Results of the week. "Either true or all is well"
Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777, which operated the Amsterdam-Kuala Lumpur flight, crashed last night in Ukraine, sixty kilometers from the border with Russia. According to the latest data, the 283 passenger and the 15 crew members were aboard the liner. All passengers died. Flight recorders found the DPR militia. The aforementioned militia, official Kiev and Moscow denied involvement in the fall of the liner. The US intelligence agencies near the airliner spotted on the radars a thermal trace of a ground-to-air missile.
Advisor to the Minister of Internal Affairs of Ukraine Anton Gerashchenko said that “Boeing” was shot down by the Buk air defense system. ITAR-TASS cites a statement from the presidential administration of Ukraine, in which Poroshenko admits that the plane was shot down from Russian territory. Poroshenko also claims that the Ukrainian army did not take action to defeat aerial targets in the area of the incident.
A source in the Russian Ministry of Defense, ITAR-TASS notes, said that there were no flights of Russian combat aircraft in the areas adjacent to the Donetsk region on Thursday.
ITAR-TASS cites the statement of the authorities of the DPR. They deny involvement in the crash.
“The militia does not have such weapons that could bring down the plane at an altitude of 10 km. We have MANPADS that bring down a maximum at an altitude of 3-4 km, ”said the representative of the Prime Minister of the DPR, Sergei Kavtaradze.
"Vesti.Ekonomika", referring to “a number of sources”, indicates that aircraft at an altitude of more than 10 thousand meters can only be hit weapons Type C-200, C-300 or Beech. However, the possibility that the aircraft could attack from the air is not excluded. Vesti reminds of a similar crash with Siberia Airlines Tu-154, which was hit by a Ukrainian missile on 4 on October 2001 of the year: it attacked the board, confusing the liner with a training target. 66 passengers and 12 crew members died.
And here are some more details about the crash. Important.
LifeNews reports that shortly before the crash, the Malaysian "Boeing" deviated from the course by tens of kilometers. The fact is that three days ago the plane that was carrying out the same flight from Amsterdam flew over eastern Ukraine along a special air corridor.
On the seventeenth of July, the liner flew for the first time through combat areas. Experts interviewed by LifeNews argue that any such route change should be coordinated with the supervisor.
В LJ Boris Rozhin is a map of the course offset (see below).

The analyst believes that "we can say for sure" that the "Boeing" was brought into the territory of the DNR "consciously." According to the blogger, the course offset is "obviously intentional in nature." And then we read: “The machinations with the Boeing route are completely identical to the well-known provocation with the South Korean Boeing, which the Americans brought into the airspace of the USSR in 1983, after which it was shot down.”
What is the purpose of the aircraft shot down? “The task of the provocation is quite understandable, the blogger believes - to accuse the militia and the Russian Federation and to reverse the emerging trends in Donbas unsuccessfully”.
Poroshenko and his government are sure: the “terrorists” are to blame for everything. Well, of course, helping them Russian.
In 00: 45 July 18th on site of the Ukrainian president there was a statement.
Petro Poroshenko said compatriots: "Today, the war went beyond the territory of Ukraine." And he explained: “Today, terrorists killed almost 300 people with one shot. Among them are women, children, citizens of many countries of the world ... They shot down a peaceful passenger aircraft of the Malaysian Airlines, which flew from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur at an altitude of ten thousand one hundred meters. ”
Let me add on my own, but if the “terrorists” do not have complexes capable of shooting down planes at such a height, then what did they shoot him down with? According to such logic Poroshenko will soon “arm” the rebels with nuclear missiles aimed at Washington.
By the way, publications in the American press speak about the belligerent mood of congressmen. For example, the newspaper "The Washington Times" notes that lawmakers are concerned: in their opinion, an airplane incident could translate the Ukrainian conflict into a new dimension. There are already voices in the Senate demanding that the Obama administration take decisive measures against Russia.
Nor did “hawk” John McCain. He said that the liner crash will affect the situation and that the United States will "finally" begin to "deliver weapons to Ukraine."
