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Practicing for Victory day parade...

Can you decipher the words being spoken? This does not look like a big deal. Misfires are common everywhere. The interesting part is that somebody has recorded this as fun, means this misfire was expected.

 

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Highly Graphic- Rarely Seen Video Due To US Media Coverup- Ukrainian Army Bombing Innocent People! 18+
Read more at LiveLeak.com - Highly Graphic- Rarely Seen Video Due To US Media Coverup- Ukrainian Army Bombing Innocent People! 18+

 

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Can you decipher the words being spoken? This does not look like a big deal. Misfires are common everywhere. The interesting part is that somebody has recorded this as fun, means this misfire was expected.

They are not practicing for the victory day parade. The misfire was probably not expected, and it looks like these are conscripts having fun at a failed missile launch.

 

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Gestapo-like Ukrainian site uploads data of opposition figures days before their assassinations
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@jouni, we estimate that 70% of the world is no longer with the West. West is fast losing influence over vast areas.
Some 50+ countries will send representatives to Russia's victory day celebrations (including China and India). Russia is not as isolated as seems from the Western reporting.

 

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Practicing for Victory day parade...

No .. that was amature fun

THI IS victory ( US ISS supply craft..)

 

[arpakola]

@jouni, we estimate that 70% of the world is no longer with the West. West is fast losing influence over vast areas.
Some 50+ countries will send representatives to Russia's victory day celebrations (including China and India). Russia is not as isolated as seems from the Western reporting.

Greek president will also be there ...
the decenders of ex Imperial forces still have the illusion that they are the centre of the earth..

 

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"Victory in the Great Patriotic War [as World War II is known in Russia] is the main source of national pride for Russia on the global level. The fact that Western leaders are not coming to its anniversary shows that they don't see Russia as a great power," Gelman said in a phone interview

Hard to sell that.
West..you guyz have no economy to sustain yourself.
We will listen when you have something to trade other than arrogance , lies and defense products if your unca Sam allows you to sell em.

EU Needs More Russian Gas in Coming Years - IEA

EU countries are interested in increasing gas supplies from Russia and other countries in the medium term, Russia's Program Manager at International Energy Agency (IEA) Marc-Antoine Eyl-Mazzega said Tuesday.

Read more: EU Needs More Russian Gas in Coming Years - IEA / Sputnik India English - News, Opinion, Radio

Read more: EU Needs More Russian Gas in Coming Years - IEA / Sputnik India English - News, Opinion, Radio

 

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Greek president will also be there ...
the decenders of ex Imperial forces still have the illusion that they are the centre of the earth..

I see that the Russian yearning to be counted as Europeans as the bigger problem for Putin compared to the sanctions. This is the reason Putin has to ensure economic growth and jobs stability. Economic growth can come from industrial and agricultural growth which is possible despite sanctions.

 

[jouni]

Hard to sell that.
West..you guyz have no economy to sustain yourself.
We will listen when you have something to trade other than arrogance , lies and defense products if your unca Sam allows you to sell em.

EU Needs More Russian Gas in Coming Years - IEA

Read more: EU Needs More Russian Gas in Coming Years - IEA / Sputnik India English - News, Opinion, Radio

Sputnik India english is even more bias than Guardian.

 

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Sputnik India english is even more bias than Guardian.

Its IEA not Russia.

Finland After Elections: Olli Rehn and Ministry of Hybrid Affairs

Finland After Elections: Olli Rehn and Ministry of Hybrid Affairs

The parliamentary election in Finland is kind of daily routine for Europe. The Centrists, Social-Democrats, the National Coalition Party"¦ Does it really matter if there is a master in the house? Helsinki snaps to attention and clicks heels upon receiving a command from Brussels. But there is a problem that cannot leave Finnish farsighted politicians and businessmen indifferent. Too many factors – geography, military and political issues, economic cooperation and history – make the relationship with Russia an issue which is always on the radar screen.

The election is over. The Centre Party won as expected and its leader Juha Sipilä is to form a government. The party's leadership is to hold talks on coalitions and cabinet positions. Well-informed sources say the appointment of Olli Rehn as Minister of Foreign Affairs is a slam dunk decision. He is a Brussels bureaucrat, a European MP and a soccer player who likes to thoughtfully stare into the distance and say many words that sound great but often have rather blur meanings. Still some of them could be made out.

