1)Handelsblatt: Ukrainian recruits fleeing to the West and the East.
Corporations trying to “cover up” from the service their employees, giving the government false information. Prospers illegal business for those who avoids military service: doctors selling medical certificates, and travel agencies organize special routes for those who want to leave the country.The newspaper reminds that a few weeks ago a doctor from Chernovtsy was arrested, who made a falsification of the medical certificate with his signature for 3500 euros. At the moment only in Kiev to 95% of all potential recruits fled. More than half of young people from the West of Ukraine in recent months has left the country.
Handelsblatt: Украинские призывники бегут и на Запад, и на Восток
http://ukraina.ru/news/20150505/1012966714.html
2)Corrupt officials have up to 500% profit in a zone of armed conflict in the Donbass.
Ukraine, despite an official ban, leads a large scale trade with the Donetsk and Lugansk people’s republics. We are talking about multi-million dollar illegal commodity-money circulation. Kiva believes that the profits of smugglers can reach 500%. In this regard, he noted a significant increase in corruption in the Ukrainian roadblocks.
Коррупционеры имеют до 500% прибыли в зоне вооруженного конфликта в Донбассе
http://ukraina.ru/news/20150505/1012966031.html
3)The Polish Ambassador equalized crimes of “heroes of Ukraine” with the Armenian genocide.
The genocide of the Polish population in Western Ukraine during the Second world war and the Armenian genocide in the Ottoman Empire during the First world war are identical in nature and cruelty. This opinion was expressed at a press conference in Yerevan on may 4, by Polish Ambassador to Armenia, Jerzy Nowakowski, answering the question of correspondent EADaily about the attitude of Poland to the question of the official glorification of Ukraine soldiers of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UIA), which carried out ethnic cleansing in Western Ukraine during the Second world war.
“Poland is extremely critical of the fact that in Ukraine at the state level UIA announced to be heroes, they carried out the genocide of the Polish population in Volhynia during the Second world war. The negative attitude to this matter have been expressed by the President of Poland during his recent visit to Kiev, and also Polish press wrote a lot of articles blaming Polish authorities for insufficiently hard line on this issue,” said Nowakowski.
Посол Польши уравнял преступления «героев Украины» с геноцидом армян.
http://ukraina.ru/news/20150505/1012965001.html
4)Military events in NovoRussia for 4.05.2015
Сводка военных событий в Новороссии за 04.05.2015
http://cassad.net/category/war/1592-svodka-voennyh-sobytiy-v-novorossii-za-04052015.html
5)Military events in NovoRussia for 5.05.2015
Хроника военных событий в Новороссии за 05.05.2015
http://voicesevas.ru/news/yugo-vostok/13105-hronika-voennyh-sobytiy-v-novorossii-za-05052015.html
6)The Ministry of defence assesses the situation in the DPR as challenging and difficult.
The situation in the Donetsk People’s Republic remains complex and tense. This was stated today to journalists by the Deputy commander of the Ministry of Defence DPR Eduard Bacurin.According to him, from 40 attacks on the territory of the DPR security forces only fired 220 rounds (artillery, mortars, tanks, APCS, rocket-propelled grenades and small arms). The vast majority – mortars (141 shot).Losses among the personnel of the army DPR – one wounded.”Ukrainian security forces continue to employ heavy artillery, mostly in the evening, ignoring the Minsk agreements. However, the militia of DPR continues to exercise restraint by not reacting to provocation of punishers” — summed up Bacurin.
http://www.novorosinform.org/news/id/28128
7)Lyashko attacked “Russian” with a knife.
The infamous Deputy of the Verkhovna Rada, the leader of Radical party Oleg Lyashko again gave the Ukrainian press an occasion for laugh.In the video, posted on the popular video hosting Youtube, it can be seen that a politician with the big knife trying to cut the shield with the sticker “I am Russian and proud of it!”
