Geopolitical mosaic: the Ukrainian opposition makes a list of Euro-enemies and forms its own government, and Canada staked out the North Pole
Nelson Mandela is gone. The UN Security Council mourns the death of Nelson Mandela, correspondent RIA "Novosti" Ivan Zakharchenko.
“His life journey of combating racial enslavement and decisive role in shaping a peaceful transition to a united and democratic South Africa have become an indelible legacy for his country and the whole world,” the UN Security Council said.
“The members of the Security Council express their solidarity with the people of South Africa at this time of sorrow. President Nelson Mandela will forever be remembered as one who gave so much of his life to the struggle for freedom so that the millions have a bright future, ”the statement said.
Russia shares a "deep sense of sorrow" in connection with the death of Nelson Mandela. This was stated by Deputy Permanent Representative of the Russian Federation to the UN Yevgeny Zagainov, reports correspondent ITAR-TASS Oleg Zelenin.
“We share the feeling of deep sorrow over the death of Nelson Mandela, an outstanding political figure whose name is strongly associated throughout the world with the ideals of freedom and equality,” the diplomat said.
Russian technology for the destruction of Syrian chemical weapons. Russia will provide Syria with equipment for carrying out some measures in the framework of the chemical weapons destruction program, ITAR-TASS reports, citing the words of Russia's Permanent Representative to the UN, Vitaly Churkin.
As transmits "RT", while reviewing the monthly report of the joint UN and OPCW mission, Vitaly Churkin stressed that this measure would help solve the problem of lack of technical means for a chemical disarmament operation. “We will provide some assistance to the Syrians,” he said.
Against this background, the "rebels" re-launched the chemical series.
Chemical series: a new series. Representatives of the "opposition" accused government forces of using chemical weapons during the battles for the city of En-Nebq. Reports about it "Lenta.ru" with reference to Reuters.
About the use of poison gas in En-Nebka said two sources in the opposition.
Oppositional anonymous sources told Reuters that in the vicinity of the rebel-controlled city government forces fired two gas-charged projectiles. As a result, seven people died.
Another source, representatives of the Coordination Council of the Syrian Revolution, said the nine victims of poisoning with poison gas in En-Nebka.
Reuters notes that it was not possible to obtain any confirmation of the information on the use of chemical weapons by the Syrian authorities.
Regarding official information, on the night of today, SANA agency denied reports of the use of poison gas in A-Nebka, explaining their appearance by attempts by terrorist groups to justify their defeat by the Syrian army.
As militants, nuns were saved from Assad. Pope Francis urged believers to pray for the salvation of Syrian nuns from the city of Maulul, who fell into the hands of militants, and Damascus called the abduction a "crime against humanity." But representatives of the so-called. the opposition claimed that it was not a kidnapping, but ... a rescue operation. This was told by Evgeny Poddubny ("Vesti").
12 Orthodox nuns kidnapped in Maalula are alive. Representatives of the Patriarchate of Antioch made contact with militants holding hostages. The name of the group that holds the nuns is not known. But another is known.
Khalid Saleh, a spokesman for the Syrian National Coalition, said:
Thus, the “opposition” presented the abduction of nuns as a salvation from Assad’s bloodthirsty army.
Later it became clear why militants need nuns.
In another report by Yevgeny Poddubny ("Vesti") it is reported that the militants are going to use hostages as human shields.
The leadership of the Free Syrian Army called for the release of the hostages. However, the abductees are in the hands of the Islamists, and not one of the groups has claimed responsibility for the abduction. Experts believe that the nuns are held by the “Front of en-Nusra”.
Now the militants are preparing to attack another ancient Christian settlement Seydnaya. Leaflets with threats against Christians are distributed around the city, they are called “infidels.”
The Russians understood everything, the Americans did not understand anything. The Western press has almost regularly broadcast the most unpleasant facts about the daily combat of the Syrian rebels. In Europe and the United States are beginning to recognize that Russia initially understood the essence of the Syrian conflict, writes Nikita Sorokin ("Voice of Russia").
