Geopolitical mosaic: Turkish tanks approached the Syrian border, and the global economic crisis will last another ten years
Half a century in prison? A few hours ago, Russian diplomats met with our compatriots in Houston (Texas, USA) who were detained in espionage business related to the supply of dual-purpose microelectronic chips in Russia. Of the eight defendants, four were Russians. Three of them have at the same time and American passports. The Russian Consulate General in Houston said that diplomats would protect the interests of their fellow citizens and try to secure bail, they say "Vesti".
The Russian Federal Security Service will collect information on all participants in the spy case. By the way, the charges against the participants in the case are criminal in nature and are not related to intelligence activities. However, the main person involved - Alexander Fischenko - was declared an agent of the Russian government, and therefore he faces more than 50 years in prison.
Read about the microelectronic scandal "Military Review".
This unknown friend Fischenko. As transmits correspondent ITAR-TASS Andrey BekrenevReferring to the Associated Press, Alexander Fischenko, the main suspect in the case of dual-use microelectronics from the US to Russia, probably led a secluded lifestyle.
He rarely spoke with his neighbors in Houston, and in the Russian-speaking community of the city they did not know anything about him.
Today should be a hearing on the release of those arrested on bail. However, prosecutors insist on their detention. Prosecutors believe that the Russians can not only get away from the country, but also destroy the evidence.
Guilty without guilt. Four Russian "spies" did not admit their guilt, said correspondent RIA "Novosti" Larisa Saenko lawyer Alexey Tarasov.
He said: “All four Russians do not admit their guilt. At the first hearing on Thursday, they were formally charged. ”
Among the eight arrested in America, four Russians: Alexander Fishchenko, Alexander Tosobilov, Victoria Klebanova, Anastasia Dyatlova.
Comrade Tarasov enters the process as a lawyer to Anastasia Dyatlova, but if the prosecutor’s office does not object, he is ready to expand the circle of defendants.
“I got acquainted with the accusation, which at first glance looks rather confusing, probably with the aim to sow (from those arrested) fear. I am not going to judge the evidence base of the prosecution, because I did not receive all the materials from the prosecutor’s office, ”said the lawyer.
He also said that the conditions of detention of Russians are acceptable, however, there were complaints about the lack of certain hygiene products and medicines. This problem will be solved by the efforts of the lawyer and the consulate of Russia in Houston.
Turkish Tanks at the Syrian border. Turkish tanks are now approaching the border with Syria. The received mandate to carry out military operations by Turkey is designed for a year and provides for the use of force only to protect the borders; "Vesti".
The Turkish government filed a request for permission for military operations after the events of 3 in October, when five Turkish citizens died from a Syrian strike.
“All we are trying to achieve is peace and security in our region,” said Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the Turkish Prime Minister. “And that’s what we care most about.” We have no intention to start a war, as we all saw the consequences of the confrontations in Iraq, Iran and Afghanistan. At the same time, Turkey is strong enough to protect its citizens and its borders. I do not recommend anyone to test our determination in this matter. ”
“Vesti” reminds that Syria’s apologies from Turkey did not reassure, and protests took place in Ankara.
"Lenta.ru" referring to Reuters, reports that yesterday the Turkish parliament approved a military operation outside the country, in the event that the government deems it necessary. For permission, deputies were approached by the cabinet in connection with the “aggressive actions” by the Syrian army (referring to the shelling from the territory of Syria of the Turkish city of Akchakale, as a result of which five Turks were killed: two women and three children).
The approval of the parliament allows the Turkish authorities to send their military to Syria during the year and conduct air strikes on Syrian territory (BBC News).
At the same time, Turkish Deputy Prime Minister Besir Atalay stated that the approval by the Parliament of military actions outside the country is not a “memorandum on declaring war” (“France-Presse” information).
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan stressed that Ankara intends to act in cooperation with international organizations.
Also yesterday, the UN Security Council made a statement that Ankara and Damascus should show restraint after the incident with the shelling of the Turkish city of Akchakale from Syrian territory, reports correspondent ITAR-TASS Oleg Zelenin.
The UN Security Council condemned the incident with the shelling of the Turkish city and blamed it on the Syrian army: “The members of the Security Council condemned in the strongest terms the shelling of the Turkish city of Akchakale by the Syrian armed forces, which led to the death of five civilians.”
The members of the Security Council demanded "to stop such violations of international law and prevent their recurrence," and also called on the Syrian government to "fully respect the sovereignty and territorial integrity of their neighbors."
The Security Council drew attention to the fact that the incident "underlines the disastrous effect that the crisis in Syria has on the security of its neighbors, as well as on international peace and security." In this regard, the members of the UN Security Council called on the parties to show restraint.
