Geopolitical mosaic: Kerry's smile became an obituary for the Syrian opposition, and the Swedes became afraid of the Russians
Barbarians and marauders. As passed correspondent ITAR-TASS Dmitry Zelenin With reference to SANA, extremist oppositionists attacked the ancient Orthodox monastery of Elijah the Prophet in the vicinity of El Quseir. As the abbot of the monastery, Gadir Ibrahim, reported, the militants carried out church utensils, blew up the bell tower, destroyed the altar and the font. They demolished the statue of the Old Testament prophet, revered in Syria by both Christians and Muslims.
The hegumen recalled that the monastery, which is already one and a half thousand years old, is under state protection.
War in Syria? The war for Syria! Michael Stürmer («Die Welt»; source abbr. translation - "Inopressa") talked about the fact that the war in Syria is becoming a war for Syria.
The German journalist notes that Iran and Russia at any cost want to maintain the power of Assad: "... the Russians are the base on the Mediterranean Sea, the Iranians are the Arab ally."
“Qatar and Saudi Arabia, on the contrary, are looking for an opportunity to limit the influence of Iran and support the Sunnis in an armed confrontation with the Shiites,” the article says further. - Israelis want stability: push aside Islamic fanatics, keep chemical control weapon and at all costs to prevent medium-range Iranian missiles from falling into the hands of Lebanese Hezbollah.
Then the journalist writes about C-300 from Russia.
"Russia in three months is going to supply the C-300 air defense system to Syria, which fears the West," the German says. In this case, Stürmer continues, “there is a great danger that the civil war in Syria and the war between the Sunnis and the Shiites will develop into an opposition of the world nuclear powers ...”
“Israel, primarily using air force for the defense of the nearest zone and possessing a limited number of anti-missile defenses, is exposed to a new danger. Once Assad and his armed forces are under the protection of C-300 systems, Syria will be able to supply missiles to the Hezbollah movement that threatens the whole of Israel. Three months remain: too little for peace, enough war for the spread of war, ”the publication says.
Sturmer summarizes: “The C-300 system with service personnel from Russia, which the Russians, at the insistence of the United States, refrained from transferring to Iran, is changing all the strategic schemes. The war in Syria has long become a war for Syria, and now a new round is beginning. ”
Kerry's smile and Putin's victory. Michael Weiss ("Foreign Policy"; source abbr. translation - "Inopressa") in the article “Well, you fool!” writes: “Many Syrians who oppose the Bashar Assad regime give each other a visual obituary to their work - photographs in which US Secretary of State John Kerry smiles and makes friendly gestures with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov. Shouldn't these people be on opposite sides of the Syrian conflict? And why does Lavrov look happier than his American colleague? ”
Perhaps the atmosphere of Kerry’s recent visit to Moscow should have shown that the host country has no illusions about who is more desperate here, the author of the article believes. He mentions the delay of the Kerry motorcade due to the parade rehearsal and his three-hour wait for an audience with Putin.
In the end, Kerry gave Putin exactly what he wanted: Washington’s consent to the resumption of negotiations, which should put an end to the geopolitical catastrophe in Syria. It is assumed that Russia will be able to ensure the presence of Assad or his deputies in the negotiations, and the United States - the presence of the political and military wing of the Syrian opposition, namely the Syrian national coalition and the highest military command of the Free Syrian Army, led by General Salim Idris, the author writes. “Idris now has to do what Russia's clients in this conflict have never had to do — ask for,” outraged Mr. Weiss.
Putin’s ideas are clearer, but the United States — and even some members of the Syrian opposition — are under the illusion that the Russian leader may change. “But why does he need it when the position of the West on Syria is constantly changing?” Asks the author of the material.
Weiss writes: “From the very beginning, the Russian strategy coincided with the strategy of the Assad regime: to tighten the conflict to such an extent that jihadists will play the most important role from the opposite side, and then fit it into the context of the global fight against terrorism.”
