Netflix featured the Russian crime drama Brat 2 on its site, and they have translated a scene where one of the characters asks two Ukrainians if they are banderovites, that is followers of the radical nationalist leader, Stepan Bandera, this way:
It is difficult not to claim that Bandera wasn’t collaborating with the Nazis. However, some in Ukraine are ashamed of this fact apparently. A parliamentarian from the ruling party, Dmytro Hrudin, said that Netflix had no right to do this. He promised they initiate a writing campaign. They can of course do that, but the international public understands why Bandera is hated, and does not even know who Bandera is…
I really wonder how the entire dialogue is translated. I might watch it later tonight…
One of my hobbies is astrology, and one of the astrological theories revolves around the correlation of the transit of Saturn with life events in the development of people. A rather secular understanding of this would attribute these events to hormonal changes but that does not explain events around you. Each one of us has a Saturn at a certain position when we are born but the planet does not stand still. In 15 years, it will stand in opposition to your Saturn, and what do experience? A youthful rebellion!
Many of millennials experienced a crisis come late twenties. This is when Saturn returns to the position in the Zodiac it was at at the time of your birth. Some will say that they haven’t had any crisis. Well, some people are well posited, they have rich parents, or they have made the right choices during the opposition and the waning square. But Saturn presents a challenge for the young people to adapt to adult life, you have to overcome your youthful fire, and you have to do good in uni, or in your job. You have to get those grades, make a good impression as an intern etc.
Mr. Protasevych is a textbook example of this theory, it is the Saturn return for him as he is now in his mid-late 20s, but to understand the road that led him here, one must look at the choices he made at the time of his Saturn opposition in his youth.
In Spring 2011, Protasevych was nominated for a presidential prize for a work on a cooling system in satellites, which included his own model. Protasevych presented his model at a conference in St. Petersburg dedicated to the Day of Cosmonautics. There he met the Soviet cosmonaut, Gregory Grechko. After finishing school, Protasevych planned to study at A.F. Mozhaysky Military-Space Academy in St. Petersburg. Protasevych was studying at a prestigious Minsk school that focuses on physics and technology.
Then in Summer he met some people that offered him study in Poland, and he fled home… Two years later he was felling Lenin at the Besarabskaya in Kiev. Serving in Azov in the Donbas.
He managed to work in the Radio Liberty and do an internship in the US. I just wanna ask:
Ukraine’s foreign minister, Dmytro Kuleba doesn’t understand why Ukraine wasn’t invited to the NATO Summit scheduled for next month. What kind of ZRADA is this?
We understand the desire of the allies to meet in secret on the Summit to discuss transatlantic unity… However, we totally do not understand how it is possible to conduct closed summit of NATO while Russia is behaving aggressively against Ukraine in the Black Sea region, and against members of the alliance. I have in mind the recent results of investigation in the Czech Republic. This we cannot understand, how can you not invite Ukraine, why isn’t there a place for Ukraine in this summit?
Kuleba is thankful for the policy of open doors declared on the summit in 2008.
However, 13 years have passed since that summit. When we in Ukraine are blamed for the slow pace of reforms, what then can we say about the implementation of the decision of the Alliance, which are catching dust? It is very important for Ukraine that the policy of open doors does not become feeding us promises.
If Ukraine was in NATO, there wouldn’t be escalation in the Donbas.
That means, we would have the obligation to defend you?
Yes that is so because today we are defending Europe. We are thankful to Europe for her policy of sanctions. We are thankful to United States. But you cannot return people’s lives through sanctions.
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You must understand that today it is Ukraine. But who is next? This is a provocation. Tomorrow it could be any European country or the United States. We are not just talking military matters. We are dealing with an information war…
Anatoly Shariy has dug out an old article, which is an interview with a soldier by the code name “Kim”, who served in the Pahonia platoon, a Belarussian unit, that looks very much like Roman Protosevych, who was arrested in Minsk few days ago…
From the article
Protasevych told about first shooting at a man. “It is you or me, I don’t regret anything.” Lukashenko said in front of Belarussian parliamentarians that Protasevych is guilty of war crimes committed in the Donbas.
The guy in glasses is identified as Belorussian, Stanislav Goncharov. He served in Azov between 2014-16. Goncharov is now in Belarussian prison but not for being a member of the Azov and fighting in the Donbas. His sentence is for hate speech, robbery, and pornography.
A small prehistory. Simulating the work of a government, the President of Ukraine, Zelensky decided to compile a list of crime bosses that the National Security Council will enact sanctions against…
Volunteer Chechens looting a store…
Fist scandals surrounding the list are beginning to come to the surface. Chechens from the battalion of Sheikh Mansur that fought in the Donbas appeared there. This army unit was wild for a long time and did not answer to civil command. Outside the warzone, they have had a number of criminal episodes.
