Results of the week. "It seems to be molded, but it is not molded ..."
Teachings in the south of Russia
Early on Thursday morning, Putin ordered the start of large-scale exercises in the Black Sea area - 36 ships, rapid deployment forces, in particular, paratroopers and marines, as well as special forces, would participate in them. It was reported that about 7 of thousands of military and about 250 armored vehicles would be involved in all. These exercises will be the second in the last two months unplanned maneuvers of the Russian army - in February, a surprise test of combat readiness was conducted for the first time in 20 years.
The exercises in the south of Russia, which turned around during the week, miraculously almost did not annoy the West (and in fact there recently any shot on the Russian territory by the RA fighters was perceived too painfully). But our nearest neighbors were annoyed. The Georgian side caught Russia in the new game with muscles and a desire to “chop off” something else from the unprecedentedly peace-loving Georgian authorities. Representatives of political forces in Ukraine also took care of the teachings: they say it was the Russians who gathered to take the Crimea ... In general, they clearly lost the habitual Russian exercises: they did not even have time to correct the reaction to them together. Apparently, everything really happened suddenly ...
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Evgenia Vasilyeva charged with embezzlement of shares for 190 million rubles
Against the former head of the department of the Ministry of Defense, Yevgenia Vasilyeva, a new accusation was filed. According to investigators, she stole the shares of the military institute worth 190 million rubles. The staff of the Investigation Committee was able to return the shares to bona fide purchasers.
“Evgenia Vasilyeva was charged with illegally selling shares of the 31 State Design Institute for Special Construction to commercial companies at a lower price of more than 190 million rubles,” said Vladimir Markin, a representative of the Investigation Committee.
It is noteworthy: Ms. Vasilyeva’s lawyers state that they have never heard of new charges. At the same time, the press service of the Investigative Committee assures that the charges were, and that the lawyers need to work more attentively and find out about the next accusation of their client not only from the media ... A strange situation. At such a pace, it may soon come to the point that even if the case gets to court, and some daredevil judge has issued an indictment, then we will guess for a long time what it is: the newspaper "duck", the intrigues of Yevgenia Nikolaevna’s personal enemies or reality.
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"Serdyukov Dacha" continue to build, despite the criminal case
The members of Yabloko, who discovered Serdyukov’s summer residence on the territory of the Bolshoi Utrish Kuban reserve last year, visited the site again. They were surprised to find that, despite the criminal cases related to the name of the minister, the construction of elite real estate continues, environmental requirements are grossly violated. The activists appealed to local deputies demanding to cancel the deal on the transfer of land to the Ministry of Defense and donate a freshly built home to a children's sailing school.
On Friday, the public inspection department headed by the chairman of the Yabloko party, Sergei Mitrokhin, visited the Bolshoi Utrish reserve (territory of Anapa, Krasnodar region), where in June last year the party members discovered the “Serdyukov dacha”. Breaking through the blockade of guards, activists got into the territory of the object. As the politician told RBC daily, he is in the final stages of construction, the work has not been stopped. Mr. Mitrokhin personally discovered fresh drywall and mounting profile, dry mixes that can not be stored on the street for a long time. “There is a shameless seizure of land, the destruction of a natural territory,” he said.
Well, the question arises here: on what basis does Mr. Mitrokhin decide that it is the Serdyukov dacha that is being built, and not the construction of a children's sailing school. After all, it’s like: if it was Anatoly Eduardovich’s dacha that continued to be built under Utrish, it’s unlikely that Mitrokhin and other Yabloko workers made their way through the “blockade of guards” designated by him ...
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The Ministry of Defense will cover the 172 Buffet with troop canteens in 2013.
In accordance with the General of the Army Sergei Shoigu, approved by the Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation, the plan to transfer military canteens to catering with elements of a buffet should be implemented in three stages.
The introduction of the buffet-style meal system in 2013 was planned for 172 troop eateries.
Well, what can I say ... Neshto once again join the army, although there is a risk of getting into some 173 military unit, to which the introduction of “buffets” has not spread ... In general, after such innovations, I would like to hope that “buffets” in the end, they will not lead to “Swedish families” and “American complexes” among our soldiers and officers. In general, all those who gave military duty “before” - “envy” silently ...
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The service life in the Georgian army is reduced by six months
The Georgian parliament approved in the first reading the adoption of an amendment to the Law on Military Duty and Military Service, which provides for a reduction in the mandatory period of service from 18 to 12 months. All 77 deputies voted in favor of the amendment unanimously.
According to the authors of the bill, the reduction of military service will help resolve problems related to military draft, as under current legislation, the rotation of recruits does not occur at the same time. The draft law provides for granting a deferment to those who have registered for the Unified National Examinations for the purpose of entering the university.
Apparently, shortening the service life to 12 months, the Georgian parliamentarians decided to at least somewhat equalize the Georgian army with the Russian army. True, there is still one significant difference. According to the Minister of Defense Mr. Alasania, the Georgian army consists in 75% of contract soldiers. And the Georgian contract soldier is in itself a unique fighter with the streak of a businessman: whoever gives the most, is fighting for that ...
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Iraq initialed a new agreement on the supply of Russian weapons
Iraq initiates new supply agreement weapons from Russia after the scandalous cancellation of the previous treaty, said on Wednesday the deputy of the Iraqi parliament from the State Law bloc of Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki Ali ash-Shalia.
Recently, conflicting information has been received on the contract for the supply of Russian weapons to Iraq. So, 4 in March, Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari said that Russia would provide the country with helicopters and air defense batteries before the summer. Three days before the FSMTC, Alexander Fomin, said that Russia and Iraq had not signed contracts for the supply of weapons and military equipment.
To begin with, it is necessary to clarify that in this case it is necessary to understand the signing of each sheet of a multi-page document by persons authorized to sign the contract as a whole. Apparently, before this, the Iraqi side, seeing the signatures of the responsible persons only at the end of the document, decided that it would fulfill the contract points indicated on this sheet, ignoring all the others. Well, at least it was not necessary to sign each line of the contract separately ...
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The heyday of jihad tourism
Pavel Tarasenko (Kommersant) writes that in a report submitted to the parliament of the country, the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Great Britain issued a warning that Muslims with European passports, who are now fighting in Syria on the side of radical groups, are about to return to the EU countries. From the followers of radical Islam, we must wait for sabotage and terrorist attacks.
The aggravation of the situation in London is associated with the Syrian conflict. According to the report, terrorist groups carried out more 2012 attacks in Syria in 600, and continue to attract people from Britain and other European countries. According to Charles Farr, the head of the British Security and Counter-Terrorism Service, 70-100 is currently fighting for the citizens of Elizabeth II on the side of the Syrian radicals. The total number of Europeans fighting against Assad is estimated at several hundred. Most of them belong to the Jihadist Front Al Nusrah group. MIA experts warn: by returning to Europe, the militants can organize explosions or use unconventional methods of sabotage. In particular, the risk of using biological weapons is high - terrorists can infiltrate the laboratory of a British university and take samples of a dangerous virus from there.
On the subject of the return of the "soldier of fortune" prepared a report and Konstantin Garibov ("Voice of Russia").
As in Britain, they warn in Paris: the reverse flow of radicals from Syria has already started. Now in Syria, on the side of the terrorists, according to the French Interior Ministry, fighting from 50 to 80 of the French.
Additionally, it should be noted that in the Syrian ranks of jihadist terrorists there are also Americans.