According to the local media, It’s not worth trying to understand the motives of Lyashko, in parliamentary expensive suit trying to climb on a road sign.
Ляшко с ножом набросился на «русского»
http://novorossia.today/lyashko-s-nozhom-nabrosilsya-na-russkogo/
8)The self-revelation from Ukrainian TV (VIDEO)
Саморазоблачение от украинского ТВ (ВИДЕО)
http://novorossia.today/samorazoblachenie-ot-ukrainskogo-tv-video/
9)Ukraine has the worst economy in the world.
The British magazine the Economist (EIU) has compiled a disapproval rating of 15 of the worst economies in the world. First place went to Ukraine, showing a significant decline compared to other countries in crisis.
According to forecasts, Ukraine’s GDP will fall by more than 6% compared to 2014, Russia has put on 5-th place. Also the list included Brazil, Venezuela, Cyprus, Greece. And rank with the best results on the GDP growth rate should show Papua New Guinea, the Congo and Sri Lanka, according to analysts.
Украину назвали страной с худшей экономикой в мире
http://novorossia.today/ukrainu-nazvali-stranoj-s-hudshej-ekonomikoj-v-mire/
10)Putin: ‘Cynical Attempts to Whitewash Nazism, Militarism Unacceptable’
http://sputniknews.com/russia/20150505/1021719855.html
11)Austrian FM Urges Peaceful End to Ukraine Crisis
http://sputniknews.com/europe/20150505/1021727412.html
12)Russia to Work With EU Partners If Sanctions Not Extended – Lavrov
http://sputniknews.com/politics/20150505/1021724720.html
13)Russian Representative in Ukraine Contact Group to Arrive in Minsk May 6
http://sputniknews.com/politics/20150505/1021721180.html
14)Colossal Self-Importance: Right Sector Demands VIP Status in Ukraine’s Army
15)Fights In Donbass 05.05.2015
http://newrussia.press/military/fights-in-donbass-05-05-2015/
16)UN Confirms Ban Will Visit Moscow For Victory Day
http://newrussia.press/business/un-confirms-ban-will-visit-moscow-for-victory-day/
17)How the EU Association Agreement Makes Existing Ukraine-Russia Trade Links Impossible
18)Russia-Hating John McCain Disappointed that Germany Wants Cooperation with Moscow
19)Europeans Shockingly Ignorant of Red Army Role in WWII Victory
20)Nazis from battalion Azov with assault rifles killed poliсe officers in Kiev.
Regarding item #19, two months ago Saker published a most perceptive essay “Revanchism and russophobia: the dark undercurrents of the war in the Ukraine“. Right in the very beginning of it, Saker raised the following question:
“What I want to ask is this: Could it be that one of the key factors motivating the West’s apparently illogical and self-defeating desire to constantly confront Russia is simply revanchism for WWII?”
And there was a truly stunning reply submitted by Stavros H who, when addressing Saker’s question specifically, drew the following very astute conclusion:
“Is it fair to claim that the ‘collective western mind’ still holds a grudge against Russia for WWII???
My answer is this: ABSOLUTELY YES.
The Red Army’s victory over Euro-Fascism (it was not just Germany that was Nazi back then, it was actually most of Europe, even though the Germans were indeed the protagonists) between 1941 and 1945 fills the arrogant western consciousness with horror and dread. Out of the world’s bloody and brutal history, the Great Patriotic War stands head and shoulders above anything else. It is special not just in the very obvious military sense in that the battles were greater and bloodier than anything before or since, but also in the sense that a relatively poor and backward country that was in ruins just 10 years before, could take on the most sophisticated, most advanced and most brutally savage western army and defeat it. In a sense, WWII, is not just unnerving for westerners for what did happen during it, but also in the sense that what happened before, can happen again in the future for western imperial plans. WWII is also a source of great shame for Euro-cheerleaders. They love to present themselves as uniquely civilized and brilliant, but their conduct during WWII was more barbaric than darkest Africa.
