Geopolitical mosaic: Putinka village appeared in Latvia, and the main Russian mafia were identified in the USA
Under the black flags. Extremists from the Syrian "al-Nusra Front" dealt with prisoners of the Syrian army in Deir ez-Zor. Earlier, gunmen shot three soldiers in Rakka north of this city, the channel reports "RT".
The video shows how people in masks with black Islamist flags walk past captives set on their knees with their eyes blindfolded. The leader of the militants reads "prayer", and behind it - the verdict of the "Sharia court." Then shots in the head kills 11 people. Two assistants behind him waving black flags and shout: “Allah Akbar!”
Oil at 13 dollars per barrel. Ulrike Putz ("Der Spiegel"; abbreviated translation source - "Inopressa") said that Syrian rebels sell oil at dumping prices.
They have learned how to turn raw materials into the cash they need to purchase. weapons, ammunition and food.
"Black gold", sometimes extracted by the artisanal method, is sold to consumers in Syria itself and "exported" to Turkey.
In the Al-Taur field, not far from Raqqa, the militants of Liwa al-Islam fill every day about 11 Turkish fuel tank trucks. A barrel of crude oil, according to a German journalist, is leaving an average of 13 US dollars.
Abu Hamid, the commander of the local unit of Liva al-Islam, says that “the rebels are trying to help with oil sales to people living in areas where there is no longer any power”.
Putz writes that, “Paradoxical though it may sound, but just in this way, the rebels sow chaos and lack of power in the provinces under their control.” By selling oil on the black market, the rebels deprive the emigration Syrian National Council, which is emigrating. At the end of April, specifically to enable him to earn income, the European Union lifted the embargo on the supply of oil from Syria.
Now there is no access to the fields either from the National Council or from the Supreme Military Council of Syria. “Instead, various, sometimes opposing, rebel groups declare the fields to be their property,” writes the author of the article.
Israel is afraid of chemical attack. Not far from the Israeli border are huge stocks of chemical weapons. The IDF is following with great concern the warehouses of the presidential troops Bashar al-Assad, which contains about a thousand tons of various chemicals, reports MIGnews.com.
Extremists are watching over these warehouses. If you skillfully combine various chemical substances and fill rocket warheads with them, you can get a deadly weapon against Israel.
The report of the service of the rear, which managed to get correspondents «Ynet», shows how Israel is ready for such a scenario.
“As of 2010, the willingness of government agencies and authorities to the threat posed by unconventional weapons is mostly medium and low,” the report says.
It is also reported: "There are many signs indicating the willingness of regional terrorist organizations to obtain the necessary information about non-traditional methods of terror and to get into their own hands stocks of non-traditional weapons."
The report identifies a threat of chemical terror as high; threat of biological terror - as a medium; The threat of radiological terror is as average.
The official report contains a warning about what the Israeli rear structures will have to deal with: “The main problem is related to the storage of chemical and biological weapons in Syria; The loss of the Assad regime’s control over these materials will result in them being at the disposal of various terrorist groups already active in the region. This increases the likelihood of the implementation of the scenario of the use of unconventional weapons by terrorists. ”
The report also indicates a number of critical problems that are not new, but not resolved: “From the point of view of the distribution of gas masks among the population, readiness is low. There is a critical gap between the willingness of the state of Israel to unconventional and scenarios and the trust of the population in the institutions of the state and their instructions. ”
Since the beginning of the distribution of gas masks in 2010, to date, 4,6 million people, or 58% of the population, have had them. Of these, 3 million sets are distributed in areas of heightened threat, on 77% institutions are staffed with protection systems and on 57% the main enterprises.
Israel "has the right." Tatyana Rotanova (Kommersant) quoted the representative of the White House, Jay Carney, who said that Israel has the right to strike at Syrian territory to prevent the supply of weapons to Hezbollah.
Mr. Carney noted at the 15 briefing in May: “We recognize that this (striking) is part of Israel’s sovereign right to self-defense, and that its concerns about the supply of modern weapons to Hezbollah are legitimate.”
According to analysts of the Israeli special services, the conflict in Syria is entering a crucial stage. In two years of confrontation with the authorities, the Syrian armed opposition has not been able to overthrow the Assad regime. In this regard, in the near future, the Syrian opposition may be provided with direct military support under the Libyan scenario. The outcome of this turn is obvious - the fall of Assad. As a result, there is a direct threat that the weapons of mass destruction accumulated in Syria fall into the hands of Islamic radicals, who can then use them against the Jewish state.
