NEWEST DEVELOPMENTS
1)Пушилин: проведению очередной минской встречи мешает позиция Киева.
Pushilin: The position of Kiev prevents the next meeting in Minsk.
http://ria.ru/world/20150407/1057163157.html
2)МИД Украины: представителей Киева не будет на юбилее Победы в Москве.
Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine: Kiev representatives will not be on the anniversary of the Victory in Moscow.
http://ria.ru/world/20150407/1057157178.html
3)Фильм “Крым. Путь на родину” будет представлен в Каннах.
The film “Crimea. Way home” will be presented in Cannes.
http://ria.ru/culture/20150407/1057148346.html
4)Пианистку “выгнали” в Канаде из оркестра за посты против Киева.
Pianist was”kicked out” of the orchestra in Canada for posts against Kiev.
http://ria.ru/world/20150407/1057047958.html
5)Посол Евросоюза в России: мы не пойдем умирать за Украину
EU Ambassador: we’re not going to die for Ukraine.
http://ria.ru/world/20150407/1057069155.html
6)Премьер Чехии назвал реакцию Земана на критику посла США неадекватной.
Czech Prime Minister called the reaction of Zeman to the criticism of the US Ambassador inadequate.
http://ria.ru/world/20150406/1056958216.html
7)Мари Харф повторила слова посла США, оскорбившие чешского президента.
Marie Harf repeated the words of US ambassador to insult the Czech president.
http://ria.ru/world/20150406/1057006317.html
8)Лех Валенса допустил возможность распада России на несколько государств.
Lech Walesa pointed at the possibility of the collapse of Russia into several states
http://top.rbc.ru/politics/07/04/2015/5523c9749a7947e41194f58f
9)Обаму попросили вывести из-под санкций интернет-сервисы в Крыму
Obama was asked to withdraw the sanctions from internet services in the Crimea
http://top.rbc.ru/technology_and_media/07/04/2015/5523aed79a7947d830987fb8
10)Киев начал конституционную реформу вопреки возражениям ДНР и ЛНР
Kiev began the constitutional reform over the objections of the DPR and LPR
http://top.rbc.ru/politics/06/04/2015/552259309a794719edff02f8
11)President of Czech Republic Tells Washington, We are Not An American Protectorate
12)Tim Garton Ash: “Ukraine Is a Toxic Failure – But Let’s Blame Putin.”
http://russia-insider.com/en/tim-garton-ash-ukraine-toxic-failure-lets-blame-putin/5346
13)Why the West Doesn’t Care Whether Ukraine Pays Back Loans
http://russia-insider.com/en/why-west-doesnt-care-if-ukraine-pays-back-loans/5372
14)Over 25 World Leaders to Attend Moscow Victory Day Parade
http://russia-insider.com/en/confirmations-visit-moscow-ve-day-parade-received-25-leaders/5369
15)Official: Ukraine’s Far Right Leader Is Senior Defense Official, Right Sector Paramilitary Is Ukraine’s Special Assault Group
16)No Peace. Powerful Interests in Ukraine Have Vested Interest in War
http://russia-insider.com/en/road-peace-ukraine/5323
17)Rebel Leaders Ask Merkel, Hollande to Help End Kiev Blockade
http://russia-insider.com/en/eastern-ukraine-leaders-appeal-merkel-hollane-end-embargo/5333
18)Ukrainian journalist Kotsaba claimed that Stalinist repressions are returning to Ukraine.
19)Top MP calls for sanctions against Latvia over minister’s anti-Russian tweet
http://rt.com/politics/247357-russia-pushkov-latvia-rinkevics/
EVALUATION: The situation in Czech Republic is particularly interesting, as Milos Zeman is not really pro-russian, he is just trying to be objective. Although his surroundings and opposition and even czech people are against him and against his policy. and against Russia. The can even admit that they are afraid of Russia, so they are trying to show their attitude. Here are the pictures from Prague showing their protests. Unfortunately its not my pictures, but I can prove it was real, as I saw it on the streets:
These kinds of banners were on the streets before the elections. It says – STOP Russians
And this is the “finger” installed on river Vltava pointed to the Milos Zeman’s residence – Pražský Hrad
This is the place in Prague where previously stood the biggest monument to Stalin in Europe, but they destroyed it long time ago. Now there is a metronome as a symbol of changing. With the Ukrainian crisis they put Putin dressed in Stalin’s uniform:
A nice format,clear..easy to read and just enough of a clue to read on or not!
well done!!
http://i.iplsc.com/przedstawiciel-euromajdanu-deputowany-do-rady-najwyzszej-ukr/0003JTTNXY1BIKBW-C116-F4.jpg
One picture is worth more than a thousand words. Lech Walesa and Svoboda thug Tiahnybok.