It is not surprising that many Russian experts consider the catastrophe a planned provocation.
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“Australian Prime Minister blamed the fall of the Boeing on Russia. Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott accused Russia of supplying an anti-aircraft missile system to the militia, from which the Malaysian Boeing 777 was shot down. Reports about it «Sydney Morning Herald». This freak from another letter has already found the guilty one, ka ... claus clairvoyant.
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Exclamation marks on the day of mourning
On Tuesday this week, three cars left the rails between the stations of the Moscow Metro Park Victory and Slavyansky Boulevard (Arbatsko-Pokrovskaya Line). 22 dead and many injured. A criminal case has been initiated into the accident under the article “Violation of transport safety requirements”. Wednesday was declared a day of mourning in Moscow. Experts are talking about a thorough check of the metro, and in the meantime, responses about the tragedy are published on the Internet. And, alas, not only sympathetic ...
According to the Ukrainian resource "Dialogue", Kievites laid flowers to the fence of the Russian Embassy in Ukraine. This was made in memory of those killed in the accident in the Moscow metro.
Famous blogger Cruz Cruz talked about this on his Facebook page. “People do not have a poseurism, they put flowers near the Russian embassy, when I had a 20 man, and they continue to approach me,” he said, “Dialogue.”
However, the network can meet a different reaction to the tragedy that took 22 life.
Below - two screenshots with comments on the tragedy in the subway. The pictures were taken from the Ukrainian website Tsenzor.Net. References: source first; second source.


These are just two small screenshots. Witches on which we painted in white paint. I don't want to copy anything anymore. Readers of "VO" will undoubtedly understand the editors correctly. Collecting this garbage means only to intensify that many years of enmity, which already, it seems, forever settled 23 market years between Ukrainians and Russians. In the field of propaganda, over the years, skilled and deft Western politicians and their generously paid minions in the press and on TV worked.
It seems that many (not all) visitors of the “Censor” and other sites and forums in Ukraine believed in that primitive scenario that they were inspired by their temporary authorities and Western puppeteers. This script is short as a tweet: “Russians are to blame for everything”. And the point. Or an exclamation mark. Or three exclamation marks. Or even a hundred characters - other Ukrainians have not fit into the rules of punctuation for a long time.
And this hot logic continues. Once the Russians (and their leader Putin) are to blame for everything, then when the Russians die, we, separatists, need to rejoice vigorously. We rejoice when a mine enters the territory of Russia and kills someone. We rejoice when Russians die without a mine. Finally, we rejoice that the Russians are not dying yet, but will die in the near future, because they are all parasites, smokers, alcoholics and drug addicts, and cannot live for a long time. And there is no place for them on the planet, because they are barbarians, and one harm from them.
With such inflexible logic of separatism, of course, the direct road to Europe. The very one that has long since considered Ukraine to be an unreliable transit country for Russian gas, and has already been friends with major Russian raw materials companies, if we reject the pro-American policy of Brussels, for two decades now. But Poroshenko’s shale urges do not inspire confidence in her (Europe). And from the war inside Ukraine, she (Europe) is in fear. A few days ago, European newspapers were happy that Putin did not respond to the provocation with a mortar shell. But waiting for the "act of aggression", no less. Almost bombing Kiev. No, the Kremlin has withstood its line, although it received a portion of internal criticism. So, therefore, not the aggressor? Who then is the aggressor? Is not Poroshenko? And they even called the candy king from the White House — with the intention of reasoning the raging peacemaker.
And now on the forums and on all sorts of sites there the heated public, safely hidden under their nicknames, rejoices in the death of the “Muscovites” and guests of the Russian capital. In the same way, probably, he rejoices, as he rejoices at the deaths of those who were covered with army shelling in the Donetsk region. They, these dead people, were henchmen of “Katsap”, that they should be pitied.
Are there psychiatrists on "VO"? Is this disease treated? Or is it all already, the chamber inlaid with felt and the right shots will not help the patient?
"MILITARY REVIEW" SORBITES TOGETHER WITH NATIVE AND CLOSE KILLED.