Corr. ITAR-TASS recalls that as a result of an artillery shell falling into a residential building in the town of Akchakale in the лыanlıurfa province on October 3, 5 people died and another 13 was injured. Turkish artillery responded with strikes against targets in Syria. As a result of volley fire, which lasted several hours, two servicemen were wounded.
It took almost a day from the UN Security Council to make a statement on the incident at the border. Three texts were submitted, one of which was prepared by the delegation of the Russian Federation.
Today there will be a discussion of another statement concerning the terrorist attacks in Aleppo, committed two days ago. Syria insists on its adoption, and the draft document has been proposed by Russia.
Russia's permanent representative to the UN, Vitaly Churkin, reminded journalists that the Dzhebhat al-Nusra group (“Victory Front”) associated with Al-Qaida claimed responsibility for the bombings. “It is very important that the Security Council respond to this,” said Comrade Churkin. The attack, we recall, took the lives of forty people.
Victoria Nuland knows nothing, but undertakes to assert. A video was posted on the Internet the other day, which is supposedly captured by the American journalist Austin Theis, who disappeared in Syria, "Vesti".
Since August there has been no news of the missing journalist. In the video of a man, armed men lead by the arms. It is impossible to determine anything by frames: neither the location nor the person (half of the captive's face is hidden by a bandage).
Nevertheless, the US State Department stated that it was the journalist Austin Theis and that he was being held captive by the Syrian authorities.
State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland hurried to declare: “So far I can only say that it is likely that the video was filmed by representatives of the regime. But we really don't know anything. We cannot say with absolute certainty whether it really was him. But on the basis of the information that we have, it can be argued that he is being held captive by the authorities. ”
Mrs. Nuland, note, a good teacher - her boss Hillary Clinton. She, too, still has no idea who the opposition in Syria is composed of and what it is seeking, but it has always supported its support and voiced amounts of tens of millions of dollars, which the State Department is dumping with a generous hand to the militants, who are fighting for some reason side by side with the fighters. Al-Qaida and other notorious Islamists and thugs.
Efbeerovtsy visited Benghazi. According to correspondent ITAR-TASS Andrey SurzhanskyThe FBI officers who visited the site of the death of Ambassador Christopher Stevens in Benghazi (they were described in the "VO" in the last "The results of the week"), worked under the protection of the US military. This was stated to reporters by the official representative of the Pentagon George Little.
“At the request of the FBI, the Ministry of Defense provided security and logistics support to a group of investigators so that they could do the necessary work on site in Benghazi,” he said. According to Little, completing his mission, military personnel left Benghazi with the FBI.
Earlier, efbeerovtsy afraid to go to Benghazi. It was called something like this: to postpone the trip for security reasons. Arriving in Benghazi, the agents did not stay there even a day.
Sentenced to the highest measure. As transmits RIA News" With reference to the Associated Press, Tunisian authorities intend to seek the death penalty for 87 suspected of attempting to storm the US embassy during protests against the movie “Muslim Innocence”.
The lawyers for the suspects, Anuar Uled Ali and Monder Charney, reported that 87 people detained by the Tunisian authorities are awaiting trial on several charges, including an assault on state security officers. The prosecutor's office will seek the highest penalty for all defendants.
According to media reports, the windows in the American embassy were broken, and then the crowd set fire to the trees growing outside the embassy and hoisted the black flag instead of the American flag. Police used rubber bullets and tear gas. Four people were killed and 49 injured.
In addition, an American school in Tunisia was shelled. There was a fire in the school.
This economic crisis will break all records. The chief economist of the International Monetary Fund, Olivier Blanchard, said that the global economy will need at least another 10 years to get rid of the effects of the financial crisis that began in the 2008 year, reports Rosbalt with reference to "RBC".
According to Blanchard, Europe will remain the main source of instability. To combat the crisis in the eurozone, he proposes to reduce prices in debtor countries and, conversely, to increase them in economically strong countries - in particular, Germany will have to allow inflation to rise.
The IMF expert believes that the resolution of the crisis should not be to the detriment of economic growth, that is, the debt of states should be reduced at “moderate rates”. Blanchard explains: "If you do it slowly, the markets will not take the measures taken seriously, but reducing debt too quickly will be disastrous for the economy."
One hundred forty kilo explosives. Spanish police arrested an 21-year-old man in Palma de Mallorca, who was about to explode a bomb on a university campus. Reports about it "Lenta.ru" with reference to France-Presse and CNN.
The terrorist was detained on October 3. He found 140 kilograms of explosives. The detainee found a diary in whose pages he wrote about hatred of society and described plans for the construction of a massacre at the University of the Balearic Islands. The terrorist wanted to blast a bomb full of striking elements on campus.
