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Russia in The Hague: the lies, the fakes, and the fairy tales
http://www.stopfake.org/en/russia-in...-fairy-tales/#
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Stop Fake @StopFakingNews
Russia in The Hague: the lies, the fakes, and the fairy tales
http://www.stopfake.org/en/russia-in...-fairy-tales/#
Turkish Stork Air Traffic Control..reports hundreds of storks on their flight path from Africa to Europe crossing today.....
First migrating #Storks, heading directly north along the Asian shore of the Bosphorus, from Kadıky to skdar
Light westerly headwinds, but largely no weather front to hinder their Europe bound flight plans....
Their feathered comrades from southern France have been already in Brandenburg/Berlin area....enjoying the wetlands and their recovery from a long flight...
Humans have the world going to hell in a hand bag but Mother Nature always get's it right....
Glasnost Gone#@GlasnostGone
Been trolled by #Russia? Coming soon, my new project looking at Who, Why & Where people use hashtags to harass journalists/activist #Donbass
Russian Western Military District troops continue combat exercises in preparation for a future offensive
https://twitter.com/mod_russia/statu...6398897115137#
This is quite disingenuous, considering that the major Russian military presence in eastern Ukraine began around August 2014 and possibly peaked around February 2015. It would be more interesting to see how the force levels have changed from February 2015 to now, more than 2 years later.
Russian Central Military District vehemently denies that nuclear weapons were stolen today in Yekaterinburg
TASS: CVO denied the theft of nuclear missiles from a military unit in Yekaterinburg
http://tass.ru/armiya-i-opk/4082545#
Can't find the local news story about Nweapons taken. Someone did steal a KamAZ in a pretty daring way, was found dumped only some kms away.
Hacked documents show #Luhansk terrorists ask from #Russian army 12th General Staff EW recce radars PSNR Kredo-M1
https://twitter.com/VidalSorokin/sta...072810541056#
Russian army deployed EW recce radar PSNR Kredo-M1 in 2002. Capable detecting trajectory, tanks, manpower
Second/third photos....
Taken 18 FEB 2017
Lavrov on #Ukraine: "Do you want us to say... we apologize, were guilty? We have a somewhat different assessment" http://tass.com/politics/934601
As close to mea culpa as one can get.
Heavy Russian shelling's and ground attacks all along the UAF front line positions tonight....
Arbitrators rule Russia obliged under BIT to protect Ukrainian investors in Crimea following annexation.
https://www.unian.info/economics/181...nexation.html#
HagueCourt: #Russia’s claims about weapons unearthed from #Donbas mines crumble against #OSINT data
https://informnapalm.org/en/hague-co...e-osint-data/#
Azor...SBU has indicated a sudden up tick in Russian troops from 8700 to roughly 9000..might be another Spetsnaz Bde has entered eastern Ukraine....previously there had been a steady state of around 7000-7200.
Might just be that the additional troops are rotational in nature and the older units have just not left yet..thus the overload in numbers....for a short period
Azor..the story is actually strange...the unit involved is a known handler of nuclear weapons.....
After the theft of the KamZ...which was stolen very easily and then dumped several miles away from the unit....
First the cover story was it was done by a drunk...but this KamZ model cannot be simply driven by a drunk...then suddenly the story about the nukes circulated until finally MoD stated no....
But locals are saying in local media interviews something did happen that was serious...
So who knows...maybe the KamZ was a nuke carrier standing on an alert pad when it was stolen...strange though.
This NYT piece is a good primer on how Russian Orthodox Church is spreading Putin's gospel of illiberal democracy, anti-NATO message
https://mobile.nytimes.com/2016/09/14/wor
ld/europe/russia-orthodox-church.html?referer=#
GOP congressman Dana Rohrabacher tries to give a history lesson to the former president of Estonia.
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/...ussia-estonia#
Rohrabacher is a known proRussian Congressman who has constantly voiced anti-Ukrainian statements and who has received election campaign funding from a paid Us lobby firm with ties to Russia....he also supports Russian annexation of Crimea...
.@IlvesToomas quotes Brit. def. min:
For 25 years we told E. Europeans they were paranoid about #Russia, now must admit we were wrong
President @IlvesToomas testifies on Russian cyber attacks and disinformation before @HouseForeign
https://foreignaffairs.house.gov/hea...rmation-aims/#
NOTICE the political positions Rohrabacher takes....you cannot tell the difference to similar statements made by Putin over the last six years....Quote:
Toomas Hendrik Ilves, the president of Estonia from 2006 to 2016, had a crisis on his hands in September 2014. Russian security service agents crossed the border and kidnapped and detained Eston Kohver, an agent with Estonia's equivalent of the FBI. The Russian government accused Kohver of being a spy and sentenced him to 15 years in prison.
