Geopolitical mosaic: Danish TV reporters have stopped distinguishing computer games from reality, and Americans are happy to fill up the list of Russophobes
The fate of the crew is unknown. Rescuers discovered the crash site of the UTair Mi-8 helicopter in the Congo, reported RIA News" source in the Russian power structures. He said: “At an altitude of 1300 meters in 15 kilometers south-west of the settlement of Bukau, a Russian helicopter Mi-8 was found from the air, the fate of the crew members is unknown.”
According to preliminary data, the Mi-8, who worked under a UN contract in the Congo, crashed in a mountainous area near Bukau.
As reported "Vesti" With reference to ITAR-TASS, two of the four members of the helicopter crew are residents of the Tyumen Region.
According to the press service of UTair, onboard the Mi-8AMT were: captain Vladimir Safonov from Tobolsk, flight attendant Yevgeny Nikitin from Tyumen, co-pilot named Sarafanov from the village of Mys-Kamenny (Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug) and flight mechanic Alexander Bessmertny place of residence which is not specified.
The French are fighting on the side of the "rebels" in Syria and Mali. The French Interior Ministry has information that a number of French citizens are involved in the hostilities in Mali and Syria on the side of Islamist militants. This was stated yesterday by the head of the internal political department, Manuel Valls, "Vesti".
As he said on the BFM-TV channel, in the zone of the Malian conflict "there is probably a handful of French citizens or people permanently residing in France." As for Syria, there are far more French involved in the battles under the banner of jihad.
“It’s known, there are underground networks, groups, there can be whole chains when it comes to transferring mojahed-recruits who were in Afghanistan or Pakistan yesterday,” said the head of the French ministry. “Today, a few dozen of them are in Syria, and a handful are in Somalia, Yemen, and countries in the Sahel zone. Obviously, this is still a concern. ”
The French law enforcement agencies, said Waltz, continue to take the most drastic measures against possible terrorists, with the result that illegal criminal groups are constantly being identified and eliminated in the country. They also work closely in this area with the Mali authorities.
Danish embarrassment. The Danish TV channel TV2 admitted yesterday that, as an illustration, for a report from Syria, I used a frame from a computer game by mistake. This tells RIA News", referring to the Associated Press.
TV2 spokesperson Jakob Nybroe admitted that the image of the Damascus panorama, which was used as a background for the Syrian report broadcast on February 26, was a shot from the popular game “Assassin's Creed”.
In Denmark, they work on TV on the slyly cunningly: a TV channel employee who searched the Internet was sure that he saw the panorama of Damascus. But other opinions have appeared on local social networks.
Mr. Nybroe had to call the incident "a terrible mistake, reminiscent of the importance of checking the sources of images."
Malian military wanted awards. Dozens of servicemen in the Mali army temporarily abandoned positions, demanding bonuses for participating in hostilities. Reports about it "Lenta.ru" with reference to France-Presse. Dissatisfied soldiers stopped obeying the command and opened fire in the air.
The military strike took place on 7 and 8 in March in the Diabali region in the Segou region. An AFP source said that by now the situation in Diabali has returned to normal, and some of the instigators have been punished.
However, one of the participants in the economic protest told reporters that the demands of the military were satisfied. That is why they returned to combat positions.
State of emergency in the Sinai Peninsula. His Egyptian Ministry of the Interior announced Saturday. The reason was that the intelligence services reported: Sinai jihadists are preparing attacks on police units. This is reporting MIGnews.com with reference to MENA.
Interior Minister Osama Ismail said: "The Minister of the Interior declared a state of emergency in the North and South Sinai after receiving information that jihadist groups are going to make a series of attacks on police stations of the peninsula."
Have a snack wire? The site has become unavailable in Libya TV channel "RT" in Arabic (“Rusia al-Yaum”): the number of visits to arabic.rt.com from Libya fell by 98%.
The press service of the channel quotes the words of the chief editor of “RT” Margarita Simonyan: “We understand the current situation and find out the reasons for the blockage. Requests were sent to all official institutions of the Libyan government with a request to explain the reasons for blocking the resource in the country. We are doing everything to return to users in Libya access to a source of alternative information about what is happening in their country and in the region as a whole, which is our Rusia al-Yaum channel and its website. ”
Obama's Kenyan brother miserably lost the election. Malik Obama, the elder brother of the American president, was defeated in the last 4 March election of the governor of Saya district in Kenya. According to the results of the vote, he was only in third place. Reports about it "Russian newspaper" with reference to the RIA "News».