On March 23, as the pre-election campaign was running in full swing, Rehn published an article in Finnish newspaper Maaseudun Tulevaisuus under a mysterious and alarming caption – Is Finland Unprepared for Hybrid War? What is it about? It goes without saying that the hybrid warfare threat is posed by Russia – the annexation of Crimea and the war in the eastern part of Ukraine are the best examples. No doubt, Finland is unprepared to meet the challenge. It means that with the election over, Finland should create appropriate structures to repel the hybrid aggressor. Naturally, the issue of NATO membership comes into spotlight.


Some people may find it rather amusing. Wait a moment, don't jump to conclusions! There is something for future Prime Minister to ponder. It all goes to show that Olli Rehn got too big for his britches. He needs a structure to match his capabilities as a political heavyweight, like, for instance, the Ministry of Hybrid Affairs. The main direction is the East, so he'll need a partner in Russia. Perhaps, some old friends from the Committee of the Soviet Youth Organizations (it was part of the International Department of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union) will pop up. Though most likely it will be a kind of mental institution.

The choice for publication is really intriguing. Maaseudun Tulevaisuus ("The Rural Future") covers news on agriculture and forestry as well as related businesses. The time is right for planting spring crops. All of a sudden hybrid warfare threats fill the agenda. Yikes!..

Now, there are some thoughts to share. Olli Rehn is the 20th in the list of newly elected centrist candidates. He ran in Helsinki (couldn't be any other place, he even speaks English!) and got"¦1, 9% of votes. As one can see he's a «really popular» high-profile politician to define the national foreign policy during the next four years. The only thing Russia can do is observe the principle of political correctness. It should go on saying there are no problems to effect the bilateral relations and keep harping on about the trade turnover statistics (is it up or down?).

Now a few additional words about popularity and justice.

For many years the position of defence minister has been held by the Swedish People's Party. It normally receives only a few percent of votes (due to only one constituency located in the west of the country) and then tries to independently define the military and political issues that influence everyday lives of over five million people. The trouble is that recently the Finnish Ministry of Defence has started to look at the security problems through the prism of Swedish defeat in the Battle of Poltava. The signature of Minister Carl Haglund on a Joint Declaration on the expansion of Nordic military cooperation made public by Norwegian Aftenposten on April 9 is the best testimony to the fact. The document made top Finnish officials wonder. The rhetoric of Haglund and some other officials about the need to boost the Nordic cooperation (naturally, in view of Russian threat) sounds too childish today. Generally speaking, it made sense in the mid-1930s against the background of talks about the policy of neutrality. Today Denmark, Iceland and Norway are NATO members. Should Finland follow the path of Baltic States forsaken by God? It's hard to say"¦

This time the Swedish People's Party got only 5% of votes. No great shakes! In some countries it would not even cross electoral threshold. Besides, it never rains, but it pours. The majority of Finnish MPs want to cancel mandatory Swedish in Finnish schools. Nevertheless the tradition is stronger than arithmetic and common sense.


Historia opettaa i.e. History teaches. Post-war generations of Finnish politicians have been guided by this maxim. All the talk about Finlandization is destined for those who don't know the real state of things. The truth is that Finland has always benefitted from the relationship with Russia, let it be politics, trade or economy. It strengthened its international standing and made its economic potential grow. Khrushchev and Brezhnev were the right partners to make deals with if one acted wisely and adopted balanced approaches. The great Finnish leaders – Juho Kusti Paasikivi and Urho Kaleva Kekkonen did just that.

"We, the Finns, have drawn lessons to make a conclusion that the attempts to make float political speculations about the Soviet Union are nothing but complete misinterpretation of things. It was a lip service paid to Finland. We built the relationship without outside intermediaries. We had no examples to follow. The process was based on bilateral talks in the spirit of confidence and mutual understanding. That's what it's going to be like in the future."

