Geopolitical mosaic: McFaul did not mean a bribe, but a “financial aid package”, and in Houston they will erect a monument to Yuri Gagarin
The Kazakhstani border guard Vladislav Chelakh spoke about what happened at the post. The blame for the murder of his colleagues he took upon himself. This writes Robert Shemak ("Russian newspaper").According to the detainee, in the evening of May 27, he "had a clouding of reason on the basis of hostile and non-regulatory relations." Being on duty at the barracks, Chelakh first shot the guard at the post and then killed the commander of the frontier detachment. Then, after going to the barracks, he shot all his fellow soldiers with a machine gun: three contract soldiers and eight conscripts. Chelakh also killed a suspected erroneous huntsman, whose house was located a hundred meters from the barracks. Then the soldier shot all his victims in the head. He laid the dead in bed. The offender set fire to the barracks, changed into civilian clothes, took the commander's gun, 265 rubles found from the captain, some personal belongings of his colleagues, and left the barracks.
According to "Free press", the reason for the massacre became internal conflicts. Nurdaulet Suindikov, the official representative of the Prosecutor General’s Office of Kazakhstan, said: “During the interrogation with the participation of a lawyer, Chelakh confessed to the murder of his colleagues and Ruslan Kim. According to Chelakha, the motive was the internal conflicts and the inexplicable state of clouding of consciousness. The presence of accomplices and accomplices, he denies. "
Under Chelakha, according to Suindikov, civilian clothes, a laptop and mobile phones of some of the victims were discovered. Chelah committed the crime around 5 in the morning on May 28, when all the border guards, except for the sentry, were asleep.
Mother of the border guard in an interview "News - Kazakhstan" said: "I do not believe it, he could not do it. My son couldn’t even chop off a chicken’s head, it’sn’t that it’s possible to bite a man. He is a normal, adequate person. ”
News on the Syrian theme. The head of the Turkish Naval Academy divisional admiral Turker Ertürk resigned and told something about the Syrian issue. It is reported "Turkey.ru" with reference to the newspaper "Hurriet".
The division admiral resigned due to the fact that he was denied another appointment at the recent Supreme Military Council. He voiced this reason in front of the cadets of the school at the handover ceremony.
The admiral said that in the last year, the armed forces of Turkey, and above all on the Navy, are being “asymmetrically psychological”. The former head of the school did not disclose the reasons for pressure. From the admiral, "dishonest people" demanded that thirty cadets be expelled from the school, against whom charges of "immorality" on the basis of anonymous denunciations were brought. The admiral did not rule anyone out.
As transmits SANA, Ertürk said that Al-Qaida, supported and patronized by the United States, has committed a series of terrorist attacks on Syrian territory. However, according to Ertürk, the Syrian opposition, despite external support, did not achieve the objectives set for it, because it faced strong opposition from the Syrian people, supported by Russia and China.
As the admiral noted, the latest terrorist acts in Syria indicate that the imperialist powers have adjusted the original strategic plan and now rely on replacing the opposition with terrorist groups. According to the admiral, they now follow the scenario applied earlier in El Salvador. There, the operation to destabilize the country with the help of terrorists was led by John Negroponte, who later became the US ambassador to Iraq, and the future US ambassador to Syria, Robert Ford.
According to the Salvadoran scenario, Ertürk said, armed fighters being sent from Turkish territory are heading to Syria.
The media juggle with facts about events in Syria. About this, according to the message SANA, at a lecture at the Syrian Cultural Center in Sao Paulo, said Maria Socorro Gomez, President of the World Peace Council.Gomez stressed that she came to this conclusion after visiting the UAR in April, when she met with representatives of various sectors of Syrian society. In her opinion, what is happening in the country is a Zionist-imperialist conspiracy, which aims to undermine the unity of the Syrian people and the spread of terror in the Arab region.
