Russian troop and her mercenaries ARE STILL NOT in compliance
with Minsk 2........
Tymchuk: Russian-terrorist Akatsiya, Gvozdika, APCs, tanks etc still not withdrawn from frontline
http://maidantranslations.com/2015/11/05/dmi
23:02 #Avdiivka @rechnikato There wasn't such rumble for a long. Approx mine-Zenit area. There was also an intense small arms battle
Russia|n Security Council: #Ukraine took a course on militarization and escalation on border with Russia
http://liveuamap.com/en/2015/5-novem...-took-a-course …
Obama war advisors on ISIS, Russia & China are resigning and/or criticizing the POTUS. Seems newsworthy. https://www.commentarymagazine.com/foreign-policy
Russian troop and her mercenaries ARE STILL NOT in compliance
with Minsk 2........
Tymchuk: Russian-terrorist Akatsiya, Gvozdika, APCs, tanks etc still not withdrawn from frontline
http://maidantranslations.com/2015/11/05/dmi
Russia is feverishly working to create an imaginary connection between #Ukraine & ISIS https://twitter.com/juliadavisnews/s...65973948321792 …
Pentagon’s top Russia expert says she pushed tougher policy
http://www.politico.com/story/2015/1...entagon-215517 …
Fighting in #Pisky, #Mariinka, #Krasnogorivka
Russian #terrorists attacked #Ukraine's positions in #Peski with small arms, machine guns and grenade launchers this evening... "Ceasefire"
Europe braced for #Russia(n) INVASION as #Putin masses troops on #NATO borders
http://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/late...affic.outbrain …
pic.twitter.com/dEX1DXKNBl
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Many in the US intelligence community studied at "online diploma mills" a @vicenews investigation finds
https://news.vice.com/article/the-mo...-investigation …
Putin repeats promise to 'defend' Russians abroad while #NATO prepares for worst
http://uatoday.tv/politics/putin-rep...st-528389.html … pic.twitter.com/mJzzKn2pdv
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News
(pro-)Russian troops increased their attacks on the Ukr. army overnight, attacking #Marinka 5 x and #Pisky 6 x w/ RPGs & small arms.
News
2 Ukrainian soldiers injured in mine attack yesterday evening in #Zolote, in grave but stable condition now.
Enemy used small arms, incl. high-calibre machine guns, GLs. In Krasnohorivka, enemy used IFV to shell our positions. Snipers near AvdiyivkaOriginally Posted by OUTLAW 09
Yesterday, for the first time in months militants shelled residential areas in Krasnohorivka with 82mm mortar. Luckily, no casualties
On back of uptick in violence in east, separatist chief Zakharchenko says "cooperation w Russia hs reachd new level"
http://nnr.su/68754
Same article says Vladislav Surkov — Kremlin's former eminence grise — remains key contact 4 separatists.
Russian Orthodox Church in Belarus training fighters for Russian world in special camps
http://euromaidanpress.com/2015/11/0...special-camps/ …
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http://tass.ru/en/politics/834395
Russian Security Council concerned with resumed shellings of Donbas — Kremlin
November 06, 14:16 UTC+3
Provocations have resumed at the contact line in Donbas over the last several days
Ukrainian forces shell Donetsk’s western outskirts from Grad systems — media
MOSCOW, November 6. /TASS/. Russian President Vladimir Putin has discussed with Russian Security Council permanent members the resumed provocations on the contact line in Donbas, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Friday.
"The exchange of opinions took place, and concern was expressed in connection with resumed provocations at the contact line in Donbas over the last several days," Peskov said. "In particular, it concerns shellings of positions of LPR and DPR [self-proclaimed Luhansk and Donetsk republics]," he noted.
Normandy Four political directors to discuss prospects of Minsk-2 before ministerial meeting
A diplomatic source told TASS that political directors of the Normandy Four (Russia, Ukraine, France, Germany) would hold a coordination session in Berlin on Friday before the ministerial meeting.
"Such meeting is planned," the source said. "It will be held at the level of representatives of foreign ministries’ department heads. After that, a ministerial meeting will start," he noted.
Today’s meetings will in general focus on "the process of implementation of the Minsk Agreements with emphasis on weaponry withdrawal and demining," the source said. "The political process and understanding the prospects of the Minsk Agreements are also important," he added.
