The project drafts for construction of the bridge over Kerch strait have been completed and sent to technical expertise, which has 60 days to either approve them or to require amendments: http://dom.lenta.ru/news/2015/06/30/bridge/Projected capacity: 40000 cars per day. 2 railway tracks with maximum sped of 160 km/h. Bridge span gaps: 227m. Height of the ship-faring span: 35m.  In the meantime, the railway track near Rostov-on-Don is being modified, so that a small portion of it, which crossed Ukrainian territory will go around along the border. |
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Want to add the following passage here, as it illustrates the views within Russia: I personally doubt that Russia will agree to recognize the TMR and then sign a defense treaty with it. For one thing, Putin was not elected to save the world, not even Syria, the Donbass or the TMR. Putin was elected first and foremost to stand up for the interests of the Russian people from and in Russia. It is all very well to say that the Russian military “must” intervene here or there unless, of course, you are the one having to explain grieving families why their loved one had to die far away from home. I have also said this here a million times, there is *no* support in Russia for any form of imperialism, including the “humanitarian” one. Finally, while we in the West are used to dismiss international law as a useless and hypocritical concept which nobody has to pay any attention to, the folks in the Kremlin take international law very seriously and the all these “grand plans” for the “easy” resolution of the TMR crisis have major legal implications, to put it mildly. |
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Yep, fat chance that Russia would just fold and let NATO set up shop in the Crimea and dominate the southern flank and the Black Sea. Was never going to happen.
Not for the lack of trying on the NATO part, though.  For some reason USA thought that they are exceptional, and that they'd succeed where the previous aggressors failed: - 1812, France. Check. - 1854, Britain and France with a Turkish proxy. Check - 1941, Germany. Check - 2014, USA. Well, Check. Also, already in 1992 did Russia proclaim that the 1954 transfer was illegal. In the Prosecutor General's Office conclusion, that I presented here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=494128.msg11726200#msg11726200there is a passage on page 2, which I should have translated: Later, the resolution of the Supreme Praesidium of the Soviet of RSFSR from 05.02.1954 "About Transfer of Crimean oblast from composition of RSFSR into the composition of Ukrainian SSR", on the grounds that it was taken in violation of the Constitution (Fundamental Law) of RSFSR and in violation of the legal procedures, was declared as null and void from the start. (The Decision of the Supreme Council of the Russian Federation from 21.05.1992 #2809-1) |
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They had high hopes for business in the Crimea...Example: Renovation of Sevastopol School #5, Ukraine Solicitation Number: N33191-13-R-1240 Agency: Department of the Navy Office: Naval Facilities Engineering Command Location: NAVFAC Europe and Southwest Asia Solicitation Number: N33191-13-R-1240 Notice Type: Combined Synopsis/Solicitation / Cancelled Synopsis: Added: Sep 05, 2013 2:58 am The purpose of this request for proposal is for the design and construction for the renovation of Sevastopol School #5 in Sevastopol, Ukraine in accordance with the attachments. Added: Sep 12, 2013 7:58 am Amendment 0001 is issued on September 12, 2013 to replace the original Technical Specifications with revised Attachment 1 - Technical Specifications School #5 Ver 002. As a result, CLIN 0005 - OPTION 4 Additional Roof Repair has been deleted and replaced with CLIN 0005 - OPTION 4 Additional Facade Renovation and Window Replacement. Offerors MUST use Attachment 1 - Technical Specifications School #5 Ver 002 as the basis for their price proposal. Added: Sep 26, 2013 9:11 am Amendment 0002 is issued to address preproposal questions. Added: Apr 15, 2014 5:18 am Due to the current climate in Ukraine, the subject solicitation is hereby cancelled. https://www.fbo.gov/index?s=opportunity&mode=form&id=2bb691b61c59be3a68180bd8c614a0cb&tab=core&_cview=1Info from April last year: Breaking! US Planned to Turn #Crimea into Military Base Against Russiahttps://futuristrendcast.wordpress.com/2014/04/24/breaking-us-planned-to-turn-crimea-into-military-base-against-russia/...