"RT" reports that the other day a former US Army soldier was arrested on charges of aiding a terrorist group. The 30-year-old veteran went to Syria and joined the ranks of one of the al-Qaida units. According to the investigation, Eric Harrun from Phoenix, Arizona, joined the Al-Nusra Front militant group and participated in the preparations for the shelling of Syrian government forces. According to the Department of Justice, Harrun is charged with "conspiring to use lethal weapons outside the United States." He can get a life sentence.
According to experts, American citizens are drawn to fight in Syria after the British.
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The revolution in Russia, and then - the third world war
Adelaide Sigida (Utro.ru) spoke about the next meeting of the Moscow Political Club on Wednesday at the Rosbalt news agency. They argued there on the topic "Cyprus as a reason for a third world war."
According to the audience, the situation in Cyprus is an analogue of the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo. The true meaning of the events is in the struggle of opposing geopolitical centers. This was said by the expert of the Center for Eastern European Studies Andrei Okara.
Offshore economy made of Cypriot parasites and lumpen. Now Germany is demanding that Greece and Cyprus change and resemble post-industrial Europe. The report of the German intelligence that Cyprus "dirty" money from Russia is spinning, initiated by the CIA. In short, the redistribution of the world will soon break out, as a result of which Russia will not become a global center at all, but will receive the role of a bargaining chip in relations between the US and China. Okara advises Moscow to urgently make a choice between China or America.
Kirill Kabanov, chairman of the National Anti-Corruption Committee, believes that the moment to intervene in the affairs of Cyprus was not accidental. Once the Olympics-80 and falling oil prices destroyed the Soviet Union, Kabanov recalled. Ekaterina Kuznetsova, director of the European programs of the Center for the Study of the Postindustrial Society, agreed with this: "The Olympics and the World Cup are the weapon of the West against us."
Experts also reminded that someone must pay for the missing bank deposits. It is clear who: ordinary Russians.
In general, the events of Cyprus will provoke not only a third world war, but also a revolution in Russia. This scenario, according to various experts, is thought out and prepared by the West.
Hanged or hanged?
26 March, reports Interfax, Scotland Yard published the results of the autopsy of Boris Berezovsky. The report states: “The results of the autopsies carried out by the pathologist of the Ministry of the Interior are such that the cause of death was hanging. The pathologist did not find anything that would indicate a violent struggle. ”
In the review "Foreign Press" on the theme of B. Berezovsky’s death, among other things, there is a retelling of the article by Luke Harding from The Guardian, where the famous theme of the Kremlin’s long arm is developed.
“What if Putin really silences his opponents living in the UK?” The journalist wonders. Nevertheless, the circumstances of Berezovsky’s death look obvious: "... a person who was depressed, a locked bathroom, bruises on his neck." "All the conclusions set forth in the cautious form peculiar to the police, indicate more suicide than violent death."
But the deceased’s close friend Nikolai Glushkov, also a Russian emigrant, says: “I will never believe in the natural death of Boris Berezovsky. The idea that he could lay hands on himself is nonsense. ”
“People who are suspicious by nature notice that the Kremlin has unusually well prepared its reaction to the sudden demise of Berezovsky,” writes Harding. Putin’s press secretary, Peskov, said that Berezovsky had written a penitential letter to the Russian president, the Forbes journalist said that Berezovsky missed Moscow and said he overestimated the West. Berezovsky's friends dismiss these messages in the press, inspired by Moscow, and call them selfish nonsense. Harding writes: “In essence, these messages are Kremlin's moralizing story. It says that if you are against the legitimate Russian authorities, you will end up in exile, you will be ruined, you will lose friends and eventually you will die. "
March 28 from the same Guardian newspaper стало известно: an autopsy on Berezovsky’s body showed that the deceased had a broken rib. But pathologists did not find any bruises on his body.
About the death of Berezovsky acted Vladimir Zhirinovsky. He believes that B. A. B. was going to Africa or to Israel, but was killed by British “structures”: “I rule out the voluntary withdrawal from Berezovsky’s life. There was no suicide. His friends in London confirm that he was going to fly either to Israel or to Africa. Based on my conversation with him in January, he tried to find a way to return to Russia, so he had no reason to end his life this way. And all these foolish conversations that he was impoverished, and he has no money - yes, he has plenty of money. He would never have offended himself, ”Zhirinovsky’s words are quoted on his party’s website. “Here, I think,” says the leader of the Liberal Democratic Party, “there is a murder, and it was committed by structures located in Britain ...”
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Valuable Japanese find on the ocean floor
According to "The Tokyo Times", Japan discovered truly “astronomical” deposits of rare earth metals: the whole field, located, however, at a depth of about 5,8 km under the surface of the Pacific Ocean, not far from about. Minami-Torishima southeast of Tokyo. Yasuhiro Kato, who heads a team of scientists from Tokyo University, said that the ore reserves at the bottom are enough to ensure that Japan consumes rare earth metals for at least 200 years.
A newspaper observer notes that the discovery could be cause for concern for China: after all, Beijing is trying to become the world's leading supplier of rare earth metals. At present, China claims that it owns less than one-third of the global reserves of such metals, despite the implementation of more than 90% of world supply.
Professor Yasuhiro Kato clarifiesthat deposits of rare-earth metals found at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean are more than a hundred times greater than the volume of all explored rare-earth elements on Earth. He also said that exploration will continue for about two years, and then production will begin.
As Ambrose recalls Evans-Pritchard ("Midas Letter"), in 2009, Beijing restricted global exports of this raw material, which led to legal complaints to the WTO by the United States and the European Union. In response to the claims, China explained that measures had been taken because of the fight against smuggling and environmental abuse. It should be added that the PRC simply skillfully used the monopoly position.
Rare earth metals are needed for the production of iPads, lasers, catalytic converters for automobile engines, plasma TVs and much more. Dysprosium, for example, is used to make powerful magnets that remain stable at high temperatures, neodymium to create hybrid cars, and terbium in energy-saving lamps. Americans need Samaria to build tanks M1A2 "Abrams" and "Aegis Spy-1" audio radars. REEs are also used in the manufacture of precision weapons, Hellfire missiles, avionics, satellites, and night vision devices.
Evans-Pritchard cites the words of Professor Yasuhiro Kato regarding the Chinese restriction on the export of "rare earths" in 2009. “Their real intention,” said the scientist, “is to force foreign companies to build factories in China.” They say: if you want our rare earth metals, you have to build your plant here, and we will be able to steal your technologies. ”
Thus, in a short time China may lose its monopoly position in the market of rare-earth metals.
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The incident with the South Korean grenade and the order of Kim Jong-un
On the night of Wednesday this week, the troops of South Korea in the region bordering on the DPRK for a few hours were given in increased combat readiness. The South Korean border guard released a grenade into an “unidentified object”, allegedly moving in the border zone. The grenade incident happened around 2.30 local time (21.30 on Tuesday, Moscow time) when a soldier was on duty at one of the border posts in Hvachon district, 118 kilometers northeast of Seoul. The “unidentified object”, it seemed to the watchful border guard, was wandering near the barbed wire fence - the demilitarized zone, which represents fortified mined strip of land 4 km wide and 248 km long. From the north, along the DMZ, according to Seoul, is concentrated up to 70% of the forces and facilities of the Korean Peoples Army. After the "incident" combat readiness of troops in the county has been promoted to the level of “Chindoge-1” (this level is introduced when there is a threat of an armed invasion from the territory of the DPRK). Then the military conducted reconnaissance of the territories adjacent to the border post. The alarm was lifted in 09.20. No signs of the threat of invasion of the DPRK were found.
