The Estonian Foreign Ministry intends to expel a Russian diplomat. This will be the response to the announcement of the Consul in St. Petersburg, Martha Lyatte, as persona non grata.
As the head of the Public Relations department of the Estonian Foreign Ministry, Aari Lemmik, said, in the practice of international relations, “usually a symmetrical response is given to the expulsion of a diplomat.” According to the ERR portal, he explained that a Russian diplomat will leave the country. He is not yet ready to say who exactly it will be.
He also noted that the Estonian diplomat carried out his usual work in the host country in accordance with the legislation that regulates diplomatic activities.
Lyatte was detained in St. Petersburg while transferring secret data from a Russian citizen to him. The Foreign Ministry noted that there is “irrefutable evidence” of the consul’s illegal activities.
As a result, the diplomat was declared persona non grata, and the charge d’affaires of the Estonian Embassy in Russia, Ulla Uibo, was summoned to the Foreign Ministry. She was strongly protested in connection with the collection of secret data by the consul.
The head of the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry Dmitry Kuleba proposed an alternative to the “Russian world” for Belarus. He called on Minsk to join the “Lublin Triangle”. It already includes Ukraine, Poland and Lithuania.
As reported by Vesti.ua Kiev will work so that “to bring closer the moment when Belarus will choose the Lublin Triangle instead of the “Russian world”.
Meanwhile, Elena Panina, a member of the State Duma Committee on International Affairs, appreciated Kuleba’s words. According to her, the union of the republic with Poland and Lithuania will not lead to the “European future” promised on the Maidan. It will make the country just an economic appendage of the peripheral countries of Eastern Europe.
This “Lublin triangle” reminded her of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. Poland was a metropolis there.
The Japanese government has decided to introduce a state of emergency in Tokyo until August 22, this is due to an increase in the spread of coronavirus in the capital, NHK TV channel reports, citing sources.
According to sources, it is planned to extend the emergency regime in the southern Okinawa prefecture for the same period.
According to the Ministry of Health of Japan, on June 7, 920 new cases of coronavirus infection were recorded in Tokyo, this is more than a week ago. The last time more than 900 cases were recorded on May 13.
Earlier in Tokyo, the emergency regime was in effect until June 20, then the measures were relaxed.
On July 23, the Summer Olympic Games will begin in the country. If an emergency mode is introduced, local viewers may not be allowed to attend them.
Dmitry Peskov told reporters that no contacts with the UK are currently being conducted, and cases of repeated violations of Russian borders by British warships will not remain unanswered.
“There are no consultations, relations between the countries are in a frozen state,” Peskov said, stressing that the statements of representatives of the British authorities cause concern to the Kremlin.
Earlier, British Foreign Minister Dominic Raab said that the ships of the British Navy after the incident with the destroyer Defender, which entered the territorial waters of Russia, will continue the appropriate maneuvers.
According to Peskov, the Russian side will take appropriate measures in case of violation of the state border every time this violation occurs.
“The border guards will perform all the actions that are prescribed to them according to the instructions, and all the diplomatic tools will be used,” the Kremlin spokesman stressed. “There is no need to violate the border of the Russian Federation and do it in such a provocative way,” Peskov advised the British Foreign Ministry.
Residents of border villages were afraid of the closure of the border
Belarus is literally surrounded by enemies. On Thursday, President Alexander Lukashenko thanked his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin for his public support “against the background of attempts to destabilize the situation” in the country, and the next day he demonstrated that this assistance is more than justified. Speaking atat a meeting in honor of Independence Day, he announced that “sleeping terrorist cells”had been eliminated in the country. The statement caused panic in Ukraine — it was from there, according to Lukashenko, that weapons were sent to Minsk, so the border between the countries must be closed.