The Anglo-powers are also deeply disturbed by WWII, for one extra reason. They full well realize that they could never have done what they Red Army did during 1941-5. They full well realize that they showed cowardice whenever it came to taking on the Nazis head on. They only attacked when they could massively outnumber the Germans on the ground, and crucially have total air superiority.
And this doesn’t have to do with percentages of the western populations. It’s a matter of degree. The point here being that the Soviet victory of World War II haunts the collective western psyche, so used to superiority and arrogance.”
Put bluntly, Nazi Germany was a dead serious attempt at emulating successful Anglo-American imperialism at the expense of the Slavic peoples. Sadly enough, Stalin’s USSR stopped that. As Stavros H pointed out, this has left an indelible mark on Western arrogance and pretensions ever since.
I guess it wasn’t just arrogance and Russia showing the west up, but that the fascists through Europe and in US were angry that they and their Nazi allies were defeated — ruined their plans. The idea that the west is anti-fascist and democratic is pushed, but in reality there has always been a strong fascist part to it, and it is now rising up again, so naturally they are upset with Russia, which opposes them.
Great comment. Thank you!!
All too true!
Before Cecil Rhodes died leaving a vast! fortune to the ’cause’
He,McKinder and Milner et al,launched the ‘heartland’ project.
The ‘Round table’ would oversee Imperial Britain achieve domination of central Europe,making the ‘world island’ bw-itish.
The US has taken over the same playbook.
Realising that modern innovations have outdated the 1900’s thinking, they have formed the Eurozone,on top of the EU,creating a Brussels hegemony subservient to the US Federal Reserve System.
The US controls Brussels politics….the Federal Reserve controls the ECB and by extension,all european banks and economies.
A huge aircraft carrier could sail though the gaps between think tank logic and reality.
But real people die for the hubris of the imperialists!
The plug is being pulled. This first article relates that the ruble is becoming the currency of choice in Donbass.
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-05-04/forget-tanks-it-s-russia-s-ruble-that-s-conquering-east-ukraine
This second piece describes the nationalization of the banks in DPR for the good of the people.
http://www.activistpost.com/2015/05/donetsk-republic-nationalizes-banks.html
Thanks for those links.
Very interesting to see some semblance of normality creeping back.
The writer in the Activist post is spot on,a successful bank nationalization will draw a lot of fire.
Ellen Brown over at the ‘Web of Debt’ blog is right on to this theme of national/state banks.
cheers.
It’s never simple, you guys…Here’s an interesting read to suggest:
Why Hitler Invaded USSR
http://www.wintersonnenwende.com/scriptorium/english/archives/articles/stalwarplans.html
Typical Anglo-American preposterous pseudo-intellectual blather, featuring the same old tired boring Stalin-Hitler hyperbole as always. Simply another bought-and-paid-for “analyst”. The comments in this thread that mock The Economist rag apply with equal vigour to this kind of “expertise”.
It’s truly mind-boggling how two-bit Westerners can remain spellbound by these utterly nonsensical claims to “science” by the ruling Western elites. One understands perfectly well the, shall we say, ‘refined amusement’ the Enlightened West and its alleged Information Society evoke in them.
I checked out Barnes Review a few years back and decided I should ignore it.
Interesting article.But it is totally open to interpretation.A few examples: If the agreement to the sphere’s of influence were not honored by Hitler.Then of course Stalin would distrust Hitler’s claims of peace with the USSR. As to wanting a war against Russia,Hitler for years made no secret of his desire to attack the USSR.And it is no secret that many in the West supported that.So if Stalin appears cynical for not being unhappy about Germany warring with the West and not attacking them.Who could blame him for that.As to Soviet plans for war with Germany.Everyone’s military in that era (and probably today as well),prepares possibilities for fighting wars with their potential enemies.So that the Soviets would make those plans prove only that they thought it important to be prepared.Also,long before then,” Hitler told one of his generals in June (1940) that the victories in Western Europe “finally freed his hands for his important real task: the showdown with Bolshevism”and “On 5 December 1940, Hitler received the final military plans for the invasion which the German High Command had been working on since July 1940 “.Stalin as the article says had a superb intelligence network.And was quite aware of Hitler’s general plan to attach the USSR. And the need to forestall him if possible.His mistake was sometimes not believing the urgency of the agent reports coming to him.So of course he was making plans to counter Hitler’s attack on the USSR and was caught before they could be completed.But that in no way is the same as saying as the article seems to that Hitler was a victim and “forced” to invade to “protect” himself from a Soviet invasion.That is just another in a long line of German,and later Western revisionist history.