It clarifies the "BBC News", the arrested Spaniard took the example of Americans Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold. These guys killed an 1999 school in Columbine 12 and injured 23. The Spaniard endorsed their actions on the Internet. Probably, a terrorist attack in explosives would have taken place, did not inform the young man publicly about his sympathies. Thanks to the Internet, he came to the attention of the police. She watched him 5 months.
The components of the bomb, he also ordered via the Internet. Police detained him at the time of receipt of the order.
The case of Breivik, we note, lives, but does not win.
Like Georgian Georgian. US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton congratulated by telephone the leader of the “Georgian Dream” Bidzina Ivanishvili on her victory in parliamentary elections, reports correspondent RIA Novosti Magi Kikaleishvili.
H. Clinton congratulated Ivanishvili and his team on the victory and thanked him for his desire to further deepen the relationship between Georgia and the United States. In a telephone conversation, she and he stressed "the importance of strategic partnership, as well as subsequent cooperation between countries." And Bidzina Ivanishvili additionally noted the important contribution of the USA to the “democratic development of Georgia”.
So, let us add, Saakashvili’s work on democratization of Georgia will continue. Ivanishvili's words are a direct continuation of what he said before the election.
Earlier Ivanishvili reminds correspondent. RIA "News", Said that he would make his first foreign visit after the victory of his coalition in the elections in the United States. He also said that the Americans played an important role before and during the elections in Georgia and made a lot of investments "in the development of democratic institutions in Georgia."
Nobody is forgotten, nothing is forgotten! Vladimir Sinelnikov ("Vesti") told that the Kiev prosecutor's office is going to appeal the sentence to two girls who desecrated the grave of the Unknown Soldier in the Park of Glory.
The court released one of the people of Kiev, the other imposed a sentence - 3, conditionally, but the prosecutor found the verdict mild.
As you know, two girls posted on the Internet footage, where they fry eggs with sausages on Eternal Flame. This outrage Kiev called "political action".
Twenty-year-old Anna Sinkova was convicted for having 16 December 2010, on Eternal Flame, in front of the monument to the Unknown Soldier, she fried scrambled eggs with sausages. By the way, she was found guilty by the judge Rodion Kireev - the one who sentenced Yulia Tymoshenko to seven years in prison.
As an accomplice in the case of outrage, Anna Donets also passed, which the court released from criminal responsibility, taking into account her repentance and assistance to the investigation.
Anna Sinkova claims that scrambled eggs on the Eternal Flame is a political action. Also 20-year-old student said she did not repent of their deeds: after all, she protested against one of the symbols of the totalitarian Soviet regime. The entire Walk of Fame, where warriors who died in the battles for the liberation of Kiev are buried, and the monument itself at the tomb of the Unknown Soldier, are all symbols of the regime. So says Anna. The “political action” was filmed and posted on the Internet.
After such a public action, we add from ourselves, and indeed it is difficult to repent. Yes, and they will not believe it.
The representatives of the prosecutor's office considered the sentence of the Pechersk District Court to be too lenient. Anna Sinkova acted extremely cynically. Therefore, the prosecutor's office intends to appeal the verdict in the court of appeal.
As for the public reaction to the exit of two girls, they did not earn popularity. On the Internet, two Ann had almost no defenders. Moreover, there were willing to deal with them.
The young people, we will add from ourselves, who has no idea what they fought for and died of, and their great-grandfathers brought up in Western consumer “values” were tortured in the camps, looking for egg popularity. Fortunately, does not find. Our past, our story break, we will be left without a present and without a future, when there will be no one to protest against the twenty-year-olds.
Why money Kim Jong Unu? During talks with Russia on the construction of a gas pipeline to South Korea through North Korean territory, North Korea requested Moscow to bid for the transit of blue fuel two or even three times higher than the rates accepted in the world economy. He writes about it "Lenta.ru" With reference to the South Korean newspaper "Chosun Ilbo."
According to the newspaper, Pyongyang asked Moscow to pay 300-500 million dollars a year for gas transit. Lenta provides a comparison: based on the transit rate from Russia to Europe through Ukraine (2 dollars for pumping thousands of cubic meters of fuel per kilometer of pipeline), the expected charge for delivering gas from the Russian Far East to South Korea is about 150 million dollars per year.
At the end of 2011, the plenipotentiary plenipotentiary of the Russian president in the Far Eastern Federal District, Viktor Ishayev, estimated the potential revenues of the DPRK from gas transit to South Korea at about 100 million dollars. He noted that “for a country that produces only a gross product of 10 billion per year, this is a lot of money.”
Let us ask ourselves a question: why does Kim Jong-un of these hundreds of millions? But why?
As transmits "Lenta.ru" With reference to the South Korean edition of the Daily NK, imports of luxury goods in the DPRK have increased significantly - by as much as 70 percent. Growth occurred just after Kim Jong-un's announcement as Kim Jong-il's successor.