The day before стало известноthat the North Korean command brought all the missile and artillery units of the armed forces of the country into full combat readiness. This was reported by the Central Telegraph Agency of Korea. The command order touched, in particular, strategic missile units and long-range artillery. The missile units were ordered to prepare not for anything, but for strikes against the continental territory of the United States, as well as against the islands of Guam and Hawaii.
The situation in the geopolitical field has developed a dead end. It is unlikely that anyone seriously fears that Pyongyang will go to Washington, and even more so, propaganda videos mounted in the DPRK do not scare anyone. But, on the other hand, both the USA, and Japan, and China, and especially South Korea, may be wary of instability in North Korea. Anything can be the cause of instability: mass hunger, the negative impact of a set of UN sanctions, the White House’s overly aggressive rhetoric, Kim Jong-un's bad mood due to a quarrel with Lee Sol Zhu, an unsuccessful nuclear test, a grenade-laden South Korean border guard, and so on. Therefore, the only question today is who will quickly feed the carriers of the Juche doctrine.
Although there is no mass famine in the DPRK, the problem of malnutrition still exists, and it is at least biased to write it off. Although the DPRK is a closed country, something is known about it. Approximately 15% of the population there today is undernourished. In January 2013, the Asia Press Portal опубликовал report, which investigates cases of famine in the north-eastern outskirts of Pyongyang. The main reason for the famine is not politics, but the poor harvest of 2012 of the year, which killed several thousand people.
This information must be supplemented. 29 March, the DPRK leader held an emergency operational meeting in connection with the US-South Korean maneuvers with the participation of the B-52 and B-2 bombers, "creating a security threat to the DPRK", reports from Pyongyang correspondent ITAR-TASS Yuri Sidorov. According to the TsTAK report, the supreme commander signed the "final technical preparation plan for strategic missile forces to attack military bases in the continental United States, Guam, Hawaii, as well as in South Korea, in the event of enemy provocation."
As the "Lenta.ru" With reference to Reuters, the signing of this order took place at an emergency operational meeting, which was attended by representatives of the country's military leadership. Kim Jong-un expressed confidence that in the current conditions “it is time to settle accounts with the American imperialists” and declared that the bases of the enemy “will be turned into ashes with one blow”.
An anti-American demonstration was held in Pyongyang. The people expressed solidarity with the call of their leader to prepare for a strategic missile strike in the event of a US provocation, reports Press TV (Iran).
Soldiers and students gathered in Kim Il Sung Square chanted: “Death to the American imperialists!” And “We will sweep away the American aggressors!”
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North Korea again threatens its southern neighbor
The DPRK authorities have announced that they are entering a "state of war" with South Korea. On this Saturday morning, March 30, reports Reuters with reference to the North Korean Central Telegraph Agency (TsTAK).
According to Agence France-Presse, in a statement circulated in all government agencies and institutions of the DPRK, it is said that from now on "all issues between the two Koreas will be solved according to the conditions of wartime."
The statement also says that any provocations on the border of the two states will lead to "full-scale conflict and nuclear war."
The agency recalls that technically North and South Korea were already in a state of war, as the Korean war of 1950-53 ended with the signing of an armistice, not a peace treaty.
Just a couple of days ago, people in military uniform, at the call of their hearts, began to pierce the sky with their fists, shouting slogans about the destruction of imperialist bloodsuckers and an irresistible desire to receive an order from their leader, Kim III. And now Kim Another, who once showed great joy at the performance of Disney heroes on the North Korean land, now decided to demonstrate determination in eradicating the hotbeds of evil that gave birth to Mickey Mouse. But we are ironic here ... But imagine what a self-respecting average American, who learned about the fact that North Korean missiles are already aimed at him personally. After all, it is fit to buy annual subscriptions to bunkers and to get out of store for movies of a sample of 50-60's about the actions of the population during a nuclear war. One gets the impression that with all these Munichhauzen ultimatums and declarations of “someone” wars (in both Pyongyang and Washington), they are trying to hide fair holes from their populations. And they have enough.
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Russia does not like peaceful life on the planet, just like North Korea
As transmits Interfax - Ukraine, in the year of the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI), for 2012, the global rating of 158 countries for peace was published.
The global peace index since 2007 has been compiled by the Institute of Economics and Peace based on the 23 criteria of three groups: long-term internal and interstate conflicts; public safety and social security; militarization. Each indicator has a coefficient calculated by the 5-point system.
Iceland, Denmark, New Zealand, Canada, Japan, Austria, Ireland, Slovenia, Finland, Switzerland - this is the first ten rankings.
Qatar got to the twelfth place. Norway lost its place in the top 10 and moved from 9-th (2011 g.) To 18-th place. The fall in the rating was caused by the July 2011 attacks and the deterioration of militarization rates.
Somalia remains the most non-peaceful country in the ranking for the second year in a row - 158-place. 157 ranked Afghanistan, 156 ranked Sudan, 155 ranked Iraq, 154 ranked Democratic Republic of the Congo, 153 ranked Russian Federation. A step above Russia is North Korea (152-i position). Nearby: Israel (150-I position), Pakistan (149-I). Syria and Libya have shared 147-place.
Belarus was on the 109-m place, China - on the 89-m, USA - on the 88-m, Ukraine - on the 71-m.
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Xi Jinping in Moscow: a nightmare for America
On Sunday, the three-day visit to Moscow of Chinese President Xi Jinping ended. Russia and China have signed a package of important agreements totaling more than three dozen, which speaks for itself. The visit of the Chinese leader was thus much more productive for Russia than the visit of Mr. Barroso, head of the European Commission, which ended last Friday: in the latter case, only three documents were signed. Comrade Sy shared with the leader of Russia not only economic and strategic plans, but he confessed his love for Russian literature and even said that in his youth he imitated Chernyshevsky's character Rakhmetov in order to temper himself for the future harsh life.
The Russian Federation became the first country that Xi Jinping selected for the state visit as the new chairman of the PRC. The most important documents signed during the visit appeared agreements to increase the supply of Russian hydrocarbons to China and the construction of pipeline branches in the southern direction. In addition, an intergovernmental agreement to expand cooperation in the trade of crude oil and an agreement on cooperation in the construction and operation of the Tianjin oil refining and petrochemical plant were signed.
Dmitry Mosyakov, Head of the Center for Southeast Asia and Oceania at the Institute of Oriental Studies, who answered several questions "Euronews"He believes that the route of the Chinese leader speaks about the priorities that modern China is building, and about those foreign policy priorities that the PRC leadership is building for the future. Russia, from the point of view of the new Chinese leadership, is moving towards a position of a very close alliance, the expert believes.
D. Mosyakov has no doubt that Russian-Chinese relations will improve, but relations between China and the United States will, on the contrary, be tense: “I think that these relations will consistently improve. And clearly there is a common interest and common positioning in the world of Russia and China. As for China, it is increasingly clear that its relations with the United States have entered a very difficult period of struggle, when the USA is trying with all its might to stop the growth of Chinese power, the growth of Chinese expansion in Southeast Asia, in the countries of the Pacific region, when very complex relations with Japan. Russia in this situation also has a huge interest in strengthening relations with China, not only as an economic alternative, but also as a political alternative. Because it is natural that the position of closer relations with China strengthens the position of Russia in negotiations with both the EU and the United States. ”
As for the Chinese, they provide information about the meeting and planned cooperation in solemn tones. Influential newspaper "People's Daily" пишетthat in bilateral trade and economic contacts over the past 10 years, besides the period of financial crisis, double-digit growth rates remained. The trade turnover between China and Russia for twenty years has grown 15 times, last year a record was set - 88,2 billion dollars. Before the overseas tour, Xi Jinping emphasized that the goal of achieving turnover in 100 billion dollars in bilateral trade, which was planned for the 2015 year, should be achieved earlier. The newspaper also notes that during the visit, the Chairman of the PRC and the President of the Russian Federation decided to transform the advantages of a high level of political relations into practical fruits of pragmatic cooperation.