The imperialists are pushing their versions of what is happening in Syria. "Lenta.ru" cites a Reuters report that during the day of June 7, UN observers who were trying to get to Al-Qubeira came under fire. UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said that the fire was fought by servicemen of the Syrian government army stationed in the vicinity of the village where the massacre had been organized the day before.
Looking aside from the "Ribbon" note, we note that either the UN Secretary General is cunning, or at least in a hurry with conclusions. Scott Stearns from "Voices of America" writes: “Observers could not get to the place where the massacre reportedly occurred. A representative of the UN peacekeeping department said observers were forced to turn back. No harm done. One of the cars is hit and slightly damaged. It’s not clear who is behind the shooting. ” “It’s not clear who is behind the shooting” and “the soldiers of the Syrian government army fired” - the statements, you see, are dissonant.
In the editorial blog of the newspaper The Guardian, reports "Tape", published the story of one resident of Al-Kubeira, phoned to Western news agencies. According to this man, on Wednesday, the city was bombarded with cannons for five hours, and then government forces let in Bashar Assad’s supporters from the Alawite Shabih detachments. The detachment members began to "kill everyone", including killing his mother and six children. The house of this resident of Al-Kubeira and many other houses were burned. He himself survived because he hid in an olive grove.
Meanwhile, the Syrian leadership announced the attack on Al-Kubeyr "terrorists" who killed ten women and children, but were later expelled by the army, which came to the rescue of its inhabitants.
Ранее "Lenta.ru"referring to France-Presse, which in turn referred to a representative of the opposition Syrian National Council, reported that on June 6 in the Syrian province of Hama more than a hundred people were killed by government forces. According to the interlocutor of France-Press, the fire was opened on residents of the villages of Al-Kubeyr and Maarzaf. An opposition spokesman said that at least 20 children and 20 women were among those killed. Human rights activists from the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights confirmed the opposition’s message about the Hama massacre.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation yesterday issued a statement on the massacre in Al-Kubeira. He writes about it "Lenta.ru" with reference to ITAR-TASS.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation made a statement about the massacre in Al-Kubeira, where 78 people were killed earlier. Alexander Lukashevich, a spokesman for the Russian Foreign Ministry, said that “certain forces” are guilty of the tragedy, arranging “vile provocations” in order to thwart Annan’s plan. The rebels have already refused to comply with it, but Russia, other countries and the UN are trying to reanimate it.
Lukashevich stressed: “We condemn these barbaric acts of violence. Their performers must be brought to justice and punished. ” Russia expressed its condolences to the families and friends of the victims.
Together with UN observers, foreign journalists arrived at the scene of the tragedy. They showed local residents who accused the government of Syria and neighbors from Alawite villages of mass murder. In Damascus, this “informational” plot provoked outrage. The Syrian leadership has declared itself the only source of truthful information about the incident.
They say comrades Lavrov and Churkin. "Vesti"referring to ITAR-TASS, they convey the words of Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov that the UN Security Council will not allow intervention in the SAR. Lavrov told reporters: “There will be no mandate for external intervention. I guarantee you that. ”
Now Russia is proposing to convene an international meeting on Syria. The Russian Foreign Minister said: "We see it not as a one-time action, but as the beginning of the process, we are ready to start it in Moscow, in Geneva, anywhere." The minister believes that 15 countries and organizations, including Qatar, Iran, LAS, the UN, the European Union, could take part in this meeting.
The situation in Syria became the main topic of discussion at a meeting of the UN General Assembly in New York. The position of Moscow was voiced by Russia's envoy to the UN, Comrade Churkin: “Now we need to agree on practical actions to translate the Syrian conflict into a political plane, mobilize key external players with real influence on various Syrian parties, on coordinated actions in support of the Annan plan, ensuring full implementation of Council resolutions The security of 2042 and 2043, in which the UN Security Council approved this plan and authorized the deployment of a UN monitoring mission in Syria. "
Vitaly Churkin stressed: "Russia's firm position in favor of achieving a political and diplomatic settlement in Syria remains unchanged."
