Ukraine News in brief. Sunday 26 November. [Ukrainian sources]

In Ukraine they talked about real relations between Russia and the USA. In Russia, explained how long the US will keep Putin in the status of "leprous".  Putin's plans were revealed in Ukraine.  There are no allies: the political scientist pointed to a real attitude towards Ukraine in Europe.  Roszmi learned the name of Putin's new rival in the elections.  Waiting for such a proposal from Ukraine: they called a condition for Russia to leave the Donbas.  The Russians are preparing to appeal sanctions in the European Court through the annexation of the Crimea.  Russia is about to build its own military base in the Red Sea.  Ukraine is ready to exchange 306 fighters for 74 hostages.  Russia intends to complain to the UN because of not issuing visas to the Crimean citizens for foreign passports of the Russian Federation. The Pope honored the memory of the Holodomor victims. The murder of a Holodomor, a journalist, Gareth Jones, remains a mystery in 76 years, "Voice of America".

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Relations between the United States and Russia, despite some peace-loving statements by Donald Trump to the Kremlin , tend to deteriorate.

The political observer Andriy Buzarov told this "Apostrophe".

"Trump regularly during the last year makes various appeals to Moscow and the Kremlin, but simultaneously heightens the pressure on the Russian Federation by adopting an appropriate bill on the imposition of sanctions, by supporting Ukraine through a fairly rigid policy towards the DPRK, the regime of Assad, Iran, and so on. further", - noted Buzarov.

"I can not say that after Tramp became the president of the United States, America's attitude toward Russia changed for the better - we do not see it." There is obviously a tension between the two countries, which is obvious and obvious, and so I would not to say that some positive reviews on Putin's and Russia's overall points are evidence of improved relations between Russia and the United States, "added the political observer.

He drew attention to the fact that the full improvement of relations between the US and Russia should not be expected even for partial cooperation between the two states.

"Most likely, we can and should talk about some aspects of cooperation between Americans and Russians, for example, in the part of the Syrian settlement, for example, in the part of the Iranian problem, perhaps, to ensure stability on the Korean peninsula, etc. But on the full improvement of relations there is no need to speak between these countries. Moreover, I am convinced that this will not happen in the coming years ", - writes Andriy Buzarov.

He also suggested that relations between Washington and Moscow could deteriorate further in the near future.

"Trump and Putin, perhaps, would like to have a better relationship than now, but for many reasons this is not possible. In the coming years, the tendency to deteriorate relations between Russia and the United States will continue, and the adoption by the United States of the bill, which codified the appropriate base for imposing sanctions in relation to Russia, is another proof that the crisis between America and Russia goes to a new phase and will intensify in the coming years", - said the political observer.

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Political analyst Andriy Buzarov believes that in the near future, Russian President Vladimir Putin will not exacerbate the situation on the Donbas, but will continue to "simulate" the talks.

About this Buzarov told the "Apostrophe".

"I think Putin is not going to exacerbate the situation now, I'm absolutely convinced that there will not be a military exacerbation in the Donbas, and now Putin is not benefiting from any conflict, because all this will interfere with the image of a peacekeeper who is very successful in building up his immediate environment and Russian media", - he said.

Also, according to Buzarov, in the near future we should not expect a full-fledged settlement of the situation in the Donbas.

"In the coming months, Russia's policy will be calm, but there will be no tendency to fully resolve the conflict in the Donbass, and we do not see this trend. All these negotiation processes include Putin's meeting and US President Trump, meetings (Vladislav President's representative) Surkov and (the special representative of the USA Kurt) Volcker - most likely, are aimed at simulating the negotiation process on Donbas,"he said.

The analyst also noted that the topic of Ukraine is not a priority in the talks of Trump and Putin.

"And if we are talking about Putin and US President Donald Trump, then it is far more important for them to find consensus about Syria, the DPRK, but not in Ukraine, so I think that the topic of Ukraine is not a priority in the relations between Trump and Putin. it is important for Surkov and Volcker, but it is clear that while consensus is impossible,"- said Buzarov.



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Russian blogger and financier Slava Rabinovich believes that the Kremlin's intervention in the US elections will not be forgiven Russia while President Vladimir Putin remains in his chair.

About this Rabinovich told in an interview newsader.

"It was Washington's interference in the election with the limit, after which Putin became unhappy in America, which imposes on him and the Russian Federation the absolutely irreversible status of the international exile, since the Kremlin leadership allowed itself to attack and possibly damage one of the main institutes of American democracy - Institute of free, honest, fair, democratic elections", - he said.