As for the western assessment of Xi Jinping’s visit to Moscow, it is remarkably illustrated by an article by Stephen Garner, published recently in the journal "Forbes". The journalist is sounding the alarm that the Chinese and Russians have not only knocked together a successful anti-American alliance, but also started strengthening it. One might think that the correspondent writes with humor, but no: he is tormented by real fear. He is afraid for his native United States. Behind the little eagle, at which, bear and frowning, look Bear and Dragon.
Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping shook hands in the Grand Kremlin Palace. Many people in the State Department, the White House and the Pentagon, the journalist continues in a tragic tone, wriggled in their chairs this weekend, and those responsible for US Asian policy (especially China policy) did nothing but listen and read the reports. about the meeting comrades Putin and Xi.
The meeting between the leaders of China and Russia is not a big failure, it’s just a disaster for US interests, Garner writes. What is happening now testifies to the stupidity of the Obama-Clinton-Panetta trio with their "turn towards Asia." This demonstrates the complete political inability of the Obama administration to create constructive relations with China.
The American exactly cuts the tablet: the days from 22 to 24 in March 2013 of the year related to the official state visit of Xi Jinping, more precisely, with his first foreign visit after accepting the highest state post, unfortunately, gave a historical beginning to a new anti-American geopolitical alliance in East Asia.
So, Garner sums up, it’s likely that the Xi-22 X-Putin meeting in March was a turning point in history.
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Chinese citizen 49-year-old Sisin (Steve) Liu was sentenced to six years in prison for illegally transferring US military technology to compatriots, reports "Lenta.ru" with reference to Reuters.
The Chinese, who worked at the Pentagon’s leading contractor, L3 Communications, transmitted data about the device that allows the UAV to hit targets without communicating with the satellite. Liu sent thousands of files with descriptions and device data to China. He conducted presentations at universities in the People's Republic of China and at conferences organized by the government, where he spoke in detail about the technology of the device. Why did he do it? Expected to get a good job in China!
According to the Washington Post, the losses from theft of technology for the American defense ministry could be hundreds of millions of dollars.
State Department does not issue secrets
The US continues to finance Russian NGOs through “platforms outside Russia,” State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland said at a press briefing on Thursday, reports correspondent RIA "News" Maria Tabak. However, what kind of "platform", she refused to specify.
“As you know, the Russians have seriously limited our ability to provide direct funding in Russia, especially with our decision to terminate the activities of the Agency for International Development. Nevertheless, we provide funding through platforms outside of Russia to those organizations that still want to work with us, knowing that they have to report to their government for this work, ”said Nuland. She added: “I don’t want to go into too much detail about how we do it, because it will only jeopardize these programs and organizations that receive funding.”
Further, the State Department spokeswoman stressed that the United States is actively working to understand exactly which organizations want to receive funding from them, and inform them about how to obtain such support.
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Valery Zolotukhin died
The actor and director Valery Zolotukhin died, reports Taganka Theater. Later information was confirmed by the head of the Moscow Department of Culture, Sergei Kapkov.
In early March, Zolotukhin was hospitalized in intensive care. Doctors ascertained partial paralysis and speech loss, then an inoperable brain tumor, and then they introduced him into a drug coma.
After the director and artistic director of the Taganka Theater Yuri Lyubimov left the theater, Zolotukhin was appointed director with the functions of the artistic director of the theater. In early March, he quit this position for health reasons, and was diagnosed with a brain tumor and placed in the Russian X-ray Radiology Center, where he was observed until his death, reports NEWSru.com.
The farewell to Valery Zolotukhin will be held on April 2 in the Moscow Taganka Theater, ITAR-TASS reported in the artist’s own theater.
* “It seems to be molded, but it doesn’t molten ...” - a phrase from the cartoon “Last year’s snow fell”
Early on Thursday morning, Putin ordered the start of large-scale exercises in the Black Sea area - 36 ships, rapid deployment forces, in particular, paratroopers and marines, as well as special forces, would participate in them. It was reported that about 7 of thousands of military and about 250 armored vehicles would be involved in all. These exercises will be the second in the last two months unplanned maneuvers of the Russian army - in February, a surprise test of combat readiness was conducted for the first time in 20 years.
The exercises in the south of Russia, which turned around during the week, miraculously almost did not annoy the West (and in fact there recently any shot on the Russian territory by the RA fighters was perceived too painfully). But our nearest neighbors were annoyed. The Georgian side caught Russia in the new game with muscles and a desire to “chop off” something else from the unprecedentedly peace-loving Georgian authorities. Representatives of political forces in Ukraine also took care of the teachings: they say it was the Russians who gathered to take the Crimea ... In general, they clearly lost the habitual Russian exercises: they did not even have time to correct the reaction to them together. Apparently, everything really happened suddenly ...
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Putin kills two birds with one stone, bring his main ally - the Army - at any moment on alert, well, and a good message like this is sent to the West. Well done, so often.
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Learn and study again. Sudden anxiety for the forces of constant readiness is the norm, for that they are forces of constant readiness. It is surprising that before these alarms were not carried out, but now you can see the active participation of the Minister of Defense in the training of troops. Keep it up. Learn, identify flaws and study again.
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I very much hope that the decisions taken by Putin are directly related to the events in Syria, Assad’s address to BRICS and generally to events in the world, including Cyprus, with the boorish behavior of the Arabs (Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Jordan - I don’t quite understand why, we always were friends with Jordan), brazen actions of Turkey and Israel. I hope that we will support Syria not in words. I hope that these exercises, not just checking the combat readiness of our troops, but the beginning of decisive actions to normalize the situation in the region, in Syria.
Evgenia Vasilyeva charged with embezzlement of shares for 190 million rubles
Against the former head of the department of the Ministry of Defense, Yevgenia Vasilyeva, a new accusation was filed. According to investigators, she stole the shares of the military institute worth 190 million rubles. The staff of the Investigation Committee was able to return the shares to bona fide purchasers.
“Evgenia Vasilyeva was charged with illegally selling shares of the 31 State Design Institute for Special Construction to commercial companies at a lower price of more than 190 million rubles,” said Vladimir Markin, a representative of the Investigation Committee.
It is noteworthy: Ms. Vasilyeva’s lawyers state that they have never heard of new charges. At the same time, the press service of the Investigative Committee assures that the charges were, and that the lawyers need to work more attentively and find out about the next accusation of their client not only from the media ... A strange situation. At such a pace, it may soon come to the point that even if the case gets to court, and some daredevil judge has issued an indictment, then we will guess for a long time what it is: the newspaper "duck", the intrigues of Yevgenia Nikolaevna’s personal enemies or reality.
Comments from our readers:
Stiletto:
She has a strong hull. Girl, why do you need so many millions, you will burst ?!
- And you pour, and get away ...
And yet - so that you burst!
- And you pour, and get away ...
And yet - so that you burst!
