Geopolitical mosaic: Ukraine is waiting for the 2004 Constitution of the year, in New York, rally in support of the "Maidan", and Limonov believes that the east of Ukraine and north of Kazakhstan should move to Moscow
Kiev: 75 dead. - Toxic substance? - February 21 may become historical in the afternoon for Ukraine. - The prisoners were released. - “Heroic” war with monuments: another Lenin fell. - 236 of 238. - Nameless freezing. - Says comrade Lavrov. - Biden scares Yanukovych. “There is no time for intrigue and games.” - Yanukovych and the bright Ukrainian future. - The US military will not fly to bomb Kiev. - Joint New York. - In Poland they know how things will go further. - Close controllers. - Fascist conductors. - People of a sports kind. - “Crimean Tatars simply will not let it be done!” - The West is mired in democracy. - As they see from Europe. - Putin talked with Cameron and Merkel. - Sports and politics. - The Cossacks flogged the "singers." - Lemons: the east of Ukraine and the north of Kazakhstan - this is our everything. - Four Turks are indicted in Germany. - Hi, pedophile, how are you? - Fukushima: a hundred tons have passed. “The prince will succeed the prince.” - More lawyers, good and different. - Mass surveillance of Muslims in the United States is recognized as legal. - Obama bet on a crate of beer. - 23 years in prison by mistake.
Kiev: 75 dead. According to the Ministry of Health of Ukraine on 21.00 local time 20 February, in Kiev over the past three days 75 people have died. During this time, 571 people sought medical help, 363 victims were hospitalized, reports "Lenta.ru".
It is noted that there is no information on the death toll for the last day, that is, February 20, in the message of the Ministry of Health.
"Tape" recalls that earlier representatives of the medical service of Maidan stated a greater number of the dead. Service coordinator Oleg Musiy argued that only 20 February in Kiev was killed from 70 to 100 people.
The Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine reported that from 18 to 20 February, 565 internal affairs officers suffered (most were hospitalized), 13 died.
Ombudsman of Ukraine Valeria Lutkovskaya stated: the city’s hospitals are overcrowded. On the streets, "military action actually takes place."
Poisonous substance? Pavel Dulman ("Russian newspaper") yesterday told, referring to the message of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, about the use of certain toxic substances by the militants of “euromaidan”.
“There is information about the use of toxic substances against police officers. What kind of substance this is is becoming clear, ”said Sergey Burlakov, a spokesman for the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine.
February 21 may be a historic day for Ukraine. Verkhovna Rada will consider the issue of returning to the 2004 constitution of the year, which limits the president’s rights in favor of parliament. This announcement was made on the air of the Ukrainian TV by the vice speaker happy about Ruslan Koshulinsky, reports ITAR-TASS.
He also said that February 21 Parliament will consider the establishment of a technical government in Ukraine. This was confirmed by the deputy from “Batkivschyna” Sergey Sobolev. “We are ready to form the government after returning to the 2004 constitution of the year,” he said. - I am not interested in the name of the prime minister, we are ready to form a cabinet of ministers and begin reforms. We are important reform program, its implementation. "
According to him, after returning to the main law of 2004, we will be happy to “dismiss the heads of security agencies.”
The prisoners were released. Two dozen soldiers of the internal troops of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine, who were captured in the October Palace in Kiev on Thursday, were released. About it reports on the night of Friday the edition "Ukrainian Truth", writes "Lenta.ru".
Some activists were opposed to letting the soldiers go. Oppositionists surrounded the bus, in which it was planned to take out the internal troops, smashed windows and pierced the wheels. The UNIAN agency notes that those who were on the bus were crying. Several MPs, veterans, Afghans and participants in the self-defense of the Maidan managed to prevent lynching of security forces. Then they left the scene along a live corridor.
“Heroic” war with monuments: another Lenin fell. On the night of February 21, a monument to Lenin was torn down in Zhytomyr. The barbaric action took place near the House of Justice on the Cathedral Square of the city and was organized by representatives of the radical movement "Right Sector", according to "Vesti" with reference to Interfax.
About 400 people participated in the vandalism act. The destruction of the monument took several hours. One of the Ukrainian TV channels conducted a live broadcast. Many residents of the city observed the process directly.
236 of 238. Yesterday, the Verkhovna Rada, at an extraordinary meeting, adopted a resolution banning the anti-terrorist operation in Ukraine previously announced by the Security Council and demanding the withdrawal of the military from Kiev, reports Interfax.
The decree of the parliament says that the Security Service of Ukraine, the Ministry of Internal Affairs and other security agencies must "immediately cease the use of force against the citizens of Ukraine."
The resolution was voted by 236 of deputies from 238, who registered in the session hall on Thursday evening. The decree comes into force from the day of its adoption.
As Sergei Sobolev, a member of the Batkivshchyna, explained in the ICTV channel, the unit commanders have legitimate reasons to start bringing the military to the places of permanent deployment. He also stressed that the document specifically indicated the departments and their leaders, who must comply with the decision of the parliament, and non-execution "would mean a violation of the Constitution by these persons."
Unnamed freeze. European Foreign Ministers at an emergency meeting of February 20 decided to impose sanctions on Ukraine. This was reported to journalists by the head of EU diplomacy, Catherine Ashton. “We are asking the EU Council’s authorities to immediately begin preparations for implementation in the light of development in Ukraine,” she said. Interfax.
We are talking about visa restrictions in relation to representatives of the Ukrainian leadership and the freezing of their financial assets. Sanctions will be introduced in the coming hours, the Italian Foreign Minister, Emma Bonino, told BBC.
The names of the officials who fall under the sanctions are not named. “A general political decision was made, no names were called,” explained to Interfax in the EU Council at the end of the meeting.
According to the Polish newspaper Gazety vyborchey, the list will include representatives of the ministries of internal affairs and justice of Ukraine. According to the publication, the list does not appear the name of Viktor Yanukovych.
In addition, the members of the EU Council decided to suspend the export to Ukraine of military and police special equipment. As explained to "Interfax", we are talking about water cannons, special equipment for the dismantling of barriers, explosives.
Baroness Ashton stated the need for an independent investigation of violence in Kiev. “I was in Kiev. I saw violence in the streets. I was on the Maidan, I saw that people really tried to hold peaceful protests, ”she said at a press conference.
Says comrade Lavrov. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said that the threat of imposing Western sanctions on Ukraine does not contribute to resolving the conflict. He noted that Western sanctions against the Ukrainian authorities, in fact, encourage militants. “The EU is also trying to discuss the imposition of sanctions, at the same time uninvited missions come to Ukraine. Similar actions remind blackmail ", - quotes the minister "Voice of Russia", referring to ITAR-TASS, RIA "NewsAnd Interfax.
“As for the charges against Russia, then there is such a proverb as to who the cap is on. We are deeply worried about what is happening and how the situation is being commented on and trying to influence it in Western capitals. The situation in the Western media is presented in an extremely perverted form, they are hammered into simple formulas that the West urges the government not to touch the Maidan. Although, that from itself the Maidan represents, they prefer not to speak. Neither the police throwing a “Molotov cocktail,” nor murder, nor the seizure of buildings, are commented on or explained, ”the Russian Foreign Minister noted.
According to Comrade Lavrov, the government of Ukraine has repeatedly shown goodwill when it compromised with the opposition and agreed to release the detainees on Maidan in exchange for the release of buildings. “The government fulfilled its part of the agreements, and the opposition frustrated. Not to mention the organization "Right Sector", which stated that it will not cooperate with anyone, and will act as he wants, and it acts by radical and extremist methods. The opposition does not want or can not dissociate itself from extremists, and the Western partners - the United States and Europe - place all the blame on the authorities and do not qualify, as befits, the actions of extremists. It disturbs us, these are double standards, ”Lavrov said.
