Dear friends,
There is no overstating the importance of this press conference by by Alexander V. Zakharchenko, Chairman of The Council of Ministers of The Donetsk National Republic. As as soon as I saw it myself, I asked two of our Teams (Russian and Oceania) to work together on a translation as fast as possible. They did as stellar job and I can now share this video with you. I want to especially mention and thank the following people:
- Transcription/Translation and Timecoding by Marina – Without Marina this would simply not be possible. Heavily indebted to her help!
- English proofreading and editing by Erebus,Michael and Vaughan
- French Translation and release by Jean-Jacques (in progress as we speak) @ The French Saker
- English editing and video publishing: Augmented Ether
To all of you we all – and I personally – owe a huge THANK YOU for your fantastic work, professional skills and heroic dedication to bring the voice of Novorussia to the rest of the world. In this “information war” the speed at which you made this crucial press conference available is a major victory against the Empire’s propaganda machine!
This is the first time that we hear what the new – post Strelkov – commanders have to say. This is the first time that the Novorussians are going on the offensive. And this is the first time that we get to hear the views, values and ideas of the people fighting against the Nazi junta. This is truly a watershed moment.
Many thanks and kind regards,
The Saker
PS: There is an important error in the translation: at 16:53, the subtitles say “we did not capture any regional administrations”. They SHOULD say “we were not THE FIRST to capture any regional administrations”
(please press on the ‘cc’ button to enable the English subtitles)
The French Saker should take example on you when you thanks the translators.
I translated the Russian appeal to Germany as I thought it was a really moving text, and pasted it in the French Saker comment section (with my email) as I didn’t know how to contact them.
They erased the comment and just published it without attribution nor thanks. The ultimate goal was to enable people to read it in French, but a little thank you goes a long way.
Anyway this is the occasion for me to thanks all the anonymous “soldiers” that translate for Novorussia : without them we would be blind and deaf to what happens there.
Keep-up the good work Saker.
The French Saker should take example on you when you thanks the translators.
I translated the Russian appeal to Germany as I thought it was a really moving text, and pasted it in the French Saker comment section (with my email) as I didn’t know how to contact them.
They erased the comment and just published it without attribution nor thanks. The ultimate goal was to enable people to read it in French, but a little thank you goes a long way.
Anyway this is the occasion for me to thanks all the anonymous “soldiers” that translate for Novorussia : without them we would be blind and deaf to what happens there.
Keep-up the good work Saker.
In for a penny, in for a pound. Let’s end this thing once and for all now that the jig is up!
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/08/26/ukraine-russian-soldiers_n_5714555.html?ir=World&utm_campaign=082614&utm_medium=email&utm_source=Alert-world&utm_content=Title
http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/putin-will-meet-with-ukrainian-counterpart-in-high-stakes-summit-amid-tense-situation/2014/08/26/875db403-5b7b-4d89-8443-5aee1bde6345_story.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/27/world/europe/ukraine.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&version=LedeSum&module=first-column-region®ion=top-news&WT.nav=top-news&_r=0
They certainly did hit the nail in the head.
Dear The Saker,
What are your views of this incident:
http://en.itar-tass.com/world/746693
I understand that Ukraine will try and capatalise on this – but shouldn’t border patrols be returned?
I also wonder if they were in no mans land and captured there – it just seems odd with all the wins going on with the militias that the Ukie army was there to capture anyone….or the Russians would let themselves be captured.
Rgds,
Veritas
These guys would never make it as politicians. They speak the truth.
A great thank you to the team of people who worked swiftly on this large project.
Excellent job, well-done.
Thanks, Saker.
This video with translation and sub-titles is a great and historic record at a crucial moment in the history of the fight for Freedom.
These men explain in crystal clear language their cause, their mind-set, their historical roots and the development of their future.
They set it in context of the West fighting wars against Russia. And they welcome the fight.
Brilliant. There can be no rebuttal. Liberty over Tyranny.
Henceforth, we shall refer to them as the DPR Army. Marchon! Marchon!
Serious people. Thanks for getting that out.
This begs the question of whether Russia could live with Donbass independence. Without the Donbass and Crimea, the remainder would be quite anti-Russian. Federalization of an anti-Russian state would not be nearly as good as it would have been a few years ago.
Without a shadow of a doubt, Novorussia forces are comprehensively winning the current battles on their Homeland. If future events would unfold according to the situation today, Novorussia would become another Kosovo, gradually winning its independence across the next year or so.