Since 2010, North Korea annually imports such goods for an amount approximately equal to 600 to millions of dollars. Last year, luxury imports amounted to 584 million dollars, and under Kim Jong-il in 2009, it was only 322 million dollars.
A significant increase was observed in the market of expensive cars, watches, computers, wines and spirits. The fact is that management in North Korea is carried out at the expense of gifts and parties: Comrade Kim needs to strengthen his weak political positions.
This money would be enough to purchase a million tons of wheat on the international 2 market.
The Chinese have fallen out of love with Japanese cars. Chinese "patriots" periodically destroy cars of the brands "Toyota", "Nissan" and "Mazda", and it does not matter that they left the assembly lines in China. For example, not one day in Xi'an, one of the protesters was arrested, who several times struck a driver with a piece of steel pipe that tried to protect his car from pogromists. This was told "Vesti" with reference to ITAR-TASS.
Owners of Japanese cars in China have come up with original ways to save their cars from hooligans. In Beijing, you can now see cars with the words: “My car is Japanese, but my heart is Chinese,” “I bought my car before the Japanese government nationalized Diaoyu Islands. Now I no longer buy Japanese goods. ” Other drivers stick anti-Japanese slogans on the rear window of the car.
The Chinese economic crisis in the Japanese automotive industry. As reported from Tokyo correspondent ITAR-TASS Kirill Agafonov, referring to the Japanese newspaper "Yomiuri", sales of the concern "Toyota" in China fell by half in September compared with August. The reason was the aggravation of the island conflict between Tokyo and Beijing.
Experts suggest that the sales of Toyota in China may continue to decline, which will cause a huge blow to the automaker. The PRC accounts for a significant part of the company's sales: only in August about 75 thousand cars were sold here.
“Hands off our salary!” Thousands of Argentine policemen took to the streets with protests after they reduced their salaries by as much as 60 percent. According to "Lenta.ru" With reference to France-Presse, the demonstrations began on Wednesday.
Ordinary police and coast guard officers march tirelessly through the streets of Buenos Aires, Comodoro Rivadavia, Cordoba and Rosario. Demonstrators chant: "Hands off our salary!"
The government of the country for the third day is negotiating with protesters. Prime Minister Juan Manuel Abal Medina has already said that it turns out that pay cuts were an administrative mistake. Premier promised to fix it. According to the Associated Press, salary reductions should have only affected the police leadership, not the rank and file.
Trying to pacify the protesting police, yesterday the authorities dismissed twenty police chiefs. But the strike did not stop. The demonstrators will stop only after they are given written guarantees of the return of salary to the previous level.
Well, let's add from ourselves, everyone can retroactively declare an “administrative error” - when it comes to him that there is a smell from somewhere roasted.
"The crushing blow of the bourgeoisie." Yesterday, a three-month election campaign ended in Venezuela, preceding the next presidential election scheduled for October 7. President Hugo Chavez addressed a rally of thousands of people in the capital, calling on his supporters to deliver a “crushing blow to the bourgeoisie” at the elections. This tells correspondent ITAR-TASS Sergey Sereda.
The main election campaign will be between Hugo Chavez and Enrique Capriles. Chavez is a candidate from the ruling United Socialist Party of Venezuela, however, the 10 parties also called him their candidate, including the communists and the revolutionary movement Tupamaros. Capriles nominated 22 by political parties united in the Bloc of Democratic Unity.
Chavez symbolizes socialism, Capriles - capitalism. If the "frantic" Hugo states that socialist reforms will soon end poverty in the country, then Mr. Capriles sees a way out in the private capitalist way of managing.
US secret agents will be able to love prostitutes, but only in a sober way. As transmits RIA News", referring to the Washington Post, the leadership of the US Secret Service officially banned its employees from using alcohol while on duty. The ban is associated with a scandal with those agents who used the services of prostitutes, while in Colombia and preparing a visit to the American president.
New instructions reinforce the existing unwritten rules of conduct for special agents. Since then, the poor fellows are officially forbidden to drink alcohol, not only during work, but also 10 hours before arrival at the service. As for business trips, in their time agents are forbidden to drink alcohol in hotels and other places where the US President or other high-ranking officials stop.
“Alcohol is allowed to be consumed only in moderate amounts during off-duty hours,” said the new instructions.
At the same time, agents were forbidden to disclose secret information and use social networks on the Internet.
Representatives of the special services refused to comment on these two points of instructions.
They refused, and we will comment.
From now on, the gallant American guys, who carry a heavy and secret service burden, will not be able to share secrets with the Colombian prostitutes about the time of Obama's arrival in this or that city. Agents now cannot even drink beer and get drunk, and in order to indulge in the comfort of Bacchus from his wide American soul in his spare time, the warriors will have to stay away from the hotel where the president is staying. Obama himself now can not treat the brave guys honey element personal cooking. By the way, the Obama’s ever-drunk and ever-dancing team makes one think about what kind of example Mr. President gives to his boyfriends, beer baggage carried around him ...