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Flight deduction
An-26 transport aircraft of the Ukrainian Air Force was shot down in the area of the Progress mine. This is reported by eyewitnesses, who say that the plane began to fall after it hit a rocket fired from the ground.
If the MANPADS of the militia will be as accurate in the future, then the first in the world Air Force in the world without a single aircraft can appear in Ukraine. And the likelihood of the emergence of such "units" in connection with the recent successes of the militia is very high.
By the way, “Svidomo” from among Russian citizens, Mr. Nemtsov (and this gentleman has Russian citizenship), has already stated that the destruction of the An-26 of the Ukrainian Air Force and the crash of the “Boeing” coming from Amsterdam are directly connected. Nemtsov, like no one else, "knows" that the "Boeing" was "shot down by pro-Russian terrorists." Like, mixed up with the next An-26. Well, yes, yes ... Also on the air conditioner, also from MANPADS ... And from such a powerful MANPADS, that all existing world models are disastrously inferior to it. And if not from MANPADS, then, of course, from C-300 or C-400 (or even ... C-500!), Prikat installations under the nose of the Ukrainian army from Russia. Boris Nemtsov "is strong in mathematics" ...
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"Pine! Pine! I am a birch
The militia of the Donetsk People’s Republic declare that they had important information about the commanders of the units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine operating in the zone of the so-called “anti-terrorist operation”. We are talking about getting access to the base of call signs, locations of certain units and other data.
Of course, the access of militiamen to the callsign and other secret data of the ukrosiloviki is more than a serious success of the operation conducted by the reconnaissance group, but something is alarming. For what the militiamen needed to expose the success of such an operation to publicity. After all, if this kind of information has passed through the media, then the blooded will clearly make simple conclusions and will be replaced by the call signs.
But if the information about getting access to the call sign was true, and if the militiamen began using it for “communication” with ukrosiloviki, then the success would have been much more impressive. Well this is how many useful cases the militia could have been brought to the end, disorienting the enemy! But either the militiamen did not fully realize the whole tactical advantage of gaining access to such data, presenting them to the media, or the data were not exactly the ones that would allow them to take full advantage.
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In the boiler
The RT channel, citing the Ukrainian edition of the Correspondent, reports that in the battles near Izvarino, the Ukrainian security forces suffered huge losses in manpower and military equipment. It is reported about two hundred dead representatives of the Ukrainian army and the National Guard.
Several thousand Ukrainian security officials were surrounded, hitting the so-called "southern boiler" on the territory of Novorossia. Fire militia destroyed dozens of armored vehicles and hundreds of servicemen of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, as well as "national guardsmen." Ukrovoyakam, who a few weeks ago, braved in front of the video camera that they would soon enter Moscow, where the beer would be “for 6 hryvnia”, now it’s not up to bravado - to save their soft spots.
In social networks, walking "reminder" Ukrainian military, which may be captured by the militia. Considering the fact that the Ukrainian top is pretty “hooked up” on social networks and even distributes decrees through them, we can assume that such a memo is quite an official document for today's Ukraine. The memo, in particular, states that in any case the soldier should say that he was called from the reserve against his will, that his family was at home, and that he did not want to fight. By the way, in some cases, the Ukrainian military and the National Guardsmen helps ... Some even manage to heal and go to the "Mother's skirt" almost unharmed. Just punitive methods are not peculiar to the army of New Russia. But for Kiev, such methods are the basis of the operation in which the oligarchs solve their problems.
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There were still graphs of losses. Now you can add the column "captives" ...
All this is terrible ... Slavs of Slavs are killed by clapping their hands on the USA and Europe ...
Who treats whom? ..
The head of the press service of the Border Guard Administration of the FSB of Russia in the Rostov region, Vasily Malaev, said that several dozen Ukrainian border guards who had been injured during armed clashes in Ukraine had turned to Russian colleagues for help. The doctors who arrived at the Russian border checkpoint "Kuybyshevo" took the wounded to the Kuybyshev central regional hospital.