Particularly highlighted is the publication of the British newspaper The Sunday Telegraph, where curious statements by militants are cited. Some boast about the smuggling of petroleum products and cars. The keynote of the comments: to the leaders of the Free Syrian Army, the fall of Bashar al-Assad is unprofitable ... for business reasons. After all, war guarantees militants a profit. That is why gratuitous support from the West and other "friends of Syria" with weapons, equipment and food is necessary for them as air.
“Russia seems to understand this conflict a little better than many Western analysts,” said Michael O'Hanlon, senior expert of the 21st Century Security and Intelligence Center, head of the foreign policy research program at the Brookings Institute (USA), told Voice of Russia. .
According to him, at the very beginning of the conflict, Washington did not think about the fact that rebel groups might be inclined towards radical extremism. “I think we were wrong in the US,” admitted Michael O'Hanlon.
Now the rebel movement, says O'Hanlon, or loses, or is in a stalemate.
But those Syrian rebels, the core and main combat force of which are radical Islamic groups continue to fight. Says Boris Dolgov, senior researcher at the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences: “They have power and assistance in both military and logistic terms with regard to information. They are supported financially primarily by Qatar and Saudi Arabia, instructors from NATO countries and Turkey are training. ”
As suggested by the mentioned O'Hanlon, Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Turkey will continue to support the Sunni rebels, and Iran and Hezbollah will help Assad. The position of the United States remains uncertain.
O'Hanlon also said that the settlement of the Syrian conflict is achievable through a federal structure or an independent division of the country. So the Alawite part of Syria may appear, and in the mixed center of the country some mixed cities may exist. In the east, a Sunni stronghold can be formed, and a Kurdish stronghold in the north.
But this, we add from ourselves, the very project that both the West and the Arab monarchies cherished - to dismember Syria into pieces, having provided its influence on each received fragment of the territory. Different no-fly zones and humanitarian “corridors” were another way of achieving the same goal.
About Iran and uranium. The US Assistant Secretary of State said that Iran could continue to enrich uranium. The country will defend this right in further discussions with the five permanent members of the UN Security Council and Germany. This was announced by Deputy Secretary of State for Political Affairs Wendy Sherman, who led the US delegation at the negotiations of the international "six" with Iran in Geneva, reports "RT" with reference to ITAR-TASS.
Sherman noted that the United States and its partners hope to begin developing a comprehensive agreement with Iran already "in the near future." According to her, the future agreement may provide for Tehran to continue a “limited program” of producing low-enriched uranium if it is “practically necessary” for its energy needs and if such work is carried out under the strict control of international inspectors.
At the same time, the Six intends to seek from Iran a complete dismantling of the infrastructure of a number of nuclear facilities, including the reactor in Arak, which is capable of producing weapons-grade plutonium. “We just don’t understand for what peaceful civilian purposes this heavy-water 40 megawatt reactor can be designed,” Sherman said.
As transmits correspondent ITAR-TASS Mikhail Scherbakov, the next round of negotiations between Iran and the "six" will be held next week in Vienna. This correspondent reported in diplomatic circles close to the consultation.
The final date has not yet been agreed. “The meeting can take place 9-10 December or 11-12”, - explained the source.
The terrorist attack in Yemen. The number of victims of the terrorist attack on the complex of buildings of the Yemeni Ministry of Defense, which occurred yesterday, has increased to 52 people. Reports about it "Lenta.ru" with reference to Reuters.
Among the dead, according to France-Presse, are employees and patients of a military hospital attacked by militants, including foreigners: two doctors from Germany, two from Vietnam, nurses from the Philippines and from India. Earlier it became known about the death of a Venezuelan doctor and two Filipinos.
The authorities estimate that the person 162 is injured.
"Tape" reminds that in the morning of December 5, at the gates of the Ministry of Defense of Yemen, a car stuffed with TNT exploded, driven by a suicide bomber. Then fighters disguised as Yemeni militants entered the territory of the ministerial complex. They attempted to seize territory, but were killed during a shootout. No organization has yet claimed responsibility for the attack.
The militant attack coincided with a visit by the Yemeni military delegation to the United States. US forces in the region are on alert, an anonymous source in the US Department of Defense told Reuters anonymously.
The entry of French troops into the CARs is sanctioned by the UN. The UN Security Council yesterday adopted a resolution authorizing the entry of French troops and African Union forces into the Central African Republic, reports "Lenta.ru" with reference to Reuters.