The Russian Federal Security Service will collect information on all participants in the spy case. By the way, the charges against the participants in the case are criminal in nature and are not related to intelligence activities. However, the main person involved - Alexander Fischenko - was declared an agent of the Russian government, and therefore he faces more than 50 years in prison.
Read about the microelectronic scandal "Military Review".
This unknown friend Fischenko. As transmits correspondent ITAR-TASS Andrey BekrenevReferring to the Associated Press, Alexander Fischenko, the main suspect in the case of dual-use microelectronics from the US to Russia, probably led a secluded lifestyle.
He rarely spoke with his neighbors in Houston, and in the Russian-speaking community of the city they did not know anything about him.
Today should be a hearing on the release of those arrested on bail. However, prosecutors insist on their detention. Prosecutors believe that the Russians can not only get away from the country, but also destroy the evidence.
Guilty without guilt. Four Russian "spies" did not admit their guilt, said correspondent RIA "Novosti" Larisa Saenko lawyer Alexey Tarasov.
He said: “All four Russians do not admit their guilt. At the first hearing on Thursday, they were formally charged. ”
Among the eight arrested in America, four Russians: Alexander Fishchenko, Alexander Tosobilov, Victoria Klebanova, Anastasia Dyatlova.
Comrade Tarasov enters the process as a lawyer to Anastasia Dyatlova, but if the prosecutor’s office does not object, he is ready to expand the circle of defendants.
“I got acquainted with the accusation, which at first glance looks rather confusing, probably with the aim to sow (from those arrested) fear. I am not going to judge the evidence base of the prosecution, because I did not receive all the materials from the prosecutor’s office, ”said the lawyer.
He also said that the conditions of detention of Russians are acceptable, however, there were complaints about the lack of certain hygiene products and medicines. This problem will be solved by the efforts of the lawyer and the consulate of Russia in Houston.
Turkish Tanks at the Syrian border. Turkish tanks are now approaching the border with Syria. The received mandate to carry out military operations by Turkey is designed for a year and provides for the use of force only to protect the borders; "Vesti".
The Turkish government filed a request for permission for military operations after the events of 3 in October, when five Turkish citizens died from a Syrian strike.
“All we are trying to achieve is peace and security in our region,” said Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the Turkish Prime Minister. “And that’s what we care most about.” We have no intention to start a war, as we all saw the consequences of the confrontations in Iraq, Iran and Afghanistan. At the same time, Turkey is strong enough to protect its citizens and its borders. I do not recommend anyone to test our determination in this matter. ”
“Vesti” reminds that Syria’s apologies from Turkey did not reassure, and protests took place in Ankara.
"Lenta.ru" referring to Reuters, reports that yesterday the Turkish parliament approved a military operation outside the country, in the event that the government deems it necessary. For permission, deputies were approached by the cabinet in connection with the “aggressive actions” by the Syrian army (referring to the shelling from the territory of Syria of the Turkish city of Akchakale, as a result of which five Turks were killed: two women and three children).
The approval of the parliament allows the Turkish authorities to send their military to Syria during the year and conduct air strikes on Syrian territory (BBC News).
At the same time, Turkish Deputy Prime Minister Besir Atalay stated that the approval by the Parliament of military actions outside the country is not a “memorandum on declaring war” (“France-Presse” information).
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan stressed that Ankara intends to act in cooperation with international organizations.
Also yesterday, the UN Security Council made a statement that Ankara and Damascus should show restraint after the incident with the shelling of the Turkish city of Akchakale from Syrian territory, reports correspondent ITAR-TASS Oleg Zelenin.
The UN Security Council condemned the incident with the shelling of the Turkish city and blamed it on the Syrian army: “The members of the Security Council condemned in the strongest terms the shelling of the Turkish city of Akchakale by the Syrian armed forces, which led to the death of five civilians.”
The members of the Security Council demanded "to stop such violations of international law and prevent their recurrence," and also called on the Syrian government to "fully respect the sovereignty and territorial integrity of their neighbors."
The Security Council drew attention to the fact that the incident "underlines the disastrous effect that the crisis in Syria has on the security of its neighbors, as well as on international peace and security." In this regard, the members of the UN Security Council called on the parties to show restraint.
Corr. ITAR-TASS recalls that as a result of an artillery shell falling into a residential building in the town of Akchakale in the лыanlıurfa province on October 3, 5 people died and another 13 was injured. Turkish artillery responded with strikes against targets in Syria. As a result of volley fire, which lasted several hours, two servicemen were wounded.