According to Rabinovich, in the American elections, nobody has ever committed a suicide since the Soviet leader, Stalin.

"And this will not be forgotten to Putin: while he stays in the Kremlin, Russia will remain for the United States beyond the ability to negotiate," he said.

Thus, with all its desires, Rabinovich believes, President Donald Trump can not now improve relations with Russia.

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Ukraine in Europe currently has partner countries, but none of them is a full-fledged ally.

This was stated by the political analyst Andriy Buzarov in a comment to the "Apostrophe".

According to him, many Western countries want to have good relations with Russia, and the alliance with Ukraine excludes this opportunity.

"And so today I can not say that there is an ally of Ukraine in Europe, I do not see any country of Ukraine's ally in Europe - they are not there. There are partners, but they are not allies. Any so-called ally of Ukraine constantly creates problems. We can talk about partnership with France, Germany, Poland, Hungary, but not about allied relations, "said Buzarov.

Even in the most friendly with Ukraine, European countries do not have the continuity of partnership with our country in political elites.

"Even the Baltic states, let's suppose, Lithuania, which traditionally supports Ukraine in all spheres, can not be regarded as a reliable ally, since the current president, Dahl Gribauskaite, has one position and whose position the next president will take - we do not know," the expert said.

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Commissioner for Presidential Affairs for the Protection of Entrepreneurs Boris Titov will become a candidate for the presidential elections in 2018.

This is reported by the Russian edition of Kommersant.

Titov will be nominated for the "Party of growth" candidates. The relevant decision was made at the federal political council of the party.

"We are going to the presidential elections with a simple and clear message addressed to society, business and the country's leader: we need a strong, competitive non-oil economy," said Titov.

The Ombudsman intends to promote the economic program, which was prepared by the Stolypin Club, and was previously presented to Russian President Vladimir Putin.

As reported by "Apostrophe", previously in the administration of the president of Russia were considering the participation in a presidential election business representative and a liberal candidate.

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Russia is ready to leave Donbass in exchange for the recognition of the legality of the annexation of the Crimea.

This was stated in an interview with "Apostrophe" by Russian political scientist and publicist Andriy Piontkovsky.

"The Kremlin is dreaming about some sort of agreement with the West - they will crawl out of the Donbas, but Crimea will remain, if Ukraine and the West today offered it to Moscow, they would have taken pleasure," the expert said.

In his opinion, in Russia at the moment clearly understand the unreality of the ideas of the "Russian measure" and "Russian spring", and are ready to go for an advantageous exchange for themselves.

"But, realizing that Ukraine did not go on their way to push these territories (the occupied Donbas, the" Apostrophe ") in their present state, some steps are being taken to increase their subjectivity. At the same time, the option Moscow dreaming now - to exchange these "republics" for the recognition of "Krymnash", - summed up He.

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"Authorities" annexed by Russia Crimea intends to appeal to the European Court of the decision to impose sanctions through the occupation of the peninsula

This is what RIA Novosti writes about.

According to the head of the expert council under the "Crimean government" Alexander Molokhov, the first lawsuits can be granted already next year.

"Work is being carried out, and if not, then next year, we will definitely do it. We work in two directions: the first is the appeal of personal sanctions. As long as this is all in the process," he said.

The second line, over which Russian lawyers work, is the appeal of sanctions in general through the annexation of the Crimea.

"The difficulty here is that it will have to be tried abroad in Luxembourg in the European Court of Justice, and this requires quite serious financial costs. Until this issue is resolved," the official said.

-On November 25, Foreign Minister Pavlo Klimkin, in the framework of his participation in the Brussels Eastern Partnership Summit, urged his colleagues to support the resolution of the UN General Assembly on the situation of human rights in the Crimea, initiated by Ukraine.

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President of the Sudan, Omar Bashir, during his visit to Russia, discussed with President Vladimir Putin and Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu the possibility of creating a military base in the country on the Red Sea
The parties also discussed the possibility of Sudan's acquisition of Su-30 and Su-35 fighters, according to RIA Novosti.

President Sudan, in particular, expressed interest in the S-300 anti-aircraft missile systems. He added that his country was also interested in purchasing Russian missile boats, minesweepers and air defense systems.

"We have no intentions to pursue aggression abroad, we want to protect the country," al-Bashir said.