The will of the people passed for the first time after the adoption of the constitution in 2010, which ensures the openness and honesty of the electoral process. More than 14 of millions of Kenyans who have the right to vote, elected the president of the country, members of parliament, district governors and representatives of local authorities.
The platform of the independent candidate Malik Obama was to promise the eradication of poverty, the improvement of infrastructure and the industrialization of the region. The politician said that he was inspired by the political successes of his younger brother Barak.
Apparently, let us add, not all Kenyans consider the activities of Barack Obama successful.
The resumption of negotiations with the Taliban? Not true. Reports of the resumption of US negotiations with the Taliban are not true. This was announced yesterday by a representative of the American administration, reports from Washington. correspondent ITAR-TASS Andrey Surzhansky.
“This is simply not true,” he said. According to the representative, the US government remains committed to the process of political reconciliation in Afghanistan, which includes negotiations with the Taliban. However, according to Washington, progress largely depends on an agreement between the authorities in Kabul and the Taliban.
The fact that the United States allegedly resumed negotiations with the Taliban, said Afghan President Hamid Karzai earlier, a correspondent reminds. ITAR-TASS. According to Karzai, consultations in Qatar are "conducted on a regular basis, daily." But Taliban spokesman Zabihulla Mujahid denied this statement. According to him, since the suspension of the consultations, "no progress has been achieved."
"And if Muslims do not have their own atomic bomb, they must sacrifice their lives in the name of the Lord." Sergey Strokan (Kommersant) spoke about the scandal that erupted between Kabul and Islamabad. the fact is that the Supreme Council of Ulama, close to the Pakistani authorities, blessed the terrorists fighting against the ISAF forces. Scheduled for March 10, a conference on the Afghan settlement, on which the United States and its allies relied, was thwarted.
The scandalous statement was made by the head of the High Council of Pakistan Ulama, Tahir Ashrafi. In an interview with TOLOnews, the supreme religious authority said: “Palestine is occupied by Israel, Kashmir by India, Afghanistan by America. And if Muslims do not have their own atomic bomb, they must sacrifice their lives in the name of the Lord. ”
Ashrafi demanded that representatives of the Taliban be allowed to participate in the regional conference on the Afghan settlement. The Supreme Council of the Ulema of Afghanistan opposes this and believes that the condition of such participation should be the Taliban’s refusal of armed struggle. Tahir Ashrafi was adamant.
His statement was regarded in Kabul as a de facto declaration of war, made with the consent of Islamabad.
The reaction of President Karzai was the accusations of the leadership of Pakistan, which, in his opinion, is behind the back of extremists. “Afghanistan is committed to a real fight against terrorism and is waiting for the Pakistani government to realize that our two nations are burning in the same fire. The Pakistani leadership should play an important role in extinguishing this fire, ”Karzai said in Kabul at a joint press conference with NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen. He promised to increase the pressure on the Pakistani authorities and the military "to combat terrorism and extremism in the border areas and for the sake of Pakistan's positive participation in the settlement."
Sources "b" in Islamabad draw attention to the fact that the Pakistani authorities also have grounds for claims to Kabul. The Afghan side refused to hand over Islamabad to Pakistani Taliban field commander Maulvi Fakir, who was arrested a few weeks ago. Experts believe that the refusal could have predetermined the Pakistan boycott of the conference.
Money to the wind. The report prepared for US Congress by Stuart Bowen, Inspector for the Reconstruction of Iraq, reports that the US’s efforts to rebuild Iraq, despite the 60 billion dollars spent since the invasion, did not lead to a significant improvement in the country, reports "Russian service BBC".
According to estimates by Comrade Bowen, at least 8 billion dollars have been wasted. The main causes of failure were corruption and low security. Bowen notes that failures in Iraq can serve as a lesson for recovery operations in other regions.
His report is based on the results of hundreds of audits and inspections carried out in Iraq, as well as dozens of interviews with politicians and officials both in Iraq and in the United States. “The main idea that everyone shares is that the reconstruction program should have achieved more, and too much was wasted,” the document says.