At a solemn meeting in honor of the Independence Day of Belarus, Lukashenko told about another attempt to seize power. Photo: gov.by
The “terrorists” gathered in the telegram channel “Self-Defense Units of Belarus”. The” combat reserve ” of the group is 2.5 thousand subscribers. The attackers allegedly planned to undermine the communications center of the Russian Navy in the Belarusian city of Vileyka and for some reason cut off the tongue of a journalist of the STV TV channel Grigory Azarenok. None of this worked out for them. In Vileika, security was prudently strengthened, and Azarenok literally scattered the attackers with one hand. “The main moderator of this action is a citizen of the Russian Federation Dudnikov,” the president said.
Germany, Ukraine, the United States, Poland and Lithuania were also allegedly involved in the upcoming “terror” against Minsk. In particular, according to the Belarusian security officials, weapons were supplied from Ukraine to Belarus, so Lukashenko decided to close this section of the border. The news caused panic among residents of border Ukrainian villages, reportsthe publication “Country”. For 10 years, a simplified border crossing regime has been in effect between the states — during the blueberry season from August 1 to August 10 and when cranberries are harvested – from September 1 to September 15. Now they are worried that they will be left without these reserves and blame the country’s leadership for another conflict with their neighbors: “Is it not enough for us, or is it not enough for Russia and the war in the Donbas?”
However, the fear turned out to be groundless. People who crossed the Belarusian-Ukrainian border over the past weekend report that they did not notice any changes. “Everything was in normal mode. We looked at the documents, quickly examined the things and missed them. There was nothing unusual, “a man who arrived in Minsk from Ukraine on Saturday shared with MK. According to Belarusian political analysts interviewed by MK, the authorities often threaten Kiev with closing the border, but it usually does not go beyond words.
Ukrainian political scientist Alexey Yakubin explained that it would be inappropriate to stop the message in the current situation. “First, Ukraine is largely dependent on the fuel market, which it receives from Belarus. The second point is Zelensky’s advertised project “Big Construction site”, for the implementation of which Ukraine buys bitumen from Belarus. I think that the economic part of relations between the countries will be inviolable. Both in Minsk and in Kiev, they are counting money, so they will try to maintain a neutral line, ” Yakubin explained.
In Kiev itself, they reacted carefully to the accusations of the Belarusian side. The official representative of the country’s Foreign Ministry, Oleg Nikolenko, explained that Ukraine did not organize the supply of weapons to Belarus and never interfered in the internal affairs of the country.
Vladimir Zharikhin, Deputy Director of the Institute of CIS Countries, believes that Lukashenka’s statement was also focused on Russia. “He will ask for economic assistance, trying not to make any promises on integration and so on. Lukashenka takes advantage of the fact that in the current situation there is frank pressure on him from the West, which seeks to displace him. Russia is now limited in the forms and methods of pressure. Because many of the things that I would like to say to Lukashenka are not said, ” the expert believes.
In his opinion, Russia takes a rather soft position towards the Belarusian leader. Moscow has been demanding for several years that Minsk recognize Crimea as Russian, as well as sign roadmaps for in-depth integration. “Lukashenka takes a position that allows him,” Zharikhin is sure. — They allow him not to go to the Crimea, and he is not going. If he is allowed not to give evidence of the participation of Russian citizens in “terrorist groups”, then he does not give it. No matter how threatening all this may sound, there is too little texture for such serious statements. We need specifics, but we don’t have them yet.”
Somewhere in the middle of Perestroika, in 1988, BG sang: “This land was ours until we got bogged down in the struggle. It will die if it is a draw, it’s time to return this land to yourself.” Three years later, the factories were taken away from the workers, the land from the peasants, and the power from the people. This deep feeling of one’s own uselessness that has arisen determines everything that happens to the Motherland and to us. If you want specifics, please. Here, for example, is the past week.
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If you take the full text of the speech of Comrade Xi, which he delivered during the week for the 100th anniversary of the Communist Party of China, and start reading it out loud to our liberals and other light-faced people, they will start to twist and twist. They will be covered with scabs, their eyes will pop out of their sockets and start spinning wildly, they will smell of sulfur, and their hands will spill coffee with soy milk from a homophrenic coffee shop.