I am sorry but this fucked up and zrada in one cup. And I must say this government has stepped over all red lines.
Together with human rights defenders we have dissected the list of names, allegedly being the heads of criminal organisations, and that have received sanctions from the security council and Zelensky. Well, these bastards have brought into the list Chechens that have fought on the side of Ukraine against Russian aggression. They have put them on the list to extradite them to Russia. They are already wanted by the FSB. Do you know who they are, the commander Muslim Ceberloevsky, #632 in the security council list, and the chief of staff of the Sheikh Mansur Battalion, Muslim Idrisov, whi is #646 in Zelensky’s list of people to be sanctioned. Salman Saynaroev is #650. There are other volunteer fighter, whom are wanted by the Kremlin.
I have received information that the “sanctions of the security council” have been directed against out brothers in arms from the volunteer battalion of Sheikh Mansur, our Chechnyan brothers.
I would like you to give as much hype as you can to this astounding fact!
I am suspecting, Kremlin agents that have infiltrated into the Ukrainian security forces and the government are engaged in an operation to destabilise the situation in the country with the aim to expand the area of aggression and full on invasion of Ukraine.
That why the agents of the Kremlin have inserted into the list of thiefs, bandits, anti-Ukrainian elements, people who have fought side by side with us, and walked the road of War with us in 2014, they have defended our freedom and independence.
I am warning the government: We will not allow our brothers to be extradited to the enemy…
If we are to use force to defend them, we are ready…
I am hoping on the patriotic, and pro-state opinion of the secretary of the security council and the officers of SBU and the Ministry of Interior!
For those who don’t know, NEXTA is a Belarussian opposition media project, and Telegram channel that became famous through the organisation and management of the recent anti-Lukashenko protests. NEXTA and Roman Protasevych appeared in this documentary of Yuri Dud’, English subs included…
Roman Protasevych, the founder of Telegram channel NEXTA was arrested in Minsk. He was on board of a Ryanair flight from Athens to Vilnius. The plane landed in Minsk following a bomb scare. The passengers were taken off flight after which Protasevych was arrested…
In November 2020, the founders of NEXTA, Roman Protasevych and Stepan Putilo were included by the KGB on a list of people engaging in terrorist activity…
Update: It is said the plane was redirected to Minsk by Belarussian fighter jets.
Update3:Demshiza all over Eastern Europe is livid.
Alexandr Mitrofanov – a Czech journalist of Russian origin. My elderly mother calls him “a traitor.”: Lukashenko would never stoop to todays act of state terrorism if he wasn’t certain that Putin has his back with his nuclear bombs, rockets and preparations for war.
I don’t know who this Polish gentleman is but here is what he says (my free translation):And this after Biden’s decision on the Nord Stream 2, that is a warm up before the Blinken-Lavrov meeting.
Přístavní povaleč – a shithead: This was an act of aerial piracy, highjacking of a plane
Update 4:USA did this trying to catch Snowden, so anyone can.
Update 5: More demshiza:
From Abby’s profile:
You know Christo Grozev that you are full of shit?
Update 6: Protasevych was in Athens as a press attaché to Svetlana Tikhanovskaya, who was meeting Donald Tusk and the president of Greece. Also present was US ambassador to Greece Geoffrey Pratt, who coincidentally was the ambassador in Kiev in 2013-2014.
Update 7: I hear Protasevych fought in the Azov. Protasevych confirms he was in Donbas as a journalist.
The leader of the Azov gang, Biletskiy about Protasevych: “Truly, Roman has fought against the occupation of Ukraine together with Azov and other military units. He was with us in Shirokino, where he was wounded. But his weapon was the word not machinegun.”
What calibre is the word? 5.45?
*** if Protasevych was a Western journalist, the above photo posing with a black sun would make all the media forget about him but because he an Eastern Slav against Russia, he gets all the love…
Update 8: Protasevych worked for Radio Liberty in Belarus.
This is really amusing, however it is a consequence of low political culture in our country…
Our Prime Minister, Andrej Babiš demanded EU countries oust at least one diplomat in support of the Czech Republic in the Vrbětice explosions affair. What happened was a Zrada. Nobody expelled any diplomats! Well, previously some countries did expel some diplomats in solidarity, those countries were the Baltic three, Slovakia and, I reckon Poland. And that’s it, none of the Westerners give a fuck… we are in a club with Latvia, and Bulgaria, and Ukraine, where we send weapons. Those shitholes are our true friends, who not only believe our baseless stories but are ready to act to punish the Russians.