Lech Walesa is a joke. His predictions are biased and based on Ukie fairy tales.
People in Poland generally ignore him. Last time, he ve got about 1 % of votes in presidential elections .
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polish_presidential_election,_2000
Lech Wałęsa – Christian Democracy of the 3rd Republic of Poland (ChD III RP) 252,499 1.4 %
You could call him Polish Nemtsov.
How could have he become such a joke?
lsammart
Become?
Walesa led the prototype for later color-coded revolutions (i.e. US funded regime change).
Walesa led the prototype for later color-coded revolutions (i.e. US funded regime change).
Israeli-American orchestrated regime change.
Just a few points regarding situation in Czech Republic: the pictures at the end of this rather useful SITREP are obviously not representing the public opinion here. The first one is a billboard with mr. Bursík, who is literally political death man still trying to catch someone interest. He was a well-known proponent of US radar and US interests here. He lost all his credibility and didn’t even make it into the parliament. The second picture, “the finger”, was a one-man show prepared by D.Černý. To be honest, he can be sometimes creative as an artist but he is also obsessed with fighting communism 25 years after collapse of Soviet Union:) He does think that Putin is evil communist and must be stopped…there is no need to comment further as he is a western fundamentalist:). The last one is again a “project” of several people (up to 10), mainly “edinoUkraina” activists. What these objects have in common is literally massive propagation by Czech MSM, however they do NOT represent the public opinion and are rather sophisticated shows for MSM which should let the “world” know that we are firmly standing with the “West”. Disgusting…
To overall atmosphere here in Czech Republic is mainly neutral and strongly opposing any military solution in Ukraine crisis. Despite the massive propaganda, people still side with peace.
I understand that you live here in Czech Republic, so you feel like the atmosphere is quite neutral, but I don’t agree with you at this point. I felt the pressure, and I’ve seen what’s happening in here. You must know about the strikes that czech people make all the time in the Old city square or near the Russian embassy and it’s all about russians and Ukraine.
Yes, these pictures I posted in the SITREP are pointing at some things like banners or statue of finger that are made by different people in attempt to oppose Milos Zeman and his “pro-russian” mood. but these things are highly supported by the czech population. The TOP 09 party won the elections, David Cerny is a very popular artist etc..
I would also like to pay your attention to this event. (I enclose the link from czech site and from russian)
http://medialeaks.ru/news/1811ms_czech
http://www.ceskenoviny.cz/zpravy/oslavam-17-listopadu-dominovaly-protesty-proti-zemanovi/1148080
http://www.praguepost.com/prague-news/42699-crowd-hurls-eggs-tomatoes-at-zeman
Czech people really don’t like Zeman just because he leads an open policy towards Russia. A lot of people gathered and booed him from the stage showing red cards. You can call that a public opinion.
Moreover, the fact that there were another presidents on the stage – presidents of Germany,Hungary, Poland and Slovakia, and czechs booed and threw eggs and tomatoes only at Milos Zeman, while he was not the only president who supported Russia at that time, shows that majority of people who stood there (and they were mostly students) have a poor knowledge in political situation.
So I think once something like that happened, you can’t call the atmosphere neutral anymore. Especially when people start to support such events. I can also provide a lot of examples of czech ignorance towards russians, but they are from my private life, so I decided to post something that would reflect the situation in general.
Regards,
Raskolnikova
You are wrong. Zeman has quite big support. You can’t judge Czech Republic only by Prague. TOP09 hasn’t won the elections. They have cca 12%. And the actions against Zeman are supported only by few retarded idiots (cca 12%).
Sorry, my bad. It’s ANO party, I made a mistake.