This once again proves that Ukraine is a state that in no way has world analogues. Judge for yourself: to organize a Maidan gathering on the overseas money and oligarchs' money with a call for European integration and deliverance from the oligarchic shackles, eventually choosing the president-OLIGARCH ... To unleash a bloody massacre against its own people, trumpeting at every corner that it was Russia that attacked Ukraine, and that it was necessary to fight Russia to the end. These are two. To lose hundreds of soldiers and officers in the “war with Russia” war without finding a single soldier and officer of the Russian army on the battlefield. These are three. Wounded Ukrainian servicemen are sent for treatment to the country that, in their opinion, attacked them. These are four. Here it is - Ukrainian exclusivity ...
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Bite down on Avakov
The adviser to the so-called Minister of Internal Affairs of Ukraine (and Avakov, it turns out, is not only overseas advisers) Zoryan Shkiryak "revealed" plans to commit an attempt on his head. According to Shkiryak, Avakov was to be attacked in the interval from 7 to 9 in July of the current year - at the moment when the “head” of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine was on a business trip in Donbas.
It is time for Mr. Avakov to confer the title of Hero of Ukraine. Well, really. Did you personally come to the Donbass? - came, posted photos on Facebook? - posted. What was missing was the failed assassination attempt. But he was quickly cooked up surrounded by the “minister”. True, not finalized. For persuasiveness, after all, it was necessary to at least build a fingal under the eye or make a hole on the trousers (behind). Like, “our Arsenchik” persevered ... Vydyuzhil ... Out of the hands of the very same Bezler left! Is he after this hera? Of course, hey!
By the way, Bezler called all this dregs of blue about the assassination of Avakov a complete nonsense. It would have been a real attempt - there would have been no Avakov already ... Orphaned by "Facebook."
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Formula of belonging to the FSB in Yatsenyuk
After citizens demanded higher social benefits from the Ukrainian government, Yatsenyuk said that Ukrainians could not demand higher social benefits from the government at a time when the country's economy was in a difficult position. And all those who demand it are not Ukrainians, but are agents of the FSB.
This is simply an amazing position for a “democratic government”, which is expressed in the following format: if you want to live better, then you are an agent of foreign special services. After all, a Ukrainian cannot just by definition today (under Poroshenko and Yatsenyuk) want to live better ...
He came out on the Maidan in December-January - “Ma-la-dets!”, “Our man”, “four-eyed!” But he allowed himself to doubt the correctness of the Yatsenyuk and Poroshenko's course - “damn eshesbeshnik! "
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Has it become a habit?
In the area of the Kuybyshevo checkpoint, two shells that were fired from the territory of Ukraine exploded. Also on Wednesday night, employees of the Novoshakhtinsk checkpoint had to be evacuated.
The shelling of Russian territory from the Ukrainian side has already become familiar. These are terrible words, but they really are. A few months ago it was hard to imagine such a thing, and today even the Rostov citizens themselves with a fair amount of calmness show fragments from hitting Ukrainian ammunition in their homes.
The first funeral of the deceased Russians took place. The mission of foreign military attaches familiarized with the situation at the border. They shook their heads, photographed phones and went off, so that later the Western media would build a series of “ducks” about how quietly and calmly on the Ukrainian-Russian border.
Kiev does not comment on the attacks of the Russian territory with its troops. And in particularly knowledgeable social networks, dill users are actively discussing how Russia itself fires itself in order to provoke the “peaceful” Ukrainian military and to deprive the most inland Ukraine of its independence.
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And also a towel with a portrait of Igor Strelkov cross stitch
In the city of Berdyansk (Zaporizhzhya region of Ukraine), reinforced checkpoints with armored vehicles of the Ukrainian armed forces appear. Military Commissar of Berdyansk Volkov:
The appearance of reinforced roadblocks outside the LC and the DPR may indicate that some gentlemen in Kiev and other ukroregions are beginning to think what will happen if the militia members really crush the Ukrainian punishers in the Donbas. In this regard, it can be assumed that in addition to reinforcing the militarized roadblocks, particularly shrewd ukrochininyshki have already prepared towels with embroidered portraits of Igor Strelkov, hiding them in a secluded place - as they say, just in case, in time to confess to the militia that only they were waiting for him they counted on him. Do Poroshenko such rushnichok in store? - at the bottom of the box from under the candy, where there must already be a complete set “for every occasion” - from the American flag to the Russian tricolor. Everything is in Ukrainian ...
