Results of the week. “We were sincere in our delusions!”
The Russian-Belarusian exercise Zapad-2013 is not directed against NATO, and Western countries should treat them calmly, President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko said on Tuesday.
“We are checking a system that has been debugged long ago, but it is by no means directed either against the Poles, or against the Balts, or against NATO in general,” said Lukashenko, who meets in Minsk with Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu.
But well done Alexander G.! What is called, used the classic Western tactics. Like, guys, do not drift and splash saliva. We, they say, will shoot quietly here, and you, if you hear any terrible sounds, do not be afraid for your democracy. The soldier will not offend the child ...
But then, for the time being, it is only in our direction that they throw phrases from the same West, that if the anti-missile missiles are stuck in close proximity to your borders, then it’s not at all against you. Lukashenko replied!
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Could not tear fifth points
During the grand opening in Stavropol of the first championship of the North Caucasus Federal District in Greco-Roman wrestling an unpleasant incident occurred - at the time of the performance of the national anthem, one of the fans defiantly remained seated. The governor of the Stavropol Territory who was present at the ceremony shamed the young man.
“To the music of this hymn, your grandfathers went to war in the Great Patriotic War, and you sit there. You can’t behave like this. I tell you, if you haven’t been taught at home: you must get up at the hymn!” - quotes Valery Zerenkov press service of the Stavropol governor.
In the administration of Stavropol, they note that all other spectators and athletes standing stood lifting the Russian tricolor to the sounds of the national anthem. They supported Zerenkov with applause when he shamed a young man.
Subsequently, it turned out that several Ingush fighters did not deign to rise during the performance of the national anthem of the Russian Federation, who could not explain why they were so disrespectful towards one of the main state symbols of the country of which they are citizens. It is noteworthy that in a number of, let's say, liberal publications, without having familiarized themselves with the recording of the broadcast from the Stavropol event, they began to discuss the topic that, perhaps, young people who did not stand up while singing the hymn could not do this for physiological reasons (they say perhaps these were Paraolympic invalids). It would be interesting to look at the reaction of people who put forward such an unexpected argument in defense of the "peacefully sitting", if these people still looked at the video of the incident. The manner in which the Governor Zerenkov convictedly cheerfully left the Sports Palace clearly indicated that young people did not have any serious physiological dysfunctions, and they could afford to rise from the fifth point during the performance of the Russian hymn.
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Intimate conversations with the president
25 April 2013 was another “Direct Line” with TV viewers, radio listeners, and Internet users held by Russian President Vladimir Putin. The President of the country set a new record of communication with the population: 288 minutes, during which 85 questions of citizens of the country were considered.
Against the background of questions about the transfer or non-translations of time, museum and pre-Olympic passions, maternal capital, presidential happiness and the education of naughty children, we can distinguish a range of issues that is one way or another devoted to the geopolitical situation, economy and military topics.
288 minutes is really a new record. But the impression from the “Straight Line” with the president still turned out to be somewhat blurred, despite such impressive figures. Apparently, this is exactly the case when the quantity could not turn into quality, to the deep regret of the solid number of Russian citizens. And these same citizens, that is, us, to put it mildly, were alerted by some moments during the presidential line. We list these points:
What kind of excuse was there in the studio was Mr. Kudrin, who also asked questions. After all, as it turned out, quite recently the presidential administration already spoke with Kudrin, and even offered a job, did Alexey Leonidovich really have no questions to that end ...
If Rosnano's investments are not a waste of budgetary funds, but their inefficient use of them, then where is the fine line that separates these concepts. Is it really associated exclusively with the name of Mr. Chubais?
If even billions in investments do not solve the problem of roads in Russia, and almost every new road needs to be inspected personally by the president, then for what do regional officials receive their salaries, and what about the work of prosecutors and investigative bodies?
If it is too early to judge the work of the government after a year of work, how much time does the government need to begin to judge the quality of this work?
In general, questions remain ...
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and another thing: with the CIA, he worked together, as it turned out ... Well, nothing happens to anyone ...
