Situationen i Ukraina just nu, del 4

Färre ”förstod” hans uttalanden i mars i år när Strelkov, den förre ”försvarsministern i folkrepubliken Donetsk”, uppges ha förklarat att separatisterna bara hade åstadkommit elände.

Utan armé bakom sig är hans uttalanden ovanliga fenomen, i det att han förutspår att Putin-systemet oundvikligen är på väg mot kollaps.

Så kom en bekräftelse på detta i förra veckan i form av hans varning om kommande resningar och blodspillan inne i Ryssland.

Men ska vi nu ”förstå” Strelkov eller Kreml – eller är det bara Kreml som är ”Ryssland”? Och vad med det ”andra” Ryssland, det som vill vara demokratiskt och europeiskt? Om svar vi ber alla nödiga Putin-versteher.

On May 27th, Malinovsky court decided to release Evgeny Mefedov on house arrest after being in prison for more than two years for the case of May 2nd.

This provoked a negative reaction from those gathered in the hall's audience of extremist from organisations of the "Euromaidan" wing: "Self-Defense of Odessa", "Right Sector", "Svoboda", and others. Neo-Nazis blocked the door to the conference room from the inside in order to prevent the release of Mefedov, who was on the dock. Activists shouting threats at Mefedov, judges, and representatives of the state prosecution and erected barricades of furniture before the door to the hall. They demanded that the judges immediately return to the jury room and rewrite their decision in accordance with the wishes of "euromaidan protesters".

The judges ask law enforcement officers to record violations of the law (the pressure on the court and threats to the judges) by the activists, but they did nothing.

One of the participants of the blockade has already said that if the judges don't comply, the activists can turn the building of the Court of Appeal into another House of Trade Unions, alluding to the events of 2nd May 2014.

"We have established that on the territory of a concrete structure plant in Avdeevka, a soldier from the 16th battalion of the 58th UAF brigade - Sergey Vyacheslavovich Kondratyuk - was illegally detained, who is suspected of cooperating with the DPR, just because he was speaking by phone with relatives from the territory of the Donetsk Republic. The detainee was brutally tortured – his fingers were heavily damaged by a hammer," said Basurin.

Resultatet av plundringarna syns i statistiken. Mellan 1991 och 1997 föll Rysslands BNP med 83 procent.
Chockterapin stängde helt enkelt av den enorma ryska industrin.
Västerländska media, som matats fulla med visioner om den fantastiska framtid Ryssland gick till mötes, var överlag mycket försiktig med att rapportera om de fruktansvärda konsekvenserna av chockterapin.
Ett undantag var Rapports Peter Löfgren som berättade om hur matköerna ringlade sig längs med Moskvas gator.
Att denna baksida av chockterapin förmedlades till svenska folket retade Anders Åslund så till den grad att han i en artikel på Dagens Nyheters debattsida skrev:
”De få längre köer som finns kvar i Ryssland beror på att priserna på ett fåtal varor ännu någon tid är reglerade (även om det är svårt att tro det om man ser Peter Löfgrens militanta socialistiska rapportering i TV 2). (Dagens Nyheter 1992-05-30)”
http://josefsson.net/artikelarkiv/57...-ett-land.html

What follows is an object lesson in how a bitter hatred of a country or an institution, nurtured over a lifetime, can make an educated man forswear everything he ever learned in an effort to make the desired end-state a reality, against every single glimmer of common sense. In this, you can no longer tell hatred and besotted love apart, because both can cause the afflicted to make a fool of himself and not care, having lost sight of everything else but his objective.

I have speculated here in the past, several times, on the question whether Anders Aslund is (a) a victim of a progressive and creeping malady which is causing him to lose his mind, (b) a natural-born idiot who tricked the world into believing he is an economist, or (c) a madman who should be locked up. I am afraid I am no closer to an answer, although we can rule out (d), he is right and his advice is sensible. But perhaps if we break the situation down to two stark truths, you can help me reach a decision.

http://russia-insider.com/en/politic...-money/ri14843

I have had guns pointed at me, slept in a shipping container and walked past the corpses of shelling victims since the separatist insurgency in eastern Ukraine began two years ago. But I had never been blacklisted as a terrorist before

I have not, for example, had any trouble flying after appearing on what may be the world’s first list of terrorist journalists.

Hard-liners in Ukraine have been furious at the foreign press for some time now, arguing that any coverage of the rebels from their home base in the east played into Russia’s powerful propaganda machine

Applying for accreditation from Russian-backed rebels, according to the website, was enough to be branded a “terrorist accomplice.”

Groups supporting journalists quickly condemned the publication of the names — and in some cases home addresses — for seeming to invite violence against reporters.

A pro-Russian commentator living in Kiev, Oles Buzina, whose home address was publicized in a Myrotvorets post last year, was shot and killed on a street not far from his home days later.

But this time, the site was publishing names and contact details for 5,412 journalists, drivers, fixers, soundmen and translators.

In the face of criticism, the Myrotvorets website has doubled down, posting a sarcastic rejoinder. “Many journalists demanded an apology from us, and now we understand the reason for this,” the site wrote on May 20, two weeks after publishing the list of “terrorist accomplices” in the media. “The staff offer their sincere apologies in regards to the list not being fresh.” It then added new names

“War is like war,” he [Avakov] wrote on Facebook. “A friend sincerely fighting is more important for me than opinions of liberals and latent separatists who think too much of themselves.”

Ukraine's state oil and gas company Naftogaz has asked Russian energy giant Gazprom to resume the country's gas supplies, the RIA Novosti news agency reported Tuesday.

“When we learned that the special services of Ukraine were preparing an operation to liquidate Savchenko on the demarcation line in order to blame it on us, we held our own operation and brought this information to Savchenko via media,” the leader of Donbass stated.

According to Zakharchenko, the the information handed off apparently got to Savchenko before the organizers’ assassination attempt.

Den före detta fången Nadezhda Savchenko "är redo för att möta ledarna för Donetsk och Lugansk folkrepubliker. Dessutom svarar Savchenko negativt på frågan om Ukraina-regimens "president" Petro Poroshenko personligen bör förhandla med Donbass-ledarna . Hon konstaterade att som en ersättare, är hon redo för sådana förhandlingar personligen. Hon förklarade detta i direkt sändning på Radio Era