The UN mandate allows foreign troops to use force to protect civilians.
Spain will become cyber-safe. The Spanish National Security Council has adopted a “cybersecurity strategy”, reports correspondent ITAR-TASS Alexander Chernosvitov.
According to Soraya Saenz de Santamaría, deputy chairman of the Spanish government, “the strategy involves coordinating the work of various ministries and departments, including the existing joint cyber defense command of the Ministry of Defense, and creating a special committee that will become an advisory body under the government’s chairman. “This will guarantee the security of information systems and networks by timely detection of cases of cyber attacks and countering them,” she explained.
Contrary to the constitution: Romanian instead of Moldovan. Romanian is recognized as the state language of Moldavia. The corresponding decision, as transmits "News-Moldova ", adopted the Constitutional Court of the Republic. He writes about it "Lenta.ru".
The decision was made despite the fact that the Moldovan constitution is listed in the Moldovan constitution. The Constitutional Court referred to the fact that Romanian is mentioned in the Declaration of Independence of the Republic. “The Declaration of Independence is an integral part of the Constitution. In case of discrepancies, the text of the Declaration prevails. The decision is final and cannot be appealed, ”said the chairman of the court, Alexander Tanase.
Article 13 of the Moldavian Constitution states that the state language of the country is “Moldovan language, functioning on the basis of the Latin script”. However, many in Moldova, including representatives of the ruling circles, consider the Moldovan language a dialect of Romanian.
Earlier that the official language in Moldova should be considered Romanian, said the president of the republic, Nicolae Timofti. He lamented that because of the current wording in the constitution, one has to “live on the basis of a lie”.
A statement that the state language of Moldova should be called Romanian, previously acted Academy of Sciences of the Republic. She referred to her own decisions made in the 1990s.
Ukrainian Stalin. The President of Ukraine chose the path of dictatorship and does not intend to reckon with the people of the country, Yulia Tymoshenko said on December 5. Statement by the leader of "Batkivschiny" published on its website, reports "Lenta.ru".
Tymoshenko believes that Yanukovych challenges all Ukraine and the whole democratic world. “By arresting beaten innocent people, he bluntly says that he spits on everyone, that he will continue to beat, kill, plant everyone who will stand in his way to absolute power,” she says.
In the territory of Ukraine, the oppositionist underlines, the formation of a new Stalin is taking place. “And if we all together with the democratic world do not stop it, we will get another North Korea,” she is sure.
“The people of Ukraine should immediately take power into their own hands, and not lead sweet conversations with the dictator. All actions should be coordinated with the opposition: a large mission is entrusted to it and it must be listened to in order to prevent bloodshed, ”Tymoshenko emphasized. She called on fellow citizens either to achieve victory, or to prepare "for absolute dictatorship for many years."
Klitschko’s party will compile a list of Euro-enemies. The Ukrainian opposition decided to compile a list of “enemies of Euromaidan”. The publication of the relevant list was taken by the party "UDAR" Vitali Klitschko, reports "Lenta.ru".
The party’s website states that the list will include judges banning rallies in support of European integration, Berkut fighters who beat protesters in Kiev, judges and investigators “who participated in the unlawful condemnation and prosecution of activists”. According to the opposition, these people carried out the “criminal orders of the regime” and should be brought to justice for this.
The leaders of the “criminal regime” in the party were Viktor Yanukovich, Nikolai Azarov, and Interior Minister Vitaly Zakharchenko.
The authors of the list call to subject these citizens to "public pressure." In the future (after the change of power, which is being sought by the opposition), the “enemies of Maidan” are threatened with lustration and “responsibility by law”.
Kiev diarchy? The Ukrainian opposition intends to begin today to form an independent government. This was announced at a rally on Independence Square in the center of Kiev, the leader of the Freedom party, Oleg Tyagnibok, reports "Voice of Russia" with reference to ITAR-TASS.
“We are starting the formation of an independent government in Kiev, Kiev local self-government,” said Tyagnibok. He also informed those gathered in the square that the opposition "is doing a lot of international work."