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Ukrainian authorities are watching in both eyes
5 April 2013, the Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych said that Ukraine is ready to become an observer in the EurAsEC Customs Union. Observer status is a kind of intermediate option between the absence of a state in an organization and its full presence there. The status itself makes it possible to participate in board meetings, allows you to open your representative office, work on documents, but does not give the right to vote on certain issues.
Just recently, the Prime Minister of the Ukrainian Government, Mykola Azarov, announced that the countries participating in the Customs Union (Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan) decided to meet Ukraine halfway and approve it as an observer in the CU.
Some time after the statements of Mykola Azarov, it turned out that Ukraine was not accepted by any observers of the Customs Union for the simple reason that such an organization did not even provide for this status. So where, on the basis of the information provided, did the Ukrainian prime minister take the “observation” position? So far this position is regarded as follows: one eye of Azarov (and not only Azarov) observes perturbations occurring in the European Union, and the second eye - behind the Customs Union of Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan. The main thing is not to okoset ...
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Troop pilot first made a test flight on the PAK FA
The plane took off from the airfield of the Flight Research Institute. MM Gromov in Zhukovsky near Moscow. Within two hours, the systems and equipment were tested according to the flight test program. The flight was successful, in full accordance with the flight task.
Currently, four aircraft participate in flight tests.
Apparently, the statements that President Vladimir Putin made during the “Straight Line” concerning the commissioning of the T-50 in 2016, may indeed be translated into reality. After all, the fact that the pilot was at the helm was a good sign. I would like to hope that news about the modernization activities in the Russian army will be just such a character, and not to slip to the new series a'lya "Oboronservis and Co".
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Hell Shooter
Belgorod. A calm and prosperous Russian city, references to which, if it has appeared in recent years in the domestic press, is only in a positive way. However, the tranquility of this regional center was broken by the everyday day of 22 on April 2013, when 31-year-old local resident Sergey Pomazun staged a bloodbath in the very center of the city.
The operation to detain Pomazun lasted for more than a day, and what information was not given out during this time by the media: from the fact that Pomazun was blocked and even detained in one of the Belgorod high-rise buildings, to the point that Pomazun had already crossed the Russian-Ukrainian border using foreign documents.
However, Pomazun was detained not in a high-rise building or on the territory of Ukraine, but on the Belgorod railway tracks. So it turned out that the arrest was carried out by officers of the Kursk linear department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in transport. Kursk police arrived in Belgorod to assist their neighbors in catching the killer.
Now the killer, Pomazun, faces life imprisonment. Is this punishment adequate to that bloody drama, the author of which was a resident of Belgorod with numerous convictions? The question is philosophical and again leads to whether the death penalty should be returned to Russia or the moratorium left in force. But here the whole philosophy is also in the fact that even if the highest measure in the form of execution will be hypothetically applied to Pomazun (again, hypothetically), then it is unlikely that the execution will be commensurate with the fact that he created this subhuman.
In all this tragic stories I want to highlight the work of those police officers who conducted the detention. It will be correct if we again list their names: Lieutenant Alexander Samsonenko, Senior Lieutenant Dmitry Konovalov, Major Yuri Sedykh and Lieutenant Colonel Alexei Yedreshov. During the operation, Major Sedykh received numerous wounds, to whom we wish a speedy recovery.
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They confused Soviet soldiers with American ones. Is it any wonder? ..
In Zlatoust (Chelyabinsk Region), an advertising company mistakenly posted a poster for 9 in May depicting American soldiers instead of Soviet soldiers. At one of the busiest highways of Zlatoust at the end of last week, a congratulatory poster appeared on the 68 anniversary of the victory in the Great Patriotic War with the inscription "This is our victory." It depicts soldiers setting a waving Soviet flag. However, the poster is not the Soviet military, and the US, confident in the city administration. In fact, a famous snapshot of American soldiers hoisting the flag over the Japanese island of Iwo Jima is posted on the billboard.
