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And save this happiness,
When and wherever to wander–
Such as grandfathers ,to lay down in earth.
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 16px;">As a rule, when Western economists offer estimates of the reparations that were delivered to the USSR after the Second World War, they more or less agree with the figures published in the 1980s by the West German government. The overwhelming majority of the reparations sent to the USSR from the countries of Eastern Europe were in the form of the products being manufactured at that time in those nations. It is worth noting that some Eastern European countries were sending reparations to the USSR while simultaneously receiving Soviet aid. The following table provides estimates taken from the work of the American economist Peter Liberman. These figures show that 85% of all the <a href="http://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2015/05/07/reparations-from-the-second-world-war.-stalins-generous-gesture.html" style="color: #3399cc;" target="_blank">reparations deliveries</a> from Eastern Europe to the Soviet Union came from the German Democratic Republic. </span></span></div>
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<strong><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 16px;">The balance of transfers from the countries of Eastern Europe to the USSR, 1945-1960 (in millions of dollars)</span></span></strong></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 16px;">Reparations to the USSR</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 16px;">Deliveries (current industrial output)</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 16px;">Booty</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 16px;">Other*</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 16px;">GDR</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 16px;">16,849</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 16px;">15,063</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">1,333</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 16px;">453</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 16px;">62</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 16px;">16,787</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 16px;">Romania</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 16px;">1,413</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 16px;">880</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 16px;">333</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 16px;">200</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 16px;">58</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 16px;">1,355</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 16px;">Hungary</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 16px;">977</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 16px;">449</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 16px;">333</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 16px;">150</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 16px;">99</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 16px;">878</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 16px;">Poland</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 16px;">626</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 16px;">626</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 16px;">-</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 16px;">-</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 16px;">842</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 16px;">-216</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 16px;">Bulgaria</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 16px;">6</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 16px;">-</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 16px;">-</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 16px;">6</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 16px;">89</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 16px;">-83</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 16px;">Czechoslovakia</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 16px;">-</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 16px;">-</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 16px;">-</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 16px;">-</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 16px;">16</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 16px;">-16</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 16px;">Total</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 16px;">19,871</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 16px;">17,018</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 16px;">2,000</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 16px;">809</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 16px;">1,166</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 16px;">18,705</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">(*) Primarily through purchasing shares and equity on favorable terms in local companies / Soviet joint-stock companies and supplying them with raw materials on favorable terms. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Source: Peter Liberman. Does Conquest Pay? The Exploitation of Occupied Industrial Societies. Princeton University Press, 1998, р. 129</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 16px;">However, estimates vary greatly in regard to how much Germany paid the Soviet Union in reparations. In his book, A Failed Empire: The Soviet Union in the Cold War from Stalin to Gorbachev (University of North Carolina Press, 2007), Vladislav Zubok, a history professor at Temple University (USA), claims, “By 1953 the GDR had paid more than 4 billion U.S. dollars in reparations but still owed the Soviet Union and Poland 2.7 billion dollars, or annual budget expenses of more than 211 million dollars.” From these numbers, one can deduce that the total reparations paid during the eight-year period of 1953-1960 amounted to one billion, 688 million dollars, which can be rounded to $1.7 billion. And from the end of the war until 1960, inclusive, the Soviet Union received $5.7 billion in reparations, although part of those proceeds was transferred to Poland. That total is only one-third of the figure cited by Peter Liberman. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 16px;">All of Germany was to pay reparations to the Soviet Union (and via the USSR to Poland). However, in 1946 shipments of reparations to the East from the western occupation sectors came to a halt because of obstruction by the Anglo-American allies. After that, the entire burden of reparations fell to East Germany, which was under the control of the Soviet Union. A study by the German historian Christoph Klessmann (1) claims that by 1950 East Germany had paid a total of $3.66 billion in reparations (almost entirely in kind). According to this data, by the beginning of 1950 the GDR’s outstanding reparations debt came to $6.34 billion dollars. In May 1952, at the request of Otto Grotewohl, Stalin agreed to reduce the remaining balance by half, i.e., to $3.17 billion. Thus, the GDR’s total reparations debt was reduced from $10 billion to $6.83 billion, and the country was given an extra 15 years to repay it. I.e., when calculated annually, that works out to the $211 million Vladislav Zubok mentions. The terms of that agreement were met before the end of 1952, and in 1953 Moscow decided to suspend the reparations payments (or to be more accurate - the reparations deliveries). Between 1945 and 1952, East Germany repaid $4,080.8 million of her reparations commitments. In fact, the reparations paid by the GDR were equal to 40.8% of the original amount of her reparations commitments and 59.7% of the adjusted amount. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 16px;">And how do the reparations transfers to the Soviet Union compare to the reparations received by the Western countries? The statistics on the reparations that went to the West are extremely ambiguous. In the first few years after the war, the USA, Great Britain, and France focused on exporting coal and coke out of their zones of occupation. In addition, they worked assiduously to chop down forests and export the timber. It is worth noting that the allies refused to allow the Germans to credit most of that wood and coal toward their outstanding reparations balance. Equipment worth three billion marks (about $1.2 billion) was dismantled and exported from the western zones. In addition, the US, Great Britain, and France seized a total of 277 tons of German gold (worth almost $300 million), as well as sea and river vessels valued at $200 million. The Western allies assumed control of Germany’s foreign cash holdings of 8-10 billion marks ($3.2-4.0 billion). The value of the German patents and technical documentation confiscated by the United States and Great Britain has been estimated at approximately $5 billion. It is difficult to assess the worth of all the German reparations received by the West, because much of it (especially patents and technical documentation) was confiscated without being officially registered or tallied, and was never included in the reparations statistics. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 16px;">The claim that Germany has paid in full for the damages that the Soviet Union suffered during the Great Patriotic War is, to put it mildly, somewhat dubious. Of course, if one compares it to the number Stalin named at the Yalta Conference as his suggested price tag for the reparations the Soviet Union should receive ($10 billion), then Germany has even overpaid. But the total reparations bill owed by the countries of Eastern Europe to the Soviet Union turned out to be twice as much as Stalin requested in early 1945. However, if one compares the actual reparations to the estimates made by the Extraordinary State Commission of the Soviet Union to assess the damage caused by the war, and then looks at the data from the West German Ministry of Finance, it turns out that the reparations paid by Germany offset only 12.3% of the total direct damages and 4.4% of all damages that were inflicted on the Soviet Union by Nazi Germany and her allies during the years of war. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 16px;">Let us not forget that the price for reparations quoted by Stalin at the Yalta Conference - $10 billion - was not an official number. The specific terms for the payment of WWII reparations by Germany and her allies were the subject of fairly lengthy discussions during the meetings of the Permanent Council of Foreign Ministers of the major victorious countries (which functioned until the end of the 1940s). As we have noted, Germany’s total bill for reparations owed was never established. Two obvious conclusions can be drawn in regard to German reparations to the Soviet Union: 1) The commitments for the reparations deliveries from Germany’s western occupation sectors to the USSR were never honored. In 1946, shipments to the East of equipment and manufactured products from these sectors were suspended at the initiative of the US and Great Britain, which unleashed the Cold War. 2) Fewer than half of the original commitments to send reparations from the eastern occupation sector (and from the GDR after 1949) were met. The GDR did not fully honor her reparations commitments even after they were adjusted in 1950. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 16px;">But a much clearer picture emerges when looking at the reparations commitments that were met by the countries that were German allies in the Second World War. The victorious countries held a conference in Paris in 1946, where they set the terms of their peace treaties with five states that were allied with Nazi Germany (Italy, Hungary, Bulgaria, Romania, and Finland). The victorious countries signed a great many bilateral peace treaties with those five states. Those treaties are collectively known as the Paris Peace Treaties, and they all went into effect simultaneously on Sept.15, 1947. Each bilateral treaty contained articles (sections) on reparations. For example, the bilateral treaty between the USSR and Finland stipulated that the latter must compensate the Soviet Union for the harm that had been inflicted upon her ($300 million), and return valuables that had been taken from Soviet territory. The Soviet-Italian treaty required Italy to pay the USSR reparations of $100 million.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 16px;">It should be noted that only Finland fully honored all her reparations commitments to the victorious countries. Experts claim that Italy has not paid her reparations in full. Hungary, Romania, and Bulgaria became members of the Council for Mutual Economic Assistance (CMEA) in 1949, and Moscow withdrew its reparations claims against them. Reparations from the era of the Second World War have not reemerged as a subject of discussion since 1975 when the Helsinki Accords were signed. However, in the late twentieth century the West unilaterally shattered the Yalta-Potsdam system of international relations and circumvented the precepts that had been formalized in the Helsinki Accords in 1975. With this in mind, it makes sense to refresh our collective memory regarding the history of German reparations and resubmit the bill that resulted from that war, which Germany has never paid in full. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">(3) Klessmann C. Die doppelte Staatsgruendung. Deutsche Geschichte 1945-1955. Bonn, 1986.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Source:<a href="http://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2015/05/08/reparations-from-world-war-ii-that-case-is-not-yet-closed.html" target="_blank">http://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2015/05/08/reparations-from-world-war-ii-that-case-is-not-yet-closed.html</a></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16px;">Of all the harm inflicted on all the Allied countries (the Soviet Union, United States, Great Britain, and France) during the Second World War, approximately half occurred in the USSR.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16px;">At the Yalta Conference in February 1945, Stalin suggested that Germany pay a total of $20 billion in reparations, anticipating that half of that sum ($10 billion) would go to the Soviet Union - the country that had made the greatest contribution to the victory and endured more than any of the other nations in the anti-Hitler coalition. With some conditions, Franklin D. Roosevelt and Winston Churchill agreed to Josef Stalin’s suggestion.Ten billion dollars is approximately what the US spent on aid to the Soviet Union under the lend-lease program during the years of the Second World War. Ten billion US dollars, when they were backed by gold (one dollar at that time was technically worth 1/35 troy ounce of gold), were equal to 10,000 tons of gold, so the entirety of the reparations was worth 20,000 tons of gold. In fact, the German reparations that the USSR agreed to accept would barely provide compensation for a mere 8% of the direct damages inflicted upon the Soviets. And the costs of only 2.8% of the total damages were recouped. This appeared to be a generous gesture on Stalin’s part.