Results of the week. “Yes, everything is so. Everything! They saw, condemned, waved, potryndel, smoked - and that's all. And everything is so ... "
Accounts Chamber: the purchase of food for the Russian army was conducted through offshore
Auditors of the Accounts Chamber of the Russian Federation disclosed the scheme of “inefficient spending of budget funds” through the structures of the Ministry of Defense. Voentorg, which received government contracts to provide soldiers with food and bath accessories, reassigned its obligations to several companies registered in the Seychelles. At the same time, part of the budget funds was spent not on purpose.
The report on the results of the verification of the activity of Voentorg OJSC on the implementation of contracts concluded with the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation on 2011-2012 year is published on the website of the Accounts Chamber. According to the data obtained, the built-in scheme for the provision of services for “catering and bathing and laundry services for military personnel does not correspond to the principle of effectiveness and efficiency”. Such a system not only complicates the work of the controlling authorities, but also creates prerequisites for the embezzlement of budget funds.
Apparently, Anatoly Eduardovich Serdyukov at one time decided that if the Russian servicemen could not afford to relax on the exotic beaches of the distant Seychelles, then at least imagine such a rest, eating a soldier’s meal in the canteen of his military unit. And also: well, what are the long hands of our “Voentorg” - in their desire to provide domestic draftees with everything they needed to get right up to the Indian Ocean itself. Well, and who after that will challenge Vladimir Volfovich's immortal phrase that our soldiers in the Indian Ocean will wash their boots. So far, however, not soldiers are washing, and not boots at all, but a precedent has been created. Start with offshore - it will be easier further, - as the great combinators from Voentorg said ...
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Revealed a major fraud in the construction of Olympic facilities
The Main Directorate for Economic Security and Anti-Corruption of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia, with the assistance of the prosecutor's office of the Krasnodar Territory, uncovered an illegal income-generating scheme for the construction of Olympic facilities. It is suspected of former managers of OAO Krasnaya Polyana and co-owner of OAO National Bank for Business Development (NBRB).
A criminal case was initiated against the former general and financial directors of Krasnaya Polyana OJSC under art. 201 of the Criminal Code ("Abuse of authority").
The head of the "Resorts of the North Caucasus" Ahmed Bilalov, who was also the deputy head of the Olympic Committee of the Russian Federation, became the person involved in the case of abuse of authority (in legal language), that is, the banal theft of popular funds (in Russian). Only now, as reported by the Russian and the press (in particular, the newspaper Izvestia), the investigators are still unable to talk “face to face” with Ahmed Gadzhievich, because according to some sources, he is in the territory of not even the North Caucasian resort places , namely, in German Baden-Baden, where since last month he has been improving his unexpectedly shaky health. Before that, Mr. Bilalov began a massive sale of his Russian property. What is it for? Whether the treatment of Ahmed Gadzhievich will take a long time - beyond the reach of Russian law enforcement ...
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Serbia asked Russia to help with the modernization of the army
Serbian Prime Minister Ivitz Dacic on Wednesday, 10 April, met with Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu.
“There is a great need for the Serbian army to modernize and purchase modern types of weapons,” Dacic said at the meeting.
In the course of communication with Dacic, Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev said that Russia had provided Serbia with a state loan of half a billion dollars on concessional terms. For what purpose the loan is provided, not specified.
It looks like our Serbian friends decided to play it safe because the “eternal friendship” offered by Brussels to Belgrade gives off with a fair tinge ... The Kosovo decided to spread the extremism, drug trafficking and “black” trafficking in human organs ... somewhat refresh the situation with the help of new types of Russian military equipment. The idea is not bad, especially since there is information about the possible start of assembling Russian armored vehicles in Serbia itself - in the central part of this Balkan state. This once again proves that the best friendship with “partners” from the EU is one in which in the background there are armored, air, naval and rocket means for its (friendship) strengthening ...
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Scouts of the Russian military base in Abkhazia are learning to fight terrorists
Anti-terrorist exercises are being conducted with reconnaissance units of the Russian military base stationed in the Republic of Abkhazia, with tasks being worked out in a mountainous and wooded area, as well as on the sea coast.
During the exercise, the intelligence officers will detect and destroy a conditional terrorist group that has landed on the Black Sea coast and is moving inland.
They will also learn how to make ambushes and raids on sabotage groups, detect and destroy their bases and strongholds, and, during the combat shooting phase, improve the skills of firing from BTR-80 weapons, sniper rifles, Pecheneg machine guns and other types of rifle weapons.
The teachings of the Russian servicemen are gradually becoming commonplace. But in the last quarter of a century, everything systematically went to the fact that the Russian army stubbornly tried to put in a kind of pen ... Foreign "observers" would pass by the pen and stated the fact that everything in Russia is in order - the army de jure is but, de facto, of all the training activities, it works, perhaps, the construction of general dachas. But times are changing, which leads the "partners" to a state of constant creaking with bleached teeth. Well, then creak-creak, and then, you see, get used to ... You have to get used to.
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Saakashvili checked for crimes against humanity
The current head of the Cabinet of Ministers, Bidzina Ivanishvili, was marked by the explosion of a political bomb in Georgia the other day. He directly accused President Saakashvili of starting the war with Russia in August 2008, and called for a full-scale internal investigation into the events of 4,5-year-old. As they say, better late than never ...
According to the Prime Minister and concurrently the leader of the movement “Georgian Dream”, it was the actions of the still active Georgian President Saakashvili in the “Olympic” August that led to the fact that part of Georgia lost a certain percentage of territories. In addition, Ivanishvili is convinced that the time has come when the truth about who actually unleashed the war (and this is true, and the head of the Georgian Cabinet himself speaks about this) is contained in the report of the EU commission chaired by Heidi Tagliavini, who made an unequivocal conclusion wars from Georgia), now the Georgian people should know.
It should be noted that the Georgian president flatly refused to cooperate with the investigation. And this is far from unnatural: if the stigma is a cannon, then what kind of cooperation is there ... Unless, following the example of a well-known Russian ex-official, to play with investigators in silence, and then, use the advice of a lawyer, and prepare an extensive report on his innocence ”on several sheets of A4 format.
The categorical statements of Saakashvili that he is not going to cooperate with the anti-state investigation were emphasized by the repeated use of the words "occupiers" and "occupation". And what else can distract public attention from its irresponsible policy towards its own people? .. But do not worry. Georgians have to wait a bit - autumn is just around the corner. In the fall, Mikhail Nikolozovich will acquire the “ex” prefix, and you won't have much to talk to a person in the status of such a prefix ...
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What positions return ensigns and midshipmen?
Russian Defense Minister, Army General Sergei Shoigu instructed the Chief of the Russian General Staff, Valery Gerasimov, before the end of the week to prepare a directive on which posts the warrant officers and midshipmen could be appointed to.
"This week a directive should be prepared on when and to what posts ensigns and warrant officers can be appointed and accepted," Shoigu said at a conference call in Moscow on Monday. The head of the Ministry of Defense stressed that these should be exclusively technical posts.
Noteworthy can be considered the statement of Sergei Shoigu that the warehouses and bases for ensigns and midshipmen should not be considered as the places of their future work. Only - sophisticated equipment and weapons. Apparently, military depots and other various capers will remain lonely without a caring hand of a real ensign ... Although, frankly, this anecdote with thievish ensigns and crystal honest “everyone else” has been somewhat delayed and unequivocally outdated ...
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Day of Cosmonautics
In this light, truly great day for our country, we believe that the Jura Gagarins, who are ready for feats not out of vanity, but at the call of the heart and at the behest of duty, out of great love for the Motherland and neighbor, live among us today, they sit for school desk in Ussuriysk, comprehend the "chitas and hardships" under Chita, gnaw the granite of science in St. Petersburg post-graduate school, dream of Great Russia, looking into an open European window somewhere near Kaliningrad and Lvov, near Brest, Riga, Tallinn; they dream of epaulets of a Russian officer, driving football in the midst of Central Asian dunes; they still dream of becoming astronauts, polar sailors, and design engineers. Simple Russian boys, Yury Gagarins of the 21 century ... Yura, Russia needs new Victories!
