He said this in a post on Facebook.

Translation:

After any “goodbye” inevitably comes a “good day.”

I have long thought about “lot of in common”  between Russian and Ukraine. The reality is such that today, after the annexation of Crimea and the aggression in the Donbass, what is left of “in common” is the state border,

2295 kilometers and 400 metres in common. And from the Ukrainian side, Russia ought to return control over this border. Only then can continue searching for commonalities.

The ban on export of oil products, and the distribution of passports to the citizens of occupied territories, the holding of Ukrainians as captives, doesn’t bring closer the settlement of relations between our countries, even by iota, and we cannot call such relations “brotherly.”

Now, from the “common” to “personal.”

Regarding show, which was announced on the Russian federal channel.  I want to remind [everyone] that it was acting in TV shows that made me popular in Ukraine, and in the end made me a President of Ukraine. The airing of this show, which was filmed a long time ago, looks weird. I don’t have ambitions to do a political career in Russia.

(If you know the name of the show please write in the comments)

Source

Visualization of the happiness rating 

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.