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16px;">These figures stand in stark contrast to the enormous bill for reparations that the Entente Powers (excluding Russia) submitted to Germany at the Paris Conference in 1919. The Treaty of Versailles set the amount of reparations at 269 billion gold marks - the equivalent of approximately 100,000 (!) tons of gold. That nation, which had initially been battered and weakened by the economic crisis of the 1920s, and later by the Great Depression, was unable to pay the enormous sums demanded as reparations and was forced to borrow from other countries in order to meet the terms of the treaty. In 1921, the Reparations Commission reduced the amount to $132 billion, or by approximately 50%, but even that new sum was the equivalent of 50,000 tons of gold. When Hitler took power in 1933 he put an end to the reparations payments altogether. After the Second World War and the establishment of the Federal Republic of Germany in 1949, the foreign ministers of the US, UK, and France forced that new nation to resume payments on the debts owed under the Treaty of Versailles. In accordance with the 1953 London Debt Agreement, the German lands that had been lost after the war were permitted to forgo interest payments until after East and West Germany were reunified. The reunification of Germany on Oct. 3, 1990 reinstated her reparations obligations under the Treaty of Versailles. Germany was given a respite of 20 years to pay off her debts, for which the country had to take out a twenty-year loan of 239.4 million marks. Only late in 2010 did Germany make her final reparations payment to her closest allies. This was very different from the Soviet Union’s policy - only a few years after the end of WWII the USSR refused reparations from Romania, Bulgaria, and Hungary, which were by then fellow members of the socialist community! Even East Germany stopped making any reparations payments to the Soviet Union shortly after that nation was established.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16px;">Stalin did not want to see a replay of what had happened in Germany and Europe after the Treaty of Versailles was signed. It was precisely that treaty that forced Germany into a corner and set the stage for Europe’s slide into the Second World War. Speaking about the peace treaty with Hungary at the Paris Peace Conference, Andrei Vyshinsky, at that time the Soviet deputy minister of foreign affairs, explained the idea behind the Soviet policy on reparations, “The Soviet government consistently follows this line in its reparations policy, which consists of starting with a realistic plan, so as not to suffocate Hungary or rip up the roots of her economic recovery, but rather to help in her economic revival, help her get back on her feet, and help her to join the common family of the United Nations and to play a role in Europe’s economic revival.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16px;">The USSR also took this magnanimous approach to other countries that had fought alongside the Germans. This can be seen in the peace treaty with Italy that required the payment of $100 million in restitution to the Soviet Union, although this offset no more than 4-5% of the direct damage inflicted on the USSR.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16px;">The principle behind this magnanimous approach to determining the sum of the reparations settlements complemented another important principle of Soviet policy - that of using a country’s current industrial outputas the principle means of discharging the reparations debts. This principle was phrased with due regard for the lessons of the First World War. It is important to remember that the demands for reparations imposed on Germany after World War I were exclusively monetary, and to be paid in foreign currency. As a result, Germany had to focus on manufacturing products that were never intended to supply her domestic market with basic necessities, but were instead destined for export, in order to obtain the needed foreign currency. In addition, Germany was compelled to obtain loans in order to pay off each new installment of her reparations bill, which forced her into debt bondage. The Soviet Union had no desire to see that repeated. Vyacheslav Molotovexplained the Soviet position at a session of the Council of Foreign Ministers on Dec. 12, 1947: “No deliveries of reparations are currently being made from the western zones, and industry in the combined Anglo-American zone is operating at only 35% of its 1938 level. Deliveries of reparations are currently being received from the Soviet zone in Germany, and industry there is operating at 52% of its 1938 level. Thus, the index of industrial production in the Soviet zone - even though a more challenging environment exists here for industrial recovery - is 50% higher than the index of industrial production in the Anglo-American zone.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16px;">At the Yalta Conference, the leaders of the USSR, USA, and Great Britain reached an agreement regarding the principle of the non-monetary nature of the reparations. The Anglo-American allies once again endorsed this at the Potsdam Conference. But in 1946 they began to work actively to scuttle this policy. In addition, they also undermined other agreements pertaining to reparations. Even at the Potsdam Conference, the allies of the USSR agreed that Germany could partially offset her reparations debts by supplying products and dismantling equipment in the western occupation zones. However, the allies devised obstacles to prevent the Soviets from obtaining goods and equipment from the western occupation zones (only a small percentage of the planned quantities were received).</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16px;">One consequence of the Cold War launched against the USSR by the West in 1946 was that no single mechanism for the allies to collect and tally reparations was ever created. And once the Federal Republic of Germany was established in the western zones of occupation in 1949, any opportunity for the Soviet Union to obtain reparations compensation from western Germany vanished forever.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16px;">After the Yalta Conference, the precise total of the reparations imposed on Germany after the Second World War was never again cited. And that issue remains fairly opaque. The full sum of Germany’s reparations debts was not documented. An effective mechanism was never created for the centralized collection and tallying of Germany’s reparations payments. The victorious countries satisfied their reparations claims against Germany unilaterally.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16px;">Judging by statements from her officials, not even Germany herself knows exactly how much she has paid in reparations. The Soviet Union preferred not to receive reparations in cash, but in kind. According to Russian historian Mikhail Semiryaga, for one year beginning in March 1945, the highest bodies of power in the Soviet Union made almost a thousand decisions related to the dismantling of 4,389 companies from Germany, Austria, Hungary, and other European countries. In addition, approximately one thousand factories were moved to the USSR from Manchuria and even Korea. These are impressive figures. But that depends what you compare them to. The Nazi invaders razed 32,000 industrial plants in the USSR. That means that the number of manufacturing facilities dismantled by the Soviet Union in Germany, Austria, and Hungary represented merely 14% of what was destroyed in the USSR. According to Nikolai Voznesensky, who was at that time the chairman of the Soviet Union’s Gosplan Committee, the value of the equipment taken as spoils from Germany compensated the Soviet Union for only 0.6% of the direct damage she suffered.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16px;">Some data can be found in German documents. Thus, according to information from the West German Ministry of Finance and the Federal Ministry of Intra-German Relations, all that was confiscated from the Soviet occupation zone and the GDR prior to 1953 was worth 66.4 billion marks, or 15.8 billion dollars. German experts claim this is equivalent to $400 billion in today’s dollars. Confiscations were made both in kind as well as in cash. The reparations that passed from Germany to the USSR primarily consisted of the following (in billions of marks): goods currently being manufactured by German firms - 34.70 and cash payments in various currencies (including occupation Reichsmarks) - 15.0.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16px;">Between 1945 and 1946 a common form of reparations consisted of dismantled equipment from German companies that was sent to the USSR. In March 1945 a Special Committee of the Soviet State Defense Committee was created in Moscow, which coordinated all the work to dismantle German military-industrial facilities in the Soviet zone of occupation. Between March 1945 and March 1946, decisions were made to dismantle more than 4,000 industrial plants: 2,885 from Germany, 1,137 from German companies in Poland, 206 from Austria, 11 from Hungary, and 54 from Czechoslovakia. The key equipment was dismantled at 3,474 sites, and 1,118 million pieces of equipment were confiscated: 339,000 metal-cutting tools, 44,000 presses and sledgehammers, and 202,000 electric motors. Sixty-seven factories that manufactured only military goods were dismantled in the Soviet zone, 170 were destroyed, and 8 were converted to civilian production.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16px;">However, once this equipment was dismantled, manufacturing came to a halt in eastern Germany and unemployment surged, so by early 1947 the Soviets began to limit reparations of this type. Instead, 31 joint-stock companies created with Soviet entities were established, based on 119 large firms in the eastern occupation zone. In 1950, these were responsible for 22% of the GDR’s industrial output. In 1954, all joint-stock companies created with Soviet entities were freely transferred to the German Democratic Republic. This represented the final word in that chapter from the history of WWII reparations.</span></div>
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TOMSK, May 9. /TASS/. Up to one million people worldwide will take part in the so-called "Immortal Regiment’ marches, during which ordinary people carry photographs of their relatives who took part in the Great Patriotic War (a term used in Russia and other former Soviet republics to describe hostilities on the eastern fronts of World War II in 1941-1945).</div>
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The Immortal Regiment action was first held in the Siberian city of Tomsk in 2012. In 2013, it was already held in 120 cities with Kazakhstan and Ukrainian joining the event, which gathered a total of about 200,000 people.</div>
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Last year the Immortal Regiment was joined by Israel, Kyrgyzstan and Belarus. This year the event already took place in the United States and is expected to be held several cities of Norway, the German capital of Berlin, Dublin, Beirut, Vienna and other cities.</div>
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At least 150,000 people are expected to take part in the march of the Immortal Regiment in the Russian capital of Moscow after President Vladimir Putin permitted them to march down the central Tverskaya Street and Red Square after the annual Victory Day Parade.</div>
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The anniversary parade in Moscow on May 9 will be one of the most massive events in the history of celebrations.</div>
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The parade will showcase 16,000 military servicemen marching, 194 units of military hardware and 143 combat aircraft.</div>
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A historic reconstruction is also planned for the parade. Some people will be dressed in uniforms of the times of the Great Patriotic War - infantrymen, sailors, pilots, sappers, cavalrymen and Cossacks.</div>
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Military units from Azerbaijan, Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, India, Mongolia, Serbia, China will participate in the parade.</div>
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Around 2,300 people have been invited to the Red Square for celebrations, including veterans from Russia and abroad.</div>
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According to official data, about 27 million Soviet citizens, including both civilians and servicemen, died in the Great Patriotic War against Nazi Germany in 1941-1945.</div>
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Source: <a href="http://tass.ru/en/russia/793840" target="_blank">http://tass.ru/en/russia/793840</a></div>
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Christina Bezhanitskaya- 18.03.92-02.05.2014 - I was beaten to death</div>
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Aleksandr Zhul'kov - I was shooted<br />
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Gennady Petrov - I was shooted<br />
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Andrey Brazhevsky- I jumped out of window and down the fire escape, after I was finished off<br />
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Vadim Negaturov - I died of burns<br />
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Igor Zayats -I jumped out of window<br />
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Irina Yakovenko - I was strangulated<br />
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Vladimir Brygar' - I was shooted<br />
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Evgeny Mitchik - I was stifled by smoke<br />
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Svetlana Pikalova - I was stifled by smoke<br />
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Vladimir Novitsky - I was burnt alive<br />
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Nina Lomakina - I was stifled by smoke<br />
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Victor Polevoy - I died of burns<br />
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Evgeny Losinskiy - I was shooted<br />
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Aleksandr Konanov - I was stifled by smoke<br />
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Aleksey Balaban - I was shooted<br />
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Yuriy Karasev -I burnt alive<br />
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Serghey Kostyukhin - I burnt alive<br />
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Ivan Milev - I was stifled by smoke<br />
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Nikolay Yavorskiy - I was shooted<br />
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Igor' Lukas - I was stifled by smoke<br />
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Andrey Gnatenko - I was stifled by smoke<br />
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Leonid Berezovskiy - I burnt alive<br />
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Igor Ostroznuk - I jumped out of window and down the fire escape, after I was finished off<br />
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Anna Verenikina - I was stifled by smoke<br />
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Aleksandr Sadovnichiy - I burnt alive<br />