The author concludes: “In the light of the incessant flow of arms supplies and military advisers to the Assad regime, Putin believes that his expectations of restoring Russia's great-power status have been fulfilled and exceeded. Happy Victory Day! ”
Meeting in Sochi. 10 May, the President of Russia and the British Prime Minister held talks in Sochi, reports Interfax. At the initiative of Cameron were discussed options for a positive development of the situation in Syria. “We have a common interest in an early end to violence and the start of the peace process, the preservation of Syria as a territorially integral sovereign state,” Putin said.
The British prime minister said that Moscow and London still have differences in their positions on resolving the Syrian conflict, but the parties are striving towards a common goal. “It’s no secret that our views on this topic are different, but we share one common goal - to end the conflict, to give the Syrian people the opportunity to choose their government and prevent the growth and export of terrorism,” he said.
Cameron also said that the UK, Russia and the United States as permanent members of the UN Security Council should actively contribute to the peaceful settlement of the situation in Syria.
The British prime minister said: “I fully support the consultations that Lavrov and Kerry held this week to provide a political solution to the Syrian problem aimed at creating a transitional government based on the consent of the Syrian people as a whole.” “I agreed with President Putin that we, as permanent members of the Security Council, are obliged to lead this process together with our partners in the region and beyond,” Mr. Cameron added.
He stressed that "we must not only bring the Syrian regime and opposition politicians to the negotiating table, but also assist in the creation and development of a transitional government in Syria."
Cameron said he fully supports holding an international conference on Syria, which was agreed this week by the Russian foreign minister and the US secretary of state.
Iran has not received an invitation yet. Iranian Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi said that the Islamic Republic is ready to take part in an international conference on Syria, which is convened by the Russian Federation and the United States. He made this statement in an interview with the German weekly "Der Spiegel", reports MIGnews.com.
Salehi noted that his country can serve as a mediator between the Syrian opposition and the Assad government. Iranian Foreign Minister stressed that Iran has not yet received an invitation to the conference.
On the terrorist attacks in Turkey: the official Syrian view. As transmits SANASAR Information Minister Omran Az-Zoubi said that the Turkish government had turned the border areas with SAR into centers of international terrorism, facilitating the transfer of mercenaries and terrorists to Syria, supplying them with weapons and ammunition. That is why the government of Erdogan bears political and moral responsibility for what is happening before the Syrian and Turkish peoples, as well as the peoples of the entire region.
The minister criticized some Turkish officials who accused Syria of terrorist attacks in the Reykhanly, and noted that Erdogan, who is building a career on the blood of Syrian and Turkish civilians, has no right to be in power.
"Lenta.ru", citing the Associated Press, quotes the words of Al-Zoubi, who said that the Turkish Prime Minister should “resign as a murderer and executioner”.
12 May, reminds "Lenta", the Turkish authorities announced the detention of nine people on suspicion of organizing and conducting terrorist attacks in Reyhanlı. All of them are Turkish citizens. According to authorities, several people involved in the organization of the terrorist attack are at large, writes the agency "Bloomberg".
According to the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Turkey, Ahmet Davutoglu, the suspects are associated with the Syrian intelligence service "Mukhabarat" and not the first time carried out operations in the country.
The version that Damascus is behind the attacks, appeared shortly after the bombings in Reyhanlı. She was voiced by the Minister of Internal Affairs of Turkey, Muammer Guler. According to him, the reason for the attack could be the fact that in the Reykhanly, located near the Turkish-Syrian border, a large number of refugees from Syria live.
Erdogan also suggested that Syria was behind the attacks, but he also put forward another version that they could be carried out by those who were dissatisfied with Ankara’s attempt to resolve the conflict with Kurdish separatists.
Two explosions in the Reyhanlis occurred on May 11. The bombs were planted in cars parked on a busy business street, and were powered at intervals of 15 minutes. In addition to the 46 killed, another 50 people were injured.
