Results of the week. “New Russian Roulette - Live to Retirement”
The "emergency dumping" of the Russian Central Bank of the American Treasury obligations is slowly beginning to acquire meaning. Although the Central Bank does not give any comments on this issue, and sometimes it takes almost anecdotal forms. Thus, the Deputy Minister of Finance of Russia, Sergei Storchak, answering journalists' questions, said that he himself did not know the motives that guided the Central Bank when selling off American assets.
They say: we have more gold reserves. But to which pan-ataman does this gold reserve belong? It is written that Russia has more gold. But so on the fence is all write.
And recently, some gentlemen have begun to somewhat confusedly explain what they mean by the word "Russia." These are one and a half thousand guardians or the remaining 145 of millions of “people who need to be changed”? ..
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Teeth off the shelf
2018 year - a turning point in modern stories. And for Russia, and for the whole world. In 2014, the “Battle of the End” began in the Middle East - the Middle East Front of the Fourth World War, the War of Civilizations, was opened. The foundations for the emergence of a European (Ukrainian) front were created.
Pension reform. Arithmetic for the government
Pension reform or social sabotage?
The pressing question of the day: what to do with rotting fish?
As a continuation of the topic of gold reserves. It seems that tomorrow another cleverest figure can appear on the federal channel and declare that raising the retirement age alone will not improve the living standards of pensioners - golden teeth should be considered. After all, the golden tooth of a pensioner is, excuse me, abuse of macroeconomics. Gold should work - for example, to be sold to provide a loan to Turkey for the purchase of the S-400 air defense system from Russia. And then the Turks will return the loan with interest, and each pensioner will receive a bill on the 1 thousand rubles, which can be considered a significant addition to the pension.
And what do you want - they wanted to chew with those teeth ... It won't work!
Even if you put your teeth on the shelf, it does not mean that they will not get to them ...
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siberalt
Vtyuhivaemaya government nonsense about the inability to feed the horde of pensioners is a blatant lie. Already because of this "mob" 7 millions of pensioners for disability and orphanhood. 14 of millions working on white and paying personal income tax. So we can talk only about 20 millions, which is in relation to those working less than in any Western country. And there is nothing to “shag grandmother”, as the satirist Zadornov used to say.
andr327
Another question: how the state organizes new jobs, jobs that produce surplus value?
Another question: how many people work for us at state-owned, state-owned enterprises? After all, the overwhelming majority of the population works for private business, which pays salary at a profit and still contains a huge pile of state controllers.
So, the pension reform has raised a lot of acute, basic questions of the current economic policy of the state, which the government will have to answer. But there are no reasonable answers.
Mar.Tirah
Iline
How much did the state pay to banks in 2014 for covering their inefficient work in 2014? Problems arose allegedly due to sanctions, since these banks could no longer take loans in the West in order to push them into Russia already at unimaginable interest rates. Well, how much was returned in the end? Apparently - nothing, otherwise they would have cheerfully reported.
And how many trillions for the same purpose last year did the state sponsor? Health care with culture rest. Will this money be returned to the budget? The spinal cord tells me that it is not.
As long as effective "managers" rule the economy, then we will have what we have at the moment: first jerk the vest on the chest, and only then consider the consequences of this action. And the consequences are very sad turn out.
So will they eat each other or not?
The performance of the former Russian actor, and now the Ukrainian punisher from the nationalist dobat, Anatoly Pashinin, in the Ukrainian media routinely caused a considerable response in the Russian media space.
The Armed Forces of Ukraine fired artillery from the position of "Azov" and "Right Sector"
They say they will eat each other. But for more than four years they have been eating, and the number of individuals in general remains in the order of the population. Kart disease is not treated by conventional methods, and therefore in the LDNR they can issue reports about countless self-detonating and each other in the APU who fired at will, but the war continues. And these methods of the enemy in any case can not be overcome, even if in his camp such as Pashinin.
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July Caesar
cariperpaint
From "Daggers" to kissing one step
Information about the Russian super-weapon, voiced by President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin during his message to the Federal Assembly, produced the effect of a bombshell in the Internet space.
In the footsteps of a fresh demonstration of new products from the Defense Ministry of the Russian Federation
Foreign Minister of the Defense Ministry rollers: Putin’s “dagger” at the throat of American democracy
Of course, it is necessary and expedient to frighten the adversary, but the problem is that in the camp of internal elites today there are those who are burning with the secret desire that the promising Russian weapons will not go further than the cartoons. Today, the rockets showed, tomorrow they kissed American senators (they didn’t invite voters to vigorously applause), the day after tomorrow they said that to create a “Poseidon” and to improve the life of pensioners it’s impossible to do without raising the VAT and the retirement age. So what - oil on 75, so what - a dollar on 63. It won't be enough ... By the way, maybe not 63 and 65, but 63 and 75 - so that both dollar and barrel? ..