AlNikolaich:
Damn, no matter how the trial expires, and the payment of a percentage of monthly salary by 25 court decision! That will really laugh .... Through tears.
"Serdyukov Dacha" continue to build, despite the criminal case
The members of Yabloko, who discovered Serdyukov’s summer residence on the territory of the Bolshoi Utrish Kuban reserve last year, visited the site again. They were surprised to find that, despite the criminal cases related to the name of the minister, the construction of elite real estate continues, environmental requirements are grossly violated. The activists appealed to local deputies demanding to cancel the deal on the transfer of land to the Ministry of Defense and donate a freshly built home to a children's sailing school.
On Friday, the public inspection department headed by the chairman of the Yabloko party, Sergei Mitrokhin, visited the Bolshoi Utrish reserve (territory of Anapa, Krasnodar region), where in June last year the party members discovered the “Serdyukov dacha”. Breaking through the blockade of guards, activists got into the territory of the object. As the politician told RBC daily, he is in the final stages of construction, the work has not been stopped. Mr. Mitrokhin personally discovered fresh drywall and mounting profile, dry mixes that can not be stored on the street for a long time. “There is a shameless seizure of land, the destruction of a natural territory,” he said.
Well, the question arises here: on what basis does Mr. Mitrokhin decide that it is the Serdyukov dacha that is being built, and not the construction of a children's sailing school. After all, it’s like: if it was Anatoly Eduardovich’s dacha that continued to be built under Utrish, it’s unlikely that Mitrokhin and other Yabloko workers made their way through the “blockade of guards” designated by him ...
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Krilion:
In any case, the building must either be completed or demolished completely and rehabilitated ... As the question of transferring the building to the children's sailing school is raised, then it must be completed ... If the object is abandoned, it will stupidly begin to fall apart and be plundered ...
Egoza:
Once the famous polar explorer Papanin built himself a beautiful summer cottage and invited I.V. Stalin to visit. I.V. Stalin looked, looked, praised and said: "There will be a beautiful summer house for an orphanage." And soon there was a message in the newspapers that Comrade. Papanin built a cottage for an orphanage, which only added to his popularity.
Do you think that Serdyukov cottage will be suitable for an orphanage?
Do you think that Serdyukov cottage will be suitable for an orphanage?
Z-exit:
Guys, do not panic! In the country put on the windows and all!
The Ministry of Defense will cover the 172 Buffet with troop canteens in 2013.
In accordance with the General of the Army Sergei Shoigu, approved by the Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation, the plan to transfer military canteens to catering with elements of a buffet should be implemented in three stages.
The introduction of the buffet-style meal system in 2013 was planned for 172 troop eateries.
Well, what can I say ... Neshto once again join the army, although there is a risk of getting into some 173 military unit, to which the introduction of “buffets” has not spread ... In general, after such innovations, I would like to hope that “buffets” in the end, they will not lead to “Swedish families” and “American complexes” among our soldiers and officers. In general, all those who gave military duty “before” - “envy” silently ...
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Predator 3:
Yes that trifle, rent the nearest restaurant and drive there the whole team!
120352:
And what about the buffets in the field, i.e. in normal conditions for the army?
The service life in the Georgian army is reduced by six months
The Georgian parliament approved in the first reading the adoption of an amendment to the Law on Military Duty and Military Service, which provides for a reduction in the mandatory period of service from 18 to 12 months. All 77 deputies voted in favor of the amendment unanimously.
According to the authors of the bill, the reduction of military service will help resolve problems related to military draft, as under current legislation, the rotation of recruits does not occur at the same time. The draft law provides for granting a deferment to those who have registered for the Unified National Examinations for the purpose of entering the university.
Apparently, shortening the service life to 12 months, the Georgian parliamentarians decided to at least somewhat equalize the Georgian army with the Russian army. True, there is still one significant difference. According to the Minister of Defense Mr. Alasania, the Georgian army consists in 75% of contract soldiers. And the Georgian contract soldier is in itself a unique fighter with the streak of a businessman: whoever gives the most, is fighting for that ...
Comments from our readers:
Chuck-Norris:
Yes, let them immediately disband their army, it is still useless.
Ascort154:
It is enough to teach cross-run from its border to Tbilisi.
Iraq initialed a new agreement on the supply of Russian weapons
Iraq initiates new supply agreement weapons from Russia after the scandalous cancellation of the previous treaty, said on Wednesday the deputy of the Iraqi parliament from the State Law bloc of Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki Ali ash-Shalia.
Recently, conflicting information has been received on the contract for the supply of Russian weapons to Iraq. So, 4 in March, Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari said that Russia would provide the country with helicopters and air defense batteries before the summer. Three days before the FSMTC, Alexander Fomin, said that Russia and Iraq had not signed contracts for the supply of weapons and military equipment.
To begin with, it is necessary to clarify that in this case it is necessary to understand the signing of each sheet of a multi-page document by persons authorized to sign the contract as a whole. Apparently, before this, the Iraqi side, seeing the signatures of the responsible persons only at the end of the document, decided that it would fulfill the contract points indicated on this sheet, ignoring all the others. Well, at least it was not necessary to sign each line of the contract separately ...
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Dmitry 2246:
Good news. Albeit with a fight, but forward! It's nice that others fought, and profits to us.
Zao74:
Before the execution of the contract there are still many obstacles.
The heyday of jihad tourism
Pavel Tarasenko (Kommersant) writes that in a report submitted to the parliament of the country, the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Great Britain issued a warning that Muslims with European passports, who are now fighting in Syria on the side of radical groups, are about to return to the EU countries. From the followers of radical Islam, we must wait for sabotage and terrorist attacks.
The aggravation of the situation in London is associated with the Syrian conflict. According to the report, terrorist groups carried out more 2012 attacks in Syria in 600, and continue to attract people from Britain and other European countries. According to Charles Farr, the head of the British Security and Counter-Terrorism Service, 70-100 is currently fighting for the citizens of Elizabeth II on the side of the Syrian radicals. The total number of Europeans fighting against Assad is estimated at several hundred. Most of them belong to the Jihadist Front Al Nusrah group. MIA experts warn: by returning to Europe, the militants can organize explosions or use unconventional methods of sabotage. In particular, the risk of using biological weapons is high - terrorists can infiltrate the laboratory of a British university and take samples of a dangerous virus from there.
On the subject of the return of the "soldier of fortune" prepared a report and Konstantin Garibov ("Voice of Russia").
As in Britain, they warn in Paris: the reverse flow of radicals from Syria has already started. Now in Syria, on the side of the terrorists, according to the French Interior Ministry, fighting from 50 to 80 of the French.
Additionally, it should be noted that in the Syrian ranks of jihadist terrorists there are also Americans.
"RT" reports that the other day a former US Army soldier was arrested on charges of aiding a terrorist group. The 30-year-old veteran went to Syria and joined the ranks of one of the al-Qaida units. According to the investigation, Eric Harrun from Phoenix, Arizona, joined the Al-Nusra Front militant group and participated in the preparations for the shelling of Syrian government forces. According to the Department of Justice, Harrun is charged with "conspiring to use lethal weapons outside the United States." He can get a life sentence.
According to experts, American citizens are drawn to fight in Syria after the British.
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Dima67
... It will distract them greatly from foreign policy, and for a long time.
The revolution in Russia, and then - the third world war
Adelaide Sigida (Utro.ru) spoke about the next meeting of the Moscow Political Club on Wednesday at the Rosbalt news agency. They argued there on the topic "Cyprus as a reason for a third world war."