As for the Russian position with regard to Ukraine, in the opinion of the minister, it is very clear. “We do not tell our Ukrainian colleagues anything that diverges from this position. Our position is that all external players, as well as the Ukrainian opposition, must decisively and urgently dissociate themselves from extremists, other radicals, anti-Semites, must be done unequivocally and reinforce their words with concrete deeds. So we have nothing to hide, but we would like to know more about what representatives of Western countries are doing there every day, including Catherine Ashton, the distinguished representative of the European Union for international relations.
Biden scares Yanukovych with sanctions. US Vice President Joseph Biden, in a telephone conversation with Viktor Yanukovych, announced that the United States was ready to impose sanctions on Ukrainian officials and called for the withdrawal of special forces from Kiev. About this, as transmits correspondent RIA "News" Peter Martynychev reported the White House.
"The Vice-President made it clear that the United States is ready to impose sanctions on government officials who are responsible for the use of violence," the report said.
“The Vice President condemned violence against civilians in Kiev. He called on President Yanukovych to immediately withdraw all security forces - the police, snipers, military and paramilitary forces, irregular forces, ”the White House says.
Now it is clear, let's add from myself, whose orange will is performed by the rad in Kiev.
And here is another powerful voice from overseas, announcing the “Arab spring” in Ukraine.
"There is no time for intrigue and games." US Secretary of State John Kerry called on the President of Ukraine to negotiate with the opposition and said that visa sanctions against a number of Ukrainian citizens have already been enacted. Told about it correspondent RIA "Novosti" Alexey Bogdanovsky.
“There is no time for intrigue and games. President Yanukovych must immediately undertake serious negotiations with opposition leaders to create a transitional government with broad support, ”Kerry said in a statement. It goes on to state: “We unequivocally condemn the use of force against civilians by the security forces and call for them to be withdrawn immediately. <...> The people of Ukraine and the international community will hold those responsible for what happened, and the US has already begun to impose visa sanctions against Ukrainians responsible for the violence. "
To this must be added the following. American officials are in such a hurry to arrange the "Arab Spring" in Kiev, that they do not even have time to coordinate with each other "events". One scares sanctions, the second declares that he has already introduced them. The State Department does not even have time to phone the White House.
“There is no time for intrigue and games,” you say? Why, intrigue and games are what the United States has been doing with the past few decades with great enthusiasm.
Eh, Belovezhskaya Pushcha ... That shameful drunken agreement will go around long!
Another American point of view on the future of Ukraine was expressed by Ambassador Jeffrey Payette.
Yanukovych and bright Ukrainian future. The President of Ukraine should not resign: the country needs him to carry out political transformations. Such an opinion is in Kiev, the US Ambassador to Ukraine Jeffrey Payette expressed in an interview with the American television channel CNN, reports correspondent ITAR-TASS Ivan Pilshchikov.
When a journalist asked if, from the ambassador’s point of view, Yanukovych should leave, Payette answered: “No, our position is different. President Yanukovych must lead his country into the future. The path to this should lie for him through a new government, changes in the constitution, political structure. ”
It turns out that we add from ourselves that the ambassador entrusted Yanukovych with historical responsibility for the transition to the realization of the western scenario. Do not go, Mr. Yanukovych, and do as we want - that's the ill-veiled promise of the State Department.
The US military will not fly to bomb Kiev. The United States does not consider the possibility of holding military actions to resolve the crisis situation in Ukraine, reports the Associated Press, citing White House spokesman Josh Ernest. He writes about it RIA News".
In a conversation with journalists, Ernest noted that the only measures discussed by the US administration are sanctions against those responsible for the use of violence in Ukraine.
At the same time, Pentagon spokesman Rear Admiral John Kirby said that in the past few days, Chuck Hagel could not contact his counterpart, Ukrainian Defense Minister Pavel Lebedev.
And another message coming from the US military.
The Armed Forces of Ukraine are involved in the protection of military facilities and are not involved in military actions against protesters. This was stated yesterday by Pentagon spokesman Rear Admiral John Kirby, reports correspondent ITAR-TASS Dmitry Zlodorev.
“The messages that we receive now from our embassy in Kiev indicate that the armed forces are engaged in ensuring the protection of military facilities and are not involved in the use of force against protesters. We hope that this will continue in the future, ”Mr Kirby said.
Solidarity New York. The building of the Reserve Bank of New York held a rally in support of the Maidan. The action was initiated by the organization “Razom”, which includes Ukrainians living in the United States and Americans of Ukrainian origin. Participants held posters "Donetsk, help!" And "Dictatorship is not for Ukraine!", Writes Victoria Kupchynetska (Voice of America).
“We came to express solidarity, support and our enormous pain,” a certain Tatyana, representing Razom, told the reporter. - It is impossible to convey in words - so many dead. We gathered here peacefully, calmly. And we want people to gather in the same way in Ukraine, so that there will be no cruel consequences for them when they express their opinions. ”
Why does the protest pass in front of the bank? According to Tatyana, this is because Yanukovych “is engaged in money laundering from Ukraine.”
“Over the years that he was president, the entire hole in the budget has been washed into offshore zones - through certain schemes, through one-day companies. This money is kept in Western banks, and we want to attract the attention of banks to its illegal activities, ”said Tatyana. She stressed that evidence of the president’s illegal actions can be found at Yanukovich.info.
But another rally participant, a certain Roman, told a reporter: “If he (the president of Ukraine) is for a peaceful resolution of the conflict, why does he give the order to shoot at demonstrators?” That the authorities had not used a gunshot before. weapon, - this is also a blatant lie. Each time he announced negotiations - and at the same time used weapons. Armed titushki shoot activists, this power continues the bloodshed. ”
In Poland, they know how things will go on. Viktor Yanukovych declared his readiness to hold early presidential and parliamentary elections, said Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk, commenting on the results of the talks between the foreign ministers of Poland, Germany and France with the Ukrainian president. Yanukovych also agreed to the establishment of a government of national unity and to change the constitution. Reports about it Interfax.
The words Tusk quoted by "Gazeta Wyborcza". The Polish Prime Minister added that it was proposed to hold elections during the current year, to form a transitional government within 10 days, and to adopt a new constitution until summer.
True, Tusk made a reservation: the European ministers at the meeting "it was difficult to understand whether indeed the obligations of Viktor Yanukovich could be taken seriously."
UDAR leader Vitali Klitschko, following talks with the foreign ministers of Germany, France and Poland, said that no agreements on resolving the crisis in Ukraine had yet been reached: “When we have a result, we will tell you about it <...> no results yet”.
Close controllers. Protesters in Kiev are not going to leave Independence Square, the construction of stone barricades continues in the center of the Ukrainian capital. As told reporter ITAR-TASS protesters, many of those remaining on the square and on the surrounding streets have a rest in the buildings of the main post office, the Kiev mayor's office, the minagropolitiki occupied by them.
From the stage set on Independence, advocates of the opposition. They urge people to come to Kiev and say that "now they will not allow themselves to be fooled, as in 2004, after the Orange Revolution." “If new leaders come to power, we will closely monitor them. If they betray us, we will organize a new Maidan, ”say the speakers.
Protesters reinforced the recently built barricades and built new ones. On the approaches to Independence Square, the protesters put up posts. They explained that if there are "uninvited guests", the rest of the "fighting units of Maidan" will receive a signal. They already have bottles of Molotov cocktails in store.
