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Ukraine crisis. News in Brief. Wednesday 05 August [Ukrainian sources]
Wed Aug 05, 2015 1:54 am
WEDNESDAY
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News -
Reports that Putin fired 81 times at Ukrainians yesterday.
Noon ATO report saying 0 deaths, 7 wounded.
Weather -
High of 30 today. 90 odd. Similar for the rest of the week. Perhaps even warmer.
This year the summer is much much warmer than last year.
Footie -
Shakhtar play Fenerbahce in Lviv tonight.
First leg was 0-0. Champions League qualifying.
Fenerbahce from Turkey.
RIP
Robert Conquest, 1917 - 2015, historian, chronicler of the horrors of Soviet rule.
But also a poet....
There was a great Marxist named Lenin
Who did two or three million men in.
—That’s a lot to have done in,
But where he did one in
That grand Marxist Stalin did ten in.
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News -
Reports that Putin fired 81 times at Ukrainians yesterday.
Noon ATO report saying 0 deaths, 7 wounded.
Weather -
High of 30 today. 90 odd. Similar for the rest of the week. Perhaps even warmer.
This year the summer is much much warmer than last year.
Footie -
Shakhtar play Fenerbahce in Lviv tonight.
First leg was 0-0. Champions League qualifying.
Fenerbahce from Turkey.
RIP
Robert Conquest, 1917 - 2015, historian, chronicler of the horrors of Soviet rule.
But also a poet....
There was a great Marxist named Lenin
Who did two or three million men in.
—That’s a lot to have done in,
But where he did one in
That grand Marxist Stalin did ten in.
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Terrorists 81 times violated the silence. Near Verhnetoretskogo was a battle, - the press-center of the ATO (Tsenzor.Net)
http://censor.net.ua/news/346485/terroristy_81_raz_narushili_rejim_tishiny_vozle_verhnetoretskogo_byl_boyi_presstsentr_ato
In general, during the August 4 mercenaries 81 times violated the silence. 5 times the enemy applied artillery, 25 - mortars, 56 - small arms and rocket-propelled grenades, 5 times the bandits beat of the tanks, "- said in a statement
http://censor.net.ua/news/346485/terroristy_81_raz_narushili_rejim_tishiny_vozle_verhnetoretskogo_byl_boyi_presstsentr_ato
In general, during the August 4 mercenaries 81 times violated the silence. 5 times the enemy applied artillery, 25 - mortars, 56 - small arms and rocket-propelled grenades, 5 times the bandits beat of the tanks, "- said in a statement
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8:54
In the centre of Washington appeared sculpture monument to the victims of Holodomor in Ukraine (Segodnya.ua)
http://www.segodnya.ua/politics/pnews/v-centre-vashingtona-poyavilas-skulptura-pamyatnika-zhertvam-golodomora-v-ukraine-637943.html
In the centre of Washington appeared sculpture monument to the victims of Holodomor in Ukraine (Segodnya.ua)
http://www.segodnya.ua/politics/pnews/v-centre-vashingtona-poyavilas-skulptura-pamyatnika-zhertvam-golodomora-v-ukraine-637943.html
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8:42
Today, Kerry and Lavrov will meet in the capital of Malaysia, to discuss Ukraine (Segodnya.ua)
http://www.segodnya.ua/politics/pnews/segodnya-kerri-i-lavrov-vstretyatsya-v-stolice-malayzii-chtoby-obsudit-ukrainu-637941.html
[Expect more of the same from Lavrov - i.e., lies.]
Today, Kerry and Lavrov will meet in the capital of Malaysia, to discuss Ukraine (Segodnya.ua)
http://www.segodnya.ua/politics/pnews/segodnya-kerri-i-lavrov-vstretyatsya-v-stolice-malayzii-chtoby-obsudit-ukrainu-637941.html
[Expect more of the same from Lavrov - i.e., lies.]
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8:59
Putin figured out how to "legalize" the invasion of Russian troops in the Donbas (Commander)
http://glavcom.ua/news/314736.html
Russia intends to start issuing passports to residents of the Donbass, occupied ...