Osama Rudzhafi, the speaker of the Iraqi parliament, said that efforts to rebuild Iraq as a whole "have come to naught." A representative of Iraqi Kurds, Qubad Talabani, told the American inspectors: “You think that any problem can be solved with money. This cannot be called strategic thinking. ”
"BBC" recalls that the eight-year campaign in Iraq cost the US $ 800 billion. The war killed 5 thousands of American troops.
The DPRK is scaring the US with a great war "for the reunification of the motherland." A statement by a representative of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the DPRK, distributed by the TsTAC, states that Pyongyang "does not recognize the new resolution of the UN Security Council and considers it a" criminal document ", transmit "Vesti" with reference to ITAR-TASS.
Pyongyang believes that this document, expanding sanctions against the republic, "was approved under pressure from the United States, which uses the UN Security Council to implement its hostile policy towards the DPRK." A representative of the North Korean Foreign Ministry noted that the ultimate goal of the policy "aimed at disarming the DPRK and strangling it economically is the elimination of the ideology and system chosen by the Korean people." "The DPRK strongly condemns and rejects the UN Security Council resolution, which has become the product of Washington’s hostile course against Pyongyang," the statement says.
A foreign ministry spokesman warned that the DPRK "will take decisive countermeasures in self-defense and will eventually unleash a great war for the reunification of the motherland if the United States chooses conflict."
The diplomat announced North Korea’s intention to "strengthen its nuclear deterrent forces and launch carrier rockets in order to continue the struggle and win the final victory, relying on its own forces."
"News" recalls that the UN Security Council responded to nuclear tests conducted by the DPRK in February, tightening sanctions. The relevant resolution was unanimously supported by the 15 Council member countries, including China and Russia. The set of approved measures is designed, inter alia, to curb the illegal activities of North Korean banks and diplomats. Also, the Security Council document provides for increased control over the goods imported and exported from the territory of North Korea.
There will be more kids in China. Anton Urinovskiy ("Voice of Russia") told that the Chinese “One Family - One Child” demographic policy introduced by 30 years ago under Deng Xiaoping is officially weakened. At the March 14th session of the All-Chinese People's Representatives of China, which was opened in 5, it was announced that families from the provinces were allowed to have a second child.
In essence, this is a new demographic course. The authorities of the country hope with the help of the new “baby boom” to stop the rapid decline and aging of the population. Wang Peiyan, Vice-Chairman of the National Commission for Population and Family Planning, said that the second child was allowed to be brought to residents of rural areas of Shanghai and Tianjin, as well as the provinces of Anhui, Liaoning, Fujian, Jiangsu and Jilin. The latter, by the way, borders on Russia.
True, according to the rules, the second child can be brought in only if the family of one of the spouses did not have brothers and sisters. In the future, this practice will be extended to other regions.
Venezuela: elections will be held in April. The Venezuelan Electoral Commission announced the holding of a new presidential election 14 April. Reports about it Interfax with reference to the BBC.
The pro-government forces in the elections will be represented by Nicolas Maduro, who swore on the eve as the acting president of the country.
The main rival of Maduro observers called the opposition leader, Miranda Governor Enrique Capriles, who lost to Chavez in the elections last October. The opposition has already announced Capriles as its official presidential candidate.
As Interfax reminds, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said earlier: “We will respect the choice of the Venezuelan people, and we expect that it will be supported by everyone who builds relations with Venezuela, and that there will be no attempt to influence this choice.” He said this in an interview with the program "Vesti" on Saturday with Sergey Brilev "on the TV channel" Russia 1 ". Comrade Lavrov also said: "According to our estimates (and this is confirmed by the blitz polls already conducted in Venezuela), the majority of the population - more than 60 with more than one percent - speaks in favor of continuing the policy launched by Hugo Chavez."
Protests in Bulgaria. More than ten thousand demonstrators on Sunday blocked traffic on the streets and railways of Bulgaria, reports "Lenta.ru" with reference to Reuters.
About a thousand protesters in Sofia first blocked the main street of the city, and then moved into the central station building and went down to the rails, blocking the movement of trains. Approximately the same events developed in Varna, where ten thousand demonstrators occupied the roadway in the city center, paralyzing traffic, and then blocked all entrances to the city station.
According to ITAR-TASS, in both cases, the police did not intervene. No detainees.
The demonstrators protested against the privatization of the Bulgarian State Railway branch cargo. This process was launched under the previous government, who resigned in February. The decision to sell the company must be taken on 12 March. Its value is estimated at 66 million dollars.