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Curious
But the USSR did without cartoons. Real samples on parades showed. But the USSR and respected.
Going
The fleet is not needed, it is better to stamp pans
For some time now, an interesting trend has been noticed on our website: a number of respected authors of VO proclaimed the imminent renunciation of the Russian Navy’s ocean ambitions and a focus on the so-called mosquito navy. In support of this point of view, a document entitled "Strategy for the development of the shipbuilding industry for the period until 2035" was cited.
Three new warships for six months. Much or less for a country like Russia?
Now the question is raised: do we really need an ocean fleet? Perhaps it is better to nastrogat mosquito from auxiliary material and drive American aircraft carriers? Although, why drive the American aircraft carriers, after all, we must demonstrate friendliness - even if they enter the Sea of Azov - along with Ukrainian partners, we will dig a little deeper in order to meet it with bread and salt in Yeisk. You look, and do much good: they will transfer to the second place the main aggressors of the world in the list ...
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Revansh
Vita vko
gig334
Pluralism from the word "spit"
Natalia Poklonskaya for journalists:
“I was entrusted with a plot of work, the voters chose me, the management entrusted me with the work that I do according to my conscience, therefore I don’t.”
United Russia will discuss various options for exposure to Poklonskaya
Natalya seriously thought that the prescribed point of the statute on the inner-party pluralism of opinions is a reinforced concrete argument. But no ... Apparently, those who spoke about him earlier thought that pluralism comes from the word “spit”. So they spit on the opinion of the overwhelming majority of the population of the Russian Federation and on the attempts of colleagues to find other options for "raising the standard of living of pensioners."
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Borisovich
Evolution, you see.
PalBor
Usik. Fight outside the ring
The victorious Maidan reports from the successful battle of the Ukrainian boxer Alexander Usik in Moscow collapsed, and now in Kiev, by all appearances, they began to realize what really happened. If the day before the President of Ukraine Poroshenko announced that the Ukrainian anthem sounded in the Russian capital would lead to victory over Russia and the whole of Ukraine, now the authorities in the Square suddenly decided to take a more sober look at the situation.
Usik goes to the Crimea. The confusion of the Ukrainian radicals
This Usyk torn in different directions. Some people admire, others use the last words, the situation changes, and the boxer Usyk becomes a hero for those for whom he was a “traitor”, and a total for those who called him a “re-peremozhe”. That's how we live. And between us there is a “great European embankment” - so great that not every barb will overcome it ...
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Retvizan 8
Some are looking for peremogu, others zradu ...
Who leaked?
In the framework of the criminal case, information about the leakage of secret data is checked. In particular, it was announced that data on the developments of Russian specialists in the development of hypersonic technologies for the rocket industry were deliberately transferred to representatives of foreign special services.
74-year-old employee arrested. Charges - the transfer of data to employees of foreign intelligence services, committed under the previous leadership. Investigation work continues. And against this background, the question hangs in the air: does all this mean that the technologies of the same “Daggers” and “Avangards” (and Russian ones) are already available to our beloved partners, only respectfully they do not show videos on us so as not to offend us ?
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rotmistr60
New Year day
And the Moldovan-Romanian spy in the leadership of Rosenergo? How does a person with a Moldovan passport get into strategic industries?
lopvlad
She gave the order
In the Israel Defense Forces, the name of the person who gave the order to launch Patriot missiles at Syrian Su-22М4, which resulted in the aircraft being shot down and the pilot killed, was named. The Israeli media, citing the IDF military command, reported that the woman commanded the calculation of the air defense system - Captain Ohr Naaman from the 138-th battalion of the Israeli Air Force. It was especially noted that its own division about two weeks before the strike on the Syrian air force plane destroyed an unmanned aerial vehicle launched from Syrian territory.
Militants decided that the plane shot down by Israel was found by the body of a Russian pilot
Principled Israel. CAA breaks through to the place of the death of the colonel in Quneitra
Named Israeli woman who shot down Su-22М4 Syrian Air Force
Recall, the militants "IG" (prohibited in the Russian Federation), who use Telegram channels, expressed their enthusiasm for the downed aircraft. Moreover, the bearded men declared that the Russian plane was shot down and that they even found the body of the dead Russian pilot.
In fact, one died from the pilots of the SAR Air Force, Colonel Umran Mare from Tartus.
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BAI
VKS plus Air Force
According to Lebanese media, the Russian and Syrian military aviation embarked on a new phase of delivering massive strikes on militant positions in the province of Daraa. Blows are made on positions and clusters of terrorists who refused to stop resistance and leave southern Syria along the corridors provided by the SAA command. The militants announced that the resistance would continue, and began to cling to the Golan Heights, where Israel transferred additional forces and means.