"... do not stand in the way of Russia." Soner Cagaptay ("The Atlantic"; source of translation - Mixednews.ru) writes:
“Ankara fears that if Turkey invades Syria, Russia may do the same, inciting irreconcilable PKK elements in the country to lead an uprising against Turkish troops. <…>
In addition, these fears prompted Turkey to turn even more strongly to the United States in the next attempt to find protection under the NATO umbrella from the dim threat coming from the Russian giant. Taking into account the Turkish fear of Russia, any military actions by Turkey against the Assad regime will have to be due to the full support and participation of NATO.
For the Turks, when it comes to Moscow, story repeats every day - do not stand in the way of Russia so that it does not torture you again. ”
In addition, these fears prompted Turkey to turn even more strongly to the United States in the next attempt to find protection under the NATO umbrella from the dim threat coming from the Russian giant. Taking into account the Turkish fear of Russia, any military actions by Turkey against the Assad regime will have to be due to the full support and participation of NATO.
For the Turks, when it comes to Moscow, story repeats every day - do not stand in the way of Russia so that it does not torture you again. ”
Bed for Bibi. At the time of the Israeli Prime Minister’s flight from Tel Aviv to London, a double bed was installed in his plane worth 138 thousand dollars. This was reported by the Daily Telegraph, reports correspondent ITAR-TASS Grigory Zimenkov.
The bed was set for a five-hour flight to the UK, where Netanyahu attended the funeral of Margaret Thatcher on April 17.
After news appeared in the Israeli media, 10 thousands of Israelis took to the streets across the country to demonstrate against the austerity measures taken by the government of the Jewish state.
A source from the entourage of the cabinet minister said that Netanyahu was not informed about the cost of the bed. “As soon as this became known, the Prime Minister immediately ordered to cancel the installation of such equipment on all his future European flights,” an anonymous source added.
"Land of Jihad." Love Lyulko (Pravda.ru) writes that the Tunisian army conducted an operation to destroy a group of terrorists, hiding in a wooded area on Mount Shaambi. Arab analysts rate Tunisia’s jihadist threat as very high.
According to the Tunisian Ministry of Defense, the group consisted of 15-20 people. According to the spokesman for the Ministry of the Interior Mohamed Ali Arui, Algeria also took part in the operation, but support was limited to information sharing. The group clashed with security forces on Thursday.
Tunisian authorities are concerned about whether activization of the militants would not be a reason capable of undermining the development of the tourism sector - the main source of foreign exchange. Tunisia’s president, Monsef Marzouki, declared that jihadist terrorist groups are “a serious threat that we must firmly stop.” After the “Arab spring” in Tunisia, forces descending the situation in the Middle East and in the countries of the Sahel began to leak.
Tunisian jihadists are represented by sworn allegiance to Al-Qaeda by Ansar Esharia Abu Iyad, who has always opposed the realization of Western interests in the Sahel, against the secular and left-wing parties.
Is the government able to cope with the looming threat? Obviously, this is problematic, according to analysts polled by the newspaper La Tribune. The security forces do not control the country, in the mosques there is an agitation uncontrolled by the state. The radicalization of youth is fostered by difficult social conditions and unemployment.
Jihadists in Tunisia have unprecedented freedom of movement, the media to spread their ideas, they are well funded and easily gaining influence, said Basile Torjeman, an Algerian expert on terrorism. He estimated that Tunisia "matured to become the land of jihad."
Burma: Buddhists against Muslims. In the article "The next murder of Muslims against the backdrop of silence" ("IRNA", Iran; source of translation - "InoSMI") Mohammad Musa Kazemi writes that the Muslims of Myanmar, who are already living in unbearable conditions, are victims of genocide and religious and tribal violence.