I can’t say numbers of people who support him, but I know personally that a lot of people don’t like him . It can be also proved by the fact that Zeman won the election in 2013 with 54%, while his opposition in the face of Karel Schwarzenberg (TOP 09) had 45%. It’s not a big difference actually. I don’t think that people started to support him during the last year more. Though, I would love to hear that
ANO in Czech means DA in Russian. Make the picture
NGO FUNDING GOES A LONG WAY…
NGO FUNDING GOES A LONG WAY…
So does zionazi media control, unfortunately.
The Sitrep will assist us all in quickly staying informed. Thank you and the commentary was helpful because it makes the insult of the US ambassador even more egregious since Zeman is actually neutral if not friendly to the US—he just is not going to be treated rudely. Way to make friends and influence people! Go team Psaki!
One short article I read pointed out that the US ambassador who was rebuffed by President Zeman is a former “great fund raiser” and “bundler,” so one may assume that he is not a career diplomat. And obviously he doesn’t even have common-sense good manners. He’s a stooge, and probably his real job there is to “cause trouble” whenever the time comes. The evil afoot knows no bounds. I wouldn’t want him in my house, either.
CISPA resurrected now as CISA–
Today, the bill is back, largely unchanged, and if congressional insiders and the bill’s sponsors are to believed, the legislation could end up on President Obama’s desk as soon as this month. In another boon to the legislation, Obama is expected to reverse his past opposition and sign it, albeit in an amended and renamed form (CISPA is now CISA, the “Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act”). The reversal comes in the wake of high-profile hacks on JPMorgan Chase and Sony Pictures Entertainment. The bill has also benefitted greatly from lobbying by big business,
which sees it as a way to cut costs and to shift some anti-hacking defenses onto the government.
https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/04/01/nsa-corporate-america-push-broad-cyber-surveillance-legislation/
http://www.dw.de/port-of-thessalonki-up-for-grabs/av-18365113
3 minute clip
clip says it’s actually legally a FTZ, not subject to EU strongarm ‘rules’
Port of Thessalonki up for grabs?
Greek import and export trade has dried up at the Port of Thessaloniki, although it’s still doing a roaring business as a hub for Balkan countries. The Syriza Party and business leaders are supporting a bid by Russian state-owned railways to take over the port authority despite Brussels’ misgivings.
Only 1 small step from this to declaring all Greek bills/loans run up since GS criminally cooked the books to get Greece in, to be null & void, or just “paid in full”.
Unt they can then go after for war crimes….the Brits!
for when starting Nov/1944 after the vacuum created when the germans pulled out to move their troops elsewhere, they moved in & did some aerial bombing & strafing for many months.
Greece puts a price tag on WW2 reparations: 279 billion euros
Athens has said Germany should pay nearly 279 billion euros in compensation for the Nazi occupation of the country. The claim comes as Greece faces demands from the IMF to introduce more pension cuts and raise taxes.
http://www.dw.de/greece-puts-a-price-tag-on-ww2-reparations-279-billion-euros/a-18364143
President of Czech Republic Tells Washington, We are Not An American Protectorate
Nonsense…
We are all the American vassals.
You could possibly speak for yourself.You definitely do NOT speak for me with your Am.vassal talk. expletive Off.
I can understand if the comment was sarcasm; and I’m likewise one US Woman who feels the urge to Wholehearted Applause for Mr. Zeman!!!! I’d send flowers to the Pres. Palace if I could, or knew how to do so. Really… it’s the way I felt this morning, when I’d read the entire, sickening story of yet another “Ambassador.”
@ USA Elder Woman,
My [step] dad once told me, “Back in the day, we were greeted as liberators when we landed on the beaches of France. They gave us wine, sometimes even their daughters. Now, they lock their doors and would hurl empty bottle as us… and I can’t blame them.”
You simply can’t argue with facts.
Very sad, actually.