However, the monsters of the West, and their propagandists, haven’t been moving Heaven and Earth to ensure Putin FAILED to send in the peacekeepers for no reason. Do you think the monsters of the West failed to realise the likely success of COVERT Russia assistance against the unthinkable incompetence of its neo-Nazi forces from Kiev?
To the CONTRARY, they banked on it. Keep Russian peacekeepers out (would end the conflict immediately, and completely spoil the Demonic plan). Ramp up the conflict so that it gained pride of place in the Jewish mainstream media headline lists. Prepare the world for increasing amounts of NATO assistance on the side of Kiev.
The current VICTORY of our side in Novorussia is an even greater victory for the Demons. And today, Kiev is parading the Russian soldiers captured by US special forces operating near the border (yes, the US army already has forces in Novorussia- units comprised of native or near native American Ukrainians who can pass themselves off as locals).
The PROPAGANDA value is obvious. By capturing these Russians, it makes it seem to 99.9% of all mainstream media sheeple that everything else Kiev has said in the past was true also. We may ponder the paradox of this effect, when the sheeple were told many days back that Novorussia was within days of falling, but the sheeple have self-healing goldfish memories.
Since it is in the masterplan of the Demons to keep Russian peacekeepers out of Novorussia, even the simplest person has to understand that things are going according to (their) plan in Novorussia, no matter how good current events look to us. So think about their next moves.
The Jewish leader of the stooge government has, like any dictator, ended the rule of parliament with the sweep of a pen. And only because his UK/US masters required this. The reason is to increase the war footing of Ukrainian society. Human losses must be hidden. Laws must be enforced pushing ‘DEFEATISTS’ who dare to spread or discuss facts about the truth in Novorussia.
The Media in the West is CROWING about neo-Nazi ‘volunteer’ units fighting in Novorussia. Any student of warfare can tell you what this is code for. BUTCHER SQUADS. In the US War of Independence, these were German mercenaries on the British side. In the US civil war, these were terror gangs on either side.
BUTCHER SQUADS are units that are ordered to use ANY method to strike terror and chaos- and are usually comprised of very serious criminals. They care little about their own lives, so long as they get to rape, torture and murder with complete immunity.
Meanwhile, NATO is training Ukraine and mercenary units for massive no-mercy all-out land attacks against Novorussia. Putin has near enough perfectly fallen into their trap.
Unlike many I am not so puzzled by the “capture” of 10 Russian paratroopers, it’s probably a deliberate ploy!
Like the parade of prisonners which was so criticized as a breach of Geneva conventions it is likely a subtle “double action” PR stunt which had the idiot Ukies fell into head on:
Since they are flooding the medias with photos and videos of this fairly innocuous “mistake” they can now be asked to provide the same kind of evidence for ANY other claim of “Russian meddling”, pwned…
Just like the prisonners parade forced the medias to acknowledge a situation in Donetsk quite at odds with the “official narrative”.
Apparently, “Russian aggressor paratroopers” are a border patrol that found itself (allegedly) in Ukieland.
My instinct is to trust the official Russian statement, since I don’t believe the Ukies “were they to tell me milk was white”, but it would be nice to have this clarified pronto.
On a different note – much gratitude and kudos to the translation team. A couple small typos here and there (“Panovka” is Stepanovka” and it’s “Saur-Mogila”), but a fantastic job on such short notice.
How difficult would it be to get a cleaned-up transcript as well, at some point?
Once again, kudos – and to you, Saker, for making this all possible.
I wanted to watch the video, but unfortunately the translation ran off the right side of the page and I saw no way to get a full-monitor view in order to remedy this situation.
I half expected this development, the announcement obviously timed carefully. In fact I had this in mind when I wrote my last post on EU: ramshackle empire this morning. There has been a lot happening over the border with Russia.
Thanks to the transcription/translation/subtitling team for their great work
I wonder if the full translation could be made available as text (as a post or as a comment). For those of us who don’t understand Russian, it is a lot easier to follow the content that way. This applies to all subtitled material dealing with speeches, interviews, press conferences, etc, where the visual part is not too important.
It would also allow easy quoting of key passages.
Saker,
please, how can we help these brave people?
i.e. Cathe, Belgium
Dear Saker,
There is a problem with your videos : they are larger than the space of your blog allows, sothat when there are subtitles, one always misses a consistent part of their right side.
Maybe reducing a bit the general size of videos would put things right.
Thanks for giving a look.
Putin/Porky handshake in Minsk from RT.