-On the eve of the Sudanese president, Omar Bashir, who was accused by the International Criminal -Court (ISS) of genocide , during his first visit to Russia, he asked Vladimir Putin to "defend against US aggression".

-In 2008, the ICC issued an arrest warrant for al-Bashir on allegations of genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity in a conflict in Darfur province, when tens of thousands of people died.

-Omar al-Bashir denies the accusation and refuses to cooperate with the court.

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Ukraine is ready to exchange 306 captive militants for 74 Ukrainian prisoners in the Donbas

This was stated by Advisor to the Chairman of the SBU Yuri Tandit Information 112.ua.

According to him, Ukraine is legally prepared to hand over 306 people who committed crimes against the territorial integrity of the country.

"We are ready to discuss the lists. We did not list anyone from the list of 306 people, all of these persons committed crimes against the integrity of Ukraine, they were filed by the ORDLO, now we are talking about 74 hostages. We will do our best to make the fate known. 158-162 people who are considered hostages. We will not talk about the terms, "he said.

Tandith added that at the moment, there are 96 Ukrainian prisoners in the Donbas. He noted that the Ukrainian side is ready for any compromises in negotiations with representatives of the ORDLO.

"Each of these people on the list is in a certain status. For a long time, while this story has plunged, many of those who were listed on the basis of current legislation or were released, or came under the court decision. All our hostages are without any status , that is, decisions are made in Moscow, a team is given, and the next day all our boys can be released. We are ready to pick them up at any time, "he stated.

According to Tandita, on November 29, the negotiating team will be back in Minsk. If necessary, the Security Service of Ukraine and the center for the release of hostages will ensure the rapid transfer of these people.

-Earlier, Russian President Putin discussed the hostages with the leaders of the "DPR / LNR" militants.
The "DNR / LNR" agreed to review the lists of prisoners for exchange after negotiations with Putin.

-In "LNR" they showed a video of how captives communicate with their relatives for the first time in a long time.

-The head of the terrorist "DPR" Alexander Zakharchenko said about the readiness to exchange the prisoners, which should take place before the New Year.

-The number of Ukrainians held hostage by Russian mercenaries in the Donbas has grown to 162 , the First Vice Speaker of the Parliament Irina Gerashchenko said.

-The resignation of Igor Plotnytskyi, leader of the LNR, will not affect the release of Ukrainian hostages , ORLO Separatists said.

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Russia intends to appeal to the UN and the Council of Europe in connection with the "restriction of the rights" of the inhabitants of the occupied Crimea to issue them visas for travel to the EU, the USA and Canada on Russian foreign passports.

As informs Tsensor.NET with reference to "TASS", this was authorized by the Verkhovna Rada of Human Rights in the Russian Federation Tetyana Moskal'kov reported on Sunday.

"I will appeal to the Secretary General of the United Nations on this issue and to the Council of Europe, because such a defeat in the rights is absolutely illegal, immoral and unfounded," - said a Russian official.

She considers the situation with a visa not to be "a gross violation of international norms of law related to the freedom of movement of citizens." "I constantly raise this issue in meetings with ambassadors, in meetings with international organizations. Unfortunately, I do not currently find an understanding," the ombudsman said.

As an example, she spoke about her recent meeting with the Swedish Ambassador to Russia, in which he stated that "the annexation of the Crimea does not allow the issuance of visas to the inhabitants of Crimea".

Moskal'kova considers such statements "absurd". "The issues of democracy and democracy are here a double standard," the ombudsman considers the aggressor country.

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During the weekly Sunday sermon, Pope Francis Francis commemorated the victims of the Holodomor and declared that he was praying for peace in Ukraine.

This is reported by Tsensor.NET with reference to "Vatican Radio".

"I also congratulate the Ukrainian community that remembers the tragedy of the Holodomor - starvation induced by Stalin's regime, which claimed millions of lives. I pray for Ukraine to force faith helped heal wounds of the past and trails spread the world today" - said the pontiff.

Recall that every year on the fourth Saturday of November in the evening in memory of the Holodomor victims, Ukrainians light candles and put them at the window. This year Ukraine and the world commemorate the dead on November 25.

In 1932-33, the Bolshevik regime, which was unable to destroy the aspirations of Ukrainians to freedom, decided to take their lives.

In two years he killed 4,5 million people - adults, the elderly, children. The planned genocide was erased from the map of the village's goals, which were dying in terrible torment.

