Blog, Community News and Announcements
Dear friends, This beautiful Saker Community promotional video was made by Fedor. I hope that you will enjoy it. Please circulate it. Kind regards, The Saker Other languages: Français : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Q1pXdfU3rI Italiano : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQoeLQ5WCCM Pусский : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=65NtFXiPFfs Português : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uxmEXkmK7yY Cрпски : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4tEkm3eL2s8 Español : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zAa3oywJGs8 čeština : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GaA-r2z0GOI
Dear friends, Jeff J. Brown, whom I interviewed here and who contributed this to the blog, has agreed to write a monthly contribution to this blog. I have high hopes for this as I believe that his “view from China” will be an ideal complement to what Andrew Korybko writes from Moscow and what I write from the USA. We need to things: a) a nice title to his column,
Dear friends, A couple of things I wanted to share with you Tons of thanks for your letters! First, I want to begin by thanking all those who wrote to me by snail mail – thank you for the donations, of course, but also thank you for your very kind letters and words of support. Here are the initials of those whom I want to thank: NS, ЕБ, PTT, TE,
When the Serbian Saker Team Leader emailed me last Sunday to let me know that the new Serbian Saker Blog was ready, I did not realize that it was on the day when the Church commemorates Saints Cyril and Methodius, who laid the basis for the contemporary Cyrillic script used by 252 million people in Eurasia. By the prayers of Saint Cyril and Methodius, may the new Serbian Saker blog
Dear friends, Today I will begin with some very good news indeed. New Serbian Saker blog A new Serbian Saker blog has been added to our community. You can find it here: http://stepskisoko.rs/ The new Serbian Saker Blog Team can be reached at: info [at] stepskisoko dot com After all the two previous false starts, I hope that the “third time’s the charm” and I wish the Serbian Team all
George Eliason is a US reporter who lives and reports from the Ukraine. Here are some examples of the articles he wrote: http://www.opednews.com/articles/Ukraine-Reigniting-Genocid-by-George-Eliason-America_Atrocities_Blood_Genocide-140213-978.html http://www.opednews.com/articles/Is-the-Rebellion-in-Ukrain-by-George-Eliason-FOIA_NGOs_Nationalism_Nazis-140226-139.html http://www.opednews.com/articles/The-Nazis-Even-Hitler-was-by-George-Eliason-Exile_Genocide_Hitler-Brownshirts_Hitler-Youth-140316-321.html http://www.opednews.com/articles/Kiev-s-War-Against-the-Pea-by-George-Eliason-Ukraine-140414-779.html George badly needs a new camera and he has launched a crowdfunding campaign to get one. He posted his appeal for support on this page: https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/donbass-war-journalism-and-humanitarian-aid Here is the full text of it: Put yourself in the seat with us as we document the
Dear friends, Couple of blog news items today: New Weekly Column from Russia: First, I am absolutely delighted to announce that Andrew Korybko (whose articles you have seen recently on the blog) has accepted to write a weekly column for the blog. Here is a short bio of Andrew: Andrew Korybko was born, raised, and educated in the US, but permanently relocated to Russia in the summer of 2013. He
Avatar On Monday I removed the ‘avatar’ feature from thesake.is web site. This was done for security reasons. The commentators that choose to have a custom ‘avatar’ are required to register their email address with Gravatar. Gravatar encrypts the provided email address, uses the encrypted data to provide the same ‘avatar’ to whatever other Gravator supported site the commentator visits on the web. The end result is that the
Good news!! The Saker blog will now have an existence on the social media, specifically on Facebook and on Twitter. In the near future, we also have plans for a presence on VKontakte (the Russian Facebook). I personally do not have the time or inclination to deal with the social media, but others have done so on my behalf in the past, and there are a few “Saker” pages in
Hello Our channel was illegal deleted by Youtube. Our new channel is https://www.youtube.com/user/crimeanfront Help disseminate our uppeal, please: WARNING: SOUTH FRONT YOUTUBE CHANNEL WAS DELETED YouTube has deleted South Front channel youtube.com/c/southfronttoday. The official reason is for copyright violating in the our old video “Stand with Ukraine” (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pFR7IhlDhqo) because of the claim of Nordic Films LTD. This company makes video propaganda for NATO. BUT FEW MONTH AGO YOUTUBE ALREADY DELETED “Stand with
Dear friends, Christ is Risen! The last couple of weeks have brought us a mixed bag of news: some good, some bad and some outright ugly. Let’s begin with the good stuff: Dagmar Henn safely back from Novorussia Our Saker Community representative – Dagmar Henn – has safely returned form her trip to Novorussia and she has already begun writing her travel reports (for the first one please click here).
Dear friends, I have plenty of things to report to you today, and a few things I would ask you to help me with. Blog news: For the next few days, the blog will go into “minimal” mode and barring some kind of major development, I don’t intend to post much. For Orthodox Christians this week is Passion Week, Sunday will be Holy Paskha (“Easter” in western parlance) and next
Dear friends, The survey is now closed and I am happy to report that 1’067 of you have replied to the questions. What I want to do today is to post all the results question by question along with my evaluation of the results. But first I want to thank you for participating in this survey which is extremely important and interesting for me. Some of the results have surprised
Dear friends, Lots of things to report today. First, we have a new webmaster! His name is “HSC” and you can write to him directly at: saker-webmaster@yandex.com if you have any comments or suggestions. Second, I have selected three outstanding candidates to become by research assistants. Though we still have to organize it all, and I definitely want their inputs on that, I think that they will work together really
Dear friends, I wish every day had 36 or 48 hours. Alas, my days are limited by a puny 24 hours into which I have to squeeze everything, I am failing at that. So I decided to try to ask for your help with the hope that sombody might be interested in doing research for me. Here is the kind of person and skill set I am looking for: I
Dear friends, I have decided to ask for your opinion about this blog and about its future. I cannot promise that I will always follow the majority opinion, but I will try to do my best to address the issues raised. Please take the time to fill this survey and let me know what you think. Many thanks and kind regards, The Saker Click here to take the survey: http://saker1234saker.polldaddy.com/s/future-of-blog-survey
Dear friends, I am happy to announce that a new webmaster has been chosen. This is ‘HCS’ who will now be in charge of webmastering for all the Saker blogs. HCS is not new to our community as he had already participated in the efforts to salvage a lot of the data which had been lost as the result of the problems which happened this winter, and he has participated
Dear friends, It is with great regret that I have to announce to you that my webmaster Gevorg has decided to resign from his position. He has asked me to inform you that no more donations should be collected for him and that enough has been sent. I am personally very saddened by his departure and I want to express to him my deepest gratitude for the fantastic job he
Dear friends, I just wanted to share a couple of things with you today. First, I wanted to mention that the folks are Vox Populi Evo have begun to share more videos subtitled in English with us, such as the two recent ones about Mozgovoi and Givi. Even better, then have agreed to subtitle in English a full-length interview of the famous Ukrainian author Oles Buzina about the history of