Well, what can I say. It is after such “promotional” actions that young shoots in schools begin to ask questions in the style: “Who actually won World War II?” And “Who killed whom: Stalin of Hitler or vice versa?” Hmmm ...
Such posters are quite capable of erasing a whole section of history textbooks about the Great Patriotic War. Although the word "section" in this case is hardly appropriate - so ... a couple of paragraphs in which the authors manage to "highlight" all the major battles of that terrible war in virtually super blitz mode. And if all this is also multiplied by the enchanting questions about the course of the Great Patriotic War in the Unified State Examination, then you wonder how the French dragoons of the 1812 model of the year or the Teutons in Budenovka did not appear on this poster ...
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In Odessa in the center of the city - a huge poster for the Victory Day "liberators". Standing, sedentary and recumbent Romanian warriors on Primorsky Boulevard. So that you are not the first.
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Your home is a prison
As transmits correspondent RIA "News" Alexander SolovskyIris Varela, Minister of Corrections of Venezuela, believes that a prison cell awaits former presidential candidate Enrique Capriles. Iris blamed him for the riots and deaths that followed the vote count.
At a press conference broadcast on the state television channel VTV, the head of the Venezuelan penitentiary system said: “The only good news for you, Capriles, is that the prison that awaits you will have the opportunity to work. We'll see if we can change your fascist thinking and turn you into a person. ” Varela added with irony: "I guarantee that no one will touch you there."
She also said: “The rehabilitation sessions for rehabilitation will begin, which I think you need because your vices give rise to violence. You, whose eyes are full of hatred, look like a person under the influence of hallucinogens. ”
The Chinese said "fi" State Department
April 19 went online to the next volume of the State Department's boring journalism: “Country Report on Human Rights Practices” for 2012 year. The authors of the document, who still can’t get bored with a carbon copy, did not tell the world community anything new. All the same countries, all the same violations and disgraces with the rights of Homo sapiens - against the background of the complete well-being of the rights of Homo erectus in the United States. If you make a report and compare the "indicators", you should have a standard. Life somewhere in Washington or New York, or, say, in Detroit or Boston, seems to be the State Department's ideal of respecting rights, freedoms and everything else associated with a great country, territory of freedom, earthly paradise and a subject of lust for all those unfortunate, who else has not settled there.
If in Russia the Foreign Ministry limited itself to the harsh statement of Comrade Dolgov, then the Chinese government went further. It published its report on the situation of human rights in the United States. Uncle Sam's brochure in the star-and-striped top hat.
As noted in the Chinese document, writes XinhuaThe US government, which considers itself a “defender of human rights”, in the published report unreasonably criticized over 190 countries and regions of the world, including China, but closed its eyes to the problems existing in the field of human rights in their homeland.
The Chinese report reveals US problems in six aspects in the field of human rights: life and personal security, civil and political rights, economic and social rights, racial discrimination, the rights of women and children, and violations of the human rights of other countries.
According to the FBI, more than 2011 million violent crimes occurred in the country in 1,2 year. 67,7% serious murders and 41,3% robberies were committed using firearms weapons.
According to CNN, the American population has about 270 million guns in their hands, every year more than 100 thousand people fall into gunfights. In 2010 alone, more than 30 thousand people died from gunshot wounds. According to the newspaper USA Today, in 2011, the number of violent crimes in the United States increased by 17%. According to statistics from the New York Police, on 2 September 2012, 1000 and 1 dealt with shooting in the city, which is 3,4% more than the previous year. In Chicago in 2012, 2460 of such cases were registered (an increase of 10%).
According to the US National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, at least 100 thousands of children annually become trafficked.
In the United States, there is a serious situation with sexual offenses against children. 5 November 2012 provided the following data on the Prevention of Cruelty to Children website: 20% adult women and 5-15% adult men in the United States admitted that they had been sexually abused in childhood or adolescence. Only in 2010, the 63527 of American children suffered from sexual assault.