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Gennady Kushnarev - I was shooted<br />
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Nikolay Kovriga - I was beaten to death<br />
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Victor Bullakh - I was injured, thrown out of window, finished off<br />
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Victor Gunn - I was burnt alive<br />
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Anatoly Kalin - I was throwned out of window<br />
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Sergey Mishin - I was burnt alive<br />
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Galina, 86, looks at the hole where a shell hit her apartment in Kievsky district in Donetsk, Ukraine.</div>
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<em>The industrial city of Gorlovka in eastern <a href="https://www.doctorswithoutborders.org/country-region/ukraine" style="color: #2f4464; font-weight: bold; outline: none; word-break: normal !important;">Ukraine</a> is under constant shelling, its hospitals are overwhelmed with wounded, and medical supplies have run out, leaving many doctors no choice but to stitch up patients with fishing line. Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) surgeon Dr. Michael Roesch is supporting the Ukrainian surgical team in Hospital #2. Here, he describes his experience:</em></div>
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I arrived in Gorlovka six days ago and went straight to the hospital. The main operating theaters up on the sixth floor are no longer functioning because they’re just too dangerous with all the shelling. There’s one working operating theater on the ground floor. Every day they receive between five and twenty victims of shelling.</div>
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Last week, 60 injured people were brought in on one day. But for three days there was no running water in the hospital, and so they had to cancel all but the most urgent operations. Without water, you can’t sterilize anything.</div>
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The city isn’t in ruins, as the shells and rockets don’t destroy buildings completely, though smaller houses in the suburbs can collapse. But all the buildings have shattered windows—an issue when the temperature goes down to 10 below zero at night. Yesterday we passed a children’s playground with scorch marks on the ground from where a shell had exploded. And there are bomb craters everywhere, including one right in front of the children’s hospital.</div>
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But you hardly see any children. Most of the families with small children have left. It feels like a ghost town. Most of the shops are closed, there are no cafes or restaurants. If people have to go out, they walk very swiftly. No one stands around unless they’re waiting for a bus.</div>
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MSF first came to Gorlovka in September [2014] and since then, my colleagues have been regularly providing this hospital with much needed medical supplies and drugs. When the conflict escalated in January, we decided to have a team based here so we could directly support the local doctors to provide emergency surgical care to influxes of wounded.</div>
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Every hour or two, a shell or rocket hits somewhere in the city, completely randomly. Most victims are hit in the open air, when they’re walking down the street or waiting for the bus. Inside houses, you’re mostly safe as long as you stay away from the windows.</div>
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Two days ago, a house 200 meters from where we are living was hit. We were woken at 5 a.m. by a sudden blast. The windows were shaking, and we knew it had to be a bomb. I jumped up, gathered some essentials together—my computer, reading glasses, penknife, and warm clothes—and ran down to the basement for shelter. I’d already stashed an emergency medical kit downstairs. At times like that you’re just waiting for the next blast to happen.</div>
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The hospitals are running out of basic medical supplies. Doctors in other hospitals have told us they have no surgical sutures left, so the surgeons are stitching people up with fishing line.</div>
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As the water supply worsens due to the shelling, diarrhea amongst infants is increasing, but the children’s hospital has run out of the infusions they need to prevent dehydration. Supplies of all sorts of drugs have run out—we’ve been asked for insulin, antibiotics, disinfectants for wounds—we’ve already received a huge list of things they urgently need beyond what we’ve already brought in.</div>
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But getting supplies into the city is not easy. Gorlovka is basically surrounded by the frontline, and can only be reached on one narrow entry road. The area gets shelled often, so it’s dangerous to pass through it, and frequently it is closed. </div>
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I’ve visited three hospitals in the city [that] are still functioning, but many health centers and clinics are closed, partly due to the shelling, but also because around half of the medical staff have left the city. Those who remain haven’t been paid for seven months.</div>
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The past six days have been really overwhelming for me. I’m a surgeon, but I have never in my life seen so many amputated people—people go shopping and one hour later they are without their legs. The surgeons here—who have never had to deal with war-wounded before—are having to carry out at least one or two amputations every day.</div>
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It’s difficult for the hospital staff, but they are coping remarkably well. Like the rest of the people here, they have a very stoic attitude. They are very brave, very calm and contained; they are doing their best to cope.</div>
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But you can sense that underneath they are very close to desperation. They feel abandoned by the outside world. Apart from MSF, there are no other international organizations here. People are desperately waiting for a sign from the rest of the world that they haven’t been forgotten. </div>
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Source: <a href="http://www.doctorswithoutborders.org/article/ukraine-times-youre-just-waiting-next-blast" target="_blank">http://www.doctorswithoutborders.org/article/ukraine-times-youre-just-waiting-next-blast</a></div>
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Leaders of Ukraine, Russia, France and Germany are expected to gather in Minsk, Belarus, for what is widely viewed as a last attempt to stop the violence in Eastern Ukraine. The talks come as deaths continue to pile up in the civil war-torn nation.</div>
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Later it was confirmed by the office of French President Francois Hollande that both he and German Chancellor Angela Merkel were going to Minsk for the talks. <span style="background-color: initial; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The Kremlin officially confirmed that President Vladimir Putin will participate in the meeting.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: initial; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, who is going to Minsk as well, said he was certain that the talks would result in a political settlement of the conflict.</span></div>
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A Russian diplomatic source told Reuters that there was 70 percent chance that that the leaders of Russia, Ukraine, France and Germany would reach an agreement.</div>
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<em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">"The presidents aren't traveling for no reason,"</em> the source said.</div>
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Representatives from the Ukrainian rebel forces were not invited to the talks, but they are taking part in a separate meeting of the so-called “contact group,” which also includes Ukraine, Russia and the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE).</div>
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The group’s meeting on Tuesday saw no breakthrough, although sources familiar with the issue said that a ceasefire plan was agreed upon. The parties provided guarantees that the plan would be implemented if Wednesday’s negotiations produce concrete results, according to a RIA Novosti source.</div>
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<em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“Yesterday the parties agreed to stop fire and pull back the weapons. Kiev, for its part, guaranteed that. Representatives of [the self-proclaimed republics] declared that they guaranteed it as well,”</em> the diplomatic source told.</div>
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The rebels indicated that it would be up to Kiev to demonstrate a willingness to reach a peace deal. The self-proclaimed Donetsk and Lugansk People’s Republics reportedly want their latest land grabs amid escalated violence to be part of the peace settlement.</div>
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Kiev apparently resists such demands and wants their opponents to fall back to where they were in early January.</div>
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<em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“The key position is ceasefire without any conditions,”</em> Ukrainian President Poroshenko described his negotiating position on Wednesday at a cabinet session. He added that if no deal is reached, Ukraine will declare martial law, a move his government has previously rejected.</div>
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<em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“The cabinet, the parliament and I are all prepared to declare martial law,”</em> he warned.</div>
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The Ukrainian government wants to take back control of the land it lost after launching a failed massive offensive in January. The situation is not unlike that in August 2014, when a Russia and OSCE-brokered truce put an end to a string of military defeats of the troops loyal to Kiev. Some rebel officials accused Ukraine of agreeing to the first ceasefire only to build up their troops and prepare for a new crackdown.</div>
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Poroshenko is going to Minsk a day after visiting Kramatorsk, a city where 16 people were reported killed from a rocket attack on Tuesday. Kiev was quick to blame the rebel forces for the attack, an accusation that the militias denied, saying they had no artillery units close enough to fire at Kramatorsk.</div>
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Meanwhile the rebel stronghold of Donetsk suffered yet another shelling by artillery, which they blamed on an infiltration group sent by Kiev. At least four people reportedly died from the attack, which hit a bus station just a few hours before the talks were scheduled to begin.</div>
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Few details are known about the proposed new peace deal on the table in Minsk. It would reportedly involve a wide demilitarized zone along a disengagement line to prevent artillery attacks, political reform in Ukraine to offer wide autonomy to its dissenting regions and possibly a contingent of international peacekeepers to monitor the situation. If the talks do produce a truce document, implementing it in practice would be a challenge on its own.</div>
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The alternative to striking a deal, however, is further escalation of the conflict. The US and some European countries, such as Britain and Poland, said they were considering supplying arms to Ukraine. European heavyweights Germany and France, as well as several other EU members, spoke sharply against such a move.</div>
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The West’s arming Kiev is bound to further alienate Moscow, which already sees some of the troops fighting for Kiev as “a NATO legion,” to cite President Putin.</div>
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Kiev and some Western nations accuse Russia of fanning the flames in Ukraine by supporting the rebels, providing them arms and sending troops to fight by their side. Moscow denies the accusation and blame Washington’s unconditional support of Kiev’s aggressive policies for the continued hostilities.</div>
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World leaders gathered in Germany to discuss international security on Saturday, with the meeting somewhat descending into ‘Russia-bashing’. But the West showed itself to be more divided than ever on Ukraine, with the EU and US drifting further apart.</div>
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The Americans led the harsh anti-Russian rhetoric at the conference, and once again, they did not exclude the possibility of lethal arms deliveries to Ukraine in the future.<br /><br />Speaking to reporters, NATO’s top commander in Europe, General Philip Breedlove, said that although no troops would be sent to Ukraine, providing Kiev with lethal weapons and equipment was on the cards.<br /><br />NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg, British Conservative politician and former foreign secretary Malcom Rifkind, and US senator Lindsey Graham notably took a pronounced anti-Russian stance, blaming the Kremlin for the violence in Ukraine.</div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Segoe UI', 'Gill Sans Light', Helvetica; font-size: 15.001501083374px; line-height: 21.0021018981934px;">Moscow hit back, with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov stressing in his Munich speech that it is the US and its European allies who have played the key destabilizing role in Ukraine, from helping to overthrow the democratically elected government to failing to condemn the new Kiev government for shelling the civilian population in the east with cluster bombs. </span><br style="font-family: 'Segoe UI', 'Gill Sans Light', Helvetica; font-size: 15.001501083374px; line-height: 21.0021018981934px;" /><br style="font-family: 'Segoe UI', 'Gill Sans Light', Helvetica; font-size: 15.001501083374px; line-height: 21.0021018981934px;" /><em style="font-family: 'Segoe UI', 'Gill Sans Light', Helvetica; font-size: 15.001501083374px; line-height: 21.0021018981934px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“Through every step, as the crisis has developed, our American colleagues and the EU under their influence have tried to escalate the situation,”</em><span style="font-family: 'Segoe UI', 'Gill Sans Light', Helvetica; font-size: 15.001501083374px; line-height: 21.0021018981934px;"> Lavrov said, adding that the West has always been urging world governments to enter into dialogue with opposition groups or figures, even when it came to extremist groups such as the Taliban. However, in Ukraine it has bluntly been supporting every one of Kiev’s actions.