Results of the week. “I will tell you one clever thing! Only you do not be offended! "
Attention! Attention! Full Achtung for right-and-krivopashchitnikov all planet. Nadia Savchenko 6 April announced another dry (this is when not a drop and not a crumb ...) hunger strike. About this in her rather lengthy statement addressed to the head of the PKU of the SIZO-3 prisoner, the “heroine” herself said, regarding which the verdict of the court had recently entered into force.
Dry hunger strikes Nadia Savchenko methodically replaced one another. A dry plate after the eaten borscht, a dry bowl after the eaten potato with a chop. They say that sushi for such a hunger strike could also be suitable ... And also dry alcohol! From Tse Dilo! ..
In the meantime, Nadia “starves dryly”, on Ukraine itself the ranspar ’s branches completely let themselves go. And it would be fine if at least one Donbass, now also Transcarpathia. They say: we won a referendum in 1991, too, so Kiev must recognize us widely autonomous and leave our taxes in our budget. For Kiev, this, of course, is not as welcome as the Dutch-style referendum, where, as is well known, “at the guns of Putin’s automata,” but also lousy. It’s good that Kiev has the same heroes in the reserve, like Nadia Savchenko, who can take the gun in their hands and show the Colorado-separators how to get a good shit ... PACE potential delegates ...
In general, the situation in Ukraine today is such that Nadya will probably be much calmer in the Russian colony, where you can “starve” for free three times a day between breakfast and lunch, lunch and dinner, etc.
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Aleksander
Alexander Romanov
2. We have a democracy, therefore, you want - drink, and you want do not drink.
3.Govodovka helpful!
4. Plant it on a zone in the Crimea and let it yell from there: return me to Ukraine.
Askort154
Feel for sanctions
The first attempts to probe the situation for the possible lifting of sanctions against the Russian Federation appear. The West, obviously, trying to get out of the sanctions confrontation, retaining its face, begins from afar - with the publication of forecasts by leading economic analysts about when sanctions from Russia can be lifted and how the Russian economy will react to this.
The World Bank gave its predictions about the time when they will lift sanctions on Russia. And then the Austrian president also flew to Moscow. He did not fly, did not fly - and suddenly r-time - and flew a couple of weeks before the end of the presidency. He says: it’s necessary to take sanctions on anyone, we have other opinions, - he says, - not a decree at all ... Well, courage, in general, is rushing. Apparently, the coefficient of courage and readiness to think objectively in European countries is inversely proportional to the time left to be left at the helm of the state for their politicians: less time - more courage. And when Western politicians leave for retirement, there is almost a transition into another dimension - they immediately become one of Russia's first friends, simultaneously exposing their changers to a position that is not constructive towards Russia. Togo and look Russian citizenship will be asked and an apartment in Saransk or Grozny ...
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Oblako
Open any Western textbook on economics and the first phrase: "we live in a world of limited resources ...". That says it all. Imagine, in the infinite universe, we live in a world of limited resources !!! They talk about human rights, but they block their implementation, linking them with the profit and income of this person. Their world is hopeless by definition.
Parusnik
Skalpel
Where do arms grow from?
On the eve of the newspaper "Izvestia" came out material in which a World Bank specialist, in fact echoing individual representatives of the state apparatus, said that, say, you want - you do not want, and you will have to raise the retirement age in Russia. They say that this measure is unpopular, but (this is a quote) "life expectancy in Russia has increased dramatically in recent years, including for men - almost to 66 years ..." They say they began to live a long time, the Herods ... By the way, the World Bank For about a year, it monitors the state of the pension system in Russia by order of the Central Bank.
For some reason, whenever it comes to improving economic efficiency, the proposals of “economic gurus” relate to the same things: either freeze some payments and abandon indexation (for example, working pensioners), or raise the retirement age. Oh, and privatization ...
