There is a Porokhobot account on Twitter that posses as an elderly Odessa Jewess and goes by the name Tyotya Roza, that is Auntie Roza…

This is him:

A righteous move from the Darkest one…

From FT:

Russian president Vladimir Putin signed a decree on Wednesday to allow residents of Moscow-backed rebel-held territories in eastern Ukraine to obtain Russian passports.

The decree — published on the Kremlin website just three days after Ukraine elected a new president in a landslide — allows residents of the two separatist “republics” in Ukraine’s coal-producing Donbass region to apply for Russian passports under a simplified three-month procedure.

Though the move may make lives easier for vulnerable local residents who still face daily artillery bombardments, it is likely to further complicate moribund peace talks between Moscow and Kiev, which president-elect Volodymyr Zelensky has vowed to renew.

Anatoly Karlin wrote about it recently.

I have a new video on my Youtube channel, please subscribe if you haven’t done so…

In 2017, Tymoshenko warned us about a puppet of the oligarchs, who is a greenhorn in politics. The word “green” is clearly a hint about his identity:

The video has English subtitles…

So I listened to a video of Tet’yana Mont’yan, a Ukrainian lawyer and blogger, and she explained that Ihor Kolomoysky (aka. Benya) is the real winner of the Ukrainian presidential elections. But better yet she tells us, who Kolomoysky is…

I translate:

Do not forget that Benya is fully responsible for the Maidan, and the House of Unions in Odessa (events of 2 May 2014), and the atrocities committed by volunteer battalions that he sponsored. Benya promised to pay 10 kilo tuns of bucks ($10,000) for a Moskal (a Russian). He called Putin, a “dwarf” and a “schizophrenic”. And by the irony of fate, Putin might have to shake hands with Zelensky, a hologram created by Kolomoysky.

The $10,000 for a Mokal billboard was apparently Fake News, but Boris Filatov, currently the Mayor of Dnepropetrovsk, really did offer the reward of $10,000 for every “green man” as the Russian volunteers and intervening forces in Crimea and the East of Ukraine have been called.

But I digress, Putler has yet to recognise Zelensky, and the question is “Will he?” I think he should not recognise the Ukrainian government, on the basis that Ukrainians in Russia have been prevented from voting.

From the NYT:

The Ukraine connection

Ukraine is suffering through a measles outbreak that began in 2017. The country has had almost 70,000 cases — more than any other country in recent years.

The infections have not been confined to a particular ethnic group. The country is at war with pro-Russian separatists on its eastern border, distrust in government is high, and rumors about vaccines are rife — one of which began when a 17-year-old died of unrelated causes after getting a shot.

The Ukrainian government also rejected cheaper Indian and Korean vaccines in favor of European ones, but they cost more than the government could afford, Dr. Larson said.

But the real problem appears to have begun at Rosh Hashana.

Each year on the holiday, tens of thousands of Orthodox men travel to Uman, a Ukrainian city where the grave of Rabbi Nachman of Breslov, founder of one branch of Hasidism, has become a popular pilgrimage site. (The festivities have been called the “Hasidic Burning Man.”)

Last year, Rosh Hashana fell in early September. Later that month, measles cases exploded in Israel, rising to a peak of 949 in October. The cause? Numerous pilgrims came back from Ukraine with the virus, experts believe.

New York’s outbreak began in October; the first patient was a child in the Bensonhurst section of Brooklyn who had visited Israel. At the same time, a measles outbreak began among Orthodox Jews in London.