New Year with the smell of war

The enemy is outside, and we are perfectly suited to his role

“- What a difficult year!

Everyone fell silent. And Zinochka said, as always, out of place:

– Do you know why? Because it’s a leap year. The next one will be happy, you’ll see!

The next one was nineteen forty-one.” (B.Vasiliev. “There was a war tomorrow”).

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This ending year is not a leap year at all, but what a hard year. Will the next one be happy? Is there a feeling that a kind, cheerful, ruddy Santa Claus is standing on the threshold, smiling slyly in his beard, promising happiness and peace?

No. From the window cut through to Europe, it pulls fear, gunpowder, the exhaust of tank engines. On the top of the Christmas tree, a star is filled with blood, and under the lower branches you can see the worn butt of a kalash and a green box with cartridges …

An alcoholic who has not drunk for a long time has a spring inside him, he knows that he can die if he drinks. But the strength to live this life is no longer there, and he drinks, risking death, just to let go. The world on both sides of the red lines is dead tired. And there are no more forces left to look for a way out, maneuver between interests, negotiate. I want to switch to black and white mode and kill, just to let go.

About what is happening there, on the other side, Putin said: “The existing model of capitalism, and today it is the basis of the social structure in the vast majority of countries, has exhausted itself. Within its framework, there is no longer a way out of the tangle of increasingly complicated contradictions.” This means that the enemy is outside, and we are perfectly suited to his role. They say Russia wants war.

What we have, from this side, we see. We have enemies everywhere. From the outside they approach our borders, from the inside they want to destroy.

In a year, the “fifth column” was demolished at the root, there was not even a memorial left. We deal with those who sing the wrong songs or joke the wrong way. Movies and games are declared harmful to our values. In our country, “paid hires of the West” are revealed in batches, immediately receiving the designation of a foreign agent. Is Russia concentrating? Rather, it is brought to a common denominator, cemented to make a monolith that cannot be broken from the inside.

For some reason, right now they accept GOST for mass graves — where to dig a hole outside the village, how, at what distance from each other horizontally and vertically to stack bodies, to shift them with brushwood or soil, how many corpse bags, coffins and lime to stock.

Right now, the Judicial Department of the Supreme Court of Russia is preparing regulations on how the mobilization work of judges will take place — how and where to go to military field trials.

Why does a quote from the book of the head of the Constitutional Court Zorkin appear again now, in which he admits the possibility of lifting the moratorium on the death penalty in force in Russia?

We also have a tangle of “increasingly complicated contradictions.” The good news is that we have reached the bottom, which means that it will not be worse – in rising prices, in negative income growth, in demography, in the stratification of society into billionaires and beggars. But, then, society can ask a question — well, let’slet’s push off and finally begin to implement the promises of the party and the government. Before that, something prevented improvement all the time — defaults, global economic crises, sanctions. But how can they be carried out if they have raking paws up there? And the war will write everything off…

Zinochka made a mistake in the bad side. I really want to make a mistake in a good one.

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Israel attacked targets in the Gaza Strip

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The Israel Defense Forces opened fire on terrorist targets in the Gaza Strip. This was a response to the attack on Israeli facilities by the Hamas group on Saturday.

It is reported that the rockets launched early in the morning on January 1 fell off the coast near Tel Aviv. The alarm sirens were not activated in accordance with the current protocol.

The IDF attacked military posts and workshops for the production of rockets under the control of the terrorist group Hamas.

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Ukrainians ridiculed Zelensky’s New Year’s address

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Many Ukrainian users called the twenty-minute New Year’s greeting of the President of Ukraine Vladimir Zelensky a failure. The head of State was criticized both for the excessive length of the address and for the content of the speech.

Journalist Olga Paliy recalled that 20 minutes of speech is indecently long and called the speech a failure of presidential speechwriters. Ordinary users were tougher in their words: Zelensky was called a hypocrite, reminding him that he had nothing to do with the successes of those people whom he mentioned in his speech.

“It was very boring to listen,” writes one of the commentators of the Ukrainian website. Another characterizes the speech as “typical verbiage”, emphasizing that Zelensky is a good actor, but “no” president.