It took almost a day from the UN Security Council to make a statement on the incident at the border. Three texts were submitted, one of which was prepared by the delegation of the Russian Federation.
Today there will be a discussion of another statement concerning the terrorist attacks in Aleppo, committed two days ago. Syria insists on its adoption, and the draft document has been proposed by Russia.
Russia's permanent representative to the UN, Vitaly Churkin, reminded journalists that the Dzhebhat al-Nusra group (“Victory Front”) associated with Al-Qaida claimed responsibility for the bombings. “It is very important that the Security Council respond to this,” said Comrade Churkin. The attack, we recall, took the lives of forty people.
Victoria Nuland knows nothing, but undertakes to assert. A video was posted on the Internet the other day, which is supposedly captured by the American journalist Austin Theis, who disappeared in Syria, "Vesti".
Since August there has been no news of the missing journalist. In the video of a man, armed men lead by the arms. It is impossible to determine anything by frames: neither the location nor the person (half of the captive's face is hidden by a bandage).
Nevertheless, the US State Department stated that it was the journalist Austin Theis and that he was being held captive by the Syrian authorities.
State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland hurried to declare: “So far I can only say that it is likely that the video was filmed by representatives of the regime. But we really don't know anything. We cannot say with absolute certainty whether it really was him. But on the basis of the information that we have, it can be argued that he is being held captive by the authorities. ”
Mrs. Nuland, note, a good teacher - her boss Hillary Clinton. She, too, still has no idea who the opposition in Syria is composed of and what it is seeking, but it has always supported its support and voiced amounts of tens of millions of dollars, which the State Department is dumping with a generous hand to the militants, who are fighting for some reason side by side with the fighters. Al-Qaida and other notorious Islamists and thugs.
Efbeerovtsy visited Benghazi. According to correspondent ITAR-TASS Andrey SurzhanskyThe FBI officers who visited the site of the death of Ambassador Christopher Stevens in Benghazi (they were described in the "VO" in the last "The results of the week"), worked under the protection of the US military. This was stated to reporters by the official representative of the Pentagon George Little.
“At the request of the FBI, the Ministry of Defense provided security and logistics support to a group of investigators so that they could do the necessary work on site in Benghazi,” he said. According to Little, completing his mission, military personnel left Benghazi with the FBI.
Earlier, efbeerovtsy afraid to go to Benghazi. It was called something like this: to postpone the trip for security reasons. Arriving in Benghazi, the agents did not stay there even a day.
Sentenced to the highest measure. As transmits RIA News" With reference to the Associated Press, Tunisian authorities intend to seek the death penalty for 87 suspected of attempting to storm the US embassy during protests against the movie “Muslim Innocence”.
The lawyers for the suspects, Anuar Uled Ali and Monder Charney, reported that 87 people detained by the Tunisian authorities are awaiting trial on several charges, including an assault on state security officers. The prosecutor's office will seek the highest penalty for all defendants.
According to media reports, the windows in the American embassy were broken, and then the crowd set fire to the trees growing outside the embassy and hoisted the black flag instead of the American flag. Police used rubber bullets and tear gas. Four people were killed and 49 injured.
In addition, an American school in Tunisia was shelled. There was a fire in the school.
This economic crisis will break all records. The chief economist of the International Monetary Fund, Olivier Blanchard, said that the global economy will need at least another 10 years to get rid of the effects of the financial crisis that began in the 2008 year, reports Rosbalt with reference to "RBC".
According to Blanchard, Europe will remain the main source of instability. To combat the crisis in the eurozone, he proposes to reduce prices in debtor countries and, conversely, to increase them in economically strong countries - in particular, Germany will have to allow inflation to rise.
The IMF expert believes that the resolution of the crisis should not be to the detriment of economic growth, that is, the debt of states should be reduced at “moderate rates”. Blanchard explains: "If you do it slowly, the markets will not take the measures taken seriously, but reducing debt too quickly will be disastrous for the economy."
One hundred forty kilo explosives. Spanish police arrested an 21-year-old man in Palma de Mallorca, who was about to explode a bomb on a university campus. Reports about it "Lenta.ru" with reference to France-Presse and CNN.
The terrorist was detained on October 3. He found 140 kilograms of explosives. The detainee found a diary in whose pages he wrote about hatred of society and described plans for the construction of a massacre at the University of the Balearic Islands. The terrorist wanted to blast a bomb full of striking elements on campus.
It clarifies the "BBC News", the arrested Spaniard took the example of Americans Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold. These guys killed an 1999 school in Columbine 12 and injured 23. The Spaniard endorsed their actions on the Internet. Probably, a terrorist attack in explosives would have taken place, did not inform the young man publicly about his sympathies. Thanks to the Internet, he came to the attention of the police. She watched him 5 months.