During the events in the town of Mektilla, Rakhine State, which began on March 19, more than 40 Muslims have become victims of rampant atrocities by extreme nationalists and Buddhists. According to the BBC, security forces and police, who were at the scene of the clashes, only at the end of the second day began to take some measures and put an end to the violence due to the fact that thousands of Muslim women and children were forced to leave their homes in Mectille. Muslims of Mectills were subjected to cruel violence by fundamentalist-minded Buddhists.
During the new wave of genocide, 20 Muslim boys were abducted from school, who were subsequently dismembered and burned.
Currently, thousands of Muslims of Mectills, who make up 30% of the total population of the city, are forced to leave their homes and live in tents near the city, the author writes.
In late March in Yangon, the former capital of the country, Muslim houses and mosques also became the target of attacks by extreme Buddhist groups.
Another shocking event was the death of thirteen teenagers in early April during a fire at a Muslim school in Yangon. The fire in Yangon and the March events in Mectill testify that extreme nationalists and Buddhists, with complete indifference and indirect support from the authorities of Myanmar, are carrying out a process of targeted genocide of Muslims.
Earlier, the UN recognized Rakhine Muslims as the most oppressed people in the world. However, despite all these statements and reports, the UN has in practice not taken any effective measures to curb violence against several hundred thousand Muslims of Rakhine and other areas of Myanmar by Buddhist fundamentalists.
In the extensive material entitled “Buddhists burn neighbors”, Anastasia Berseneva (Gazeta.ru) spoke about the ethnic riots in Burma. The pogroms are led by Buddhist monks: they survive from the country the Muslim people of Rohingya. People are burned alive here, their houses are set on fire. According to human rights activists from Human Rights Watch, the authorities and police in Burma encourage genocide.
The Russian, who turned out to be in the center of the pogroms, told the Gazeta.ru correspondent what he saw in the set fire to Mectill.
Moskvich Roman Korzh, traveling in Southeast Asia, was in this city in one of the first days of pogroms.
“It was really scary, real war,” he said. - Houses on fire. Buddhists poured gasoline on Muslims and set them on fire. Finding a place to sleep was a matter of life and death for me, because because of my beard I looked like a Muslim and no one would ask me to show my passport before killing me. ”
He continues:
“... I asked for 10 dollars to let me sleep on the floor at the reception desk, said that there was an emergency in the city, but there was no persuasion on the owners. In the end, the Buddhist taxi driver who drove me said that I could spend the night at his home for free. I was fed dinner, got a bottle of local rum. When the rum was over, the owner declared that it would be advisable for me not to depart far from home, since I look like a Muslim with a beard.
Then he took an ax and went outside. From time to time, he returned and described that they were burning houses, and Muslims were doused with gasoline and set on fire alive.
When I asked about the police and the army, he said that they were the first to flee the city, absolute anarchy and insecurity were felt. ”
Then he took an ax and went outside. From time to time, he returned and described that they were burning houses, and Muslims were doused with gasoline and set on fire alive.
When I asked about the police and the army, he said that they were the first to flee the city, absolute anarchy and insecurity were felt. ”
The Russians had the impression that the conflict was organized from the outside. Locals say that Muslims and Buddhists in Burma have lived together for many years. Mixed marriages are common.
Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudoiono appealed to the government of Burma. He urged to resolve the conflict.
Blood was shed in Pakistan. Four terrorist attacks in Pakistan claimed the lives of 14 people, more than 40 residents were injured. The situation by telephone from Karachi was commented on by a Pakistani journalist and political scientist Zahida Hin, reports Ilona Yarosh ("Voice of Russia").
Three explosions thundered in Karachi, one in Peshawar. The first two explosions in the south were carried out by suicide bombers a few hours after the start of voting in elections. The targets were candidates and their supporters. 14 people died, several dozen civilians suffered.
In Peshawar, an explosion struck at a polling station for women. One person was killed, about a dozen were injured.
The fourth explosion thundered near a polling station in one of the marginal areas of Karachi. According to local media, several people were injured.
According to preliminary data, during the pre-election campaign as a result of terrorist attacks and attacks of militants killed about 130 people.