Continuation of the chemical series: a new episode from the BBC. "BBC World" showed on the air the plot from the Syrian city of Saraqiba, during which some evidence of the use of chemical weapons by government forces was presented, "Lenta.ru".
The plot shows amateur video footage showing the shelling of Sarakib by government artillery produced in late April. After shelling, a helicopter appeared in the sky, dropping at least two canisters with some chemicals onto the city.
According to witnesses, people who happened to be close to the canisters felt pain in their eyes, suffocation, and they began to feel sick. Residents of Sarakib with such symptoms were taken to hospital where one woman later died.
The doctor, who gave an interview to the TV channel, said that the patients had been exposed to some kind of nerve gas on a phosphorus basis, but he could not tell what kind of gas was used.
The IAEA and Iran could not overcome their differences. The International Atomic Energy Agency and Iran could not overcome differences at a meeting in Vienna on Wednesday, reports Rosbalt with reference to Reuters.
This time the date of the new meeting was not appointed.
Earlier it was reported that the negotiations had to go on a document defining the parameters for possible access of international experts to Iran’s nuclear facilities. As ITAR-TASS reported, the Iranian representatives insisted on this.
“Both sides are looking for the language that would be acceptable. And the main thing is that the language to be found leads to the closure of the problem areas, to clarifying the situation, and not to the emergence of new controversial issues, ”said an unnamed source.
Anti-American sentiment in Pakistan. Sergey Strokan (Kommersant) said that the leadership of Pakistan will demand an end to strikes drones United States on the territory of the country, considering it a "challenge to its sovereignty." This was stated by the leader of the Muslim League that won the elections, Nawaz Sharif. The new Pakistani leader's attack on the United States continued the campaign rhetoric of his party, which built its campaign on criticizing the previous government for "surrendering national interests."
“UAVs challenge our sovereignty. This is a very serious question, and I expect that our concern will be understood correctly, ”Nawaz Sharif warned. At the same time, he, however, made a ritual gesture to the United States, which continued to provide Islamabad with impressive assistance. Calling the relationship with Washington "good," he promised "to give full support to the American forces, which should leave Afghanistan in 2014 year."
Confirmation that the White House understands the precariousness of its position in Pakistan and is trying to play a preemption was the call of Obama to Nawaz Sharif, who had not yet taken the office of prime minister. Congratulating Sharif on his party’s victory, the head of the White House expressed hope for “working together to strengthen US-Pakistan relations in the interests of a stable, secure and prosperous Pakistan and the entire region.” Another conversation on the phone with Sharif was also held by Secretary of State John Kerry, who is going to go to Islamabad in the near future.
The British military will linger in Afghanistan. British military to stay in Afghanistan until March 2015. According to the Minister of Defense of the United Kingdom, Philip Hammond, due to a change in the withdrawal schedule, the dates of combat missions will be extended. A brigade of the armed forces, which, by way of rotation, is planned to be transferred to Afghanistan in October, will be there for eight months, not six months, reports Rosbalt.
"The reasons for making this decision are clear, it is based on the opinion of the military command," Hammond added.
Tops of France finally gone mad. The National Assembly of France was offered a new government program to protect sexual minorities. This was told by Alexander Artamonov ("Voice of Russia").
В stories France came the era of the absurd. The president of the Civitas social movement, Alain Escada, writes: “We are present at the legalization of what is chastely called“ childbearing with medical assistance ”, as well as“ conception for a third person ”.
Here we are talking about the recognition of the female abdomen as a commodity and the introduction of human beings into commercial circulation. This is done in order to allow homosexual couples to buy a child and then claim the role of his “parents”.
The consequence of the Tobier law (the name of the French Minister of Justice) was the adoption of the document proposed the other day to the National Assembly: “The government program against violence and discrimination committed because of sexual orientation or personal gender identification.”
Corr. The Voices of Russia asked for comment on the initiative of French public officials and law professors in Paris Olivier Thurnafon.
- Is it true that now French children need to know from the cradle the difference between homosexuals and heterosexuals? And by the way, what is this gender theory mentioned in the text?