At night, cars drove up to the square, delivering food, automobile tires and crushed stone for future barricades.
Law enforcement officers in the central streets of Kiev is not visible. An ITAR-TASS correspondent drove around the city center in a car without meeting a single policeman. Not observed by law enforcement officers even near the Department of the Interior on Mikhailovskaya Street.
Fascists conductors. The crisis in Ukraine is being watched by British journalist Neil Clark. In his opinion, the protesters are used as pawns in a game aimed at changing power.
“This is simply outrageous! - quotes a journalist "RT". The US finances the participants in these riots, pays them, supports them, conducts the whole process and incites them to set fire to Kiev and try to seize power. In parallel with this, they are instructing the Ukrainian authorities: “In no case can you respond with a blow to a blow and thus restore order”.
Comrade Clark says: “But this is fascism. Let's call a spade a spade. If such unrest had started in Washington, and their members would have started setting fire to government buildings, the headquarters of political parties or, for example, trade unions, I think the American authorities would have killed thousands of people. Remember how brutally the camp of the peace movement "Occupy Wall Street" was dispersed. But it was a peaceful protest. Hypocrisy is simply blatant here. I have no doubt that the participants in the unrest are given the courage to realize that they are supported by the United States and the European Union. They do not condemn the manifestations of violence by participants in the unrest - they only condemn the response of the government. I believe that it is the West that is fueling this situation, and his hands are covered in blood. After all, due to the fact that the participants in the unrest are aware of the support from the US and the EU, they have the courage to increase the scope of their actions and try to carry out a coup d’état. ”
That's exactly the same confidence in their own impunity, in the support of the US and the EU was characteristic of the militants in Syria, we add from ourselves. Scripts, as we see, do not change. The victim also does not change - it is always the people whose “chubs crack”.
People sporty look. The guards of the foreign ministers of France, Poland and Germany in Kiev were taken for "titushki" and beaten. The message of the State Guard Department notes that employees are captured, writes Newsru.com.
The Twitter of the Ukrainian Radio Liberty reports that the guards have already been released.
"Titus" in Ukraine is called young people of sporty appearance, who receive money for pogroms and provocations, Newsru.com notes.
“The Crimean Tatars simply won't let it be done!” The statement of the head of the parliament of the ARC about the possible separation of Crimea from Ukraine caused outrage among the Crimean Tatars. The leader of the Majlis of the Crimean Tatars Refat Chubarov believes that Vladimir Konstantinov openly invited the Russian power structures to intervene in the Crimean situation, reports Rosbalt.
According to the press service of the Majlis, according to Chubarov, the Crimean Tatars will not allow such statements to be realized. “This is a political cheating in a difficult period for the country,” stressed the head of the Mejlis. - Crimean Tatars simply won't let it be done! This is our land, this is the land of all those who live in Crimea, we have no other homeland. We will be in a single state, and such as the “Constantine” come and go. ”
The head of the Majlis expressed the hope that after the situation in Ukraine stabilizes, Konstantinov will be punished.
Rosbalt recalls that the head of the Supreme Council of the ARC, Vladimir Konstantinov, at a meeting with deputies from the LDPR in the State Duma, said: “We have only one way - this is denunciation of the decision of the Presidium of the CPSU Central Committee on the transfer of Crimea. One country passed Crimea as a sign of friendship to the country that today is called Ukraine. What happens to friendship, we see. And if the country itself ceases to exist, then all those acts cease relations, there will be a completely different political and legal history. ”
The West is mired in a democracy. "While I am writing this, there is a great battle on Euromaidan not only for Ukraine, but also for the future of Europe and, in many respects, for the future of the world, which may sound too much at Churchillian at first glance, but just think: democratic protests that shook the world from Thailand to Turkey, Ukrainian ones occur closest to the West, ”writes journalist Melik Kaylan in an article published by Forbes (a source in short "Inopressa").
“We can easily drown in a long list of our own problems,” says the author of the article. “In the end, the EU will not even pay Ukrainian energy bills or budget deficits. Russia will do it with readiness, ”he notes. We also know, the author argues, that autocrats often seek quick improvements in chaos, while democratic leaders are paralyzed by official procedures (compare China and India).
What should the West do? “Let's select the sharpest propaganda tools that we handed to autocrats,” advises the journalist.
In some regions of Ukraine supporting Yanukovych, posters with inscriptions have spread: “The EU means legalization of same-sex marriages”. “One thing is to demand respect for basic human rights, and another is to demand a sexual revolution,” the author believes.
“Another problem: globalization of finance ... We cannot demand that international banks and groups of companies, like Russian oligarchs, own the natural resources of others,” says Kaylan.
“We must put an end to our own nascent fragmentation and erosion of national-state identity. No other countries will subscribe for the loss of their statehood and traditions, ”the article says.
“Those who want to join us, even in our present state, may better understand what we stand for than we ourselves. Yes, Euromaidan needs our support, but, oddly enough, we need them more, ”makes the original conclusion Kaylan.
It turns out, let's add from ourselves, without Ukraine, Europe and in general Western civilization will completely get lost. So why do we need the EU "euromaidan"! Mother Europe, immersed in the sins of democracy, decided to improve spiritually spiritually ...
As it is seen from Europe. In the article “Moscow accuses the radicals and the West” (“Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung”, Germany; the source of translation is "InoSMI") Friedrich Schmidt painted a picture of protests on euromaidan - as he sees it.
The author writes further in the Russian elite that the opinion is widespread that Ukraine exists only because of the collapse of the Soviet Union and the words of V. Putin about the “largest geopolitical catastrophe of the 20th century” are quoted.
Meanwhile, “thoughts of intervention are not easy,” said the journalist. Russia, in his opinion, "will be isolated, it will not be able to rely even on China."
Sanctions may follow. There will be huge costs. Russian troops may face armed resistance and become involved in a civil war, the author believes.
Putin talked to Cameron and Merkel. The President of Russia, in a telephone conversation with the Federal Chancellor of Germany and the British Prime Minister, expressed concern over the sharp exacerbation of the armed confrontation in Ukraine caused by the radical opposition wing. This is stated in a message distributed by the press service of the Kremlin, reports ITAR-TASS.
"Putin emphasized the extreme importance of the immediate cessation of bloodshed, the need to take urgent measures to stabilize the situation and prevent extremist and terrorist attacks," the report says.
The President of Russia informed Merkel and Cameron that Vladimir Lukin, the Commissioner for Human Rights in Russia, is flying to Kiev to participate in mediation.
Sport and politics. The national team of Ukraine is gradually leaving the Olympics in Sochi due to bloody clashes in their homeland. According to the latest media reports, several dozen Ukrainian athletes have already left the competition. He writes about it Newsru.com.
More than half of the athletes from the Ukrainian national team have already left the capital of the Winter Olympic Games in protest, writes The Times. The head of the National Olympic Committee of Ukraine, Sergey Bubka, on the eve urged the country's leadership to stop the violence, so that athletes could focus on competitions.
The first team left the skier Bogdana Matsetskaya, who decided to withdraw from the Olympics in protest against the "violence against demonstrators" in Kiev. The remaining participants remained to speak.
Later, the representative of the International Olympic Committee, Mark Adams, said that some Ukrainians decided to return to their homeland.
Cossacks whipped "singers". The Cossacks tore off the second attempt of the Pussy Riot participants in Sochi to record a video for the song “Putin will teach you to love your homeland”. According to the panquettes, the men pounced on them, beat them with batons and whips. Pepper gas was also used. This writes Ekaterina Boyarskaya (Utro.ru).