The first manned flight into space is an event that will remain a subject of pride for Russia at all times. Great achievement, great victory, great reason for unity!
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Bashar Asad learned from the mistakes of Hussein and Gaddafi
Chemical hysteria flares up around Syria again, fueled by heart-rending cries of “oppositionists”, which, in turn, are replicated on the network, on paper and on TV by Western media. The UN, a tool fully controlled by the West led by the United States, attempted to “inspect” Syria for the use of “non-conventional” weapons of mass destruction. However, Comrade Assad ordered a group of observers, God knows the purposes for which he decided to stick his noses into Syria and not let him go into the country. And rightly so: what for? The UN Security Council does not pay attention to the terrorist attacks in Syria, and Washington doesn’t condemn them at all: after all, Islamist terrorists who kill students, children and women in Syria are thus fighting for liberalism and democracy.
After reading the democratic Western press, condemning the repressive chemical activities of Assad, the head of the UN, Ban Ki-moon She urged Damascus to show additional flexibility and contribute to sending to Syria a group that will investigate the possible use of weapons of mass destruction. The UN Secretary General stated this in the Hague at the III Review Conference of the Organization on the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons. As soon as the rebels said: “On Tuesday, around four in the morning, the Assad armed forces fired three rockets filled with gas at the village of Utaiba,” as Mr. Ban Ki-moon instantly organized a relevant group of chemists in Cyprus, who expressed their readiness to immediately leave for Syria — like Only Comrade B. Asad will give permission to visit all the necessary objects. Negotiations with official Damascus are ongoing: the UN insists.
Previously, various gentlemen, also pretending to be inspectors, pushed their noses into Iraq. None of them found evidence of weapons of mass destruction there, but the war started anyway. 14 February 2003, Saddam Hussein signed a decree banning the importation and manufacture of weapons of mass destruction, but what's the point? Colonel Gaddafi, the Libyan leader, refused even to think about weapons of mass destruction - if only the West was not nervous. But now there is neither Saddam nor Muammar. And there is also in stories sad example of Slobodan Milosevic. The West has dealt with all three leaders of the states - while pondering the United Nations. So why please the West and let dubious bloodhounds enter the country to hide behind the UN logos?
Think not a sleuth? Why then did the UN put forward this exorbitant demand: that the specialists work throughout the country? Syria’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs has therefore banned them from entering the country. Official Damascus did not generally object to the presence of experts (let’s, say, work in Aleppo, where the Syrian opposition last month seemed to use chemical weapons against civilians), but not throughout the country.
Hearing such a refusal, the rebels became agitated again - and started up new rumors. Now they claim that government forces deployed chemical weapons in the suburbs of Damascus. Ban Ki-moon expressed confidence that the statements on this subject should be investigated.
Assad took into account the mistakes of both Hussein and Gaddafi. Any penetration of western bloodhounds into Syria can serve as a key to further invasion. Aggressors from the United States and Europe have repeatedly warned Assad that, in the event of even a suspicious "transfer" of chemical weapons stockpiles, democratic intervention will follow in response. It is necessary only to the Cyprus Commission, which wants to sniff the whole country, hint at the fact that it smells like yprite in the air, how the NATO forces will start, gathering their forces, which are weak from crisis, to draw up plans for aggression.
Agency SANA President position explained quite lucidly: “Syria cannot allow the freedom of maneuver of the organization, albeit part of the UN, since we perfectly remember the role it played in Iraq, clearing the way for the American military invasion.”
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Malian Gold Expedition
Recently, the French president reported that before the end of the year Paris intends to cut military contingent in Mali up to a thousand people. “At the end of April we will begin the withdrawal of troops. Now there are thousands of 4 military. In July, no more than 2 of thousands of French soldiers will remain in Mali, at the end of the year only a thousand, ”the president said, noting that, if necessary, France’s military presence in the country could be strengthened. And at any time. According to Hollande, France has already achieved the solution of the main operational tasks.
Statement from the category of invigorating morning speeches. Earlier, Francois Hollande, if you believe the numerous reports of the Western press, promised to finish the operation in Mali by March and completely withdraw troops from there. Analysts were tormented by vague doubts that France either discovered a new Afghanistan, or climbs in Mali, not at all for the sake of killing the unfortunate terrorists, who are full in Syria and whom, as it turns out, it willy-nilly supports it.
Fighters for peace around the world from antiwar.com have cast their voices here. In their opinion, published in Russian on the portal "Military Observer", the preservation of military personnel in Mali around 1000 (this was said by Laurent Fabius, the foreign minister) is not meant to achieve the goal of “fighting terrorism”, but to ensure control over the natural resources of Mali. So that the French warriors in Mali did not stagnate, the military leadership even developed a rotation plan.
As for the actual war against terrorists (who already organize suicide attacks, for example, in Timbuktu), then the battles will be fought not by the French, on whom the UN Secretary General relies, but by African soldiers (primarily from Chad), who are about to be promoted to peacekeepers.
The authors of antiwar.com have no doubt that the cities of Kidal and Tessalit were liberated by the Tuareg rebel troops, and not by French soldiers. Parisians arrived only for the final sweep. Patrols are also almost universally taken by Africans.
And what about the French? In the near future, they will train those who are storming the outposts of the Islamists. And so that the learning France is not impoverished, it is supported by the EU. Recently, a European Union mission began in Bamako: within its framework, Malian police and military will soon begin training.
8 April French military embarked on to operation "Gustav". According to General Bernard Barrera, commander of the land units of the French contingent, this operation promises to be the most visible action by France since the intervention in the situation. The operation involved about a thousand soldiers, several dozen armored vehicles, helicopters and UAVs.
"Visible"? The French army, of course, is hard not to notice, but it so happened that on the first day of Gustav the military did not meet a single Islamist at all. In bracing reports, the 340 neutralization of artillery shells hidden by the rebels ... under acacias is reported.
According to open data, Mali is not only the region’s largest exporter of cotton, but also the third largest gold producer in Africa. Yellow metal is the main source of income of this state. Mali produces about 50 tons of gold per year (20% of the country's GDP and about 70% of exports). Mali's gold reserves are estimated at 600-800 tons.
Who is the main buyer of Malian gold? It is not difficult to guess - China. Its share in purchases of gold from Mali is 26,4%. Here we find the second goal of the French government: to oust China from Africa. This goal is consonant with the goals of the United States, which does not like the growing power of the Middle Kingdom.
Paris has already scheduled elections in Mali - and in a very short time. French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius, arriving in Mali, said: “Elections will be held in July. No one, including politicians, offered any other options, it is very important for us that the voting be held within the specified time frame. ” Analysts point out that the timeline is too short, given the instability in the north and the presence of 400 thousands of refugees.
But it is important for the West (“it is very important for us”) to bring its people to power. Neo-colonialism starts in Mali.
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Missiles against Microsoft
12 April "Vesti"referring to Interfax, placed among other world News information that the launch of the North Korean ballistic missile "Musudan" has been postponed. The reason for the delay was the difficulty with Windows 8. This was written by the American magazine "New Yorker", citing reports from the Central Control Commission.
According to American intelligence analysts, until recently, North Korean missile software was based on Windows 95.
Now experts are trying to solve the problem. According to the magazine “New Yorker”, the DPRK leader Kim Jong-un is preparing to declare war on Microsoft Corporation.
As the RIA News", the popular American magazine "New Yorker" posted parody note. The material is part of the author's heading Andy Borovits, a famous American humorist.
In his column, Borowitz, referring to the Korea Central Telegraph Agency, actually wrote that Pyongyang had postponed the launch of a ballistic missile for an indefinite period due to the failure of Windows 8.
“Military analysts believe that this statement provides a rare opportunity to see from within the problems of the North Korean rocket program, which last year used Windows 95,” the humorist jokes, imitating the vocabulary of numerous reports on this topic. A source in the power structures of the DPRK allegedly informed Mr. Borovits that Kim Jong-un was furious because of a software malfunction and is now considering the possibility of declaring the war "Microsoft".