- Gender theory is not my term, and therefore I find it difficult to decipher it. This is a theory that began to develop from the seventies of the last century. According to this theory, sex differences are not related to physiology, but are based on social prejudices that must be eradicated in the name of equality between men and women. This theory conflicts with the unconditional sexual perception by all of us of differences between men and women.
- Gender theory is not my term, and therefore I find it difficult to decipher it. This is a theory that began to develop from the seventies of the last century. According to this theory, sex differences are not related to physiology, but are based on social prejudices that must be eradicated in the name of equality between men and women. This theory conflicts with the unconditional sexual perception by all of us of differences between men and women.
The expert reports that France is on the threshold of teaching this "theory" in French schools. He said about the possible prosecution of those who refuse to be guided by it. Olivier Turnabon comments on it like this: “Most of all, this sounds like the authorities' desire to make people believe that the Earth is flat. And to those who disagree with this: “Welcome to court!” I see in this a new manifestation of obscurantism. It would probably be interesting to investigate the roots of this collective insanity. ”
- The draft Tobira law provides for the granting of asylum to persons who have declared themselves homosexuals and are being persecuted in their homeland.
- Here we are dealing with bringing logic to the point of absurdity. To give a similar example, we must turn to the era of Lenin or Hitler. Every time there were doubts whether these ideologies would go to the end, but this is exactly what happened.
- Here we are dealing with bringing logic to the point of absurdity. To give a similar example, we must turn to the era of Lenin or Hitler. Every time there were doubts whether these ideologies would go to the end, but this is exactly what happened.
The expert says that the asylum clause in France is already in place. Today, many homosexuals can come to the country to take advantage of existing benefits.
France today is no longer on the verge, but far beyond the verge. The country has abandoned history, the protection of its own religion, the recognition of the right of titular peoples to protect their identity, the sovereign right of parents to educate children, and the principle of inviolability of territorial borders (Syria, Libya). Now she refuses to and gender.
SPT against Dachich. The clergymen of the Serbian Orthodox Church took the initiative to take away church orders and awards from Prime Minister Ivica Dacic. They were pushed to such a step by numerous “anti-church and blasphemous statements” by the heads of the cabinet ministers. In addition, the priests are dissatisfied with the government’s policy on Kosovo, which “harms the public interest” of Serbia.
As reported "Vesti"Referring to Nedelnik, the decision to recall awards can be made at the upcoming May 21 Council of the Serbian Orthodox Church.
The Swedish Prime Minister doubts that Russia has the “will” to attack Sweden. Swedish Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt urged not to exaggerate the Russian military threat, saying that Moscow has "neither the will nor the capacity" to attack Swedish territory, reports Newsru.com with reference to "The Local".
“I do not think that Russia will attack us. The threat to Russia comes from anywhere, but not from Sweden, ”said the prime minister during a school visit in the east of the country.
This statement followed a series of events. In January, the commander-in-chief of the Swedish Armed Forces announced that in the event of an attack, the country could only defend a week. A few days ago Russian bombers appeared in close proximity to the airspace of Sweden.
"Death to the Romanian cannibals!" The Romanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs called on the Moldovan government to punish the initiators of the Victory Day campaign in Chisinau, which used “extremist and offensive remarks against the Romanians”.
In a statement by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Romania, the text of which entered the IA "REGNUM", it is said that the use of “anti-Romanian slogans and images” in Chisinau caused concern of Bucharest.
In particular, we are talking about one of the banners set in the center of the city by Moldovan public organizations dedicated to Victory Day, which showed military equipment with the slogan of wartime: “Death to Romanian cannibals!”
Gedroyts Prize. Alexey Polozov ("Century") writes that Poland has recently placed emphasis on the use of "soft power" to Belarus: cultural, scientific, historical and creative cooperation. At the same time, the main goals remained: the change of power and the involvement of Belarus in the orbit of Polish and Euro-Atlantic influence.
28 August last year during a meeting with his Estonian counterpart U. Paet, Polish Foreign Minister R. Sikorski stated that, despite the temporary setbacks in the struggle against A. Lukashenko, "support for civil society and democratic forces of Belarus should be continued."
22 January 2013, the Polish Ambassador to Belarus Leszek Sharepka in Svisloch laid flowers at the monument to R. Taurgut and K. Kalinowski. The event of the Polish diplomatic mission was attended by the Belarusian opposition.