"The presence in Donbass" citizens with Russian passports "allows the RF to legitimize its military presence and thus justify even before the Russians their aggressive actions", - he said.
"In this case, Russia can go to the Transnistrian scenario and leave the Donbass considerable military contingent, which, for example, will serve as a" peacekeeping mission ". Especially because the common border facilitates the movement of military equipment and manpower, as well as the supply of military "- the expert added.
Putin figured out how to "legalize" the invasion of Russian troops in the Donbas (Commander)
http://glavcom.ua/news/314736.html
Russia intends to start issuing passports to residents of the Donbass, occupied ...
"The presence in Donbass" citizens with Russian passports "allows the RF to legitimize its military presence and thus justify even before the Russians their aggressive actions", - he said.
"In this case, Russia can go to the Transnistrian scenario and leave the Donbass considerable military contingent, which, for example, will serve as a" peacekeeping mission ". Especially because the common border facilitates the movement of military equipment and manpower, as well as the supply of military "- the expert added.
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9:06
Militants in Luhansk fire less, but fly more drones - the press center of the ATO (ISLAND)
http://www.ostro.org/lugansk/society/news/477371/
Militants in Luhansk fire less, but fly more drones - the press center of the ATO (ISLAND)
http://www.ostro.org/lugansk/society/news/477371/
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9:08
Diplomat: Putin understands that he needs to leave the Donbass (FaceNews.UA)
http://www.facenews.ua/news/2015/286997/
Russia realizes that its aggression in the Donbas is coming to an inglorious end, and that she needed urgently to stop the war. Therefore, Moscow is trying to achieve international recognition of the annexation of the Crimea.
[Contrast to two posts above, that he plans to stay.]
Diplomat: Putin understands that he needs to leave the Donbass (FaceNews.UA)
http://www.facenews.ua/news/2015/286997/
Russia realizes that its aggression in the Donbas is coming to an inglorious end, and that she needed urgently to stop the war. Therefore, Moscow is trying to achieve international recognition of the annexation of the Crimea.
[Contrast to two posts above, that he plans to stay.]
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9:05
BPP and Udar agreed on a strategy for the elections, Klitschko nominated for mayor of Kiev (Contracts)
http://kontrakty.ua/article/88828
[Difficult to say these days, but I think Klitchko is still popular in Kiev.
BPP = Block Petro Poroshenko. ]
BPP and Udar agreed on a strategy for the elections, Klitschko nominated for mayor of Kiev (Contracts)
http://kontrakty.ua/article/88828
[Difficult to say these days, but I think Klitchko is still popular in Kiev.
BPP = Block Petro Poroshenko. ]
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Cossacks Face Grim Reprisals From Onetime Allies in Eastern Ukraine [in English. NYTimes]
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/05/world/europe/cossacks-face-reprisals-as-rebel-groups-clash-in-eastern-ukraine.html?_r=1
First, a bomb exploded on the roadside. Then, machine-gunners opened fire on the immobilized convoy. When the ambush was over, five bodyguards, a press secretary and Aleksei B. Mozgovoi, the rebel leader, lay dead.
Rebels have been fighting in Ukraine for more than a year now, but the bloody assault this May was different: a massacre carried out by separatist rebels against another rebel group and former ally, the famed Cossacks, in a clash over the groups’ competing territorial claims...
At least dozens of the fighters sent to Ukraine by the Don Cossacks, the main Cossack group, have died in mysterious ambushes in recent months, according to local news reports.
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/05/world/europe/cossacks-face-reprisals-as-rebel-groups-clash-in-eastern-ukraine.html?_r=1
First, a bomb exploded on the roadside. Then, machine-gunners opened fire on the immobilized convoy. When the ambush was over, five bodyguards, a press secretary and Aleksei B. Mozgovoi, the rebel leader, lay dead.
Rebels have been fighting in Ukraine for more than a year now, but the bloody assault this May was different: a massacre carried out by separatist rebels against another rebel group and former ally, the famed Cossacks, in a clash over the groups’ competing territorial claims...