Yes - until the level of retirement age has yet been raised, but the talk of such a “raise” becomes painfully intrusive. So the World Bank is connected. They say, well, if the World Bank itself says that the Russians have become “living a sharply longer life”, then it’s necessary to raise the retirement age. The economic block of the hand grows out of place, and therefore it’s impossible to overcome the economic crisis with the help of pensioners, it seems that it’s impossible to overcome ...
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Sunzhenetz
P.S. The staff of the Pension Fund of Russia is 121 670 people + considerable property. If you remove the heavy burden of maintaining this “effective” structure from the state, then pensions can be added.
CONTROL
And what about raising the retirement age - will it be for state officials? Taki no, I think! .. But the most valuable shots! Where do they take a shift? you can’t bring it up at once ... Is it any work - a worker ... of such a level as the qualification tests are not provided for! These are - they, they say, are born themselves - women give birth, and, in the finished highly skilled form - straight to the machine ... to the levers ... to the controls and te pe!
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Cavemen didn’t just keep feeding the frail old people - although it was easier to devour them, and that’s the end! ... That's why they got out of the caves, through huts, yurts, huts, ... to high-rise buildings and - aha, - to villas , dachas and palaces! ...
The continuity of generations - that's what! She is in pensioners, read in old men!
And for “raising the retirement age” - I read the drafts of the laws being prepared - nothing is visible except primitive greed: if only not to pay, save the “social” on people who gave up their strength and give their lives to this very “society” - the society, the country. ..
Karabakh-bah-bah
Saturday night 2 April - the next not extinguished hot spot manifested itself. With radical enthusiasm, the Armenian and Azerbaijani sides, sacrificing their citizens, began to water each other far from only weapons in the region of the unrecognized Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR). The MLRS, mortars, artillery mounts, Tanksarmy aviation. At the same time, Yerevan and Baku became habitual (and the habit developed over more than a quarter-century newest history confrontation in this region - thanks to the Nobel Peace Prize laureate Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev ...) mutually accuse each other of the fact that it was the opponent who started the fighting, and we, they say, were forced to respond.
Literally the next day after the beginning of the next stage of the armed conflict in the unrecognized Nagorno-Karabakh Republic, the Azerbaijani media and social networks reported that this is, say, "our (Azerbaijani) version of the Croatian operation" Storm ". Materials appeared on the fact that Azerbaijani troops occupied several heights in Nagorno-Karabakh. Next - patriotic videos, winning fanfare and stuff like that.
The Armenian side did not remain in debt, and in the informational too. Notes appeared in the Armenian newspapers about "hundreds of dead and thousands of wounded Azerbaijani aggressors." And also - patriotic videos, winning fanfare ...
The fighting was reduced to a minimum only after Moscow’s intervention in the process of resolving the situation.
The impression was that our dear Azerbaijani and Armenian friends begin to include gyrus in work only when someone comes third, knocking with his fist on the table and dunks his nose to the place where each of the friends left lewdness. And without indecency and without dipping in any way?
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Inkass_98
Sirocco
So grandfather said that in one of the conversations with representatives of Wed. Asia, they themselves expressed satisfaction with the fact that at the head of the enterprises of our city were citizens of Slavic appearance, (either the head or deputy, necessarily Russian) They say, well, otherwise they would have tortured civil strife, and they get slaps from their older brother, and there is no svoyachestva. After all, both in the East and here in Buryatia, the principle is the same, cronyism, it is worth getting one, and in the case of uncontrollability, in a year, all relatives will be dragged there, and it does not matter that in some matters they are a complete zero, the main duty to relatives performed.
There will be order only in one case, if we take them and include them in the Russian Federation, and explain who is the boss in the house. (And we need it?)
Or they should be offered a common external aggressor, in the face of ISIS, Turkey, or the like, then they unite, Or make them a common offer that they cannot refuse, (fist under their breath, and remind Iraq, Libya, Yugoslavia than ended for these states, from the partners that Aliyev visited the other day).