Some time later, the poet and writer V. Neklyaev, a rival of Lukashenko at the last presidential election, was declared the winner of the Jerzy Gedroyc prize. This decision was made by the jury, which is practically led by the Polish ambassador, the author writes.
As emphasized by the founders of the award, Gedroits "was a consistent supporter of good-neighborly relations between Poland and Belarus, Lithuania, Ukraine". But in fact, he contributed to the reanimation of the idea of the Commonwealth in the old boundaries (which we learn from his biography, which can be briefly described as follows: serving the West).
The Gedroits Prize is awarded to authors who have written works in the Belarusian language. The winner in 2013 received 105 million Belarusian rubles (more than 12 thousand dollars), as well as the opportunity to publish his book in Poland. Applications for the award are received by the Belarusian PEN Center, a real pro-Western structure funded from abroad.
Indicative is Nyaklyaeu's novel “A machine with soda with and without syrup,” which brought the first prize to the author. Autobiographical novel, indicates Alexei Polozov, with a clear focus on Western values, as if on purpose, to fit the dissident worldview.
Nyaklyaeu needs Poland to maintain the degree of confrontation with Lukashenko, to demonstrate his full support to the opposition representatives.
Evening fell over the village of Putinka ... In Latvia, put up for sale plots in the village of Putinka, named after the Russian president. Reports about it "Lenta.ru" with links to Mixnews and TVNET.lv. The village is one of the eco-villages created by Vianets.
“We believe that Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin is an outstanding politician in modern history and has done a lot for Russia, nearby regions and the whole world as a whole,” said Alexey Kholostov, a representative of the firm, a former member of the Seimas of Latvia. According to the news agency "REGNUM", he expressed the opinion that for Latvia the presence of a settlement with such a name would be a "great honor."
For Putinki a place was chosen in the Riga region, between Riga and Jurmala. Nine plots ranging from 2500 to 3300 square meters were put up for sale. The plot in 3200 square meters is priced at 20 thousand euros. Site buyers will receive a residence permit in Latvia allowing them to travel to Europe without a visa.
Well, it should be noted that Medvedevka and Valuevka have already been announced in the network of eco-villages “Grace” created in Latvia.
Putinka and Medvedevka are waiting for the Russians.
The real purpose of the land trade is the rescue of the crisis real estate market in Latvia. According to the Latvian politician Yuri Sokolovsky, the well-to-do Russians can save the Latvian real estate market. Developers and realtors are trying to please their tastes.
The famous Baku homeless. To become a celebrity, just lie down on the sidewalk in the capital of Azerbaijan and introduce yourself as the son of intelligence officer Zorge, NTV correspondent A. Kalinin. After that news will go on the air.
An interview with the homeless was recorded and promulgated by the Baku network television channel.
“What was your father's name?”
- My father? Richard Sorge. He died in Japan.
- My father? Richard Sorge. He died in Japan.
According to the historian, this man is an impostor. He is not suitable for the sons of Sorge either by age or by similarity.
The US Nazi Party held a congress in Atlanta. In late April, the largest American Nazi party "NSM" held an annual convention in Atlanta, writes "Interpreter".
The National Socialist Movement Party was registered in 1974. The number of its members is only about 400 people. The batch has cells in 35 states. The NSM leadership assures that the number of their supporters reaches 50 thousand people, and these people do not join the party in order not to get into the field of vision of the special services.
The two main activities of the party: the fight against illegal migration and homosexuality. American democracy allows citizens to unite in the civilian police and in its composition to perform part of the police and security functions. The NSMs from the “NSM” constitute troops engaged in catching illegal migrants along the borders with Mexico.
The leader of the party is Jeff Schoep, the father of 8 children and the hunter, whose family lives on welfare. The informal head is often called the preacher Bill White, who gradually shifts the ideology of the party from "pure Nazism" to national anarchism. Mr. White sees ideal America as a network of "communes of white people living honestly on earth."
At this meeting in Atlanta, Georgia, it was approved to join the party of another Nazi group - "The White Preservationists", i.e., "White defenders").
It is also noted that the party congresses are traditionally attended by such NSM allies as the Ku Klux Klan.