LOVE the Putin smile!!!
good video of novorussian fighters explaining why they joined, and then addressing ukie conscripts, then addressing Nazi guards/rs, and finally speaking to Maiden leaders and oligarchs.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B7kGVc8F644&feature=youtu.be
Posted on Twitter for you, Saker. https://twitter.com/manfromatlan/status/504296833288400898
It would be so much simpler if you had a Twitter button so we could retweet your posts for you. You can protect your account so you only get notifications from people you trust, but we can still tweet your posts to a greater audience.
Well, with the latest developments from Minsk, I would say that all the efforts of Novorussia and all the civilian deaths may have been for nothing.
It looks like things are going to go back to business as usual with Pigletshenko, Ashton and Putin playing kissy-kissy like nothing ever happened. That’s right, those civilians burned alive? that plane shot out of the sky? It’s all been forgotten.
This is why Strelkov was removed by Putin. It was a show of faith as was pointed out by some analysts last week.
Pierre Hillard, a French PhD that specializes in the rollout of the NWO has consistently been saying that Putin was part of the game. He took a lot of flak from other dissidents because of that.
I did not want to believe it for the longest time; now I am starting to think he was right all along.
Soon all sanctions will be lifted and it will be like nothing happened.
Even if Ukraine is federalized, what difference will it make? The empire will have won again because there won’t be any in-depth changes (essentially on the monetary front) and they will continue their game of destabilization. Could go on forever.
That being said, great job, Saker. Thank you for your dedication and your idealism in all this.
Dear Translators,
Thank you very much for translating this very important video.
Dear The Saker,
I have now had a chance to watch the video.
I agree this is a must see video. The message is very clear – no federalisation – that has gone – the EU/IMF and USG have only themselves to blame.
They ignored the advice given and all those lives lost – and for what? Nothing but death and destruction. :(
I really pray that Novorussia will become a reality and the people are left alone – but the lunatics are running the asylum.I have the utmost respect for all of them.
Rgds,
Veritas
Great Job translators and thanks Saker..these guys are fighting for all of us keeping a dark night from falling on the world. Redux Spain 1930’s.
the capture of Russian soldiers is a biggie. Whether they were captured inside Ukraine or not, if they are not released soon and are considered as POW’s it will essentially be a declaration of war against Russia.
Expect a total cessation of trade, including gas, with closure of embassies, etc. If these soldiers are being held by the Ukies that are now encircled then things are even worse.
Saker,
In cases like this, please consider publishing separate transcripts, in addition to video. There are many people (even in the U.S.) who have very limited internet bandwidth. Reading text is actually a quicker, more convenient, and more accurate way to get the message across.
Thank you to everyone.
WRT the capture of these troops.
The Russian government has accepted that they are Russian but there’s more to this than meets the eye.
Firstly, captured 25 Km past the border there is no way that they would not have known they were in Ukraine. They know how to read maps and their fones probably have GPS even if they were not carrying navigation aids.
Secondly, only 4 of the captured 10 have been paraded in front of a camera as yet, they look rough as dog shite, a marked contrast to the soldiers who crossed from Ukraine to Russia recently. These were not guys who had been gently or carefully treated.
Thirdly, they spoke using strange language. Why would a soldier captured by the enemy refer to himself as a hostage rather than as a prisoner? Was this a coded message to those in Russia that what was being said was forced upon them?
Fourthly, if this was an invasion then there’d be more than ten men, they’d not be young lads and they’d not have been captured. This means that their presence, purposeful as I am sure it was, was not what it might appear.
My guess is that this was a deliberate provocation by some element within the military that wants to see an escalation to war between Russia and Ukraine/NATO. These young men were catspaws sent on a mission the true purpose of which was unknown to them.
From what I can see there will be no escalation because the Ukrainians want a way out, the Europeans want a way out and the Russians want to enable that to happen.
Meanwhile, the story will generate miles of crappy, unthinking commentary in the media and people will continue to die unnecessarily.
Big thank you to the translators.
It was a funny moment when Zakharchenko described the parade – Poroshenko promised there will be a parade on 24 in Donetsk and there it was – ukrainian soldiers and armor did parade :)
Huh?
It looks like I just had two comments deleted but I have truly no idea why!
Agust 25 Sit-rep in English, and more:
http://tatzhit.livejournal.com/2330.html
Interesting expressions on all the onlookers in the image here: http://img.rt.com/files/news/2c/a6/c0/00/55.si.jpg
There’s not a lot of love for Poroshenko in that room.
Putin looks as though he’d enjoy Poroshenko’s heart served in a rich gravy.
Brave and serious men protecting the innocent. They are patriots. It is a shame that Amerika does not have men like this just puppets for Israel, the corporations, banks and Obama.