The reason for writing the parody news was another round of tension on the Korean Peninsula.
The crisis has covered America
10 April The White House sent to the Congress a draft budget for the 2014 fiscal year (such as the United States begins on October 1). No matter how hard it is to recognize liberals and democrats of all stripes and shades who worship the Statue of Liberty, in Washington from now on they will take into account the sequestration - compulsory cuts in government spending. The upcoming minus is 85 billion dollars. As for military expenditures (they cannot be called defense), the Pentagon’s draft budget for the 2014 year is estimated at 526,6 billion. There is also unverified information that the US Department of Defense will request 9,16 billion dollars for missile defense programs. This is about 0,55 billion less than in the 2013 year.
Natalia Zhuravleva ("Sight") indicates that in the short term, budget sequestration will force the United States to limit its presence in the world. Half the cuts accounted for precisely military spending. As the magazine "Forbes", the army will be reduced to the level of the period of the Second World War - from 45 brigades to 32. At the disposal of the Navy will be as many ships as it was in 1915 year, that is, 230. Also, the Navy will stop the work on the overhaul of two aircraft carriers and postpone construction or cancel orders for some of the most necessary and modern combat ships.
The air force will postpone the overhaul of combat vehicles, some of which, one might say, are falling apart before our eyes. Under the sequester pleases and the notorious F-35 "Joint Strike Fighter". The project will also be “cut down” by a new strategic bomber.
Will get and the main conductor in the world of liberal-democratic ideas-the State Department. He writes N. Zhuravleva, will have to reduce the cost of 2,6 billion dollars.
The budget of the FBI "bite" 550 million dollars. “We are preparing for the possible dispatch of people on unpaid leave,” said FBI Director Robert Muller, recalling that 60% of the bureau's budget comes from employee pay.
And some more trivia: a) in the US, 398 national parks will be fully or partially closed; b) funding for research and research programs will be reduced; c) “exclusively for budget reasons” more than 2,2 thousand migrants convicted of criminal offenses were released from US prisons.
What can I say, if the Americans have no money even for the trials of terrorists - and, as they say, “with a reputation”.
The trial of Suleiman Abu Gheit, one of the leaders of Al-Qaida and the son-in-law of the late bin Laden, will begin in New York only on January 7 of 2014 of the year. Such a decision through "I do not want" accepted the federal judge Lewis Kaplan. He planned to begin the process in September of this year, but Abu Gate’s lawyers said they would not have time to prepare for this deadline. Blame again sequestration.
“By the beginning of autumn, all state-appointed lawyers in federal affairs will have to go on vacation for five and a half weeks. Therefore, it will be very difficult for the defense to prepare for September, ”said Martin Cohen, one of the lawyers for the defendant.
The judge called it shocking that because of the forced budget cuts, the trial of Al-Qaida’s leader will be delayed. According to the investigation, 47-year-old Abu Gate was directly involved in the organization of the September 11 2001 attacks.
2014 is still far away. One fiscal year in the United States is replaced by another. Who can guarantee that, in connection with the new sequestration, Comrade Abu Gate will not be released, like those 2200 pardoned criminal migrants who are already walking around Washington and Chicago?
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“The battle did not last long: timid Georgians fled!”
Over two hundred conscript soldiers left the location of a military unit in eastern Georgia without permission. Reports about it "Lenta.ru" with reference to Georgia Online. One deserter explained the general step of not wanting to follow the order of the commander ... to clean the latrines.
This soldier said in an interview with Rustavi 2 TV channel: “We, the soldiers, are there to learn the art of war, and not to scrub toilets. If it is priority for them to scrub toilets, for us it was unacceptable and we left. ”
According to the Georgian media, the soldiers left the Paldo field camp, covered the distance of 15 kilometers on foot, and then returned home using various means. They left weapons in parts.
Colonel Irakli Dzneladze, head of the joint headquarters of the Georgian armed forces, confirmed to journalists that the servicemen had left the unit without permission. At the same time, Dzneladze stressed that the order given to the soldiers was in accordance with the established schedule and was not aimed at degrading their dignity. “Whoever does not fulfill his duties will not be a soldier,” the colonel emphasized. - The internal routine includes cleaning the barracks and that's it. ”
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Latvians left to exist thirty years. And maybe ten
Lawyer Andris Grutups, whose opinion is transmitted by Apollo.lv, believes that the Latvian nation may disappear in 30 years. “If you look at the number of people leaving the country, it is not difficult to calculate how many people will remain here by the 2042 year. Incomplete 30 years - and everything, the nation will not be ", - quotes his words "Lenta.ru".
What contributes to the disappearance of the Latvian nation?
According to DELFI, the lawyer stated that the idea of a liberal economy realized in the 1990s crashed in Latvia. Here and the closure of factories left over from Soviet times, and the hopes of Latvians that they will live "at the expense of agriculture, transport and banks." Then the lawyer complained about the absence of a national ideology in the country, noting at the same time that now in Latvia a lot of traitors have accumulated who would welcome "strangers Tanks».
The lawyer is not alone in his fears. The fact that the existence of Latvia was under threat, said the President of the Republic Andris Berzins earlier, reminds Lenta. The reason for this, along with a reduction in the population, he called the inefficiency of the state apparatus. "We have created an expensive and inefficient state administration, unnecessary to our small state," he stated in an interview with Telegraph. - You can not manage a country with a population of 2 million as well as with a population of 40-50 million. This is stupid. If you continue this way, it will not take ten years for us to disappear. ”
Thus, we note that if a lawyer gives Latvians another thirty years, the president is inclined to reduce this period to ten.
In the period from 2000 to 2010, the population of Latvia, according to the Central Statistical Bureau, decreased by 13 percent (a decrease of 307 thousand people). This was mainly caused by emigration.
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Dead, Potikins and Sitskins
Maxim Lisovsky ("Voice of Russia"), referring to the Rex news agency, spoke about a new Latvian curiosity: Russian parents cannot get a birth certificate for their son. The fact is that the authorities of the city of Liepaja refuse to call him Miron, instead offering the Latvian form of the name Mironik. But in Russian, this means ... "dead".
Of course, parents do not want their child to be called "dead", and they seek to be issued documents with a Russian name. For a month now, the city authorities have not issued documents to the child, referring to the law “On the state language”, which allows the residents to bring their names in accordance with the grammar of the Latvian language. Human rights activists say that Latvia imposes altered names to its citizens in violation of the European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms, binding on all EU members.
Ruslan Pankratov, deputy of the Riga City Council from the “Accord Center”, told NewsBalt that ridiculous situations arise from the translation of Russian names by the authorities in Latvia. Compare: Mark and Marx, Pyshkin and Pischins, Shishkin and Siskins.
But Russians living in Latvia are forced to use the Latvian version of the name when traveling to Russia.
Seeing off the “iron lady”
As transmits Interfax, residents of several cities in the UK, including London, celebrated the death of the Iron Lady. The rally in Bristol even ended with clashes with the police: there six police officers were injured during the dispersal of two hundred demonstrators celebrating the death of the “iron lady”. The newspaper “Daily Telegraph” told about it.
A similar action also took place in the southern suburb of London - Brixton, where about two hundred people gathered on Tuesday night. At first, the promotion was announced on Facebook. The demonstrators changed the announcement of the upcoming premiere on the building of the cinema "Ritzy", laying out the letters: "Margaret Thatcher is dead, ha ha ha." The participants chanted: “Maggie, Maggie, Maggie, dead, dead, dead.”
Then the police detained two participants who are suspected of burglary of one of the shops, said the Guardian.
In the center of London on Trafalgar Square, everything went smoothly: people simply noted Thatcher’s death by drinking champagne.
In Scottish Glasgow, celebrate the death of the Iron Lady came more than 300 people. They gathered in the town square of St. George, where they sang, danced and played musical instruments.
In Facebook, the campaign to promote the first place in the music charts of the song “Ding Dong! The Witch is Dead ”(“ Din-Don! The Witch is Dead ”).