Androsh
99% it was an attack of Azerbaijanis on the NKR (reconnaissance in force) in order to test the reaction of Russia and the world, plus find out the weak points in the defense. Armenians, I think, are ready not only for defense.
And for those who do not know, the NKR separated after the massacre in Sumgait, when Azerbaijanis massacred women, children and the elderly.
Fire Guard?
In Russia, a new power structure - the National Guard. 5 on April 2016 was announced by President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin at a meeting with Police General Vladimir Kolokoltsev, Minister of the Interior of the Russian Federation, Director of the Federal Service of the Russian Federation for Drug Trafficking Control Viktor Ivanov, Commander-in-Chief of Internal Troops of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation Army General Viktor Zolotov and Deputy Director Federal Migration Service Ekaterina Egorova. The National Guard will be headed by General Zolotov.
The National Guard is in the format of presidential subordination. In other words, this power structure, more than impressive in its composition and military power, is in fact positioned as “presidential troops”. Officially - to counter not only terrorism, but also extremism. For "admirers" of President Vladimir Putin - more than a serious gift, carefully tied
An unsuitable blogosphere with the advent of the first News about signing the decree with President Putin’s hand hysterical: hooded Gezhim, gebnya, gebnya, West, come! ..
Many people are just on their guard: does the president save his rating with the help of NG?
The question, of course, is interesting and rhetorical to itself, for the smell of burning tires is still heard from the fallow, and the president is annoying in any case. But when a fire in the apartment of a drunken neighbor, and when a person from a neighboring house tries to take your parking space, then you yourself will not be so tense ...
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I do not understand how sideways the works of art are: “The Prince of Silver” and “The Song about Tsar Ivan Vasilyevich, the young oprichnik and the daring merchant Kalashnikov,” have a relation to history?
On the site the words are common: NKVD !!! Oprichnina?
The terrible horror is about to begin!
You were interested in, and against whom was the oprichnina created, and what kind of structure was it? And the question: "Why is our (not ours) liberal public together with the western, so it is up to the tsar Ivan?" Maybe because under Ivan the Terrible Russia became a State with which they began to reckon and be afraid? And, if there were no oprichnina, can our state repeat the fate of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth? I would not want to.
Olebey
VP
Let's say some kind of guber is doing something.
In the internet: "I would have made a better road!"
Makes the road, in response, "enough to wash on the roads, it would be better engaged in hospitals!"
Finishes the construction of a large medical center -
"enough to wash in hospitals, it would be better ...", etc.
AndreyS
Structures that go through the explosives with the whole structure, the TsSN MIA, aviation MIA, SOBR, OMON, PSB, FSUE "Protection" and the authorization system (which controls the circulation of civilian weapons and security activities in the country).
Nothing for yourself sprung. Such a concentration of management and such a structure is more suited to wartime! Today, one comrade put forward the idea that this structure resembles the NKVD!
New story for the program "In the animal world"
For the first time in Syria, the combat use of Russian Ka-52 "Alligator" helicopters was observed. We are talking about helicopters that were delivered to the SAR about two weeks ago. If you believe the information sources, then these helicopters operating in the Syrian Arab Republic, now at least three.
Rooks were? - have been. Ducklings were? - have been. White swans? - have been. The Bears? - Also ... But why, actually, were? .. Everything is there! Now it's alligators. Russia continues to show the program “In the world of animals” to bearded boys from ISIS and other “moderate oppositions” ... Series on natural selection and food chains.
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Bacha
Dmitry Potapov
Gaseous hardness
1 April ended the action of the "winter package", agreed by Ukraine, Russia and the European Union on gas supplies to the "Square". The discounts offered by Russia ordered a long life. Those 17,77 American "rubles" that we gave to the "brotherly country" will now go where it should be. In the Russian budget.
No, we, of course, in Russia are great lads, because, you know, we’ve been hard on Ukraine to understand that there will be no more discounts. Like a fist on the table - hre-es! .. There was a discount, and the gas was sold at 212, and now there will be no discount - take more expensive - right away at 170 ... At the same time, we still have a poke in the face that, they say, summer for Nose - we don't need your gas again - we'll buy it from the Slovaks! And it doesn't matter that the Slovaks themselves bought it in Russia ...