In the Boston terrorist attack imprinted "Georgian trace." Viktor Koltsov ("Russian peacemaker") writes that recently information appeared in the media about the training of Tamerlan Tsarnaev at seminars conducted by Georgian special services together with American instructors. The organization that conducted the seminars is called the Caucasus Foundation, and it collaborated with the American non-profit organization Jamestown.
According to the reports of Colonel of the Main Directorate of Counterintelligence of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Georgia Grigory Chanturia, the main tasks of the fund were to recruit young people and intellectuals of the North Caucasus to increase instability in the southern regions of Russia.
Information naturally became popular in the media around the world.
The Georgian Interior Ministry, in response to the relevant publication of the newspaper Izvestia, stated that T. Tsarnaev had never been to Georgia, and Colonel Chanturia, referred to in the publication, had never worked in the counterintelligence unit of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. But, according to the Georgian media, the Caucasus Foundation has been closed down.
Who blows up American factories? A month ago, in West Texas, the West Fertilizer fertilizer plant flew into the air. 14 people died, hundreds of injured. Dozens of houses were destroyed. And traces of intruders lead straight to the American drug mafia, writes Dmitry Vinogradov ("Free press").
The police noticed that for many years with the "West Fertilizer" received allegations of theft of anhydrous ammonia. This agricultural fertilizer is used in the artisanal synthesis of methamphetamine. According to representatives of the McLennan County Sheriff's office, ammonia from the plant was stolen on an industrial scale. Interest in it is due to the popularity of methamphetamine in the rural areas of the southern United States.
For the drug mafia to burn the evidence along with the plant - it is quite possible. However, law enforcement agencies are in no hurry to investigate the "narcotic" version. According to the press secretary of the Texas Marshals' office, Rachel Moreno, all four ammonia tanks remained intact after the explosion, and that was enough to exclude from the investigation the connection between the incident and the drug mafia.
Another possible reason for the robbery, followed by arson, is ammonium nitrate produced by the plant. This chemical compound is a component of improvised explosive devices.
It is noted that the plant did not have any guards, fences, or control sensors.
Regular sex scandals in the American army. As transmits "Voice of Russia"Referring to ITAR-TASS, Barack Obama personally intervened in the settlement of the next scandal, which attracted increased attention of the American public. The cause of the scandal was the cases of sexual harassment in the US military, which became more frequent in recent weeks.
Yesterday, Mr. Obama invited Defense Minister Chuck Hagel and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff of the United States General Martin Dempsey to the White House. The latter had to cancel a pre-announced briefing for journalists.
As the Pentagon recently reported in a report, last year 26 reported thousands of cases of sexual harassment in the US Army, which is 37% more than a year earlier. Victims complained to their superiors only in 3374 cases.
After the meeting, the president said that the leaders of the Pentagon and the Joint Chiefs of Staff, like other American military leaders, were outraged by the behavior of a number of their subordinates. “They care and they are angry,” Obama said. “They told me directly that they were ashamed of what happened.”
According to "Lenta.ru", the head of the sexual assault service at the Fort Campbell military base in Kentucky was fired from his post. Reports the edition about it "USA Today".
42-year-old Lieutenant Colonel Darin Haas was fired due to charges of violating a protective order against his ex-wife. He was detained by the police on the evening of May 15, but then released on bail. According to Haas’s wife, he sent threatening messages to her, violating a court order protecting family members from domestic violence.
On the afternoon of May 16, after Haas was released from the police, he was fired.
In early May, recalls Lenta, the head of the unit for the prevention of sexual crimes in the US Air Force, Lieutenant Colonel Jeff Krusinski, was also dismissed: he was arrested for attacking a woman.
Scandal for the scandal. Stefan Bussard ("The weather"; abbreviated translation source - "Inopressa") recalled three more scandals, because of which went to the White House.
The scandals with the wiretapping of the journalists of the Associated Press, with biased checks of conservative NGOs by the US Tax Service and with an attack on the consulate in Benghazi, broke out at the most disadvantageous time for Barack Obama. “Three of these crises can pin him down like“ Irangate ”- Ronald Reagan, and the Lewinsky affair - Bill Clinton,” the correspondent believes.
The story of listening to AP phones by the US Department of Justice was shocked by American society. The agency itself claims a violation of the First Amendment to the Constitution and believes that during the two-month interception, its confidential sources of information could be compromised.