According to the audience, the situation in Cyprus is an analogue of the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo. The true meaning of the events is in the struggle of opposing geopolitical centers. This was said by the expert of the Center for Eastern European Studies Andrei Okara.
Offshore economy made of Cypriot parasites and lumpen. Now Germany is demanding that Greece and Cyprus change and resemble post-industrial Europe. The report of the German intelligence that Cyprus "dirty" money from Russia is spinning, initiated by the CIA. In short, the redistribution of the world will soon break out, as a result of which Russia will not become a global center at all, but will receive the role of a bargaining chip in relations between the US and China. Okara advises Moscow to urgently make a choice between China or America.
Kirill Kabanov, chairman of the National Anti-Corruption Committee, believes that the moment to intervene in the affairs of Cyprus was not accidental. Once the Olympics-80 and falling oil prices destroyed the Soviet Union, Kabanov recalled. Ekaterina Kuznetsova, director of the European programs of the Center for the Study of the Postindustrial Society, agreed with this: "The Olympics and the World Cup are the weapon of the West against us."
Experts also reminded that someone must pay for the missing bank deposits. It is clear who: ordinary Russians.
In general, the events of Cyprus will provoke not only a third world war, but also a revolution in Russia. This scenario, according to various experts, is thought out and prepared by the West.
Hanged or hanged?
26 March, reports Interfax, Scotland Yard published the results of the autopsy of Boris Berezovsky. The report states: “The results of the autopsies carried out by the pathologist of the Ministry of the Interior are such that the cause of death was hanging. The pathologist did not find anything that would indicate a violent struggle. ”
In the review "Foreign Press" on the theme of B. Berezovsky’s death, among other things, there is a retelling of the article by Luke Harding from The Guardian, where the famous theme of the Kremlin’s long arm is developed.
“What if Putin really silences his opponents living in the UK?” The journalist wonders. Nevertheless, the circumstances of Berezovsky’s death look obvious: "... a person who was depressed, a locked bathroom, bruises on his neck." "All the conclusions set forth in the cautious form peculiar to the police, indicate more suicide than violent death."
But the deceased’s close friend Nikolai Glushkov, also a Russian emigrant, says: “I will never believe in the natural death of Boris Berezovsky. The idea that he could lay hands on himself is nonsense. ”
“People who are suspicious by nature notice that the Kremlin has unusually well prepared its reaction to the sudden demise of Berezovsky,” writes Harding. Putin’s press secretary, Peskov, said that Berezovsky had written a penitential letter to the Russian president, the Forbes journalist said that Berezovsky missed Moscow and said he overestimated the West. Berezovsky's friends dismiss these messages in the press, inspired by Moscow, and call them selfish nonsense. Harding writes: “In essence, these messages are Kremlin's moralizing story. It says that if you are against the legitimate Russian authorities, you will end up in exile, you will be ruined, you will lose friends and eventually you will die. "
March 28 from the same Guardian newspaper стало известно: an autopsy on Berezovsky’s body showed that the deceased had a broken rib. But pathologists did not find any bruises on his body.
About the death of Berezovsky acted Vladimir Zhirinovsky. He believes that B. A. B. was going to Africa or to Israel, but was killed by British “structures”: “I rule out the voluntary withdrawal from Berezovsky’s life. There was no suicide. His friends in London confirm that he was going to fly either to Israel or to Africa. Based on my conversation with him in January, he tried to find a way to return to Russia, so he had no reason to end his life this way. And all these foolish conversations that he was impoverished, and he has no money - yes, he has plenty of money. He would never have offended himself, ”Zhirinovsky’s words are quoted on his party’s website. “Here, I think,” says the leader of the Liberal Democratic Party, “there is a murder, and it was committed by structures located in Britain ...”
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Vorobey
... The bathroom and the toilet at Birch were separate or combined?
If combined, I support the version of the hand of Moscow.
The leader openly called for watering in the toilet.
If combined, I support the version of the hand of Moscow.
The leader openly called for watering in the toilet.
Valuable Japanese find on the ocean floor
According to "The Tokyo Times", Japan discovered truly “astronomical” deposits of rare earth metals: the whole field, located, however, at a depth of about 5,8 km under the surface of the Pacific Ocean, not far from about. Minami-Torishima southeast of Tokyo. Yasuhiro Kato, who heads a team of scientists from Tokyo University, said that the ore reserves at the bottom are enough to ensure that Japan consumes rare earth metals for at least 200 years.
A newspaper observer notes that the discovery could be cause for concern for China: after all, Beijing is trying to become the world's leading supplier of rare earth metals. At present, China claims that it owns less than one-third of the global reserves of such metals, despite the implementation of more than 90% of world supply.
Professor Yasuhiro Kato clarifiesthat deposits of rare-earth metals found at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean are more than a hundred times greater than the volume of all explored rare-earth elements on Earth. He also said that exploration will continue for about two years, and then production will begin.
As Ambrose recalls Evans-Pritchard ("Midas Letter"), in 2009, Beijing restricted global exports of this raw material, which led to legal complaints to the WTO by the United States and the European Union. In response to the claims, China explained that measures had been taken because of the fight against smuggling and environmental abuse. It should be added that the PRC simply skillfully used the monopoly position.
Rare earth metals are needed for the production of iPads, lasers, catalytic converters for automobile engines, plasma TVs and much more. Dysprosium, for example, is used to make powerful magnets that remain stable at high temperatures, neodymium to create hybrid cars, and terbium in energy-saving lamps. Americans need Samaria to build tanks M1A2 "Abrams" and "Aegis Spy-1" audio radars. REEs are also used in the manufacture of precision weapons, Hellfire missiles, avionics, satellites, and night vision devices.
Evans-Pritchard cites the words of Professor Yasuhiro Kato regarding the Chinese restriction on the export of "rare earths" in 2009. “Their real intention,” said the scientist, “is to force foreign companies to build factories in China.” They say: if you want our rare earth metals, you have to build your plant here, and we will be able to steal your technologies. ”
Thus, in a short time China may lose its monopoly position in the market of rare-earth metals.
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Fregate
We need to be clever at our place, there can be nothing in such a territory. But I still wonder, the United States will not find a lack of democracy in Japan now?
B_KypTke
It is possible that this is a misinformation ... Japan, perhaps, already has no other way out, as soon as you bring down prices with such disinfectants, and at a depth of 5 km and off the coast of Japan - go check ... storytellers. In general, a common trick lately has been: in Afghanistan there are innumerable riches, incredible reserves of shale gas in Europe, etc., and so on.
Alex45
If this is a reality, and mining will not be prohibitively expensive, Japan, with its statements, brings its occupation or destruction closer, and, perhaps, democratization, by China or the United States. And everyone will spit on some kind of agreement. Rare-earth metals in our time with the development of technology are becoming a strategic resource not lower than oil and uranium in importance.
The incident with the South Korean grenade and the order of Kim Jong-un
On the night of Wednesday this week, the troops of South Korea in the region bordering on the DPRK for a few hours were given in increased combat readiness. The South Korean border guard released a grenade into an “unidentified object”, allegedly moving in the border zone. The grenade incident happened around 2.30 local time (21.30 on Tuesday, Moscow time) when a soldier was on duty at one of the border posts in Hvachon district, 118 kilometers northeast of Seoul. The “unidentified object”, it seemed to the watchful border guard, was wandering near the barbed wire fence - the demilitarized zone, which represents fortified mined strip of land 4 km wide and 248 km long. From the north, along the DMZ, according to Seoul, is concentrated up to 70% of the forces and facilities of the Korean Peoples Army. After the "incident" combat readiness of troops in the county has been promoted to the level of “Chindoge-1” (this level is introduced when there is a threat of an armed invasion from the territory of the DPRK). Then the military conducted reconnaissance of the territories adjacent to the border post. The alarm was lifted in 09.20. No signs of the threat of invasion of the DPRK were found.
