Someone better wake up both Merkel and her Foreign Minister.
Militants fired 122 Grad-P rockets at Ukr & Rus monitors of joint control center in Berdyanske http://www.pravda.com.ua/news/2015/06/26/7072558/ … pic.twitter.com/pBimtVN9GH
http://sputniknews.com/world/2015062...#ixzz3eAoCvEdb
Russian Deputy Foreign Minister said that establishment of an international tribunal on last year's downing of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 in eastern Ukraine would be untimely and counterproductive.
http://sputniknews.com/europe/20150606/1023019211.htmlThe Netherlands Pushes for International Tribunal to Prosecute MH17 Crash Suspects
MOSCOW (Sputnik) – The establishment of an international tribunal on last year's downing of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 in eastern Ukraine would be untimely and counterproductive, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Gennady Gatilov said Friday.
Various media outlets have over the last week reported, citing sources familiar with the matter, that the Netherlands is seeking the creation of an international tribunal to prosecute those responsible for the crash.
"We know that it [the idea] is untimely and counterproductive. It is necessary now to wait for the end of the investigation and not adopt any hasty resolutions on the creation of tribunals," Gatilov said.
Man are they getting desparate-----On 6/6/2015 Russian Sputnik even went so far as to declare the bellingcat analysis of the MH17 crash and the accusations that the Russian MoD has falsified their satellite data –to be fake “because an alleged former Stasi employee” had worked on the analysis.
Someone better wake up both Merkel and her Foreign Minister.
Militants fired 122 Grad-P rockets at Ukr & Rus monitors of joint control center in Berdyanske http://www.pravda.com.ua/news/2015/06/26/7072558/ … pic.twitter.com/pBimtVN9GH
Russians Watch Protests in Yerevan with Apprehension - or Inspiration http://bit.ly/1KfzjPe pic.twitter.com/B4tPRJPjHo
Crowd shouts "We are #Armenia !" Right now in #Yerevan pic.twitter.com/gw2MOfLv29
People yelling "Towards the barricades", "join us", "no to plunder" #electricyerevan pic.twitter.com/D3sURl4oE4
Protesters are blocking streets of #Yerevan in #Armenia #ElectricYerevan pic.twitter.com/wS9lnWxwLB
youtube.com/watch?v=LPUy18-8TWs … Guy fr Yekaterinburg,#Russia: #ElectricYerevan 'must go' or face snipers+'NATO-drugged' thugs pic.twitter.com/HrVPv8BTzf
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Get ur program!! Know ur Trolls: RussiaInsider + 3 Top Ru Trolls http://kremlintrolls.com/t/20150616-ri3m.html … #KremlinTrolls @webradius pic.twitter.com/9qmyqoucTG
Donetsk 15:06 Avay towards airport-#Pisky-#Optyne occasional salvos. Like after UAVs. https://twitter.com/AlfaNubovsky/sta...04392536641536 …
In last day, Militants 4 times fired on Mariinka checkpoint & twice on Berezove CP. 1 wounded - Border guard service
http://dpsu.gov.ua/ru/about/news/news_7644.htm …
This morning militants shelled an Observation post of Ukr monitors in Berdyansk'e (near Shyrokyne) with GRAD-P
http://112.ua/ato/sckk-zayavlyaet-ob...no-240554.html …
How is Putin going to deal with 'the coming chaos' among Russia's elite? http://buff.ly/1LJZBrE by Peter Sattler pic.twitter.com/pVYlEaHzpv
Ukrainian army's positions in Donbas shelled 86 times in past 24 hours http://24today.net/open/455090 pic.twitter.com/8PC173deCb
Trapped on #Ukraine's frontline: Life in one of Europe's biggest coking plants http://uatoday.tv/society/trapped-on...ts-446274.html …
Russian army of occupation tells #OSCE_SMM it drives Grad MLRS artllery "for maintenance only" http://www.osce.org/ukraine-smm/167161 … pic.twitter.com/U9VLoEm7Jo
New battalion formed in #Mariupol - Donetsk Police Head Abroskin http://en.censor.net.ua/photo_news/3...broskin_photos … http://Censor.NET 26 Jun pic.twitter.com/2XjOEoHlhr
Amazing to watch twitter here in Europe--US Supreme Court decision on gay marriage is beating out the Ukrainian war and the response from Europe is interesting--all positive.