Because Comrade Xi, having once mentioned the multinational nature of the Chinese people, then turned to the “great Chinese nation” (try to say something like that publicly about Russians-you will instantly be declared a fascist). Because Comrade Xi insisted that the country is the people, and the people are the country. And here, as we know from the words of State Duma Speaker Volodin, who is Russia? Because the Chinese managed to underthe leadership of the CCP will defeat poverty, become the second economy in the world, and the number of millionaires and billionaires is also going through the roof. It turns out that this is possible — when billionaires do not rob their country, but work for it. And all this, according to Comrade Xi — is “in the name of the great revival of the Chinese nation.” Comrade Xi, as the leader of the leading party, addressing the members of the CPC and the people, is engaged in constructing meanings.
During the week, Mr. Putin, communicating with the people, dealt with the problems of a roof that leaked in a kindergarten, a flooded road to a remote village, inflated prices for a” communal apartment ” in one particular house, garbage collection and other things that are no less important for the head of a nuclear power. Because local officials do not do this: why create comfort in someone else’s house, in a foreign country? There’s no point. Money is paid — and that’s fine.
Metropolitan Mitrofan of Murmansk and Monchegorsk said on Friday that there should be confessors in our football team. “There is a lack of spiritual practice here: they are some kind of non-combat, spiritually, it seems to me, weak, unmotivated,” he noted. In Ukraine, there is now a problem with the beauty contest “Miss Ukraine” — they can’t find 25applicants without botox and, most importantly, that they were not whores, now it is called-would not work as an escort. We have a problem finding men who not only know how to play football, but want to play for their country. But no. Spiritually weak, unmotivated. Why? Maybe because they don’t feel Russia is their own? There’s no point. Money is paid in clubs — and that’s fine.
Why was the vaccination story stalled until the threats began? Because we are on our own here, and the owners are on their own. There is no sense that the common good depends on a personal act. What is it common, if they don’t see anything from above, there is a different reality there at all? For example, the restaurant business lost up to 90% of revenue during the first week of the new coronavirus restrictions, dozens of restaurants decided to close, news agencies report. And even without their messages, you can see everything with your own eyes. But the authorities “see a different picture,” and some say that the idea of restrictions was proposed by the restaurateurs themselves.
The authorities last week approved a living wage for next year — 11,950 rubles. In which Russia can you live for a month on this money? In ours with you, or rather, in the one that does not belong to us, it will not work.
But, of course, the country is big. Miracles also happen somewhere. Here in Tuva, an unimaginable miracle happened — for the first time, electricity tariffs for the population were reduced. As it is customary to say in such cases: why, was it possible? The most amazing thing is that it is possible even in the current conditions. It’s just that someone who has privatized the bowels of the country will not get another hundred-meter yacht. And if we return to the people what rightfully belongs to them, belonged, more precisely, once…
The Kaliningrad governor also decided to break the system — he banned migrants from working as taxi drivers, bus drivers, bakers, teachers and kindergarten teachers. The ban comes into force in 3 months and will be valid for a year. What will happen? At first, all these industries will stand up (if they do not rebuild anything in the next three months) — simply because the locals will not work like slaves for food. And then the owners of enterprises will only have to moderate their own appetites and start paying people a decent salary. Not verya “market” solution, but… The Chinese even succeeded in ” the historical transition from a highly centralized system of a planned economy to a viable system of a socialist market economy.” And here, in general, everything is according to plan — from wild capitalism to developed. Although it would have been better in Chinese, but what’s the point of crying now.
Well, and a little symbolism in the end. BG sang a prophetic song 33 years ago. Ilya Muromets, before destroying the enemies of the Russian land, lay on the stove for 33 years. Maybe it’s really time to reclaim this land for yourself? There is a chance for autumn. Minimal. But a chance.
