Napetost v Ukrajini - Krimu

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Dutch MP Pieter Omtzigt especially focussed on potential US military satellite data (including SBIRS data) in his questions, partially basing his information on this very blog. For those of you who understand Dutch, the most relevant of his questions pertaining to satellite data start at 10:30 in the video snippet at this link.

The answers by the DSB representatives were interesting: they seem to indicate that there are indeed satellite data, although it was not entirely clear what satellite data they were talking about: SBIRS IR detections of the missile launch and ascend trajectory, or KH-11 optical imagery of the relevant parts of the Ukraine before and after the shootdown. Their answers also seem to indicate that DSB members were given access to these data, but cannot publicly report on it because "State Secret"...

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Ever since my expert participation in the Dutch Parliament committee hearing of Jan 22, and ever since I expressed caution on this blog about certain satellite images and factually clearly incorrect statements on satellite positions released by the Russian dept. of Defense, some of the trolling has been directed at me.

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In a previous post I showed that a satellite image released by Russia, purported to be a Resurs P1 image from 17 July 2014 which claimed to show Ukrainian BUK's in a field near Zaroshchens’ke, is problematic. The viewing angles of the "BUK's" in the image do not appear to fit the satellite-to-location geometry, which only allows clearly oblique viewing angles between 45 and 57.5 degrees with the horizontal, from directions ranging from northwest via west to southwest (for more details, see my earlier post in question). I therefore urged caution with regard to these images.

My post has drawn fire on twitter, notably from a twitter user nicked "Masami Kuramoto". While the nick sounds Japanese, and the twitter account claims to be located in Germany, I have a strong suspicion that the entity behind it is Russian.

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after the coup that overthrew President Viktor Yanukovych the country is in social and economic free-fall.

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By Markus Salzmann
2 November 2015

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The surplus of Ukraine's national budget in January 1, 2016 reached UAH 2.45 billion, including UAH 1.7 billion of surplus for the general fund of the budget, while in January 2015 the deficit was UAH 9.18 billion, including UAH 11.1 billion for the general fund.

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The surplus of Ukraine's foreign trade balance in 2015 amounted to $4.06 billion, which is $710 million, or 21.1% more than in 2014, the State Statistics Service has said.

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U.S. agriculture giant Cargill and Ukraine's M.V. Cargo said they would build and operate a grain terminal at Ukraine's Black Sea port of Yuzhny under a $100 million joint venture agreement signed on Wednesday.

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Ukraine, which is set to export a record amount of grain this year, has said it wants to double loading capacity for grain exports from its ports over the next few years.

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According to its data, over the past year exports fell by 27.2%, to $46.65 billion, while imports by 29.9%, to $42.58 billion.

The service said that exports of goods in 2015 decreased by 29.3%, to $38.13 billion, imports by 31.1%, to $37.5 billion.

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Slovenija je v 2015 izvozila za 23.942,3 milijona EUR blaga (ali za 4,4 % več kot v 2014), uvozila pa je za 23.191,6 milijona EUR blaga (ali za 2,7 % več kot v 2014).

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The burial ground for thousands of victims of torture Ukrainian security forces in the Donbas built APU under Mariupol. Evidence of this has resulted in a live talk show "Special Correspondent" Foreign Ministry spokesman self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic Konstantin Dolgov. According to "Russian Spring", in the program, he cited information that buried in the cemetery missing people.

"Those data we have show that in the same Mariupol on the airfield, which now does not work, according to our information, which, unfortunately, is reliable, is a cemetery, where at least 2500 bodies of people who have disappeared without a trace. Before that they had been tortured, humiliated and live there no one got "- Dolgov said in a broadcast channel.

According to Foreign Ministry spokesman DNI, cemetery guarded by a battalion of volunteers, "Donbass", "Azov" and the National Guard under parts of Ukraine.

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Special Correspondent. Guantanamo Ukrainian. From 02.03.16

Russian passport, the Crimean residence, and even an airplane ticket to Moscow may become a reason for a person to be hit in the torture chambers of the concentration camp in the Ukraine. Documentary film-investigation Alexander Buzaladze "Prisoners".