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Segoe UI', 'Gill Sans Light', Helvetica; font-size: 15.001501083374px; line-height: 21.0021018981934px;">Lavrov then spoke with US Secretary of State John Kerry, warning him that Washington’s plans to supply Kiev with military equipment might have </span><em style="font-family: 'Segoe UI', 'Gill Sans Light', Helvetica; font-size: 15.001501083374px; line-height: 21.0021018981934px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“unpredictable consequences”</em><span style="font-family: 'Segoe UI', 'Gill Sans Light', Helvetica; font-size: 15.001501083374px; line-height: 21.0021018981934px;">, including </span><em style="font-family: 'Segoe UI', 'Gill Sans Light', Helvetica; font-size: 15.001501083374px; line-height: 21.0021018981934px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“disrupting the efforts to resolve the crisis in southeastern Ukraine,”</em><span style="font-family: 'Segoe UI', 'Gill Sans Light', Helvetica; font-size: 15.001501083374px; line-height: 21.0021018981934px;"> according to a Facebook statement by the Russian Foreign Ministry. He stressed that Russia and the US agree that the only basis for any solution is a comprehensive national dialogue on constitutional reform in Ukraine. </span><br style="font-family: 'Segoe UI', 'Gill Sans Light', Helvetica; font-size: 15.001501083374px; line-height: 21.0021018981934px;" /><br style="font-family: 'Segoe UI', 'Gill Sans Light', Helvetica; font-size: 15.001501083374px; line-height: 21.0021018981934px;" /><span style="font-family: 'Segoe UI', 'Gill Sans Light', Helvetica; font-size: 15.001501083374px; line-height: 21.0021018981934px;">Russia will not sacrifice its national interest, but is ready to </span><em style="font-family: 'Segoe UI', 'Gill Sans Light', Helvetica; font-size: 15.001501083374px; line-height: 21.0021018981934px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“engage constructively”</em><span style="font-family: 'Segoe UI', 'Gill Sans Light', Helvetica; font-size: 15.001501083374px; line-height: 21.0021018981934px;"> with the US, Lavrov stressed.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Segoe UI', 'Gill Sans Light', Helvetica; font-size: 15.001501083374px; line-height: 21.0021018981934px;">At the press conference, the Russian top diplomat was pelted with questions implying that Moscow is responsible for the ongoing conflict in Ukraine. </span><br style="font-family: 'Segoe UI', 'Gill Sans Light', Helvetica; font-size: 15.001501083374px; line-height: 21.0021018981934px;" /><br style="font-family: 'Segoe UI', 'Gill Sans Light', Helvetica; font-size: 15.001501083374px; line-height: 21.0021018981934px;" /><em style="font-family: 'Segoe UI', 'Gill Sans Light', Helvetica; font-size: 15.001501083374px; line-height: 21.0021018981934px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“It felt like orchestrated hate fest. Obviously these people live in a surreal world. The US try to change the balance of forces in eastern Europe and the EU join the band wagon,”</em><span style="font-family: 'Segoe UI', 'Gill Sans Light', Helvetica; font-size: 15.001501083374px; line-height: 21.0021018981934px;"> Srdja Trifkovic, foreign affairs editor of the Chronicles magazine told RT, adding that </span><em style="font-family: 'Segoe UI', 'Gill Sans Light', Helvetica; font-size: 15.001501083374px; line-height: 21.0021018981934px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“whenever a major power wants to change the status-quo, the result is a crisis.”</em><span style="font-family: 'Segoe UI', 'Gill Sans Light', Helvetica; font-size: 15.001501083374px; line-height: 21.0021018981934px;"> </span><br style="font-family: 'Segoe UI', 'Gill Sans Light', Helvetica; font-size: 15.001501083374px; line-height: 21.0021018981934px;" /><br style="font-family: 'Segoe UI', 'Gill Sans Light', Helvetica; font-size: 15.001501083374px; line-height: 21.0021018981934px;" /><span style="font-family: 'Segoe UI', 'Gill Sans Light', Helvetica; font-size: 15.001501083374px; line-height: 21.0021018981934px;">Despite the recent efforts to try and to stop the violence and find a peaceful way out of the Ukrainian conflict, with French and German leaders having taken an initiative to discuss a peace plan with Russia’s President Putin and Ukraine’s President Poroshenko, the actions of the West are still</span><em style="font-family: 'Segoe UI', 'Gill Sans Light', Helvetica; font-size: 15.001501083374px; line-height: 21.0021018981934px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“profoundly self-righteous,”</em><span style="font-family: 'Segoe UI', 'Gill Sans Light', Helvetica; font-size: 15.001501083374px; line-height: 21.0021018981934px;"> critics say.</span></div>
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While the European leaders have largely been united in their support for the Kiev government, only a few have agreed with the United States on supplying weapons to Ukraine. Instead, the German leader stressed that the crisis <em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“cannot be resolved militarily”</em> and that sending more arms can only worsen the conflict.</div>
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The issue of military aid to Ukraine is now considered to be the main subject causing the divide in the West, with many in Europe realizing that the potential threat of an escalating conflict on its territory exists. </div>
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Political analysts agree that hidden from the public eye, <em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“there is definitely a big divide between the US and the EU on the whole issue of Ukraine,”</em> Vanoost told RT. <em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“It’s very difficult to know how the game will finish, because it's not an open game, it's behind the scenes,”</em> Bruno Drweski, an analyst specializing in eastern Europe, said.<br /><br />Sanctions against Russia have economically hit the EU itself, but have not affected the US. The conflict is also happening on the European continent, not in America, with the EU generally not eager to further escalate it.<br /><br /><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“First of all, the European Union is directly involved if the conflict escalates – which is not the case for the United States. Secondly, in the EU they are realistic enough to know that the government in Kiev is very unstable, that they don't even have full control of all parts of their own military,”</em> Vanoost explained, while speaking about the Western split in regard of the Ukrainian crisis.</div>
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However, toning down rhetoric puts some in the firing line, too.<br /><br />After Merkel said that Europe wants security alongside with Russia, rather against it, and reiterated Berlin’s stance that the Ukrainian conflict must be resolved peacefully, US senator Graham lashed out at the German leader for her refusal to send arms to Ukraine.<br /><br /><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“She can't see how arming people who are willing to fight and die for their freedom makes things better,”</em>the US politician said, adding that the West cannot <em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“turn [its] back on the struggling democracy.”</em></div>
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MOSCOW, February 6. /TASS/. Evacuation of Debaltsevo civilians to the self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR) has been disrupted through the fault of Ukraine, DPR Defense Ministry spokesman Eduard Basurin told the Donetsk news agency on Friday.</div>
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Basurin said the residents had not been told of an opportunity to go to Donetsk.</div>
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"Forty people arrived at the place of evacuation. People failed to come as the Ukrainian side had not issued a notification of the opportunity to be evacuated to the DPR. People don’t know anything," he said. "When we entered Debaltsevo, there was a provocation, fire was being delivered from the city."</div>
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According to the Donetsk news agency (DNA), a convoy of about 20 nearly empty buses is heading for Donetsk. Shelling of the evacuation area from the Ukrainian side did not stop, with both artillery and sniper fire being delivered," a DNA correspondent reported from the site.</div>
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<span class="masha_index masha_index73" rel="73"></span>"the night of February 4 to 5 in Donetsk passed under the cannonade of incessant explosions. AFU shells fell in almost every district of the city. Residents reported shelling of the city with phosphorus shells. Another school of Donetsk was damaged by Ukrainian military gunfire. Around 2:40 (MSK) it was reported of shelling of Bryanka, Stakhanov, Almaznaya by AFU. Militia opened fire on the positions of the AFU in Debaltsevo from the area at the settlement of Stakhanov. According to reports from local residents there was artillery fire of: Chernukhino, Troitskoye, Zolotoye, Stanitsa Luganskaya, Novotoshkovskoye, Slavyanoserbsk. The shelling by Ukrainian security forces in Makeyevka damaged houses in the district Chervonogvardeysky. Fortunately there were no casualties. At night, there was a powerful shelling with incendiary shells in Donetsk. "</div>
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lastochkahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03693705381682951810noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5259082628352435132.post-56093410277926581452015-02-05T08:09:00.001-08:002015-02-05T08:09:28.246-08:00Turkey and Gazprom. The geopolitics of pipelines <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 16px;">After the negotiations in Ankara between Gazprom’s chairman of the board, Alexei Miller, and Turkey’s minister of energy and natural resources, Taner Yildiz, the head of Gazprom stated, «We have agreed to schedule the work so that we get to the signing stage of the Intergovernmental Agreement on the pipeline during the second quarter of this year, and the first gas shipment will be pumped into Turkey in December 2016... The first leg of the pipeline will have a capacity of 15.75 billion cubic meters, which we will direct entirely at the Turkish market. Given the readiness of the Russkaya compressor station and of the majority of the offshore pipeline route - this is a totally realistic deadline». </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 16px;">According to Mr. Miller, «the joint creation of gas-transportation facilities within the framework of this important project makes Gazprom and Botas strategic infrastructure partners... Everyone is focused on results. Our top priorities are to analyze the existing route options within Turkey and to determine the point of emergence from the sea, the point where the gas will be delivered to the consumers in Turkey, and the point where the gas will cross the Turkish-Greek border».</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 16px;">The total capacity of the planned gas pipeline, which has been unofficially dubbed the «Turkish Stream,» will be 63 billion cubic meters of gas per year, supplied via four legs. The pipeline will travel for 660 kilometers along the route planned for South Stream, and for another 250 kilometers along a new corridor toward the European part of Turkey.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 16px;">Azerbaijan was interested in the news of the Russian-Turkish agreement. Azerbaijani observers immediately commented that the agreement between Moscow and Ankara dealt a blow to the Trans-Anatolian Natural Gas Pipeline (TANAP), for which the EU and the US are lobbying. The website Haqqin.az notes, «In any event, barring anything unforeseen, today Russia has outplayed all the parties involved in the Azerbaijani gas project, including the European Union. While Azerbaijani gas is being shipped to Turkey, the Turkish market will also receive about 35 billion cubic meters of Russian gas from under the Black Sea. And at that point, Turkey is unlikely to need the several billion cubic meters of Azerbaijani gas that must be sent to the Turks in keeping with existing commitments. And if Gazprom manages to build a hub on the Turkish-Greek border just as quickly, then Russian gas will enter Europe ahead of the Azerbaijani gas. And the first supplier always has the best chance».</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 16px;">Western capitals also reacted sharply to the unfolding Russian-Turkish gas agreement. After the West derailed the rollout of Russia’s South Stream pipeline, the US Department of Energy began to insist that Russian gas projects be seen as primarily political schemes rather than economic. With baffling logic, European Commissioner Maroš Šefčovič called Russia’s decision to «supply the full amount of gas through Turkey instead of Ukraine» a blow to Gazprom’s image as a reliable supplier. Quickly, it seems, the Europeans forgot any problems they had had with Russian gas supplies that stemmed from Ukraine’s unreliability as a transit country.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 16px;">The West is primarily concerned that redirecting Russian gas to skirt Ukraine will devalue their «Ukrainian card,» which the Western capitals so eagerly play against Russia. In this respect, the West considers both the former South Stream as well as the current «Turkish Stream» equally undesirable. Either of those pipelines would eliminate Ukraine from the geopolitical games being played in accordance with Western scripts. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 16px;">Experts, however, see the problem from a different angle. The US business news agency Bloomberg, citing a report from researchers at the Oxford Institute for Energy Studies, noted specifically that «the cancellation of South Stream is part of a broader change of strategy for Gazprom that plays to the company’s strengths».</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 16px;">And the inexplicable entanglements of the Opal pipeline, an extension of Nord Stream, can help explain exactly who in the gas field is being driven primarily by political rather than economic motives. «For three years, this gas pipeline, which has helped make gas transit less risky for Germany, the Czech Republic, and to a certain extent Austria and Slovakia, should operate at 50% capacity, just because there is Russian gas, but there’s essentially nothing else…» claims the chairman of the board of directors of Gazprom, Viktor Zubkov . </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 16px;">The European Union does not want to incur additional financial expenses by buying gas from Turkey, but those could have been avoided if Europe had not shot down the South Stream project. At that time the Russians were prepared to finance the construction, but the EU will have to use its own funds to put in the pipelines running from the Turkish border. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 16px;">The year 2019, when Russian gas will bypass Ukraine and go through Turkey, will be here soon. Somewhere that is well understood. In particular, in Hungary. The prime minister of that country, Viktor Orban, stated that anti-Russian sanctions «were in conflict with Hungary’s interests,» and that he intends, in his words, «to come to terms with Russia on a gas agreement» during a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Budapest. Putin arrives in the Hungarian capital on February 17th. </span></span></div>