Tamminiemi is a small book written by late president Kekkonen. Actually, it's his political legacy. He thought hard before arriving at these conclusions after his country had gone through great hardships. The legacy has become forgotten, including by Olli Rehn, a hybrid politician, who represents the Finnish Centre Party – the party of Kekkonen.

Finland After Elections: Olli Rehn and Ministry of Hybrid Affairs | Oriental Review

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NATO installation in progress.

 

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duplicate entry.purged

 

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Visigoths in Rome 410 A.C

Ukies in Harkiv 2015 A.C

Homo Erectus just after 10.000 A.C.

 

[jouni]

Its IEA not Russia.

Finland After Elections: Olli Rehn and Ministry of Hybrid Affairs

Finland After Elections: Olli Rehn and Ministry of Hybrid Affairs

The parliamentary election in Finland is kind of daily routine for Europe. The Centrists, Social-Democrats, the National Coalition Party"¦ Does it really matter if there is a master in the house? Helsinki snaps to attention and clicks heels upon receiving a command from Brussels. But there is a problem that cannot leave Finnish farsighted politicians and businessmen indifferent. Too many factors – geography, military and political issues, economic cooperation and history – make the relationship with Russia an issue which is always on the radar screen.

The election is over. The Centre Party won as expected and its leader Juha Sipilä is to form a government. The party's leadership is to hold talks on coalitions and cabinet positions. Well-informed sources say the appointment of Olli Rehn as Minister of Foreign Affairs is a slam dunk decision. He is a Brussels bureaucrat, a European MP and a soccer player who likes to thoughtfully stare into the distance and say many words that sound great but often have rather blur meanings. Still some of them could be made out.

On March 23, as the pre-election campaign was running in full swing, Rehn published an article in Finnish newspaper Maaseudun Tulevaisuus under a mysterious and alarming caption – Is Finland Unprepared for Hybrid War? What is it about? It goes without saying that the hybrid warfare threat is posed by Russia – the annexation of Crimea and the war in the eastern part of Ukraine are the best examples. No doubt, Finland is unprepared to meet the challenge. It means that with the election over, Finland should create appropriate structures to repel the hybrid aggressor. Naturally, the issue of NATO membership comes into spotlight.


Some people may find it rather amusing. Wait a moment, don't jump to conclusions! There is something for future Prime Minister to ponder. It all goes to show that Olli Rehn got too big for his britches. He needs a structure to match his capabilities as a political heavyweight, like, for instance, the Ministry of Hybrid Affairs. The main direction is the East, so he'll need a partner in Russia. Perhaps, some old friends from the Committee of the Soviet Youth Organizations (it was part of the International Department of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union) will pop up. Though most likely it will be a kind of mental institution.

The choice for publication is really intriguing. Maaseudun Tulevaisuus ("The Rural Future") covers news on agriculture and forestry as well as related businesses. The time is right for planting spring crops. All of a sudden hybrid warfare threats fill the agenda. Yikes!..

Now, there are some thoughts to share. Olli Rehn is the 20th in the list of newly elected centrist candidates. He ran in Helsinki (couldn't be any other place, he even speaks English!) and got"¦1, 9% of votes. As one can see he's a «really popular» high-profile politician to define the national foreign policy during the next four years. The only thing Russia can do is observe the principle of political correctness. It should go on saying there are no problems to effect the bilateral relations and keep harping on about the trade turnover statistics (is it up or down?).

Now a few additional words about popularity and justice.

For many years the position of defence minister has been held by the Swedish People's Party. It normally receives only a few percent of votes (due to only one constituency located in the west of the country) and then tries to independently define the military and political issues that influence everyday lives of over five million people. The trouble is that recently the Finnish Ministry of Defence has started to look at the security problems through the prism of Swedish defeat in the Battle of Poltava. The signature of Minister Carl Haglund on a Joint Declaration on the expansion of Nordic military cooperation made public by Norwegian Aftenposten on April 9 is the best testimony to the fact. The document made top Finnish officials wonder. The rhetoric of Haglund and some other officials about the need to boost the Nordic cooperation (naturally, in view of Russian threat) sounds too childish today. Generally speaking, it made sense in the mid-1930s against the background of talks about the policy of neutrality. Today Denmark, Iceland and Norway are NATO members. Should Finland follow the path of Baltic States forsaken by God? It's hard to say"¦

This time the Swedish People's Party got only 5% of votes. No great shakes! In some countries it would not even cross electoral threshold. Besides, it never rains, but it pours. The majority of Finnish MPs want to cancel mandatory Swedish in Finnish schools. Nevertheless the tradition is stronger than arithmetic and common sense.