Since the beginning of the financial crisis in 2008, the United States has been impoverishing the population. According to the US Census Bureau, in 2011, the poverty rate in the country was 15%, and the number of people living below the poverty line was 46,2 million people.
And so on and so forth…
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Talk about money and rockets
On Monday this week, while in Tel Aviv as part of a Middle Eastern tour, Pentagon chief Chuck Hagel made it quite straightforward to the world’s public that the administration of Barack Obama would support Israel’s military superiority in the Middle East. According to him, which leads InterfaxThe United States will allow Israel to purchase new types of weapons, including missiles and advanced radar for fighters. Hagel confirmed that the United States is letting Israel itself decide whether to attack Iran and, if necessary, when.
Weapons to supply the United States are going not only to Israel. Speaking at a press conference in Tel Aviv after talks with his Israeli counterpart Moshe Ya'alon, the American defense minister called the planned arms shipments to US allies in the Middle East a clear signal to Iran, demonstrating the possibility of using force to neutralize the nuclear threat.
10 billion-dollar contracts involve the sale of V-22 Osprey military transport converters to Israel, KC-135 tanker aircraft, anti-radar missiles and radar equipment for installation on combat aircraft to Israel. The UAE will receive F-16 fighters and missiles for them. The same air-to-ground missiles of the United States are going to sell to Saudi Arabia, which has previously purchased American fighter jets, reports Rosbaltreferring to online media.
Chuck Hagel said: “I don’t think there can be any doubt that this is another very clear signal to Iran.” According to him, the use of military force should be the last means of deterring Iran on the path to the possession of nuclear weapons. Currently there is still time for diplomacy.
The upcoming arms supply contracts should, first of all, strengthen Israel’s high-quality military superiority in the region, C. Hagel said. He added: “Every sovereign state has the right to self-defense and self-defense. Iran’s nuclear program is a threat, and Israel itself decides how to protect itself from it. ”
Scott Bobb ("Voice of America") quotes the words of the head of the Pentagon that the US government intends to maintain the status of the dominant Israeli military power in the Middle East: “We are ready to provide Israel with any necessary support so that Israel can maintain its military superiority over any state or coalition of the states of the region. This also applies to non-governmental organizations, if we take into account the complex security challenges that the United States and Israel have to solve in the region. ”
Also during the press conference, Mr. Hagel noted that Iran would not be allowed to develop nuclear weapons: “Our position is that Iran will not be allowed to develop nuclear weapons - and the point. All military and other solutions to the problem of Iran remain on the table. ”
Israeli Defense Minister Ya'alon, in turn, noted that so far there are non-force options for solving the Iranian nuclear problem, which should be given priority. “We believe that the use of military force, which has already been discussed enough, should be the last resort,” said Mr. Yaalon. “Other tools should be used now.” Among them, he singled out diplomacy, economic sanctions and "moral support" of the opposition forces on the eve of the close presidential elections in Iran.
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State Department will give the Syrian opposition a lot of money
The United States will double the aid of the Syrian opposition to 250 million dollars and increase the supply of non-combat military supplies. This was told by US Secretary of State John Kerry, reports "Lenta.ru" with reference to France-Presse.
While in Istanbul at a meeting of the “Friends of Syria” group, Mr. Kerry explained that the supply of the Syrian opposition would include not only food and medicine. True, he did not specify, saying only that the composition of the supplies will be determined in cooperation with the heads of the Supreme Military Council of the Syrian opposition.
US media indicated that Washington was going to provide Syrian rebels with body armor, armored personnel carriers, night vision devices and communications equipment. The opposition asked to put them a weapon, but they were refused.
“This conflict is already spilling over borders and threatening neighboring countries. The bloodshed must stop, ”said Kerry, adding that the decisive moment had arrived.
Then the state secretary called on other countries sympathetic to the Syrian opposition to make their own contributions - so that the total amount of aid reaches a billion dollars.
No economic crisis is a hindrance to the cause of world democracy, yes, gentlemen?