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Several days ago Uglegorsk (a town to the north of Debaltsevo) was seized by the DPR Army. Upon their retreat, Ukrainian forces called a “Grad” strike at the town destroying its center. People have been hiding in the basements for days being in the middle of front line between the militias and counter-attacking UA<span class="text_exposed_show">F groups.</span></div>
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3rd of February, 2015. Uglegorsk, Donetsk People’s Republic.</div>
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The DPR Army is evacuating people of Uglegorsk today. Unfortunately, the Ukrainian army refused to cease fire, so the evacuation is being held under shelling. Pensioners and children <span class="text_exposed_show">are being evacuated in the first place. People will be accommodated in cities and towns next to Donetsk. The places have already been prepared for them, people will be provided with food.<br />According to the human rights ombudswoman of the DPR Darya Morozova, around 600 people have decided to leave the combat zone. The evacuation of people is also being held in other settlements. Up to 200 people are evacuated every day.</span></div>
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The video of evacuation in Uglegorsk with English subtitles:</div>
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lastochkahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03693705381682951810noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5259082628352435132.post-41595808290534693282015-01-31T11:04:00.001-08:002015-01-31T11:04:49.305-08:00The heroes of russian folk-tales - kolobok<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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So the Kolobok sang,</div>
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<i style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">“I'm a happy Kolobok, crunchy and brown. In the oven I was baked, on the window sill cooled. From Dedushka I ran away, from </i><a href="http://russiapedia.rt.com/of-russian-origin/babushka/" style="color: #b97c00; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="">Babushka</a><i style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> too. I ran away from the Rabbit, Wolf and Bear, and now I’ll run away from you.” </i></div>
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This is the trick of the Kolobok (pronounced <i style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">kah-lah-bohk</i>, it means “roundie” in Russian), a tasty round ball of dough. He used it to distract his hungry adversaries long enough to make his escape. He’s a famous Slavic folktale character, and his story is known by children across Eastern Europe to this day.</div>
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The story starts in a small cottage where a Babushka and her hubby – Dedushka - are cooking some dough. They place their round dough ball on the window sill to cool. But this is no ordinary dough ball. The Kolobok decides he must make his escape. He rolls off the window sill and out into the countryside beyond, chased by his “masters”.<b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><i style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></i></b></div>
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Once he has escaped, he bumps into a rabbit. The rabbit is hungry and views the Kolobok as his next meal.</div>
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<i style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">“I will eat you up!”</i></div>
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The Kolobok, thinking quickly, offers to sing him a song.</div>
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The rabbit listens as the Kolobok sings:</div>
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<i style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">“I'm a happy Kolobok, crunchy and brown. In the oven I was baked, on the window sill cooled. From Dedushka I ran away, from Babushka too, and I now I’ll run away from you.”</i></div>
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The distracted rabbit isn’t quick enough to catch the Kolobok and loses his meal.</div>
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Next the Kolobok meets a wolf, also hungry. </div>
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<i style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">“I will eat you up!”</i></div>
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The Kolobok decides to use the same trick, distracting the wolf with his song as he makes ready his escape.</div>
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<i style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">“I'm a happy Kolobok, crunchy and brown. In the oven I was baked, on the window sill cooled. From Dedushka I ran away, from Babushka too. I ran away from the Rabbit, and I now I’ll run away from you.”</i></div>
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The wolf is left in the dust.</div>
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Next he comes to the mighty bear, and guess what, he’s hungry!</div>
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<i style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">“I will eat you up!”</i> says the Bear.</div>
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But why change a tactic when it works so well, thinks the Kolobok. So he sings for the bear:</div>
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<i style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">“I'm a happy Kolobok, crunchy and brown. In the oven I was baked, on the window sill cooled. From Dedushka I ran away, from Babushka too. I ran away from the Rabbit, the Wolf and now I’ll run away from you.”</i></div>
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The bear is left floundering.</div>
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Lastly, he comes across the fox, well known as the most cunning of animals. But the fox too is not beyond hunger, saying,<b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><i style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></i></b></div>
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So sure is he of his escape with his song, the Kolobok has grown boastful. He sings his song for the fox. But before he can make off, the fox stops him.</div>
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<i style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">“Dear Kolobok, your song was beautiful, but alas, I’m hard of hearing. Could you come and sit on my nose and sing it again so I can hear properly?”</i></div>
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The Kolobok, wrapped up in his own genius, agrees. After the next recital, the fox again interjects.</div>
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<i style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">“Dear Kolobok, your song is wonderful, but alas I just didn’t quite hear all of it. Could you do me the honor of sitting on my tongue and delivering it to me again?”</i></div>
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The Kolobok can’t resist such flattery, and jumps onto the fox’s tongue.</div>
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Quick as a flash, the fox snaffles up the poor Kolobok, and he is no more.</div>
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This fable-like fairytale serves as a lesson against hubris, the feeling that after some initial success one can do no wrong. But as children all over Russia learn, there will always be a cunning fox ready to catch a young Kolobok who gets too cocky!</div>
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The most recent military draft in Ukraine has been described as “problematic” by Kiev's army spokesman. The recruitment effort, coming amid ever more intense fighting in the country’s east, sees a lack of enthusiasm on the part of potential soldiers.</div>
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“<em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The fourth wave of mobilization is problematic</em>,” Ukraine army spokesman, Vladimir Talalay acknowledged on Saturday, according to Tass. “<em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The biggest difficulties are seen in Sumy, Kharkov, Cherkassy, Ternopol, Zakarpatye and other regions</em>.”</div>
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The comment comes as Ukraine’s Joint Staff reported of the first stage of the draft – sending out conscription notices – being over. The military warn of blacklisting deserters and passing on the information to police.</div>
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A little less than 7,500 Ukrainians are already facing criminal charges for evading military service, the country’s Defence Ministry announced on Saturday.</div>
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The Ukrainian president’s adviser, Yury Biryukov, was more specific earlier this week. He did cite preliminary draft statistics, showing evasion was primarily a problem in western Ukraine, traditionally a major source of anti-Russian sentiment.</div>
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According to Biryukov’s figures, 57 percent of Ivano-Frankovsk potential conscripts would not show up at enlistment offices, while 37 percent fled Ukraine.</div>
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He mentioned that local authorities in the Ternopol region were sabotaging the draft, refusing to help distribute notices.</div>
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Nineteen percent of Volynskaya region men, bound to military service, cited religious motives for not joining the army. Previously not more than 0.7 percent would use this pretext.<br /><br />Mass reluctance to serve has not gone unnoticed by international monitors. Members of OSCE mission in Ukraine spoke to a city official and a volunteer battalion commander in Krivoy Rog, both sharing fears over draft evasion.<br /><br />“<em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">According to the plan, about 800 individuals are supposed to be mobilized within a week. However, a considerable number of people are trying to avoid mobilization by various means, the interlocutors said,</em>” the January 27 OSCE report reads.<br /><br />“<em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">[The draft dodger] is a cowardly animal</em>,” Biryukov’s angry Facebook post, deleted by now, concluded. “<em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">With his tail between his legs, he hides from the mobilisation, changes his phone number, he gathers his stuff and runs off to Hungary, Romania, Slovakia or Poland. And he sits there, happy that he is so clever</em>”.</div>
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Ukraine’s president signed a decree on Friday on additional measures to ensure successful draft in 2015. A major provision is temporary restriction on leaving the country for men, bound to military service.<br /><br />Neither appeals to patriotism, nor threats, nor insults made Aleksey, a young man from Mariupol want to find himself on the battlefield. He’s one of those who chose to flee to Russia.<br /><br />“<em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">We don’t want to fight, but nobody asks whether we want to or not</em>,” Aleksey told RT’s Roman Kosarev. “<em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Recently a friend of mine was on her way home from work, when the National Guards got on the bus. They told the women to leave the vehicle, and made the young men stay inside. And then they drove off somewhere. What do we need this war for? They’ll kill us and no one will care</em>.”</div>
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Russia welcomes Ukrainian mobilization evaders, President Vladimir Putin said earlier this week, promising to legalize longer stays in Russia for bound-to-service Ukrainians.<br /><br />“<em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">They do it right, because they are just being pushed their under the bullets as cannon fodder</em>,” he said. “<em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">According to the new law Ukrainian citizens can only stay in Russia for 30 days. They return, get snapped and sent out there under the bullets again. So, we are going to change something here</em>.”</div>
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This one is the fourth wave of mobilization since Kiev launched a military operation against anti-government forces in eastern Ukraine. Each was accompanied by massive protests from the draftees’ relatives.</div>
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“<em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Noone wants to send their children to war</em>," a Ukrainian political analyst, Vladimir Kornilov, told Sputnik radio. “<em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Kiev now recruits the young ones. And the young ones die. I think that these sporadic protests, which now happen in villages and towns, will eventually grow in size and get more organized</em>.”<br /><br />Kiev resumed its military operation in the east of Ukraine in January, following months of relative respite.<br /><br />Reports of residential areas coming under fire have since come almost daily, with human rights organizations calling on both sides of the conflict to protect civilians.<br /><br />Some 8,000 Ukrainian troops are currently believed to be surrounded near the village of Debaltsevo in Donbass, as militia units cut off the only road linking the pocket to Kiev-held territory. </div>
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lastochkahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03693705381682951810noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5259082628352435132.post-28465376816230885052015-01-30T08:45:00.003-08:002015-01-30T08:45:53.131-08:00Multiple deaths after shelling of humanitarian aid center, bus stop in Donetsk<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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At least 12 civilians have been killed in a rocket attack in Donetsk, RIA Novosti reported, citing Donetsk People’s Republic officials. Ukraine’s military has blamed the separatists for the attack, calling it an attempt to undermine Minsk peace talks.</div>
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<span style="background-color: initial; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Two civilians were killed at a trolleybus stop, and five others died while waiting in a line for humanitarian aid. Five more people died in the Azotnoye district of the city.</span></div>
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On January 24, a residential area in the port city of Mariupol came under fire, killing 30 people and injuring 100.</div>
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On January 22, 15 people were killed when shells hit a trolleybus stop in Donetsk.</div>
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On Monday, Kiev announced a state of emergency in the Donetsk and Lugansk regions, and put other Ukrainian regions on high alert.</div>
