ElectricYerevan after midnight #Armenia #Yerevan pic.twitter.com/LaKC4pKBVEOriginally Posted by OUTLAW 09
ElectricYerevan after midnight #Armenia #Yerevan pic.twitter.com/LaKC4pKBVE
Good morning from Baghramyan Ave. #ElectricArmenia participants begin daily clean-up as protest enters its 7th day. pic.twitter.com/jw66o5G6tU
Just another day in the "routine of the eastern front".
Mariinka hit by GRAD MLRS rockets just 10 minutes ago: https://twitter.com/xuilolala/status/614371068548149248 …
12:44 #Donetskv @Serzzze [fb] #Trudovski can hear sporadic distant volleys since morning
12:43 #Maryinka @faina_ukr Incoming Grad
12:47 Didn't hear outgoing, flew over the house, "landed by sound on bypass road"
12:59 #Alchevsk @ZonaDonbassa "They didn't carry mortars around Alchevsk for a long, now they've driven"
ATO: Militants fire artillery on Hranitne, rocket-propelled grenades on Shyrokyne
http://www.unian.info/war/1094111-at...shyrokyne.html … pic.twitter.com/B0U454ZNMB
NSDC of Ukraine ✔ @NSDC_ua
Ukrainian police seized 4 anti-tank grenade launchers, 20 RGD-5 grenades, ammo in Avdiivka. pic.twitter.com/HA3fukXFwP
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Ukrainian counter-intelligence seized elements for UAV production that were about to be removed to “LPR”
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SBU detained 2 militant informers who confessed they were recruited by GRU operative.
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One Ukrainian servicemen KIA, 3 wounded in the last 24 hours.
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Ukrainian border guards spotted 7 flights of enemy UAVs
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Luhansk sector: Epicentre of fighting: Shchastya, Popasna, StanytsiaLuhanska. 2 civilians injured after militant mortar attack.
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Donetsk sector: 24/7 combat actions ongoing around the airport and Maryinka. No cases of heavy arms use recorded.
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Mariupol sector: fighting continued in Shyrokyne. Militants use reactive Grad-P rocket systems; enemy snipers active.
New type of 'sea shells' on Azov sea shores this summer.
pic.twitter.com/5XdiNq93xk
Appears the so called "ethnic Russian Ukrainians" are growing tired of their "Russian liberators and protectors".
So maybe the so called "Nazi junta" is appearing to be a far better choice for them?????
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Information about threats to anti-war activists in Donetsk confirmed: militants intimidate civilians who took to the streets a week ago.
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Social unrest intensifies in militant-controlled areas: rally took place in Dokuchayevsk against war & crimes of pro-RU fighters.
Merkel: Ukraine also violates Minsk Agreement, but separatist violations are greater. #Sigh #OMW
via @Ukropo4kA
WHY does she say that---- because Germans count “shooting back” as a violation—WHEREAS the US stated self defense is not a violation.
Still does not excuse Merkel from not condemning the constant mercenary shellings and ground attacks—the key question is WHY is she so silent as Minsk 2 was her product????
Cannot believe she believes the Ukrainians should simply hide in a bunker and allow themselves to be killed and wounded??????
Core question--is in fact Merkel trying now to appease Putin--especially after the announcement by Gazprom of a new North Stream pipeline being built with apparent German approval which will bypass the Ukraine.
The CIA downed MH17, Katyn was a lie, America is bad. The psychopath department at one of Moscow's biggest bookshops. pic.twitter.com/bwCR8oAMRA
New (VERY GRAPHIC) videos of the all-headshot-killed cyborgs January 2015 #executed
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ehDYy8nP2C8 …
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2zuCyVpmJXg …
More Russian "T-72B tanks of the army of New Russia". Srping 2015. https://vk.com/dnrarmy?z=photo-62474...-51146063_4029 … pic.twitter.com/OLFWdu5tH4
Militants present anti-tank rifle Simonov with 14.5 mm. Ammunition was found under a mattress https://youtu.be/tLxjAVvY7To pic.twitter.com/Llvva3kqvh
GRAPHIC Sick Russian b……… have entire VK-albums with dead Ukrainian soldiers from their 'Winter Campaign 2015' pic.twitter.com/4MI90xSrb4
General Staff of #Ukraine:54thous.#Russia|n soldiers at border with #Ukraina & in #Donbas:http://www.tvn24.pl/wojna-w-donbasie...,554965,s.html … #ATO pic.twitter.com/Ifk9uLnAko
Donbas on the brink of renewed hostilities: Heavy weapons used, residential areas under fire. - Purginhttp://dan-news.info/defence/situaci...ij-purgin.html …
IF true then we have a Russian leader who has so drunken his “own koolaid” that he cannot believe US intelligence does not know where his own troops are in the eastern Ukraine.
If you have a bad day, Peskov spokesperson for Putin helps:
"Putin told Obama in phone conversation that there are no Russiain troops in Ukraine"
Readout of the President’s Call with President Vladimir Putin of Russia
THE WHITE HOUSE
Office of the Press Secretary
June 25, 2015
President Vladimir Putin of the Russian Federation called President Obama today. They discussed the necessity of countering ISIL and developments in the Middle East, as well as the situation in Ukraine. President Obama reiterated the need for Russia to fulfill its commitments under the Minsk agreements, including the removal of all Russian troops and equipment from Ukrainian territory. The leaders discussed the increasingly dangerous situation in Syria, and underscored the importance of continued P5+1 unity in ongoing negotiations to prevent Iran from acquiring a nuclear weapon.
There is an old Ukrainian saying--if a "volunteer, vacationer, mercenary, former active duty service member is driving a T-72B2 THEN in fact he is Russian".
Maybe Obama needs to send Putin a certified copy of the Minsk 2 Agreement??
Another great example of Putin through such activity--- is trying to show his own civil population Russia is not isolated and he is equal to the superpower---the US "because see they are talking with me."
Just as the Russian media "crowed" "see the US DoS Kerry came to us at Sochi".
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THIS IS YOUR "EXAMPLE CEASEFIRE" MR. #STEINMEIER! Ukrainian Airborne troops against Russian Spetsnaz troops----
Ukrainians defending the front in #Avdeevkahttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CXjKDIyNlx0 … pic.twitter.com/BVfubU4Lcp
Another example for the #SteinmeierCeasefire in recent days: #Shyrokyne.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p_wN2HZkCEg …
pic.twitter.com/0I3RybREMb
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
Russian media is the most hated thing in Armenia at the moment. Not Russia. Not Russians. #ElectricYerevan
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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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
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...
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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