(Sidenote: If the happenings in that era seems similar to NATO plans to attack Russia today.And to Putin trying to gain time and forestall it.That’s because it is.)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Barbarossa
Right. Poor Stalin didn’t act swiftly enough in implementing counter measures. Got it. ;)
Quote from the excellent Wintersonnenwende article:
“Apologists for the USSR, and they abound among historians and sociologists in democratic countries, excuse these Soviet land grabs as defensive measures.”
Exactly he didn’t (I’ll ignore the Russophobic thinking you seem to have.Or is it just pro-nazi?).
And I wasn’t talking about territories.Though if you remember “all” the territories he gathered were either previous Russian territory stolen in WW1 or ethnic “Rus” territory reclaimed from countries that mistreated the population there,and sometimes both.
Thanks to all for your replies.
I’m not “russophobic”. Never been. Quite the opposite.
The thing that you seem to have trouble accepting is that while Germany *technically* was the aggresor (we struck first), *strategically*, Soviet Russia was the aggressor; just like technically, Japan was the aggressor when they struck Pearl Harbour, while strategically the United States were the aggressor against Japan by demanding they desist having a sphere of influence at all. These two cases are stunningly parallel.
If the gigantic Soviet military build-up against Germany had been defensive in nature (fortifications, layered defense, etc – instead of unprotected forward deployments), how do you explain their abysmal collapse under German attack?
Face it: Soviet Russia’s actions from mid 1940 up to the June 22, 1941 cannot be explained in any other way than as preparations for an attack on Central Europe. And *not* a defense, no way. Because had they been preparing for defense, we’d have seen its results in the summer of ’41. What we did see was collapse of armed formations that were totally unprepared and even unequipped for defensive operations. What they had learned and were equipped to do was how to attack, to invade, to make swift inroads into enemy territory.
That’s what the Wehrmacht record says, what individual soldiers from both sides say, and what can be learnt from Viktor Suvorov’s “Icebreaker”.
Stalin gambled dangerously, and he lost. His plan was not the Elbe, but the Atlantic and Mediterranean coasts.
Hitler … I don’t know what he could have done. Wait for the Soviet attack?
“collective western mind”
What? There is no such thing. Do you mean anglomind?
“Collective Western mind” readily translates into “Sense among Europeans and North Americans of entitlement to other peoples’ natural resources and labour output”. Anglo-American imperialism provides the ideological framework in our epoch; hence a strong “anglomind” bias.
I think you are confusing “collective mind” (whatever that is) with published ideology, i.e. mass media, controlled by a few anglozionist corporations. And there is no such thing as “Western”, it’s just the name given to the anglozionist occupation zone. But hmm, maybe we don’t disagree, wrt sense of entitlement.
Not confusing anything whatsoever. The excellent wording chosen by Stavros H in response to Saker’s judicious question nails it superbly. Since you’ve got a bone to pick up with Stalin, I can understand your Western sensibilities have been hurt accordingly.
Look, what people in Europe actually think is not identical to what the anglozionist media would have them think. MSM is losing credibility more and more. But that doesn’t mean people would like to be “liberated” by Stalin. Or are you going to tell me that Stalin is popular in Finland? That Finns don’t have “a bone to pick” with him? I do not identify as “Western”, by the way – “Western”, that’s the liars in media and politics, which go on and on about “Western values”. The slime of this Western hypocrisy is poisoning Europe.