Basically,every country West of ancient Rus (minus Serbia,Greece,and Cyprus,and that because of history and religion),is anti-Russian in one way or the other.Russia just needs to understand that and move on.The MSM being controlled by anti-Russian elements has brainwashed the majority.Certainly there are people like us that haven’t been brainwashed or bought in every one of those countries (and numbers are growing).But we are still the vast minority.Again,Russia should never count on those countries for support.They are fooling themselves if they do.Russia should concentrate on dealing with those countries that are anti-Western.Because of suffering under Western domination in the past.They are harder to brainwash and not inclined to buy Western propaganda wholesale.Russia should act as if those countries in the West didn’t even exist.Just imagine they weren’t on the globe at all.Russians should just live their lives not even considering them. Psychologically it would relief a lot of stress that way.Without the West 3/4 of the World’s population and countries are there to trade with and visit.That should be more than enough.
“hear,hear” !
such an insightful truth spoken !!
I just read
http://fortruss.blogspot.com/2015/04/why-putin-didnt-just-pull-saudi-arabia.html
Why Putin didn’t just pull a “Saudi Arabia” in Ukraine
April 7, 2015
Rostislav Ishchenko for Cont
Translated by Kristina Rus
The Weapon of Retribution
In the past year, an increasing number of Russians support the disputed opinion that Russia should have spit on the world and quickly occupied Ukraine in March 2014. […]
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While I don’t disagree that attacking and moving troops into Ukraine would have been a bad thing to do, I find the tone of the article more what I would expect from a fifth columnist trying to convince people that Russia is weak and could be easily collapsed — and should maybe just give up to the empire now before more sanctions are put on and Russians are doomed to a decade of poverty.
I’m not buying it. Of course trying to occupy Ukraine would be expensive, and in many ways counterproductive, but I don’t think that Russia could not do it if it chose to — just that it should not.
I don’t think that using military force in one place dooms Russia to doing it everywhere. Why would it try to go to Angola or some such place? It has plenty of power within it’s own region, and no particular need or desire to ‘occupy the world’.
And I don’t think Russia could not just hit and take out the fascists in Kiev and come right back home, leaving the cleanup to the Ukrainians, who would have an easier time rebuilding the country from scratch without the fascists than with them. Not pretty, maybe, but certainly possible.
I see Russia’s decisions regarding Ukraine as the result of broad strategy and its desire for a positive outcome for the parties involved, not as being forced by being in a position of weakness.
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I see a number of articles by him at Fortruss, but…
http://www.zoominfo.com/p/Rostislav-Ishchenko/-1996852965
Rostislav Ishchenko, head of the Center for Systems Analysis and Forecasting, a Ukrainian think tank …
(Local Address: Kiev, Ukraine)
I have to wonder what the agenda is here, or where his thinking may be.
“Kiev began the constitutional reform over the objections of the DPR and LPR”
http://top.rbc.ru/politics/06/04/2015/552259309a794719edff02f8
Well that is a total non-starter then.If they won’t include Donbass in the talks that just shows,once again,the junta isn’t interested in a negotiated settlement.The only thing they understand is war.So,so be it.
Thanks this is much better and the muted blue is easier to see. Thanks to everyone that makes this a great site.
Much much easier on the eye, and much easier to take what i want from it.
Good
I do think that Russia, Belarus, kazakhistan and greece should all leave and quit the WTO. Alll of them enter a big project of import substitution… with a common platform of exceptions on their own products valid for 15 years.
And that russia should stop giving a lift for americans in their space missions, once and for all.
“R”
Just one minor request. Could you next time expand your summary for each link a little more to include some more info from the link. In your summary of:
Czech Prime Minister called the reaction of Zeman to the criticism of the US Ambassador inadequate.
I initially understood that to mean that the Cz PM thought Zeman was being too soft on the American ambassador, not the opposite, that the PM was a grovelling Israeli-American quisling who wanted Zeman to wear kneepads and service “massa” as the PM does. Had there been a little more info presented in the summary, I wouldn’t have gotten that initial mistaken impression.
That’s not a problem!
Thank you for your request.
And thanks for the sitrep. :)
Could you next time expand your summary for each link a little more to include some more info from the link. In your summary of:
Totally agree, some of your links I was unable to read in Russian and I only have internet on iPhone and know idea how to translate it easily.
Q9 Who asked Obama? And what did he say?
Otherwise I have know problems, keep up the good work.
@Rasnalnikova:
Thanks for this – really well done.
