The Armed forces of Ukraine, contrary to the Minsk agreements, again used a drone with explosives in the conflict zone in the Donbas. This was reported by the resource “Russian Spring” with reference to the defense department of the DPR. Servicemen of the 54th brigade sent an eight-propeller copter with an explosive device suspended from it towards Donetsk and dropped it near a public transport stop, in a residential areanear the Trudovskaya mine in Donetsk. Local residents found the drone, called the police. But in the course of mine clearance, it was undermined. One soldier was killed, the second received shrapnel wounds. Materials on the fact of the terrorist attack will be handed over to representatives of international organizations, as well as to the Prosecutor General’s Office of the DPR for inclusion in criminal cases initiated against the commander of the 54th brigade Maistrenko.
The press secretary of the President of Russia Dmitry Peskov commented on the dispute between Vladimir Putin and director Alexander Sokurov. According to him, the harsh reaction of the head of state was caused by the lack of professionalism of Sokurov’s statement.
“This is what the president does not tolerate. But he directly told him about it,” Peskov said in a conversation with the Daily Storm.
The day before, at a meeting of the Council for the Development of Civil Society and Human Rights, Sokurov addressed Putin with a statement that a crisis of federality had matured in the country. A dispute began between the director and the president.
At some point, the head of state decided to stop the discussion. Putin asked Sokurov not to turn the meeting into a talk show. At the same time, he invited the director to visit and said that he would be happy to discuss with him separately.
The Nobel Peace Prize ceremony has begun in Oslo. The editor-in-chief of Novaya Gazeta Dmitry Muratov and Filipino journalist Maria Ressa, who shared the prize in 2021, will speak at it.
He went to the podium with a speech. Muratov recalled the words of Mikhail Gorbachev, said on April 18, 1988. “There is a meeting of the Politburo. One of the Soviet ministers demands to leave troops in Afghanistan, Mikhail Gorbachev harshly interrupts him: “Stop your hawkish squawking!”.
As a result, Muratov asked why this is not a modern program for politics and journalism, which will help “to establish life without funerals.”
In addition, he stressed that the current ideologists promote “the idea of death for the Motherland, not life for the Motherland.” “But I know that wars end with the identification of soldiers and the exchange of prisoners,” he added.
And the editor-in-chief of Novaya Gazeta also pointed out that “the world has fallen out of love with democracy” and reached out to dictatorship. According to him, there was an illusion that progress can be achieved by technology and violence, and not by observing the rights and freedoms of people. And now the authorities of a number of countries are “actively selling the idea of war.” And under the influence of the “aggressive marketing of war” people get used to the idea of its permissibility.
The speaker of the State Duma Vyacheslav Volodin in his telegram channel published a video of his communication with officials and residents of Saratov, during which a woman approached him and complained of “discrimination” and “segregation” due to the regional introduction of a QR code system.
The woman said that legislators and Volodin in particular should abandon QR codes as a tool to combat the coronavirus pandemic. The woman stressed that she is not an anti-vaccination, but considers vaccination and the code system to be unrelated concepts.
“QR code is not about health. This is a lever of influence on people,” the Russian woman said. – It’s not necessary to do this with people.
Addressing Volodin, she called on the authorities to regulate the legislation and prevent violations of human rights prescribed in the Constitution. The woman recalled that previous generations of the country’s citizens fought against discrimination and fascism, but now there is a risk of returning to such an unfair division of Russians into groups.
The woman reported that she was already facing humiliating situations. According to her, without a QR code, she is not allowed into the library, cafes, and many other public places, and this even affected her child.
“They forbid me to go help a child in the children’s section to change clothes,” the woman said.
Volodin in response called on the citizen in the conditions of the spread of the coronavirus to think not only about herself, but also about others, and about children. To this, the interlocutor replied that she thinks about others, observes pandemic restrictive measures and wears a mask in public places. Volodin also recalled yesterday’s speech by President Vladimir Putin at a meeting of the HRC, during which he called the “framework” bill on QR codes in transport and added that the law “should be worked out further and on the ground”.
“It is impossible to adopt a law that will discriminate against one part of citizens and at the same time not to do this (discrimination – MK),” the woman replied.
She agreed that the QR code system has not been introduced at the federal level, but the regions have been given broad powers, and some local regulations are already affecting people. She cited the example of the situation in Kazan, where the introduction of QR codes on transport led to collapse and numerous scandals.
“So that local regulations do not contradict federal laws,” the woman added.
Volodin assured during the conversation that he had heard the interlocutor’s point of view and would try to “get answers to the questions that were raised”.
Earlier, Volodin posted a post on his channel with an appeal to readers to leave their comments on the QR code system. In a couple of days, the post gained more than half a million comments, not counting those that the moderators deleted – some users complained about this. With a cursory glance at the comments page, it could be concluded that the overwhelming majority opposes the code system and compares them with “fascism”.
Former Interior Minister, ex-member of the State Duma Committee on Security from the Stavropol Territory Anatoly Kulikov commented on the words of Russian President Vladimir Putin about the presence of American spies in the Russian government in the 1990s.