By selling the company to private investors, the authorities intended to cover the carrier’s debts. In turn, the protesters claim that the sale of the cargo branch of the Bulgarian State Railways is unprofitable to the state, since it is the healthiest asset of the company, and all debts are connected exclusively with the miscalculations of the management. In addition, demonstrators fear large-scale state cuts in the event of privatization.
In general, the protests that have been going on in Bulgaria for a month are associated with rising electricity prices, low incomes and poor social security. In addition to Sofia and Varna, March 10 demonstrations were held in fifteen Bulgarian cities.
Forgive us, the Falcons of the Daugava. Riga City Council fulfilled the decision of the court, according to which it had to apologize for banning the march of SS legionnaires in 2011. Reports about it "Lenta.ru"referring to Mixnews.
Apologies to the organizer of the march - the nationalist organization Falcons of the Daugava - were published on March 8 in several Latvian newspapers.
Apologize for the ban of the march (more precisely, for an attempt to ban it, because the event then still took place), as recalls Lenta, the Riga City Council obliged the district administrative court. In early March, his decision was confirmed by the Senate of the Supreme Court. The claim for monetary compensation, which was contained in the lawsuit, the judges rejected.
Several thousand people took part in the legionary procession in 201: veterans and representatives of nationalist organizations. At the Freedom Monument, where the march traditionally ends, they were greeted by anti-fascists with posters "Legionnaires - a shameful spot of Latvia" and "For you - blood and death." Before the collision at that time did not come.
President "by default"? Tom Genole and Katerina Ryzhakova-Proshina (Slate.frsource of translation - "Inopressa") write: "Contrary to popular opinion, Putin does not enjoy the unconditional support of the population." Journalists cite the results of the Levada Center polls to confirm their opinion.
The journalists decided that comrade Putin is “the president“ by default ”, since public opinion regarding him is divided: it is a quarter positive, a quarter negative and half neutral” (according to polls). This "indicates that the strength of Vladimir Putin lies in the weakness of the opposition, in particular, in its almost complete absence in the media space."
And “it is quite possible that, even if the opposition be given more space in the media, Vladimir Putin will retain his position as president by default because of the double weakness of the Russian opposition. It manifests itself, firstly, in the absence of a clear leader who would become a serious contender for the role of head of state, and, secondly, in the absence of a political program that is more substantive than just “Putin, leave!”
Thus, let us add, the opposition in Russia does not shine, even in the opinion of the democratic Western press.
“Do not be afraid of your people, damn it!” Ben hoyle of «The Times» (translation source - "Inopressa") cited the words of Mikhail Gorbachev, who in an interview with the BBC accused the Russian leadership of “attacking the rights of citizens”.
Mikhail Sergeevich said that under Putin, the country is “stalling”, that the president is surrounded by “thieves and corrupt officials”, and that he is “afraid” of the Russian people. Gorbachev noted that he was “amazed” by the number of controversial laws enacted over the last year. “If you draw a thread between these laws - this is all an attack on the rights of citizens. It just amazes me. Don't be afraid of your people, damn it! ”He exclaimed.
Mikhail Shishkin about impostors, insane laws, prostitutes and the Russian Middle Ages. As the Echo of Moscow, writer Mikhail Shishkin refused to represent Russia at the USA’s largest book fair, BookExpo America - 2013. Shishkin is the winner of many awards, including Russian Booker, the Big Book and the National Bestseller. His most famous works are: the novels "Hair Venus" and "The Writer".
In an open letter addressed to the Federal Agency for Press and Mass Communications and the International Directorate of the Presidential Center B. N. Yeltsin Foundation, Mr. Shishkin refused to participate in the book fair “for ethical reasons”.
“Previously, I have repeatedly received similar offers from you and participated in international book fairs as part of the Russian literary delegation, but over the past year the situation has changed.”