Former Minister of Social Policy of Ukraine Andriy Reva reminded Zelensky of numerous failures of the state, including the emigration of 66 thousand doctors from Ukraine, as well as the dismissal of 34 thousand doctors only in 2020-2021.

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The new mayor of New York predicted the end of the crisis in the city

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The new mayor of New York, Eric Adams, promised that the city would soon overcome the crisis. This became known from his first address to the citizens.

Adams believes that now the largest US city is in crisis due to the COVID-19 pandemic and the “ineffective actions” of the previous leadership of New York. Among the evidence of this, he highlighted the high level of unemployment, crime, economic inequality and racial injustice.

The new head of New York promised to deal with these problems. He recalled plans to carry out police reform and spoke about plans for interaction with both employers and workers. Eric Adams also shared his opinion that the crisis will not rule the city in the future.

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Taliban told about drug addiction in Afghanistan

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The number of drug addicts in Afghanistan currently accounts for about 9% of the country’s population. This was stated by the Deputy Minister of Health of Afghanistan Abdul Bari Omar.

Appointed to the post of Deputy Minister of Health of Afghanistan by the Taliban movement (banned in the Russian Federation as a terrorist organization), Abdul Bari Omar stressed that more than 3.5 million people are addicted to the use of narcotic substances in the country. This is about 9% of the 39 million population of the country.

Recall that the Taliban movement (banned in the Russian Federation) came to power, including under the slogans of combating drug addiction and drug trafficking. The Taliban accused their predecessors from governments dating back to the Northern Alliance of patronizing drug traffickers and being involved in drug trafficking.

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The United States called “five killers” in service with Russia

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Russia is increasing its achievements in the field of nuclear weapons. The latest torpedo with a nuclear warhead has already been developed, hypersonic missiles have appeared, helicopters and ground-to-air ammunition are being improved. Brian Eastwood, a military columnist for 19Fortyfive, said that Moscow already has five types of weapons that can be called the deadliest.

The first one he mentioned was the Poseidon nuclear torpedo with a huge range. It will be launched from the K-329 Belgorod submarine. “Huge as a bus”, she is able to reach the coast of the USA

The expert considered the S-400 Triumph missile defense system particularly powerful. It can not only destroy manned aircraft and some dons. It can be used to destroy cruise and ballistic missiles at a distance of up to 250 miles. Each battery has eight launch charges of 32 missiles with a radar and a mobile command post.

The Pantsir S-1 mobile launcher has 12 surface-to-air guided missiles and two 30-millimeter cannons. It is capable of shooting down aircraft, ballistic and cruise missiles, high-precision ammunition. Some upgraded variants have improved radar, increased detection range and efficient rotating guns.

Brian Eastwood compared the Mi-28NM Superhunter attack helicopter with the American AH-64 Apache. The Russian helicopter is equipped with sensors that allow you to fly and attack at night. It has the latest radar, which provides an all-round view with a radar image. The Mi-28NM reaches a speed of 186 mph with a range of 280 miles. He has a 30-millimeter cannon, conventional and anti-tank missiles “Attack”. Some helicopters have all-weather functions, which is especially valuable in the Middle East.

The expert also mentioned the Yars missile systems. They are designed to launch intercontinental ballistic missiles. Each system can carry 3-6 warheads with a capacity of 150-200 kilotons. The range is about 10 thousand kilometers. “Yars” is quite difficult to detect, and preparation for the launch of missiles takes seven minutes.

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Putin awarded a public figure from Germany and Russian diplomats

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Russian President Vladimir Putin has awarded state awards to two high-ranking Russian diplomats and a public figure from Germany. This follows from the relevant decree published on the legal information resource of Russia.

The Order of Friendship was awarded to the Ambassador of the Russian Federation to Canada Oleg Stepanov. Vladimir Leontiev, Deputy Director of the Department for Nonproliferation and Arms Control of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation, was awarded the Order of Honor.

In addition to Russian diplomats, the Order of Friendship was also awarded to Helmut Hahn, a citizen of Germany, who heads the R.Koch and I.I. Mechnikov Forum public organization in Germany.

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Putin congratulated Sergei Shakurov on his 80th birthday

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Russian President Vladimir Putin has sent a congratulatory telegram to People’s Artist of the Russian Federation Sergey Shakurov on his 80th birthday.