At least dozens of the fighters sent to Ukraine by the Don Cossacks, the main Cossack group, have died in mysterious ambushes in recent months, according to local news reports.
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Ukraine leader calls in generals after failed peace talks [in english]
http://news.yahoo.com/ukraine-leader-calls-generals-failed-peace-talks-153253873.html
Poroshenko has found himself trapped between more militant Ukrainian nationalists and Western leaders who hope to see an end to 16 months of fighting in the European Union's backyard.
http://news.yahoo.com/ukraine-leader-calls-generals-failed-peace-talks-153253873.html
Poroshenko has found himself trapped between more militant Ukrainian nationalists and Western leaders who hope to see an end to 16 months of fighting in the European Union's backyard.
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New car sales in Ukraine in July 54% up from June
http://en.interfax.com.ua/news/economic/281988.html
[Rather strange.
Money is very tight at the moment. But still a lot of corruption in government circles. ]
http://en.interfax.com.ua/news/economic/281988.html
[Rather strange.
Money is very tight at the moment. But still a lot of corruption in government circles. ]
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Shakhtar vs Fenerbahce: ticket sales
http://shakhtar.com/en/news/35945
Tickets are priced from UAH 50. Tickets of VIP category are priced from UAH 600.
The Arena Lviv ticket office is open from 10:00 til 20:00 without breaks and days off.
[Rather cheaper than a ticket at Chelsea.]
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The stadium is at 49°46′31″N 24°1′40″E
I realise that I have been there without knowing it.
I went to a shopping mall right on the outskirts of Lviv, called King Cross. Yes - King. Not King's, as in the London mainline train station.
The stadium is just across the road. Right on the outskirts - fields and trees beyond.
It is straight south from the centre. There is a bus from the centre - and it gets pretty packed pretty soon.
The bus runs to the mall. Terminates there. Long ride. Half an hour or so.
http://shakhtar.com/en/news/35945
Tickets are priced from UAH 50. Tickets of VIP category are priced from UAH 600.
The Arena Lviv ticket office is open from 10:00 til 20:00 without breaks and days off.
[Rather cheaper than a ticket at Chelsea.]
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The stadium is at 49°46′31″N 24°1′40″E
I realise that I have been there without knowing it.
I went to a shopping mall right on the outskirts of Lviv, called King Cross. Yes - King. Not King's, as in the London mainline train station.
The stadium is just across the road. Right on the outskirts - fields and trees beyond.
It is straight south from the centre. There is a bus from the centre - and it gets pretty packed pretty soon.
The bus runs to the mall. Terminates there. Long ride. Half an hour or so.
US sends message to Putin: withdraw from Donbas before elections – expert
Wed Aug 05, 2015 3:19 am
Russia is to withdraw from Donbas before the local elections there, political expert Volodymyr Tsybulko said, Glavnoe reported Aug. 4.
“Following Poroshenko’s flat statements that elections in the rebel-held territories won’t have any positive results, the United States stepped in saying the elections should be held.
Poroshenko has a point as the fair elections in the rebel-held Donbas cannot be held.
While armed terrorists swarm Donbas, any nationalist parties like Svoboda, Samopomich or Radical party cannot campaign there.
By stressing the need to hold the elections the United States is sending the message to Putin, not Poroshenko.
In fact, the US is talking to Putin – if the local elections are not held the fourth wave of sanctions will hit Russia.
Americans realize that no Ukrainian parties can campaign in the occupied Donbas until the Kremlin withdraws from there. Therefore, Putin is sent a message – pull out from Donbas before the start of the election campaign or face the consequences of further sanctions. It’s a deadline for Moscow,” the expert says.
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“Following Poroshenko’s flat statements that elections in the rebel-held territories won’t have any positive results, the United States stepped in saying the elections should be held.
Poroshenko has a point as the fair elections in the rebel-held Donbas cannot be held.
While armed terrorists swarm Donbas, any nationalist parties like Svoboda, Samopomich or Radical party cannot campaign there.