“Look, what people in Europe actually think is not identical to what the anglozionist media would have them think. MSM is losing credibility more and more.”
Look, when it comes to Stalin and the USSR that he led, there is a very strong alignment between the two. So much so that it becomes outright hilarious. Ergo: Depending on your personal commitment — or lack thereof — to Zionism, you could either slander Stalin for being an anti-Semite, possibly even a Nazi (Liberals) or for being a willing tool of World Jewry (Nazis). But whatever variety of fantasies you prefer, don’t ever forget to pile on the alleged heap of corpses ‘butchered by Stalin’ by a factor of 10 each time. That’s indeed the non-negotiable Party Line of Western imperialism.
Corollary question: Are the Corporate Presstitutes listening to the people here, or is it the other way around which, in my view, appears more likely?
Dear Raskolnikova,
Thanks for the sitrep.
I have to say the Economist (EIU) is really destroying any last vestiges of respect. I note the worst performing are all non-US aligned countries with two BRICS thrown in for good measure….
Considering the UK has lost some £365billion of capital outflows (a lot Russian) over the last 15 months – the EIU wouldn’t be so quick to attack others……the Editor really has an axe to grind.
Rgds,
Veritas
The Economist lost me forever during the 2007-08 crash period. It showed its true colors for the rich and privileged, continued to champion this scam of “global free trade”, pushing for more deregulation in the face of neoliberal theory’s greatest failure ever. It became worthless as a source even of information, let alone analysis.
The online comments section reflected this also, as what seemed to me like about half of the commenters were challenging articles, very severely and rigorously, and supplying vastly better facts and insights.
It was a time to watch a once prestigious source become completely outclassed and outmatched by its customers. All of the traditional media has gone or is going the same way. We are hugely better informed from sites like this one.
Couldn’t agree more Grieved. I used to love reading the Economist as a teenager (90s) on a weekly basis but it gradually lost relevance to me with the rise of the Internet and frankly – better informed sources.
I’ll read the occasional article and skim through the occasional issue, but I rarely take anything more from doing so than refreshing myself about what their point of view is – which I generally already know.
@ Grieved,
Q; All of the traditional media has gone or is going the same way. We are hugely better informed from sites like this one.
R; Couldn’t agree more. Very well said [aka ‘nailed it’].
The Economist has long ago shed any resemblance to scholarship and continues the race to lowest form of print media on earth. Even Foreign Policy can at least fall back on existing in the purely subjective realm of politics and opinion. The fact that the Economist continues to view itself in the same league as mathematics or physics is comical.
It reminds me of Economics courses I took in college, taught by two true-believers in the ‘Chicago School’ of economics. When I pointed out the cherry-picked nature of the assumptions on which the theories rested, I got the quizzical stare of a Flat-Earther looking at a globe. If one can assemble premises at random, you can build a ‘model’ that supports absolutely anything. When I objected to relying on models that reduced the innumerable wants, needs, and desires of millions of people down to an X and Y axis, I was told, “well, if we didn’t, then everything else would topple in on itself”, as if that should be a rebuttal instead of an epiphany.
The whore of Babylon has got nothing on neo-liberal economics.
Neoliberalism openly celebrates greed as the supreme — indeed the only — virtue of the Human species. From this frank, proud axiom, it’s laughable when people just don’t see the all too obvious corollary: Neoliberal charlatans are not interested in any scientific endeavours whatsoever but in money, power, and status, period.
This is an important article from Ft Russ…and so it begins on the symbolic level first, the Madison Avenue hucksters rebranding efforts:
http://fortruss.blogspot.com/2015/05/us-state-department-attacks-st-george.html
@ Raskolnikova.
Thank you.
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Thanks for the excellent round-up Raskalnikova.
Three items in particular are very illuminating.
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