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I hope very much for the victory parade in Kiev, and to see Strelkova, according to custom, on the white horse of the host parade.
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White House non-professionals
In the evening of July 16, Barack Obama personally announced the “inclusion” of a new package of sanctions against Russia. This time, the sanctions are directed against budget-forming companies and large Russian banks and appear to be serious.

In the message ITAR-TASS It is specified that citizens and companies of the Russian Federation and Ukraine got into the United States sanctions list. America punished with the sanctions Vice-Speaker of the State Duma S. Neverov, Minister for Crimea Affairs O. Savelyev, Assistant to the President of the Russian Federation I. Schegolev, Colonel-General FSB S. Besedu, as well as one of the leaders of the DPR A. Borodaya.
This time, Vnesheconombank, Gazprombank, Rosneft, Novatek, Basalt, KRET (Radio Electronic Technologies Concern), Sozvezdie, NPO Mashinostroenia, Almaz-Antey, Kalashnikov, KB instrument, "Uralvagonzavod." Also, the Feodosia Oil Company and the entire Donetsk and Luhansk people's republics fell under the sanctions.
The US Treasury is confident that the new sanctions "will lead to economic isolation" of listed companies.
Europartners, including Germany, were supported by the US administration on the issue of sanctions. What many analysts and experts did not expect.
How to transmit "Vesti" With reference to ITAR-TASS, the expansion of sanctions against the Russian Federation was agreed upon by a summit of heads of state and government of EU countries.
True, the EU has not yet adopted sectoral trade and economic restrictions. “An agreement was reached to suspend the launch of new projects through the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development and the European Investment Bank. Decisions on sectoral trade and economic sanctions were not taken, ”an unnamed diplomatic source said.
Russian President Vladimir Putin news on sanctions "overtook" in Brasilia, where the BRICS summit was held. There he spoke on this topical topic, and also criticized international policy pursued by the United States. His words leads the channel LifeNews.
According to Mr. Putin, those people who are planning a policy in the United States "act aggressively and very unprofessionally." The lack of professionalism and aggressiveness is confirmed by the situations in Syria, Afghanistan, Iraq and Ukraine.
As for the new sanctions, Putin noted: "We must see what these sanctions are, how to figure it out, without fuss, calmly." The head of the Russian state noted that sanctions measures “usually have a“ boomerang effect ”. “And, without any doubt, in this case they are driving Russian-American relations to a dead end, causing them very serious damage. And I am convinced that this goes against the national long-term strategic interests of the American state and the American people, ”the president quotes Newsru.com with reference to ITAR-TASS.
So, the White House and its satellites from the EU firmly took Russia by the throat.
At the same time, it should be noted that Obama had previously scared Russia with the “third package”, but what was introduced is not the third package, but only the expansion of the second. The third package of sanctions would really seriously damage the Russian economy, as it would affect entire industries, starting with raw materials. Nevertheless, the success of the White House in agreeing new prohibitive measures with Brussels shows: Barack Hussein Obama can still put serious pressure on the European Union and is not going to back down on the idea of joint sanctions against Russia. On the pages of "VO" we have repeatedly noted that the US and the EU have confirmed their statements about the non-recognition of the Crimea as part of Russia. The overseas hegemon considers the annexation of the peninsula to the Russian Federation, despite the referendum, as "annexation." Both Washington and Brussels have repeatedly stated that they “never” recognize the Crimea as part of Russia. Therefore, we must understand that the issue of sanctions is a question not only of the LPR and DPR, it is also a question of the Crimea.
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It's all empty. Never Europe will not be on the side of Russia.