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The researcher, who presented to the public the first loud evidence of a famine in the USSR, was mysteriously killed in Mongolia in 1935.

As Tsensor.NET reports , this is stated in the article "The  Holodomor's Murder remains a mystery in 76 years" on "Voices of America."

"I went through the villages and 12 collective farms. There was a screaming everywhere." There is no bread. We are dying"... I traveled to the chernozem land, because once he was a breadbasket of Russia, but also because journalists were forbidden to go here and see what was happening..." - these are the words from the press conference of the British journalist Gareth Jones in Berlin in March 1933. She became one of the first high-profile evidence of the famine in the USSR, which in Ukraine's history will be known as the Holodomor.

Nearly 80 years after the Berlin press conference, Gareth Johns, his great nephew, biographer explorer Nigel Cowley in Washington presented books devoted to the life of Jones. He believes that the truth about the famine in the USSR cost the life of his relative, who in 1935, under mysterious circumstances, died in Mongolia.

"Until 2001, we did not suspect the importance of the" Soviet "articles of Gareth. We knew that he wrote about the famine in the USSR, but did not know how important it was. We did not even consider the possibility of connecting diaries about the famine in the USSR with his death, because it was considered to be related to the Japanese. However, after the publication of diaries on-line, the representatives of the Ukrainian community wrote me and asked if this is the same legendary Gareth Jones who exposed the Holodomor? It was a complete surprise and we began to look into Gareth's work in the USSR", - told Coley you stepping in front of an audience in the National Press Club of the capital of America.



Gareth Johns Diary Page with Talks of the Peasants. "It's terrible in the collective farm," he said, "they took my cows and my horse, we are starving. Look what they gave us - nothing. How can one survive?.

Historical investigation presented by him "More than the grain of truth: a biography Gareth Jones "and" Gareth Jones: A Man Who Knows Too "," Gareth Jones: An Incident in Manchuria "is the result of many years of research on the work of a British journalist who, in the first half of the 30s of the 20th century, was at the very epicenter of the pre-war political rally .

Coley's research reproduces the image of Gareth, a promising internationalist who, after graduating from the University of Wales and Cambridge in 1930, became an adviser on international issues of the former premiere.

During the successor of three years, a young international freelancer who was fluent in Russian, German and French, visited the USSR three times and received the reputation of a leading expert on the Soviet Union. Every visit was followed by articles on the course of Stalin's Five-Year Plan, which published the world's leading publications. "5-River Enemies". Gareth Jones in 1931 gathered a bunch of propaganda posters in the USSR.



"He knew a lot, he had access to the British Government's documents about the First World War, met with the heads of the British bank, personally became acquainted with leading experts on the Soviet Union, and during his visit to the USSR he personally met with the Foreign Affairs Commissioner Litvinov," - says Nigel Cowley.

Following the first trip to Donetsk (then Stalin), in 1931 Jones traveled to the USSR along with food magnate Jack Heinz (Ketchup Heinz). The result of the trip was the book "Russian Experience of 1931. Diary." The book, written by Heinz for Jones, used the word "hunger" for the first time in the description of collectivization in the USSR.

Soon, Jones edits Lloyd George's memoirs. His open-ended career spurred forward. Jones highlights the elections in Germany in January 1933, on which Hitler comes to power. The weight that 27-year-old journalist has already received at that time is evidenced by the fact that he becomes the first foreign correspondent who was honored to fly to Frankfurt on the Führer's plane.

From Germany in January 1933, Jones traveled to Russia and Ukraine. In Ukraine, Gareth moves privately, communicates with the peasants, makes notes of what he has seen on the occasion. In the 1990s, these diaries, which until then were kept in the attic of the Jones Estate, will be one of the important evidence of the Holodomor. "The famine is ruled by Russia". Article by Gareth Jones published in the London newspaper "Evening Standard" .



And in 1933, the outcome of a trip to Ukraine was a press conference in Berlin, which had the effect of an explosion in the information space of the time. The high credibility and credibility of Jones, thanks to his work on Lloyd Jones, gave him an overwhelming weight. On the same day, they were reprinted by leading magazines and journalists, the Nobel Prize winners and Edgar Moorer.

logical conclusion of the journalist's accusations from the sympathizers of the USSR was a personal letter from the foreign country commissar, Maxim Litvinov, in which he informed the journalist about the prohibition of entry into the USSR.

Gareth Jones's openness to the USSR did not go unnoticed. A promising journalist has become an outcast in colleagues and the British establishment, including former employer Lloyd George.