As the Mixednews.ru With reference to TNT Magazine, former Mayor of London Ken Livingstone says: “It was she (M. Thatcher) who created the current housing crisis, because of her there was a banking crisis, she created a crisis of benefits. In fact, every serious problem we face today is a legacy of the fact that it was fundamentally wrong. ”
The Secretary-General of the National Union of Miners, Chris Kitchen, said: “We have long been waiting for news of the demise of Baroness Thatcher, and I cannot say that I am very sorry. I will not shed tears on it. ”
The Guardian’s editorial article about Thatcher’s death concludes: “Her legacy was the division of society, personal egoism, and the cult of greed.”
In a column in The Daily Beast, singer Morrissey remarked: "As a fact of record, one can argue that Thatcher was a terror without a single atom of humanity."
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Comrade Putin was in the Finnish criminal register
The name of the Russian president was included in Finland in a certain secret criminal register, which theoretically gives grounds for arrest. According to foreign media reports, the president of Russia was placed on the Finnish “black list” for contacts with members of the Night Wolves biker club, which was called the “organized criminal group.”
The Finnish police apologized for this mistake, and the head of the Finnish Ministry of the Interior expressed the hope that such a misunderstanding would not harm relations with Russia.
Vladimir Putin to the inclusion in the Finnish black list, prohibiting him from entering this European country, reacted with irony, pass "Vesti" with reference to Interfax.
Presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov said: “I don’t think this requires some kind of response. As far as we know, the Finnish side itself discovered this mistake in time. An appropriate check is being conducted there, so I do not think that any additional actions are required here. The Finns themselves have already responded and apologized. ”
Says and shows "Femen"
The visit of the President of Russia to Germany and the Netherlands on April 8 was interrupted by activists of the movement “Femen”. The girls undressed in the presence of Putin and Merkel when they looked at the Volkswagen booth at the Hannover exhibition. Activists shouted obscene slogans in English. President of Russia, writes "Lenta.ru", responded to the performance positively, showing a thumbs up in approval.
One of the representatives of feminists, Alexandra Shevchenko, shared her impressions of the action against the President of the Russian Federation. An interview with an activist was published by the Belarusian “ERB”. According to Shevchenko, she and her colleagues managed to get to the exhibition as visitors. “I will not give the whole scheme and the technical side of the case. The most important thing to get there is the absence of fear of Putin, of his armed guards ", - quotes her words "Lenta.ru". Shevchenko noted that she saw how the face of the Russian leader was changing, when she, undressing and shouting, “ran at him”.
“From the calm, with a smile, to what you see in the pictures is a silly one, with a wandering smile,” she explained. The reporter’s assumption that Putin was probably interested in what was happening was rejected by the activist, expressing the opinion that the president at that moment was interested in the question “where is the hole in his defense?”
A spokeswoman for the organization also said that the Russian president took the action "as a humiliation" and demanded that the German authorities punish its participants. According to her, the police allegedly admitted that they had no reason to initiate a criminal case against the activists, but this (the initiation of the case) was nevertheless done due to pressure from the Kremlin.
The police detained and interrogated five members of the movement, reminds "Lenta". They got a case under the article "Insulting government agencies and representatives of foreign governments." Later, the press secretary of the Russian president, Dmitry Peskov, called the rally hooliganism, but clarified that he did not call for punishing the girls. Putin himself, commenting on the incident, admitted that he knew about the upcoming action, but she was “not very impressed”.
“I didn't have breakfast in the morning. If they, as they say, showed me sausage or lard, it would have pleased me, but those charms that they demonstrate are not very good, ”the Russian leader RIA Novosti quoted the words.
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* “Yes, that's it. Everything! They saw, condemned, waved, potryndel, smoked - and that's all. And so ... "- a phrase from the movie" 12 "
Auditors of the Accounts Chamber of the Russian Federation disclosed the scheme of “inefficient spending of budget funds” through the structures of the Ministry of Defense. Voentorg, which received government contracts to provide soldiers with food and bath accessories, reassigned its obligations to several companies registered in the Seychelles. At the same time, part of the budget funds was spent not on purpose.
The report on the results of the verification of the activity of Voentorg OJSC on the implementation of contracts concluded with the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation on 2011-2012 year is published on the website of the Accounts Chamber. According to the data obtained, the built-in scheme for the provision of services for “catering and bathing and laundry services for military personnel does not correspond to the principle of effectiveness and efficiency”. Such a system not only complicates the work of the controlling authorities, but also creates prerequisites for the embezzlement of budget funds.
Apparently, Anatoly Eduardovich Serdyukov at one time decided that if the Russian servicemen could not afford to relax on the exotic beaches of the distant Seychelles, then at least imagine such a rest, eating a soldier’s meal in the canteen of his military unit. And also: well, what are the long hands of our “Voentorg” - in their desire to provide domestic draftees with everything they needed to get right up to the Indian Ocean itself. Well, and who after that will challenge Vladimir Volfovich's immortal phrase that our soldiers in the Indian Ocean will wash their boots. So far, however, not soldiers are washing, and not boots at all, but a precedent has been created. Start with offshore - it will be easier further, - as the great combinators from Voentorg said ...
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Engineer74:
Too bad to read about new episodes of these criminal cases - you stop believing in your country ...
Whatever is done in Russia, there is always a scum who has heated his hands on it ...
Whatever is done in Russia, there is always a scum who has heated his hands on it ...
Vilenich:
I need to start, in my opinion, with the very idea of outsourcing, which, as implemented in VS, is fundamentally flawed. And this concerns not only food supply, whose issues in wartime are not solved at all, but also financial, many technical issues, etc. Under the guise of effective management, the gates were opened wide for all sorts of abuse and deriban of budget money to the detriment of the country's defense.
Revealed a major fraud in the construction of Olympic facilities
The Main Directorate for Economic Security and Anti-Corruption of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia, with the assistance of the prosecutor's office of the Krasnodar Territory, uncovered an illegal income-generating scheme for the construction of Olympic facilities. It is suspected of former managers of OAO Krasnaya Polyana and co-owner of OAO National Bank for Business Development (NBRB).
A criminal case was initiated against the former general and financial directors of Krasnaya Polyana OJSC under art. 201 of the Criminal Code ("Abuse of authority").
The head of the "Resorts of the North Caucasus" Ahmed Bilalov, who was also the deputy head of the Olympic Committee of the Russian Federation, became the person involved in the case of abuse of authority (in legal language), that is, the banal theft of popular funds (in Russian). Only now, as reported by the Russian and the press (in particular, the newspaper Izvestia), the investigators are still unable to talk “face to face” with Ahmed Gadzhievich, because according to some sources, he is in the territory of not even the North Caucasian resort places , namely, in German Baden-Baden, where since last month he has been improving his unexpectedly shaky health. Before that, Mr. Bilalov began a massive sale of his Russian property. What is it for? Whether the treatment of Ahmed Gadzhievich will take a long time - beyond the reach of Russian law enforcement ...
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Yarbay:
You know what surprised me?
When Putin inspected the objects, he saw that the size of the theft was blatant; asked, they say, who owns the construction contract, and who is to blame?
If I'm not mistaken, Kozak briskly replied, saying, Bilalov!
So what prevented the members of the government responsible for the construction (the same Kozak) to punish Bilalov earlier?
I read that 41 is a percentage of a construction company owned by the Bilalov brothers.
Do not be surprised if the rest belongs to close relatives of other officials!
When Putin inspected the objects, he saw that the size of the theft was blatant; asked, they say, who owns the construction contract, and who is to blame?
If I'm not mistaken, Kozak briskly replied, saying, Bilalov!
So what prevented the members of the government responsible for the construction (the same Kozak) to punish Bilalov earlier?
I read that 41 is a percentage of a construction company owned by the Bilalov brothers.
Do not be surprised if the rest belongs to close relatives of other officials!
Skunk:
If the amount stolen exceeds 500 millions, there are no defendants in the case, only witnesses ...
Serbia asked Russia to help with the modernization of the army
Serbian Prime Minister Ivitz Dacic on Wednesday, 10 April, met with Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu.
