxлoм: "Этo вaм, дopoгиe пaccaжиpы! Oт кoмaндиpa кopaбля. Hи в чeм ceбe нe oткaзывaйтe".

Caлoн зaмeтнo oживилcя. Жизнь нaлaживaeтcя. Двyм cмepтям нe бывaть, тaк xoть пpoцecc дocтaвит yдoвoльcтвиe! A вaм eщe кoмaндиp нe нpaвилcя, дypaкaм. Щac нaкaтим и пoйдeм мepить peйтинг.

 

Wishing in the coming 2015 peace to the Slavic nations that are torn by artificial rifts.

Vladimir Putin

Wins OCCRP’s Person of Year for 2014



Vladimir Putin has been named the 2014 Person of the Year by the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP), an award given annually to the person who does the most to enable and promote organized criminal activity.

Putin was recognized for his work in turning Russia into a major money-laundering center; for enabling organized crime in Crimea and in the Donbass region of eastern Ukraine; for his unblemished record of failing to prosecute criminal activity; and for advancing a government policy of working with and using crime groups as a component of state policy.

“Putin has been a finalist every year so you might consider this a lifetime achievement award,” said Drew Sullivan, editor of OCCRP. “He has been a real innovator in working with organized crime. He has created a military-industrial-political-criminal complex that furthers Russia’s and Putin’s personal interests. I think Putin sees those interests as one and the same.”

Putin, a former KGB bureaucrat, began arresting most major organized crime figures in Russia several years ago, but then quietly released them. That was the start of Russia’s state policy of working with organized crime. OCCRP believes that Putin agreed to tolerate criminality in exchange for criminals’ support in advancing what he defined as Russian interests.

"Vladimir Putin and his siloviki fused a Cold War mentality with modern organized crime strategies and technology to create a new level of transnational organized crime,” said Paul Radu, executive director of OCCRP. “The Russian-backed money laundering platforms have exploited the lack of transparency in the global financial and offshore company registrations systems to create a new criminal financial infrastructure used by crime groups from as far away as Mexico and Vietnam".

For example, OCCRP looked at a sophisticated money-laundering system set up with the help of Russian and Moldovan organized crime that used Russian banks (including one connected to Vladimir Putin’s cousin Igor), fake bank loans, and corrupt Moldovan judges. The system moved the money of oligarchs, crooked government officials and organized crime into Europe through a Latvian bank. Money moved through the system was used to support Putin’s political interests.

In another project, OCCRP's partners aired a documentary which looked at the links between the state owned Russian Railways (which is close to Putin), a notorious banker known as the Black Banker who was shot in London, a slew of organized crime figures and hired assassins and a Russian/Moldovan businessman who also ran a pro-Russian political party in Moldova. The video was responsible in part for a decision by the Moldovan government to ban the Patria party on the eve of the elections because they received illegal financial assistance from Russia. Patria’s leader, fearing arrest, fled to Russia where Russian officials defended him publicly.

Organized crime figures have served as intermediaries for weapons transfers between the Russian army and Russian-backed separatist rebels in Ukraine. Working undercover, OCCRP reporters bought weapons from organized crime figures in Moldova; the weapons originated with the Russian 14th army in the breakaway region of Moldova known as Transnistria.

Putin’s government has forced the closure of media and civil society groups that have looked at its corrupt practices and ended the year in ironic fashion by finding its fiercest critic, blogger Alexey Navalny, guilty of corruption.

Putin was chosen as Person of the Year by more than 125 OCCRP-affiliated investigative reporters and 20 investigative reporting organizations in countries from Europe to Central Asia.

“For years Putin has created buffer states run by organized crime thugs, like Transnistria, Ossetia, Abkhazia and now Crimea and the Donbass,” Sullivan said. “While there is a long history of criminal groups working with governments around the world, both in the West and in the former Soviet Union, Putin has institutionalized these connections in ways never seen before.”

Runners up to Putin this year were Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban and Montenegrin Prime Minister Milo Djukanovic. Previous winners include the Romanian Parliament for its role in legalizing crime in 2013 and Ilham Aliyev, the President of Azerbaijan, in 2012 for his role in taking large cuts of state business.

OCCRP is a not-for-profit consortium of regional investigative centers and for profit independent media stretching from Europe to Central Asia and in Latin America. Its goal is to help the public understand how organized crime and corruption affect their lives and to improve reporting on the issues of corruption and criminality. OCCRP seeks to provide in-depth investigative stories as well as the latest news pertaining to organized crime and corruption activities around the world. It is funded by the Open Society Foundations, USAID, European governments and other major international donors. It has offices in Sarajevo, Bucharest, and Tbilisi.

http://occrp.org/person-of-the-year/2014/

Best of luck in 2015 to Russians, Ukrainians, Poles and Belorussians.

Happy New Years

Western mob crap installs its ilk in power in Ukraine,

less than a year later the country is totally bankrupt.

What a surprise.

Ukraine president hands around 100 units of domestic military hardware, weapons to army
http://itar-tass.com/en/world/770075

Poroshenko speaks of peace, but sends more weapons to the East, to kill children and pensioners.

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And about that demo in Moscow - about 1500 people turned up after Navanyj brothers got their sentence (they were found guilty of among other things, stealing 26.7 million roubles from Yves Rocher company). It's not Putin's fault that USA chooses criminals as their puppets (think Yatsenjuk, Poroshenko).

English:
http://itar-tass.com/en/russia/770086

http://www.gazeta.ru/social/news/2014/12/30/n_6793405.shtml

Navalnyj (and people generally view him as a traitor) had of course to defy house arrest and to turn up at the rally and then sent home:
http://itar-tass.com/en/russia/770069

Even Russian opposition party Yabloko was against this rally:
http://itar-tass.com/en/russia/770039

Of course, the US State Department expressed their displeasure that criminals got their sentence:
http://tass.ru/mezhdunarodnaya-panorama/1681151

More about the case:
http://rt.com/news/218767-navalny-rally-detain-russia/

Good reader comments:

PS: Should Russian Duma ask what happened to Enron case? Oh, wait, the documents conveniently burnt down in the neatly demolished WTC 7...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Ticlo5SbjA

Moscow now: protesters chanting "Russia without Putin!"



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=11-mqWeAwXg#t=3232

I hope they realise that this is a double-edged decision. It does not necessarily mean that Ukraine will join NATO, as no-one is expecting them there, but it means that once the power changes in Kiev once again, Ukraine will be free to join in a military alliance with Russia.


What it really means, is that SBU at that time still had people loyal to the legitimate leader of Ukraine, people who were professional, and who didn't want all the information held in SBU to fall in the hands of CIA (American flag is now flying over the SBU headquarters along with the Ukrainian one). So when it became absolutely clear that a coup d'etat was happening, the last good order of the legitimate president of Ukraine was to secure the information pertaining Ukrainian security.

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Boeнный бyнт oпoлчeния Oбpaщeниe к Пyтинy и eгo шaвкaм 29 12 2014

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4TXlAg82K90