“At the Sochi-2014 banner, to the song“ Putin will teach us to love our homeland, ”Cossacks attacked Pussy Riot, beat them with whips and doused them abundantly with pepper gas,” Tolokonnikova wrote in Twitter.
Six members of the group and operators, according to activists, were going to record a video at the seaport building. They were approached by Cossacks totaling about 20.
The song “Putin will teach you to love your homeland” is dedicated to the “Bolotnaya prisoners”, the Olympics, the environmentalist Vitishko and the suppression of freedoms in Russia.
In general, we add, the girls took up the old. Well, they can not let them forget about them. On the other hand, regular flogging (within the framework of Domostroi's sparing rules) is likely to have a certain pedagogical effect.
Lemons: the east of Ukraine and the north of Kazakhstan are our everything. Eduard Limonov advises the Kremlin after Nazarbayev leaves the political Olympus to think about annexing the northern regions of Kazakhstan, reports Total.kz.
“In Kazakhstan, the devaluation is unpleasant for the country, President Nazarbayev is rapidly aging, a couple of years ago with the execution of workers, he undermined his reputation inside the country, he has no obvious heir,” Limonov writes in Facebook.
According to the writer, a similar fate has been prepared for Ukraine, the eastern regions of which, in his opinion, should return under the authority of Moscow. He writes: “Ukraine is cracking along the spine, and this is, relatively speaking, the Dnieper River, and will certainly collapse into Western Ukraine with its dense Bandera regions, and the South-Eastern: Left Bank, Odessa, Nikolaev, Kherson regions and the Crimea.”
In Germany, indicted four Turks. German prosecutors have charged four Turkish citizens with involvement in the Turkish Revolutionary Popular Liberation Front (DHKP-C) terrorist group. The corresponding message appeared on the site of the General Prosecutor's Office of February 20, although the charges were filed on February 7, writes "Lenta.ru".
Four men aged from 32 to 42 years are under investigation: Ozgur A., Sonnur D., Muzaffer D. and Yusuf T. All of them were detained in the middle of 2013. According to the German prosecutor's office, the detainees were active members of the European DHKP-C cell from the end of the 1990's or, at the latest, from the beginning of the 2000's. They lived in Germany and raised funds for sponsoring DHKP-C, and also recruited new members.
As recalled by Lenta, the Revolutionary Popular Liberation Front was recognized by the German authorities as a terrorist organization. The goal of the participants in the organization is a coup in Turkey and the creation of a new state with a Marxist-Leninist ideology.
Hello, pedophile, how are you? The condemned Belgian pedophile and killer Mark Dutru began to receive letters from teenagers. Those express his admiration. Writes "Lenta.ru" with reference to “Le Soir”, this became known after the correspondence was confiscated by the prison guards.
One of the letters: “Hi, I'm a girl, and I'm 15 years old. I live in La Roche en Ardennes. I have always admired you. You are a famous person. I saw how beautiful you are in the photos. I can not believe in your sincerity. "
According to children's psychologists, adolescents who were born after committing crimes, who at one time shook Belgium, write to a prisoner in an attempt to touch the forbidden. They also consider the convicted person to be the victim of the system.
Lenta recalls that Dutru was sentenced to life in 2004. His wife received 30 years in prison. The couple was arrested in 1996. They were accused of abducting and raping girls and girls between the ages of 8 and 19. Four victims were killed. The crimes were committed in 1995-96. Earlier, in 1989, spouses were convicted of kidnapping and rape of five girls, but were released early - for good behavior.
Fukushima: hundred tons under the bridge. The company operating the Japanese nuclear power plant Fukushima stated that the emergency station found a leak of one hundred tons of radioactive water, reports "Lenta.ru" with reference to Reuters.
The leak came from one of the reservoirs where the water used to cool the emergency reactors is stored. The beta radiation level of the water contained in such a tank is “230 million becquerels per liter,” said representatives of Tepco. The operator of the emergency NPP assures that the leak has already been repaired.
The prince will replace the prince. The head of the intelligence of Saudi Arabia, Prince Bandar bin Sultan was removed from making decisions on the Syrian issue. About it writes "The Wall Street Journal" with reference to anonymous sources, reports "Lenta.ru".
Bandara will be replaced by Interior Minister Prince Mohammad Bin Nayef, whom the United States has previously praised for actively fighting Al-Qaeda. Prince Mohammad maintains good relations with US Secretary of State John Kerry and CIA Director John Brennan.
According to The Wall Street Journal, the displacement of Bandar may mean overcoming differences between the two states, as well as a change in Saudi Arabia’s policy in Syria.
More lawyers, good and different. A second lawyer has appeared in the team of lawyers Dzhokhar Tsarnaev who specializes in protecting defendants facing the death penalty, writes Newsru.com with reference to ITAR-TASS.
Judge George O'Toole endorsed the candidacy of the famous American attorney David Braque for 20 in February. He specializes in criminal cases involving capital punishment for more than 30 years.
So far, four lawyers were on the defense team of Tsarnaev.
Tsarnaev's interests in court are represented by public defenders: the defendant and his relatives do not have money for private lawyers.
Mass surveillance of Muslims in the United States is recognized as legitimate. The mass surveillance by Muslims of New York by the police in order to prevent possible terrorist acts is legal and does not contradict the US Constitution. This decision was made by Judge William Martini in Newark, reports correspondent ITAR-TASS Andrey Bekrenev.
The judge rejected the lawsuit of several human rights organizations, agreeing with the arguments of the New York authorities, claiming that the surveillance is an anti-terrorism measure and is not directed against Muslims. “Although this surveillance program could have outraged the Muslim community, it is not discriminatory against it, since its goal is to search for Islamist terrorists,” Mr. Martini explained.
Obama had a bet on a crate of beer. Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper argued with the US president on a crate of beer that Canadian hockey players beat the Americans at the Sochi Olympics. Both leaders reported this on Twitter; Newsru.com with reference to ITAR-TASS.
Obama wrote this: “Stephen Harper and I made a bet on the women's and men's teams of the USA and Canada. The winner will receive a box of beer for winning each of the games. Go ahead, US team! ”
Newsru.com reminds that men's teams will play in the semifinals today.
At the last Olympics in Vancouver, Canadians and Americans met in the final. The decisive puck in overtime scored Sidney Crosby (now the captain of the Canadian team in Sochi).
23 of the year in prison by mistake. The administration of New York decided to pay the American, who served 23 in prison by mistake, a compensation in the amount of 6,4 million dollars. He writes about it "Lenta.ru" with reference to France-Presse.
The New York Financial Inspector reported that the city had managed to conclude an agreement with a man that “would complete this truly regrettable episode of the city’s history.”
Lenta reminds us that in 1991, David Ranta was sentenced to 37 years in prison for the murder of Hasidic Rabbi Haskell Werzberger, who was mortally wounded during a robbery of a courier jewelry store. The investigation claimed that the crime was committed by Ranta, who was then taking drugs. Rantu was convicted on the basis of testimony. Later it became known that Detective Louis Scarcell, who conducted the case, often put pressure on witnesses and even attached to the case invented confessions. In 2011, the Ranta case was sent for review. Several witnesses recanted. Were identified and numerous violations committed during the investigation.
21 March 2013 of 59-year-old Ranta was released in the courtroom. The next day, this man experienced a heart attack.
Kiev: 75 dead. According to the Ministry of Health of Ukraine on 21.00 local time 20 February, in Kiev over the past three days 75 people have died. During this time, 571 people sought medical help, 363 victims were hospitalized, reports "Lenta.ru".