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On Friday, talks between the contact group’s members on the Ukrainian conflict should have taken place in Minsk, but were canceled due to the absence of the Kiev representative, Lugansk and Donetsk representatives told RIA Novosti.</div>
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<em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">"Unfortunately, the Ukrainian side didn't join. Ukraine is still avoiding dialogue,"</em> Lugansk's Vladislav Deinego said.</div>
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The Minsk peace accord on September 5 was signed by representatives of Russia and Ukraine, as well as Lugansk and Donetsk representatives. The deal was aiming to stop the military conflict in the Donbass region.</div>
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Since September, all sides have repeatedly accused each other of ceasefire violations.</div>
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lastochkahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03693705381682951810noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5259082628352435132.post-91356109814234819102015-01-27T08:07:00.000-08:002015-01-27T08:07:20.684-08:00Ukraine: Military-Clad English-speakers Caught on Camera in Mariupol Shelling Aftermath. Who Are They?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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The port city in eastern Ukraine, under Kiev’s control, saw a surge of violence on Saturday, when several rockets hit a residential area in the east of the city, reportedly killing 30 civilians. Numerous videos from the scene showed destruction in the aftermath of the attack, for which local militia and Ukrainian troops blamed each other.</div>
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But among footage shot in Mariupol, there are some videos showing armed men in military uniform, who speak English fluently.</div>
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One video uploaded on YouTube is apparently raw footage of a local news channel MSN (Mariupol News Service). One episode shows a man passing resolutely by the camera.</div>
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The man holds a carbine in his hand and is wearing a tactical vest. As the correspondent points her microphone with a request to comment, the man covers his face with the other hand and says, <em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“Out of my face, out of my face!”</em></div>
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The other piece is longer and apparently shows another armed man in uniform sweeping the area for unexploded munitions. The man behind the camera is apparently a guide, as he speaks in English with a clear accent. But the person he films speaks as if her were a native speaker.</div>
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The footage then shows a building with shattered windows signposted as the No 42 kindergarden in Mariupol. The building is in Kiyevskaya Street where the barrage hit.</div>
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The video description claims the person is an American member of the Azov voluntary battalion, but offers no proof of this. The uniforms features a round blue-and-yellow patch on shoulder, but its details are indistinguishable as is the man’s face.</div>
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The presence of foreign volunteers among Ukrainian voluntary battalions is no secret. Earlier media reports said many of them have right-wing leanings or even Nazi sympathies.</div>
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However, so far claims of private military contractors (PMCs) like the infamous Blackwater working in Ukraine remain unproven. Such a presence would indicate a more substantial military support for the Ukrainian government by its foreign backers, since governments usually keep an eye on PMCs working in politically challenging environments.</div>
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If a Western government didn’t want a PMC to sign a contract with Ukraine, it would find a way to put leverage on it. Finding such specialists complimenting Ukrainian troops would suggest the actual support for Kiev is a tad higher than the purely non-lethal assistance officially offered to Kiev by the West.</div>
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<a href="http://www.globalresearch.ca/ukraine-military-clad-english-speakers-caught-on-camera-in-mariupol-shelling-aftermath-who-are-they/5426926" target="_blank">http://www.globalresearch.ca/ukraine-military-clad-english-speakers-caught-on-camera-in-mariupol-shelling-aftermath-who-are-they/5426926</a></div>
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<span style="background-color: red;">P.S. The day right before the shelling there wasn't electricity and water supplying in the Vostochny district. Does anybody belive in such coincidence?</span></div>
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lastochkahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03693705381682951810noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5259082628352435132.post-72990735718861695482015-01-27T07:45:00.000-08:002015-01-27T07:45:30.424-08:00Mariupol spotter ‘confession’ another fake by Kiev – Russian Defense Ministry<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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An internet video reportedly showing the confession of a man saying he was a spotter in the deadly shelling of Mariupol is just another low-quality fake created by the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU), the Russian Defense Ministry said.</div>
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The ministry also hinted that closer examination of the footage actually points to the fact that Ukraine forces were responsible for the bombardment.</div>
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The video was published on the internet on Sunday, one day after shelling in the eastern Ukrainian port city killed at least 30 people and left another 100 injured.</div>
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<em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“The SBU needed 24 hours to force this story out of a man, which – as we see in the clip – is read by the detainee from a piece of paper located left to the screen,”</em> the statement by the Russian Defense Ministry said.</div>
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In the video, the person – identified by the SBU as Valery Kirsanov – says he has been working as a spotter for the self-defense forces of the Donetsk People’s Republic since being contacted by a rebel unit commander nicknamed Pepel (“Ash”) two weeks ago.</div>
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During this period, the man in the video said that several checkpoints of the Ukrainian military were shelled after he sent their coordinates via text messages to the rebels.</div>
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According to Kirsanov, Saturday’s shelling was also performed according to his sighting, but the militia’s artillery missed the checkpoint on Taganrogskay Street, which they were aiming for.</div>
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<em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“They were supposed to ‘do the work’ during the night, but they did it in the morning, at around 8:00 AM. I went to see how things were there and told Pepel that they were a kilometer off the mark,”</em> he said in the video.</div>
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There is also a cut closer to the end of the footage, after which the detainee adds that Pepel is actually<em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“an officer of the Russian army in charge of an artillery battalion”</em> which shelled Mariupol, located in the Donetsk region, on Saturday.</div>
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The Russian Defense Ministry stressed that <em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“the knowledge of the nicknames of his contacts (Pepel and another rebel commander he mentioned), their passport details, citizenship, and the composition of their subordinate forces and weaponry makes Kirsanov at least a resident agent, not some appointed spotter.”</em></div>
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<em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“This whole story would be more in place in a spy novel,</em>” the statement said.</div>
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The ministry also pointed out <em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“a notable inconsistency, which the SBU...neglected for some reason”</em> while crafting its video.</div>
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<em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“At 1:42 of his ‘confession’ video, Kirsanov said that he sent his contacts the coordinates of a stationary checkpoint of Ukrainian troops in Vinogradnoe village...At 2:22 of the clip, when answering the question: ‘From where did the fire come?’ Kirsanov said with confidence: ‘From the direction of Vinogradnoe.’ In other words, from the direction where the Ukrainian military checkpoint was stationed,”</em> the statement said.</div>
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The Defense Ministry also pointed out that Vinogradnoe is located 3.5 kilometers away from the shelled residential areas in Mariupol, which is just about the minimum range of Grad missile launchers, which were allegedly used in Saturday’s bombardment.</div>
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<em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“Further comments on this fake – or as one may call it a 'self-disclosure session' – by the SBU would be excessive,”</em> the statement concluded.</div>
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Kiev’s troops and Donbass militia forces are locked in renewed hostilities in southeastern Ukraine after a shaky ceasefire reached by the sides in September utterly collapsed.</div>
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The Ukrainian military launched a massive offensive in mid-January, but failed to gain ground despite employing tanks, artillery, and aviation.</div>
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The Ukrainian conflict began last April when Kiev launched a military operation in the southeastern Donetsk and Lugansk regions, after the regions refused to recognize the country’s new coup-imposed authorities.</div>
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The death toll in the Ukraine conflict has exceeded 5,000 people. Over 10,000 have been injured, according to UN estimates.</div>
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lastochkahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03693705381682951810noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5259082628352435132.post-52888661249018489782015-01-27T07:12:00.000-08:002015-01-27T07:12:06.103-08:00Liberation of Auschwitz – Heroic Deed of Red Army<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 16px;">Now they have started «to make precise» the information on blood composition and nationalities of the camp’s liberators. Schetyna has been rebuffed by the users of social networks (the user under the nickname <em>20portal</em>replied to a critical article in Polish Gazeta Wyborcza newspaper writing «My stepfather survived Auschwitz. If he were alive he would strike Schetyna in the face»). But the Polish Minister stood his ground. In two days after he scandalous statement he went back to the subject («I told the truth») and said that the first tank to crash the gate of Auschwitz-Birkenau was commanded by Ukrainian Igor Pobirchenko. The Minister did not care about the fact that Russians, Ukrainians and the people of many other nationalities fought in the ranks of the First Ukrainian Front. He just tried to explain publicly why Russian President Vladimir Putin was not invited to take part in the ceremony marking the 70<sup>th</sup> anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 16px;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">Perhaps Pan Schetyna has no access to the information that in reality the camp’s gate was broken down by Major Anatoliy Shapiro, a Jew - the battalion he commanded was the first unit to enter Auschwitz. OK, even if it were not Shapiro, but Pobirchenko (an honored veteran who became a famous lawyer and an academician in the Soviet Union) – what does it change in the history of camp’s liberation by Red Army? Grzegorz Schetyna needs to be given a little lesson of history. The names of Soviet fronts changed to reflect the directions of advance. The front in question was called the First Ukrainian Front on October 16, 1943 to take part in the Kiev strategic offensive operation. Before that the First Ukrainian Front had the official name of the Voronezh Front prior to November 1943 and before that it was the Bryansk Front. The Red Army units had the servicemen of numerous nationalities within their ranks (with the exception of a few dozen of divisions manned by servicemen of certain nationalities (the 201</span><sup style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">st</sup><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> Latvian, the 16th Lithuanian etc.) as reinforcements were coming from all parts of the Soviet Union. The First Ukrainian Front was manned according to the same principle. According to the study prepared by a group of Soviet General Staff researchers headed by Colonel General G. Krivosheev, the Front included the servicemen of different nations to include: Russians - over 66%, Ukrainians – around 16%, Belarussians – around 3%, Tatars – around 2, 2%, Jews – over 1, 6%, Kazakhs –around 1,5%, Uzbeks – 1, 4%, others (a few dozen nationalities) – at least 1%. Auschwitz was liberated on January 27, 1945 during the Red Army's Vistula–Oder Offensive by the 59</span><sup style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">th</sup><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> and 60</span><sup style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">th</sup><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> armies of the First Ukrainian Front operating in coordination with the 38</span><sup style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">th</sup><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> Army of the 4</span><sup style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">th</sup><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> Ukrainian Front. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">The attempts to destroy the memory of the liberation mission fulfilled by the Soviet Union and its Army during WWII have become so frequent that it starts to look like historic vandalism. Kiev does the same thing. «Ukrainians made up the majority of those who freed Auschwitz - the Ukrainian Front», Valeriy Chaliy, deputy head of Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko’s administration, told a January 23 press briefing. The botched statement made by Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk about the Soviet Union’s invasion of Germany and Ukraine is well known. At that German Ministry of Foreign Affairs cites diplomatic protocol refusing to comment the ridiculous statements made by a top official of another state no matter he completely distorted the most important facts related to the German history in the 20th century. Here is one more example: Latvia has declared its SS-legionaries to be «freedom-fighters» since a long time ago. It has cancelled a Holocaust exhibition in Paris devoted to the international day of holocaust victims. The display was organized by historians from Latvia, Russia and Belarus and was scheduled to open on January 25 under the title ‘Hijacked childhood. Victims of Holocaust as seen by the child prisoners of Nazi concentration camp Salaspils (Salaspils is southeast of the Latvian capital, Riga).</span></div>
