I am surprised Kálenský forgot about MH17. Anyway, he was featured on this blog before, enjoy my article on the Hybrid War…
Category: Fight Against Disinformation
Russians Hold Hostages vs. Ukrainians Jail Criminals
Julian Röpke is a journalist for the German tabloid BILD, and a big fighter against Russian disinformation. He blocked my current twitter account…
What Julian is referring to is the exchange of prisoners between Russia and Ukraine. One of these prisoners was Oleg Sentsov, an activist of the Automaidan in 2013, who was arrested by FSB because he allegedly planned to blow up Soviet monuments in Crimea, so that the “Moskals experience terror!” The EU awarded him a Sakharov Freedom of Thought prize. Western media referred to him as a film director. It is true, Sentsov has one amateurish film that he made, which none of his fans have watched. I bet Julian didn’t watch it either.
We have to thank the new President of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelensky for making this exchange of prisoners possible. It was something that he worked on over Summer, he personally phoned Vladimir Putin. Oleg Sentsov and the others were a source of cheap propaganda for the previous president, Petro Poroshenko and the dupes at EU have only aided him in this.
I wish all the luck to Oleg Sentsov, and I hope his career as a film director will only flourish from now on…
MH17″Call for Justice”
The Dutch film below confirms my suspicions that the MH17 disaster was a provocation staged by the Western security services and their Ukrainian puppets with the express aim to frame Russia…
Ekho Moskvy Audience Is Apparently Representative of the General Russian Opinion
I have always been rather sceptical of the quality of the anti-Russian-disinformation disinformation efforts (see here and here).
So the other day I learned this at EU vs. Disinfo, an official website of the EU dedicated to the fight against Russian disinformation:
The source of this is an Ekho Moskvy telephone poll.
Radio Ekho Moskvy polled its audience on whether “the assessment of KVN and similar shows as a propaganda tool makes any sense”. By Monday, 68% of the answers among those who voted online agreed with the study and answered that it makes sense. Among those interviewed by phone, 60% shared that opinion.
You might as well ask the viewers of Rachel Maddow what they think about Donald Trump, and the result would be just as representative of the general opinion in the US.
Haven’t the EU vs. Disinfo committed disinformation here, and purposefully mislead their readers, who might not be familiar with Russian reality?
According to EU, the Bezviz will be over in 2021
What is the “Bezviz”? It is the ability of Ukrainians to travel to the EU without a visa, and a source of pride for the current president, and one of the greatest of peremohas (victories) for Svidomites (nationally conscious Ukrainians)…
In my opinion, the Bezviz, which came into being in 2017, was never much of an achievement. It should be mentioned, that this was something the government of Yanukovych was already working on. Where once you needed a visa, a stamp in the passport, you now need these documents:
- A biometric passport
- Insurance covering the entire time of your stay
- Destination or itinerary
- In case you are not travelling by car, you will need return tickets
- If you are going for a business meeting, you need an invitation from the company
- If you are going to study, you need invitation from the school
- Hotel reservation, or invitation from friends with whom you are staying
- 20-50 Euros per day in the least, and proof of having this kind of money
- If you are going to work in Poland, you will need an invitation from the employer, and 200-300 zloty.
Failure to provide any of these documents could result in rejection of entry. I still remember, in 1991 my parents used just Czechoslovak passports to travel with us to France. But 1991 was a different era I guess, Bezviz back then was not Bezviz now.
Anyway, the other day Stop Fake, a project of the Faculty of Journalism of the Kyiv Mohyla Academy, whose mission is to fight Russian disinformation, reported how the Russian media said the Bezviz will become more complicated.
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The talk is about a new security system called ETIAS, which will start working in 2021, and will require an online registration and a fee of €7,-. Stop Fake came to the conclusion that this isn’t a complication, and that the Russian media are lying. But when one turns to CNN, as this new regulation will be obligatory not just for Ukrainians but for Americans as well, they are outright calling this new demand a “visa”. And it seems the EU does as well.
I quote:
The European Union announced on Friday that American travelers will need a new type of visa — a European Travel Information and Authorization System or ETIAS — to visit the European Schengen Area.
And I have to ask, if this is a visa, is calling the regime Ukraine has with the EU a “Bezviz” still objective beyond 2021?
From Daily Mail:
The requirement to apply for a visa is said to be a retaliatory measure since the US still require some EU countries to apply for a visa.
The US had been in a disagreement with the European Parliament and European Commission, CNN reports, over visa requirements it has for citizens from five EU member nations: Bulgaria, Croatia, Poland, Romania and Cyprus.
The European Commission called for the US to reciprocate visa-free status to those five countries as it does for the other 23 EU nations part of the Schengen Area, the EU’s visa-free travel zone, in a 2016 report.
How the EU makes Apologetics for Naziism
The EU decided to use my taxes to save me and my fellow Europeans from nefarious disinformation, and fails…
I have come across an online project called “EU vs. Disinfo” of the European External Action Service East Stratcom Task Force. I was very much interested in what they have to say. I found there a collection of fabrications that put Russian media to shame but I also found a curious urge to protect the post-Maidan regime from accusations that are essentially true.
The project wants to claim the accusation that the slogan: “Slava Ukrayini! Heroyim Slava!”, that is “Glory to Ukraine! Glory to Heroes!” has Nazi origins is wrong…
They say the origin of the “disinformation” is the Russian evening news programme “Vesti”, on the First Channel…
They continue to give some lame arguments as to why Vesti is wrong. I discuss everything below…
The slogan appeared in the 1930’s and was modelled on the German slogan: “Heil Hitler! Sieg Heil!” that is: “Hail Hitler! Hail Victory!”. In 1939, OUN made it official at a conference in Rome. It should be noted that the Italians, and the Croatians had similar slogans. The OUN were seeing themselves as a part of the fascist international. They were literally fascist and proud of it.
The “historian” from the Catholic University in Lvov makes an absolutely lame attempt to divorce the slogan from its origins. Imagine the Germans would stage a protest against the Christian and Social Democrat regime, and in the process would resurrect the “Heil Hitler! Sieg Heil!”, and then they would seize power and make it an official slogan of the military? This is essentially what happened in Ukraine! The slogan was introduced on the Maidan by the nationalists. Andreas Umland mentions the slogan began to be actively used in Ukraine by Oleh Tyahnybok of the Svoboda Party.
So, the Slogan was created by Nazis, and introduced to Ukraine by Nazis, introduced to the Maidan by Nazis. The EU hacks want to tell me everyone needs to be goose stepping, or what? Most Germans did not vote for Hitler remember that.
I have discussed the “poor ratings” on this blog before. The argument is easily dismissed by the following argument. Ukraine is a large country, and you need a lot of money to achieve electoral success. This causes the political landscape to be dominated by oligarch run political projects. If you want to win in elections, you need to join one of these groups. Boryslav Bereza is a good example of a person from “Right Sector” who is now a parliamentarian. The current Rada is swarming with people, who have more or less adopted the nationalist ideology.
Russia has a right to be concerned about a radical nationalist regime on her border, so I don’t get what these EU hacks are moaning about?
Insomniac Resurrected 