It should be noted that the assurances of the militants about the continuation of resistance look weak. Syrian government forces are attacking, and their commanders manage to negotiate with the leaders of the opposing groups: they refuse to conduct combat operations. Several militant groups laid down weapon in the province of Quneitra. Official Damascus claims that more than 90% of the province of Daraa has passed under the control of the CAA.
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Russian insight financiers
Strange as it may sound, we nevertheless waited for that bright day when Russia almost ceased to keep its savings in American treasuries. According to the US Treasury, at the moment the Central Bank of Russia holds in these securities less than 15 billions of US dollars, which is an “anti-record” from the year 2007.
Has the leadership changed in the Central Bank? Or did new people come to the Kremlin? No, this can not be simply because it can not be. New faces, new politics - this is a risk for "stability".
The reason for the withdrawal of funds is, apparently, anxiety for investments expressed in US debt. Many experts really link the decisive steps of Moscow with the risk of the seizure of Russian assets. And this option cannot be completely ruled out: relatively recently, an arrest of the funds of the national sovereign fund of the Republic of Kazakhstan occurred, and not for political reasons, but as a result of a commercial dispute between the government of Kazakhstan and the Moldovan entrepreneur. And 22 billion dollars fell under arrest.
By the way, no one is going to invest the withdrawn money into the Russian economy either. Billions of 47 were placed on deposits with foreign banks, 25,2 billion were held in foreign securities accounts with the IMF and the Bank for International Settlements, and much of the remaining money was transferred to the assets and liabilities of other (non-US) countries. Apparently, those who are “not US” are still “partners.”
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Stas157
In Ukraine, the time is long gone, and it will not be possible to change power (the junta-they themselves called it that way, and then they recognized it!) In Ukraine. The project "New Russia" reanimate - too. The maximum that can be done is to recognize unfortunate bits from the Donetsk and Luhansk region. But then another question immediately arises: why we didn’t release (banned by the militia) these areas completely or at least did not move the buffer zone away from Donetsk? Previously, it was associated with a cunning plan, it seemed that it was necessary to wait a bit, they say, no one was going to merge anyone, and the Minsk Agreement is not the end ...
What is there to be in Syria is already very few people interested. Only one thing is interesting: when we stop spending money on it, which, according to Medvedev, simply does not exist, even for pensioners! This whole Syrian epic has drastically lingered, despite Putin’s assurances that this will be a limited campaign in time. This is an expensive toy for our weak economy. No one still really knows what Putin is fighting for on the far approaches! But many realize that these are purely business interests of our elite. It is too expensive for the Russian people to pay for it, except for the increase in gasoline and VAT prices - even by raising the retirement age.
populist
The Russian authorities are too weak and cowardly for active actions at the moment. The exit from the treasuries is explained by the danger of freezing in the event of a serious failure at the last talks in Helsinki, and only. The Kremlin is now incapable of serious activity against US interests.
siberalt
Check for lice
The events that took place in the Donbass and in the southern part of Syria will be stored in the memory of political scientists and military experts of the “World Wide Web” as a kind of demonstration period for checking the lice of “partners.” In the first two weeks after the talks between the Russian president and the Israeli prime minister, and then the Russian leader’s meeting with the head of Donald Trump, the following happened in Helsinki: Ukraine received a 200 million-dollar military aid package; Raytheon-Lockheed Martin consortium received allocations in the amount of 307,5 million dollars for the production of the FGM-148 Javelin batch for deliveries primarily to Ukraine and Estonia; Ukrainian 122-mm multiple launch rocket systems 9K51 "Grad" hit the city infrastructure of Dokuchaevsk; Su-22М4 was intercepted in the Golan Heights area by an Israeli battery of the Patriot anti-aircraft missile system.
According to analyst E. Damantsev, the United States plans in the coming months to achieve a complete fall in the rating of the current leadership of Russia with a further loosening of the situation within its borders. And no other scenario is foreseen here in the near future, despite the share of positive rhetoric expressed by our negotiators on the basis of countless rounds of talks with “Western partners”; All this is a typical political formality, not relevant to the real state of affairs.
Apparently, the key to uncovering the reasons for neglect of Russia in the “big game” is in the applause of the majority of our deputies (except Natalia Poklonskaya) of a delegation of American congressmen headed by Senator Richard Shelby, who with great pleasure will vote for the “Crimean Declaration "The United States, and for the new sanctions" package "under the CAATSA bill" On counteracting the opponents of America through sanctions. "
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Goldmitro
He is not a Sultan Turkish, but a Russian spy!
The Washington Times newspaper reported that the US Congress blocked the delivery of F-35 aircraft to Turkey. On the eve of "IN" reported that the head of the Pentagon, James Mattis, announced his support for an earlier decision on the transfer of a new generation of fighters to the Turkish Air Force. According to Mattis, any delay in the implementation of the contract can lead to negative consequences primarily for US companies, and they may lose a significant share of profits. However, the congressmen did not heed the arguments of Mattis and decided to freeze the delivery of F-35 to Ankara (at least for the year 2019).