At least one hospital in Crimea’s capital Simferopol and at least one school in Sevastopol were targeted by the US/NATO just recently. They were planning on turning the hospital into a base for their troops after a massive renovation. One of the high schools (a gymnasium) in Sevastopol the Kiev authorities were about to sell to the US to be repurposed as a school for spies, targeting Russia. It was planned that the kids going to that school would be learning languages and spying techniques since an early age.
It appears Americans wanted to turn the Crimea into a massive military/navy/intelligence complex. The famous, one-of-a-kind Soviet underground submarine base in Balaklava, which is now the Museum of the Cold War, was visited in the past several years by at least 25 delegations from the Pentagon, US Navy, NATO, and Western political circles. Kiev gave them access to super-secret Russian/Soviet sectors of the base, which were supposed to be off limits. They studied with great interest the secret documentation and technology.
... EDIT: Incidentally, the designs USA/NATO had for Crimea are exactly the same as what the implemented on Serbian land of Kosovo after they bombed Yugoslavia to smithereens: Camp Bondsteel: How US Controls Gas and Oil Flow to Europe (LRL14)https://futuristrendcast.wordpress.com/2015/06/27/camp-bondsteel-how-us-controls-gas-oil-flow-to-europe-lrl14/ |
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Graham Philips, as almost the only Western journalist in Donbass, continues to report about the local resistance against the American proxy war. The following report is from the front-line near Marjinka. It's a resistance fortification, half-surrounded by Ukros, whose positions are only a few hundred meters away: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q_A5MswFWTQOne of the viewer comments there: По любому власть фашистов в киеве будет отвечать - нет никаких оправданий убийству мирных жителей при ,якобы проведении антитеррористических операций . Всем понятно ,что за этот абсурд ,навязанный из-за бугра имеет свой конец и будет народный суд In any case, the power of the fascists in Kiev will have to be held accountable - there are no excuses for murder of civilian population during conduct of a so-called anti-terrorist operation. Everyone understands that this absurdity, that had been imposed from across the pond, has its end and that there'll be a public judgement/court. Yes, the so-called "anti-terrorist operation" that has claimed lives of over 10000 civilians - women, children, elderly - and caused millions to flee, predominantly to Russia, for their lives from their ruined and bombed-out homes. |
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This item can go here. Not exactly kidnapping in the regular sense. But a kidnapping of the sexual identity nonetheless. Norwegian children are no allowed by law to switch their gender after they are 7 years old. (Marriage is still only after 16). http://www.thelocal.no/20150625/norway-to-let-7-yr-old-change-gender “This is an important area where Norway has lagged far behind many other countries for many years,” Health Minister Bent Høie said as he announced the plan during the Oslo Pride festival. “Now we can be proud that we are implementing this law.”
According to the Norwegian Health Ministry, most European countries only allow citizens to change the gender assigned to them at birth after they turn 18.
However, Richard Köhler, of the Transgender Europe lobby group, told Reuters that the “gold standard” was to have no formal limit, as in Malta.
“Generally it is very good to allow very young transpersons to have their gender identity respected,” he said. Needless to say, that physiologically, at 7 a child is only beginning to experience the actions of hormones, and both male and female hormones are at work (all boys remember how they start getting breasts). So at that age a child is particularly vulnerable as to their gender identity. Allowing to switch gender at that age is like giving a suicidally inclined person a loaded gun. |
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Adding this item here. Norwegian newspaper VG published an article, telling how a Norwegian politicians and an MP from FrP party Tor André Johnsen got several warnings from PST (Norwegian KGB) for "too close contact with the Russian embassy representatives", meeting them at social occasions at restaurants and such. However, he refuses to be intimidated (or as PST put it, they don't think they managed to reach through to him): Original source in Norwegian http://www.vg.no/nyheter/innenriks/frp/pst-advarte-frp-er-paa-stortinget-for-naer-omgang-med-russlands-ambassade/a/23466955/In Russian: http://www.newsru.com/world/23jun2015/norge.htmlThree things come to mind: 1. When the likes of Navalnyj, K.Sobchak and Nemcov spent time in the US embassy in Moscow, at various "democracy-building" course and received dollars to implement those "teachings" on social unrest, that was quite OK by the Western double standards... When a Norwegian politician openly conducts meetings with some of the Russian diplomats to keep the lines of dialogue open, that is somehow a bad thing. 2. The politicians in Norway are under the hood, under total surveillance. 3. A few years ago, Russia settled a territorial dispute with Norway, which existed since 1920s. Though that was not a popular move among the Russian population, forfeiting some of the land to Norway, Russian government saw it as a good move in building friendly neighbourly relations. This is completely forgotten now in Norway... Norway: definitely a free and democratic state. The aforementioned MP is now prohibited from leaving the country without "supervision from colleagues" for his initiative to promote Russian/norwegian friendship and cooperation: In Russian: http://ria.ru/world/20150628/1098813273.htmlIn Swedish: http://www.svd.se/pst-det-ar-fran-sakerhetspolisenSeveral MPs (especially from Northern Norway) voiced their support for him and for strengthening of good neighbourly relations with Russia. |