It is noted that there is no information on the death toll for the last day, that is, February 20, in the message of the Ministry of Health.
"Tape" recalls that earlier representatives of the medical service of Maidan stated a greater number of the dead. Service coordinator Oleg Musiy argued that only 20 February in Kiev was killed from 70 to 100 people.
The Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine reported that from 18 to 20 February, 565 internal affairs officers suffered (most were hospitalized), 13 died.
Ombudsman of Ukraine Valeria Lutkovskaya stated: the city’s hospitals are overcrowded. On the streets, "military action actually takes place."
Poisonous substance? Pavel Dulman ("Russian newspaper") yesterday told, referring to the message of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, about the use of certain toxic substances by the militants of “euromaidan”.
“There is information about the use of toxic substances against police officers. What kind of substance this is is becoming clear, ”said Sergey Burlakov, a spokesman for the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine.
February 21 may be a historic day for Ukraine. Verkhovna Rada will consider the issue of returning to the 2004 constitution of the year, which limits the president’s rights in favor of parliament. This announcement was made on the air of the Ukrainian TV by the vice speaker happy about Ruslan Koshulinsky, reports ITAR-TASS.
He also said that February 21 Parliament will consider the establishment of a technical government in Ukraine. This was confirmed by the deputy from “Batkivschyna” Sergey Sobolev. “We are ready to form the government after returning to the 2004 constitution of the year,” he said. - I am not interested in the name of the prime minister, we are ready to form a cabinet of ministers and begin reforms. We are important reform program, its implementation. "
According to him, after returning to the main law of 2004, we will be happy to “dismiss the heads of security agencies.”
The prisoners were released. Two dozen soldiers of the internal troops of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine, who were captured in the October Palace in Kiev on Thursday, were released. About it reports on the night of Friday the edition "Ukrainian Truth", writes "Lenta.ru".
Some activists were opposed to letting the soldiers go. Oppositionists surrounded the bus, in which it was planned to take out the internal troops, smashed windows and pierced the wheels. The UNIAN agency notes that those who were on the bus were crying. Several MPs, veterans, Afghans and participants in the self-defense of the Maidan managed to prevent lynching of security forces. Then they left the scene along a live corridor.
“Heroic” war with monuments: another Lenin fell. On the night of February 21, a monument to Lenin was torn down in Zhytomyr. The barbaric action took place near the House of Justice on the Cathedral Square of the city and was organized by representatives of the radical movement "Right Sector", according to "Vesti" with reference to Interfax.
About 400 people participated in the vandalism act. The destruction of the monument took several hours. One of the Ukrainian TV channels conducted a live broadcast. Many residents of the city observed the process directly.
236 of 238. Yesterday, the Verkhovna Rada, at an extraordinary meeting, adopted a resolution banning the anti-terrorist operation in Ukraine previously announced by the Security Council and demanding the withdrawal of the military from Kiev, reports Interfax.
The decree of the parliament says that the Security Service of Ukraine, the Ministry of Internal Affairs and other security agencies must "immediately cease the use of force against the citizens of Ukraine."
The resolution was voted by 236 of deputies from 238, who registered in the session hall on Thursday evening. The decree comes into force from the day of its adoption.
As Sergei Sobolev, a member of the Batkivshchyna, explained in the ICTV channel, the unit commanders have legitimate reasons to start bringing the military to the places of permanent deployment. He also stressed that the document specifically indicated the departments and their leaders, who must comply with the decision of the parliament, and non-execution "would mean a violation of the Constitution by these persons."
Unnamed freeze. European Foreign Ministers at an emergency meeting of February 20 decided to impose sanctions on Ukraine. This was reported to journalists by the head of EU diplomacy, Catherine Ashton. “We are asking the EU Council’s authorities to immediately begin preparations for implementation in the light of development in Ukraine,” she said. Interfax.
We are talking about visa restrictions in relation to representatives of the Ukrainian leadership and the freezing of their financial assets. Sanctions will be introduced in the coming hours, the Italian Foreign Minister, Emma Bonino, told BBC.
The names of the officials who fall under the sanctions are not named. “A general political decision was made, no names were called,” explained to Interfax in the EU Council at the end of the meeting.
According to the Polish newspaper Gazety vyborchey, the list will include representatives of the ministries of internal affairs and justice of Ukraine. According to the publication, the list does not appear the name of Viktor Yanukovych.
In addition, the members of the EU Council decided to suspend the export to Ukraine of military and police special equipment. As explained to "Interfax", we are talking about water cannons, special equipment for the dismantling of barriers, explosives.
Baroness Ashton stated the need for an independent investigation of violence in Kiev. “I was in Kiev. I saw violence in the streets. I was on the Maidan, I saw that people really tried to hold peaceful protests, ”she said at a press conference.
Says comrade Lavrov. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said that the threat of imposing Western sanctions on Ukraine does not contribute to resolving the conflict. He noted that Western sanctions against the Ukrainian authorities, in fact, encourage militants. “The EU is also trying to discuss the imposition of sanctions, at the same time uninvited missions come to Ukraine. Similar actions remind blackmail ", - quotes the minister "Voice of Russia", referring to ITAR-TASS, RIA "NewsAnd Interfax.
“As for the charges against Russia, then there is such a proverb as to who the cap is on. We are deeply worried about what is happening and how the situation is being commented on and trying to influence it in Western capitals. The situation in the Western media is presented in an extremely perverted form, they are hammered into simple formulas that the West urges the government not to touch the Maidan. Although, that from itself the Maidan represents, they prefer not to speak. Neither the police throwing a “Molotov cocktail,” nor murder, nor the seizure of buildings, are commented on or explained, ”the Russian Foreign Minister noted.
According to Comrade Lavrov, the government of Ukraine has repeatedly shown goodwill when it compromised with the opposition and agreed to release the detainees on Maidan in exchange for the release of buildings. “The government fulfilled its part of the agreements, and the opposition frustrated. Not to mention the organization "Right Sector", which stated that it will not cooperate with anyone, and will act as he wants, and it acts by radical and extremist methods. The opposition does not want or can not dissociate itself from extremists, and the Western partners - the United States and Europe - place all the blame on the authorities and do not qualify, as befits, the actions of extremists. It disturbs us, these are double standards, ”Lavrov said.
As for the Russian position with regard to Ukraine, in the opinion of the minister, it is very clear. “We do not tell our Ukrainian colleagues anything that diverges from this position. Our position is that all external players, as well as the Ukrainian opposition, must decisively and urgently dissociate themselves from extremists, other radicals, anti-Semites, must be done unequivocally and reinforce their words with concrete deeds. So we have nothing to hide, but we would like to know more about what representatives of Western countries are doing there every day, including Catherine Ashton, the distinguished representative of the European Union for international relations.
Biden scares Yanukovych with sanctions. US Vice President Joseph Biden, in a telephone conversation with Viktor Yanukovych, announced that the United States was ready to impose sanctions on Ukrainian officials and called for the withdrawal of special forces from Kiev. About this, as transmits correspondent RIA "News" Peter Martynychev reported the White House.
"The Vice-President made it clear that the United States is ready to impose sanctions on government officials who are responsible for the use of violence," the report said.
“The Vice President condemned violence against civilians in Kiev. He called on President Yanukovych to immediately withdraw all security forces - the police, snipers, military and paramilitary forces, irregular forces, ”the White House says.