Zahida Hina, a well-known Pakistani journalist and political scientist, columnist for the Daily Express, said.
“Early in the morning in Karachi, when I went to vote at my place of residence — in the Gulistan-e-Johar area — it was calm. Although the polling station opened with some delay. However, according to media reports, not everywhere safely. Several explosions thundered in different parts of the country. The strongest - in the morning in Karachi, near the polling station, as a result of the explosion, people died. The explosion occurred near the “Urdu University” in Karachi and in some other places. In some polling stations, voting began late due to the fact that the ballots did not arrive in time. Radicals poured oil on the fire, trying to disrupt the vote. For example, the Islamist party “Jamaat-e-Islam” called for a boycott of elections in Karachi and Hyderabad, and the main one in Balochistan is “Jamhuri Vatan Party” - and all over the country. In Lahore, clashes took place between supporters of the influential Tehrik-e-Insaf and representatives of other parties and movements. Given the situation, it cannot be excluded that the head of the Electoral Commission will appoint a repeat vote in certain areas. But, on the whole, the elections, undoubtedly, were held, and the people of Pakistan took an active part in them. ”
Zhang Jong Nam makes a career. As reported today correspondent ITAR-TASS Vasily GolovninIn the DPRK, a new Minister of People’s Armed Forces has been appointed - Colonel General Zhang Jong Nam. His predecessor served only eight months.
The appearance of a new figure in this post was reported by the North Korean news agency TsTAK, listing those who attended the concert of the song and dance ensemble of internal troops in the presence of Kim Jong-un.
It is curious that four days ago, the same TsTAK called the minister of the people's armed forces of another general - Kim Kek Sik. He was considered one of the supporters of the hard line.
In Seoul, the unexpected resignation of the previous minister is regarded as Pyongyang’s possible desire to move away from a rigid confrontational policy.
Zhang Jong Nam, who is not yet 60 years old, had previously commanded a corps in Gangwon Province on the eastern coast of North Korea. He is considered a representative of the so-called "youth faction" in the military elite of the country.
Taiwanese ships in disputed waters. The Taiwanese authorities sent four ships of the Coast Guard and Naval Forces to the disputed zone of the South China Sea with the Philippines, where a fisherman was killed on Thursday from a ship under the control of the Philippine Coast Guard of the Taiwanese fishing vessel on Thursday. correspondent RIA "Novosti" Mikhail Tsyganov with reference to the portal GMA News.
"The government is determined to protect our fishermen," quoted Chen Liven, a spokesman for the Taiwanese cabinet, quoting the portal.
According to the Director of the Philippine Bureau of Fishing and Water Resources, Asis Perez, on May XB, the FBI ship, which was under the control of the Philippine Coast Guard, opened fire on one of four Taiwanese fishing vessels that happened to be nearby, attempting to ram the ship. Although the coast guard officials stated that the fire was opened on the ship’s mechanisms, the 9-year-old fisherman was killed in the shelling.
The incident occurred north of the main Philippine island of Luzon - in the zone where the 200-mile exclusive economic zones of this country and Taiwan overlap, a correspondent reminds. RIA News".
On Saturday, Taiwan’s head Ma Ying-jeou demanded in the ultimatum from the Philippines to apologize for the death of a fisherman, pay compensation, punish the guilty and begin negotiations with Taiwan to conclude an agreement on fishing issues for three days. Otherwise, he threatened to stop issuing work permits to Filipino citizens.
Almost 90 of thousands of Filipinos work in Taiwan, whose transfers are an important source of foreign exchange earnings for their homeland.
According to the representative of the President of the Philippines, Abigail Valte, the economic and cultural representative of this country in Taiwan, Antonio Basilio, yesterday visited the family of the deceased fisherman and apologized to her on behalf of the Philippine government. Official Manila has promised to conduct a “transparent and impartial investigation” of the circumstances of the incident.