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thanks bud I REST MY CASE MISSILE just what i always thought never seen that video in such slow motion i tried slowing it down on me ps3 in the past but not quite like that TOTAL PROOF a MISSILE  plus why on earth would the FBI try and confiscate all the video evidence around the pentagon even the petrol stations video if plane hit the pentagon then you would just show it to the american people not try cover it up you would say here is the video from the petrol station and here is the plane hitting the pentagon the towers i knew blew up 97% sure just a little thought thinking hmmm fire 3% fire but i was 99% sure a plane never hit the pentagon but after seeing that video i am 100% sure now no plane hit the pentagon thanks bud now where is the "missile?" please do a screen clip and show us, because I did not see a "missile." I saw a long metallic thing that was blurred, but pretty darn long. Cruise missiles are quite small, you know. About 10-15 feet long. I am not aware of 100 foot long "missiles" that fly horizontal. Oh, except airplanes used as missiles. Oh yeah... Exactly, but with an opposite sign. That "long metallic thing" is long because of the motion blur and trailing smoke. The object's height above grass is too low. Even if a plane was skidding on its belly towards the building, it would have occupied a significant part of the frame. In the video, it would hardly reach the top of the ground floor windows. The videos above are just one piece in a large jigsaw of evidence that debunks the official theory. Regarding Pentagon: They want us to believe that a trainee pilot, who according to his instructor, could barely handle a Cessna in straight and level flight, somehow performed an ideal descending spiral, which ended at Pentagon, skimmed above the ground, leaving the lamp posts on the approach unharmed, and slammed into the wall, leaving only a tiny hole, and some of the furniture inside intact (while two similar impacts allegedly brought down WTC, where nothing was left remaining from the buildings or furniture, save for the high-jackers' passports and a turbine from a wrong plane model). Does not compute. Here is some more (watch all 10 short parts): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=czB_CWkqix4&list=PLWwb73xj88Z3bPFmJlse7T_JiW7wfWSOk&index=21Complete film with Spanish subs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NQFQHKjH4t0&list=PLWwb73xj88Z3bPFmJlse7T_JiW7wfWSOk&index=29And also this, doing extensive audio and video analysis from an armature video recording of what I can only call a demolition. Watch especially 43 minutes in and onwards: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hlIUGqai81k&list=PLWwb73xj88Z3bPFmJlse7T_JiW7wfWSOk&index=5 |
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If anyone doubted the question in the topic, the following article gives a definitive "yes" answer to it: http://edition.cnn.com/2015/06/23/politics/us-armor-tanks-europe-russia-ash-carter/In short, it can be summarised as "Russia fails to attack us, so we'll send our tanks to Russian border and see how the Russians respond to THAT." Of course, there is a lot of Russia bad that, Putin bad this usual dribble. And the usual misrepresentation of Putin's statements. All in the name of the next American pet project - WWIII. "The biggest threat on my mind is what's happening with Russia and the activities of Russia," James said during a visit to the Paris Air Show. "It's extremely worrisome on what's going on in the Ukraine." So, in Russia or Ukraine? Make up your mind. Russia is not a part of the Ukrainian civil war... "One of [Putin's] stated views is a longing for the past and that's where we have a different perspective on the world and even on Russia's future," he told reporters en route to Germany, in response to a question about whether Putin is a rational actor. "We'd like to see us all moving forward, Europe moving forward, and that does not seem to be his stated perspective." Stated where, exactly? Some references, please. All I remember is him and Medvedev saying that Russia intends to move forward with the times and that USSR lies firmly in the past. "Nuclear weapons are not something that should be the subject of loose rhetoric by world leadership," Carter said. "We all understand the gravity of nuclear dangers. We all understand that Russia is a long established nuclear power. There is no need for Vladimir Putin to make that point." Of course, not. USA could have just attacked and say, "oops, we forgot Russia had nuclear weapons" "We are now talking about taking one brigade combat team and splitting it among these six countries. That should hardly be seen as a threat to Russia," Kimmit said. One brigade here. Another there. Some colour revolutions, where we don't like them doing business with Russia (Macedonia/Armenia)... Nothing to worry about. Move along. |
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No! No! No! Referendums are so undemocratic!