Only two countries are flipping out via their media outlets ---- Russia and Belarus.
Russian trolls are totally silent--first time in over a year that they are at loss for words.
Video by Russian cretins inadvertently shows how Ukrainian "return fire" is simulated https://youtu.be/zb3xouoiJx4?t=21s …
Militants fired 86 times at Ukr forces y-day, 50of them in #Donetsk area. Pisky, Opytne, Maryinka r under dense fire https://www.facebook.com/ato.news/po...22246624452810 …
Today militants shelled UKR positions about 35 times. UKR forces also clashed with enemy DRG near Krymske - ATO
https://m.facebook.com/story.php?sto...97&__tn__=%2As …
Looks like a Russian Spetsnaz attack occurred on Krymske.
This week's Top Extremism- and Terrorism-Related Stories in Russia http://extremistrussia.com/2015/06/2...-26-june-2015/ …
Finland suspects airspace violation by Russian Il-76 south of Porvoo at 2:15pm, identified by Hornets. http://www.defmin.fi/ajankohtaista/t...ella.6287.news …
bit.ly/1RCR37F @KarenaAv and I wrote about Ramzan Kadyrov and Chechnya in Russia's federal system for @opendemocracyru
Mayorsk which is near Artemivsk were shot at for an hour from 82 mm mortar by putin's army https://twitter.com/UaForces/status/614473615552180224 …
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Putin and His Entourage Can’t Imagine People Can Protest on Their Own, Eidman Says | The Interpreter http://www.interpretermag.com/putin-...n-eidman-says/ …
Russia robbed #Ukraine's people through corrupt gas deals
#Russia robs #Armenia's people through corrupt electricity deals
#ElectricYerevan
Westerners commenting on #Armenia's #ElectricYerevan on #Russia state propaganda sites are all NOT there, but "know" everything about it...
Finnish Air Force picPicture of RA-78784 by Finnish Air Force, according to @Alexfly35 landed at Chernyakhovsk AFB 15:55msk. pic.twitter.com/dZGEteqkFV
Russian transport plane which is suspected of violating Finnish airspace today. Yle Uutiset pic.twitter.com/I5QEmnMZ5A
RUSSIAN PROPAGANDA
They film their own equipment and pretend it was captured at #Debaltseve, but can't be geolocated
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jPiM5c7p4wk …
This so-called 'captured armor' is filmed here http://wikimapia.org/15340624/ru/ (thanks to @5urpher) at Russian side of contact line (at that time).
