Ukraine crisis. News in brief. Friday 06 May [Ukrainian sources]

FRIDAY

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News -
Putin's Russian forces fire 11 times at the Ukrainian people yesterday. One soldier wounded.

Weather -
Another beautiful morning. Sunshine, blue sky. But supposed to be cooler with some rain today. High predicted of only 16.
Next week 22, 23 in the forecast.

Footie -
Shaktar lost 3-1 in Sevilla to go out of the Europa League.
Liverpool will play Sevilla in the final.

The situation worsened in the area ATO, the militants carried out 11 attacks - Staff
http://www.pravda.com.ua/news/2016/05/6/7107697/
Friday, May 6, 2016, 7:30
During the last day situation in the area of ​​ATU complicated, pro-gang 11 times opened fire on the positions of Ukrainian troops.
The press center ATO headquarters.
Thus, with the advent of the dark time of day for Ilyich toward militants have repeatedly opened fire on strongholds of forces in the area ATO Novotroitsk prohibited from Minsk agreements caliber of 120 mm mortars and small arms and grenades.
In Donetsk direction on Ukrainian defenders near Marinka sniper fire kept the enemy.
Positions forces ATO near the Avdeevki grenades were fired from different systems and small arms.
Illegal armed groups violated the "complete silence mode" and in the Luhansk region. There criminals fired strengthening MAT nearby towns Novoaleksandrovka with grenade launchers and heavy machine guns.

http://www.unian.info/world/1338361-russian-user-reposts-crimea-is-ukraine-in-social-network-gets-2-yrs-in-prison.html
Zavolzhskiy district court in the Russian city of Tver sentenced a local citizen Andrey Bubeyev for reposting in Vkontakte social network an article claiming “Crimea is Ukraine” to two years three months in a penal colony.....
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You won't read about this from Shaun Walker in Seumas Milne's Stalin loving Guardian.

http://www.unian.info/economics/1338745-imf-forecasts-15-economic-growth-151-inflation-in-ukraine-in-2016.html
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Basically positive statistics, but.. can Ukraine survive with inflation this high? There is a lot of discontent currently in the country.
If the hryvnia strengthens inflation could be lower. A lot will depend on the gas price also. And oil.

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-ukraine-imf-support-idUSKCN0XX0JS
...."We think the signs of the new government's willingness to adhere to the program, to stay with the program and their own adjustment efforts are very encouraging," Pradhan told a news conference.....
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Frankly, the new government is no different from the previous one.
It is simply that the Rada has dropped Yatseniuk as a scapegoat - he took the blame for the hard decisions made - and voted on by the entire Rada!

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-05-05/putin-walks-fiscal-tightrope-as-no-end-to-deficits-seen-to-2020
....To cover the gap, the Finance Ministry plans to transfer about 2 trillion rubles ($30 billion) in 2016 from the Reserve Fund, one of its two sovereign wealth coffers, after channeling 2.6 trillion rubles in 2015. The Reserve Fund stood at $45 billion at the end of April, while the National Wealth Fund amounts to $73.9 billion....
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Eating up 30 billion dollars a year, just to stand still. It can't go on for ever.
Expect ever increasing poverty in Russia while Putin stays in power.

http://en.interfax.com.ua/news/general/341870.html
...The Kyiv city organization of Ukraine on May 9 will mark Victory Day with a march called Immortal Regiment, which will see 3,000 people walk from the Arsenalna metro station to Kyiv's Eternal Glory Park.....

http://www.themoscowtimes.com/opinion/article/kremlin-operates-on-its-most-demoralized-patient-the-media/567947.html
....An even bigger change occurred outside the media business. Over those five years, the Kremlin learned a trick or two about its public. It now understood that propaganda works only when you have reframed and primed your audience. Academics have yet to study the mass social manipulation that took place between 2012 and 2016. But we can say with some certainly that Russia has witnessed a shift from relatively pluralistic and open media to a new form altogether. Today Russian media channels a "besieged fortress" mind-set, and represents a jingoistic and socially conservative tribe that negates any kind of "foreign values." The demand for neutral journalism has all but disappeared.
This transformation could not have happened without pressure from above. But it has also taken on an energy of its own. In order to "satisfy" the demand for a conservative mind-set, major Russian news outlets have became even more nationalistic, anti-Western and conservative than required....
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Not too long; recommended.