Here is an important in-depth website serving as a chronicle of the Ukraine war against the DPR and LPR. Eventually the information will be turned into a book on Western aggression against the people. See Kosovo Crisis – A Study in Foreign Policy Mismanagement by Vojin Joksimovich for a similar analysis covering the forced definlandization of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (FRY).
The Dirty War on Ukraine http://progressivepress.com/blog-entry/dirty-war-ukraine
Submitted by Progressive Press on Wed, 2014-03-26 02:40
Author bio: John-Paul Leonard
See also: The Dirty War on Syria and The Dirty War on Venezuela.
I will let them know of your efforts.
The American Conservative has an interesting take on why Moscow pushed out Strelkov:
http://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/putins-right-flank/
For those of you having trouble with Saker’s videos, try this:
1.) Right-click on the video
2.) Select “Get URL at…”
3.) When URL box appears, press Ctrl+C to copy it to your clipboard
4.) Open a new tab or browser
5.) Click in the URL box and press Ctrl+V to paste the video’s URL into the box
6.) Press Enter to load the YouTube page
That should work. At least, it’s always worked for me.
I live in a remote rural home where wifi is available only at greater expense than my budget can bear. I can’t watch streaming video on youtube or listen to streaming audio but must rely on transcripts. Texts of more important docs would be appreciated if possible. Thanks for your informative site
I was quiemoved and impressed by the interview up to the point where the leader extolled the virtues of the death penalty. It was a fair question and he gave an honest answer. I don’t like the answer.
“I wonder if the full translation could be made available as text…This applies to all subtitled material dealing with speeches, interviews, press conferences, etc…”
While it was nice to see a few minutes of video, and certainly without taking away from the dedication to getting this extraordinary press conference out in a form that many people prefer, I strongly second this, for the same reason: “…where the visual part is not too important.”
I always prefer text to a video beyond a few minutes in length (where the video provides no real enhancement), for this reason: at a reasonable reading skimming speed of 400-600 wpm, one can absorb text 3 to 4 times faster than video, considering that speaking speed is about 125-150 wpm.
(Excellent choice of name for the video, in my opinion; perhaps, if there is to be a full transcript, even better might be: Birth of a Nation — 24 August 2014)
For those with only 90 seconds to spare right now regarding this amazing press conference, I recommend, in addition to this 18 seconds of snarky humor…
02:13 – 02:31:
Now regarding the parade [Donetsk, Independence Day, 24 August), I deliberately put the trophy equipment on display on Lenin Square.
Everything that will come to us from Kiev, will end up in the same condition sooner or later. The more will come, the easier it will be for us to restore our economy. As you may know, metallurgy is one of our main industries.
…this passage:
24:30 – 26:02:
Let me clarify. No federalization can be possible today. There is a time for everything. We asked for the federalization three months ago, then we asked for permission to hold a referendum. That time has passed; now we want to live independently…By now so much blood has been spilled and so many people have died for freedom. How can we speak of federalization?…we want to live independently. We have very rich land…We are a self-sufficient region with its agriculture, developed industry, forests, fields, and seas.
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Donetsk National Republic (DNR) newly created military forces announced at this press conference:
• 2 tank battalions
• 2 full artillery brigages
• 2 Grad divisions
• 1 mechanized infantry battalion
• 3 infantry brigades
• 1 special purpose assault airborne brigade
• 2 field hospitals
• 1 maintenance brigade
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Incidentally, regarding transcripts rather than video:
At The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation, I found a transcript of Lavrov’s briefing (video version is 83 minutes) yesterday:
Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov gives a briefing on Ukraine’s humanitarian crisis in Moscow on 25 August 2014
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I’ve found any problems viewing the videos disappear if viewed directly at YouTube.
@Monroedavid
In the past I’ve had the same issue with Saker’s posted videos – the video is so large that the “full screen” button is hidden off the left side of the screen. If you zoom out (with Google Chrome and some other browsers this can be done by holding down the ctl key and scrolling down with the mouse button or using zoom settings in the menu) you will find the missing buttons.
Brian
Do you know that Ukrainian language came from planet Venus?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D_jT-1f4ygg
—
Humour:
– Sir, let me tell you about this great people, the people of heroes, the people of Ukraine.
– Please do.
– You don’t know about this in the US, your nation is young. You see, the Ukrainian civilization is the oldest on Earth and its language comes from Venus.
– Eh?
– General, you are not listening.
– Professor, I am listening, but I don’t understand what you are saying.
– Experts have confirmed the Venusian origin of our language.
– Venus is hot, isn’t it?