By stressing the need to hold the elections the United States is sending the message to Putin, not Poroshenko.
In fact, the US is talking to Putin – if the local elections are not held the fourth wave of sanctions will hit Russia.
Americans realize that no Ukrainian parties can campaign in the occupied Donbas until the Kremlin withdraws from there. Therefore, Putin is sent a message – pull out from Donbas before the start of the election campaign or face the consequences of further sanctions. It’s a deadline for Moscow,” the expert says.
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In Odessa, a bomb exploded in a nightclub, no casualties (Interfax-Ukraine)
http://interfax.com.ua/news/general/282075.html
[this story posted yesterday by Admin, but the good news here is that there are no casualties.]
http://interfax.com.ua/news/general/282075.html
[this story posted yesterday by Admin, but the good news here is that there are no casualties.]
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13:07
In the area of ATO per day wounded seven military (Politeka.net) [no deaths]
http://politeka.net/57631-v-zone-ato-za-sutki-raneny-7-voennyh/
"Over the past day in combat deaths among Ukrainian troops there are none, 7 - were injured. These losses suffered power ATO Bakhmutskaya on the track and in Marinka, "- he said.
Lysenko also said that in the area of TAU there were 10 flights of enemy drones. "Another one UAV spy in Ukrainian airspace over the Sea of Azov near the resort Kirillovka village in the Zaporozhye region," - he said.
In the area of ATO per day wounded seven military (Politeka.net) [no deaths]
http://politeka.net/57631-v-zone-ato-za-sutki-raneny-7-voennyh/
"Over the past day in combat deaths among Ukrainian troops there are none, 7 - were injured. These losses suffered power ATO Bakhmutskaya on the track and in Marinka, "- he said.
Lysenko also said that in the area of TAU there were 10 flights of enemy drones. "Another one UAV spy in Ukrainian airspace over the Sea of Azov near the resort Kirillovka village in the Zaporozhye region," - he said.
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13:20
Holodomor researcher Robert Conquest has died (Firstsocial.info)
http://firstsocial.info/news/pomer-doslidnik-golodomoru-robert-konkvest
His opus magnus, with regard to Ukraine -
The harvest of sorrow
https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-harvest-of-sorrow-9780195051803?cc=ua&lang=en&
Soviet Collectivization and the Terror-Famine
Robert Conquest
The Harvest of Sorrow is the first full history of one of the most horrendous human tragedies of the 20th century.
George Robert Acworth Conquest (15 July 1917 – 3 August 2015)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Conquest
[English mother, American father. ]
Holodomor researcher Robert Conquest has died (Firstsocial.info)
http://firstsocial.info/news/pomer-doslidnik-golodomoru-robert-konkvest
His opus magnus, with regard to Ukraine -
The harvest of sorrow
https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-harvest-of-sorrow-9780195051803?cc=ua&lang=en&
Soviet Collectivization and the Terror-Famine
Robert Conquest
The Harvest of Sorrow is the first full history of one of the most horrendous human tragedies of the 20th century.
George Robert Acworth Conquest (15 July 1917 – 3 August 2015)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Conquest
[English mother, American father. ]
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12:59
The State Border Service has shown a new uniform for Ukrainian border guards: photofact (Columnist)
http://obozrevatel.com/society/41503-v-gospogransluzhbe-pokazali-novuyu-formu-ukrainskih-pogranichnikov-fotofakt.htm
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This is actually a complete scam. Money making racket.
The Border Guard got a new uniform about 2 years ago. They have to buy their uniform themselves... so imagine... for the people that make it...
it's just a new load of money. Many Border Guards get about 200 dollars a month salary.
Imagine you have to pay 100 dollars for a new uniform... 7 or 8000 border guards? I don't know. If so... a million dollars for somebody. Scam.
And the guards have no choice. They have to buy each and every new uniform. Corruption, Ukrainian style.
The State Border Service has shown a new uniform for Ukrainian border guards: photofact (Columnist)
http://obozrevatel.com/society/41503-v-gospogransluzhbe-pokazali-novuyu-formu-ukrainskih-pogranichnikov-fotofakt.htm
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This is actually a complete scam. Money making racket.