What happened? Shishkin (by the way, a man with dual citizenship - Switzerland and Russia, resident of Switzerland from 1995 year), writes further:
“The political development of Russia and especially the events of the last year have created a situation in the country that is absolutely unacceptable and humiliating for its people and for its great culture. What is happening in my country, as a Russian person and a citizen of Russia, makes me feel ashamed. <…>
A country where a criminal corruption regime has seized power, where the state is a pyramid of thieves, where elections have been turned into a farce, where the courts serve the authorities, not the law, where there are political prisoners, where the state TV has been turned into a prostitute, where impostors make insane laws, returning everyone in the Middle Ages, such a country can not be my Russia. I can not and do not want to participate in the official Russian delegation, representing such Russia. "
A country where a criminal corruption regime has seized power, where the state is a pyramid of thieves, where elections have been turned into a farce, where the courts serve the authorities, not the law, where there are political prisoners, where the state TV has been turned into a prostitute, where impostors make insane laws, returning everyone in the Middle Ages, such a country can not be my Russia. I can not and do not want to participate in the official Russian delegation, representing such Russia. "
Shishkin, in his words, is ready to represent another Russia - “a country liberated from impostors, a country with a state structure protecting not the right to corruption, but the rights of an individual, a country with free media, free elections and free people.”
It should be recalled that in 2006, Mr. Shishkin was accused by Alexander Tankov, a member of the Union of Writers of St. Petersburg, chairman of the poetry section, laureate of the Akhmatova Prize for 2004, in plagiarism. What is there in plagiarism - in looting!
The no-charge accusation was published in "Literary Gazette":
“I started to read.
At first it seemed boring, sluggish and not new.
But suddenly really good prose went on ... <...>
I do not tear myself away and read further ... but I start suddenly to understand with surprise that I have already read all this. And just recently.
I read from Shishkin this:
“The gymnasium begins, in fact, with the stationery shop of Joseph Pokorny on Sadovaya. Suffice it to say: “Bilinskaya, first class,” as I have already constructed a package in which all textbooks, notebooks, paints, brushes of the right size, feathers, gum, pencil case ...
... In the morning, mom ... pokes fifteen kopecks each for lunch. Already on the way, we spend money on delicacies - candy or a piece of halvah from street vendors, who specifically choose places near schools ...
... I even remember my room in the dressing room - 134 ...
Everything bought in the store for lessons is completely inadequate. Fortunately, I have experienced sisters who teach that, apart from textbooks and notebooks, a self-respecting gymnasium student should have an album for poems and pictures ... a pink blotter embedded in notebooks is a sign of bad taste and almost poverty, but you have to buy blotches-papir other flowers and attach it to notebooks with ribbons with lush bows ".
At first it seemed boring, sluggish and not new.
But suddenly really good prose went on ... <...>
I do not tear myself away and read further ... but I start suddenly to understand with surprise that I have already read all this. And just recently.
I read from Shishkin this:
“The gymnasium begins, in fact, with the stationery shop of Joseph Pokorny on Sadovaya. Suffice it to say: “Bilinskaya, first class,” as I have already constructed a package in which all textbooks, notebooks, paints, brushes of the right size, feathers, gum, pencil case ...
... In the morning, mom ... pokes fifteen kopecks each for lunch. Already on the way, we spend money on delicacies - candy or a piece of halvah from street vendors, who specifically choose places near schools ...
... I even remember my room in the dressing room - 134 ...
Everything bought in the store for lessons is completely inadequate. Fortunately, I have experienced sisters who teach that, apart from textbooks and notebooks, a self-respecting gymnasium student should have an album for poems and pictures ... a pink blotter embedded in notebooks is a sign of bad taste and almost poverty, but you have to buy blotches-papir other flowers and attach it to notebooks with ribbons with lush bows ".
Tanks from the shelf takes a book of memoirs of Vera Panova, "Mine and only mine." And reads:
“... In the Sadovaya street there was a Joseph Pokorny stationery shop. We had to go there and say: "Lyubimova Gymnasium, first class." And the well-trained clerk constructed a package in which all the necessary textbooks, notebooks, even the set of watercolor paints required in the 1 grade Lyubimova gymnasium for drawing lessons, even brushes of the numbers needed, and feathers, gum, and pencil case were collected. , and a diary, and absolutely everything that a teacher could require ...
... I was given fifteen kopecks for breakfast in the morning, of which I spent five kopecks on the way to the gymnasium for delicacy. On this way, traders with trays sat here and there. For a penny, you could buy either three big candies ... or a decent piece of halvah ...
... hung her coat on a peg under No. XXUMX, stuffed mufflers and a hat into our sleeves (we had very good-looking winter hats made of coarse black plush) ...