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lastochkahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03693705381682951810noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5259082628352435132.post-27985136488547847292015-01-27T06:55:00.000-08:002015-01-27T06:55:21.613-08:00Kiev ‘punishes’ civilians in Donetsk with travel permits and drugs blockade<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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As the conflict in East Ukraine <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jan/24/ukraine-crisis-dozens-die-rebels-shell-mariupol" style="background-repeat: no-repeat; border-collapse: collapse; color: #005689; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" title="">enters another hot phase</a>, residents of the rebel-controlled territories say they are now stranded due to a new travel permit system introduced by Kiev, while aid organisations have warned that a medical crisis could be on the horizon as Ukrainian authorities refuse to let through vital medicines.</div>
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“Since November, a series of measures taken by the Ukrainian government has effectively <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2015/jan/26/ukraine-war-people-abandoned-medecins-sans-frontieres" style="background-repeat: no-repeat; border-collapse: collapse; color: #005689; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" title="">cut off civilians living in rebel-controlled areas</a>and made it increasingly difficult to provide humanitarian aid,” said a statement by Médecins sans Frontières. The organisation said it had tried to deliver medical supplies to hospitals in the frontline city of Gorlovka on two occasions last week and failed to get through.</div>
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The situation will only be exacerbated by a permit system introduced last week, requiring anyone who wants to cross the line between Ukrainian-controlled territories and the so-called Donetsk and Luhansk people’s republics to apply for a special pass. Applications are only accepted in Ukrainian-held territory, with the catch-22 situation that those in rebel-held territories cannot get to the permit application centre because they need a permit to get there.</div>
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Oleg Izmailov, a local journalist, called the new system “both idiotic and a breach of human rights”.</div>
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The only option for residents of Donetsk and other rebel-held towns to obtain the permit is to drive to the first Ukrainian checkpoint and hand over the application to soldiers, explaining their reasons for wanting a permit. However, the soldiers only accept a few applications per hour, meaning people wait for hours in the cold to hand over the documents, and then have to drive back 10 days later to find out if they have been granted permission. On Monday morning there was heavy shelling around the checkpoint, forcing cars to turn back to Donetsk.</div>
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“I wanted to get the permit so I could go to Dnipropetrovsk to pick up a parcel, I ordered spare parts for my car and the post doesn’t work to Donetsk any more,” said Andrei, a Donetsk resident who did not want to give his surname. Having waited for more than four hours at the checkpoint to hand over his application, he heard shelling and got scared, and decided to return to Donetsk.</div>
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“I used to be for a united Ukraine, but the way they are treating us is beyond all limits. They say they are fighting the Russians, so why are they making life difficult for all of us?”</div>
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Officially, the move is to improve the security situation. Unofficially, part of the philosophy behind the move appears to be to demonstrate to those people living in rebel-held areas how miserable life under separatist rule can be, and it is also based on an assumption that most pro-Kiev people have already left the region. On Monday, Kiev announced a “state of emergency” in east Ukraine that is likely to make things tougher.</div>
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“All the people that are left on the occupied territories have made their choice, and refused to leave,” said Semyon Semenchenko, commander of the Donbass Volunteer Battalion and a newly elected Ukrainian MP, in a December television interview explaining why volunteer battalions had blocked convoys of humanitarian aid from reaching the region. “All this nonsense that old people and children are starving, it’s not true and it’s a manipulation of the facts.”</div>
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However, many of the people remaining in the rebel areas are the most vulnerable – the old and infirm and those with nowhere else to go – and Kiev’s policies risk alienating them even further from Ukraine.</div>
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While Donetsk markets are still reasonably well stocked – traders say they offer fruit and other foodstuffs to both Ukrainian and rebel soldiers as bribes to allow them through checkpoints – there are few locals with the funds to buy them. Ukraine has cut off pension and other social payments to those living in rebel areas and the rebel governments have been unable to pay more than symbolic amounts. In smaller settlements, people with limited mobility have faced difficulty in accessing foodstuffs, while many are living without proper heating or electricity for long stretches. Bank accounts have been frozen, and there is no way to access money in rebel-held areas.</div>
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At Donetsk’s drug addiction treatment facility, doctors received their last shipment of medicines from Ukraine in September. Russia has stepped into the breach, and the clinic has received insulin, painkillers and other necessary medications from the humanitarian convoys sent by Moscow. But it has not received buprenorphine or methadone, because drug-substitution therapy is illegal in Russia. Earlier this month, the remaining 52 patients prescribed buprenorphine had their medications stopped, and while there are dwindling supplies of methadone remaining, doses will be scaled down starting this week, and will run out completely on 1 March.</div>
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There are 155 patients remaining in the clinic on methadone, and 380 across the region.</div>
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“Sixty per cent of them are HIV-positive and many of them also have Hepatitis C and tuberculosis,” says Yulia Drozd, the deputy director of the Donetsk centre. “This is essentially a death sentence for them.”</div>
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The doctors at the clinic have worked six months without payment, receiving one small subsidy from the new Donetsk rebel authorities. One nurse has left after her house was destroyed, but the majority of clinic workers have stayed, despite the lack of salary. Now they have to explain to the patients that their treatment will end.</div>
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“The International Committee of the Red Cross just needs an official memo to take it across but we can’t get the documents signed,” confirms Pavlo Skala of the HIV Alliance in Kiev.</div>
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The methadone is not even paid for out of Ukraine’s budget, but funded by a grant from the Global Fund to fight Aids, tuberculosis and malaria. All that is required of Kiev is to provide a document allowing for the drugs to pass through checkpoints. It has not been forthcoming.</div>
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In December, more than 300 patients on methadone in Donetsk region signed an open letter to President Petro Poroshenko and Ukraine’s health minister, Aleksandre Kvitashvili, begging them to allow the supplies through. The patients wrote they would seriously consider suicide over “returning to street drugs and criminal life”. They have not received an answer.</div>
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“I’m a doctor and I swore to save lives; I am not sworn to Ukraine, or to the Donetsk Republic or to Mongolia,” says Drozd. “If you claim it’s your territory, why would you let people die here?”</div>
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lastochkahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03693705381682951810noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5259082628352435132.post-45850865537255367342015-01-21T22:36:00.000-08:002015-01-21T22:36:01.232-08:00The East Ukraine Bus Disaster. The Propaganda War Goes Ballistic. Testimony of Bus Driver points to Kiev Regime<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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The governments of Ukraine and the United States immediately called for an investigation while at the same time concluding that the Donetsk and Lugansk People’s Republics were behind the attacks.</div>
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The OSCE investigated concluded that the GRAD (HAIL) rocket attack came from north north east of the city. According to the OSCE both sides are still accusing each other. In the meantime Ukraine has cleaned up the attack scene and most of the evidence is now moved. Social propagandists are weighing in where ever they will be heard to try to sway opinion.</div>
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If the propaganda is starting to sound like the Boeing MH-17 attack all over again its because the stakes are that high. If Poroshenko’s government did this, the entire government is discredited. The Ukrainian army attacked its own people on video. Marie Harf placed the moral, political, and diplomatic weight of Barrack Obama’s presidency behind Kiev’s version of events.</div>
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What would have happened if the pilot of Malaysian flight MH-17 had <a href="http://www.opednews.com/articles/Another-MH17-Cover-Up-Hid-by-Eric-Zuesse-Corruption_Cover-ups_Nuclear-War_People_Barak_Obama-141223-689.html" rel="nofollow" style="border: 0px; color: #3b4d81; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">miraculously survived</a> and said exactly what he saw that day? Would anything Russia, Ukraine, or the USA have to say counter that? If <a href="http://fortruss.blogspot.com/2014/12/meet-pilot-who-shot-down-malysian.html" rel="nofollow" style="border: 0px; color: #3b4d81; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">he said he saw fighter jets</a> would it matter? If he said it was <a href="http://www.opednews.com/articles/Shooting-Down-MH-17--BUK-by-Michael-Collins-Buk-312_False-Accusations-Of-Terrorism_False-Flag-Attacks_Mh17-Airline-Crash-141217-104.html" rel="nofollow" style="border: 0px; color: #3b4d81; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">a BUK missile could anyone argue?</a></div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">This time the pilot survived. Sergei Cherenko was the bus driver when that bus was attacked in Volnovaha.</strong> He not only survived, he tried to help his passengers. Yesterday he gave an <a href="http://korrespondent.net/ukraine/3468394-vodytel-avtobusa-smerty-nas-obstrelialy-so-storony-volnovakhy" rel="nofollow" style="border: 0px; color: #3b4d81; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">interview with Korrespondent.net</a> and told exactly what happened, and the direction he saw the rockets come from. Mr. Cherenko who has worked for 21 years as a bus driver is still working the same route today with no time off in between.</div>
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He was driving to Donetsk when they stopped at the checkpoint. On his left was Volonavaha. He stated clearly if a Grad landed near the bus no one would have survived. He saw the Grad rockets coming from his left which was north toward the city. According to his testimony which is in line with other survivors, the Grad attack came from Ukrainian controlled territory.</div>
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The passengers were killed by the mine. This time the pilot survived. Will anyone believe him?</div>
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Will the Ukrainian government admit its guilt in this apparent attack?</div>
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Can the US government muster any moral outrage at the thought that Kiev is spending all the good will America may have left in the world for a long time?</div>
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Kiev is using the incident as a pretext to level the city of Gorlovka. The Ukrainian military have dropped 250 lb bombs on the city. Shelling, rocket, and missile strikes are leveling portions of it. Across Donbass this is going on. In the small town of Slavanosbersk over 140 homes have been destroyed and the town has no military targets.</div>
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Across Donetsk artillery and missile strikes have not ceased and are at levels higher than the last time the war was hot. The attacks on civilian populations is now non stop in the front line cities.</div>
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lastochkahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03693705381682951810noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5259082628352435132.post-85041841981023535402015-01-21T22:21:00.002-08:002015-01-21T22:21:41.372-08:00Rewriting history? Polish FM says Ukrainians liberated Auschwitz, Russia puzzled<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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The Polish FM’s statement that it was the Ukrainians who liberated the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp has puzzled Moscow. Russia’s UN envoy remarked that the Soviet Army, which liberated the camp, was actually multinational.</div>
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<em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“The 1st Ukrainian front and Ukrainians liberated [the concentration camp], as on that January day there were Ukrainian soldiers, so they opened the gates of the camp</em>,” said Foreign Minister of Poland, Grzegorz Schetyna, speaking on Polish radio on Wednesday.</div>
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He was answering a question related to invitations to join the ceremonies marking the 70th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau by the Red Army on January 27, 1945.<br />