Mrs. Clinton has her right opinion. As Scott Sternc writes out "Voices of America", the US Secretary of State believes that the time has come when the international community should develop an action plan for regime change in Syria. The US foreign minister at a press conference in Istanbul said: “The violence created by the connivance of the regime, which we observed yesterday in Hama, has no limits. The brutality and duplicity of Assad crossed all the borders; in Syria, there will be neither peace, nor stability, nor democracy as long as he remains in power. "
Clinton said: in order to gain the support of China and Russia, it is necessary to achieve recognition that the Annan peace initiative failed.
Well, what can I say? For Mrs. Secretary of State, any provocation by terrorists who disrupt the Annan plan (invented, as it were, on purpose, to be disrupted) is a signal for a new democratic speech. Each time, Hillary Clinton monotonously accuses Assad of crimes and cruelty. The Secretary of State does not care at all about the evidence base, but appeals to Russia and China, who in no way want to adhere to the only correct point of view on the subject — the American. Russia and China are very stubborn countries: they do not want to learn such a state of affairs in which everything that America declares is an axiom, and everything that the others say is a theorem.
It is easy to live and think the American rulers in this situation!
The Secretary of State, who demonstrates major memory lapses, should be remembered that the refusal to carry out the Annan peace plan was not told by Bashar Asad, but by the opposition who sent the plan to hell: “We declare that until the UN Security Council takes urgent decisions to protect civilians, let the Annan plan fly to hell”. Mrs. Clinton behaves like a parrot that has come to repeat itself: to gain support for Russia, to achieve support for China, to shift Assad, peace and democracy in Syria, to achieve support for Russia, to achieve support for China, to shift Assad, peace and democracy in Syria ...
Yesterday Abed Hamid Hmud, formerly secretary of Saddam Hussein, was executed by hanging. It is reported "Lenta.ru", referring to the Al-Arabiya TV channel and Iraqi Justice Minister Haidar al-Sa’di.According to the channel’s sources, Hmuda was convicted of harassing members of religious and opposition parties banned under Hussein. He was also convicted for participating in the suppression of the 1991 uprisings of the year that began after the US victory over Iraq in the First Gulf War.
Now, as reported by Lenta, the former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Iraq, Tariq Aziz, is awaiting the execution of the death sentence.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is going to build a fence along the border with Egypt. According to the RIA News", until the end of 2012, tent camps will be organized in Israel at 20-25 thousands of places for African migrants, who in the country already have about 60 thousands. Migrants enter Israel through a weakly protected border with Egypt. Most of them are from Sudan and Eritrea. Local residents consider these migrants to be the cause of the increase in crime and demand to send Africans to their homeland. But the authorities cannot yet do this because of injunctions and international obligations.
RIA "Novosti" also reports that the Jerusalem District Court did not extend the ban on the deportation of immigrants from South Sudan. The plaintiffs could not prove that migrants would face a threat to life upon their return to their homeland, which declared independence in 2011 year. Israeli Interior Minister Eli Yishai welcomed the decision of the court, saying that it allows the deportation of 1.500 people. The Minister expressed the hope that it would soon be possible to take similar measures to people from Sudan and Eritrea.Benjamin Netanyahu discussed a migration issue yesterday with representatives of relevant departments. The head of government called the basic measures with which he expects to close the issue with migrants: for example, you can toughen penalties for hiring migrants or deploy additional border guards in the southern areas of Tel Aviv. And you can also build a fence along the border with Egypt.
Khartoum and Juba did not agree on anything. Last night, Sudan and South Sudan interrupted the security talks in Addis Ababa. The parties failed to agree on the border of the demilitarized zone. Reports about it correspondent RIA "Novosti" Yulia Troitskaya referring to Sudan news agency SUNA, in turn, citing the country's defense minister Abdel Raheem Mohammed Hussein.
