Topic: Sanction against Russia for West-choreographed conflict in Ukraine - page 2. (Read 30040 times)

A St. Petersburg navy design bureau says it is ready to build a Russian-made alternative to the troubled Mistral carriers, which remain moored in France. The intended new ship dubbed Lavina (‘Avalanche’) promises to be bigger and faster than the Mistrals.

The technical specifications of the helicopter carrier were revealed in a presentation given by the Krylov State Research Centre, at the Army-2015 military expo near Moscow.

Already practicing this approach in the Republic of Crimea

http://tass.ru/en/russia/734890

This is just an unwanted provocation. If the Western nations are confiscating Russian property abroad, then Russia should retaliate by nationalizing the Western assets in Russia. Western corporations such as Shell, Exxon, Eni and Total are having tens of billions of USD worth of investment in Russia. If these idiots want war, then give them war.

It looks like the open season on Russian property abroad has been opened. Using Yukos case as an excuse (when Khodorkovskij and Co stole billions of dollars from Russia and avoided taxes for billions more and then sued Russia for damages and got endorsed by Europe), Belgium, France and Austria froze Russian state accounts. Russian Foreign Ministry calls it for unprecedented violation of international law.

The news comes amid developments from Belgium, where Russian state assets are facing seizure to secure payment of a contested Russian debt to the former owners of Yukos. The company went bankrupt after the Russian government demanded that it paid due taxes that it had been evading for years.

The former Yukos CEO, Mikhail Khodorkovsky, who spent more than a decade in prison for embezzlement and tax evasion from 2003 to 2013, said he was satisfied by the decision of Belgian authorities to seize Russian assets.

http://rt.com/business/266527-medvedev-asia-sanctions-business/

I think that russian counter-sanctions should be extended without taking any EU actions into account. No actual changes would be required. Just set some random expiration date from the distant future, e.g. 28 August 2199.

It's not democratic if there are Russian troops in the country throughout the vote.

If Russia is a victim then do you honestly think Crimneans would want to become victims too by joining them? Even Belarus is stepping back and the BRICS partnership is falling apart.

What percentage of the votes are going to Putin in the next election? Like 140%? You don't seem to have any understanding of the words you are using (democracy, communist, etc)

http://rt.com/business/266527-medvedev-asia-sanctions-business/

I think that russian counter-sanctions should be extended without taking any EU actions into account. No actual changes would be required. Just set some random expiration date from the distant future, e.g. 28 August 2199.

“In economic terms, of course, all those sanctions, introduced against us, stimulated us to ensure more active cooperation with Asian countries. Thank you very much to all those states that have adopted them,” Medvedev said to reporters at XVII World Congress of Russian Press Thursday.

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"Sixty percent of the world GDP is there. The whole global growth is mainly in the Asia-Pacific region and in the BRICS countries. Therefore, it is essential for us to gain a foothold in the partner states of the Eurasian Economic Union and the Asia-Pacific region,"said Medvedev.

About as democratic as Hitler when Nazi Germany annexed Poland... (returning Poland home to Prussia)

About as democratic as Hitler when Nazi Germany annexed Poland... (returning Poland home to Prussia)

Moscow (AFP) - The eldest daughter of slain Kremlin critic Boris Nemtsov has left Russia, slamming the climate of hatred whipped up by pro-Kremlin propaganda in an apparent "farewell letter" published Tuesday.

"Russian propaganda kills," Zhanna Nemtsova, a 31-year-old journalist, wrote in a column published by Russia's liberal business daily Vedomosti.

"Many of the texts of Kremlin-controlled media recall the rhetoric of African propagandists," she said, stressing that state propaganda played a crucial role in the 1994 Rwanda genocide.

"Putin's information machine -- similar to those in Nazi Germany and Rwanda -- is using criminal methods of propaganda and sowing hatred which generates violence and terror."

She compared state-controlled media to Rwanda's notorious Radio Television Libre des Mille Collines, a broadcaster which incited hatred against the Tutsi minority, saying media bosses in Russia should be brought to justice.

Nemtsova, herself a journalist with Russian business news TV channel RBK, warned that aggression towards dissenters fanned by state media could spin out of control and claim new victims in the future.

"People infected with hatred begin committing new crimes on their own initiative."

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"The information terror must be stopped, otherwise its consequences could be even scarier," she said.

"There is nothing more dangerous than the spontaneous combustion of the huge potential of hatred accumulated in Russia society."

Nemtsova's lawyer said she had left Russia for Europe and had no immediate plans to return.

"She's currently abroad," Vadim Prokhorov told AFP. "I think that she won't be back in the near future." He declined to be more specific about her whereabouts.

Prokhorov said that staying in Russia was not safe for Nemtsova, pointing to the harassment of opposition activists.

"Essentially an atmosphere of terror is being created," he added, stressing that those who masterminded her father's assassination were still at large.

In a terse message to AFP, Nemtsova said that her lawyer was right and declined further details.

"This is my private life," she said.

Boris Nemtsov, one of the most prominent critics of President Vladimir Putin, was shot dead as he walked on a bridge near the Kremlin in late February.

Authorities have detained five Chechen men suspected of killing the 55-year-old.

Critics say Putin has been steadily suppressing freedoms since coming to power in 2000 but the crackdown against dissenters reached new heights after the annexation of Crimea in March 2014.