Ilf and Petrov finally returned to German schools. More than 4 thousands of German schools received for their libraries a reprint of books that were burned by the Nazis 80 years ago, the portal writes MIGnews.com with reference to the DPA news agency.
Exactly 80 years ago, 14 in May 1933, the National Socialists burned “ideologically harmful” books in the squares of university cities in Germany. Tens of thousands of "illegal" books were set on fire. The list of books “contrary to the German spirit” includes works by Heine and Heinrich Mann, Remarque and Brecht, Kafka and Hemingway, Yaroslav Hasek and Jack London. The works of Russian and Soviet writers also became objectionable: for example, The Golden Calf and The Twelve Chairs by Ilf and Petrov, the poems of Mayakovsky, plays by Maxim Gorky, and Odessa Stories by Babel and others. Action organized by the German Student Union together with Hitler Youth , held in front of thousands of people.
In 2008, the Moses Mendelssohn Center in Potsdam began publishing reprint editions of burned books. It is intended to release the 120 volumes of the Burned Books Library. About a hundred already printed. Thanks to sponsors, including the largest publishers in Germany, as well as financial support from the ministries of culture and education of the federal states, these books are sent free of charge to libraries in German schools, where many of them are included in the compulsory education program.
"Voina wanted". Figures from the Russian art group "War" hung on the Tower Bridge in London a banner depicting the leader of its St. Petersburg faction Oleg Vorotnikov. According to "Lenta.ru" With reference to the BBC, the banner read: “Voina wanted” (“War is wanted”).
The action lasted only a few seconds and was interrupted by the London police. Its initiator is Alexey Plutser-Sarno, one of the ideologists of War.
Oleg Vorotnikov, nicknamed "The Thief" and his wife Natalya Sokol ("Goat") are wanted from 2011, reminds "Lenta". Vorotnikov is wanted for participation in the “Palace Coup” action of September 2010 of the year, during which the police vehicles overturned. Falcon suspected of insulting the authorities and the use of violence against them. According to investigators, during a rally of "Strategy-31" in March 2011, a woman poured urine on the police. In March, 2013, it became known that Vorotnikov and Sokol, along with their children, emigrated to Italy.
The art group "War" was formed in 2007 year. Two years later, she split into two factions - St. Petersburg and Moscow. The first, among others, included Vorotnikov and Sokol, the second - Petr Verzilov and his wife Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, who later gained fame as a member of Pussy Riot.
"Outraged" - two years. Tens of thousands of members of the “Outraged” movement filled the “Gates of the Sun” square in Madrid yesterday, thus marking the second anniversary of their activities.
They expressed dissatisfaction with the omnipotence of banks and the inability of the authorities to find ways out of the economic crisis. "From indignation to rebellion: a collision with the system," - under this slogan is an action this year, transmit "Vesti" with reference to ITAR-TASS.
On the square, there were demands for the resignation of the government and a change in the political course, which is causing unemployment to increase, access to education and health care, and people are being evicted from their apartments for not paying mortgage loans.
Demonstrations of participants in the movement were also held in Barcelona, Valencia, Bilbao and other cities in Spain.
About the union of man and woman. In Croatia, they started collecting signatures in support of the idea of holding a referendum clarifying the concept of marriage. The initiator of the action, the civil association “In the Name of the Family,” proposes, at a nationwide plebiscite, to approve the definition of marriage as a union of a man and a woman and to make appropriate amendments to the basic law of the country.
Now the collection of signatures takes place on more than two thousand sites, as well as in Catholic and Orthodox churches, mosques, colleges and universities in Croatia. The action involved thousands of volunteers, reported "Vesti" with reference to ITAR-TASS.
Finland is getting closer to Russia. The Finnish public broadcaster YLE today launched the production of television news in Russian. They will be broadcast daily on TV1 with Finnish subtitles, broadcast "Vesti" with reference to Interfax.