In general, the "stiffness" of "Gazprom" is visible to the naked eye. At this rate, by July, he will cancel the discount for Ukraine and the price will become even more “tough” - dollars that way for 100-120 ... And there it’s not far beyond the domestic Russian price level ... from a position of strength! .. And Kiev, at least, has a reason to rejoice here, for the Dutch quilted jackets deprive of another reason ...
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Big "Malka"
On Monday, a BBO artillery unit carried out firing in the Amur region, in which they were involved, including self-propelled installation 2C7M "Malka".
From the release:
The crews of SAU 2C7М "Malka" and SAU 2С5 "Hyacinth-S" fulfilled the firing tasks of defeating command posts, air defense systems and military equipment clusters of a conventional enemy at a distance of 25 kilometers and more high-explosive shells. Shooting from 203-millimeter SAU 2C7М "Malka" was carried out for the first time after rearming the compound on this self-propelled artillery installation.
The great interest in the news arose due to the fact that the term "latest" was used in news agencies in the material about the SPG 2С7М "Malka". I would like to hope that in this way, in terms of information, we will not reach the level of one of the neighboring states, where a similar term is used every time after painting Soviet military equipment with fresh paint ...
And "Malka" ... And what about "Malka"? Its caliber and the modernization carried out by the troops in any case will not be superfluous. In the end, not any Mistrals, for the story with which Hollande and Egypt seem to have more thanks, I must say ...
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AID.S
Poroshenko exposed the main corrupt official of the planet
Petro Poroshenko insulted Barack Obama and accused the State Department of corruption during a speech at the summit on nuclear disarmament, according to commentator Ostap Samoyed in the April Fool's news program.
After telling in Washington about the martyr Savchenko, the civil war in Ukraine and trying to develop the plaintive theme “Give money”, Pan Poroshenko came across the cold reaction of the hall. The speaker could not tolerate this and moved on to the oratory plan "B".
Kiev politician accused Washington of insufficient participation in the fate of long-suffering Ukraine. According to the Ukrainian guarantor, it is high time to resolve the issue of the supply of deadly weapons for the Armed Forces of Ukraine. What prevents the US senate from doing this? Pan Poroshenko knows the answer. Corruption in the highest authorities of the United States, including the Pentagon, is stopping it! Officials are plundering the US budget allocated to Ukraine — this is why Kiev cannot wait for help.
It was not all; Poroshenko in store and the third part of the speech.
Petr Alekseevich solemnly announced that the Obama administration was mired in corruption, and this is the fault of the president personally. The White House has unleashed a war in Ukraine, and now it washes its hands.
In the final speech Poroshenko appealed to the world community. It (the international community) should not ignore such violations of international law and crimes against humanity. It is Obama who is to blame for the plight of Ukraine, the Ukrainian president decided.
To some extent, add to this, Poroshenko’s correctness should be recognized. In fact, he renounced his previous theses on the coming offensive of the "forty-thousand-strong army of Putin" to Ukraine. Moreover, Putin did not unleash a war on a separate war - no, this is the work of Obama, a peacemaker who has his hands stained with blood.
What to do with the aggressor Obama? To The Hague, under the tribunal!
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Dym71
iouris
Slap in public taste
6 April in the Netherlands held a referendum in which voters had to answer the question of whether they are ready to support the ratification of the association agreement between Ukraine and the EU.
As a result of the calculation of one hundred percent of the ballots, it became clear: the majority of those who voted opposed the association. In addition, the initiators of the plebiscite clearly demonstrated what direct democracy is.
True, the referendum is “consultative”: its results can be discussed by the Government of the Netherlands, but not binding for implementation. At the same time, it should be noted that both the government of this country and the supranational political elite in Brussels found themselves in a difficult situation: after all, going against the will of the Dutch people means naturally attacking the principles of democracy.