Here it is necessary to understand a very simple thing. Europeans are ideologically and financially obliged to the United States for their prosperity. After 1945, they fell under the Americans. And their prosperity and independence depended directly on America. Those who came to the Warsaw Pact degraded in terms of the West. That's the whole concept for today.
And I do not understand why everyone is happy? It is clear that here half the users are shkolota with general epaulets. But here I have two higher education in the field of macroeconomics. And everything connected with the sanctions is all very bad for Russia. All achievements with BRICS are still declarative in nature, but the viciousness of our banking system, which is credited in the United States and Europe, is obvious. Banks will stand up - the entire economy will start to bend, including the defense industry, which is funded through VEB. Where are the serious comments? The feeling that either “urya-patriots” or “all-pro ... alscats” come to the “VO”. Serious and adequate people began to disappear somewhere. And this is sad.
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This is what I admire the current owners of numerous higher ones, because it is the impossibility to go beyond the dogmas learned during the training.
No, it is, of course, all right, and you are certainly right about the current moment and the current rules of the game, which are set by the star-mattress "partners." And everything would be fine if it were not for the notorious law of the transition of quantity to quality.
The more sanctions are imposed, the more likely that Russia will be forced to retreat from these rules.
As the owner of two macroeconomic entities, you should be aware that it was our “sworn partners” who imposed on us the impossibility of crediting our economy ourselves.
Now the question is: what is stopping in response to the sanctions to nationalize the Central Bank and establish its own rules? One more question: what prevents to take loans in Euros, yuan and other tugriks?
Now for engines and titanium.
Yes, the engines do not make the weather, it is purely a matter of prestige, nothing more.
With titanium, everything is much more serious. At the termination of deliveries, serious problems will arise for Boeing and the practical ass of the Europeans. There are simply no alternative suppliers capable of replenishing Russian volumes, prices are skyrocketing, production is declining, contracts are not being fulfilled, jobs are being lost ... There is not so much pleasant, as you can see.
The fate of Russian titanium producers is completely in the hands of the government. They want to support - support, do not want - not destiny ... Lots of support mechanisms: from full exemption from taxes to the actual restoration of their aerospace industry.
With the supply of palladium, things are quite simple, after all, a noble metal, which may well be aimed at replenishing gold reserves, and its absence on the market will lead to big problems of a bitten apple (and not only).
It should be added that nothing prevents Russia from imposing sanctions against all kinds of McDonalds, Proctors with Gembels and other Coca-Cola.
This is so, offhand.
In the long term: the more and tougher the sanctions against Russia are, the more benefits they will bring to Russia itself.
Naturally, some difficulties can not be avoided, but they are not critical. As a result, Russia will be forced to develop the domestic market - a stronghold of stability, if anything.
Suitcase, Maidan, Warsaw
Poland ranks second (after the Russian Federation) among the countries in terms of the number of arriving refugees from the territory of Ukraine. This is reported in the press service of the Office for Foreign Citizens of Poland. RIA "Novosti", citing the spokesperson for this Directorate, Eva Infantry states that no one who arrived in Poland from the territory of Ukraine was officially granted refugee status.
At the same time, the Polish authorities are registering a significant increase in the number of Ukrainians who wish to receive refugee status on the territory of the Polish state. If last year 46 Ukrainians applied for such status, then only in the first half of 2014 - about nine hundred.
The largest number of applicants for refugee status, according to Eva Infantry, refers to the so-called activists of the Maidan - those who advocated for European integration in the center of Kiev.
Here it is, it turns out, European integration. Pomaidan, and let's go to Warsaw. And what about Warsaw? And she gave the Kiev "European integrators" a clear answer: Poland does not need maydanschiki.
Kiev will get exactly the same answer when it wants to “integrate” with the European Union. Brussels (more precisely, Berlin) has already tried to feed the Greeks - did not like it.
By the way, why maydanschiki looking for a warm place in Poland, and not in the Kiev mayor's office?
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Inauguration and mortars
In Syria, militants of the opposition forces 16 July fired mortar shells at the business district of Damascus after the inauguration of President Bashar Assad, ITAR-TASS reported.