The day before стало известноthat the North Korean command brought all the missile and artillery units of the armed forces of the country into full combat readiness. This was reported by the Central Telegraph Agency of Korea. The command order touched, in particular, strategic missile units and long-range artillery. The missile units were ordered to prepare not for anything, but for strikes against the continental territory of the United States, as well as against the islands of Guam and Hawaii.
The situation in the geopolitical field has developed a dead end. It is unlikely that anyone seriously fears that Pyongyang will go to Washington, and even more so, propaganda videos mounted in the DPRK do not scare anyone. But, on the other hand, both the USA, and Japan, and China, and especially South Korea, may be wary of instability in North Korea. Anything can be the cause of instability: mass hunger, the negative impact of a set of UN sanctions, the White House’s overly aggressive rhetoric, Kim Jong-un's bad mood due to a quarrel with Lee Sol Zhu, an unsuccessful nuclear test, a grenade-laden South Korean border guard, and so on. Therefore, the only question today is who will quickly feed the carriers of the Juche doctrine.
Although there is no mass famine in the DPRK, the problem of malnutrition still exists, and it is at least biased to write it off. Although the DPRK is a closed country, something is known about it. Approximately 15% of the population there today is undernourished. In January 2013, the Asia Press Portal опубликовал report, which investigates cases of famine in the north-eastern outskirts of Pyongyang. The main reason for the famine is not politics, but the poor harvest of 2012 of the year, which killed several thousand people.
This information must be supplemented. 29 March, the DPRK leader held an emergency operational meeting in connection with the US-South Korean maneuvers with the participation of the B-52 and B-2 bombers, "creating a security threat to the DPRK", reports from Pyongyang correspondent ITAR-TASS Yuri Sidorov. According to the TsTAK report, the supreme commander signed the "final technical preparation plan for strategic missile forces to attack military bases in the continental United States, Guam, Hawaii, as well as in South Korea, in the event of enemy provocation."
As the "Lenta.ru" With reference to Reuters, the signing of this order took place at an emergency operational meeting, which was attended by representatives of the country's military leadership. Kim Jong-un expressed confidence that in the current conditions “it is time to settle accounts with the American imperialists” and declared that the bases of the enemy “will be turned into ashes with one blow”.
An anti-American demonstration was held in Pyongyang. The people expressed solidarity with the call of their leader to prepare for a strategic missile strike in the event of a US provocation, reports Press TV (Iran).
Soldiers and students gathered in Kim Il Sung Square chanted: “Death to the American imperialists!” And “We will sweep away the American aggressors!”
Comments from our readers:
No_more
North Korea in the current realities cannot offer anything to the world, not to itself. All she does is political blackmail (possibly customized). If it were not for the threats and cries about Server Korea, they would not have recalled more often than Mongolia.
And there is no need for any country to actually go to North Korea.
And there is no need for any country to actually go to North Korea.
Gemar
I, as a resident of Primorsky Territory, would not like to see the dosimeter “go crazy” on the border of the Russian Federation with the DPRK.
Mareman Vasilich
On the one hand, Koreans are scared, but, on the other hand, there is a visible root cause of their aggressive behavior - the United States. The fact that all countries of the world are arming not childly is the fault of the United States.
North Korea again threatens its southern neighbor
The DPRK authorities have announced that they are entering a "state of war" with South Korea. On this Saturday morning, March 30, reports Reuters with reference to the North Korean Central Telegraph Agency (TsTAK).
According to Agence France-Presse, in a statement circulated in all government agencies and institutions of the DPRK, it is said that from now on "all issues between the two Koreas will be solved according to the conditions of wartime."
The statement also says that any provocations on the border of the two states will lead to "full-scale conflict and nuclear war."
The agency recalls that technically North and South Korea were already in a state of war, as the Korean war of 1950-53 ended with the signing of an armistice, not a peace treaty.
Just a couple of days ago, people in military uniform, at the call of their hearts, began to pierce the sky with their fists, shouting slogans about the destruction of imperialist bloodsuckers and an irresistible desire to receive an order from their leader, Kim III. And now Kim Another, who once showed great joy at the performance of Disney heroes on the North Korean land, now decided to demonstrate determination in eradicating the hotbeds of evil that gave birth to Mickey Mouse. But we are ironic here ... But imagine what a self-respecting average American, who learned about the fact that North Korean missiles are already aimed at him personally. After all, it is fit to buy annual subscriptions to bunkers and to get out of store for movies of a sample of 50-60's about the actions of the population during a nuclear war. One gets the impression that with all these Munichhauzen ultimatums and declarations of “someone” wars (in both Pyongyang and Washington), they are trying to hide fair holes from their populations. And they have enough.
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Ivan Tarasov:
Just like Japan at one time.
They began to choke - attacked, and that's the reason for entering the war.
The media does not tell everything, probably the DPRK has good reasons for such a move.
They began to choke - attacked, and that's the reason for entering the war.
The media does not tell everything, probably the DPRK has good reasons for such a move.
Wedmak:
I didn’t like the muzzle of na right away. I wanted to resolve the issue quickly with the help of rockets, nu-nu ... Let's see how events will develop further.
GELEZNII_KAPUT
Any country in the corner of the pen, it also automatically becomes sick in the head !!!
Old warrant officer
He studied in the West, there is a large share of the likelihood that this is all coordinated with the US State Department, since it is beneficial for them to create a new center of instability already in the Far East, which would keep Russia and China in tension. Remember, the visit of the Chairman of China to us has just ended. The policy of the USA is very well seen here.
CaptainBlack
Yes, and nothing to watch! Let zahnet how to amerikosy !!! It is time to start the beginning of their end, and the rule in the world! And Korea will do it, since others are afraid. And you will still silently eat their hamburgers, and count smelly, dirty dollars !!! Eh, you don't like it, see? What is, and not afraid of responsibility for the decision! And God help him!
Russia does not like peaceful life on the planet, just like North Korea
As transmits Interfax - Ukraine, in the year of the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI), for 2012, the global rating of 158 countries for peace was published.
The global peace index since 2007 has been compiled by the Institute of Economics and Peace based on the 23 criteria of three groups: long-term internal and interstate conflicts; public safety and social security; militarization. Each indicator has a coefficient calculated by the 5-point system.
Iceland, Denmark, New Zealand, Canada, Japan, Austria, Ireland, Slovenia, Finland, Switzerland - this is the first ten rankings.
Qatar got to the twelfth place. Norway lost its place in the top 10 and moved from 9-th (2011 g.) To 18-th place. The fall in the rating was caused by the July 2011 attacks and the deterioration of militarization rates.
Somalia remains the most non-peaceful country in the ranking for the second year in a row - 158-place. 157 ranked Afghanistan, 156 ranked Sudan, 155 ranked Iraq, 154 ranked Democratic Republic of the Congo, 153 ranked Russian Federation. A step above Russia is North Korea (152-i position). Nearby: Israel (150-I position), Pakistan (149-I). Syria and Libya have shared 147-place.