It can be assumed that the government and the parliament of the Netherlands will nevertheless go against Europe, since it is not their hands to spoil relations with voters. Recall that in a year parliamentary elections will be held in the country, and the attitudes of Euro-skepticism are very popular.
However, no matter how it happened, the results of the vote, sad for Kiev, are unlikely to become an obstacle to the "wedding" of Ukraine with the European Union. In fact, the matter has already gone much further engagement. Yes, the government of the Netherlands is obliged to discuss the results of the referendum and make a decision (to offer the parliament either to leave the association agreement in force or to refuse to ratify), and the parliament can agree with the will of the majority. However, the previously adopted association agreement will still be implemented in terms of the establishment of a free trade zone (FTA), which falls under the supranational competence of Brussels. Therefore, Mr. Poroshenko, who promised his people accession to the EU for the 2020 year, still has something to cling to. The will of the recalcitrant Dutch, very inconvenient for Kiev, he could declare as the intrigues of Putin, who "intimidated" free Europe.
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Red_Hamer
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tracer
On the different sides of the barricades
The fact that nations can feel themselves “on opposite sides of the barricades” with the rulers is not news, this was also explained by Comrade popularly. Marx. The latest scandal, received in the press by the name "Panama Papers", fully shows how the powerful of this world laugh at the laws that they force citizens to obey. The rules and regulations addressed to the "subjects" do not apply to the establishment, emphasizes the Western press. And if so, the journalists with anger say: the top of society is rotten.
In the editorial article of the British newspaper The Guardian, it is noted that the latest scandal concerning the materials from the safes of the law firm Mossack Fonseca includes "thousands of companies, millions of documents and terabytes of data." Secrets spread from Reykjavik to Kiev, from Islamabad to Baghdad.
Each of the scandalous stories is important in itself, writes the publication. However, there is a general meaning - “the most important”. The Guardian makes the following conclusion: the usual rules do not apply to the world elite. It seems that taxes are something that falls on the shoulders of "little people", but does not at all concern the political elite.
And it is especially dangerous today, when the authorities demand from citizens to tighten their belts in the name of fighting the “financial crisis”. Ordinary citizens seem to be obliged to "make sacrifices in the name of austerity." The world learned the truth: politicians "conveniently" evade taxes when the state treasury is empty.
The “Panama Papers” scandal is growing, the names of one politician or another politician or their relatives and friends flash in the western press. They are indignant in Europe and the USA and the porous offshore activities of Mr. Poroshenko, who with his chocolate machinations spat in the face not only of the West, but also of his people, for whose good he promised to bake before the elections.
Against this background, other politicians' scams are beginning to be exposed - such as the Saudi’s millionth "charity" addressed to US Senator McCain, a well-known fighter for human rights.
It turns out that the McCain Institute for International Leadership (The McCain Institute for International Leadership), which is managed by a “close ally of McCain”, collecting money for the senator, received 1 a million dollars in donations from ... the Saudi government. Such a “donation” with the participation of Saudi Arabia to the fund of the political campaign of McCain would be simply illegal, so a million were turned over through the Institute under the guise of “charity.
This is very surprising to the American press: McCain, whose task is to take care of human rights, accepts dollars from Saudi Arabia! Indeed, in this monarchy everyone is oppressed: women, gays, Christians, political opponents ...
The largest Western publications are asking themselves a philosophical question: if today political elites almost violate the laws they are forced to follow by citizens, what will happen tomorrow?
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"We are not interested"
US Deputy Secretary General Tom Shannon said that the United States is "concerned about Russia's plans to cooperate with Iran on sales of Su-30 and S-300 SAM systems." According to Shannon, Russia does not have the right to supply Tehran with such weapons without the appropriate permission of the UN Security Council.