Problems with demarcation are due to the Heglig oil area, which both Sudan and South Sudan want to own. For ten days the parties talked - and never agreed on the border line.
A month ago, the government of South Sudan, as mentioned at "Military Review", drew her own version of the political map of the country. Hellig was also drawn to Ryus. Sudan did not like the new version of the map. Who would love it if the most delicious piece is cut from its cake and brought to its mouth?
The head of the Ministry of Defense of Sudan at the end of unsuccessful negotiations was able to diplomatically express his displeasure with the new card. His words are quoted by Yulia Troitskaya (RIA News"): “The border has been drawn on the basis of the map that we have used over the past six years (since the signing of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement in 2005). The map that South Sudan offered to define the demilitarized zone is hostile and contrary to the spirit of friendship and the desire for peace between the two countries. ”
Like this. Sudan seeks peace and friendship, and South Sudan takes away his pies.
Now Juba and Khartoum will most likely face economic and diplomatic sanctions with which the unfriendly neighbors have long been feared by the UN Security Council.
Ukrainian police found out the identity of those who attacked police officers during a protest against the Russian language. Now they will be brought to justice. As reported yesterday from Kiev correspondent RIA "Novosti" Andrei Lubensky, the Ukrainian police found out the identities of all the demonstrators who participated in the attacks on police officers during the protests against the Russian language, which took place on Tuesday in Kiev. As the Minister of Internal Affairs of Ukraine, Vitaly Zakharchenko, said on Thursday, violators will be brought to justice.
On June 5, mass actions of opponents and supporters of adopting a law on language policy took place near the Ukrainian parliament. During the rallies there were clashes of opposition representatives with the police. The opposition stated that the police used tear gas, while the Interior Ministry, on the contrary, complained of attacks from the opposition.
The Minister of Internal Affairs of Ukraine said: “I don’t understand why there was an attack on the police, why throwing something to the police, why use tear gas, by the way, regarding the police, why they had to tear off their helmets.”
McFaul: not a “bribe”, but a “financial aid package”. The talkative Michael McFaul, the American ambassador to Russia, publicly regretted that he had used the word “bribe” in a recent speech to students of the Higher School of Economics. RIA News" quotes his words:
“I’m sorry that I used the word bribe when I spoke ten days ago. I had to use the phrase "financial aid package." I made a mistake, I admit it. " The ambassador also said: “We are all learning, we want to be better.” He said this speaking at the Russian Economic School.
What can I add? Firstly, the mistake of McFaul, who was very unhappy with the Russian Foreign Ministry, did not discourage the ambassador from hunting to speak in public. Secondly, Mr. McFaul thought for ten days about what a synonym in the Russian language is for the word “bribe”. Thirdly, the ambassador, admitting his mistake, undoubtedly learned something and became better. Let's praise him for that!
Now, as soon as we hear from Mr. Ambassador something about “financial aid packages”, we will know that he is using the Aesop diplomatic language, which he gradually learns.
The US Congress Committee approved the "Magnitsky law." "BBC" reports that the Committee on International Affairs of the House of Representatives of the US Congress approved the draft "Magnitsky Law", according to which visa and financial sanctions may be imposed against some Russian officials.
The bill states that these measures will affect persons directly or indirectly responsible for violations related to the arrest and death of Sergei Magnitsky, a lawyer of the Hermitage Capital Foundation. Those functionaries from Russia who are involved in murder, torture and other human rights violations against those who have publicly declared the activities of officials are subject to the law.
BBC notes that all the parliamentarians present at the meeting supported the approval of the draft law.
Meanwhile, as reported RIA “Novosti” correspondents Denis Voroshilov and Maria Tabak, to vote on the "Magnitsky law" was less than half of the committee members.
It should be noted that the approval by the Congress committee is only the first stage of the project consideration. It must also be approved by the House of Representatives and the Senate, and only then signed by the president. BUT is knownthat Barack Obama spoke out against the “Magnitsky law”, considering it provocative.