“There is a great need for the Serbian army to modernize and purchase modern types of weapons,” Dacic said at the meeting.
In the course of communication with Dacic, Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev said that Russia had provided Serbia with a state loan of half a billion dollars on concessional terms. For what purpose the loan is provided, not specified.
It looks like our Serbian friends decided to play it safe because the “eternal friendship” offered by Brussels to Belgrade gives off with a fair tinge ... The Kosovo decided to spread the extremism, drug trafficking and “black” trafficking in human organs ... somewhat refresh the situation with the help of new types of Russian military equipment. The idea is not bad, especially since there is information about the possible start of assembling Russian armored vehicles in Serbia itself - in the central part of this Balkan state. This once again proves that the best friendship with “partners” from the EU is one in which in the background there are armored, air, naval and rocket means for its (friendship) strengthening ...
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Fantomac:
Of course, you need to help. Serbs say to themselves, we are Russian in the Balkans. They are Russia's loyal allies, whatever happens is time tested.
Tambov we ...:
It is necessary to help, especially after the betrayal of EBN.
MRomanovich:
Strange situation. And I want and prickly. On the one hand, the fraternal people, and on the other - a loan to a country that intends to join the company of our potential opponents. And why the West does not prevent this event, even briefly? Either the Serbs were told to request a loan for a tangible amount, or ours somehow decided to outplay the bourgeoisie, or something else. In a word, my brains can't stand the load when I think about this situation. Or maybe I just have a persecution craze and I am mistaken?
Scouts of the Russian military base in Abkhazia are learning to fight terrorists
Anti-terrorist exercises are being conducted with reconnaissance units of the Russian military base stationed in the Republic of Abkhazia, with tasks being worked out in a mountainous and wooded area, as well as on the sea coast.
During the exercise, the intelligence officers will detect and destroy a conditional terrorist group that has landed on the Black Sea coast and is moving inland.
They will also learn how to make ambushes and raids on sabotage groups, detect and destroy their bases and strongholds, and, during the combat shooting phase, improve the skills of firing from BTR-80 weapons, sniper rifles, Pecheneg machine guns and other types of rifle weapons.
The teachings of the Russian servicemen are gradually becoming commonplace. But in the last quarter of a century, everything systematically went to the fact that the Russian army stubbornly tried to put in a kind of pen ... Foreign "observers" would pass by the pen and stated the fact that everything in Russia is in order - the army de jure is but, de facto, of all the training activities, it works, perhaps, the construction of general dachas. But times are changing, which leads the "partners" to a state of constant creaking with bleached teeth. Well, then creak-creak, and then, you see, get used to ... You have to get used to.
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Sibircat:
I think that units are being prepared, to ensure the safe conduct of the Olympiad, in Sochi.
In any case, mountain training is good.
In any case, mountain training is good.
Albatros:
Terrorists must be destroyed in the den. Take the "language" of Saakashvili, yes on trial and on Kolyma. There would be an example of the rest.
Saakashvili checked for crimes against humanity
The current head of the Cabinet of Ministers, Bidzina Ivanishvili, was marked by the explosion of a political bomb in Georgia the other day. He directly accused President Saakashvili of starting the war with Russia in August 2008, and called for a full-scale internal investigation into the events of 4,5-year-old. As they say, better late than never ...
According to the Prime Minister and concurrently the leader of the movement “Georgian Dream”, it was the actions of the still active Georgian President Saakashvili in the “Olympic” August that led to the fact that part of Georgia lost a certain percentage of territories. In addition, Ivanishvili is convinced that the time has come when the truth about who actually unleashed the war (and this is true, and the head of the Georgian Cabinet himself speaks about this) is contained in the report of the EU commission chaired by Heidi Tagliavini, who made an unequivocal conclusion wars from Georgia), now the Georgian people should know.
It should be noted that the Georgian president flatly refused to cooperate with the investigation. And this is far from unnatural: if the stigma is a cannon, then what kind of cooperation is there ... Unless, following the example of a well-known Russian ex-official, to play with investigators in silence, and then, use the advice of a lawyer, and prepare an extensive report on his innocence ”on several sheets of A4 format.
The categorical statements of Saakashvili that he is not going to cooperate with the anti-state investigation were emphasized by the repeated use of the words "occupiers" and "occupation". And what else can distract public attention from its irresponsible policy towards its own people? .. But do not worry. Georgians have to wait a bit - autumn is just around the corner. In the fall, Mikhail Nikolozovich will acquire the “ex” prefix, and you won't have much to talk to a person in the status of such a prefix ...
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Vladkust:
Most likely, soon they will find him next to a tie, which he did not finish.
Andrejws:
Saakashvili is already a political corpse and a waste for the West.
The initiative to investigate the circumstances of August 2008, is unlikely to be aimed at establishing the truth. The fact that the Georgian Prosecutor’s Office will do this does not change anything.
The purpose of the West: to raise the topic of conflict, they did it and the result is no difference to them.
Yes, during the investigation they will condemn the actions of Saakashvili. But at the same time, the prosecutor's office of Georgia will try to find (create) facts (albeit in trifles) speaking against Russia (this is necessary for a certain part of the electorate).
Taking into account the fact that advances in the resumption of relations between Russia and Georgia are both fragile and insignificant, it is beneficial for the West to raise a topic regarding which the quarrel has ended, but the parties have not yet moved away from resentment.
The initiative to investigate the circumstances of August 2008, is unlikely to be aimed at establishing the truth. The fact that the Georgian Prosecutor’s Office will do this does not change anything.
The purpose of the West: to raise the topic of conflict, they did it and the result is no difference to them.
Yes, during the investigation they will condemn the actions of Saakashvili. But at the same time, the prosecutor's office of Georgia will try to find (create) facts (albeit in trifles) speaking against Russia (this is necessary for a certain part of the electorate).
Taking into account the fact that advances in the resumption of relations between Russia and Georgia are both fragile and insignificant, it is beneficial for the West to raise a topic regarding which the quarrel has ended, but the parties have not yet moved away from resentment.
What positions return ensigns and midshipmen?
Russian Defense Minister, Army General Sergei Shoigu instructed the Chief of the Russian General Staff, Valery Gerasimov, before the end of the week to prepare a directive on which posts the warrant officers and midshipmen could be appointed to.
"This week a directive should be prepared on when and to what posts ensigns and warrant officers can be appointed and accepted," Shoigu said at a conference call in Moscow on Monday. The head of the Ministry of Defense stressed that these should be exclusively technical posts.
Shoigu: posts of ensigns and midshipmen must be technical
Noteworthy can be considered the statement of Sergei Shoigu that the warehouses and bases for ensigns and midshipmen should not be considered as the places of their future work. Only - sophisticated equipment and weapons. Apparently, military depots and other various capers will remain lonely without a caring hand of a real ensign ... Although, frankly, this anecdote with thievish ensigns and crystal honest “everyone else” has been somewhat delayed and unequivocally outdated ...
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VladimirZ:
And who will be in warehouses?
Probably, it is necessary to introduce new ranks for quartermaster posts, as it was before 40-s, or as a member of the tsarist army, the captenarmuses.
It is impossible to hang this cargo on civilians, as the experience of the “Women's Serdyukovka battalion” has shown - all warehouses will be stolen.
Probably, it is necessary to introduce new ranks for quartermaster posts, as it was before 40-s, or as a member of the tsarist army, the captenarmuses.
It is impossible to hang this cargo on civilians, as the experience of the “Women's Serdyukovka battalion” has shown - all warehouses will be stolen.
Old Ensign:
I serve as a senior warrant officer with 1998 g, in the army under a contract with 1993 g, all the time I served in the repbate as a commander of the platoon. Who served, he knows what a repbat is. These are permanent field exits, exercises and business trips. Conscripts - 50% from Dagestan and Tuva, too, no need to explain! And I'm not a thief! Look, how many generals and ministers steal, is it worth it to hang everything on ensigns? Shame on you!