Belarus was on the 109-m place, China - on the 89-m, USA - on the 88-m, Ukraine - on the 71-m.
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Alexander Romanov
Of course, we are aggressors, and then! Whether the peace-loving British, who invaded 90% of the countries of the world. And we are compared to them? Only we can, that break the back of the invaders and save this stupid world from themselves.
nokki
“Are you ashamed to do this to us? You would all like to see us tidied, yes shaven, but in dress coats. No, you love us black and the little white love us all ”(N.V. Gogol).
Xi Jinping in Moscow: a nightmare for America
On Sunday, the three-day visit to Moscow of Chinese President Xi Jinping ended. Russia and China have signed a package of important agreements totaling more than three dozen, which speaks for itself. The visit of the Chinese leader was thus much more productive for Russia than the visit of Mr. Barroso, head of the European Commission, which ended last Friday: in the latter case, only three documents were signed. Comrade Sy shared with the leader of Russia not only economic and strategic plans, but he confessed his love for Russian literature and even said that in his youth he imitated Chernyshevsky's character Rakhmetov in order to temper himself for the future harsh life.
The Russian Federation became the first country that Xi Jinping selected for the state visit as the new chairman of the PRC. The most important documents signed during the visit appeared agreements to increase the supply of Russian hydrocarbons to China and the construction of pipeline branches in the southern direction. In addition, an intergovernmental agreement to expand cooperation in the trade of crude oil and an agreement on cooperation in the construction and operation of the Tianjin oil refining and petrochemical plant were signed.
Dmitry Mosyakov, Head of the Center for Southeast Asia and Oceania at the Institute of Oriental Studies, who answered several questions "Euronews"He believes that the route of the Chinese leader speaks about the priorities that modern China is building, and about those foreign policy priorities that the PRC leadership is building for the future. Russia, from the point of view of the new Chinese leadership, is moving towards a position of a very close alliance, the expert believes.
D. Mosyakov has no doubt that Russian-Chinese relations will improve, but relations between China and the United States will, on the contrary, be tense: “I think that these relations will consistently improve. And clearly there is a common interest and common positioning in the world of Russia and China. As for China, it is increasingly clear that its relations with the United States have entered a very difficult period of struggle, when the USA is trying with all its might to stop the growth of Chinese power, the growth of Chinese expansion in Southeast Asia, in the countries of the Pacific region, when very complex relations with Japan. Russia in this situation also has a huge interest in strengthening relations with China, not only as an economic alternative, but also as a political alternative. Because it is natural that the position of closer relations with China strengthens the position of Russia in negotiations with both the EU and the United States. ”
As for the Chinese, they provide information about the meeting and planned cooperation in solemn tones. Influential newspaper "People's Daily" пишетthat in bilateral trade and economic contacts over the past 10 years, besides the period of financial crisis, double-digit growth rates remained. The trade turnover between China and Russia for twenty years has grown 15 times, last year a record was set - 88,2 billion dollars. Before the overseas tour, Xi Jinping emphasized that the goal of achieving turnover in 100 billion dollars in bilateral trade, which was planned for the 2015 year, should be achieved earlier. The newspaper also notes that during the visit, the Chairman of the PRC and the President of the Russian Federation decided to transform the advantages of a high level of political relations into practical fruits of pragmatic cooperation.
As for the western assessment of Xi Jinping’s visit to Moscow, it is remarkably illustrated by an article by Stephen Garner, published recently in the journal "Forbes". The journalist is sounding the alarm that the Chinese and Russians have not only knocked together a successful anti-American alliance, but also started strengthening it. One might think that the correspondent writes with humor, but no: he is tormented by real fear. He is afraid for his native United States. Behind the little eagle, at which, bear and frowning, look Bear and Dragon.
Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping shook hands in the Grand Kremlin Palace. Many people in the State Department, the White House and the Pentagon, the journalist continues in a tragic tone, wriggled in their chairs this weekend, and those responsible for US Asian policy (especially China policy) did nothing but listen and read the reports. about the meeting comrades Putin and Xi.
The meeting between the leaders of China and Russia is not a big failure, it’s just a disaster for US interests, Garner writes. What is happening now testifies to the stupidity of the Obama-Clinton-Panetta trio with their "turn towards Asia." This demonstrates the complete political inability of the Obama administration to create constructive relations with China.
The American exactly cuts the tablet: the days from 22 to 24 in March 2013 of the year related to the official state visit of Xi Jinping, more precisely, with his first foreign visit after accepting the highest state post, unfortunately, gave a historical beginning to a new anti-American geopolitical alliance in East Asia.
So, Garner sums up, it’s likely that the Xi-22 X-Putin meeting in March was a turning point in history.
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an-sar
Be afraid of Danites, gifts bringing !!!!
Trapperxnumx
... but for now it is more profitable for them to trade than to fight. And, as it seems to me, Putin understands this perfectly well. N. Starikov has a wonderful idea about the "golden share", which is held today by Russia. Apparently, Mr. Putin decided it was time to use it ...
Dinver
China is not aiming at anything; you are picking up the disinformation propagated by the Western media. It is beneficial for the West that we are not friends, so he is trying to bring discord into friendly relations between Russia and China, he understands that the union of the two countries is the death of the Western model of development.
Employment difficulties
Chinese citizen 49-year-old Sisin (Steve) Liu was sentenced to six years in prison for illegally transferring US military technology to compatriots, reports "Lenta.ru" with reference to Reuters.
The Chinese, who worked at the Pentagon’s leading contractor, L3 Communications, transmitted data about the device that allows the UAV to hit targets without communicating with the satellite. Liu sent thousands of files with descriptions and device data to China. He conducted presentations at universities in the People's Republic of China and at conferences organized by the government, where he spoke in detail about the technology of the device. Why did he do it? Expected to get a good job in China!
According to the Washington Post, the losses from theft of technology for the American defense ministry could be hundreds of millions of dollars.
State Department does not issue secrets
The US continues to finance Russian NGOs through “platforms outside Russia,” State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland said at a press briefing on Thursday, reports correspondent RIA "News" Maria Tabak. However, what kind of "platform", she refused to specify.
“As you know, the Russians have seriously limited our ability to provide direct funding in Russia, especially with our decision to terminate the activities of the Agency for International Development. Nevertheless, we provide funding through platforms outside of Russia to those organizations that still want to work with us, knowing that they have to report to their government for this work, ”said Nuland. She added: “I don’t want to go into too much detail about how we do it, because it will only jeopardize these programs and organizations that receive funding.”
Further, the State Department spokeswoman stressed that the United States is actively working to understand exactly which organizations want to receive funding from them, and inform them about how to obtain such support.
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Valery Zolotukhin died
The actor and director Valery Zolotukhin died, reports Taganka Theater. Later information was confirmed by the head of the Moscow Department of Culture, Sergei Kapkov.
In early March, Zolotukhin was hospitalized in intensive care. Doctors ascertained partial paralysis and speech loss, then an inoperable brain tumor, and then they introduced him into a drug coma.
After the director and artistic director of the Taganka Theater Yuri Lyubimov left the theater, Zolotukhin was appointed director with the functions of the artistic director of the theater. In early March, he quit this position for health reasons, and was diagnosed with a brain tumor and placed in the Russian X-ray Radiology Center, where he was observed until his death, reports NEWSru.com.
The farewell to Valery Zolotukhin will be held on April 2 in the Moscow Taganka Theater, ITAR-TASS reported in the artist’s own theater.
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