The meeting of Normandy Four foreign ministers is expected to start at 2pm [local time] at the German foreign minister’s residence for official guests at Villa Borsig.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov will arrive in the German capital from Paris where he is taking part in the UNESCO 38th General Conference.
The last meeting of the Normandy Four foreign ministers took place in Berlin on September 12 in the framework of preparing to the summit held in Paris on October 2.
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News
The #Minsk ceasefire is eroding once again.
(Pro-)Russian shelling getting more intense around #Donetsk. pic.twitter.com/TwKB1fy1tR
13:28 #Stakhanov @DNSRRSTRTS At the same time in #Alchevsk w/contrails eastwards and something flying over them https://twitter.com/loogunda/status/662612829577572353 …
Today at 11:20 I observed 2 contrails in the sky over #Kirovsk, didn't see the aircrafts...
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Militants stage large-scale bloody showdown in Donetsk – Ukraine Intel
http://www.unian.info/war/1176438-mi...ine-intel.html …
pic.twitter.com/2NzfC87KFR
ATO Staff: situation in the ATO zone is tense. Militants shoot at residential quarters from prohibited weapons
http://uacrisis.org/37271-shtab-ato-15 …
Great insight into how Russian #propaganda wants Russians to see the West by @IrisovaOlga for @IntersectionPro
http://intersectionproject.eu/articl...-eyes-russians …
MoD: More than 8000 Russian military stay in Donbas. Also around 50 militant attacks on UA pos. recorded since Nov 2
http://m.censor.net.ua/news/359608/n..._rf_minoborony …
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Russia trying to drag out the Minsk 2 for forever and freeze it forever.......
Lavrov wants Minsk deadlines extended into 2016
http://www.unian.info/world/1176601-...into-2016.html …
pic.twitter.com/Er0pyPQO11
Russia calls for delay in implementing ceasefire deal with #Ukraine
http://uatoday.tv/politics/russia-ca...ne-529130.html …
pic.twitter.com/AXU59GwxOT
Maryinka 21:25 - Noisy
Krasnohorivka 21:30 - Booms, machine guns, periodically
Maryinka @666_mancer [vk]
20:30 Less booms, more shooting
20:35 ceased
21:10 quiet
21:25 not that quiet anymore
Krasnohorivka 21:50
Occasionally small arms can be heard, volume decreased
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VIDEO #Ukraine SBU arrested a #Putin "LNR commando" in Mykolaiv w explosive
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eaOhkP2hGHk … pic.twitter.com/26NWKYfYnC
Putin's company on the wall...
Russian Army "Kalmius" Battalion, Garrison/HQ Donetsk city, occupied Ukraine 6 Nov
pic.twitter.com/BdNnefBGD5
pic.twitter.com/be432YdDLP
https://youtu.be/XUqY8cUfV2U
Strange report........
Maritime mine clearance device found close to #NordStream pipeline in Swedish waters
http://www.thelocal.se/20151107/expl...n-gas-pipeline … cc: @klgfulmer
Russian mercenary infighting is ongoing gain........
Makiivka @666_mancer Yesterday at 16:20 along Havrilova St to #Khanzhenkove a Gazelle truck drove loaded w/about 20 empty coffins
Donetsk @YuraKas1 #rumours: 'In Donetsk an in-fighting occurred, 15 died, 20 were wounded'
Today, several (pro-)Russian (GRU, SVR operated) social media channels are saying same about Donbas occupation: "The war is not over".
Will Russian occupation forces use their GRU rocket attack on Donetsk to halt (reverse?) sham tank "withdrawals"?
pic.twitter.com/g4mZmz6Huh
Russian Occupiers deliberately fired rocket into Donetsk to pin blame on Ukraine, as map lie shows. Destroying Minsk
pic.twitter.com/OmgDEQC7gf
This is a ceasefire..........?
In the last 24 hours no casualties by the fighting.
4 Ukrainian soldiers were wounded by mine explosion
"Disinformation Review" - new EU information product
http://goo.gl/JvfQo8
The current Russian leadership is revisionist: it doesn't accept existing rules, borders - Wallander #RigaConf
pic.twitter.com/QNbe1LYb8C
Border Guard Service:Last day, militants fired towards checkpoint "Zolote". 3 enemy UAV flights recorded in ATO zone
http://dpsu.gov.ua/ua/about/news/news_9178.htm …
Obama Should Have Given Weapons to #Ukraine, Says Former Pentagon Russia Official
http://www.defenseone.com/management...ficial/123400/ …
Separatists prevented #OSCE SMM from accessing border areas in Luhansk region, in violation of Minsk Addendum:
http://www.osce.org/node/198471
http://www.isn.ethz.ch/Digital-Libra...g=en&id=194510
Well worth reading............