“You are distinguished by your bright dramatic talent, loyalty to the best traditions of the national acting school,” the head of state noted in his message.

Putin noted that Shokurov had gained popularity and the love of viewers of different generations thanks to his sincere and convincing performance of roles.

The President wished Shakurov health and creative longevity.

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Deputies are not being tortured yet

Therefore, they have nowhere to hurry

Thousands of people, convicted or just arrested, are being tortured. This has been happening for many years, but the authorities did nothing, because it was believed that these were “isolated cases”. Indeed, it was very difficult to prove such a “case”.

She was adopted in the USA. Now she is a world champion.

But not so long ago there was a leak – thousands of hours of video, where horrific tortures are visible with all the details. As a result, at the meeting of the President with the Human Rights Council, this topic was heard all over the world.

These words were uttered by the President on December 9, and an official reaction followed on December 20.

The co-author of the document, the head of the Duma committee on state construction and legislation Krasheninnikov explained: “We agreed to send it out for three weeks. On January 10, the deadline will end, we will hold a committee after that, consider the feedback.”

The second co-author of the bill on strengthening responsibility for torture – the infamous Senator Klishas explained: “I believe that the amendments can be adopted already in the spring session.”

What is the “spring session”? Is it March? or April? or May? The spring session has a pre-established legal deadline. In 2022, this is from January 10 to July 31. If we count from the New Year, then 7 months, and if we count from the presidential decree, then all eight. That is 240 days.

For an important law, it’s pretty fast. Especially if you don’t think that all this time the torture continues. And they continue; maybe less massively, but for a person who is being tortured, this is little consolation.

There are, however, examples when a bill turned into a law somewhat faster. This happened with the law on the extension of presidential and deputy powers, which was proposed by President Medvedev on November 11, 2008.

By this time, Medvedev had been president of Russia for only six months, that is, he had nowhere to hurry. However, the process went like an express. Submitted to the Duma on November 11. The first reading is on November 14. The second is on November 19. The third is November 21. Federation Council — November 26. And then signed by the president.

Let’s pay attention to the details. The co-author of the law on torture Klishas on December 20 reports that the draft is sent to the mailing list until January 10, after which reviews will be “considered.” That is, the deputies will have three weeks to delve into the document. The extension of the deadlines was thought out faster: three days passed from the introduction to the first reading. That’s how quickly the deputies of that time got acquainted, got into it and responded.

From the introduction of the law on extension to the approval in the Federation Council, it took only 15 days. Although, as already mentioned, there was absolutely nowhere to hurry. However, it seems as if an air-raid siren howled, and the deputies, having abandoned everything, rushed to the bomb shelter. Oh, no, they’re heroes – so they rushed to the roofs to extinguish lighters.

A unique episode in legislative activity? No. Here is another example: the law of “Dima Yakovlev” (which is more correctly called the “law of cannibals”— is a law prohibiting the adoption of Russian orphans by US citizens (all orphans, even terminally ill and crippled – without arms, without legs, etc.).

The draft law was introduced on December 10, 2012. The first reading was on December 14 (that is, it took 4 days to get acquainted). The second reading is on December 19. The third reading is on December 21. On the 26th – the Federation Council, signed by the President on December 28. Everything in 18 days.

I must say that even here the deputies had absolutely nowhere to hurry — after all, they did not adopt the law on immediate assistance to the seriously ill and dying. On the contrary, they left sick and dying orphans in a helpless position. Even those for whom foster parents have already been found and all the documents have been issued. But the door slammed shut.

If we were making a movie about this law, then every time the vote and signing would be accompanied by the clang of an iron prison door.

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Satanovsky urged to be afraid of the events that are coming in 2022

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Political scientist and scientist Yevgeny Satanovsky said that in the coming 2022, all those who wanted something new will get it. At the same time, he recalled the famous saying “Be afraid that your wishes will come true.”

According to the expert, everyone has desires and they are all different and often diametrically opposed. “As a result, what comes true will come true. It remains to come to terms with the circumstances and try to turn them in your favor,” he said.

Satanovsky also congratulated subscribers of his Telegram channel on the New Year.

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