... It turned out that in addition to textbooks, notebooks and the like, the gymnasium student should have an album for poems and pictures that the pink blotter embedded in the notebooks is considered a sign of bad taste and almost poverty, but you need to buy a blot of other colors and attach it to notebooks with ribbons with lush bows ... "
... I was given fifteen kopecks for breakfast in the morning, of which I spent five kopecks on the way to the gymnasium for delicacy. On this way, traders with trays sat here and there. For a penny, you could buy either three big candies ... or a decent piece of halvah ...
... hung her coat on a peg under No. XXUMX, stuffed mufflers and a hat into our sleeves (we had very good-looking winter hats made of coarse black plush) ...
... It turned out that in addition to textbooks, notebooks and the like, the gymnasium student should have an album for poems and pictures that the pink blotter embedded in the notebooks is considered a sign of bad taste and almost poverty, but you need to buy a blot of other colors and attach it to notebooks with ribbons with lush bows ... "
I agree, Comrade Tankov says, “prose is good, but, excuse me, what is Shishkin to do with it?”
“And that sort of consideration comes to mind that Mr. Shishkin must have been guided by: who remembers Panov now? Who rereads her memories? And in general, she died a long time ago, but stealing from the dead is not like stealing ...
Not stealing - looting. "
Not stealing - looting. "
Shishkin could not fail to respond to this. Winner of large awards after all. Critic Leo Pirogov in Nezavisimaya Gazeta cited an excerpt from his letter published on the Internet. Here is a fragment of it:
“I want to write the perfect text, the text of the texts, which will consist of excerpts from everything that has ever been written. <...> It is necessary to find in the endless deposits of memoir rubbish exactly those realities that surrounded that Rostov girl ... I am making literature of the next dimension. "
It turns out that the great Shishkin attributed the memories of Vera Panova to the “memoir rubbish”.
That's how answered this famous literary figure comrade Pirogov:
“In the letter quoted above, Mikhail Shishkin made it clear that he considers himself a conductor, and other writers, musicians of his orchestra. True, these musicians are dead. So, it turns out this picture ...
The conductor takes the wand. Includes a tape recorder. Rises in front of the mirror. And the music flowed! Oh, what an inspiration he is experiencing! .. What a cosmic process inside him! ..
Well - everything is right, everything is fine. You can not give delivery to the bully in the yard - beat the pillow. Reluctance to put fingers on the strings (and the soul is torn to the beauty) - imagine in front of the mirror. The problem is that if such imaginations are taken as a standard, real musicians will soon be transferred.
There will be one DJ Spooky. ”
The conductor takes the wand. Includes a tape recorder. Rises in front of the mirror. And the music flowed! Oh, what an inspiration he is experiencing! .. What a cosmic process inside him! ..
Well - everything is right, everything is fine. You can not give delivery to the bully in the yard - beat the pillow. Reluctance to put fingers on the strings (and the soul is torn to the beauty) - imagine in front of the mirror. The problem is that if such imaginations are taken as a standard, real musicians will soon be transferred.
There will be one DJ Spooky. ”
"Great news! In Russia, they hate me. ” Under this heading in "The Daily Beast" (US translation source - "InoSMI") An article by Eli Lake was published, in which the author revels in the fact that his name fell into the list of Russophobes compiled by Sergei Selyunin.
“During my career as a journalist, I was lucky to report from Somalia, Sudan, Iraq, Iran, India, China and North Korea. But I have not been to Russia yet. And if one Russian blogger gets his way, I won’t have a chance to go there. ”
This blogger, we note, is French: Comrade Selyunin has long lived and worked in France. On the "VO" about him told in the review "Well, where we do not".
As for “achieve,” the journalist’s sarcasm seems rather strange. Even funny. After all, Mr. Lake ... he asked Selyunin to include himself in the list.
Seeing the well-known names of Browder, Cardin, H. Clinton, D. Kerry and others on the list of the French resident, the journalist apparently decided that it would be nice for him to be promoted too.
“Seeing these people in the list of Russophobes, I was surprised that he does not have my name. The fact is that in 2011, the deputy foreign minister condemned me for writing about a Russian intelligence officer whom the Georgian government suspected of trying to blow up the American embassy in Tbilisi. When the Salon.com publication blamed me for the Georgian lobby bribing me with martinis and snacks, the Russian official English-language TV channel used the materials in this article in its report entitled Money Makes the War Go Round.
The journalist sent Selyunin a message via Twitter - and the trick is in the bag. “In a couple of days,” Mr. Lake writes, “Selyunin corrected his mistake and informed me about this in a reply tweet.”