– Very and its fire lives in our hearts. We are invincible.
– I see. And your civilization is old?
– It is not simply old, it is very ancient. We inspired all the great civilizations that came later. All of them. Egypt, Tibet, India, China, you name it. Greece and Rome were Ukrainian projects.
– Whatever you say, professor. And after that?
– We had a hard time, especially in Europe. Have you tried teaching the British? The French? The Germans?
– No, professor, I haven’t.
– General, with lots of patience, we helped them build European civilization and how did they reward us? We got nothing in return. It is time our services are recognized. Let them compensate us financially, as they should have done long ago.
– If your civilization is so great, why are you in need?
– Those pesky Moskals, of course. They can’t stand us being superior. They have been working against us for centuries, but they never succeeded completely. Our ancient history still inspires the leaders of this country. It was my task to brief Poroshenko. He listened attentively and decided to show the world what Ukraine can accomplish. When we have re-conquered Krim, we may march to Moscow and start educating the rest of the world about our ancient ways. Imagine a world inspired by the ancient wisdom of the Ukrainian civilization! We can teach Merkel a thing or two. We can take Obama by the hand and help him save the US economy.
– You can?
– Yes, we can.
– Why are you telling me all this?
– We want you to take this important message to Washington.
– I will, I promise you, I will.
Anonymous (@ 26 AUGUST, 2014 15:49) wrote:
“Saker,
please, how can we help these brave people?”
I’ve not evaluated this, but I have no reason to doubt the authenticity, or that all financial aid will be well-utilized:
Fundraising for militias of Novorossia (DPR and LPR)
The fund is spent on assisting self-defense units of the Southeast – DPR and LPR, organization of the delivery of humanitarian aid to the regions of South-East – DPR and LPR, the provision of targeted financial help to the victims of the mercenaries, as well as other activities related to the spread of accurate and objective information about all the events taking place in the Southeast – DPR and LPR.
People having trouble watching embedded videos on this blog:
Click on the title of the video (usually in white letters) near the top edge of the video window.
This will open a separate window where you can watch the video in the YouTube website.
Problem solved.
Thanks for translating this. I also second the idea of written transcripts. In addition to the reasons already stated, videos tend to get deleted off youtube and a written record is easier to save for posterity.
вот так
Clear and concise. Thanks to you Saker and all who help you in translations.
r n r,
from U.K.
To all with slow internet:
Took me 5 seconds to find Google2SRT program by searching google. This java app downloads just subtitles from Google Video and YouTube unless it’s embedded. The subtitles (in srt format) are perfectly readable.
I tested the app for you using this video. Transcript would include the speakers, so you would know who said what (though easily distinguishable for QA sessions like this one), but it may come handy when transcript doesn’t exist and no one will make one.
snippet:
1
00:00:00,000 –> 00:00:10,000
[Alexander V. Zakharchenko, Chairman of The Council of Ministers of The Donetsk National Republic] As you all know, a week ago we announced our plan to attack. We started it yesterday.
2
00:00:11,000 –> 00:00:25,000
Until yesterday we have been preparing for the attack, examining trophy equipment, arming the crews, and testing communication between different military formations.
3
00:00:26,000 –> 00:00:35,000
I can now proudly announce that we formed 2 tank battalions, 2 full artillery brigades, 2 Grad divisons,
@Anonymous: The French Saker should take example on you when you thanks the translators. I translated the Russian appeal to Germany as I thought it was a really moving text, and pasted it in the French Saker comment section (with my email) as I didn’t know how to contact them. They erased the comment and just published it without attribution nor thanks. The ultimate goal was to enable people to read it in French, but a little thank you goes a long way. Anyway this is the occasion for me to thanks all the anonymous “soldiers” that translate for Novorussia : without them we would be blind and deaf to what happens there. Keep-up the good work Saker.
REPLY FROM THE FRENCH TEAM
“Dear Anonymous,
I remember you well. You are right. Partly. You posted the article translated into French as a comment on our site…
…as I had already finished my own translation of it (it was in the course of publication when I saw your stuff).
I could have explained, or thanked you… had you joined any email adress of yours. But there was none.
So now I thank you for your kind effort and collaboration. Both of which I regret that we could not use at that time.
Best regards,
Goklayeh, for The French Saker”
DNR militiaman addresses his former ukrainian army colleagues
Great video from a courages soldier.
re: Re: why do’nt the young men of Novorussia defend their cities?
Thanks for the positive comments – it is a very welcome change for me to get informed and interesting comments instead of blank stares.