I posted this on another thread, but in case you missed it, am reposting here:
http://russia-insider.com/en/czechoslovak-
reservists-facebook-group-issue-
memorandum-against-nato-planned-
war/5316
It looks as if there is a growing momentum against US presence after all..
Q; Now there is a metronome as a symbol of changing.
R; That’s odd. My metronome is all about timing…
Thanks for the set of links. I appreciate all that Saker does via the blog and analysis. The sitrep format is great! I survey the links everyday. It is a good one-stop for keeping up with all the important news as it break. Thank you!
Keep up the good work.
@ Raskolnikova, other contributors and mods,
A BIG thank you for trying to do the right thing. Very much appreciated.
About Zeman, it always restores my faith in society when there are politicians who are not willing to trade their intelligence and honor for a more convenient political career :-)
I found this report from ACHUTNGPARTIZANEN
However for those who can read Russian would be more valuable.
unfortunately the source of the story is NOT included in the story which is material to understanding it in full.
if you can read and search russian and german then please help here. Quite a revelation from the UN if it can be shown to be true and translate the german papers article into english to lnk with the Russian language report.
There are other links about the UN report also in the story.
The quoted german paper is Deutsche Wirtschafts Nachrichten, below:
in english:
German newspaper: “Russia is doing everything, to complete the Minsk agreement.”
Немецкая газета: «Россия делает все, чтобы реализовались Минские соглашения«.
Русская сторона, делает все возможное и невозможное для мирного решения вооруженного конфликта на Донбассе, публикует на своих страницах немецкое издание «Deutsche Wirtschafts Nachrichten«.
http://achutngpartizanen.ru/nemeckaya-gazeta-rossiya-delaet-vse-ch toby-realizovalis-minskie-soglasheniya/?_utl_t=vk
Most of Czechs (especially not from Prague) are pro-russian. But there is a really massive anti-russian propaganda in Czech Republic. And there is a massive 5th column of “chosen ones”.
Russia is too weak and can’t prevail.
here from far away latin America, I can understand the to a certain extent rooted fear of Russia shown in general by Czechs, Romanians, poles and eastern euro peope … Might even be an under skinny feeling, turbodriven by the presstitute Msm.
But it is a mistake: the planet keeps rotating like mad and so does history.
But all of you, easterners please awake, before it gets too late! Cause this time lag will have a heavy cost for all of you, day dreamers from the Baltic to the Black Sea. Let alone the ukraynians! Simply because the west will plunge into depression, police states and banksterism and the opposite with russia, central asia and Peking.
“Pianist was”kicked out” of the orchestra in Canada for posts against Kiev.”
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That monstrous case is by no means unique. In recent years, we, Canadians, have witnessed far too many such embarrassing initiatives being taken in our name, both at home and abroad, alas!
That is because under the current fanatical right-wing Harper Regime this country, Canada, is not anymore even the shadow of the country it once was, and was known as being, throughout the world, e.g. under Prime Ministers such as Nobel Peace Prize laureate Lester B. Pearson, Pierre Elliott Trudeau, etc. That is why so many prominent state representatives have let it be known publicly that they “could no longer recognize that decent country, Canada”, that they once knew.
We, Canadians, have of course the full responsibility to make sure that our country soon returns to being the tolerant, generous, peace-loving and peace-keeping country it still proudly was, not so long ago, refusing consistently and repeatedly, then, to walk blindly in the footsteps of the Empire. No wonder; that was when we did appreciate and enjoy so much being greeted and welcomed most warmly in every part of the world, often followed by young Americans who, walking in our footsteps, thought it appropriate to carry rucksacks with large Canadian flags on them…
Here is a sign that there is still hope, though, that we may, one day, succeed at being once again the people we once were. That Harper Regime never had more than 24% of registered Canadian voters voting for it; that includes fraudulent votes! In other words, a full 76% of registered Canadian voters never voted for said Regime. That says there is hope Canada’s “democracy of sort” may one day be restored. It may even become true democracy, at last, who knows?
Meanwhile, please bear with us. We too live in difficult times.
— Louis Robert
Putin statue over Prague. How funny – straight from NATO psyops lab I guess. It’s just whole lot of money from EU-NATO-Anglo-Zion funds spend to paint ocean sand-yellow just to make all submarines here feeling awkward. And it doesn’t work well too.