Now it is clear, let's add from myself, whose orange will is performed by the rad in Kiev.
And here is another powerful voice from overseas, announcing the “Arab spring” in Ukraine.
"There is no time for intrigue and games." US Secretary of State John Kerry called on the President of Ukraine to negotiate with the opposition and said that visa sanctions against a number of Ukrainian citizens have already been enacted. Told about it correspondent RIA "Novosti" Alexey Bogdanovsky.
“There is no time for intrigue and games. President Yanukovych must immediately undertake serious negotiations with opposition leaders to create a transitional government with broad support, ”Kerry said in a statement. It goes on to state: “We unequivocally condemn the use of force against civilians by the security forces and call for them to be withdrawn immediately. <...> The people of Ukraine and the international community will hold those responsible for what happened, and the US has already begun to impose visa sanctions against Ukrainians responsible for the violence. "
To this must be added the following. American officials are in such a hurry to arrange the "Arab Spring" in Kiev, that they do not even have time to coordinate with each other "events". One scares sanctions, the second declares that he has already introduced them. The State Department does not even have time to phone the White House.
“There is no time for intrigue and games,” you say? Why, intrigue and games are what the United States has been doing with the past few decades with great enthusiasm.
Eh, Belovezhskaya Pushcha ... That shameful drunken agreement will go around long!
Another American point of view on the future of Ukraine was expressed by Ambassador Jeffrey Payette.
Yanukovych and bright Ukrainian future. The President of Ukraine should not resign: the country needs him to carry out political transformations. Such an opinion is in Kiev, the US Ambassador to Ukraine Jeffrey Payette expressed in an interview with the American television channel CNN, reports correspondent ITAR-TASS Ivan Pilshchikov.
When a journalist asked if, from the ambassador’s point of view, Yanukovych should leave, Payette answered: “No, our position is different. President Yanukovych must lead his country into the future. The path to this should lie for him through a new government, changes in the constitution, political structure. ”
It turns out that we add from ourselves that the ambassador entrusted Yanukovych with historical responsibility for the transition to the realization of the western scenario. Do not go, Mr. Yanukovych, and do as we want - that's the ill-veiled promise of the State Department.
The US military will not fly to bomb Kiev. The United States does not consider the possibility of holding military actions to resolve the crisis situation in Ukraine, reports the Associated Press, citing White House spokesman Josh Ernest. He writes about it RIA News".
In a conversation with journalists, Ernest noted that the only measures discussed by the US administration are sanctions against those responsible for the use of violence in Ukraine.
At the same time, Pentagon spokesman Rear Admiral John Kirby said that in the past few days, Chuck Hagel could not contact his counterpart, Ukrainian Defense Minister Pavel Lebedev.
And another message coming from the US military.
The Armed Forces of Ukraine are involved in the protection of military facilities and are not involved in military actions against protesters. This was stated yesterday by Pentagon spokesman Rear Admiral John Kirby, reports correspondent ITAR-TASS Dmitry Zlodorev.
“The messages that we receive now from our embassy in Kiev indicate that the armed forces are engaged in ensuring the protection of military facilities and are not involved in the use of force against protesters. We hope that this will continue in the future, ”Mr Kirby said.
Solidarity New York. The building of the Reserve Bank of New York held a rally in support of the Maidan. The action was initiated by the organization “Razom”, which includes Ukrainians living in the United States and Americans of Ukrainian origin. Participants held posters "Donetsk, help!" And "Dictatorship is not for Ukraine!", Writes Victoria Kupchynetska (Voice of America).
“We came to express solidarity, support and our enormous pain,” a certain Tatyana, representing Razom, told the reporter. - It is impossible to convey in words - so many dead. We gathered here peacefully, calmly. And we want people to gather in the same way in Ukraine, so that there will be no cruel consequences for them when they express their opinions. ”
Why does the protest pass in front of the bank? According to Tatyana, this is because Yanukovych “is engaged in money laundering from Ukraine.”
“Over the years that he was president, the entire hole in the budget has been washed into offshore zones - through certain schemes, through one-day companies. This money is kept in Western banks, and we want to attract the attention of banks to its illegal activities, ”said Tatyana. She stressed that evidence of the president’s illegal actions can be found at Yanukovich.info.
But another rally participant, a certain Roman, told a reporter: “If he (the president of Ukraine) is for a peaceful resolution of the conflict, why does he give the order to shoot at demonstrators?” That the authorities had not used a gunshot before. weapon, - this is also a blatant lie. Each time he announced negotiations - and at the same time used weapons. Armed titushki shoot activists, this power continues the bloodshed. ”
In Poland, they know how things will go on. Viktor Yanukovych declared his readiness to hold early presidential and parliamentary elections, said Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk, commenting on the results of the talks between the foreign ministers of Poland, Germany and France with the Ukrainian president. Yanukovych also agreed to the establishment of a government of national unity and to change the constitution. Reports about it Interfax.
The words Tusk quoted by "Gazeta Wyborcza". The Polish Prime Minister added that it was proposed to hold elections during the current year, to form a transitional government within 10 days, and to adopt a new constitution until summer.
True, Tusk made a reservation: the European ministers at the meeting "it was difficult to understand whether indeed the obligations of Viktor Yanukovich could be taken seriously."
UDAR leader Vitali Klitschko, following talks with the foreign ministers of Germany, France and Poland, said that no agreements on resolving the crisis in Ukraine had yet been reached: “When we have a result, we will tell you about it <...> no results yet”.
Close controllers. Protesters in Kiev are not going to leave Independence Square, the construction of stone barricades continues in the center of the Ukrainian capital. As told reporter ITAR-TASS protesters, many of those remaining on the square and on the surrounding streets have a rest in the buildings of the main post office, the Kiev mayor's office, the minagropolitiki occupied by them.
From the stage set on Independence, advocates of the opposition. They urge people to come to Kiev and say that "now they will not allow themselves to be fooled, as in 2004, after the Orange Revolution." “If new leaders come to power, we will closely monitor them. If they betray us, we will organize a new Maidan, ”say the speakers.
Protesters reinforced the recently built barricades and built new ones. On the approaches to Independence Square, the protesters put up posts. They explained that if there are "uninvited guests", the rest of the "fighting units of Maidan" will receive a signal. They already have bottles of Molotov cocktails in store.
At night, cars drove up to the square, delivering food, automobile tires and crushed stone for future barricades.
Law enforcement officers in the central streets of Kiev is not visible. An ITAR-TASS correspondent drove around the city center in a car without meeting a single policeman. Not observed by law enforcement officers even near the Department of the Interior on Mikhailovskaya Street.
Fascists conductors. The crisis in Ukraine is being watched by British journalist Neil Clark. In his opinion, the protesters are used as pawns in a game aimed at changing power.
“This is simply outrageous! - quotes a journalist "RT". The US finances the participants in these riots, pays them, supports them, conducts the whole process and incites them to set fire to Kiev and try to seize power. In parallel with this, they are instructing the Ukrainian authorities: “In no case can you respond with a blow to a blow and thus restore order”.
Comrade Clark says: “But this is fascism. Let's call a spade a spade. If such unrest had started in Washington, and their members would have started setting fire to government buildings, the headquarters of political parties or, for example, trade unions, I think the American authorities would have killed thousands of people. Remember how brutally the camp of the peace movement "Occupy Wall Street" was dispersed. But it was a peaceful protest. Hypocrisy is simply blatant here. I have no doubt that the participants in the unrest are given the courage to realize that they are supported by the United States and the European Union. They do not condemn the manifestations of violence by participants in the unrest - they only condemn the response of the government. I believe that it is the West that is fueling this situation, and his hands are covered in blood. After all, due to the fact that the participants in the unrest are aware of the support from the US and the EU, they have the courage to increase the scope of their actions and try to carry out a coup d’état. ”
That's exactly the same confidence in their own impunity, in the support of the US and the EU was characteristic of the militants in Syria, we add from ourselves. Scripts, as we see, do not change. The victim also does not change - it is always the people whose “chubs crack”.