In early May, Romney beat Obama by 17 million dollars. Candidate for the presidency of the United States from the Republican Party, Mitt Romney this month has collected for the needs of the election campaign almost 17 million dollars more than Barack Obama. According to the data published yesterday by the campaign headquarters of the candidates, Romney and the Republicans collected 76,8 million dollars, and Obama and his party only 60 million. This is reported by "BBC".
Obama's headquarters said that in May, donations were received from 572 of thousands of Americans, 147 of thousands of whom previously did not give money for the re-election of the president. 98% donations were less than 250 dollars. The total amount of small donations is not specified.
Among the donations to Romney, according to his headquarters, the amounts less than 250 dollars were 93%. The total amount of these small donations was 12 million dollars.
Chairman of the National Committee of the Republican Party, Reins Pribus, said: "The strong results of our fundraising are a sign that Americans are tired of the broken promises of President Obama and want a change of course in the White House."
If you think about the words of Raines Pribus, then immediately come to mind Mr. Romney words that Russia is the number one geopolitical enemy for America and that the military budget should be increased, not reduced. All this, obviously, means “a change of course in the White House,” which the Americans will not wait for.
Well, in November, the whole world will know what Romney, and Pimbus, and the Americans really want, who will elect a president.
The sad days of the Italian mafia. 6 Jun. Italian police arrested 47 people allegedly members of the Clan Mallardo, part of Camorra. Reports about it "Lenta.ru" with reference to ANSA.
Police suspect that 47 bad guys are involved in trafficking weapons and racket. Criminals were detained simultaneously in six regions of Italy. The police confiscated the money of the criminals - only about three million euros.
Italian police have detained a terrorist suspect near a college in Brindisi. He writes about it "Lenta.ru"referring to ANSA.
This suspect is 68-year-old Giovanni Vantajato, a resident of Copertino in the province of Lecce, the owner of a gas station. After a long interrogation, he confessed to the preparation and implementation of the explosion. Information about the motives of the crime is not. The detainee, according to the police, is not associated with either the mafia or the anarchists. The motive for the crime could be, as the media writes, Vantajato’s “personal dislike” of Angelo Rampino college director. But this is only speculation.
Totalitarian Latvia. Ksenia Zagorovskaya, correspondent "Hour", interviewed Aivars Lembergs, Mayor of Ventspils and one of the most experienced Latvian politicians. According to Lembergs, Latvia is becoming an increasingly totalitarian state.
The mayor of Ventspils told the world that in the current parliament of Latvia, the influence of oligarchs was stronger than ever, that George Soros has the “controlling stake of power in the Sejm”, which controls the premiership of the Unity party and acting “surreptitiously, through its agents of influence”.
In addition, the people of Latvia do not like the Diet. And before the Sejm did not like, and then will not love: “... The people did not like, do not love and will never love the Sejm. Now parliamentary activity approves 15 percent of the population. Compare: the work of the Ventspils City Council is positively assessed by 92 percent, negatively - 4 percent. ”
According to the policy, Latvia is now in terms of development in 2006, and for more than five years we have not been able to reach the 2007 performance of the year. About growth, according to Lembergs, we can speak only on the condition that in the 2012 year the GDP will be 20% more than in 2007.
Reforms in the country have stopped, the mayor believes, and "populism began." “We see,” he said, “there are more poor people, unemployment is very high, whereas before those who could not find work for more than half a year were 15 percent, now they are half. Of those who did not leave, of course ... "
“Our state,” said Lembergs, “is increasingly becoming totalitarian. The Saeima is trying to limit the people’s right to referendums by removing citizens from direct participation in solving the most important issues for them. This is the most serious deviation from the foundations of democracy!
