The EU needs to help the Russian people, who are being robbed by Putler’s cronies to pay for real estate in the EU! Help Russia, please! Sanction these people!
But in reality, the EU is absolutely cool with this Russian connection. Do you honestly think they would kick these fat cats out to develop real estate in Crimea or Abkhazia?
Dear Ukrainians, do you still ask why Russia was allowed back into the PACE?
I present, the “Thief of Memories”
More in TSN report (in Ukrainian):
Following the Sentsov press conference, Hromadske’s journalist wrote on Facebook that “good” Ukrainian journalists should beat up “bad” Ukrainian journalists…
This self-regulation led to the murder of Oles’ Buzyna and started the war in the Donbass. If you don’t know what Hromadske TV is, it is grant eater institution par excellence. The Hromadske emerged in 2013 in the early days of the Euromaidan, and serviced the so called “Revolution of Dignity”. An article on Strana.ua from 2016, reveals who the sponsors are:
1) The European Commission
2) The Omidyar Network
3) USAID and its Swedish and Canadian counterparts
4) The German embassy
5) Ukrainian World Foundation – diaspora in Canada
6) The Dutch Embassy, Internews Network, Swiss Agency for Development, The Swedish International Liberal Center, The Thomson Foundation
^All of the named above support violence, repression, radical nationalism, intolerance, and ethnic cleansing…
From Sharij.net
The Minister of Interior of Estonia, Mart Helme was interested whether it is possible to cancel visa free travel to Ukrainians that arrive en masse in Estonia.
He said that the leaders of the Conservative Party of Estonia have previously warned that Ukraine will become a Trojan Horse should it receive a visa free travel from the EU.
“Trojan horse, even for Russia, because who comes here are not so much Ukrainian but Russians from the East of Ukraine, Russified Ukrainians, or simply Homo Sovieticus. This migratory pressure from the east on us is strong and it continues to intensify.”
Earlier Shariy.net reported that the EU is looking at scrapping the visa free travel for a number of countries over an increasing number of asylum seekers.
In other news, Belorussian leader, Alexander Lukashenko, said he was forced to shut the border with Ukraine tight over flows of weapons from that country.
A ruined mess?
I have a new video on my channel, give me sub for videos from Ukraine, Russia and the Czech Republic…
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With plans like these, he can become good friends with Arkadiy Babchenko, who dreams to drive his Abrams even further, to Moscow…
He loses his faith in Germany and France…
I wonder, who put trust in Jakub Janda, making him a director of two think tanks? The man is a plagiarist and did gay porn.
Under Poroshenko, government money was thrown at commercially unsuccessful films, and now the party is coming to an end…
Mykola Kniazhytskyi, Member of Parliament from Poroshenko’s party, now called “European Solidarity” wrote on his Facebook page:
The issue here is not so much that the new powers that be in Ukraine will defund but that the Ukrainian government pisses away millions of hryvnias for films that never made the money back. And this would not be the worst, Ukraine is a poor place and the people cannot afford to go to cinema very often, so the box office may not be successful with every film. The film performs a propaganda service, and should help promote the Ukrainian language in theory. But the question is whether the Ukrainian films are doing exactly this?
Above are the box offices of Ukrainian films last year. In red, the numbers indicate government support for the film. Let me quote some:
Codename “Banderas” is a film about the Donbass war, I call it “Pozyvnoy Pidoras”
It had a budget of 39.3 million HRN ($1.25 million USD), out of which 19,6 million HRN came from the government. It made 1,9 million HRN.
I was interested how much a ticket to see such a masterpiece costs in Kiev, and found out that it is 60 HRN. If you divide 1 900 000/60 = 31 666,6667. Basically, hardly anyone saw this shit.
Secret Diary of Symon Petlyura is a historical film about a Ukrainian separatist leader in the early twentieth century.
It had a budget of 47.2 million HRN ($1.5 million USD) and it gained only 1.1 million HRN in the box office. If you do the math, you will notice that almost nobody went to see this.
I personally hold a history degree and was never a fan of historical dramas, I also understand that people may be reluctant to see films about a war in a country where a simmering conflict is still raging. But it is not true that films cannot be commercially successful in Ukraine.
Spoiled Wedding (going as Crazy Wedding) is a comedy where a Ukrainian girl studying in France falls in love with a Frenchman but there is an issue… he is black.
Funny though but not very original, can be watched here with subtitles. It had a budget 10.8 million HRN, that is much less than the other two films named, out of which 1.1 million came from the state, and it made 46 million HRN in the box office.
“Look what artistic masterpiece I found…”
Turns out, this is the 250 of Kotliarevsky. If you don’t know, who that was, he was a Ukrainian noble of Cossack elder origins, who in late eighteenth century was the first to attempt writing plays in the vernacular of the Poltava region, which would later be developed into the Ukrainian language.
Hardly anything was written in the vernacular before Kotliarevsky and the vernacular was always considered low status. This is a perennial source of much of low self esteem among Ukrainians.
And this is why the first work in the vernacular was a piece of burlesque poetry named Aeneid: Rewritten in the Little Russian Language. Kotliarevsky actually first wrote a similar piece in Russian but thought it would be funny to render it in the language of the common folk.
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