@ Rootman:
The video is entertaining as you say, but I have the impression that the young lady does not have much success with her critical questions :-)
@KRG:
Fluoridation of water is a subject that I haven’t bothered with so far: do you have links where I can familiarize myself with the subject?
@Anti NWO from Trst:
You are most certainly right: immigrants who cannot or will not assimilate are a destabilizing factor: I’ll add that to my list of manipulations.
Thanks for all the inputs. And thanks to Saker for making these exchanges possible.
They had a chance to settle peacefully for federalization of Ukraine 3 months ago, but listening to their “one indispensable nation” paymasters they decided to play hardball and use military means to subjugate the peoples of the Donbass. Now they have let the genie out of the bottle and practically guaranteed the one thing they were trying to prevent, an independent Donbass. The Novorussians will now settle for nothing less than full independence and they have the military means to back it up. The stupidity of the “exceptionals” is truly mind boggling.
Thank you good people
Marina, Erebus,Michael and Vaughan
Jean-Jacques
Greetings from Croatia
Mnogo pozdrava i ljubavi iz Hrvatske.
For those having problems with the video being too large, try changing the resolution higher on your monitor. I use 1024×768 not particularly high but works fine.
I think some of you are missing the vast importance of this news conference.
In a nutshell, Novorossiya will not surrender and will not ever be a part of Ukraine, they will fight to the death first. This would not have been said without the specific permission of the Czar, make no mistake.
The formation of a good sized army was announced, a well balanced and experienced army and I’m sure the civilian cadre and rear echelons are also in existence.
The resistance behind the ork lines is growing exponentially. The panic in Mariupol is a cast iron grin to watch. Has anyone noticed that the orks have pulled down every unit they can get their hands on to guard Mariupol? Think about that in the context of the operations in central Novorossiya.
The next three days are going to be of interest. Birth of a nation indeed!
Wow, wow! What an education on the situation on the ground. Just Incredible. Superb.
Patriots – not rebels at all. These freedom fighters are highly organized into a full-fledged country with all the governing institutions for a society.
From this video (thank you very much Mr. Saker) there is no going back to ante February 22, 2014. Can’t see them accepting anything less than being fully independent country and a member at the UN.
Kiev-junta had best move on with salvaging what is left. Ask Ms. Lagarde for a quick re-work of the IMF proposal.
So Mr. Putin made it clear Kiev will need $165 billion over 10 years just to bring Ukie’s up to EU standards. No mention of existing debt.
Good luck with that as Deflation rears its ugly head. ECB looks to do QE and with suggestions from CFR that the US start the copter engines with money drops directly to consumers
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the 10 captured Russians. Captured and kidnaped are interchangeable words. I endorse that they were kidnapped “coincidentally” to embarrass for today’s meeting in Minsk.
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@ ALL with video challenges. Mr. Saker and his “helpers” did their utmost best. Be gracious lots of speedy effort went into getting this Vid translated. Watch it on Youtube.
Carry On.
AM
To those seeking a transcript:
As someone said you can click on the title of the embedded youtube video and it will take you to the youtube site. There you will find a menu below the view counter. The third button from right says “transcript” and there you will find all the subtitles with timestamp. You can mark as usual: Left click, hold button and scroll down slowly. Then copy & paste.
After reading the letters on this page allow me to make this suggestion. IMO as astute suggestion.
If you live in the West, tear down your TV antenna, cancel your PAY TV Subscription and reclaim your brain!
Stop watching and listening to the poison the Western Corporations spew from this technology as it effects your judgement even IF you think you have it covered.
Find reliable news sources, find news that YOU need to hear and reject the rest of the swill.
Reclaim your brain!
The capture of ‘Russian paratroopers’ is as believable as the on camera beheading of James Foley.
Anonymous 19:14
The website KeepSubs does the same thing online.
You feed it the url of the video you are interested in, press the ‘download’ button and a list of srt files in the various languages supported appear with links for downloading.
To the Saker:
This is a powerful video. You should repost it to the top again in a week to give it more exposure.
These are two very impressive men. I first watched the video in russian and while not speaking the language was impressed with the body language. Now hearing the clear and concise statement of their actions, their vision and their purpose – I am dee3ply encouraged. Note that after the clear explanation of the way that they defend their language, homeland, culture and religion – together with a clear explanation of how this is an issue of liberty that all of western Europe should identify with – there are no more questions. There were simply no other questions to be asked. His statement answered them all even before they were asked.
These are very solid men, rooted in reality and yet very able to respond both to the military situation and the politics of the questions.
Is is profoundly encouraging to see such leadership in Novorussia.