Day of Cosmonautics
In this light, truly great day for our country, we believe that the Jura Gagarins, who are ready for feats not out of vanity, but at the call of the heart and at the behest of duty, out of great love for the Motherland and neighbor, live among us today, they sit for school desk in Ussuriysk, comprehend the "chitas and hardships" under Chita, gnaw the granite of science in St. Petersburg post-graduate school, dream of Great Russia, looking into an open European window somewhere near Kaliningrad and Lvov, near Brest, Riga, Tallinn; they dream of epaulets of a Russian officer, driving football in the midst of Central Asian dunes; they still dream of becoming astronauts, polar sailors, and design engineers. Simple Russian boys, Yury Gagarins of the 21 century ... Yura, Russia needs new Victories!
The first manned flight into space is an event that will remain a subject of pride for Russia at all times. Great achievement, great victory, great reason for unity!
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Yarbay:
When I remember those years, in the face of images of heroes!
All faces are harmonious, pleasant!
And now in the heroes on the screen or soulless "Robots”, or effeminate tantrums!
All faces are harmonious, pleasant!
And now in the heroes on the screen or soulless "Robots”, or effeminate tantrums!
Vadimus:
Where are our new Tsiolkovskys, Gagarins? Wake up Russia! Happy holiday!
Mikhado:
There was a time - succumbed to talk about "happiness and a hundred varieties of sausage" and traded on them "dusty paths of distant planets."
Well - happy?
Time to return to the path of true greatness, break away from the trough of momentary pleasures, and so that in our life GAGARIN WILL FLIGHT - one for all, to tears!
Well - happy?
Time to return to the path of true greatness, break away from the trough of momentary pleasures, and so that in our life GAGARIN WILL FLIGHT - one for all, to tears!
Bashar Asad learned from the mistakes of Hussein and Gaddafi
Chemical hysteria flares up around Syria again, fueled by heart-rending cries of “oppositionists”, which, in turn, are replicated on the network, on paper and on TV by Western media. The UN, a tool fully controlled by the West led by the United States, attempted to “inspect” Syria for the use of “non-conventional” weapons of mass destruction. However, Comrade Assad ordered a group of observers, God knows the purposes for which he decided to stick his noses into Syria and not let him go into the country. And rightly so: what for? The UN Security Council does not pay attention to the terrorist attacks in Syria, and Washington doesn’t condemn them at all: after all, Islamist terrorists who kill students, children and women in Syria are thus fighting for liberalism and democracy.
After reading the democratic Western press, condemning the repressive chemical activities of Assad, the head of the UN, Ban Ki-moon She urged Damascus to show additional flexibility and contribute to sending to Syria a group that will investigate the possible use of weapons of mass destruction. The UN Secretary General stated this in the Hague at the III Review Conference of the Organization on the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons. As soon as the rebels said: “On Tuesday, around four in the morning, the Assad armed forces fired three rockets filled with gas at the village of Utaiba,” as Mr. Ban Ki-moon instantly organized a relevant group of chemists in Cyprus, who expressed their readiness to immediately leave for Syria — like Only Comrade B. Asad will give permission to visit all the necessary objects. Negotiations with official Damascus are ongoing: the UN insists.
Previously, various gentlemen, also pretending to be inspectors, pushed their noses into Iraq. None of them found evidence of weapons of mass destruction there, but the war started anyway. 14 February 2003, Saddam Hussein signed a decree banning the importation and manufacture of weapons of mass destruction, but what's the point? Colonel Gaddafi, the Libyan leader, refused even to think about weapons of mass destruction - if only the West was not nervous. But now there is neither Saddam nor Muammar. And there is also in stories sad example of Slobodan Milosevic. The West has dealt with all three leaders of the states - while pondering the United Nations. So why please the West and let dubious bloodhounds enter the country to hide behind the UN logos?
Think not a sleuth? Why then did the UN put forward this exorbitant demand: that the specialists work throughout the country? Syria’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs has therefore banned them from entering the country. Official Damascus did not generally object to the presence of experts (let’s, say, work in Aleppo, where the Syrian opposition last month seemed to use chemical weapons against civilians), but not throughout the country.
Hearing such a refusal, the rebels became agitated again - and started up new rumors. Now they claim that government forces deployed chemical weapons in the suburbs of Damascus. Ban Ki-moon expressed confidence that the statements on this subject should be investigated.
Assad took into account the mistakes of both Hussein and Gaddafi. Any penetration of western bloodhounds into Syria can serve as a key to further invasion. Aggressors from the United States and Europe have repeatedly warned Assad that, in the event of even a suspicious "transfer" of chemical weapons stockpiles, democratic intervention will follow in response. It is necessary only to the Cyprus Commission, which wants to sniff the whole country, hint at the fact that it smells like yprite in the air, how the NATO forces will start, gathering their forces, which are weak from crisis, to draw up plans for aggression.
Agency SANA President position explained quite lucidly: “Syria cannot allow the freedom of maneuver of the organization, albeit part of the UN, since we perfectly remember the role it played in Iraq, clearing the way for the American military invasion.”
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Sirocco
My opinion: it's time to start cooperation and funding these freeloaders from the UN. This organization has become similar to the international gangs and ceased to perform its functions. And Assad wish good luck in the difficult task, and help than we can, so that this infection did not come to our house. If Assad is away from Syria, then the boomerang in the face of ready-made killers will return to the EU. Then we will see how they sing. And the UN, I propose to rename here in this place: 00.
Malian Gold Expedition
Recently, the French president reported that before the end of the year Paris intends to cut military contingent in Mali up to a thousand people. “At the end of April we will begin the withdrawal of troops. Now there are thousands of 4 military. In July, no more than 2 of thousands of French soldiers will remain in Mali, at the end of the year only a thousand, ”the president said, noting that, if necessary, France’s military presence in the country could be strengthened. And at any time. According to Hollande, France has already achieved the solution of the main operational tasks.
Statement from the category of invigorating morning speeches. Earlier, Francois Hollande, if you believe the numerous reports of the Western press, promised to finish the operation in Mali by March and completely withdraw troops from there. Analysts were tormented by vague doubts that France either discovered a new Afghanistan, or climbs in Mali, not at all for the sake of killing the unfortunate terrorists, who are full in Syria and whom, as it turns out, it willy-nilly supports it.
Fighters for peace around the world from antiwar.com have cast their voices here. In their opinion, published in Russian on the portal "Military Observer", the preservation of military personnel in Mali around 1000 (this was said by Laurent Fabius, the foreign minister) is not meant to achieve the goal of “fighting terrorism”, but to ensure control over the natural resources of Mali. So that the French warriors in Mali did not stagnate, the military leadership even developed a rotation plan.
As for the actual war against terrorists (who already organize suicide attacks, for example, in Timbuktu), then the battles will be fought not by the French, on whom the UN Secretary General relies, but by African soldiers (primarily from Chad), who are about to be promoted to peacekeepers.
The authors of antiwar.com have no doubt that the cities of Kidal and Tessalit were liberated by the Tuareg rebel troops, and not by French soldiers. Parisians arrived only for the final sweep. Patrols are also almost universally taken by Africans.
And what about the French? In the near future, they will train those who are storming the outposts of the Islamists. And so that the learning France is not impoverished, it is supported by the EU. Recently, a European Union mission began in Bamako: within its framework, Malian police and military will soon begin training.
8 April French military embarked on to operation "Gustav". According to General Bernard Barrera, commander of the land units of the French contingent, this operation promises to be the most visible action by France since the intervention in the situation. The operation involved about a thousand soldiers, several dozen armored vehicles, helicopters and UAVs.
"Visible"? The French army, of course, is hard not to notice, but it so happened that on the first day of Gustav the military did not meet a single Islamist at all. In bracing reports, the 340 neutralization of artillery shells hidden by the rebels ... under acacias is reported.
According to open data, Mali is not only the region’s largest exporter of cotton, but also the third largest gold producer in Africa. Yellow metal is the main source of income of this state. Mali produces about 50 tons of gold per year (20% of the country's GDP and about 70% of exports). Mali's gold reserves are estimated at 600-800 tons.