"In order to get Russia, we are now… destabilizing our own democratic system here with that kind of nonsense."
Ilves referred to the episode Thursday during his testimony at a House Foreign Affairs Committee hearing on Russian disinformation and "weaponization of information." Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (R-Calif.), a staunch defender of President Donald Trump, opened his statement by diminishing the importance of connections between the Trump campaign and Russian officials and said that controversy over the matter "has reached the absurd level of attacks."
"In order to get Russia," he said, "we are now…destabilizing our own democratic system here with that kind of nonsense."
When Rohrabacher asked Ilves to provide examples of Russian military aggression, the former president referred to the border incident. Rohrabacher was unimpressed: "So you had a situation of corruption at the border, one of your border guards disappeared. I mean military aggression? Has there been any cross-border, at all, military action on the part of the Russians in Estonia?"
"Well, we have constant violations of our border by military jets. That's one thing, and that's consistent," Ilves said, adding these incidents have "massively increased in the last four years."
Rohrabacher explained that he had visited the Baltic states after hearing stories of Russian military aggression and found "not one report of actual military aggression." He added that the United States has sent "our tanks up there, having B-52 mock raids on Russia, over Estonia, toward the Soviet capital, in the name of stopping Soviet military aggression that never existed. This has got to stop or we're going to end up in war."
Echoing Trump's practice of equating Russia and the United States—"We have a lot of killers…you think our country is so innocent?" the president said to Bill O'Reilly last month— the 13-term congressman offered his own analysis of the similarities between the United States and Russia. "We have engaged in some of these activities," he said. He then mentioned the Phoenix Program, a Vietnam-era US undercover program that employed torture and assassination to kill tens of thousands of Viet Cong suspects from 1968 to 1972, and other examples of American involvement in the internal affairs of other countries during the Cold War.
"[Russia is] being run by tough guys—sort of like Mayor Daley, in Chicago, is transported over to Russia."
"Do you remember the Phoenix Program in Vietnam? I remember the Phoenix Program. I supported the Phoenix Program. We murdered hundreds of local officials. How about Allende? How about Diem? How about any number of people during the Cold War that we assassinated? That's wrong, it's wrong to do that, but please do not say that Russia is the only country that commits these kinds of crimes."
Rohrabacher also compared Putin to Richard Daley, the late mayor of Chicago, saying that Russia is "being run by tough guys—sort of like Mayor Daley, in Chicago, is transported over to Russia." Daley "beat demonstrators up and did not represent anything what America was all about, but he was not some vicious dictator. He had been elected by his people and we would try to unelect him as well." He added, "What's happening in Russia, of course, is you have a country watching out for its national interest."
After Rohrbacher's history lesson, Rep. Gerry Connolly, (D-Va.)* asked Ilves to expand on his answer about Russian aggression.#
"I didn't get to finish," the former president said, referring to the kidnapping of the Estonian official. "That was a military action. Troops came over and kidnapped this guy." He then noted massive military exercises the Russians perform at borders in the region, and not just between Russia and Estonia. "I mean, they do mock bombing raids on Sweden," he said. "So it's not just us."
Connolly then addressed Rohbacher's comparison of Putin with Daley. "I went to school in Chicago during his mayorality," Connolly said. "I didn't know him, but I assure you, Vladimir Putin is no Richard Daley. Richard Daley did not have his political opponents assassinated. He didn't send them into exile. He didn't put them in prison. He didn't silence the press. He didn't assassinate members of the press. He didn't exile members of the press. He sparred with them, and sometimes he was bested…There is no comparison, and I think we do ourselves a disservice by not recognizing on a bipartisan basis the gravity of the situation we face."
BY THE WAY....Just WHY does Rohrabacher take of on the Russian connection accusations against Team Trump in front of a foreign visiting guest invited to testify before them????
Ukraine Submits to World Court Allegations that Russian Citizen Organized Attack on Volnovakha in January 2015
http://www.interpretermag.com/day-1116/#16245
I had previously posted the killing of this mercenary sniper in the last days....
Ukrainian Soldier Shoots Sniper Near Industrial Zone Who Turns Out To Be Russian Military Intelligence Officer
http://www.interpretermag.com/day-1116/#16246