The Border Guard got a new uniform about 2 years ago. They have to buy their uniform themselves... so imagine... for the people that make it...
it's just a new load of money. Many Border Guards get about 200 dollars a month salary.
Imagine you have to pay 100 dollars for a new uniform... 7 or 8000 border guards? I don't know. If so... a million dollars for somebody. Scam.
And the guards have no choice. They have to buy each and every new uniform. Corruption, Ukrainian style.
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13:44
The BPP know that Tymoshenko has a campaign for the elections of the mayor of Kiev (Hvilya)
http://hvylya.net/news/exclusive/v-bpp-uznali-chto-timoshenko-sobralas-v-pohod-na-vyiboryi-mera-kieva.html
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Will the wicked witch run for mayor?? I think she wants to be President or PM, and then she can do another "good" gas deal with Putin - according to the Kyivpost = Yuliapost. Perhaps 800 billion dollars per cubic centimetre? Nah... make that millimetre ))
And Yulia pockets 10%? Me first. Ukraine... mmm... last...
The BPP know that Tymoshenko has a campaign for the elections of the mayor of Kiev (Hvilya)
http://hvylya.net/news/exclusive/v-bpp-uznali-chto-timoshenko-sobralas-v-pohod-na-vyiboryi-mera-kieva.html
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Will the wicked witch run for mayor?? I think she wants to be President or PM, and then she can do another "good" gas deal with Putin - according to the Kyivpost = Yuliapost. Perhaps 800 billion dollars per cubic centimetre? Nah... make that millimetre ))
And Yulia pockets 10%? Me first. Ukraine... mmm... last...
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15:42
Lavrov believes that the investigation into the Boeing crash was not really international (UNIAN)
http://www.unian.ua/world/1108397-lavrov-vvajae-scho-rozsliduvannya-katastrofi-boeing-ne-bulo-diysno-mijnarodnim.html
"Unfortunately, the investigation was not independent, comprehensive and truly international. Rather than act under the control of the International Civil Aviation Organization, provided that the Chicago Convention, Ukraine, Belgium, Australia and the Netherlands have concluded bilateral agreements with each other, meaning that as the end not known, "- said Lavrov.
[What does that really mean?
That Russia couldn't influence the outcome? The investigators wouldn't agree that Obama shot it down in a hang-glider, or whatever Shaun Walker's latest story is?
Yet another attempt to make an excuse. Putin did it. 100% certain he sent the Buk to Donetsk, and took it out just as quick. And lavrov and Walker simply blow smoke into peoples' eyes. ]
Lavrov believes that the investigation into the Boeing crash was not really international (UNIAN)
http://www.unian.ua/world/1108397-lavrov-vvajae-scho-rozsliduvannya-katastrofi-boeing-ne-bulo-diysno-mijnarodnim.html
"Unfortunately, the investigation was not independent, comprehensive and truly international. Rather than act under the control of the International Civil Aviation Organization, provided that the Chicago Convention, Ukraine, Belgium, Australia and the Netherlands have concluded bilateral agreements with each other, meaning that as the end not known, "- said Lavrov.
[What does that really mean?
That Russia couldn't influence the outcome? The investigators wouldn't agree that Obama shot it down in a hang-glider, or whatever Shaun Walker's latest story is?
Yet another attempt to make an excuse. Putin did it. 100% certain he sent the Buk to Donetsk, and took it out just as quick. And lavrov and Walker simply blow smoke into peoples' eyes. ]
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Ukraine army gets help from classic car restorers [in English]
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-33739510
Staff at the Phaeton see it as their patriotic duty to help the military in this time of war. "I'm too old to join the army," says Vyacheslav Zaytsev, 57. "I'm more use here, helping to fix military hardware," he says.
Only part of the work is funded by the military, which also helps the Phaeton with components. That help falls far short of covering all the repair costs, and a significant contribution is made by the museum itself and other volunteers.