However, in 1934, his bitter glory drew the attention of the American media mogul Randolph Gurst, who launched an anti-Soviet campaign in the United States, and urgently needed authoritative evidence. In December, speaking to the American Institute of World Affairs, Jones accused the USSR of forcibly moving 5 million "fists", which he called "one of the most flagrant events in the history of Europe." And in 1935, he wrote, according to the order of Gurst, several horrible articles about the USSR, in which he not only repeated his previous testimonies of the horrors of famine in the USSR, but also threw up the organization of the murder of Kirov, which liberated Stalin's path to absolute power in the USSR. The researcher of the biography of Johns Cowley believes that the USSR could do its utmost to nullify the evidence of Gareth.

In the occupied Simferopol there was a prayer service in memory of the victims of the Holodomor of 1932-1933.

In 1935, the publishing house Girst - a scandal. He publishes articles on the famine in Ukraine by Thomas Walker. Later it was proved that he could not physically witness the events he was writing about.

As Nigel Cowley notes on the pages of Garethjones.org devoted to Jones, Walker was a former prisoner convicted of fraud. His discovery discredited all Gert's articles about life in the USSR.

After the death of Johns, one of his once-argued opponents, journalist Eugene Leons, in a "penitential" book, "Ordinary Utopia," with dismay recalled how the press was leaning on a journalist who was telling the truth about the USSR:

"Jones' dash was as unpleasant as any dirty work that we have been doing for years, distorting the facts in favor of dictatorial regimes, and yet we were harassing him, unanimously resorting to almost identical formulas and receptions." The poor Garrett was probably very surprised, when carefully collected facts were buried under an avalanche of objections from our lips . "

Nearly 80 years after these words, Gareth Jones's offspring and biographer, Nigel Cowley, without any hesitation, says what else apologies would be appropriate.

"I wish Duranty Pulitzer posthumously stripped " - says Cole.
Surprisingly, the discredit of Johns' materials published in Hurst's publications came at the time of his trip to Asia, where he was murdered under mysterious circumstances.

"I was always afraid that he would go too far at risk..." - wrote in August 1935, his former employer, the former head of the British government, Lloyd George.

Dry facts show that in 1935, during the Far Eastern journey, Gareth and his attendants were abducted. on the territory of Inner Mongolia, where he went to the invitation of the German journalist Herbert Muller. The last and all members of the expedition, except for Gareth, were released, while Jones himself shot dead in August in uncertain circumstances on the eve of his 30th birthday.

Instead, on the pages of garethjones.org, Nigel Cowley, he points out that, until the death of Gareth Jones, he was under the watchful eye of the agents of the USSR. So Herbert Muller, who successfully survived the abduction - according to British intelligence - was an agent of the Communist International in China.

The USSR "drove" Johns from the very beginning of his trip to the East and even to death, "says Nigel Cowley. According to a report published by a researcher at garethjones.org, a journalist Günther Stein, whose Tokyo residence at the beginning of his expedition, lived Jones, could be a Soviet spy related to the famous Soviet intelligence officer Richard Sorge.

However, the Soviet trail is not the only one possible in the death of Johns.

"When my mother began to look for information about Gareth Jones in the archives, she found 500 pages of documents about his murder, none of which related to his work in the USSR, all of which spoke solely on how to close his mouth to his former employer, Lloyd George, and not to allow a deterioration of relations with Japan because of unresolved questions of respectful policy, "says Coley.

Finding the truth about the life and death of Gareeth Jones is a matter of life for his descendants.

Margaret Cowley died in 2011. On November 22, 2008, in Westminster, the Ambassador of Ukraine to Britain handed her a posthumous award to Gareth - the Order of Freedom. The investigation is continued by her son, grand nephew Jones, Nigel Cowley.

"I expect the BBC to work on a Garez Jones transcript, perhaps they will learn something new," says Nigel Cowley, "I think that all the secret information in Moscow, but it will be possible to believe in new discoveries if they will "I'm not sure," he says. Nigel is near his daughter. Nigel Cowley with her daughter. The BBC's British Broadcasting Corporation is preparing a video entitled "Who Killed a Gareth Jones?". According to Cowley, he will come out in the Storyville cycle. The exact date is not known yet.



Ukrainian director Sergei Bukovsky in 2009 shot a documentary "Live". One of his storylines is the memories of Gareth Jones's diaries.

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