Historia opettaa i.e. History teaches. Post-war generations of Finnish politicians have been guided by this maxim. All the talk about Finlandization is destined for those who don't know the real state of things. The truth is that Finland has always benefitted from the relationship with Russia, let it be politics, trade or economy. It strengthened its international standing and made its economic potential grow. Khrushchev and Brezhnev were the right partners to make deals with if one acted wisely and adopted balanced approaches. The great Finnish leaders – Juho Kusti Paasikivi and Urho Kaleva Kekkonen did just that.

"We, the Finns, have drawn lessons to make a conclusion that the attempts to make float political speculations about the Soviet Union are nothing but complete misinterpretation of things. It was a lip service paid to Finland. We built the relationship without outside intermediaries. We had no examples to follow. The process was based on bilateral talks in the spirit of confidence and mutual understanding. That's what it's going to be like in the future."

Tamminiemi is a small book written by late president Kekkonen. Actually, it's his political legacy. He thought hard before arriving at these conclusions after his country had gone through great hardships. The legacy has become forgotten, including by Olli Rehn, a hybrid politician, who represents the Finnish Centre Party – the party of Kekkonen.

Finland After Elections: Olli Rehn and Ministry of Hybrid Affairs�|�Oriental Review

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NATO installation in progress.

Maybe he is better foreign minister, he won land slide in elections and like to drink. So does the Russians.

 

[jouni]

@jouni, we estimate that 70% of the world is no longer with the West. West is fast losing influence over vast areas.
Some 50+ countries will send representatives to Russia's victory day celebrations (including China and India). Russia is not as isolated as seems from the Western reporting.

Great to see Indian leaders take part. I can understand the sacrification brave Indian soldiers gave in WWII, 80000 lives. It is the same total of also Finns who gave their lives in that war.

 

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Polish MEP on Ukraine Snipers: US, Not Russia, Sought Destabilization
Read more: Polish MEP on Ukraine Snipers: US, Not Russia, Sought Destabilization / Sputnik International

Janusz Korwin-Mikke, the Polish MEP who stated that the Maidan snipers were trained in his country, has told Sputnik that Polish participation in the events of Maidan is a well-known fact, adding that the US, not Russia, stood to gain from the country's destabilization.

Russian Diplomat Says 'Truth is Finding Its Way' Regarding Maidan Snipers
Speaking to Sputnik about his sensational commentary for Polish media last week that the Maidan snipers received training in Poland, Korwin-Mikke noted that "with regard to Warsaw's official participation in the Euromaidan and in the Ukrainian crisis as a whole, this is a well-known fact. [Estonian Foreign Minister] Urmas Paet's leaked conversation with Baroness Catherine Ashton [the EU's High Representative on Foreign Affairs and Security Policy] indicates clearly who had their fingers in the pie, so to speak."
Korwin-Mikke noted that "a number of signals" have indicated that "the [Maidan] terrorists were trained in Poland. The Lithuanians confirm this." The politician acknowledged that "it's possible that these people were trained in various centers. Perhaps someday it will be revealed where exactly the training took place."

Speaking to Polish media last week, the right-libertarian politician and presidential candidate stated that the operation to destabilize Ukraine to overthrow the unpopular but democratically elected president Viktor Yanukovych was in part a Polish operation, with the mysterious snipers who killed dozens of protesters, along with police officers, were at least partially trained in Poland.