[Some wonderful photos at the link. Not your usual bbc garbage about Ukraine. ]
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-33739510
Staff at the Phaeton see it as their patriotic duty to help the military in this time of war. "I'm too old to join the army," says Vyacheslav Zaytsev, 57. "I'm more use here, helping to fix military hardware," he says.
Only part of the work is funded by the military, which also helps the Phaeton with components. That help falls far short of covering all the repair costs, and a significant contribution is made by the museum itself and other volunteers.
[Some wonderful photos at the link. Not your usual bbc garbage about Ukraine. ]
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Wed Aug 05, 2015 10:00 am
Robert Conquest, historian - obituary [in English]
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/11782719/Robert-Conquest-historian-obituary.html
But it was The Great Terror that really established his reputation as an historian. By the time it was published the Cold War was into its third decade and there were seemingly few illusions about Soviet Russia. All the same, Conquest opened many eyes to the full scale of that horror and everything he wrote was to be vindicated as the Soviet archives were finally opened. ...
. Conquest described how one day in 1937 Stalin and Molotov personally approved 3,167 death sentences, and then went to watch a film.
That book was followed by other major works on Soviet Russia. These included The Nation Killers (1970), about Stalin’s quasi-genocidal war on smaller nationalities, re-examined in Stalin: Breaker of Nations (1991). Then came Lenin (1972), Kolyma (1978), which dealt with the Gulag camps, Inside Stalin’s Secret Police (1985) and The Harvest of Sorrow: Soviet Collectivisation and the Terror-Famine (1986).
[See also]
Robert Conquest, Seminal Historian of Soviet Misrule, Dies at 98
http://www.wsj.com/articles/robert-conquest-seminal-historian-of-soviet-misrule-dies-at-98-1438714647
Robert Conquest, an Anglo-American historian whose works on the terror and privation under Joseph Stalin made him the pre-eminent Western chronicler of the horrors of Soviet rule, died Monday in Palo Alto, Calif. He was 98 years old.
[one of his limericks...]
There was a great Marxist named Lenin
Who did two or three million men in.
—That’s a lot to have done in,
But where he did one in
That grand Marxist Stalin did ten in
[Palo Alto... I have to confess that I almost died there too... but that's a different story... passenger in a car driven by a mad Malaysian, who ran 3 red lights in a row...
As you might tell from his poetry, Conquest was a good friend of the Hull librarian, - and poet - Phillip Larkin. ]
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/11782719/Robert-Conquest-historian-obituary.html
But it was The Great Terror that really established his reputation as an historian. By the time it was published the Cold War was into its third decade and there were seemingly few illusions about Soviet Russia. All the same, Conquest opened many eyes to the full scale of that horror and everything he wrote was to be vindicated as the Soviet archives were finally opened. ...
. Conquest described how one day in 1937 Stalin and Molotov personally approved 3,167 death sentences, and then went to watch a film.
That book was followed by other major works on Soviet Russia. These included The Nation Killers (1970), about Stalin’s quasi-genocidal war on smaller nationalities, re-examined in Stalin: Breaker of Nations (1991). Then came Lenin (1972), Kolyma (1978), which dealt with the Gulag camps, Inside Stalin’s Secret Police (1985) and The Harvest of Sorrow: Soviet Collectivisation and the Terror-Famine (1986).
[See also]
Robert Conquest, Seminal Historian of Soviet Misrule, Dies at 98
http://www.wsj.com/articles/robert-conquest-seminal-historian-of-soviet-misrule-dies-at-98-1438714647
Robert Conquest, an Anglo-American historian whose works on the terror and privation under Joseph Stalin made him the pre-eminent Western chronicler of the horrors of Soviet rule, died Monday in Palo Alto, Calif. He was 98 years old.
[one of his limericks...]
There was a great Marxist named Lenin
Who did two or three million men in.
—That’s a lot to have done in,
But where he did one in
That grand Marxist Stalin did ten in
[Palo Alto... I have to confess that I almost died there too... but that's a different story... passenger in a car driven by a mad Malaysian, who ran 3 red lights in a row...