@ Monroedavid I haven’t gone too far down the comments so someone may have said this already – Reduce the size of the page (CTL- at same time) and the You Tube logo will come into view – that should fix your problem if I understand you correctly . . . .or click on the title and it will open in a new window/tab.‹(•¿•)›
Saker Excellent video and thanx as always to the translators How lame are some of those reporters questions eh ?? Don’t call them presstitutes for nothing. No q’s about the actual damage to civilian infrastructure or to the numbers of dead and injured, just “oh you can’t do that to prisoners” garbage – Loved the way he responded.
Lets make this go viral guys. Go to the you Tube page, “like” the clip and press the play button so it counts as a view. And send to your local media outlets too
Cheers
Chris in Ch-Ch
Vaughan,
Yes! I really do think lifelong teevee watching contributes more to passivity, lack of original thought and general inertness than anything else in our culture. Your brain only grows by using it, not by munching away and tossing down a few while being spoon-fed a lovely menu of crudeness, violent fantasies and stuff we absolutely must buy. It totally sets up people to settle for meaningless sound-bites rather than actually think anything through for themselves. Half the population doesn’t even know the difference any more; they really think they’re thinking. That’s why it’s so hard to get through to them: it’s like they don’t even have any receptors any more.
I downloaded this marvelous interview from YouTube, but when I replayed there were no subtitles. Anyone know why?
This is a great interview, with the real true in their words. Novorussia will end free and with the opportunity to side any country they want to do.
Long life to soldiers of the freedom.
This press conference is excellent. After watching it today I took a foray into the fake alternative news world today of the Huff Post. I never watch mainstream news as it is sickening to me and have lost touch with the full extent of the propaganda regarding this situation. I did not realize how grotesque the deceptions have become. It is unsettling. I very much appreciate being able to return to this blog later and find there are still sane people in the world, which I might otherwise doubt.
A few months back, I read an interview of Erica Jong in which she said Ariana Huffington had sold out for something like $300 million. Evidently that is enough $$$ to sell out the lives of the entire population of Novorossia in her “news” reports.
Pat
@Saker,
It seems as if this article has found its way around the horn and it seems as if ya made some new friends along the way. Somehow the censors actually allowed it to be shared within the CBC comments and this is truly FANtastic!
We were so delighted, that we decided to share this gem with you and everyone within the Vineyard.
https://dumpharper.files.wordpress.com/2014/08/ukraine-crisis-poroshenko-says-roadmap-to-ceasefire-with-russia-possible-1-2746851-saker_mention_26aug2014.jpg
Oddly enough, we were tidying up our latest “propaganda challenge” aimed at the CBC when we noticed the above diamond in the rough, so please check it out and let us what ya think, even if you’re not from our neck ‘o the woods.
Special thanks to the Vineyard’s @colinjames for sharing some very valuable observations with us which hopefully made for a better presentation.
@CBCNews Propaganda Challenge: #Harper vs #cdnpoli vs #Ukraine vs #Russia
https://dumpharper.wordpress.com/2014/08/27/cbcnews-propaganda-challenge-harper-vs-cdnpoli-vs-ukraine-vs-russia/
Another quick note for the “tablet” users that may work when attempting to view ytube videos that don’t fit within the display area. Try tapping on the lower black menu bar, but avoid hitting any of the function buttons. If ya get a bit lucky and tap the sweet spot it should open the video in “full screen” mode. Then to return to the article that it is embedded in, you should be able to swipe downward from the top of the screen. Hopefully that helps, :)
DumpHarper!
Baboo here
@ Anonymous 26 AUGUST, 2014 20:52
Thanx for the “transcript” tip!
YES!: “NIET OLIGARCHY”, “Equality and brotherhood” “Freedom of language and religion” “Freedom of choice”.
Hopeful!
A good way to start.
Great press conference, great statements.
It could not be otherwise, not yet, after all that has happened.
When everything is destroyed, all the infrastructure, factories, hospitals, the confidence of the people, any sense of belonging to any nation except the Russian identity, whether to start again, why not try something new?
Good luck, health and strenght to the new People’s Republics!
All power to the people, all power to the soviets!
NIET OLIGARCHY!
Here in Spain we say: “No hay pan para tanto chorizo”
They all move to the Cayman Islands with their millions to plucking each other and leave us alone!
SPASIVA for the translate, edition and all that to the great collaborators!
A hug!
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[Alexander V. Zakharchenko, Chairman of The Council of Ministers of The Donetsk National Republic] As you all know, a week ago we announced our plan to attack. We started it yesterday.