Conviction of theft
Leaders of Syrian political parties have condemned the EU’s decision to allow European countries to import oil and petroleum products stolen by armed extremists from the SAR. Party members called this step destructive and noted that it once again confirms the participation of these countries in the conspiracy against Syria, reports SANA.
Hunayn Nemre, Secretary General of the United Communist Party of ATS, emphasized that the rulers of Europe who committed such an act neglect international law and believe that there are no laws. Syrian natural resources are the wealth of the people of SAR, not the politicians of Europe.
Member of the Popular Front for Change and Liberation Jamal-ed-din Abdo said that the EU decision is a provocative step against the Syrian people, the abduction of its resources by the hands of members of armed groups and the continuation of the colonial policies of European countries. Oil will be bought from a party who does not represent Syria, at reduced prices or in exchange for weapons intended to kill the Syrian people.
The General Secretary of the Syrian Communist Party, Ammar Baghdash, said that this decision is a new aggressive action against Syria. This is piracy. Baghdash pointed out that Syria is a sovereign state. No one is allowed to conduct economic relations on behalf of Syria, except the state.
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Two directors and one producer
Margarita Vysotskaya (Utro.ru) told that in the US there were statements about the use of chemical weapons in Syria. Syrian authorities have used chemical weapons at least twice, said US Secretary of State John Kerry.
Earlier, the same was stated by US Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel. Speaking to reporters in Abu Dhabi, the head of the Pentagon said that with some degree of confidence we can say that the Syrian regime used chemical weapons, in particular, deadly sarin. “It violates all military conventions,” said Hagel.
Margarita Vysotskaya recalls that Barack Obama stated that the use of chemical weapons by Syria will become the "red line" for the United States. At the same time, the presidential administration stresses that the Syrian rebels do not have access to the country's chemical reserves.
26 April, new chemical news.
“Our intelligence estimates with varying degrees of confidence indicate that the Syrian regime has used small-scale chemical weapons in the country, namely sarin,” they cite "Vesti" With reference to ITAR-TASS letter of the White House to the US Congress.
Nevertheless, Washington admits that preliminary assessments are not enough for immediate action on Damascus. Therefore, the investigation will continue: “Intelligence assessments alone are not enough - we need credible and confirmed facts that will allow us to make decisions.”
The head of the Pentagon also said that the data on the use of chemical weapons in Syria is preliminary. From his words it follows that it is not even clear who, where and when applied WMD.
At the UN, they took the information of the American special services very seriously. “The Secretary General took note of the White House’s letter to Congress about chemical weapons in Syria. He takes the conclusions presented in this letter very seriously, ”said Martin Nesirke, the official representative of the Secretary General of the world organization. At the same time, the UN "cannot comment on assessments based on information from national intelligence agencies."
Russia urged the UN to show consistency in verifying reports of the use of chemical weapons in Syria. “We are also urging to abandon attempts to sweep under various pretexts the investigation by the Syrian authorities of an episode using chemical weapons under Aleppo on March 19,” said Russian permanent representative Vitaly Churkin during a discussion of the situation in the Middle East in the UN Security Council. According to him, in this issue, the Secretariat of the UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon "did not show the necessary sequence."
As comrade Churkin told reporters, Syria is demanded to ensure that inspectors have access to the entire territory of the country with the establishment of a permanent headquarters. “From this it was clear that this was an attempt to repeat the Iraqi scenario,” Churkin said. According to him, Russia is "very worried."
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A shame!!!
Thin hint of thick Russian trail
On Wednesday, US Secretary of State John Kerry noted that Tamerlan Tsarnaev “learned something” during his recent trip to the North Caucasus. "This young man first went to the Russian region of Chechnya, and then made an explosion in Boston," said Kerry, talking to a correspondent "Voices of America" in Brussels. “He did not stay where he was,” the Secretary of State continued. “However, he learned something there and came back with the desire to kill people.”