6 November 2015
How can Societies be Defended against Hybrid Threats?
Amela Sadagic demonstrates the virtual sand table for urban warfare operations training rehearsals during the MOVES 9th Annual Research Summit
Indeed, how might defense planners come up with better strategies to protect against today’s hybrid threats? Aapo Cederberg’s and Pasi Eronen’s answers point to the patient strengthening of national capabilities, working with one’s allies to overcome capability gaps, etc.
By Aapo Cederberg and Pasi Eronen for Geneva Centre for Security Policy (GCSP)
This policy paper was originally published by the Geneva Centre for Security Policy (GCSP) in September 2015.
14:36 #Makiivka @PaulVezko Towards #Donetsk from Makiivka single Ural trucks with green boxes in bodies continue to go
18 modern (since 2003 in the) #RussianArmy #KamAZ5350 trucks in occupied eastern #Ukraine.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6maM76ZhP_w …
Putin Will Use Terrorist Attack on Plane Against Ukraine, Piontkovsky Says
http://www.interpretermag.com/putin-...ntkovsky-says/ …
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http://windowoneurasia2.blogspot.co....t-of-1917.html
Saturday, November 7, 2015
Putin Takes the Revolution Out of the 1917 Revolution Anniversary
Paul Goble
Staunton, November 7 – Vladimir Putin’s decision to mark what is the anniversary of the 1917 Bolshevik revolution with a recreation of the 1941 Soviet military parade reflects both his fear of revolutionary change as such and thus his desire to keep the Soviet inheritance which he values as far removed from its revolutionary origins as possible.
That conclusion is offered by two Russian commentators, Artem Rondaryev in an essay entitled “How the Revolution was Taken From US” on Snob.ru (snob.ru/selected/entry/100310), and by Alina Vitukhnovskaya in one entitled even more pointedly “Fear of Revolution” on Rufabula.com (rufabula.com/author/alina-vituhnovskaya/843).
In the 1990s, Rondaryev points out, Moscow played down this anniversary because it did not want those who wanted to restore the Soviet system to have an occasion to demonstrate and thereby attract attention to that cause. But now the situation is more complicated because the Putin regime is restoring Soviet elements but doesn’t want to mention their revolutionary origins.
Among Russians now, there is “a strange fragmented quality of all [their] political field, in which no one ideology exists as a totality (a condition necessary for any successful ideology) but is an assembly” of ideas drawn without much regard for logic and thus creating “an ad hoc ideology” in which there is little or no consistency.
As a result, those who are interested in the restoration of aspects of the USSR act as if that state formation “arose from nowhere.” The pre-1917 sources of revolution and the revolutionary declarations of the new regime’s first leaders are ignored. Instead, Soviet opposition to Western liberalism is stressed as “an ally of our current essentialist ideology.”
In this scheme of things, the 1917 revolution becomes “yet another metaphysical incarnation of ‘the Russian spirt’ or of ‘the Russian character,’ yet another super-human, nonhuman monster, the dehumanization of which is so absolute that it did not even need to be born in order to exist.”
The desire not to remember how “it all began” is completely understandable because the current regime has no interest in calling attention to Bolshevik slogans, to revolutionary aspirations for equality or to any other utopian idea. The regime only wants the past as a symbol of “’the unity of the people’ and the totality of the state.”
As a result, for Russians today, under the influence of this vision, “love for the USSR is combined in a paradoxical hatred to everything that the revolution, which created this very USSR initially brought with it – the avant-garde, feminism, free morality, and social transformation as such,” Rondaryev points out.
Vitukhnovskaya for her part says that this all reflects a fear on the part of the current regime of any revolution “regardless of its color or meaning.” In fact, she continues, “the present-day Russian authorities subconsciously fear an analogous outcome for themselves,” a fear that will grow as the country approaches the centennial of the 1917 revolution two years from now.
And consequently, the Putin regime has replaced the 1917 revolution with the victory over Germany as the central value of the state, a backward looking approach which does not define where the country is going and only has the effect of making Russia appear even further behind the key players of the international system.
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