As you might tell from his poetry, Conquest was a good friend of the Hull librarian, - and poet - Phillip Larkin. ]
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Saw this on 6 pm news, 24 kanal.
Boy asks Putin, "How are things in Ukraine?" Putin answers, "nothing".
Putin didn't like that!
A young kid knows about his war also. Putin's propaganda isn't working.
He seems to be dressed in Ukrainian colours. Brave kid. Braver than Putin.
Опубликовано: 5 авг. 2015 г.
Мальчик - Путину: Как там на Украине?
Путин: Ничего, — со знанием дела ответил Путин.
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Here now, in Korrespondent
Как там Украина? В России мальчик "потроллил" Путина
http://korrespondent.net/world/russia/3547774-kak-tam-ukrayna-v-rossyy-malchyk-potrollyl-putyna
Boy asks Putin, "How are things in Ukraine?" Putin answers, "nothing".
Putin didn't like that!
A young kid knows about his war also. Putin's propaganda isn't working.
He seems to be dressed in Ukrainian colours. Brave kid. Braver than Putin.
Опубликовано: 5 авг. 2015 г.
Мальчик - Путину: Как там на Украине?
Путин: Ничего, — со знанием дела ответил Путин.
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Here now, in Korrespondent
Как там Украина? В России мальчик "потроллил" Путина
http://korrespondent.net/world/russia/3547774-kak-tam-ukrayna-v-rossyy-malchyk-potrollyl-putyna
Russian "advisers" are no longer able to control growing militants’ discontent. They plan to replace militants by Russian career soldiers
Wed Aug 05, 2015 3:12 pm
The Russian-terrorist troops kept shelling the ATO forces’ positions using weapons prohibited by the Minsk Agreements today, Aug. 5. The criminals concentrated their attacks at the Donetsk direction opening fire at night-time primarily.
Censor.NET informs citing the situation report by the ATO press-center.
According to the report, the militants shelled Avdiivka, Vodiane, and Opytne from 120-mm mortars from midnight to 6 a.m. Besides, the invaders committed three strikes from 122-mm artillery on residential neighborhoods of Avdiivka at night.
"At the same time, according to our intelligence, the local militants' dissatisfaction with the cash allowance is constantly growing. The discipline is deteriorating as a result as well as social pressure, which is not controlled by the Russian military advisers any more, is growing. Therefore, the incidents involving bandits and the local residents constantly take place in the temporarily occupied territory," the statement reads.
One of the examples was the incident that took place in the village of Yuvileine in the Luhansk region July 31 when drunken armed bandits driving an armored personnel carrier have smashed two cars of the local residents and started shooting after that. A commission of seven people has recently arrived in Luhansk from the Russian Federation to investigate the incident. The Russian puppeteers have been openly accommodated in the Druzhba hotel and are trying to calm down the monsters they have themselves created. However, realizing hopelessness of these efforts, the Russians are already considering options of the complete replacement of the militants by the Russia's career military men with their further formalizing.
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Censor.NET informs citing the situation report by the ATO press-center.
According to the report, the militants shelled Avdiivka, Vodiane, and Opytne from 120-mm mortars from midnight to 6 a.m. Besides, the invaders committed three strikes from 122-mm artillery on residential neighborhoods of Avdiivka at night.
"At the same time, according to our intelligence, the local militants' dissatisfaction with the cash allowance is constantly growing. The discipline is deteriorating as a result as well as social pressure, which is not controlled by the Russian military advisers any more, is growing. Therefore, the incidents involving bandits and the local residents constantly take place in the temporarily occupied territory," the statement reads.
One of the examples was the incident that took place in the village of Yuvileine in the Luhansk region July 31 when drunken armed bandits driving an armored personnel carrier have smashed two cars of the local residents and started shooting after that. A commission of seven people has recently arrived in Luhansk from the Russian Federation to investigate the incident. The Russian puppeteers have been openly accommodated in the Druzhba hotel and are trying to calm down the monsters they have themselves created. However, realizing hopelessness of these efforts, the Russians are already considering options of the complete replacement of the militants by the Russia's career military men with their further formalizing.
censor.net.ua: In Russian
Poroshenko: Dialogue with Donbas does not mean conversation with representatives of foreign country
Wed Aug 05, 2015 8:06 pm
President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko said he would be ready for dialogue with representatives of the temporarily occupied areas of the Luhansk and Donetsk regions if they were elected according to the Ukrainian legislation.