Well, now, note, the journalist can be proud that his name is on the list next to Browder and H. Clinton. Anyone who would like to visit Russia and find out at least a little truth about her would not ask for a list of Russophobes.
As for the mentioned Browder, then there is news about him. Andrey Medvedev ("Vesti") reported that investigators of the Ministry of Internal Affairs charged the head of the Hermitage Capital investment fund, William Browder. It was he who became famous in Russia for fraud with Gazprom shares, tax frauds, and later lobbying in the US of the Magnitsky Act.
Investigators do not harbor illusions: they believe that Browder will not come for questioning. But then the financier will be declared wanted.
And - about the general damage from buying up the shares of Gazprom. It is estimated at almost two and a half billion rubles.
Informative about Browder also told in the transfer "But".
Armored cars for internal use. Jim Hoft ("Gateway Pundit"source of translation - Mixednews.ru) recalls that since last year, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has purchased more than 1,6 billion cartridges, mostly .40 caliber and 9-millimeter. It has now become known that this agency has acquired 2.717 anti-mine armored vehicles.
Through the US Army Command, this major department recently modified 2.717 anti-mine armored vehicles for use on American streets. The sweeper armored vehicle (nicknamed as the author of the note for its gun port) was released by Navistar Defense. The Department of Homeland Security could not resist and boasted shopping through the video.
However, let us add, the citizens of a democratic country will find something to answer to the peacekeepers from DHS.
Konstantin Kerubov ("Voice of Russia") said that in private ownership in the United States there are up to a thousand battle tanks. The personal tank was even bought by Brad Pitt (he has a T-54, used). Some Americans, the journalist notes with humor, “take a more serious approach to the second amendment of the constitution, which allows weapons».
There are already examples of democratic running in of tanks in the USA.
In 1995, a retired soldier and plumber, Sean Nelson, having lost his job and desperate to find money to pay a mortgage, reached the base of the California National Guard near San Diego, penetrated into its territory, got into the M-60 tank and drove an 57-ton car outside. He began to destroy parked cars and hydrants. The police managed to jump onto the roof of the tank and shoot Nelson.
Marvin Himeyer, not having a tank, hung armor on the Komatsu bulldozer and installed several rifles there. 4 June 2004, he drove into the streets of Granby (Colorado) and destroyed more than a dozen buildings, and then committed suicide. So he took revenge for the fact that the cement plant ruined his company.
F-35 not only cracks, but also freezes. Maxim Lisovsky ("Voice of Russia") reported that, according to a report prepared by the Department of Operational Testing and Evaluation of the US Department of Defense, the fifth-generation F-35 "Lighting II" fighter-bombers are not ready not only for combat flights, but also for training missions - due to cabins, equipment failures at temperatures below 15 degrees Celsius and many other disadvantages. The report was published by 6 in March by the Government Oversight Project (POGO).
It turned out that the F-35 has the worst view from the cockpit among all the aircraft in service with the US Air Force. One of the pilots who studied the aircraft, said bluntly that in the event of close combat with the use of F-35 guns, "they will always shoot down."
The report revealed a number of other critical flaws: the possible failures of the ejection system on the aircraft of the first series, the lack of protection against lightning, and problems with the control system interface.
Moreover, this plane can be used for training pilot-pupils to take off, land and fly as part of a link with other F-35 and F-16 during the day in clear weather, but it is not suitable for combat exercises. Moreover, the trainee will be able to safely control the aircraft only in subsonic mode (according to the calculated characteristics, it must reach speeds in 1,6 mach, 1900 km / h).
It also turned out that the aircraft should be kept in a heated hangar: at temperatures below + 15 degrees Celsius, the F-35 computer systems repeatedly refused to start due to the fact that the power control unit was not designed for the cold.
Recall that in February, Andrei Fedyashin ("Voice of Russia") talked about the next suspension of flights F-35. The cause was a crack found on the blades of a jet engine of one of the machines. The article noted that the Pentagon spent almost 400 million dollars only on repairing the delivered fighters. And the Lokkid-Martin corporation is still hoping for foreign deliveries of this wonderful aircraft ...
In short, poor and unhappy America has been haunted by failures lately. We wish the fraternal oppressed people of the United States victory over the hydra of imperialism! A thousand tanks and modernized Komatsu are, comrades, strength!
Observed and commented on Oleg Chuvakin
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