The crews of the ships of the NATO and Ukrainian Navies-participants of the NATO Sea Breeze-2021 maneuvers, currently taking place in the Black Sea, had to worry yesterday when they heard the hum of Russian combat aircraft in the sky. The NATO sailors clearly have not yet had time to forget the words of Vladimir Putin, said by him during the recent “Direct Line”, when the Russian president did not rule out that the British destroyer Defender could have been sunk for violating our border.
Photo: Alex Beltyukov.
After such a warning, a dozen Russian fighters and bombers that appeared near NATO ships were perceived by the participants of Sea Breeze as a completely serious threat. A military expert told about what our aircraft demonstrated in the area of the NATO exercises.
According to the official version of the Russian military department, the naval aviation of the Black Sea Fleet and the Southern Military District conducted regular combat training flights over the Black Sea. They involved the Be-12 amphibious aircraft, Su-30SM multi-purpose fighters and Su-24M front-line bombers, Su-34 fighter-bombers and Su-27 interceptor fighters. The composition of the forces, you will agree, is very convincing.
And what did our pilots work out with this composition? The military, of course, will answer: standard combat tasks. Perhaps so. However, after Vladimir Putin’s words about how the provocation of the British destroyer Defender in the Black Sea could have ended, the picture of the exercises looks more like a full-scale model for the particularly incomprehensible.
The fact is that our planes alternately, then in pairs, then singly, going on a combat course, practiced missile and bomb attacks on targets that imitate a detachment of surface ships of a conditional enemy. It was designated by the large landing ships “Saratov” and “Orsk”.
Of course, it would be much more plausible to do without imitations if, for example, our pilots could play along with the direct participants of Sea Breeze-the British destroyer Defender or the Dutch frigate Evertsen. But they have already tried. They didn’t like it.
The Defender crew barely escaped, and now the chief of the British Defense Staff, Nicholas Carter, complains to the English press that he does not sleep at night, analyzing “this miscalculation” and “unjustified escalation”.
And the Dutch Evertsen is still repairing its electronics, which failed after our aircraft with electronic warfare systems flew over it.
Both ships have already left the Black Sea, having passed the Bosphorus and Dardanelles Straits.
“There is no secret,” explained the military expert, Captain of the 1st rank Vladimir Gundarov, ” that the exercises of our aviation, taking place simultaneously with Sea Breeze, are a demonstration of the strength that we possess. We don’t reveal any special secrets here, but at the same time we show that we can do a lot in this area.
And, by the way, not only in this. Just yesterday, Washington decided to strengthen its grouping in the Pacific Ocean after we conducted an exercise & ndash; a number of Western media are now writing about it – literally 50 km from Hawaii. This is a kind of our response to the NATO Sea Breeze in our Black Sea. And the answer is very unpleasant, since our “Hawaiian” exercises were conducted in close coordination with China, which was also emphasized by the Prime Minister of Japan.
Well, the fact that we conducted our aviation exercises there in the Black Sea, which “accidentally coincided” with their Sea Breeze maneuvers, there is nothing special here. What should we do if we, the Europeans and the Americans all have the same cycles of military training? So everything happens as planned. Both we and they have demonstrated their capabilities. Not only military, but also political. Ours, it seems, turned out to be cooler.
The aircraft carrier strike group of the Royal Navy of Great Britain, led by the aircraft carrier HMS Queen Elizabeth, left the Mediterranean Sea today, passing through the Suez Canal in the direction of the Red Sea.
Earlier, the destroyer Defender of the Royal Navy of Great Britain and the Dutch frigate HNLMS Evertsen from the aircraft carrier strike group HMS Queen Elizabeth arrived in Istanbul before a visit to the Black Sea.
The day before, the ships passed through the Dardanelles Strait from the Aegean to the Sea of Marmara.
In the Western Black Sea region, from June 28 to July 10, NATO exercises Sea Breeze 2021 (“Sea Breeze”) are planned. Ukraine will join them. The exercises will involve 4,000 military personnel, 40 warships, boats and supply vessels, 30 aircraft and helicopters, and more than 100 vehicles and armored vehicles.