On Tuesday, investigators said they had opened a criminal probe into the only lawmaker who voted against Moscow's annexation of Crimea, accusing him of embezzlement.

The Investigative Committee, which reports directly to Putin, accused MP Ilya Ponomaryov of complicity in embezzling 22 million rubles ($394,000, 351,000 euros) from the Skolkovo Foundation, a high-tech project that the Kremlin hoped would be its answer to Silicon Valley.

The 39-year-old, who remains a sitting lawmaker, currently lives in the United States, saying he was pressured not to return to Russia. He has denied any wrongdoing.

Investigators said that they would seek Ponomaryov's extradition.

Activists say the Kremlin is tightening the noose around the opposition, indicating that anyone remotely critical of Putin's policies could be next in the line of fire.

A widely-respected 82-year-old philanthropist, Dmitry Zimin, has recently left Russia after coming under criticism for financing scientific research from his overseas accounts.

A host of opposition-minded figures including environmental activist Yevgenia Chirikova and author Boris Akunin have left Russia over the past months.

Choreographed? Russia admittedly annexed territory of Ukraine. Of course if you watch Russian news they will tell you they are somehow "the victim" in this story...

The sanctions should be lifted if Russia restores Crimnea and pays reparations.

And all the while, Russia is counting the factories/productions it had to open to replace the imports, and rolling its eyes at the losses Europe is incurring upon itself with those self-destructive sanctions...

During his visit to Italy two days ago, Russian President Vladimir Putin visited Pope Francis at the Vatican. It has to be noted that, while the Pope is obviously not fooled about what’s happening in the world – undoubtedly, his Argentine roots play a role in his clear vision – Italy as a state also is trying to find a way to quietly mend relations with Russia outside of the EU. It’s interesting that Putin’s visit took place directly after the G7 bash in Germany, during which Merkel and Obama sang a lot of anti-Russian songs in-between of sips of banana-flavored beer (not kidding) and vowed more anti-Russian sanctions.

It is also happening against the backdrop of the US trying to sneak its mid-range nuclear missiles into the EU, targeting Russia, and many other ugly things that signal the fresh push for World War IV (WWIV because, in all truth, we should really consider the Cold War as WWIII). But more about that in another piece.

Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi’s third meeting with Putin in the past year is a signal that Italy is attempting to distance itself from Germany and the US. Italy is obviously trying to wiggle its way out the crippling anti-Russian, and return Russian, sanctions. Italians have told me that Italian agriculture is hard hit by the quid pro quo sanctions.

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Still the Pope’s main interest at this point is geopolitics and the diplomacy of peace. And that’s where it gets interesting.

During Putin and Pope’s behind-the-closed-doors visit, which lasted 50 minutes – longer than prescribed – Pope Francis gave Putin the “Angel of Peace” medal. This medal is said to have the ability to create peace and protection, as well as the solidarity among peoples. The choice of words is very interesting: a symbol – ‘talisman,’ ‘wish’ – of protection and peace is being given to Putin by the head of the Catholic church. ‘Solidarity’ is the word feared terribly in the US, but used broadly in socialist and left-leaning societies, including South America and Pope’s native Argentina. Pope Francis has also mentioned that the Bible addresses not just spiritual matters, but also geopolitics as one of the important aspects of human co-habitation. The above language of symbols and hints, typical for the Vatican, thus reflects an important message.

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I just couldn’t pass this up! Guaranteed, you won’t see this exhange on BBC, CNN or Euronews.

Russian President Vladimir Putin and Turkish President Erdogan met in Baku, Azerbaijan, which is hosting the first ever European Games under the auspices of the IOC.

While there are African, Asian and other continental games, there were no European games till now. This was of course due to the fact that Olympics as such were born in Europe, therefore, the Olympics proper were till recently perceived as ‘European Games,’ if you will.

"I believe that our European counterparts have a growing feeling the measures against such a great country as Russia will merely entail Russia’s retaliation, and these countermeasures have negative results not only for Cyprus, but for a number of other EU countries, too," Anastasiades told a news conference following talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin.

It looks like now the US may try to escape their escalating war through the excuse that the EU will not support war in Europe.

Yes, that may indeed be a face-saving way out.

It looks like now the US may try to escape their escalating war through the excuse that the EU will not support war in Europe.

US Vice President Joe Biden has called on European countries to show unity when it comes to sanctions against Russia, labeling the dissenting voices “inappropriate and annoying”, reported ‘Der Spiegel’, quoting the participants of the Brussels meeting.

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“Putin continues to call for new peace plans as his troops roll through the Ukrainian countryside and he absolutely ignores every agreement that his country has signed in the past... including in Minsk,” Biden said, referring to “little green men”, but failing to provide any exact details of Russia's alleged military presence in the region.

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What Biden says is: "Please don't leave us alone EU! How can we create wars all over the world alone? Don't desert us!"

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Get real Biden...!!! Where is your proof? If US satellites can read your license plate number they can confirm Russian tanks and troops... Where is it? Are there idiots to believe if it existed, it would not be all over CNN? Does your mere statement make it real? However, your comment is appreciated because it inspires one toward critical thought, which is very good...Naturally, you hope there is no critical independent thinking... But, in reality their comments are inspiring it....thank you...