Furthermore @MrKovalenko (who was there!) does not recognize the armor!! pic.twitter.com/IMEAOhAiVi
Number of troops in the area of the ATO up to 60 thousand - Poroshenko
http://interfax.com.ua/news/general/274642.html … pic.twitter.com/WJ6V0tpLUi
Russia masses 54,000 troops in #Donbas and on Ukraine border – ATO Headquarters
http://uatoday.tv/news/russia-masses...rs-446163.html …
21:02 #Starohnativka @Staroignatievca It started: mortars, signal flares, explosions, machine guns [here]
21:02 #Donetsk Kirovsky ds @UrriKara4en Fr/SW, Petrovsky direction,sporadic separate heavy gunshots&short series can be heard
20:20 #Shakhtarsk @Helgi__UA Such pic.twitter.com/jepGnPbOR6 cabriolet, 2 Kamaz trucks, 1 wagon truck w/escort tow/#Donetsk
21:26 #Starohnativka @Staroignatievca Artillery ceased, mortar and machine guns are still firing
Now quiet----
Just over a year ago, Ukraine had about 6000 combat-ready troops. Today, Poroshenko says there are 60,000 Ukrainian troops in the war zone
21:25 #Donetsk Putilovka @UkraineSuper1 Outgoing and incoming at once
21:10 #Donetsk @Don_Riccio Machine guns in #Trudovski direction
Mariinka, Krasnogorivka, both light and heavy arms... https://twitter.com/arthurnkua/statu...04819819216896 …
21:20 #Luhansk @100007182042214 #Stanytsia_Luhanska is being shelled again, landings also in #Kondrashevska_Nova station area
21:52 #Starohnativka @Staroignatievca Again machine guns and mortars
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SBU detained one of the leaders of the "Berkut" who involved in the shootings on the Maidan
http://liveuamap.com/en/2015/26-june...the-berkut-who …
vk.com/colonelcassad?z=albums111228080 … 'Novorussia project not over, get ready for surprises.' pic.twitter.com/xOsCC9VZ4C
vk.com/colonelcassad?z=albums111228080 … Guy fr #Russia-held Sevastopol enjoys gory pix of dead #Ukrainian soldiers. pic.twitter.com/DzEsjvCjKO
Donetsk, howitzers outgoing
22:06 #Donetsk Izumrud @lagyz "Fireworks? Someone's damn birthday?"
Donetsk
22:06 Kalininsky @vladimi71543390 I heard few dull distant sounds
22:06 center @CatBoobon Volleys heard
22:06 #Donetsk Kyivsky ds @Newrashkineits Loud sounds like incoming started suddenly
youtube.com/watch?v=lLD36LnnGI8 … #Mariinka today. Still standing. pic.twitter.com/gFaGytNx1N
22:07 #Makeevka @PlohoiBorsch Volleys heard in the western part
Donetsk - both Mariinka and airport directions are loud. bigtime action.
Medal for "storming #Shyrokyne"
One of the men (Hisam) is from Tatarstan, Russia.
https://vk.com/photo271329756_365652000 … pic.twitter.com/nZmxDhQoG4
Russian proxies shell white phosphorus at suburb of Donetsk in Ukraine
Video:... http://fb.me/7yGKAP8Rv
22:11 #Schastya @AlexRychkoff "Evening party" started, not that intense as yday.
22:19 Small arms, AGL, couple shots frSPG-9
22:18 #Donetsk north @HuAdvokatos "i can hear 'rocket' starts"
10:23 #Makeevka @PlohoiBorsch No, singles w/10-20sec interval, but there were not many of them
22:10 #Schastya @AlexRychkoff Yday's total: 3 wounded civilians, 2-3 impacts on residential area
Donetsk - same directions, Mariinka, Airport, combat ongoing
22:21 #Luhansk eastern blocks @SvobodaLuhansk Again artillery can be heard
22:31 #Donetsk center @CatBoobon Again distant cannonade has started
22:29 #Maryinka @faina_ukr Battle in progress. Rumble in police checkpoint area, boarding school, Sovkhoz
22:00 #Krasnohorivka @audrius1977 Skirmishes became more intense, impacts but outside the town
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Russian Support for Putin’s View that Russians & Ukrainians Are ‘One People’ Falling http://bit.ly/1LASAwC pic.twitter.com/WNwQK2ib1i
Russia-n An-26 violates #Estonia-n airspace http://news.err.ee/v/defense/2b17580...f-4434c246eef3 …
Hisam left Kazan early January to join Russian-led illegal armed group in Ukraine.
Russia could easily stop this. pic.twitter.com/IFk3O6nR3x
Russia-controlled VK forum for Russians exchanging info on how to join Russian-led illegal armed groups in Ukraine
http://vk.com/topic-67059574_29521374?post=69219 …
Excellent take by @anders_aslund on current economic state of play in #Russia (a hint; much worse than you think!) http://www.bfna.org/sites/default/fi...%20%282%29.pdf
Russia is in clear and blatant violation of Minsk 2.