You can, of course, think that Mr. Kerry uses such complex combinations of words as “the Russian region of Chechnya” because of the general dislike of Americans for geography when Chechnya is confused with the Czech Republic, and then hasty advice to the government to bomb Prague. However, it can be assumed that the adjective pronounced aloud the name of an adjective deliberately determines the regional affiliation. Not somewhere, but in Russia, they say, Tsarnaev Sr. visited, and returned from there "with the desire to kill people." Then there is the trend of the last years - the revival of that glorious (for older Americans like Mr. Kerry) of a bygone era, when the “cold war” was on, sometimes it seemed very hot.
John Kerry, this half-stone descendant of the dinosaur era, a worthy successor to Hillary Clinton, might remember that as early as 2011, Russia had been asked by the United States about Tsarnaev Sr. As reported correspondent ITAR-TASS Dmitry Kirsanov, FBI spokesman Michael Cortan assured the American public that his department had a conversation with Tamerlane in 2011, for which reason a press statement was made. This document indicated that “at the beginning of 2011, the foreign government requested” information from the USA “on Tamerlan Tsarnaev”. The FBI said: “This request was based on the information that he (Tamerlan Tsarnaev) was a follower of radical Islam and a deeply religious person, that he had changed dramatically after the 2010 year, when he was preparing to leave the United States in order to go to the region (he asked the US intelligence services assist the country in order to join unnamed underground groups. " In addition, in the same 2011, the FBI "conducted an interview with Tamerlan Tsarnaev and his relatives." Later, US law enforcement officials clarified that the country requesting the request was Russia.
25 April "BBC" reported that Tamerlan Tsarnaev a year and a half ago was included in the database of the anti-terrorism unit (at the request of the CIA). This was done just after the Russian security authorities came to the conclusion that Tsarnaev could have planned an attack on the territory of Russia. Yes, that's just a preliminary investigation by the FBI did not reveal the danger of Tamerlane. No, not for Russia, - for the USA.
By the way, in the media they write that during hospital interrogations, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev admitted that the motive for organizing the Boston bombings was the wars that the United States had waged in Iraq and Afghanistan.
The FBI’s failures, Obama’s weak policy, the Russian trail, the sharatchikah in the United States are much talked about today - but few people ask themselves if their native United States has annoyed other countries and peoples so much that the whole world is against the Americans? Is it time for the White House to follow the advice of the former blue-eyed presidential candidate Merlin miller? Oh, in vain, Obama did not take him to the state secretaries. However, the Congress would give a ride to Comrade Miller, calling him a racist, a supporter of the Iron Curtain and an opponent of freedom, democracy and, most importantly, human rights.
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In general, it is a tradition! US President Bush visited Russia in 2002, and after returning from there, six months later, in 2003, he began to kill innocent Iraqis.
By the way, before the trip to Russia, I am sure Tamerlan was an exemplary little boy. He loved animals. Often he helped grandmothers cross the road. Always greeted and gave way to a senior bus seat. In the mornings I brushed my teeth and did my exercises. Putin instilled a desire to kill him, treating him in the Kremlin all six months. :)
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If, God forbid, the youngest of the brothers, an American, went and committed an act of terrorism in Russia, then the Americans would be presented as an act of "resisting tyranny and the struggle for democratic values." Well, here they are, zombie in relation to Russia.
Geographic strength
The Ambassador of the Czech Republic to the United States, Ivan Gandalovich, appealed to American citizens not to confuse the Czech Republic ... with Chechnya. A statement by Czech diplomats prepared after the American segments of Twitter and Facebook overwhelmed reports from indignant Americans accusing the Czech Republic of involvement in the bombings during the Boston Marathon.
"The Czech Republic is the state of central Europe, and Chechnya is part of the Russian Federation," explains the document.
Earlier there were publications of excerpts from the messages of the American Twitter users confusing the Czech Republic and Chechnya, "Vesti" with reference to ITAR-TASS.
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Oh yeah!!! It is urgent to bomb the Czech Republic. That Chechen porzhut.
* "We were sincere in our delusions!" - a phrase from the movie "The very Munchhausen"
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