Congressmen seem to think exclusively about the good of the great American homeland. No more can you explain their decision. One of the reasons that the congressmen argued for the introduction of “sanctions” against the Turks is the conviction that Ankara will “transmit” information relating to F-35 to people from Moscow. Some congressmen are really afraid of such a development of events: they say, after sending the F-35 to Turkey, Mr. Erdogan will transfer to the Russian technology to counter the American 5 generation aircraft, and the Russian will be upgrading their air defense systems accordingly.
In the meantime, Russia is afraid of something else: Turkey (the NATO country) can transfer the Triumph C-400 technologies to American partners ...
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First serial
In August, the 1990 was the first time that a fifth-generation American fighter, the YF-23 Black Widow II, developed by Northrop and McDonnell Douglas, took to the skies. He could have become the first fighter aircraft of a new generation, but did not ... The project was closed due to his loss in the ATF (Advanced Tactical Fighter) competition in April 1991. The winner is also well known to all. This YF-22, later "reborn" in the F-22 Raptor - the first serial fighter of the fifth generation.
Winning YF-22 over YF-23 seems logical. Like the X-35 victory over the X-32 - a rather ambiguous, although, without a doubt, a revolutionary aircraft of its time.
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demiurg
Actually, as the situation is now with us. Sukhoi Design Bureau is elegant and beautiful, and Mikoyan Design Bureau is a poor relative.
parma
And according to Mikoyan Design Bureau, they haven’t done anything worthwhile for many years. In 80, they thought (as, by the way, the Mil Design Bureau) that, apart from them, there was no one to do in alliance fighters ... After the MiG-31, they didn’t do anything (MiG-29 has a lot of problems with the glider). A “light” aircraft at the price of “heavy” is, of course, brilliant ...
German Foreign Legion
The Military Department of the Federal Republic of Germany expects to solve the problem of “personnel hunger” in the conditions of an increase in the number of Bundeswehr. According to the source, the new version of the defense concept adopted by the government in 2016, spells out the possibility of invoking foreigners. Now the corresponding item was included in the updated personnel strategy of the Bundeswehr. This decision was made because the prestige of military service in present-day Germany is not too great; among young people, pacifist beliefs and hedonistic attitudes are quite strong, and they are not too self-restricting and self-sacrificing for military service.
Do not let the bear drive. European journalism nostalgic for Goebbels
The solution is not new. If you delve into the history of the XX century, you can find something similar.
During World War II, the Waffen-SS formations more than half consisted of foreigners: Volksdeutsche (ethnic Germans from other countries), Scandinavians and other peoples of the Germanic root. But things were getting worse and worse on the fronts, and the SS legionnaires began to recruit Slavs, Turks, Indians ...
What this army has finished, everyone knows. What will the Bundeswehr come to?
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Tank hard
rotmistr60
Rurikovich
demiurg
In general, Gorki / Pashtuns in the army are excellent expeditionary forces in all kinds of Bantustans. For them, war is a profession. And not very sorry, again, white bwans do not die.
President of 2020 of the year
Our old friend Michael McFaul could not refrain from commenting on the meeting of the American and Russian presidents in Helsinki. On the pages of Foreign Affairs, he stated that the US needs a new Russian strategy. Popinav Trump and the Republican administration, he stated: the current White House has no strategy towards Russia. And if there is, says McFaul, then not one, but two, and they contradict each other. They say that Trump wants to harm Russia and at the same time come closer to it.
But the Democrats have a real strategy. Among the elements of this strategy are grants to "democratic journalists" and the media, support for "free Ukraine", the consolidation of the global "democratic community" against the neo-imperial moves of Moscow. A key task, Mr. McFaul, sees the "integration" of Russian democracy "into the Western system."
Well, Mr. McFaul, half of your election program has already been written. And even published in the pages of an authoritative publication. And who should run for the presidency in the United States, if not a true connoisseur of Russian “anti-Americanism” and the ideologist of “overload”, sorry, reboots?
The cold war is now in vogue, and Mr. McFaul may well beat Mr. Trump on this front. In the end, it was not the Trump team who came up with the anti-Russian sanctions. They were introduced by cool Men Barack Obama, whom many analysts for some reason called a weakling. But the whole political difference between a “wimp” and a “bully” Trump is that one won the Nobel Peace Prize and the other did not. Peace on the planet did not bring either one or the other.
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alex-cn
prior
Everything listed in the most direct and painful way directly depends on the West.
The army did not save the Soviet Union, the order to save Russia from representatives of the authorities (read oligarchs) simply will not do.
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