“We appeal to the international community to support us, to condemn the bloodshed in Ukraine and to impose personal sanctions against those who violate the rights of the Ukrainian nation and human rights in our state,” he said.
Minus five percent of GDP. If protest actions in Ukraine drag on for several months, “it could cost the country 5% of GDP.” This opinion was expressed at a press conference by the former deputy chairman of the National Bank Alexander Savchenko, reports ITAR-TASS.
Savchenko added: “Every day of the crisis is a loss of GDP. The “Orange Revolution” cost us about 5% of GDP. If the crisis lasts two months or more, we will experience the same losses. ”
China Ukraine is not an assistant, or the fall of Yanukovych. The visit of the President of Ukraine to China is apparently not as successful as planned. While protesters in Kiev are demanding the resignation of the president, Yanukovych was trying to negotiate new loans for Ukraine with China. But Chinese diplomats made him understand that the state is not going to provide additional financial assistance. In addition, according to the Ukrainian opposition, the level of meetings Yanukovych was lowered. Reports about this resource Newsru.com with reference to "RBC".
The question of new loans was asked at a briefing at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of China, but Foreign Ministry spokesman Hong Lei left the direct answer.
And Vitali Klitschko said that the Chinese leaders refused to meet with the President of Ukraine. About this informs RIA “News.” “The president flew to China and pretended that nothing was happening in the country. We appealed to the leadership of the People’s Republic of China with a request not to meet with Yanukovych. And today we already know that the level of meetings for Yanukovych has been reduced, ”explained Klitschko.
According to him, the president expected to meet with the chairman of the PRC, the leadership of the parliament and the government, but agreed to meet with him ... only the head of one Chinese province.
Newsru.com recalls that China has already provided Ukraine with a loan of 10 billion dollars (from last year). In particular, China lent Ukraine three billion dollars for the development of agriculture and 3,7 billion dollars for energy. And in September, 2013, the Export-Import Bank of China agreed to allocate Kiev three billion dollars for the restoration of irrigation systems.
Yuan jumped the euro. According to the World Interbank Financial Telecommunications Community (SWIFT), the Chinese yuan has bypassed the euro as the world's second most widely used currency in settlements, reports Mixednews.ru with reference to "Bloomberg."
The share of currency in letters of credit and fees in October amounted to 8,66%, and the share of the euro - 6,64%, this organization reports. The main countries that used the yuan in trade were China, Hong Kong, Singapore, Germany and Australia.
According to the same SWIFT, in January 2013, the yuan was the fourth major currency in international trade (1,89%), and the euro currency with its 7,87% was the second.
“The Yuan is clearly a priority currency in financial trading in the world, and especially in Asia,” said Frank de Preter of the SWIFT branch in Singapore.
China frightened America? In the article “The Obama team changes course and seems to take over the Chinese air defense zone” (“Foreign Policy”, USA; the source of translation is "InoSMI") Journalists Dan Lamot and Yochi Drizen note that senior Obama administration officials and officials at the Pentagon on Wednesday showed a desire to temporarily adopt the Chinese air defense identification zone. They made it clear that the United States is probably still willing to accept the existence of this zone if China refuses the requirement that all planes crossing this space be pre-registered.
“Not a statement about the air defense identification zone was destabilizing,” said General Martin Dempsey. - Destabilizing was their requirement that all aircraft entering this zone should be registered regardless of whether they intend to enter China’s sovereign airspace or not. This is precisely the destabilizing factor. ”
This is an important change in the position that existed a few days ago, when US Vice President Joe Biden demanded that China abandon its statement regarding the air defense zone, the authors of the material say. In addition, this is another demonstration that the recent decisions of China have forced Washington to behave cautiously.
On Wednesday, Biden met with Chinese President Xi Jinping in Beijing. This meeting lasted more than five hours. But in a short public speech during the break, Biden did not even mention the new air defense zone.
Journalists point out that US officials have shifted the focus to preventing potential military clashes between Japan and the PRC.
Canada decided that the North Pole belonged to her. Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper demanded that the government reconsider his country's territorial claims in the Arctic, including the North Pole in the list of Canadian territories, according to Konstantin Kerubov ("Voice of Russia").