“Our goal is to offer Russian-language news on the Internet, on the radio and now on television about what is happening in Finland and in the world from the Finnish point of view,” said Yoney Kemppainen, editor-in-chief of the News Service YLE.
Journalists of the Russian edition plan to pay special attention to the issues of relations between Russia and Finland, as well as the life of the Russian-speaking population of the country.
Bulgarian assault. Around 200, protesting against the results of the early parliamentary elections in Bulgaria, yesterday they tried to storm the press center in the capital Sofia, where party representatives will soon have to speak at a press conference, reports RIA News" with reference to the agency «Novinite».
According to exit polls, the center-right party Citizens for the European Development of Bulgaria (GERB), headed by former Prime Minister Boyko Borisov, won the majority of votes in the early parliamentary elections in Bulgaria.
The protesters threw stones at the police, in response law enforcement officers used batons. The protesters shouted slogans against the party of the former prime minister and demanded to annul the results of the vote.
RIA "Novosti" recalls that Boyko Borisov announced the resignation of the 20 government in February - against the backdrop of protests that began in mid-February due to a sharp increase in energy prices.
Romanian regiment arrived. On May 8, the Romanian parliament overwhelmingly adopted a legislative amendment declaring all Romanesque and ethnic groups living in the Balkan countries "Romanians". As the Romanian edition of the Romanian Global News reported, the decision was supported by all parliamentary factions, despite the negative response to this bill by the Romanian Foreign Ministry, reports IA "REGNUM".
According to the adopted amendment, the representatives of the Balkan-Romanesque peoples (Aromanians, Istro Rumians, Meglen Romanians, Moldovans, Vlachs and others) living in the states of the Balkan Peninsula are “officially” declared by Bucharest “Romanians from everywhere”, regardless of what name or self-name they have.
“Bessarabians”, “Bukovina”, “Maramureshane”, that is, Moldovans from Moldova itself, Odessa, Chernivtsi and Transcarpathian regions of Ukraine are also among the “Romanians from everywhere”.
T-34 hit the Opel. In Kiev there was an accident involving tank, writes "Lenta.ru" with reference to Avtopoligon.info. The armored vehicle involved in the events on the occasion of Victory Day, drove on «Opel Vectra».
The incident occurred 11 May in the Goloseevsky district. There was a festival “Great Victory. May 45 ”, in which the military equipment was involved - including three T-34.
One of the tanks left the event and got stuck in traffic. As the driver of the Opel said later, “in a traffic jam, the T-34 suddenly began to turn back, despite the desperate signals of motorists.” As a result, he crashed into a foreign car, pushing it a few meters.
Praised Bandera - go to jail. Andrei Rezchikov ("Sight") told that a bill on criminal liability for the glorification of the Bandera movement had been submitted to the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine. However, according to experts, the bill will not be: because of the resistance of deputies from Western Ukraine.
Deputy of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine from the ruling Party of Regions Vadim Kolesnichenko on Wednesday last week introduced a draft law “On the prohibition of the rehabilitation and glorification of individuals and organizations who fought against the anti-Hitler coalition”. As the deputy recalled in his blog, over the past five years, the UN has annually adopted a resolution on the inadmissibility of glorification of members of the Nazi movement and opponents of the anti-Hitler coalition. The resolution confirms the inadmissibility of heroization including the OUN-UPA (Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists - Ukrainian Insurgent Army), who "were sincere ideological supporters of Nazism and put the horrors of fascism into practice."
Kolesnichenko specifies that “the bill will establish criminal responsibility for the glorification and rehabilitation of individuals and organizations who fought against the anti-Hitler coalition.” “According to the world community, this practice contributes to the escalation of modern forms of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance,” said the deputy.
As for responsibility, then, as Kolesnichenko explained to “Look”, he, even in the last convocation of the Rada, proposed a bill that provided for imprisonment as a punishment - from two years to a life sentence.