People sporty look. The guards of the foreign ministers of France, Poland and Germany in Kiev were taken for "titushki" and beaten. The message of the State Guard Department notes that employees are captured, writes Newsru.com.
The Twitter of the Ukrainian Radio Liberty reports that the guards have already been released.
"Titus" in Ukraine is called young people of sporty appearance, who receive money for pogroms and provocations, Newsru.com notes.
“The Crimean Tatars simply won't let it be done!” The statement of the head of the parliament of the ARC about the possible separation of Crimea from Ukraine caused outrage among the Crimean Tatars. The leader of the Majlis of the Crimean Tatars Refat Chubarov believes that Vladimir Konstantinov openly invited the Russian power structures to intervene in the Crimean situation, reports Rosbalt.
According to the press service of the Majlis, according to Chubarov, the Crimean Tatars will not allow such statements to be realized. “This is a political cheating in a difficult period for the country,” stressed the head of the Mejlis. - Crimean Tatars simply won't let it be done! This is our land, this is the land of all those who live in Crimea, we have no other homeland. We will be in a single state, and such as the “Constantine” come and go. ”
The head of the Majlis expressed the hope that after the situation in Ukraine stabilizes, Konstantinov will be punished.
Rosbalt recalls that the head of the Supreme Council of the ARC, Vladimir Konstantinov, at a meeting with deputies from the LDPR in the State Duma, said: “We have only one way - this is denunciation of the decision of the Presidium of the CPSU Central Committee on the transfer of Crimea. One country passed Crimea as a sign of friendship to the country that today is called Ukraine. What happens to friendship, we see. And if the country itself ceases to exist, then all those acts cease relations, there will be a completely different political and legal history. ”
The West is mired in a democracy. "While I am writing this, there is a great battle on Euromaidan not only for Ukraine, but also for the future of Europe and, in many respects, for the future of the world, which may sound too much at Churchillian at first glance, but just think: democratic protests that shook the world from Thailand to Turkey, Ukrainian ones occur closest to the West, ”writes journalist Melik Kaylan in an article published by Forbes (a source in short "Inopressa").
“We can easily drown in a long list of our own problems,” says the author of the article. “In the end, the EU will not even pay Ukrainian energy bills or budget deficits. Russia will do it with readiness, ”he notes. We also know, the author argues, that autocrats often seek quick improvements in chaos, while democratic leaders are paralyzed by official procedures (compare China and India).
What should the West do? “Let's select the sharpest propaganda tools that we handed to autocrats,” advises the journalist.
In some regions of Ukraine supporting Yanukovych, posters with inscriptions have spread: “The EU means legalization of same-sex marriages”. “One thing is to demand respect for basic human rights, and another is to demand a sexual revolution,” the author believes.
“Another problem: globalization of finance ... We cannot demand that international banks and groups of companies, like Russian oligarchs, own the natural resources of others,” says Kaylan.
“We must put an end to our own nascent fragmentation and erosion of national-state identity. No other countries will subscribe for the loss of their statehood and traditions, ”the article says.
“Those who want to join us, even in our present state, may better understand what we stand for than we ourselves. Yes, Euromaidan needs our support, but, oddly enough, we need them more, ”makes the original conclusion Kaylan.
It turns out, let's add from ourselves, without Ukraine, Europe and in general Western civilization will completely get lost. So why do we need the EU "euromaidan"! Mother Europe, immersed in the sins of democracy, decided to improve spiritually spiritually ...
As it is seen from Europe. In the article “Moscow accuses the radicals and the West” (“Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung”, Germany; the source of translation is "InoSMI") Friedrich Schmidt painted a picture of protests on euromaidan - as he sees it.
“After the riots in Kiev on Wednesday night, the Russian leadership turned its wrathful eyes on the radical forces of the Ukrainian protest movement. Russian presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov and Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov blamed opposition leaders and the West for escalating the conflict in their characteristic statements. At the same time, they called on the same leaders to search for a dialogue with President Viktor Yanukovych in order to stop the violence.
Their message is aimed at the Russian audience. For several months, state-run media, primarily television, have reported that the protests (they are submitted as “riots”) are an attempt by extremists to carry out a coup with the support of the EU, the US and NATO. On Tuesday evening, state television showed footage of the "anti-terrorist operation" of special services against the radicals. Appeared exclusively scenes of violence against security forces. Such a presentation of the material is supported by statements, such as Irina Spring, the head of the Duma Committee on Security and Anti-Corruption. On Wednesday, she said that the task of the authorities is to stop the “militant thugs”, otherwise the victims could be even more. ”
Their message is aimed at the Russian audience. For several months, state-run media, primarily television, have reported that the protests (they are submitted as “riots”) are an attempt by extremists to carry out a coup with the support of the EU, the US and NATO. On Tuesday evening, state television showed footage of the "anti-terrorist operation" of special services against the radicals. Appeared exclusively scenes of violence against security forces. Such a presentation of the material is supported by statements, such as Irina Spring, the head of the Duma Committee on Security and Anti-Corruption. On Wednesday, she said that the task of the authorities is to stop the “militant thugs”, otherwise the victims could be even more. ”
The author writes further in the Russian elite that the opinion is widespread that Ukraine exists only because of the collapse of the Soviet Union and the words of V. Putin about the “largest geopolitical catastrophe of the 20th century” are quoted.
Meanwhile, “thoughts of intervention are not easy,” said the journalist. Russia, in his opinion, "will be isolated, it will not be able to rely even on China."
Sanctions may follow. There will be huge costs. Russian troops may face armed resistance and become involved in a civil war, the author believes.
Putin talked to Cameron and Merkel. The President of Russia, in a telephone conversation with the Federal Chancellor of Germany and the British Prime Minister, expressed concern over the sharp exacerbation of the armed confrontation in Ukraine caused by the radical opposition wing. This is stated in a message distributed by the press service of the Kremlin, reports ITAR-TASS.
"Putin emphasized the extreme importance of the immediate cessation of bloodshed, the need to take urgent measures to stabilize the situation and prevent extremist and terrorist attacks," the report says.
The President of Russia informed Merkel and Cameron that Vladimir Lukin, the Commissioner for Human Rights in Russia, is flying to Kiev to participate in mediation.
Sport and politics. The national team of Ukraine is gradually leaving the Olympics in Sochi due to bloody clashes in their homeland. According to the latest media reports, several dozen Ukrainian athletes have already left the competition. He writes about it Newsru.com.
More than half of the athletes from the Ukrainian national team have already left the capital of the Winter Olympic Games in protest, writes The Times. The head of the National Olympic Committee of Ukraine, Sergey Bubka, on the eve urged the country's leadership to stop the violence, so that athletes could focus on competitions.
The first team left the skier Bogdana Matsetskaya, who decided to withdraw from the Olympics in protest against the "violence against demonstrators" in Kiev. The remaining participants remained to speak.
Later, the representative of the International Olympic Committee, Mark Adams, said that some Ukrainians decided to return to their homeland.