Azerbaijani experts tried to assess how the first Russian export attack drone “Orion-E”, which was rated in the media as the” killer “of” Bayraktar”, is really able to push the famous Turkish UAVs that decided the outcome of the war for Karabakh on the weapons market.
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“The Orion-E strike variant is equipped with a universal complex of aviation means of destruction, which allows to destroy both stationary and moving ground targets, armored vehicles and vehicles of the enemy, his manpower with high efficiency,” the Azerbaijani edition of the Mirror, translated by InoSMI, notes. It emphasizes that the drone is equipped with both unguided and adjustable aerial bombs, as well as various guided missiles.
In the Russian Armed Forces, the drone is delivered under the name “Pacer”. It is able to climb to an average height of no more than 7 km. But it can be in flight for a whole day.
The Russian military has already tested these UAVs in Syria. It is reported that one of the vehicles made 38 sorties, including 17 with strikes on terrorist targets.
Azad Isa-zadeh, an employee of the Azerbaijani Defense Ministry, noted that the parameters of the Orion declared by Russia slightly coincide with the parameters of the Bayraktar: in some they are superior, in some they are inferior.
At the same time, Azerbaijani experts note that the term “Bayraktar killer “refers to” Orions “only in the field of competition in the arms market, since this drug is not intended to fight other drones.
At the same time, an improved “Bayraktar” – the Akinci drone – has already been released in Turkey, and now another model is at the stage of commissioning-for work at sea.
Western countries also intend to strengthen their developments in the field of UAVs, so there will be serious competition in the market.
Azerbaijani experts also emphasize that the experience of using Orions in Syria cannot be called full-fledged, since Russian drones were not opposed by enemy air defense systems.
“And if the Orion is used in real combat or some kind of training maneuvers, it will be possible to clearly say how effective and modern this device is,” the author of the material emphasizes, noting that so far there are more questions than answers about Russian drones.
“Ukraine has only two allies – the British Navy and the NATO army”
President of Ukraine Vladimir Zelensky arrived in Odessa on July 4 to celebrate the Day of the naval forces “Nezalezhnaya”. Zelensky spoke to the military sailors and said that Turkey will build a corvette for Ukraine, as well as supply Bayraktar unmanned aerial vehicles.
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Recently, the US Congressional Research Service published a report on the state of the Ukrainian army. American researchers noted that, despite the significant improvement in the situation with weapons due to NATO supplies and US assistance, Ukraine’s military equipment still needs to be modernized. Some aircraft and air defense systems of Ukraine are more than 30 years old. That is, these are Soviet weapons.
American researchers also noted strong corruption in the Ukrainian defense industry. About 5% of Ukraine’s GDP is spent on security, but only half is actually allocated for the purchase of new weapons.
Twitter users reacted to the plight of the Ukrainian Navy on the occasion of the holiday. So, Valentina Hildeb wrote: “The US military is preparing for the transfer of three ships to the Ukrainian Navy” By the end of this year, three American ships will be transferred to Ukrainian sailors. Well, now they will have something to fight with at sea!»
One of the users paraphrased the words of the Russian tsar: “Ukraine has only two allies, the British Navy and the NATO army.”
Arkady Lomidze expressed his opinion about the NATO-Ukraine exercise “Sea Breeze-2021” taking place in the Black Sea these days: “Does Ukraine have ships and a fleet to conduct exercises with them? Recognize that you (NATO. – & laquo;MK») it is not Ukraine itself that is needed, but its territory to put military bases there!»
A user with the nickname “Petro Makovey” wrote: “Stop talking about it, no one is going to build a fleet for us. They will simply sell their decommissioned ships at an exorbitant price and that’s it! Just as they sold the killed and useless Saxons (the British AT105 armored personnel carriers transferred to Ukraine in 2014) at the most difficult moment for Ukraine. Only idiots can believe these merchants!»