RIA “Novosti” quotes Mr. Shannon’s statement: “Obviously, we are not interested in Iran’s having advanced fighters or ground complexes. We will try to oppose any systems that can be used by Iran for offensive purposes, by any means available to us. ”
It seems that strategists from Washington are preparing to present a diagram of how Iran is going to use C-300 "for offensive purposes", while American bombers will defend in the air.
By the way, the Foreign Ministry commented on the statement by the representative of the US State Department. According to the press service of the Russian diplomatic department, statements by the United States that they would veto the supply of Su-30CM and C-300 to Tehran are meaningless, since Moscow did not submit the relevant applications to the UN Security Council due to the fact that Iranian relations have already been dropped.
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gergi
Voha_krim
Zoldat_A
And all palm oil and glutamate are to blame! Shannon needs to abandon McDonald's ... You see, the fighters will cease to be shock, and the C-300 - offensive.
Although, if desired, both the stool and the shovel - offensive weapons ...
Not so devil as he is painted
The upcoming world debut of the F-35 aircraft at the air show in Britain is part of the US deterrence strategy, said US Air Force commander Frank Gorentz.
He stressed that "a demonstration of F-35 at an air show will demonstrate to the American allies the readiness and ability of the United States to resist the opponents." According to the general, the aircraft "will in itself allow an increase in the level of deterrence."
Commenting on this statement, “Business Insider” writes: “The US Air Force General counts on the fact that only the appearance of two F-35А and two F-35В at an air show in the UK will allow to contain the rising Russia.”
"Rising Russia" does not need to restrain, General. And, all the more, there is no need to raise the “level of deterrence”. Try better to contain the terrorists of the “Islamic State” in Syria with the help of your praised planes. Russia managed not only to hold back, but also to drive them right up to the Turkish border itself. Or is your place, gentlemen Americans, only in salons?
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lelikas
_Vladislav_
Because the hedgehog is clear that deterrence, if it is achieved, then occurs by the complex use of various types of military equipment. And not one plane.
Russia's superiority in the air is achieved not only by airplanes, but also, in fact, air defense — the C-400, for example. Modern Russian air defense far ahead of the capabilities of any advanced fighter. VKS RF - a combination of air defense and air forces, electronic warfare, etc. It is impossible to resist such a combination with only one F-35. And the general, in principle, should have understood this.
I repeat, provided that even if the plane is very good, its capabilities are not enough. F-35 cannot destroy a target without being destroyed.
Trillions on bombs and rockets
According to data released by the Stockholm Peace Research Institute (SIPRI), in 2015, military spending in the world amounted to almost 1,7 trillion. Analysts noted an increase in spending from 2014 to 1% in real terms. According to experts, this is the first increase in military spending since 2011.
Leading on the "defense" spending, as before, the United States. A large increase in expenses was recorded in Russia, China, and Saudi Arabia. The arms race on the planet is gaining momentum.
By stuffing their arsenals with more and more powerful deadly weapons, politicians are bringing the world to a catastrophe. The financing of the military-industrial complex and wars all over the world, in which, of course, the United States leads, has led to an increase in unprecedented terrorism in the Middle East and North Africa and to chaos in these regions.
More weapons? More wars? Come on, gentlemen capitalists! Hoping to survive nuclear fire?
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Games behind the scenes
In the foreign press leaked information about the "devaluation of the dollar." The decision about this was supposedly taken by the powerful, including Janet Yellen, Jacob Liu, Christine Lagarde, persons from the Japanese and Chinese Central Banks. True, the plan has not been fully implemented. The Daily Reckoning writes about a “secret deal,” which was concluded at the end of February 2016 in Shanghai, and then partially implemented in March.
Another meeting of the powerful is scheduled for 16 on April 2016. It will be held on the sidelines of the spring meeting of the IMF in Washington, DC, according to James G. Rickards, an American lawyer, economist and investment banker with 35-year experience on Wall Street.
It is difficult to judge whether there was a “conspiracy” in reality, or whether we are dealing with assumptions, and even conspiracy. Probably, after April 16 something may become clear.