According to local media reports, four civilians were killed by fragments in the Shaalyan Square, 22 people were injured.
Employees of the TV station Al-Mayadin reported on two mines that had fallen into the building of the State Television and Radio of the Syrian Republic on Umayyad Square. Information about the victims have been reported.
To this it must be added that, swearing allegiance to Syria as president, Bashar Asad made a keynote speech in which he noted that the Syrians would defeat the enemies who planned to turn the country into "another colony." Assad said that with the help of allies, including Russia, he would do everything to preserve the Syrian state and put an end to "pro-American terrorist forces."
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13 July it became known that in Afghanistan all the ballots of the second round of the presidential election, which was held in June, will be recounted. The fact is that Ashraf Gani Ahmadzai overtook Abdullah Abdullah by ten percent. But in the first round, the last one overtook the first one. Nestykovochka! The US Department of State did not like such distortions with arithmetic.
On the recount of votes in Afghanistan, said US Secretary of State, who was on a visit to Kabul, reports "Euronews".
John Kerry spoke with Ashraf Ghani Ahmadzai and Abdullah Abdullah. Both agreed to count all the votes - that is, 8 millions. Recalculation took control of the UN observers.
This is what Euronews writes so gently about it. In fact, it is clear that John Kerry rather ordered Afghans count votes. Otherwise, what will the democracy that Washington has built in Afghanistan for so many years look like?
And for sure.
Confirmation of perseverance of the State Department was found in the latest news.
As Kirill Belyaninov writes (Kommersant), both presidential candidates agreed to recount votes "under pressure from US Secretary of State John Kerry, who threatened to deprive Kabul of US financial aid."
This is the key - do not count, we will not "help" you.
It is clear that John Kerry and his boss Barack Obama cannot allow such an obvious failure of democracy in Kabul - especially against the background of the future withdrawal of most of the troops from Afghanistan. Last year, we wrote to VO that Washington seriously considers its military operations in Afghanistan and Iraq as “victories” (both strategic and democratic). And suddenly - such a failure!
With the slightest hint of the Afghan political crisis, it will be very difficult for Washington to talk about its democratic achievements in the region. Obama will lose the last percentages of the rating, John Kerry will resign, and the world community will receive another excuse for criticizing the United States, sowing the very “instability” everywhere that they love to teach the whole world.
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Six California by Mr. Billionaire
According to RIA Novosti, citing FoxNews, a petition by American billionaire Timothy Draper on the section of California on individual states 6 has already received more than 808 thousands of votes.

According to Mr. Draper, this is enough to hold a national referendum on this issue in November 2016. He proposes to divide California into the states of Jefferson, Silicon Valley, as well as Southern, Northern, Central and Western California.
“California needs a reboot. Six California is our opportunity to solve many of the problems we face today. Six states that are more representative and understandable, ”said the billionaire, who has already spent more than 4,9 million dollars on his initiative.
According to him, this will allow "to create a more responsive, innovative and more local government," which ultimately "will lead to a better life for all Californians."
Critics for some reason believe that this is an “idiotic” plan.
In any case, Draper is going to hand in a petition to state authorities, who, if approved, will send it to Congress.
The plan, of course, idiotic. To create a “more responsive” government, you need to divide California not into 6 states, but into separate cities and even neighborhoods. And there to the streets with houses nearby. People will no longer quarrel and demand "better life": after all, this very improvement will now be in their hands.
But seriously, there are no responsive governments. Especially in the USA. The White House pays more attention to Ukraine and Afghanistan than to its own people ...
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Samantha gives concerts
The representative of the United States at the UN, Samantha Power, said that she had won a verbal exchange with Russia's permanent representative, Vitaly Churkin, who was related to the notorious Pussy Riot group. However, the Russian diplomat recalled what actually happened then, notes “RT”.
In February, 2014, Vitaly Churkin proposed Samantha Power to join the infamous group “Pussy Riot”. He stated this, commenting on the meeting of the American representative with Nadezhda Tolokonnikova and Maria Alekhina.