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Until yesterday we have been preparing for the attack, examining trophy equipment, arming the crews, and testing communication between different military formations.
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I can now proudly announce that we formed 2 tank battalions, 2 full artillery brigades, 2 Grad divisons,
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1 mechanized infantry battalion, 3 infantry brigades and a special purpose assault airborne brigade.
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All these units have now received Army numbers.
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The communication system have been regularized and 2 field hospitals and 1 maintenance brigade have been formed.
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We have begun testing all these units in battle. Yesterday we began an attack on Amvrosiyivka enemy group.
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According to our data, in the course of the offensive, the enemy lost about 45 units of military equipment, we captured 14 units of military equipment,
and about 1,200 people were killed and wounded.
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There are two cauldrons at the moment, in Amvrosiivka and Starobeshevskaia.
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We started to advance at 4 a.m. on Elenovka, where the fighting is still going on.
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2/3 of Elenovka is under our control. We hope to clean up these areas before the night. However, the offensive will not end at that.
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We will continue until we free all populated areas in the Donetsk National Republic.
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The army is ready and we have the support of the people. There will be more and more prisoners.
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Now regarding the Parade. I deliberately put the trophy
equipment on display on Lenin Square.
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Everything that will come to us from Kiev, will end up in the same condition sooner or later.
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The more will come, the easier it’ll be for us to restore our economy.
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As you may know, metallurgy is one of our main industries.
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I would like to thank the Minister of Defense for the close cooperation, understanding of the challenges facing the government, for his unlimited capacity to work and for his personal courage.
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[Vladimir Kononov, Defense Minister of DNR]
Dear journalists, TV audience, I would like to appeal to you.
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The Ukrainian aggressive occupation army came on our soil. They brought a nationalistic ideology that has no respect for human life.
I am very glad to see the full press conference, and as my Russian is pretty good, I can attest to the authenticity. Yesterday, NHK (Japan’s government broadcaster) put forth a snippet of this conference, where he says “If we had received regular Russian troops…we would be attacking Kiev.” They honest-to-goodness left off the “if”!!! So whoever still takes NHK seriously thinks the rebels have admitted to receiving regular troops from Russia.
bless those men and all of thier efforts….Praise Yashua for the fact there are still people left on this planet to know what is right and what wrong..all of the fricking western collaberators should be tired and if found guilty of crimes aganst huminaty publically beheaded and that includes all of the zionist puke phucks from Victoria Nuddlemen and her faisicst cohorts to george soros and Henry kissenginer puke phucks to all of the cabinet on the lie house …woops type one meant the white house…from that lying bitch hillary clinton to Susan Rice and all of the dual citizenship puke face batshit crazy brains dead shit heads…remove them from this planet and let the people ….like the people of crimia and donest and dombass live in peace….also Queen Beatrtice and here puke phuks along with the fricking nazi zioist piece of shit Queen elizabet and here disfuctional scum family…distribute all of the wealth sotlen by the Crown back to the people of the world who were raped by the English crown ….praise the brave men of Russia, eastern ukraine and may god have mercy on the assholes who thought they could steal the land so Dutch Shell could drill for gas and oil in a contract with that twat face nazi bitch victoria nuddleman….. long live the people of eastern ukraine and russia and the people of the free ukraine….oh and porky…you should maybe try callin Air France to see if the airline has started service to frickin MARS….
Following Noam Chomsky’s YEAR 501: THE CONQUEST CONTINUES, the so-called “international community” lead by Washington (government and corporations) should be re-named CHURCH OF LATTER DAY CONQUISTADORES!
This fight is not only a fight for the right of self-determination in Eastern Ukraine but a fight against the Oligarchy in the Western world which wishes to skim the cream of the worlds resources for its own greedy consumption. As such it is my fight too and I wish the People of eastern Ukraine well.
What an amazing experience to see real men talking straight to the Press for a change. Thee are very very few of such men left in the West.
THANK YOU for this. I will post it far and wide.
Heroism, truly admirable for the whole world to see and listen.
We’re stuck in crappy abusive Amnerica where we’re tortured by the millions ever day.
http://www.actionlyme.org
Thank you so much for posting this. I went onto CNN to get their take on the “invasions” and it’s just pure b.s. and warmongering propaganda. Kudos to the brave Novorossia fighters. If morale counts for anything, these guys can NEVER be defeated.
Happy to have found this MUST SEE … please find a way to have all the talking heads on american mainstream media see this
Unfortunately, people in the West get too much on one side of the story that is filled with distorted news
Where is the “cc” button? I would like to see the translation? I dont see a cc button on my Apple laptop either…