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Following the comment, Russia’s UN envoy Vitaly Churkin reminded Schetyna that the Soviet Army had liberated the concentration camp, adding that the front was called first Ukrainian “<em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">as it liberated Ukraine from the Nazis before reaching Poland through battles.”</em></div>
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“<em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Like all other parts of the Red Army, [the front] was multinational and consisted of Russians, Ukrainians, Belarusians, Georgians, Armenians, Azerbaijanis, representatives of the peoples of Central Asia, and many others – more than 100 ethnic groups of the Soviet Union,”</em> Churkin said addressing the Polish UN envoy, Bogusław Winid, speaking at the UN conference commemorating the liberation of the camp on Wednesday in New York.</div>
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Churkin urged Winid to explain the grave mistake to the Polish FM saying that: <em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“I’m sure he didn’t intend to offend so many peoples.”</em></div>
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<em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“It is our common duty to the victims of genocide and future generations – to protect the truth about WWII,”</em> said Churkin.</div>
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<em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“Despite the shocking number of genocide victims, we see Waffen-SS veterans marching in European cities, which Nazis tried to demolish during at whatever cost. The Nazi past is being glorifies, neo-Nazism is on the rise,</em>” he added.</div>
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It is important to respect the memory of all those who liberated Europe, Russia’s Foreign Ministry also said on Wednesday commenting on the Polish FM’s statement.</div>
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<em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“It is really difficult to imagine that a government official of a level as high as Schetyna’s could be so ignorant,”</em> the comment said. <em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“Incidentally, the 1st Ukrainian Front had the official name of the Voronezh Front prior to November 1943, and before that, it was the Bryansk Front.”</em></div>
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<em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“We believe some individuals should stop deriding history and letting their anti-Russian hysteria push them to the brink of disrespect for those who didn't spare their lives to liberate Europe,”</em> the ministry added.</div>
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UK-based journalist and writer Neil Clark told RT that today, history is being rewritten for political purposes.</div>
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<em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“The fact of the matter is that it was the Soviet Red Army which liberated that appalling camp Auschwitz...”</em> he said. <em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“Yet now in 2015 we are rewriting history to write out the role of the Red army liberating Auschwitz for political purposes.”</em></div>
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In 2015 no specific invitations for the commemoration event were issued, as Polish authorities have passed this duty to the Auschwitz Museum and the International Auschwitz Council. The organizers of the ceremony stated that all nations, contributing funds to the site, had been asked if they were going to participate, without personal invitations.</div>
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Putin will not be attending the event, as he has not received any invitation, said his spokesman Dmitry Peskov on Tuesday. Meanwhile, Russia will be represented by the Head of the Presidential Administration Sergey Ivanov.</div>
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The commemoration of the liberation of the Nazi death camp is set to take place on January 27. It comes 70 years after the Soviet troops liberated it in 1945. About 1.5 million victims were imprisoned in Auschwitz, many of them Soviet citizens.</div>
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lastochkahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03693705381682951810noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5259082628352435132.post-40627375090482817472015-01-18T09:41:00.002-08:002015-01-18T09:41:44.674-08:00Donetsk shelled as Kiev 'orders massive fire' on militia-held E. Ukraine<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Ukrainian troops have launched a massive assault on militia-held areas Sunday morning after an order from Kiev, a presidential aide said. The self-proclaimed Donetsk republic’s leader accused Kiev of trying to restart the war.</div>
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The order to launch the offensive was issued early approximately at 6:00 am, according to Yury Biryukov, an aide to President Petro Poroshenko.</div>
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<span style="background-color: initial; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">In a later post he said: <em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“They are now striking a dot. Uuu…”</em> in a reference to Tochka-U (‘tochka’ means ‘dot’ in Russian), a tactical ballistic missile, one of the most powerful weapons Ukraine so far deployed against rebel forces.</span></div>
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Reports from the ground confirmed a sharp escalation of clashes across the front line, with particularly heavy artillery fire reported at Gorlovka.</div>
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<em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“Locals in Donetsk said they haven’t heard such intensive shelling since summer,”</em> Valentin Motuzenko, a military official in the self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic, told Interfax news agency.</div>
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A source at the site told RT that a group of OSCE monitors have demanded that the Ukrainian military stop the shelling. The source added that there is a danger that the group may itself come under artillery fire.</div>
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Aleksandr Zakharchenko, who was elected in November the prime minister of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic, has accused Kiev of using the ceasefire to regroup their troops and boost their armaments, and now of trying to restart the all-out war.</div>
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<span style="background-color: initial; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“It’s clear that Kiev is making an attempt to take revenge for the serious military defeat it took from the militia last year,”</em> he added. <em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“Kiev always ignored our numerous suggestions to pull back heavy weapons from the disengagement line.”</em></span></div>
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“At the moment, we are aware of five civilians killed,” the Donetsk administration said, adding that the shelling of the city by Ukrainian forces is still under way.</div>
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Several residential buildings, a shop and a bus station have been seriously damaged by artillery fire in the city, RIA Novosti reported.</div>
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There were also reports of attacks on the town of Makeevka and several nearby villages.</div>
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The militia added that at least one shell hit a residential area in central Donetsk rather than the outskirts of the city.</div>
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Two people have died and 16 other received injureies after a Ukrainian shell exploded at bus station in city of Gorlovka, the press service of the People’s Republic of Donetsk said.</div>
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Several buildings in the city also suffered direct hits during the bombardment, including four schools and a kindergarten, the press service added.</div>
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Witnesses said that Kiev used aviation in the assault, with Sukhoi Su-24 warplanes jets seen in the air above Gorlovka.</div>
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The ministry of Foreign Affairs of the People’s Republic of Donetsk (DPR) has called upon the international community to address the worsening of the situation in southeast Ukraine and <em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“make every effort to stop unpunished mass murder in the heart of Europe."</em></div>
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<em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“The People’s Republic of Donetsk again suffered a treacherous and large-scale attack from Ukraine,”</em>which is aimed at the destruction of the republic’s population and infrastructure, Aleksandr Kofman, DPR foreign minister, said in a statement.</div>
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The actions of the Kiev forces in Donetsk Region <em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“bear all characteristics of serious war crimes,”</em> Kofman said.</div>
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Moscow is seriously concerned by the by the renewal of shelling of residential areas of the eastern Ukrainian city of Donetsk by Kiev forces, the Russian president’s press secretary, Dmitry Peskov, said.</div>
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The actions of the Ukrainian military in no way promote the settlement of the conflict between Kiev and the eastern regions, he said.</div>
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<em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">"Of course, the stance of the Russian side will be expressed. Of course, it involves serious concerns over the resumption of full scale warfare in Donetsk, including shelling of populated residential areas. And, of course, such a state of affairs doesn’t promote the fulfillment of the Minsk agreements [from September 5] and the further search for a peaceful solution,”</em> Peskov told Govorit Moskva radio station.</div>
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<span style="background-color: initial; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The escalation comes after several days of violent clashes at the ruins of the Donetsk International Airport, a scene of constant fighting over the months of shaky ceasefire between Kiev’s troops and local militia forces.</span></div>
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The militia, who have accused the Ukrainian military of launching constant attacks on Donetsk from their positions at the airport, reported taking over the location this week. Kiev denied this report.</div>
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The Ukrainian Security and Defense Council confirmed the resumption of hostilities and that Kiev's objective was to recapture the airport.</div>
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Kiev launched it's retaliation days after President Poroshenko ordered a new wave of mobilization into the country’s armed forces. The government plans to hold at least three conscription campaigns over 2015 to sustain its military operations in the east.</div>
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Ten people died and 13 more were injured as a bus was shelled in the eastern Donetsk region, Ukraine’s Interior Ministry said. Denis Pushilin, Donetsk People’s Republic representative at Minsk talks, said the attack may have been staged by Kiev.</div>
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The incident took place near a Ukrainian military checkpoint near the town of Volnovakha on Tuesday, the spokesman for the Interior Ministry in the Donetsk region, Vyacheslav Ambroskin, said. He posted the information on his <a href="https://www.facebook.com/Vyacheslav.Abroskin?fref=ts" style="-webkit-transition: color 0.5s, text-decoration 0.5s; color: #044faa; font-size: 15px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: color 0.5s, text-decoration 0.5s; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Facebook page</a>.</div>
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Meanwhile, the regional administration reported that 18 people had been injured.</div>
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<span style="background-color: initial; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Ambroskin said the checkpoint was shelled from the direction of the town of Dokuchaevsk, which is under the control of local militia forces. The town of Volnovakha is under Kiev’s control.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: initial; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">RT is reaching out to its sources to verify the incident and get the details.</span></div>
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The Defense Ministry of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic denied that local militia forces were involved in the attack.</div>
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There is a Ukrainian checkpoint near the town of Volhovanka but it is <em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“out of range of the Donetsk militia’s artillery,”</em> a representative of the Defense Ministry of the Donetsk People’s Republic (DNR) told Interfax.</div>
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Denis Pushilin also told RT that the shelling occurred near Volnovakha at a Ukrainian army checkpoint that is <em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">"out of the operational range of the artillery of our militia."</em></div>
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<em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“I don’t rule out the possibility that [the attack] could be the Ukrainian army’s provocation, to attempt to put the blame for what has happened on local militia,”</em> Pushilin said.</div>
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Pushilin earlier Tuesday warned that the Ukrainian army could launch an offensive “any second” as troops have been massing near the border of the self-proclaimed republics.</div>
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He added that the National Guard battalion Sich, stationed in a Donetsk suburb, has been “provoking us with fire,” while the commander of the battalion said he refused to follow Kiev’s orders.</div>
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<span style="background-color: initial; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Following several weeks of calm there was hope that peace talks between Kiev and the eastern self-proclaimed republics were bearing fruit. However, after the winter holidays the conflict between local militia and Ukraine’s army stationed in the east has reignited, Donetsk officials say.</span></div>
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About 7,500 people were affected after a shell hit a gas pipeline in the Kievsky district of Donetsk on Monday.</div>
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