The components of the bomb, he also ordered via the Internet. Police detained him at the time of receipt of the order.
The case of Breivik, we note, lives, but does not win.
Like Georgian Georgian. US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton congratulated by telephone the leader of the “Georgian Dream” Bidzina Ivanishvili on her victory in parliamentary elections, reports correspondent RIA Novosti Magi Kikaleishvili.
H. Clinton congratulated Ivanishvili and his team on the victory and thanked him for his desire to further deepen the relationship between Georgia and the United States. In a telephone conversation, she and he stressed "the importance of strategic partnership, as well as subsequent cooperation between countries." And Bidzina Ivanishvili additionally noted the important contribution of the USA to the “democratic development of Georgia”.
So, let us add, Saakashvili’s work on democratization of Georgia will continue. Ivanishvili's words are a direct continuation of what he said before the election.
Earlier Ivanishvili reminds correspondent. RIA "News", Said that he would make his first foreign visit after the victory of his coalition in the elections in the United States. He also said that the Americans played an important role before and during the elections in Georgia and made a lot of investments "in the development of democratic institutions in Georgia."
Nobody is forgotten, nothing is forgotten! Vladimir Sinelnikov ("Vesti") told that the Kiev prosecutor's office is going to appeal the sentence to two girls who desecrated the grave of the Unknown Soldier in the Park of Glory.
The court released one of the people of Kiev, the other imposed a sentence - 3, conditionally, but the prosecutor found the verdict mild.
As you know, two girls posted on the Internet footage, where they fry eggs with sausages on Eternal Flame. This outrage Kiev called "political action".
Twenty-year-old Anna Sinkova was convicted for having 16 December 2010, on Eternal Flame, in front of the monument to the Unknown Soldier, she fried scrambled eggs with sausages. By the way, she was found guilty by the judge Rodion Kireev - the one who sentenced Yulia Tymoshenko to seven years in prison.
As an accomplice in the case of outrage, Anna Donets also passed, which the court released from criminal responsibility, taking into account her repentance and assistance to the investigation.
Anna Sinkova claims that scrambled eggs on the Eternal Flame is a political action. Also 20-year-old student said she did not repent of their deeds: after all, she protested against one of the symbols of the totalitarian Soviet regime. The entire Walk of Fame, where warriors who died in the battles for the liberation of Kiev are buried, and the monument itself at the tomb of the Unknown Soldier, are all symbols of the regime. So says Anna. The “political action” was filmed and posted on the Internet.
After such a public action, we add from ourselves, and indeed it is difficult to repent. Yes, and they will not believe it.
The representatives of the prosecutor's office considered the sentence of the Pechersk District Court to be too lenient. Anna Sinkova acted extremely cynically. Therefore, the prosecutor's office intends to appeal the verdict in the court of appeal.
As for the public reaction to the exit of two girls, they did not earn popularity. On the Internet, two Ann had almost no defenders. Moreover, there were willing to deal with them.
The young people, we will add from ourselves, who has no idea what they fought for and died of, and their great-grandfathers brought up in Western consumer “values” were tortured in the camps, looking for egg popularity. Fortunately, does not find. Our past, our story break, we will be left without a present and without a future, when there will be no one to protest against the twenty-year-olds.
Why money Kim Jong Unu? During talks with Russia on the construction of a gas pipeline to South Korea through North Korean territory, North Korea requested Moscow to bid for the transit of blue fuel two or even three times higher than the rates accepted in the world economy. He writes about it "Lenta.ru" With reference to the South Korean newspaper "Chosun Ilbo."
According to the newspaper, Pyongyang asked Moscow to pay 300-500 million dollars a year for gas transit. Lenta provides a comparison: based on the transit rate from Russia to Europe through Ukraine (2 dollars for pumping thousands of cubic meters of fuel per kilometer of pipeline), the expected charge for delivering gas from the Russian Far East to South Korea is about 150 million dollars per year.
At the end of 2011, the plenipotentiary plenipotentiary of the Russian president in the Far Eastern Federal District, Viktor Ishayev, estimated the potential revenues of the DPRK from gas transit to South Korea at about 100 million dollars. He noted that “for a country that produces only a gross product of 10 billion per year, this is a lot of money.”
Let us ask ourselves a question: why does Kim Jong-un of these hundreds of millions? But why?
As transmits "Lenta.ru" With reference to the South Korean edition of the Daily NK, imports of luxury goods in the DPRK have increased significantly - by as much as 70 percent. Growth occurred just after Kim Jong-un's announcement as Kim Jong-il's successor.
Since 2010, North Korea annually imports such goods for an amount approximately equal to 600 to millions of dollars. Last year, luxury imports amounted to 584 million dollars, and under Kim Jong-il in 2009, it was only 322 million dollars.