More sensitive to the Obama administration is the Tax Service scandal. “If the party bias of the American tax authorities is confirmed, Republicans can start a merciless war” against the administration.
The absurdity of the situation is also in the fact that small associations close to the “Tea Party” donated almost nothing to the presidential campaign. “But larger organizations, such as the Crossroads Foundation headed by former George W. Bush adviser Karl Rove, have not been audited by the Internal Revenue Service, although they violate the rules that are not clearly stated in tax legislation,” Bussard notes.
A recent speech by two high-ranking US State Department officials added fuel to the flames of the long-standing scandal against the attack on the consulate in Benghazi. At congressional hearings, diplomats said the Obama administration did not take seriously the warnings about security threats in Libya. In addition, the White House tried to conceal that the attack on the consulate, which was in fact the base of the CIA, was made by Islamic radicals, so that Obama could continue to play the victory card over Al-Qaeda in his election race.
"Congressmen from the Republican Party, partly responsible for what happened, because they have repeatedly refused to embassies to strengthen security, are not going to miss the prey," - concluded the journalist.
About the wiretapping of journalists and the election activities of the American tax authorities read in the previous "Mosaic".
Mr. Obama's earnings. Barack and Michelle Obama have a personal fortune from 1,9 to 6,9 million dollars. This is evidenced by the published property declaration of the US President and his spouse. A year earlier, their savings were estimated at 2,6-8,3 million dollars, respectively, reports MIGnews.com.
The declaration indicates the approximate size of the assets, as required by law. The president holds 515 thousand dollars in a current account at JP Morgan Chase, and even before 5 million is stored in super-reliable, but low-yielding US treasury securities.
The President pays a mortgage loan in the amount from 500 thousand to 1 million, taken in 2005 year for 30 years. The interest on the loan - 5,6% per year.
It is also known that Mr. Obama put aside 400 thousand dollars for higher education of his two daughters.
New Orleans: shot by urban gang members. The brothers suspected of bombing the parade participants in New Orleans are members of the city gang. Previously, they have repeatedly been accused of carrying weapons correspondent RIA "News" Peter Martynychev.
As a result of the shooting, during a parade on Mother's Day, 12 suffered 20 people in May: 19 received gunshot wounds, and one woman was injured while fleeing from the scene. Among the wounded are two children. On Thursday, police reported the arrest of 19-year-old Akein Scott and his 24-year-old brother Shawn.
Both are accused of attempted murder on 20 episodes.
The court ruled that the amount for the release of Akein Scott on bail amount to 10 million dollars. This decision is due to the fact that before committing a high-profile crime, Scott was released on bail of 15 thousands of dollars in the case of illegal possession of weapons. New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landry criticized the judges who allowed the suspect to go free and commit a more serious crime.
"So that the person representing us would wander around in that stupid wig with one hundred thousand dollars ..." "Inopressa" made a review on the spy theme of the day.
The German edition of Spiegel reports that Russia filed an official protest to US Ambassador Michael McFaul in connection with the capture of a CIA officer. Following the meeting between the Deputy Foreign Minister of Russia Sergey Ryabkov and the US ambassador, American diplomat Ryan Fogl, who was detained while trying to recruit an employee of the Russian special services, was declared persona non grata in Russia. Mr. McFaul did not comment on the meeting.
Russian intelligence officials say they have recorded a rapid increase in CIA activity in Moscow, as evidenced by the arrest of Ryan Fogl, The Financial Times writes.
On Wednesday, a high-ranking FSB officer told Interfax that in January his department found and expelled another CIA officer from Russia after he tried to recruit a Russian counterintelligence officer. That incident was not made public.
Retired intelligence officers notice that Fogl did an unusual and risky attempt to recruit a stranger by phone. However, CIA veteran Jean Coyle believes that this man almost certainly told the CIA himself that he wanted to sell the information. Coyle also noted that Fogl’s embassy ID would expire soon. "It may have been decided that Vogl can be sacrificed."
According to the official version, Fogle wanted to recruit an FSB counterintelligence officer working in the North Caucasus. Some have concluded that US interest in the Caucasus has increased due to Boston terrorist attacks.