Poroshenko said in an interview with the German magazine Stern, Censor.NET reports citing Deutsche Welle.
Poroshenko is ready to be engaged in the dialogue with the elected representatives if the elections in the Donetsk and Luhansk regions in the territories uncontrolled by Kyiv will be held in accordance with the Ukrainian legislation in October.
The Ukrainian President is convinced that if the separatists hold separate local elections as they have planned, it will only worsen the situation, "I dislike the idea to discuss the future of my country not with compatriots but with representatives of the foreign country," Poroshenko said. According to him, Russian puppets are currently running the occupied territories.
At the same time the President of Ukraine stressed that Russia must withdraw its weapons in order to achieve lasting peace. And it is necessary to close the border between Ukraine and Russia in order to prevent further arms supplies from the Russian Federation. "As soon as weapons, ammunition, and soldiers stop being brought to the country, there will immediately be peace," Poroshenko said.
censor.net.ua: In Russian
Poroshenko said in an interview with the German magazine Stern, Censor.NET reports citing Deutsche Welle.
Poroshenko is ready to be engaged in the dialogue with the elected representatives if the elections in the Donetsk and Luhansk regions in the territories uncontrolled by Kyiv will be held in accordance with the Ukrainian legislation in October.
The Ukrainian President is convinced that if the separatists hold separate local elections as they have planned, it will only worsen the situation, "I dislike the idea to discuss the future of my country not with compatriots but with representatives of the foreign country," Poroshenko said. According to him, Russian puppets are currently running the occupied territories.
At the same time the President of Ukraine stressed that Russia must withdraw its weapons in order to achieve lasting peace. And it is necessary to close the border between Ukraine and Russia in order to prevent further arms supplies from the Russian Federation. "As soon as weapons, ammunition, and soldiers stop being brought to the country, there will immediately be peace," Poroshenko said.
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Headless bodies of two Ukrainian prisoners from 39th Battalion executed by Russian mercenaries returned home
Wed Aug 05, 2015 8:09 pm
The death of two residents of Dniprodzerzhynsk Volodymyr Yarovyi and Volodymyr Shevchenko, who were long in captivity, was confirmed today.
Censor.NET reports citing Sobytie news outlet.
The soldiers from Dniprodzerzhynsk were captured during the encirclement of Ilovaisk in last year August.
Both Volodymyr Yarovyi and Volodymyr Shevchenko stayed in touch and informed about their captivity. They later discontinued being in touch.
The soldiers' bodies have recently been found and taken to Dnipropetrovsk by the Ukrainian volunteers. The servicemen were decapitated and dressed in winter clothes. DNA analysis helped to identify the bodies.
Junior Sergeant Volodymyr Yarovyi is on the left picture and Junior Sergeant Volodymyr Shevchenko is on right one.
May the memory of the fallen heroes live forever! Dniprodzerzhynsk residents will remember their names eternally.
censor.net.ua: In Russian
Censor.NET reports citing Sobytie news outlet.
The soldiers from Dniprodzerzhynsk were captured during the encirclement of Ilovaisk in last year August.
Both Volodymyr Yarovyi and Volodymyr Shevchenko stayed in touch and informed about their captivity. They later discontinued being in touch.
The soldiers' bodies have recently been found and taken to Dnipropetrovsk by the Ukrainian volunteers. The servicemen were decapitated and dressed in winter clothes. DNA analysis helped to identify the bodies.
Junior Sergeant Volodymyr Yarovyi is on the left picture and Junior Sergeant Volodymyr Shevchenko is on right one.
May the memory of the fallen heroes live forever! Dniprodzerzhynsk residents will remember their names eternally.
censor.net.ua: In Russian
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