In Tuesday's commentary for Sputnik, Korwin-Mikke noted that his assertions come down to the logic behind the events. "After all, it's clear that the United States, not Russia, were the ones interested in seeing Ukraine destabilized. If someone is to say that Mr. Yanukovych was more friendly toward Russia than Poroshenko, isn't it clear that Russia was not interested in destabilizing Ukraine?"
Running as the candidate from the Coalition for the Renewal of the Republic –Freedom and Hope in this May's upcoming presidential elections, Korwin-Mikke explained that "my election program differs from mainstream political parties, since I do not support a policy of senselessly attacking Russia for crimes she did not commit." The MEP believes that both of Poland's leading parliamentary parties, the Christian democratic Civic Platform and the conservative Law and Justice Party, have lost their independence, and serve at the behest of Berlin and Washington.

 

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Russia Slips Back to Suffocating Stagnation
By Andrei MalginApr. 21 2015 17:01 Last edited 17:01

Wikicommons
I spent the years of my youth in the latter part of former Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev's rule — a period now called "the years of stagnation." The authorities did not shoot people then, as they had under former Soviet leader Josef Stalin, but the heavily oppressive and pervasive government ideology crushed the life out of everything.

Severe restrictions were placed on art, literature and science and the Iron Curtain kept the Soviet Union almost hermetically sealed off from any outside influences or information. The social atmosphere was stifling: it was difficult to breathe.

And we had the feeling that things would always be that way, that we would have to live out our days with little or no air. Nobody could have imagined that the country's social life would lurch into motion — as it soon did under former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev. What's more, nobody had the slightest inclination that the Soviet Union would collapse in only a few years.

For all their fundamental differences, the regimes of President Vladimir Putin and Leonid Brezhnev share one thing in common: the lack of air in the social atmosphere. The authorities now punish artistic innovation, label criticism of the regime as extremism threatening the system as a whole, and most importantly, actively foster the idea that Russia is surrounded by enemies. Isolationism is the dominant slogan now.

The current generation of Russian intellectuals has not forgotten the initial years of freedom between the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 and the first seven years of Putin's rule. With only rare exceptions, Putin was yet to force artistic expression and intellectual activity into a suffocating framework or try to rewrite history as he is doing now.

The people who grew up during those years of freedom — who never lived under Brezhnev, much less former Soviet leaders Nikita Khrushchev or Josef Stalin — harbor the hope that the current reactionary period is only temporary, that Putin will either disappear from the scene soon or else change his mind and alter course. At least this is what that generation of intellectuals thinks, not the masses.

The well-known art dealer and cultural figure Marat Gelman, who was forced to leave Russia, gave an interview on Dozhd television. "I am here in Montenegro," he said. "Fifteen of us have gathered already, and we are here to wait out Medinsky," a reference to Putin's odious Culture Minister Vladimir Medinsky.

That is, they hope to return to a post-Medinsky Russia that once again enjoys creative freedom and has once more turned its face toward civilization.

If I had managed to call into the television program after Gelman made that comment, I would have told him, "Don't bet on it!"

And I am not referring only to a particular minister by the name of Medinsky, or even a particular president by the name of Putin. Medinsky might lose his job and Putin could exit the scene in a variety of ways. But even if that were to happen, a new "Medinsky" and a new "Putin" would only take their places.

The negative changes that have occurred to the political system and society run so deep that the country simple cannot become healthy in less than one decade. I am very pessimistic in this regard, and guess that Russians will have to suffer through some form of Putinism not for several more decades, but for several more generations.

After only a brief hiatus, every oppressive construct that the Soviet Union created with violence — a system that former U.S. President Ronald Reagan rightly called the "evil empire" — has now sprung to life again.

In 1920, H.G. Wells wrote a book about this country that he called "Russia in the Shadows." Almost 100 years after Wells penned those words, the light shone only very briefly before Russia once again retreated into darkness.
http://www.themoscowtimes.com/opini...ps-back-to-suffocating-stagnation/519460.html

Sad words, Germany learned from the past, current Germany has nothing to do with Hitlers Reich....Russia learned NOTHING!

 

[jouni]

Hollande Hints France Could Kill Controversial Mistral Warship Deal | Business | The Moscow Times

 

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Hollande Hints France Could Kill Controversial Mistral Warship Deal | Business | The Moscow Times

Unca Sam owns you all lil minions

 

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Latest Document;
Russian nuclear forces, 2015
[pdf]http://bos.sagepub.com/content/early/2015/04/13/0096340215581363.full.pdf+html[/pdf]