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Crimean Tatars... the pet project of the West. Personally I don't care what 249000 (out of 2.5 million population of Crimea) law-abiding Tatars are doing. It's the 1000 troublemakers that cause concern. It's the same all over - on Ukrainian Maidan 9including - the 0.001% that destroy it for the rest.
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USA and EU, apparently being Communist dictatorships,
Someday USA and EU are fascist, another day they are communist... You guys have to decide  But they are, depending on what suits them best in one situation or another... It's they who need to decide. Besides, you took my statement out of its (sarcastic) context, as is the tradition in Western MSM.
An important legal development regarding Crimea. On request from an MP from party "Fair Russia", Sergej Mironov, the Prosecutor General's office conducted an enquiry into legality of transfer of Crimea from RSFSR to UkSSR in 1954. The conclusion is that the transfer was illegal, violating both the Constitution of USSR and the Constitution of RSFSR. http://tass.ru/politika/2075741   http://mironov.ru/main/news/13939"Ни Конституция РСФСР, ни Конституция СССР не предусматривала полномочий Президиумов Верховных Советов РСФСР и СССР по рассмотрению вопросов об изменении конституционно-правового статуса автономных советских социалистических республик, входящих в состав союзных республик, — говорится в заключении Генпрокуратуры РФ. — Конституция СССР (п. «д» ст. 14) вопросы утверждения изменений границ между союзными республиками относила к ведению СССР в лице его высших органов государственной власти и органов государственного управления и не предусматривала полномочия Президиума Верховного Совета СССР по вопросу об изменении территорий союзных республик (ст. 49).
"С учетом изложенного, принятые в 1954 г. решения Президиумов Верховных Советов РСФСР и СССР о передаче Крымской области из состава РСФСР в состав УССР, не соответствовали Конституции (Основному закону) РСФСР и Конституции (Основному закону) СССР", — отмечает Генпрокуратура РФ. "Neither the Constitution of the RSFSR nor USSR Constitution provided the Supreme Soviet Presidiums of RSFSR and the USSR with the power to consideration of the changes in the constitutional-legal status of the Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republics, which are members of the Union Republics. The USSR Constitution (n. "d" Art. 14) referred issues considering the approval of changes of borders between the Soviet republics to the responsibility of the Soviet Union, represented by its higher organs of state power and government and did not provide the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR with the powers on the question of changing of the territories of the Union Republics (Art. 49).
"In view of the above, the decision taken in 1954 by the Supreme Soviet Presidiums of the RSFSR and the Soviet Union regarding the transfer of the Crimean region of the RSFSR into the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, did not correspond to the Constitution (Fundamental Law) of the RSFSR and the Constitution (Fundamental Law) of the Soviet Union" - said the Prosecutor General's Office. |
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Lada wrote another good article, putting the recent seizures of Russian state assets into historical perspective: Russian Asset Seizure in Belgium and France: Does It Mean War?https://futuristrendcast.wordpress.com/2015/06/25/russian-asset-seizure-in-belgium-and-france-does-it-mean-war/What happened?
Pre-history: Shortly before the Sochi Olympics Putin personally pardoned a former Russian oligarch Mikhail Khodorkovsky, who was serving a sentence on official charges of tax evasion and money laundering. Charges that didn’t make it into the court verdict were much more serious: Khodorkovsky and his crony Lebedev were about to secretly sell-out strategic Russian oil assets over which they took control in the ’90s, during the wholesale looting of what was all of Russian people’s common property.