30 of #Ukrainian #POWs are in Russia. RU-led terrorists keep ~270 #Ukraine POWs, (70 are civilians): govt negotiator center repr. Y.Tandit.
PROPAGANDA
DPR-soldier 'Lynx' shows a Ukrainian concentration camp. But it's just an empty building.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6aS7kxt8ekg …
This has been a Russian propaganda theme for months now--in books, and again in broadcast videos on their news media--but never do they actually show an actual concentration camp--they only "allude" to them.
VIDEO This is how Russia's Hybrid Army in Ukraine gets trained: live shooting on the wall above their heads.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e7rRGSHhQZQ …
Russian Ambassador to Turkey 1869: "We are not understood". pic.twitter.com/I95Zpn7Msm
Recognize the propaganda theme again in 2014/2015?????
How Pro-#Russia Trolls Manipulate Finns Online - great investigation by Yle Kioski #Finland
http://kioski.yle.fi/omat/troll-piece-2-english … pic.twitter.com/BxtQusdbne
Scenes from #ElectricYerevan : Protesters passing out song sheets, learning & singing Sardarabad & other nat'l songs pic.twitter.com/dcVkyo3jm5
Must be called "The Strange Revolution" pic.twitter.com/tni0WVI7dg
ElectricYerevan Exposes #Kremlin's Mindset
http://www.rferl.org/content/electri.../27095362.html … pic.twitter.com/7IqGs4HSvi
With the initial reports or anti war demos by ethnic Russians coming out of the Russian occupied Ukrainian zones and this article--I will go out on a limb and state Putin has lost his non linear war in the eastern Ukraine--and badly lost it.
Yes the fighting will go on for awhile and the dying and destruction as well but he has lost and has yet to see it.
He has lost the Ukrainian civil society as a whole--and that was his target in the eastern Ukraine and he has driven a wedge for years to come between Russians and Ukrainians who share a lot historically.
http://foreignpolicy.com/2015/06/26/...ore-ukrainian/
Why Ukrainians Are Speaking More Ukrainian
By Ievgen Vorobiov
June 26, 2015 - 5:14 pm
It’s been 16 months since the first Ukrainian soldier was shot by Russian troops in soon-to-be occupied Crimea. Since then, Russia’s ongoing war against Ukraine has presented the country’s Russian-speaking population with some tricky questions about identity.
“I’m afraid of speaking Russian now, because Putin might want to protect me” — that became the frequently repeated joke last year after the Russian president made it clear he considered Russian-speakers in Ukraine to be endangered by Kiev’s new government.
Now many Russian speakers in Ukraine — who live primarily in the country’s east and in large cities — are demonstratively turning to Ukrainian as a badge of self-identification. A concise tutorial on how to switch from Russian to Ukrainian, written by a Kiev blogger, has earned thousands of shares and reposts. Patriotic Russian-speakers in Kiev and big eastern cities are pledging on social networks to speak Ukrainian to their children, hoping to make the next generation more fluent and natural speakers of their native tongue.
For the first time in decades, speaking Ukrainian is seen as fashionable rather than backward.
Ukraine’s strong civil society has also been an important factor in “socializing” the country’s adult population into using Ukrainian. Amid the dire lack of state-funded support for life-long education, dozens of organizations and initiatives teach the language to adults across the country. Activists say the bulk of their students came in the wake of the Euromaidan revolution and the beginning of the Russian-Ukrainian war. Most of the students, says an organizer of the biggest course in Kiev, are 30-to-50-somethings. Free Ukrainian courses have mushroomed in big, mostly Russian-speaking cities such as Dnipropetrovsk, Zaporizhzhia, Kharkiv, Kramatorsk and Odessa. However, they’ve also popped up in Lviv and Vinnytsia, Ukrainian-speaking cities where many people displaced from Crimea and the east have settled.