The incident with Vogl is unlikely to cause any harm to relations between the United States and Russia, says Süddeutsche Zeitung. “Relations were bad, but now Moscow and Washington want to get closer again (an example of this is an agreement on a general conference on Syria). This course, set by Obama and Putin, is unlikely to be changed by an amateur like Fogle. Of course, a public demonstration of an unmasked agent is unpleasant for the CIA, but this is more of a gesture of Russia's sporting triumph than a real political insult, ”the correspondent writes.
The author, meanwhile, warns: “Moscow may use this opportunity to lay ground on the charge that evil foreign powers are sowing discord in Russia. This is absurd, but it is a good way to discredit the opposition, receiving assistance from abroad. At least for this reason, the United States should have sent a professional to Moscow. ”
The head of the Senate Intelligence Committee came down on the "absurd" and "dumb" employee of the American embassy, accused of spying for the CIA, who was detained in Moscow with third-rate spyware, reports The New York Post.
“It embarrasses me,” said Democratic Senator Diana Feinstein to a reporter. - I think the preparation was terrible. So that the person representing us would wander around in that stupid wig with a hundred thousand dollars ... We are investigating this. "
A sip of valerian. Sergey Ischenko ("Free press") told that over the ocean the results of the combat training of the naval component of the Russian Strategic Nuclear Forces for 2012 were summed up. It was made by the American information and analytical agency FAS on the website Strategic Security Blog. The results of the analytical study should act on the inhabitants of New York or Florida as a good gulp of valerian, the correspondent writes. The main conclusion of the FAS researchers is as follows: today, almost nothing threatens the United States from the oceanic directions from Russia.
The Pentagon has established that during 2012, Russian submariners-"strategists" were able to make five "autonomous" from the bases of the Northern and Pacific fleets. On others fleets there are no such ships. It turns out that at least one Russian strategic missile carrier was in the World Ocean on combat patrol for five months at best. And the other seven? ..
But at the height of the Cold War, in just one 1984 year, the Soviet Navy carried out 102 combat patrols by nuclear-powered submarine missile cruisers in the oceans of the World Ocean.
However, a special concern is that Russian, that American submariners - do not let themselves be detected by the anti-submarine forces of a potential enemy. And is it possible to trust the Americans, who claim that there were only five campaigns of our SSBNs? But the American space reconnaissance vigilantly follows the bases of Russian submariners. If there is no ship at the usual berth - it means that he went to the "autonomous".
The author of the report, Hans Christiansen, draws one more conclusion: the Russian crews in 2012 “did not have enough practice in controlling strategic missile carriers to have a chance to survive and provide a counterstrike in a critical situation”.
“There are only nine SSBNs left in the combat structure of the Russian Navy — three Kalmar 667BDR projects (all on the Pacific Fleet, Kamchatka) and six Dolphin 667BDRM projects (all on the Northern Fleet, Gadzhievo). The rest of their brethren in the Severodvinsk Zvezdochka Ship Repair Center over the past decade and a half have been hacked up by a giant guillotine courtesy of the Americans. Like sausage.
Of the nine Russian SSBNs in service, four, according to US intelligence, are in need of repair. It remains five. Here they went once a year to the ocean.
Aces and kings in the American card deck. The USA has once again found its main enemy in the “Russian mafia”. This was told Sergey Vasilenkov (Pravda.ru).
In the US, they have released a deck of playing cards, which depict the leaders of the “Russian mafia”, plowing the fields of the criminal business in the United States. Cards will be distributed to efbeerovtsam, other special services and congressmen. He initiated the mapping of the American Institute of Russian Studies. The purpose of portraying 48 man is to explain the structure of the Russian underworld.
As it turned out, such prominent Russian guys as Mikhail Chernoy, Lev Chernoy, Leon Lann (Leonid Kaplan) and Semyon Mogilevich got into aces.
According to the Foreign Policy magazine, the last of the four is one of the most influential people in the world. This person has citizenship not only of Russia, but also of Hungary and Israel.
L. Kaplan has only Israeli citizenship.
The Black brothers, in addition to Russian citizenship, have Israeli, and live in Israel.
Viktor Bout, associated with arms smuggling and imprisoned in the United States, ended up in the “Kings”. Zhanna Bulok, the wife of the former Minister of Finance of the Moscow Region, got into the “ladies”. But she also has American citizenship.
Oh, those terrible Russians gazing at the alluring American coast!
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