Just before December 6, Canada must submit a preliminary application to the UN with a justification of territorial claims in the Arctic Ocean. According to “The Globe and Mail”, the country can reconsider its requirements, which until now included the continental shelf up to the North Pole.
At the last moment, the Prime Minister demanded that the North Pole be included in the application.
How comrade Snowden influenced Mr. Obama. The President of the United States intends to propose reforms in the activities of the NSA, which has come under the fire of criticism in recent months due to the revelations of Edward Snowden. Told about it correspondent ITAR-TASS Ivan Lebedev.
Speaking yesterday at the MSNBC television program, Mr. Obama said that the NSA should introduce some self-restraints in the work. Americans don't have to worry about privacy. Obama is going to announce his initiatives in the coming months, when an independent report on the activities of the NSA will be analyzed. This agency American human rights activists accused of tapping telephone conversations and viewing correspondence around the world. Obama has publicly acknowledged that "the revelations made by Snowden revealed some areas of legitimate concern." However, trying to protect the activities of their special services, Obama recalled that it is aimed "to ensure the safety of American citizens."
Sharply increase! The President of the United States obliged all government departments to dramatically increase the use of renewable energy sources, reports correspondent ITAR-TASS Dmitry Zlodorev.
The memorandum he signed states that by the 2020 fiscal year 20% of the total electricity consumed by each agency should be from renewable sources. As an initial goal, he designated the year 2015 (the indicator should reach "at least 10%"). In 2016-2017, according to Obama, “he (the indicator) must be at least 15%.”
Illegal Obama has become a legitimate American. Ann-Claude Martin ("Le Figaro"; short source of translation - "Inopressa") writes that Obama's uncle 50 finally got a green card.
“Welcome to the United States,” the judge of the Boston immigration court told Kenyan Onyango Obama, the uncle of the American president, who had illegally lived in the country for more than half a century.
A positive decision was made in accordance with federal law, according to which everyone who arrived in the United States before 1972, can receive a residence permit.
“I have a nephew, he is the president of the United States,” Onyango answered the judge’s question about whether he had relatives in America. My uncle said that Barak had been with him for several weeks at Cambridge when he was a student at Harvard University.
In the 2011 year, reminds of "Le Figaro", the uncle of the American leader came to the attention of the media: getting drunk behind the wheel, he crashed into a police car.
“I’ll probably call the White House,” he then answered the question of who can make a pledge for him ...
At EuroPRO we will answer with “Yarsami” Moscow’s intentions to replenish the country's nuclear arsenals have caused a nervous discussion in the American expert community about the revival of Russia's military might, reports Nikita Sorokin ("Voice of Russia").
At the end of last month, at a meeting on the development of the Strategic Missile Forces, Vladimir Putin announced that already this year two regiments will receive the latest mobile intercontinental ballistic missile systems. Next year, according to the president, 22 of such a complex will enter the Strategic Missile Forces.
Experts figured out that we are talking about Yars ICBM complexes, both mobile and mine-based.
The President also noted that the new missiles are able to overcome any missile defense system.
And the conservative magazine The National Interest (USA) calls for considering the renewal of Russian nuclear missile forces by Russia as a new round of strategic rivalry between Moscow and Washington. The publication warns: the United States should not fall behind the program of modernization of strategic weapons, launched by Moscow.
Apparently, the military equipment of Yars is a threat to the European missile defense system, says Mikhail Khodaryonok, a member of the Public Council under the Military Industrial Commission of the Russian Government:
Forty-nine poor Russians? The US Prosecutor’s Office has filed charges against a group of former and current Russian diplomats, as well as their family members. Forty-nine people are suspected of providing false information about incomes, which allowed them to use medical insurance for low-income people, reports Interfax.
Under the Medicaid program, designed to help people with incomes below 3 thousands of dollars a month per family, diplomats received about $ 1,5 million, the Chicago Tribune newspaper reported.
According to Voice of America, the staff of the Russian mission to the UN, the Russian Consulate General in New York, and the Russian trade mission in the United States have been using the criminal scheme for the past nine years.
In relation to each of the 49, the defendants were charged with attempting to conspire to commit fraud, attempting to seize government funds and perjury. Russians are also charged with giving false information that their children are US citizens - in order to receive maternity benefits.
Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov told Interfax that Moscow is perplexed: after all, the United States chose to publicize information about the accusations of Russian diplomats rather than preliminarily discuss the issue through diplomatic channels. “Until we receive from the American authorities a clear explanation of what is charged to our citizens, we cannot give any comments on this issue,” Ryabkov said.
RF IC against the sale of children. The Investigative Committee of Russia opened a criminal case on the fact of trafficking in the United States adopted Russian children, said Interfax official representative of the department Vladimir Markin.
TFR conducted an audit after an investigation by Reuters and NBC. According to her results, a case was initiated under Art. 127.1 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (human trafficking in respect of two or more persons, in relation to a minor).
The investigation believes that illegal exchanges were created on “Yahoo!” and on “Facebook”, in which Russian children adopted by Americans were illegally transferred to other families. The victims of the crime were 26 minors, some of whom were sexually abused.
“Despite the fact that the crimes were committed outside the Russian Federation, they were directed against its citizens. The above facts will be carefully studied during the investigation of the criminal case, in which the preliminary investigation authorities intend to also check the legality of the transfer of Russian children to American families, ”said Markin.
The Internet contributes to the spread of the Russian language. Total 5% of the total number of languages existing on Earth today are used on the Internet. "Voice of Russia" with reference to ITAR-TASS.
“Of the 7776 languages spoken by people living on the planet, only 388 is present in the cyberspace,” quotes Andreas Kornaya, head of the new study, quoting the BBC. “Thus, with the development of technology, the extinction of languages has accelerated.” “I would compare the Internet with a comet, which, according to a number of scientists, falling on our planet and causing the creation of dense clouds of ash and dust in the atmosphere, led to the fact that dinosaurs became completely extinct. Something similar is happening now with languages that could not break into a new virtual reality, ”he added.
In April, the English language occupied 54,9% of the total textual information located on the world wide web. In the second position is Russian (6,1%). The top three closes German with 5,3%.
Earlier that the Russian language ranked second in popularity among network users, said the head of the Ministry of Communications and Mass Media of Russia Nikolay Nikiforov. “In terms of the number of subscribers of broadband Internet access, Russia ranks fifth in the world and is already the first in Europe. At the same time, the number of Russian-speaking users around the world is so great that our native language is the second most popular on the world wide web, ”Nikiforov said during a speech at the International Forum“ Open Innovations ”.
2014 year and new world map. Next year, the world map will change, Russia will gain more influence than America and China, and Saudi Arabia will face floods in the near future. These predictions in an interview made Cairo "the queen of predictions," Joy Ayyad, according to Amru Omran ("Voice of Russia").
As many fans of Joy Ayad assure, her predictions come true with amazing accuracy. For example, Ayad predicted the overthrow of Mohammed Mursi - moreover, at a time when the position of the president looked unshakable.
In addition, she accurately predicted the terrorist attack in the Al-Kydisin church in Alexandria, the demise of Egyptian Vice-President Omar Suleiman, the earthquake in Iran, and the hurricane in the United States.
Here is the latest prophetess forecast:
More in our region will occur natural disasters. For example, in Egypt it will snow. There will be flooding in Saudi Arabia, most likely in Jeddah.
In 2014, the world map will change - and this will affect, among other things, Russia. Also, Russia will have to repel a major terrorist attack. This will be achieved thanks to its power structures and thanks to certain technologies that we don’t know about, but which are in fact the most advanced in the world.
In general, in the world very soon things will change. All the important events that predetermined the beginning of a new era have already occurred in 2013. So far, many of these events are hidden from people, but later we will find out about them. And now we all need to wait for new times. They are already coming. ”
It is strange that the soothsayer did not say anything about Syria, especially since she spoke with the Voice of Russia correspondent. The Iranian question was also passed over in silence. And what about Israel and Palestine? Not a word about the Kurdish "project". Or does the redrawing of the world map mean the creation of Kurdistan? .. Or is it about independent Texas? .. Colorado? .. Divorce Scotland with Britain? .. Or does Joy Ayad hint at a split by the hostile forces of poor Syria?
I would like to hope that the bloody war in Syria will end in the coming year, and the Saudis will not send new bearded Wahhabis there, instead taking up the flood.
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