The media landscape is also unmistakably becoming more Ukrainian. Granted, the traditional media are still somewhat dominated by Russian: two of the top three TV channels broadcast their evening news and most entertainment programs in Russian. Most high-circulation weekly magazines are published in Russian. However, the emergence of powerful Internet-based news outlets is bucking the trend. Ukrainian-language web-based TV, most notably Hromadske.TV and Espreso, have few Russian-language competitors of comparable quality, although the former has started to produce programs in Russian.
Since over half of Ukrainians regularly use the Internet, the social media is turning into another channel of “Ukrainization,” especially of the middle class. Top bloggers writing in Ukrainian on Facebook and Twitter are boosting their follower bases, and many Ukrainian Internet users are starting to abandon platforms based in Russia, such as VK, the Russian equivalent of Facebook. A controversy over Facebook blocking Ukrainian-created content, allegedly by Russian citizens staffing tech support teams in Dublin, provoked calls to write more in Ukrainian as a way to insulate the “Ukrainian” blogosphere from Russian interference. Discussing politics in Ukrainian makes it harder for Russian trolls to chip in.
The gravitational pull of the Ukrainian language is making a mark on business, too.
For the first time, Ukrainian pop music is selling better than Russian.
A popular chain of coffee shops, Lviv Handmade Chocolate, has made waitresses and baristas that serve customers only in Ukrainian into a signature policy, yet the chain is popular across the whole country. Roman Matys, a Ukrainian activist, campaigns for companies to include labels and documentation in Ukrainian in addition to Russian, and several large companies have yielded to his group’s petitions.
For the past twenty years, state education policy has been to promote Ukrainian in schools without directly impending the use of Russian. Ukraine’s post-Soviet governments, even pro-Russian ones, treated secondary education in Ukrainian as a generous concession to national-minded activists. While only 47 percent of Ukrainian schools taught in Ukrainian at the end of Soviet rule in the 1980s, that rate steadily increased to 75 percent in 2004 and 86 percent in 2013. And as Ukrainian has become the principal teaching language at leading universities, schoolkids and their parents perceive it as more of a priority, even if they use Russian at home.
The trend was not reversed even after the passage of the 2012 “language law,” which provided for greater use of Russian on the regional level. Legislative initiatives pertaining to the language use have been politicized since the Maidan revolution as well. Parliament’s attempt to repeal the controversial language law in February 2014 (which was rejected by a presidential veto) was used as a rallying call by pro-Russian separatists in eastern Ukraine.
Ukraine is still a bilingual country. But the Ukrainization phenomenon is not just anecdotal — survey data shows that, in the last decade, the country’s linguistic landscape has undergone a visible change. In 2005, 42 percent of Ukrainians claimed that they spoke mostly Ukrainian at home. By 2011, 53 percent said they spoke it in their everyday lives. Since most of them are perfectly fluent in Russian as well, the 11 percent upsurge, representing at least 5 million people, reflects the share of Ukrainian society that has switched from Russian to Ukrainian. The Euromaidan revolution and conflict with Russia accelerated that trend: a poll conducted in May 2015 shows that almost 60 percent of the population prefer to use Ukrainian in everyday communication.
This burgeoning popularity of Ukrainian, especially among the youth and the middle class, is having unifying effects on the country’s social structures. It facilitates social mobility between the east and the west. Many western Ukrainian students are bringing their Ukrainian to universities in Kiev and the big eastern cities. Young IT and service professionals who move from Kharkiv or Dnipropetrovsk to Lviv tend to bring Ukrainian into their everyday lives, despite Lviv’s tolerance for Russian speakers.
The revival of Ukrainian is only one of many societal upshots in the Ukrainian-Russian war.
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Reference the shot down of MH17 by Russia.
Eliot Higgins @EliotHiggins aka bellingcat
Russia doesn't want an international MH17 tribunal because
- They provided the Buk that shot it down
- They faked evidence to blame Ukraine
In 2014, #Russia wanted to frame Ukraine for MH17 & demanded closer UN involvement. Then came @bellingcat... ❓ pic.twitter.com/XNoq4XZ8gg
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