The Vice Premier, and Minister of Finance, Alena Schillerová embarrassed herself by demanding one billion CZK in compensation from Russia for the Vrbětice affair. To which the Duma representative for foreign affairs, Leonid Slutskiy said the Czechs should seek compensation from their puppeteers in Washington because the Vrbětice hoax was likely inspired from there. I will say I am loving this new rhetoric of the Russian officials and I am wondering why this change hasn’t come earlier. I guess the Kremlins had a misplaced hope for the Trump administration.
If you haven’t heard about Serhiy Leshchenko by now, he has an extensive English language Wikipedia page.
To sum up this individual, all I can say is that he is absolutely against Russia, and an old time granteater. He calls Russia an aggressor, calls on the West to enact sanctions against that country, hates Putler…
And then low and behold, his wife plays Techno in a Moscow club, Mutabor.
This is the essence of the Ukrainian elite. They peddle Russophobia in the parliament and yet speak Russian at home, and they do not shy from making money in Russia, while they make claims about Russian aggression. They deny the common Ukrainian children education in the Russian language, while their children get the best education in a variety of languages, including Russian. I recall a recent story about a private kindergarten in Dnipro, which said they will not stop communicating in Russian because Russian is the language of the he elite.
I personally do not care about DJ Nastia, Anastasia Topol’skaya, Leshchenko’s wife DJing in Russia, reports have it she even plays in Crimea. She is a DJ, and the nightclub is her World. And while she is guilty of also peddling Russophobia, she has also criticized Svidomism. I understand the girl may be confused about ethnopolitics but Mr. Leschchenko should know better. Mr. Leshchenko was a political journalist, activist, and parliamentarian. Guess what he said in defence of his wife?
“She deserves the highest form of support from Ukrainians. What concerns her activity in Russia, she is in a country which represses this culture. The event in Russia was attended by many LGBT people, a minority which is suffering under Putin and Kadyrov. It is important to support the marginalised people in Russia, who are dying, who are being killed by the Putin’s regime. Her travel to Russia also served to support the people, who are victims of the Putin regime.”
Fuck me man! What a lying snake! This is an official club in Moscow, the ticket costs 1,800 RUB (24 USD). The club pays taxes into the Russian budget, and Leshchenko’s wife did a show there.
Despite the wish of Ukraine to become a member of the EU and NATO being enshrined in the country’s constitution, the fulfillment of this wish may be further than some mayhope…
It is unfortunate for the Svidomites, but 7 years after the signing of the Association Agreement between Ukraine and the EU, Ukraine is still not a candidate for membership. At the recent visit of US Secretary of State, Anthony Blinken to Kiev it became apparent the US gave a cold shoulder to Ukraine’s NATO aspirations. Rumor has it, Victoria Nuland told Zelensky to cool it with his NATO aspirations. Ukraine gets the same reaction from the EU. Ukrainian officials demand fruitlessly guarantees by the EU that Ukraine will one day become a member of the EU, and the EU does not give any such guarantees.
I may have mentioned it before on this blog but Ukraine, Moldova, Georgia are not targets of the EU expansion. Ukraine’s, Moldova’s, and Georgia’s situation is however further compounded by territorial disputes. It is clear that these disputes prevent the ascension to NATO for these countries but little less obvious is that these disputes prevent Ukraine from joining the EU as well.
And while, Transnistria does not have an armed conflict, and Abkhazia, and South Ossetia are quiet too, we hear almost every month about casualties in the Donbas. Donbas has a small intensity war. And while the other frozen conflicts can be mediated through the UN before the country ascends to the EU, see the case of Cyprus, the conflict in the Donbas would first have to calm down if Ukraine is to ever seriously consider an EU ascension.
Ukraine has a wretched economy. It is literally the extreme East of Europe and it closed its door to Eurasia. This does not bode well for any economic development. It is said Ukraine will reach economic parity with Poland in 40 years. Ukraine even lags behind any of the current candidates for EU membership. Economically, the Russian Federation has more chance of becoming a member of the EU than Ukraine.
Also consider that the Kiev regime is unwilling to fulfil its obligations under the Minsk Agreements. The current strategy of Kiev is to get the US, UK and Canada on board of the Minsk group. The continental guarantors of the treaties, that is Russia, France, and Germany would hardly find a common ground on this, and quite frankly affairs here on the continent should be delegated to continental powers.
The internal conflict, the bad economic configuration, the unwillingness of Kiev to resolve the conflict in Donbas, and the expansion plans of the EU, all postpone the Ukrainian ascension to the EU by many decades. The EU may even disintegrate before Ukraine even manages to become a candidate for membership, Ukraine may disintegrate too. The Ukrainian politicians should stop using the EU and NATO as their ideological mantra because the goals are improbable.
Notorious Ukrainian veteran of the war in Donbass and a public figure in Ukraine, Semyon Semenchenko was taken under arrest on 24 March, for two months and without the right of bail, on the accusation of being involved in contraband of weapons from Russia.
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