Who is the main buyer of Malian gold? It is not difficult to guess - China. Its share in purchases of gold from Mali is 26,4%. Here we find the second goal of the French government: to oust China from Africa. This goal is consonant with the goals of the United States, which does not like the growing power of the Middle Kingdom.
Paris has already scheduled elections in Mali - and in a very short time. French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius, arriving in Mali, said: “Elections will be held in July. No one, including politicians, offered any other options, it is very important for us that the voting be held within the specified time frame. ” Analysts point out that the timeline is too short, given the instability in the north and the presence of 400 thousands of refugees.
But it is important for the West (“it is very important for us”) to bring its people to power. Neo-colonialism starts in Mali.
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Tatarus
Just grinned.
France again pleased. Interestingly, this gay their contingent consists entirely of participants of the demonstration for same-sex marriage or half? Then it is clear that they did not meet the Islamists and that they found shells under the acacias. Hid, covered each other's backs.
France again pleased. Interestingly, this gay their contingent consists entirely of participants of the demonstration for same-sex marriage or half? Then it is clear that they did not meet the Islamists and that they found shells under the acacias. Hid, covered each other's backs.
Missiles against Microsoft
12 April "Vesti"referring to Interfax, placed among other world News information that the launch of the North Korean ballistic missile "Musudan" has been postponed. The reason for the delay was the difficulty with Windows 8. This was written by the American magazine "New Yorker", citing reports from the Central Control Commission.
According to American intelligence analysts, until recently, North Korean missile software was based on Windows 95.
Now experts are trying to solve the problem. According to the magazine “New Yorker”, the DPRK leader Kim Jong-un is preparing to declare war on Microsoft Corporation.
As the RIA News", the popular American magazine "New Yorker" posted parody note. The material is part of the author's heading Andy Borovits, a famous American humorist.
In his column, Borowitz, referring to the Korea Central Telegraph Agency, actually wrote that Pyongyang had postponed the launch of a ballistic missile for an indefinite period due to the failure of Windows 8.
“Military analysts believe that this statement provides a rare opportunity to see from within the problems of the North Korean rocket program, which last year used Windows 95,” the humorist jokes, imitating the vocabulary of numerous reports on this topic. A source in the power structures of the DPRK allegedly informed Mr. Borovits that Kim Jong-un was furious because of a software malfunction and is now considering the possibility of declaring the war "Microsoft".
The reason for writing the parody news was another round of tension on the Korean Peninsula.
The crisis has covered America
10 April The White House sent to the Congress a draft budget for the 2014 fiscal year (such as the United States begins on October 1). No matter how hard it is to recognize liberals and democrats of all stripes and shades who worship the Statue of Liberty, in Washington from now on they will take into account the sequestration - compulsory cuts in government spending. The upcoming minus is 85 billion dollars. As for military expenditures (they cannot be called defense), the Pentagon’s draft budget for the 2014 year is estimated at 526,6 billion. There is also unverified information that the US Department of Defense will request 9,16 billion dollars for missile defense programs. This is about 0,55 billion less than in the 2013 year.
Natalia Zhuravleva ("Sight") indicates that in the short term, budget sequestration will force the United States to limit its presence in the world. Half the cuts accounted for precisely military spending. As the magazine "Forbes", the army will be reduced to the level of the period of the Second World War - from 45 brigades to 32. At the disposal of the Navy will be as many ships as it was in 1915 year, that is, 230. Also, the Navy will stop the work on the overhaul of two aircraft carriers and postpone construction or cancel orders for some of the most necessary and modern combat ships.
The air force will postpone the overhaul of combat vehicles, some of which, one might say, are falling apart before our eyes. Under the sequester pleases and the notorious F-35 "Joint Strike Fighter". The project will also be “cut down” by a new strategic bomber.
Will get and the main conductor in the world of liberal-democratic ideas-the State Department. He writes N. Zhuravleva, will have to reduce the cost of 2,6 billion dollars.
The budget of the FBI "bite" 550 million dollars. “We are preparing for the possible dispatch of people on unpaid leave,” said FBI Director Robert Muller, recalling that 60% of the bureau's budget comes from employee pay.
And some more trivia: a) in the US, 398 national parks will be fully or partially closed; b) funding for research and research programs will be reduced; c) “exclusively for budget reasons” more than 2,2 thousand migrants convicted of criminal offenses were released from US prisons.
What can I say, if the Americans have no money even for the trials of terrorists - and, as they say, “with a reputation”.
The trial of Suleiman Abu Gheit, one of the leaders of Al-Qaida and the son-in-law of the late bin Laden, will begin in New York only on January 7 of 2014 of the year. Such a decision through "I do not want" accepted the federal judge Lewis Kaplan. He planned to begin the process in September of this year, but Abu Gate’s lawyers said they would not have time to prepare for this deadline. Blame again sequestration.
“By the beginning of autumn, all state-appointed lawyers in federal affairs will have to go on vacation for five and a half weeks. Therefore, it will be very difficult for the defense to prepare for September, ”said Martin Cohen, one of the lawyers for the defendant.
The judge called it shocking that because of the forced budget cuts, the trial of Al-Qaida’s leader will be delayed. According to the investigation, 47-year-old Abu Gate was directly involved in the organization of the September 11 2001 attacks.
2014 is still far away. One fiscal year in the United States is replaced by another. Who can guarantee that, in connection with the new sequestration, Comrade Abu Gate will not be released, like those 2200 pardoned criminal migrants who are already walking around Washington and Chicago?
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Geisenberg
More like castration. That is, on the whole, the body looks the same as before, and it feels quite decent, it only loses its only useful function, and in the final, instead of a confident baritone, begins to squeak in falsetto and pretty much becomes fat.
FC Skiff
Such news should be read in the morning: a great mood for the whole day.
Romn
They say they are beautiful, but, it seems to me, this is done more in order to lull the vigilance of others. Yes, the ships will cease to be exploited, but they, like many others, will simply be put on conservation, and at any time it will be possible to start exploiting again - in order to suppress the threat from another undemocratic country. And despite many cuts, they still sponsor the main programs, now they just get rid of unnecessary expenses, and nothing more. Therefore, there is nothing special to rejoice in, we will wait for them to start withdrawing all troops from bases around the world and let the ships to cut, then it will be HARASHOOOO!
“The battle did not last long: timid Georgians fled!”
Over two hundred conscript soldiers left the location of a military unit in eastern Georgia without permission. Reports about it "Lenta.ru" with reference to Georgia Online. One deserter explained the general step of not wanting to follow the order of the commander ... to clean the latrines.
This soldier said in an interview with Rustavi 2 TV channel: “We, the soldiers, are there to learn the art of war, and not to scrub toilets. If it is priority for them to scrub toilets, for us it was unacceptable and we left. ”
According to the Georgian media, the soldiers left the Paldo field camp, covered the distance of 15 kilometers on foot, and then returned home using various means. They left weapons in parts.
Colonel Irakli Dzneladze, head of the joint headquarters of the Georgian armed forces, confirmed to journalists that the servicemen had left the unit without permission. At the same time, Dzneladze stressed that the order given to the soldiers was in accordance with the established schedule and was not aimed at degrading their dignity. “Whoever does not fulfill his duties will not be a soldier,” the colonel emphasized. - The internal routine includes cleaning the barracks and that's it. ”
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Geokingxnumx
not soldiers left and recruits! from 4500 recruits only 600 will go to the soldiers (there is no more space)
Yashka Gorobets
Terrible Georgian soldiers are not accustomed to cleaning the parasite. It is urgently necessary to call moms to ass wiped. You can also enter new options: wipe the nozzles in the morning, and tell the tale for the night, and then the Georgian army will definitely be invincible.
Latvians left to exist thirty years. And maybe ten
Lawyer Andris Grutups, whose opinion is transmitted by Apollo.lv, believes that the Latvian nation may disappear in 30 years. “If you look at the number of people leaving the country, it is not difficult to calculate how many people will remain here by the 2042 year. Incomplete 30 years - and everything, the nation will not be ", - quotes his words "Lenta.ru".