Cossacks whipped "singers". The Cossacks tore off the second attempt of the Pussy Riot participants in Sochi to record a video for the song “Putin will teach you to love your homeland”. According to the panquettes, the men pounced on them, beat them with batons and whips. Pepper gas was also used. This writes Ekaterina Boyarskaya (Utro.ru).
“At the Sochi-2014 banner, to the song“ Putin will teach us to love our homeland, ”Cossacks attacked Pussy Riot, beat them with whips and doused them abundantly with pepper gas,” Tolokonnikova wrote in Twitter.
Six members of the group and operators, according to activists, were going to record a video at the seaport building. They were approached by Cossacks totaling about 20.
The song “Putin will teach you to love your homeland” is dedicated to the “Bolotnaya prisoners”, the Olympics, the environmentalist Vitishko and the suppression of freedoms in Russia.
In general, we add, the girls took up the old. Well, they can not let them forget about them. On the other hand, regular flogging (within the framework of Domostroi's sparing rules) is likely to have a certain pedagogical effect.
Lemons: the east of Ukraine and the north of Kazakhstan are our everything. Eduard Limonov advises the Kremlin after Nazarbayev leaves the political Olympus to think about annexing the northern regions of Kazakhstan, reports Total.kz.
“In Kazakhstan, the devaluation is unpleasant for the country, President Nazarbayev is rapidly aging, a couple of years ago with the execution of workers, he undermined his reputation inside the country, he has no obvious heir,” Limonov writes in Facebook.
According to the writer, a similar fate has been prepared for Ukraine, the eastern regions of which, in his opinion, should return under the authority of Moscow. He writes: “Ukraine is cracking along the spine, and this is, relatively speaking, the Dnieper River, and will certainly collapse into Western Ukraine with its dense Bandera regions, and the South-Eastern: Left Bank, Odessa, Nikolaev, Kherson regions and the Crimea.”
In Germany, indicted four Turks. German prosecutors have charged four Turkish citizens with involvement in the Turkish Revolutionary Popular Liberation Front (DHKP-C) terrorist group. The corresponding message appeared on the site of the General Prosecutor's Office of February 20, although the charges were filed on February 7, writes "Lenta.ru".
Four men aged from 32 to 42 years are under investigation: Ozgur A., Sonnur D., Muzaffer D. and Yusuf T. All of them were detained in the middle of 2013. According to the German prosecutor's office, the detainees were active members of the European DHKP-C cell from the end of the 1990's or, at the latest, from the beginning of the 2000's. They lived in Germany and raised funds for sponsoring DHKP-C, and also recruited new members.
As recalled by Lenta, the Revolutionary Popular Liberation Front was recognized by the German authorities as a terrorist organization. The goal of the participants in the organization is a coup in Turkey and the creation of a new state with a Marxist-Leninist ideology.
Hello, pedophile, how are you? The condemned Belgian pedophile and killer Mark Dutru began to receive letters from teenagers. Those express his admiration. Writes "Lenta.ru" with reference to “Le Soir”, this became known after the correspondence was confiscated by the prison guards.
One of the letters: “Hi, I'm a girl, and I'm 15 years old. I live in La Roche en Ardennes. I have always admired you. You are a famous person. I saw how beautiful you are in the photos. I can not believe in your sincerity. "
According to children's psychologists, adolescents who were born after committing crimes, who at one time shook Belgium, write to a prisoner in an attempt to touch the forbidden. They also consider the convicted person to be the victim of the system.
Lenta recalls that Dutru was sentenced to life in 2004. His wife received 30 years in prison. The couple was arrested in 1996. They were accused of abducting and raping girls and girls between the ages of 8 and 19. Four victims were killed. The crimes were committed in 1995-96. Earlier, in 1989, spouses were convicted of kidnapping and rape of five girls, but were released early - for good behavior.
Fukushima: hundred tons under the bridge. The company operating the Japanese nuclear power plant Fukushima stated that the emergency station found a leak of one hundred tons of radioactive water, reports "Lenta.ru" with reference to Reuters.
The leak came from one of the reservoirs where the water used to cool the emergency reactors is stored. The beta radiation level of the water contained in such a tank is “230 million becquerels per liter,” said representatives of Tepco. The operator of the emergency NPP assures that the leak has already been repaired.
The prince will replace the prince. The head of the intelligence of Saudi Arabia, Prince Bandar bin Sultan was removed from making decisions on the Syrian issue. About it writes "The Wall Street Journal" with reference to anonymous sources, reports "Lenta.ru".
Bandara will be replaced by Interior Minister Prince Mohammad Bin Nayef, whom the United States has previously praised for actively fighting Al-Qaeda. Prince Mohammad maintains good relations with US Secretary of State John Kerry and CIA Director John Brennan.
According to The Wall Street Journal, the displacement of Bandar may mean overcoming differences between the two states, as well as a change in Saudi Arabia’s policy in Syria.
More lawyers, good and different. A second lawyer has appeared in the team of lawyers Dzhokhar Tsarnaev who specializes in protecting defendants facing the death penalty, writes Newsru.com with reference to ITAR-TASS.
Judge George O'Toole endorsed the candidacy of the famous American attorney David Braque for 20 in February. He specializes in criminal cases involving capital punishment for more than 30 years.
So far, four lawyers were on the defense team of Tsarnaev.
Tsarnaev's interests in court are represented by public defenders: the defendant and his relatives do not have money for private lawyers.
Mass surveillance of Muslims in the United States is recognized as legitimate. The mass surveillance by Muslims of New York by the police in order to prevent possible terrorist acts is legal and does not contradict the US Constitution. This decision was made by Judge William Martini in Newark, reports correspondent ITAR-TASS Andrey Bekrenev.
The judge rejected the lawsuit of several human rights organizations, agreeing with the arguments of the New York authorities, claiming that the surveillance is an anti-terrorism measure and is not directed against Muslims. “Although this surveillance program could have outraged the Muslim community, it is not discriminatory against it, since its goal is to search for Islamist terrorists,” Mr. Martini explained.
Obama had a bet on a crate of beer. Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper argued with the US president on a crate of beer that Canadian hockey players beat the Americans at the Sochi Olympics. Both leaders reported this on Twitter; Newsru.com with reference to ITAR-TASS.
Obama wrote this: “Stephen Harper and I made a bet on the women's and men's teams of the USA and Canada. The winner will receive a box of beer for winning each of the games. Go ahead, US team! ”
Newsru.com reminds that men's teams will play in the semifinals today.
At the last Olympics in Vancouver, Canadians and Americans met in the final. The decisive puck in overtime scored Sidney Crosby (now the captain of the Canadian team in Sochi).
23 of the year in prison by mistake. The administration of New York decided to pay the American, who served 23 in prison by mistake, a compensation in the amount of 6,4 million dollars. He writes about it "Lenta.ru" with reference to France-Presse.
The New York Financial Inspector reported that the city had managed to conclude an agreement with a man that “would complete this truly regrettable episode of the city’s history.”
Lenta reminds us that in 1991, David Ranta was sentenced to 37 years in prison for the murder of Hasidic Rabbi Haskell Werzberger, who was mortally wounded during a robbery of a courier jewelry store. The investigation claimed that the crime was committed by Ranta, who was then taking drugs. Rantu was convicted on the basis of testimony. Later it became known that Detective Louis Scarcell, who conducted the case, often put pressure on witnesses and even attached to the case invented confessions. In 2011, the Ranta case was sent for review. Several witnesses recanted. Were identified and numerous violations committed during the investigation.
21 March 2013 of 59-year-old Ranta was released in the courtroom. The next day, this man experienced a heart attack.
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