It's not the first Russian invader, who got lost in this area, while traveling from #Donetsk to #Novoazovsk. pic.twitter.com/aGazvvBqud
plus the two brothers who were lost while looking to buy cattle in their brand new RuArmy uniforms
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Ukrainian state border service detained another Russian invader (from #Yakutsia), who got lost near #Berezove. pic.twitter.com/wd17dKvUTm
CSTO Summit: Putin makes overtures to West as he urges resumption in conversations on building Euro-Atlantic security partnership.
Putin doubles down on support for Syria's armed forces at CSTO summit. Urges Assad to negotiate with "reasonable" opposition.
Putin also talks up spectre of Islamic State in Afghanistan. He's worried about it,
Central Asian leaders at CSTO summit are all about Islamic State. Worry about recruitment among their citizens.
CSTO summit: Nazarbayev bemoans that citizens from alliance members are joining ranks of radical organisations #Tajikistan
VIDEO App 1 yr ago largest #Russia invasion convoy of 30+ vehicles entered #Luhansk #Ukraine https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3rDe9y5T2VI … pic.twitter.com/O1VgXDhjNC
Militants restrict access for OSCE observers
http://www.ukrinform.net/rubric-ukrn...rs_334350.html … pic.twitter.com/FUKFdoNScf
Footage
(Pro-)Russian forces D-30 artillery training in occupied Eastern #Ukraine.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jguu5_pvZWE … pic.twitter.com/BTxrp7S2Ge
Latest Russian soldier detained in #Ukraine says he was there to buy cattle. Also said T-72 tanks make good tractors pic.twitter.com/HxtZ7Db3mS
Appears Russian military is starting to slow step an offensive again--slow stepping menaing they start small SA attacks, then small mortar and auto grenade or RPG attacks all the while being ignored by the MSM as "nothing is really happening"--then when all are lulled then the shellings start again.
According to the military, Russian-backed forces have stepped up their attacks today, resuming attacks in the Mariupol area with mortars.
At around 10 am, Russian-backed forces shelled Ukrainian positions in Chermalyk with 82 mm mortars and fired on Gnutovo with grenade launchers.
At 16:30, the ATO Press Centre says that a Ukrainian defensive position in Marinka, west of Donetsk, was fired on with genade launchers, anti-aircraft artillery and small arms.
There were corresponding reports of fighting in the area on social media this afternoon---
Militants intensified fire in several ATO areas. https://twitter.com/zona_ato/status/643830314268127232 …
Maryinka @hyeva_maryinka [vk]
16:20 Quiet, black smoke over boarding school or further
pic.twitter.com/UpW60E1SrF
Maryinka @hyeva_maryinka [vk]
16:28 Fr/bus station bridge one can observe fire&smoke near Karavansky pond, like a tank or BMP downed
UA C/p at Debaltseve attacked: 2 KIA, 1 WIA, 2 captured by DNR... https://twitter.com/ryabtchuk_roman/...30999382663168 …
13:52 #Maryinka @faina_ukr Ongoing battle in bearding school area. Very loud one
14:40 #Shakhtarsk @spice4russia 5 tanks fr/Shakhtarsk to #Torez
@natroso They were moving along #Donetsk bypass fr/S coming round #Makiivka
Does this sound like a solid ceasefire in progress or slow stepping????
For the last week to Dnipropetrovsk were delivered 56 wounded and 6 dead from ATO zone http://liveuamap.com/en/2015/14-sept...were-delivered …
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OSCE Sec. General Zannier tells us that Russian-backed militants may have shot down OSCE drone
http://bit.ly/1isC9Xx pic.twitter.com/4llWpmw3yO
We're going to have to develop TTPs [tactics, techniques & procedures] to address" Russia's "long-range SAM array" http://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs...-general-warns …
Gen. Gorenc warned last year: "1/3 of Poland is under Russian IADS [integrated air defense system] coverage" http://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs...-general-warns …
Russia's "modern long-range SAM systems...are being layered in a way that makes access [in Europe]...more difficult" http://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs...-general-warns …
Alarming" that Russia can create "anti-access/area denied [zones] that are very well defended" by SAM batteries http://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs...-general-warns …
Gen. Gorenc on #Russia air power: Invested in "a very large modernization" & have improved both "quality & quantity" http://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs...-general-warns …
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Well worth reading........................
http://en.delfi.lt/central-eastern-e....d?id=68999386
Karen Dawisha
Signs of rift within Putin's kleptocracy
September 15, 2015
Back when the future president of Russia, Vladimir Putin, was still working at the Mayor's Office of Saint Petersburg, shiny new Mercedes cars were not quite as ubiquitous on the streets of the city as they are now. However, there were two parked in the yard of a newly renovated building that was to be converted to South Africa's consulate. Vladimir Putin and Sergey Shoigu © RIA/Scanpix One of them belonged to Anatoly Sobchak, the then Mayor of Saint Petersburg. The other one was Putin's, who was at the time in charge of liaisons with foreign countries. One day, the Mayor's Office received a phone call; the caller, after introducing himself, said he was interested in procuring new cars and asked if someone at the city administration could recommend a good local Mercedes-Benz dealership. In fact, there were no Mercedes-Benz dealerships in Saint Petersburg.
"From the next day, Putin stopped driving his Mercedes. But Sobchak did not," says Karen Dawisha, an American analyst and the author of Putin's Kleptocracy. Who Owns Russia? Related articles: Putin's Russia. The dangerous illusion of independent and western oligarchs (5) Putin’s Russia: What did Nemtsov’s assassination reveal about the current regime? "But he [Putin] did not sell his Mercedes either. It remained in the yard.
This is just to say that from a very early stage they understood that Putin was interested in acquiring wealth, but was going to be very careful in announcing that," she adds.
Dawisha learned this little anecdote from someone in the intelligence community who at the time was working in Saint Petersburg and watching Putin. The analyst says that American and Western European intelligence services had their eye on Putin from a very early stage. Still, they pushed a panic button when, in 1998, he was appointed to head the Federal Security Service (FSB)."But then it was a matter of months until he was prime minister, named by [President Boris] Yeltsin as his heir apparent. And immediately after that were the apartment bombings and the beginning of the war in Chechnya, which was too late [to react]," Dawisha summarizes how P
Putin's meteoric rise to power caught Western intelligence quite unprepared.
Boris Yeltsin and Vladimir Putin © Reuters/Scanpix Finally, on 11 September 2001, the United States was shocked to its core by terrorist attacks in New York and Washington and threw all its resources into war on terror. Putin was left alone to build his kleptocratic regime run by the siloviki, former agents of the Russian security agencies.
The meaning of exposés on preposterous wealthIn her book, Dawisha analyses the development of Russia's current power elite since the collapse of the USSR. The conclusion she draws is that siloviki from the KGB built a regime based on the silovarch class: former KGB agents turned into state-backed oligarchs who use national resources to build their personal wealth and influence.However, the solidity of this class seems to have started cracking after Russia's economy took a hit from targeted Western sanctions, a response to Moscow's aggression against Ukraine, and record-low oil prices which caused the rouble's exchange rate to plummet.
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