Yet another example of cross-pollination between Hong Kong and Ukraine has surfaced…
The slogan “Glory to Ukraine, Glory to Heroes!” has become very popular during the Ukrainian Euromaidan. The origin of this slogan is among the Ukrainian nationalists of 1920s and 1930s, who often combined this with the Roman salute. Today’s Ukronazis do throw a little Sieg Heil as well.
A photo of a helmet has surfaced featuring a text in Cyrillic saying: “Glory to Hong Kong, Glory to Heroes!”
Anatoly Karlin notes that far more confident Western nations are cool with the article “the”…
Read Anatoly’s article on the matter of confidence deficient nations of Eastern Europe trying to control language.
While we see a lot of institutions in the West adopting the spelling Kyiv (out of pure Russophobia in my opinion), the prononciation of Kyiv must be very difficult for the Anglo-saxons. 
Bryan MacDonald notes that while the spelling has changed, the pronunciation has not…
WTF?
At the Southern Ukrainian Nuclear Power Plant, geeks have plugged in Bitcoin mining equipment to local systems…
According to Unian, because of this installation, reports of the physical safety of the station (which are a state secret) became public.
SBU discovered the installation during a sanctioned search on 10 July.
Mining bitcoin is more profitable than being a nuclear physicist, let that sink in.
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…
The last census of the population was conducted under the president Kuchma in 2001…
…in contrast to the Russian Federation, which conducts censuses every decade, and where the next one is planned for 2020.
I was watching one of my favourite YouTube channels (if you can follow content in Russian and Ukrainian, please give it a sub) and around the 3:33 mark, a video is played, featuring a newly elected representative, David Arakhamiya, who says this:
Census is, of course, needed but a census is a statistical action, and it would cost 90 million Euros, which is the preliminary estimate. We don’t have the money to conduct this every 5 years or something… We will conduct a census simultaneously with the distribution of new electronic ID cards…
Interesting, I wonder whether this would stop the guessing as to how many people are left in Ukraine. 25 million? 33.5 million?
LMAO…
Reuters reports:
The White House is reviewing whether $250 million in military assistance should be sent to Ukraine in keeping with President Donald Trump’s view that U.S. foreign aid must be justified, two senior administration officials said on Thursday.
The money is intended for use by Ukraine in its struggle with pro-Russian separatists backed by Moscow.
“The president has made no secret when it comes to foreign assistance that U.S. interests abroad should be prioritized and other foreign countries should also be paying their fair share,” said one of the officials, who shared details of the plan on condition of anonymity.
The officials said chances are the money will be allocated as usual but that the determination will not be made until a policy review is completed and Trump makes a final decision. The federal fiscal year ends on Sept. 30.
“Agencies are under no restrictions from preparing to obligate those funds, and agencies still have adequate time to obligate those funds prior to the end of the fiscal year,” the official said.
Moscow annexed Ukraine’s Crimea region in 2014.
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