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Spetsial'nyy korrespondent. Guantanamo po-ukrainski. Ot 02.03.16

Rossiyskiy pasport, krymskaya propiska i dazhe aviatsionnyy bilet v Moskvu mozhet stat' povodom dlya togo, chtoby chelovek popal v zastenki kontsentratsionnogo lagerya na Ukraine. Dokumental'nyy fil'm-rassledovaniye Aleksandra Buzaladze "Uzniki".

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Sergei Glazyev, an advisor to Putin, left no room for second-guessing this hostile gesture when he said that Ukraine’s tropism toward the EU was “suicidal,” perhaps only leaving out that the suicide would be assisted. In fact, Glazyev threatened to partition Ukraine as punishment, ominously warning that the Kremlin would be “legally entitled to support” ethnic Russians in the country who did not wish to move closer to Brussels—exactly the kind of language Moscow has used to justify a de facto military annexation of Georgia’s breakaway regions Abkhazia and South Ossetia.

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What is new in the Kremlin’s bullying of its “near abroad” is also new in Russia. Legalized bigotry, whereby “homosexual propaganda” —purportedly conceived to combat pedophilia but defined so nebulously as to endanger the entire gay population—is now being exported to Ukraine to scuttle Kiev’s lurch toward Brussels. A brilliant piece of investigative journalism, by J. Lester Feder of BuzzFeed, found that Ukraine’s growing anti-LGBT movement, rife with NGOs that equate the Association Agreement with the “homosexualizing of Ukraine,” is largely the work of Russian agitprop. One such group, Ukrainian Choice, Feder writes, is “funded by Viktor Medvedchuk, a wealthy businessman and former parliamentarian, who is so close to the Russian president that local media routinely allude to the fact that Vladimir Putin is his child’s godfather.” The EU thus faces a dilemma: push back against Ukrainian intolerance on a major civil rights issue and risk driving the country further into Moscow’s embrace; stay silent, and forfeit any economic compact in accordance with the Treaty of Rome’s rules on human rights requirements. It’s a zugzwang because either way, Putin wins. And he just did.

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I have a little 'working' cards in the collection recently that I like - and ten does not reach the last two years, and frankly I was shooting a little: there was no camera at hand, or the time, it was impossible, at times it was frankly terrible. The war passed by the lens.
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Later, the picture sold on the network, and became, in a sense, the last symbol of a peaceful demonstration in Donetsk in 2014 on Lenin Square.

For me this picture visualizes the last opportunity to assemble peacefully and without arms, to speak openly about the simple and important things, knowing that you threw eggs, but will speak and not be killed.

A week later, at the same meeting, on the same spot bloodshed and forensic workers marked it in his journal as the first victim of the armed conflict in the East of Ukraine.

And so it ended in a bloodless part of this war.

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The announced result of 89% matched the number requested by Russian politician Alexander Barkashov in a conversation that the SBU claimed to have recorded before the poll.

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This documentary lifts the veil on the deception of the US/Europe/NATO elites and their ever faithful media bullhorns. It informs us of a planned coup, described by the head of Stratfor as the most blatant ever, of the butchering of innocent people in the Odessa Trades Hall at the behest of politicians and oligarchs, and the continuing presence of heavily armed neo-Nazi thugs controlling the streets and occupying politically powerful positions in government.

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saopštio je na brifingu zamenik komandanta korpusa Ministarstva odbrane samoproglašene Donjecke Narodne Republike Eduard Basurin

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Here are some examples of "news" you could find on this site:

The Moon landings are a hoax.
Global warming is a hoax.
HIV is a hoax.[2]
Evolution is a hoax.[3][4]
Russia created two HIV vaccines in 2004[5], and one more in 2006 from genetically modified tomatoes.[6]
An alien base was filmed on the Moon.[7]
Support for Russian scientists who claim that the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is actually a time machine.[8]
That the FBI and CIA are fighting over access to a parallel world which allows time travel and therefore modification of our world.[9]
America is ready to attack Russia.
Nostradamus foresaw World War III in 2010.[10]
Atlantis was discovered under Antarctica.
Human and alien skulls were discovered on Mars.[11]
Fishermen caught and ate an alien.[12]
A young boy called Boris Kipriyanovich is an indigo child and the reincarnation of a Martian.[13]
America corrupts everything it touches.[14][15]
Ukrainian man eats only sunshine and lives by the law of flowers.[16]
Yemen has been attacked with nuclear weapons.[17]

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