Khodorkovsky was literally about to board the plane to the US, where he was to make the deal of the century – sell his company Yukos to the US oil interests. In exchange, he was promised an easy election and post of the Russian president. The idea was for him to preside over the completion of the demolition of Russia. The process of the demolition of the country was stopped in its tracks by Putin, and Khodorkovsky’s handlers couldn’t wait to get back on the destructive mode.
However, in his arrogance Khodorkovsky didn’t realize how much the Russian government knew about his plans. He was arrested and tried on the superficial and easily provable money laundering charges.
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The biggest proponent and intermediary for Khodorkovsky’s early release was Germany, including personally Merkel, citing Khodorkovsky mother’s poor health and other humanitarian reasons. The condition for his release was that he wouldn’t go back into politics. Both Khodorkovsky and his German guarantors swore to that. But then again, Germany swore in 1989, as Gorbachev allowed Germany’s reunification (over USA’s objections!) and as Soviet troops pulled out of Germany, that the unified Germany wouldn’t be a part of NATO…
Today:
Of course, the moment Khodorkovsky was out of jail, he immediately started talking about running for Russian presidency, interfering in Ukraine and rejoicing over anti-Russian sanctions.
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No question, this lawsuit was suggested by the US and coordinated with the EU – the US fingerprints are all over its timing. Shortly after filing, the court in Hague delivers verdict: Russia is to pay Yukos shareholders $50 bln. Russia’s reply: we won’t abide by the decision of the court we don’t recognize.
As a result, Russian property and asset arrests and seizures began in France and Belgium. The amount cited is so far $1.3 bln. These include: arrests of bank accounts of the Russian companies with any stake by the Russian State, such as Rosneft; Russian Orthodox Church properties; Russian embassy, EU/Council of Europe representation diplomatic accounts.
Diplomatic accounts are illegal to seize in any country. If Russia wanted to escalate, such act could be construed as a declaration of war. Both France and Belgium ‘apologized,’ saying they have an absolutely and totally independent legal system; as such, they ‘didn’t know’ of the diplomatic accounts being seized and that they would release them.
Seizure of the Russian Orthodox Church property isn’t just illegal, since it’s not a property of the Russian State, but also and disgusting from the human and spiritual standpoint. It’s low even for them. Let’s recall that a similar war on Russian Orthodox Church property and threats against priests are taking place in Ukraine. All this appears to be a very well-coordinated action – and as my readers know, I am non-religious and therefore my point of view is neutral and detached. Read: Pope Francis and World Religions – Karma and Consciousness.
As to the property of the Russian banks and Russian companies, it’s more complicated. At present, Lavrov and other ministers announced they will use all legal means necessary to protest this decision and that companies can feel free to file claims in the Russian court, in return for which Russian court can seize appropriate assets of foreign countries in Russia.
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Stealing of Russian assets continues. France freezes accounts worth millions of Euro, citing the "Magnitskij" case. Magnitskij was arrested on charges of tax avoidance in Russia, and died in prison while awaiting investigation in 2009. In 2012 USA imposed an Act of Magnitskij, prohibiting 24 people, who investigated and arrested Magnitskij from entering USA: http://www.forbes.ru/news/292343-frantsiya-zamorozila-scheta-na-milliony-evro-po-delu-magnitskogo(Looks like tax avoiders and traitors like Magnitskij, Hodorkivskij, Nemcov, Berezovskij, Gusinskij are in high regard in the West. \Must have something to do with European Values [tm]) |
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Government of the Crimean Republic warns Europe that European countries imposing sanctions are risking to lose all the tourists from Russian Federation: http://lenta.ru/news/2015/06/25/crimea/The thing is: EU is imposing individual sanctions with travel restrictions against all Russian citizens (including the 2.4 million residents of Crimea) who dare to visit or live in Crimea. Bank "Russia", which came under EU sanctions, reports growth thanks to the large number of new customers from Crimea (4.5 billion roubles, which is a 10% from total sum of investments into this bank): http://www.kommersant.ru/doc/2754082 |
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