In any case, the fall of the US currency on 30%, about which Rickards also writes, will certainly not go unnoticed. And it is unlikely that the Japanese would like this “inflexible” change in course, which already has a hard time due to political friction and competition with China. The Chinese who live on exports, like the Japanese, also hardly need a strong weakening of the dollar. This is the weakening of one’s own currency; not so long ago, the Chinese government showed that it was ready for it.
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PHANTOM-AS
These spells are constantly heard from the Assistant First Deputy Prime Minister of Russia, Egor Gaidar. In 1993 — 1994 — Ulyukaeva.
And characteristically, many are conducted on these nonsense currency speculators!
No one, except currency speculators and traders of domestic resources, has benefited the devaluation of the ruble, since the level of localization of domestic industry and agriculture is 25-30%.
But for the purchase of state assets, the collapse of the ruble looks clearly planned.
The devaluation hurt only the population.
Shl. As for Matrasia, inflation there is scanty, they protect their market and population from economic shocks, as well as from “export” raccoons. Not for that, the Union was destroyed, turning it into a bottomless market for green paper, so that now suddenly something is in trouble with the buck.
Zoldat_A
Strange: the United States for some reason does not suffer from this ... They sell dollars and live well for themselves ... I understand that the world does not want to live in rubles the way it lives on dollars. And if it will be impossible in Russia to buy dollars in a cube of gas or a liter of oil? Then Merkel will be the first to queue for rubles ...
More gold, less dollars
According to the World Gold Council for March 2016 of the year, which Gazeta.ru reports, the USA has the largest reserves of monetary gold - they own 8,134 thousand tons. In second place is Germany (3,381 th. Tons). The third place is occupied by the International Monetary Fund with 2,814 thousand tons. Italy and France have 2,452 thousand and 2,436 thousand tons, respectively. They are followed by China (1,779 thousand tons), Russia (1,436 thousand tons) and Switzerland (1,040 thousand tons). On this list of those who own a thousand or more tons of gold ends.
Russia, whose gold reserves were plundered in the Yeltsin era, is now buying a lot of gold abroad, and has also become the world's second gold mining country (after China). The 100% purchase of domestic gold, notes economist F. Engdal, significantly supports the mining industry. Not only Russia and China, but also Kazakhstan are betting on gold.
The share of gold reserves in gold reserves of Russia starts to play a more significant role than the currency component. This is evidenced by the model, built on the basis of data of the Central Bank of Russia, said the portal «Financial One».
Buying gold in large volumes, the Central Bank can much more quickly increase reserves to the designated comfortable level of 500 billion dollars, however, under one condition: the precious metal will continue to go up. Analysts also remind that at the beginning of this year a historical event occurred for the Russian economy: the country's gold and foreign exchange reserves began to correlate less with the US dollar, while their correlation with the price of gold significantly increased. This is due to the relevant policy of the Central Bank of the Russian Federation to increase reserves at the expense of gold. As a result, the share of the latter in the gold reserves begins to play a more significant role than the currency component.
There are also critics of the purchase of gold, notes Russian Business Journal. Opponents are reminded of the relatively low liquidity of this precious metal: after all, the sale involves the need to move a significant cargo. In addition, the speculators will notice the preparation of the deal for the sale of a large batch of gold and will hasten to derail prices. As a result, the transaction will not be so profitable.
The instability of gold prices is also mentioned separately: since 2011, the prices for this metal have decreased by more than a third. True, the long-term trend shows that gold prices have more than quadrupled since the beginning of 2000.
By the way, in anticipation of the devaluation of the dollar, which some Western economists predict, building up gold in place of gold instead of dollars also looks like a reasonable decision.
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Jarilo
For decades, gold has not changed in terms of its purchasing power, unlike currencies that are subject to inflation, and in the conditions of stumbling printing presses, this is probably the best way out.
ruAlex
Altona
* “I will tell you one clever thing! Only do not be offended! ”- - phrase from the movie“ Mimino ”
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