“How, hasn't she still joined this group?” I expected that she would invite them to perform at the National Cathedral of Washington or even be able to organize a concert tour for them around the world, ”said Churkin.
Samantha Power said that the first concert should be held in places where “Russian political prisoners” are kept.
And now Power told the journalist “Vanity Fair” that Churkin did not respond to this remark, so she believes that she won the dispute. “I have the last word. This is enough for a small victory, ”she said.
However, the Russian diplomat, through Facebook, put the statement of an American woman into question: “Here I must clarify the truth. (In case this episode goes down in history in the memoirs of Samantha Power, for which, I am sure, she will definitely win the Pulitzer Prize.) In fact, I answered her. I called Samantha and explained that there are no political prisoners in Russia. She seemed stunned and promised to contact me again on this issue. She did not. She, however, reluctantly acknowledged that I got the upper hand in this squabble, because my answer was spontaneous, but she was not. I will not declare it as my "little victory." Let those who love such anecdotes judge it. ”
We (“Military Review”) promise to keep this anecdote for the story, dear comrade Churkin.
As for the statement for Vanity Fair, we know why Samantha made it. This is because she envies the glory, which in recent weeks has bypassed her, completely getting to the star of the State Department - Jen Psaki.
And the last plot of the "Results of the week" is an excellent confirmation of this.
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But with regards to domestic policy - the question.
If we have no political prisoners, then who then is Colonels V. Kvachkov? and L.V. Khabarov, who devoted their lives to serving the Fatherland?
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Behind the Chinese screen
The BRICS summit held in Brazil has become literally historical. In Fortaleza, it was decided to create a New Development Bank (BRICS) with a capital of one hundred billion dollars. The bank will become a direct competitor to the IMF. Many Western financial experts believe that in case of successful implementation of the project, the five BRICS countries will reach a new level - both economic and political. As for the White House, the local residents didn’t like the news, therefore, they voiced their attitude towards the creation of the New Development Bank. The State Department’s trustworthy political weapon, Jen Psaki.
According to her, the purpose of creating the Bank of BRICS in the United States did not understand.
Speaking at a regular briefing, the spokesperson for the State Department said the United States found the objectives of the creation of a Development Bank by the BRICS countries unclear. Words psaki leads ITAR-TASS.
“There is not a lot of detail about what exactly will be the focus of this planned development bank,” Mrs. Psaki told reporters.
She did not find not only the necessary "number of details", but she did not find the "important details" that would have opened America’s eyes on the management of a new bank. Finally, psaki is “not clear” whether the Bank of BRICS will have “any kind of relationship with already existing international financial institutions”.
What to do? We must wait, according to the State Department mouthpiece. What to expect? Missing parts.
“Therefore, we will wait, see what else the details will appear,” the State Department spokeswoman summed up.
Writing down in notebooks about the "number of details", "important details", as well as the missing details, the journalists asked whether the BRICS Development Bank would affect the interests of the United States. Here the incomparable Psaki straddled her skate: "... we do not know."
“It’s difficult for us to speculate or worry about this at this particular moment, because we don’t know the goals, objectives and controls (bank),” Psaki replied with habitual wit.
Well, how are you so in Washington, add from yourself. Even about the privacy of Angela Merkel, whose phone you listened to, you know everything. The NSA also monitored Brazil’s President Dilma Rousseff’s correspondence and communication on the Internet. But Brazil - a member of the BRICS, the letter "B".
However, if you look at it from the other side, Washington’s ignorance becomes clear. The BRICS includes China, and this same state will become the main “capitalist” in the Development Bank, whose headquarters will soon open in Shanghai. Behind the Chinese screen, the owner of the Oval Office will not see anything, and even more so will Jennifer Psaki not see anything there. One fine morning, US Finance Minister J. Lew will simply show Barack Obama a red bill with Xi Jinping's face and say with sadness in his voice that the yuan has become the key world currency, and the Republic of Texas has applied for participation in BRICS.
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* “Either true or all is well” - a phrase from the TV series “Lie to Me” / “Lie The Me”
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