During the years of the crisis in Latvia, there have been much more crazy people. Photo http://ru.delfi.lt Latvia
What contributes to the disappearance of the Latvian nation?
According to DELFI, the lawyer stated that the idea of a liberal economy realized in the 1990s crashed in Latvia. Here and the closure of factories left over from Soviet times, and the hopes of Latvians that they will live "at the expense of agriculture, transport and banks." Then the lawyer complained about the absence of a national ideology in the country, noting at the same time that now in Latvia a lot of traitors have accumulated who would welcome "strangers Tanks».
The lawyer is not alone in his fears. The fact that the existence of Latvia was under threat, said the President of the Republic Andris Berzins earlier, reminds Lenta. The reason for this, along with a reduction in the population, he called the inefficiency of the state apparatus. "We have created an expensive and inefficient state administration, unnecessary to our small state," he stated in an interview with Telegraph. - You can not manage a country with a population of 2 million as well as with a population of 40-50 million. This is stupid. If you continue this way, it will not take ten years for us to disappear. ”
Thus, we note that if a lawyer gives Latvians another thirty years, the president is inclined to reduce this period to ten.
In the period from 2000 to 2010, the population of Latvia, according to the Central Statistical Bureau, decreased by 13 percent (a decrease of 307 thousand people). This was mainly caused by emigration.
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nnz226
The Latvians finished the battle ... It will take a specified time, one “smut” will be less. The territory will occupy the right of ownership with 1714 year.
vilenich
Yes, apparently, a similar scenario awaits Ukraine, in case of joining the EU!
Dead, Potikins and Sitskins
Maxim Lisovsky ("Voice of Russia"), referring to the Rex news agency, spoke about a new Latvian curiosity: Russian parents cannot get a birth certificate for their son. The fact is that the authorities of the city of Liepaja refuse to call him Miron, instead offering the Latvian form of the name Mironik. But in Russian, this means ... "dead".
Of course, parents do not want their child to be called "dead", and they seek to be issued documents with a Russian name. For a month now, the city authorities have not issued documents to the child, referring to the law “On the state language”, which allows the residents to bring their names in accordance with the grammar of the Latvian language. Human rights activists say that Latvia imposes altered names to its citizens in violation of the European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms, binding on all EU members.
Ruslan Pankratov, deputy of the Riga City Council from the “Accord Center”, told NewsBalt that ridiculous situations arise from the translation of Russian names by the authorities in Latvia. Compare: Mark and Marx, Pyshkin and Pischins, Shishkin and Siskins.
But Russians living in Latvia are forced to use the Latvian version of the name when traveling to Russia.
Seeing off the “iron lady”
As transmits Interfax, residents of several cities in the UK, including London, celebrated the death of the Iron Lady. The rally in Bristol even ended with clashes with the police: there six police officers were injured during the dispersal of two hundred demonstrators celebrating the death of the “iron lady”. The newspaper “Daily Telegraph” told about it.
A similar action also took place in the southern suburb of London - Brixton, where about two hundred people gathered on Tuesday night. At first, the promotion was announced on Facebook. The demonstrators changed the announcement of the upcoming premiere on the building of the cinema "Ritzy", laying out the letters: "Margaret Thatcher is dead, ha ha ha." The participants chanted: “Maggie, Maggie, Maggie, dead, dead, dead.”
Then the police detained two participants who are suspected of burglary of one of the shops, said the Guardian.
In the center of London on Trafalgar Square, everything went smoothly: people simply noted Thatcher’s death by drinking champagne.
In Scottish Glasgow, celebrate the death of the Iron Lady came more than 300 people. They gathered in the town square of St. George, where they sang, danced and played musical instruments.
In Facebook, the campaign to promote the first place in the music charts of the song “Ding Dong! The Witch is Dead ”(“ Din-Don! The Witch is Dead ”).
As the Mixednews.ru With reference to TNT Magazine, former Mayor of London Ken Livingstone says: “It was she (M. Thatcher) who created the current housing crisis, because of her there was a banking crisis, she created a crisis of benefits. In fact, every serious problem we face today is a legacy of the fact that it was fundamentally wrong. ”
The Secretary-General of the National Union of Miners, Chris Kitchen, said: “We have long been waiting for news of the demise of Baroness Thatcher, and I cannot say that I am very sorry. I will not shed tears on it. ”
The Guardian’s editorial article about Thatcher’s death concludes: “Her legacy was the division of society, personal egoism, and the cult of greed.”
In a column in The Daily Beast, singer Morrissey remarked: "As a fact of record, one can argue that Thatcher was a terror without a single atom of humanity."
Comments from our readers:
FC Skiff
You know, Thatcher not only wanted to “make Russia happy” with a decrease in population, but also at home did everything so that England would turn into that garbage we all know. This is naturally the PIRATE REPUBLIC - any thief, after sharing his booty, received a reliable “roof” on the island. With her, the real economy was “broken up”, and only the City remained. This is not to mention the fact that she stole all the milk.
Comrade Putin was in the Finnish criminal register
The name of the Russian president was included in Finland in a certain secret criminal register, which theoretically gives grounds for arrest. According to foreign media reports, the president of Russia was placed on the Finnish “black list” for contacts with members of the Night Wolves biker club, which was called the “organized criminal group.”
The Finnish police apologized for this mistake, and the head of the Finnish Ministry of the Interior expressed the hope that such a misunderstanding would not harm relations with Russia.
Vladimir Putin to the inclusion in the Finnish black list, prohibiting him from entering this European country, reacted with irony, pass "Vesti" with reference to Interfax.
Presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov said: “I don’t think this requires some kind of response. As far as we know, the Finnish side itself discovered this mistake in time. An appropriate check is being conducted there, so I do not think that any additional actions are required here. The Finns themselves have already responded and apologized. ”
Says and shows "Femen"
The visit of the President of Russia to Germany and the Netherlands on April 8 was interrupted by activists of the movement “Femen”. The girls undressed in the presence of Putin and Merkel when they looked at the Volkswagen booth at the Hannover exhibition. Activists shouted obscene slogans in English. President of Russia, writes "Lenta.ru", responded to the performance positively, showing a thumbs up in approval.
One of the representatives of feminists, Alexandra Shevchenko, shared her impressions of the action against the President of the Russian Federation. An interview with an activist was published by the Belarusian “ERB”. According to Shevchenko, she and her colleagues managed to get to the exhibition as visitors. “I will not give the whole scheme and the technical side of the case. The most important thing to get there is the absence of fear of Putin, of his armed guards ", - quotes her words "Lenta.ru". Shevchenko noted that she saw how the face of the Russian leader was changing, when she, undressing and shouting, “ran at him”.
“From the calm, with a smile, to what you see in the pictures is a silly one, with a wandering smile,” she explained. The reporter’s assumption that Putin was probably interested in what was happening was rejected by the activist, expressing the opinion that the president at that moment was interested in the question “where is the hole in his defense?”
A spokeswoman for the organization also said that the Russian president took the action "as a humiliation" and demanded that the German authorities punish its participants. According to her, the police allegedly admitted that they had no reason to initiate a criminal case against the activists, but this (the initiation of the case) was nevertheless done due to pressure from the Kremlin.
The police detained and interrogated five members of the movement, reminds "Lenta". They got a case under the article "Insulting government agencies and representatives of foreign governments." Later, the press secretary of the Russian president, Dmitry Peskov, called the rally hooliganism, but clarified that he did not call for punishing the girls. Putin himself, commenting on the incident, admitted that he knew about the upcoming action, but she was “not very impressed”.
“I didn't have breakfast in the morning. If they, as they say, showed me sausage or lard, it would have pleased me, but those charms that they demonstrate are not very good, ”the Russian leader RIA Novosti quoted the words.
Comments from our readers:
Vorobey
What about "Femen." I liked the reaction of the leader. Two index fingers up. Tits like it means. It is necessary to search the network for pictures of activists: what are they there to show?
* “Yes, that's it. Everything! They saw, condemned, waved, potryndel, smoked - and that's all. And so ... "- a phrase from the movie" 12 "
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