There is an offensive on human rights, the media. If earlier the Council on Radio and Television included representatives and positions, and the opposition, now all its members represent the ruling coalition. Government electronic media are dancing to the tune of the ruling coalition, and the opposition is almost not given the floor. In the elections, the opposition is likely to be even deprived of the opportunity to buy airtime, and the ruling will receive it for free. ”
As for the crisis in Europe and the introduction of the euro currency in Latvia under discussion, Lembergs does not see anything good here either. The European Union mayor compared with the sinking "Titanic": "Titanic" is sinking, and we are sailing on our boat not far from it. On board they shout: “Throw your boat! Let's come to us! ”But is it not wiser to wait until the ship’s hole is sealed? It’s better to be on a small boat that is afloat than on a large boat that goes to the bottom. ”
Latvia should not enter the euro area, said Lembergs: “... I am against! Otherwise, our poor people will have to help countries that have been carelessly spending and spending money - Greece, Spain, Portugal, maybe it’s the turn of Italy. ”
Latvia, if it enters the euro zone, will have to “commit obligations to 4 billion euros - to 2000 euros per inhabitant of the country, and this amount may increase. We will throw this money to them, and they will burn the banknotes in the fire of their needs, saying: “It's cold! We have winter plus 15 degrees. ” I do not want it".
As for geopolitics, Lembergs said the following on this score:
“The situation in the world will not improve either economically or socially, as long as one empire tries to subjugate all of civilization. The domination of one country is today the main geopolitical problem. Such a situation in stories humanity first appeared, because all the great empires of the past, including the Roman Empire, were local.
The global domination of the USA has no prospects, because the essence of the market economy is competition, and now all spheres — economics, military relations — are monopolized, therefore there is no development. What I am saying is not directed against America. This situation is unprofitable for her.
Now we are all reaping the fruits of the collapse of the Soviet Union. I do not idealize him, but the presence of a counterweight forced the West to be more careful. Therefore, there was no Guantanamo, secret CIA prisons, economic policy was more balanced. ”
Russia, in the opinion of the politician, “cannot replace the USSR on the world stage”. Therefore, all “hope for China, which, dynamically developing, will shake the positions of America and Europe, their allies. In the next two to three decades, the bipolarity of the world will be restored, and humanity as a whole will benefit. If Russia and China can agree, it will happen faster. "
As for Latvia’s relations with Russia, in the past six months, a positive “groundwork” was noted, according to Lembergs, was confused - “because of the statements made by a number of Latvian leaders regarding the Waffen SS, which were noticed in Russia. One gets the impression, - Lembergs continued, - that some people do not know how the world values the SS. Yes, those who committed criminal offenses are punished, but the Waffen SS itself is a criminal organization; there is no doubt about that. ”
Finally, the mayor of Ventspils said: “The situation is aggravated by NATO’s moves to deploy missile defense systems in Europe, which are clearly directed against the security of Russia.”
The Iranians visited the roofs of their houses. As reported today ITAR-TASS With reference to the BBC, thousands of Iranians climbed the rooftops of their houses that night. What for? To see the Pepsi logo projected on the moon.
But the logo on the moon did not appear. Iranians played out.
A few days ago, a rumor was spread on the Iranian Internet about an unusual advertising campaign: it was as if Pepsi would project its red-blue logo on the moon using lasers. Network rumors were propagated by various “journalists” who were really fascinated with the laser-pepsic theme.
A joke, a joke, and the rise of thousands of people on the roofs made us once again see how much power the word has in the world.
Monument to Gagarin in America. As conveyed today from New York ITAR-TASS correspondent Igor Shamshin, the city council of Houston (Texas) approved the plan for the installation of a monument to Yuri Gagarin in the city.
Sophie Tabarovski, chairperson of the international initiative group to popularize Russian astronautics in the US, said: “Its opening is scheduled for October. June 21 with the participation of Mayor of Houston Anis Parker and the leaders of NASA will mark the first stone in the pedestal. "
The bronze figure of the first cosmonaut was carved by sculptor Alexei Leonov. Russian cosmonauts and their American colleagues will arrive in Houston to attend the opening of the monument in October.
Observed Oleg Chuvakin
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