A significant increase was observed in the market of expensive cars, watches, computers, wines and spirits. The fact is that management in North Korea is carried out at the expense of gifts and parties: Comrade Kim needs to strengthen his weak political positions.
This money would be enough to purchase a million tons of wheat on the international 2 market.
The Chinese have fallen out of love with Japanese cars. Chinese "patriots" periodically destroy cars of the brands "Toyota", "Nissan" and "Mazda", and it does not matter that they left the assembly lines in China. For example, not one day in Xi'an, one of the protesters was arrested, who several times struck a driver with a piece of steel pipe that tried to protect his car from pogromists. This was told "Vesti" with reference to ITAR-TASS.
Owners of Japanese cars in China have come up with original ways to save their cars from hooligans. In Beijing, you can now see cars with the words: “My car is Japanese, but my heart is Chinese,” “I bought my car before the Japanese government nationalized Diaoyu Islands. Now I no longer buy Japanese goods. ” Other drivers stick anti-Japanese slogans on the rear window of the car.
The Chinese economic crisis in the Japanese automotive industry. As reported from Tokyo correspondent ITAR-TASS Kirill Agafonov, referring to the Japanese newspaper "Yomiuri", sales of the concern "Toyota" in China fell by half in September compared with August. The reason was the aggravation of the island conflict between Tokyo and Beijing.
Experts suggest that the sales of Toyota in China may continue to decline, which will cause a huge blow to the automaker. The PRC accounts for a significant part of the company's sales: only in August about 75 thousand cars were sold here.
“Hands off our salary!” Thousands of Argentine policemen took to the streets with protests after they reduced their salaries by as much as 60 percent. According to "Lenta.ru" With reference to France-Presse, the demonstrations began on Wednesday.
Ordinary police and coast guard officers march tirelessly through the streets of Buenos Aires, Comodoro Rivadavia, Cordoba and Rosario. Demonstrators chant: "Hands off our salary!"
The government of the country for the third day is negotiating with protesters. Prime Minister Juan Manuel Abal Medina has already said that it turns out that pay cuts were an administrative mistake. Premier promised to fix it. According to the Associated Press, salary reductions should have only affected the police leadership, not the rank and file.
Trying to pacify the protesting police, yesterday the authorities dismissed twenty police chiefs. But the strike did not stop. The demonstrators will stop only after they are given written guarantees of the return of salary to the previous level.
Well, let's add from ourselves, everyone can retroactively declare an “administrative error” - when it comes to him that there is a smell from somewhere roasted.
"The crushing blow of the bourgeoisie." Yesterday, a three-month election campaign ended in Venezuela, preceding the next presidential election scheduled for October 7. President Hugo Chavez addressed a rally of thousands of people in the capital, calling on his supporters to deliver a “crushing blow to the bourgeoisie” at the elections. This tells correspondent ITAR-TASS Sergey Sereda.
The main election campaign will be between Hugo Chavez and Enrique Capriles. Chavez is a candidate from the ruling United Socialist Party of Venezuela, however, the 10 parties also called him their candidate, including the communists and the revolutionary movement Tupamaros. Capriles nominated 22 by political parties united in the Bloc of Democratic Unity.
Chavez symbolizes socialism, Capriles - capitalism. If the "frantic" Hugo states that socialist reforms will soon end poverty in the country, then Mr. Capriles sees a way out in the private capitalist way of managing.
US secret agents will be able to love prostitutes, but only in a sober way. As transmits RIA News", referring to the Washington Post, the leadership of the US Secret Service officially banned its employees from using alcohol while on duty. The ban is associated with a scandal with those agents who used the services of prostitutes, while in Colombia and preparing a visit to the American president.
New instructions reinforce the existing unwritten rules of conduct for special agents. Since then, the poor fellows are officially forbidden to drink alcohol, not only during work, but also 10 hours before arrival at the service. As for business trips, in their time agents are forbidden to drink alcohol in hotels and other places where the US President or other high-ranking officials stop.
“Alcohol is allowed to be consumed only in moderate amounts during off-duty hours,” said the new instructions.
At the same time, agents were forbidden to disclose secret information and use social networks on the Internet.
Representatives of the special services refused to comment on these two points of instructions.
They refused, and we will comment.
From now on, the gallant American guys, who carry a heavy and secret service burden, will not be able to share secrets with the Colombian prostitutes about the time of Obama's arrival in this or that city. Agents now cannot even drink beer and get drunk, and in order to indulge in the comfort of Bacchus from his wide American soul in his spare time, the warriors will have to stay away from the hotel where the president is staying. Obama himself now can not treat the brave guys honey element personal cooking. By the way, the Obama’s ever-drunk and ever-dancing team makes one think about what kind of example Mr. President gives to his boyfriends, beer baggage carried around him ...
Observed Oleg Chuvakin
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