This time, the deputy took as a basis the article of the Criminal Code on inciting ethnic hatred. “There are two criteria - from one to four and from four to five, depending on the severity of the consequences and the nature of this crime. This allows us to avoid accusations of increased cruelty, and at the same time we equate this with inciting conflict situations, ”said the deputy.
Kolesnichenko added that the law was drafted for several months and 8 was introduced on May - on the eve of Victory Day.
The American Crisis: The Pentagon is planning layoffs and is turning away from the Middle East. The Pentagon is going to massively reduce civil servants. This was stated by First Deputy Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter, writes Pavel Tarasenko (Kommersant). According to the deputy minister, over the next five financial years of work, 5-6% of 780 thousand Pentagon civil servants will be deprived.
“These reductions are proportional to those carried out in the armed forces,” Mr. Carter emphasized. By 2017, the size of the American army should be reduced from 565 thousand to 490 thousand. The number of marines will be reduced from 201 thousand to 182 thousand.
The leadership of the US Department of Defense intends to save budget funds and other expenditure items. This fiscal year, it is planned to cut $ 20 billion in spending on military operations and maintenance of military equipment. According to Carter, the Pentagon plans to continue optimizing the network of US military bases and other facilities of this kind. For this, the military asked the US Congress to authorize the holding of a new, sixth round of the work of the relevant commission in 2015, which was previously able to achieve annual savings of 12 billion.
In the future, according to Carter, the Pentagon’s priorities will change: the US military will pay more and more attention not to the Middle East, but to the APR.
The usual thing for New Orleans. Unidentified individuals opened fire on participants in the parade in honor of Mother's Day in New Orleans, Louisiana. 19 people were injured, among them two children, reports "Voice of Russia" with reference to RIA "News".
Three victims are in critical condition. In total, about 300 people took part in the parade.
“Immediately after the shots, our officers saw three people fleeing the scene,” said Ronal Serpas, head of the New Orleans Police Department. According to him, one of the shooters is a dark-haired, short-haired man in a white shirt and jeans, about 20 years old. Now investigators interrogate eyewitnesses and withdraw records from surveillance cameras.
The motives of the criminals are not installed. But the FBI said they did not consider this incident a terrorist attack. “This is a common act of street violence in New Orleans,” said Mary Beth Romig, a local office spokeswoman for the Bureau.
According to the latest data, ten men, seven women, a ten-year-old boy and a ten-year-old girl were injured as a result of the shooting.
The authorities in New Orleans have announced a reward of 10 thousand dollars for information that will lead to the arrest of those responsible for the shelling.
Information about the constant shooting in the United States gives ITAR-TASS: Here is the link for those who want to get acquainted with the material.
Tail free press. As transmits RFI, the American human rights organization “Freedom House” has published a rating of 196 countries of the world in terms of media freedom.
Russia fell into the group of "not free" countries, taking 176 place. According to Freedom House, the Russian authorities almost completely control television, radio and the press.
For comparison: Georgia (96 place) and Ukraine (131 place) are in the number of “partially free” countries.
Close the rating of "unfree" Uzbekistan, Belarus, Turkmenistan and the DPRK.
Norway, Sweden, Belgium, the Netherlands and Finland are recognized as the most “free”.
"Russians are coming ... They will tear us ..." Richard Milne (Financial Times; source abbr. translation - "Inopressa") writes that Sweden is very concerned about the mockery of Russia over its super-soldiers.
“To the music of“ ABBA ”, against the background of pumped-up men and girls in mini-skirts an officer of the Swedish army sings:“ Mamma mia! The Russians are coming ... They will tear us, seven or three, like a year ago in hockey. ”
This video, which appeared on Russian television, the author notes, is a parody. But the problems that he makes fun of, no longer amuse the Swedes.
On Good Friday, two Russian bomber, accompanied by four fighters, flew close to the Swedish border - during the training bombardment. Not a single Swedish fighter rose to the air in alarm ... But the military believes that the Russians were staging the bombing of Stockholm.
Observed Oleg Chuvakin
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