According to him, there were no CIA agents in the Interior Ministry and the departments under his control. The same applies to the ministries and departments that he oversaw when he was deputy Prime Minister. We are talking about the Ministry of Emergency Situations, railway troops, currency and export control and drug control, the tax service and the tax police, the Telegram channel of the NSN Radio channel reports.
Nevertheless, Kulikov does not deny the words of Russian President Vladimir Putin about the presence of CIA officers in the 1990-2000-ies in the Russian government. According to him, Putin worked in the FSB Council at that time, and he “knows better”. “But if the president speaks, it means that it was so,” he stressed.
Vladimir Putin said earlier that US CIA personnel in the mid-1990s worked in Russia as advisers, official employees of the Russian government. He reported this information during a meeting of the Council for the Development of Civil Society and Human Rights. The Russian leader added that in the early 2000s they were all cleaned out.
Moreover, in the USA they were later brought to criminal responsibility for the fact that they, being CIA employees and working in the Russian Federation, “violated American legislation, participated in privatization”.
Political scientist Natalia Narochnitskaya Photo: facebook.com
The Moldovan migration authorities have deported Natalia Narochnitskaya, a well-known Russian political scientist, from the country. This was announced in her telegram channel by the official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova.
According to her, Narochnitskaya was held at the border for two hours, and then, without explanation, was taken to the same plane with which she arrived in the republic.
“Let me remind my colleagues in Chisinau: you chose democracy, not the Stone Age. And this obliges,” Zakharova wrote.
The representative of the Moldovan border service, Raisa Novicki, said that the agency does not know anything about this incident and promised to provide details as soon as they appear. Narochnitskaya herself linked her deportation to the upcoming presidential elections in Transnistria, which will be held on December 12.
Olga Kovitidi, a member of the Federation Council from Crimea, said that the incident with the provocation staged by a Ukrainian Navy ship near the Kerch Strait should be the subject of urgent consideration in the UN Security Council.
According to her, such situations “are rapidly bringing the world closer to the unfolding of a hot conflict in the very center of Europe.” At the same time, such provocations occur against the background of Russia’s constant active steps to strengthen international security.
Meanwhile, State Duma deputy from Crimea Mikhail Sheremet noted that the highest officials of Ukraine are behind this provocation. The parliamentarian noted that in the event of a repeat of such attempts, the Ukrainian ships will face an “unenviable fate.” Russian border guards will act strictly within the framework of Russian legislation.
Sheremet also called for the use of “a mechanism of tough sanctions, maybe of an energy nature”. This, according to him, will help to ensure that Ukraine does not have to deal with the creation of escalation points.” at the borders of Russia.
On December 9, it became known that in the morning the control ship “Donbass” of the Ukrainian Navy withdrew from the raid of the port of Mariupol and moved in the direction of Kerch. In the evening, the FSB of Russia noted that he had approached the Kerch Strait. At the same time, there were no applications for passage of the strait from the Ukrainian side. The crew did not comply with the requirements to change course. Nevertheless, as a result, the ship turned back.
Trump ridiculed the current US president for “pathetic surrender”
On Tuesday evening, the presidents of Russia and the United States held talks via video link. The conversation between Vladimir Putin and Joe Biden, which lasted more than two hours, took place against the background of the aggravation of relations between the West and Moscow due to the events around Ukraine. The world media are trying to analyze the results of the conversation between the leaders of the two powers.
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CNN: “The White House says that President Joe Biden told Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday that the United States is ready to take decisive economic measures in the event of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, indicating that these new measures will deal a bigger blow than the sanctions imposed in 2014.
“I’ll look you in the eye and tell you how President Biden looked Putin in the eye and told him today that what we didn’t do in 2014, we are ready to do now,” National Security adviser Jake Sullivan told reporters after Biden’s conversation with Putin… Sullivan did not go into details, but added that the US is coordinatingtheir actions with European allies “at a deep level of specifics”. He said Biden “was straightforward and frank with President Putin, as always,” later adding that “there were a lot of mutual concessions. There were no harsh gestures, but the President clearly outlined the position of the United States on all these issues.
The US military conducted another patrol in northern Syria, during which the M2A3 Bradley BMP was also involved.
The security of the US Armed Forces units is provided exclusively in the area of oil fields. In this case, near the Al-Omar oil fields and the Konoko oil and gas field.
In September A coalition led by the US Armed Forces is planning Bradley infantry fighting vehicles to the northeast Syria. As Colonel Wayne Marotto, the representative of Operation Unshakable Resolve, wrote on his official Twitter, “The coalition continues to support our partners in the fight against ISIS. The deployment of M2A2 Bradley infantry fighting vehicles in northeast Syria will provide force protection in our ongoing mission to combat ISIS (a terrorist organization banned in Russia).
Former Chairman of the Supreme Soviet of the Belarusian SSR Stanislav Shushkevich named the culprit of the collapse of the USSR. According to the politician, Gennady Burbulis, the first Deputy Prime Minister of Russia in 1991-1992, pulled the trigger of the collapse of the USSR. He expressed his opinion in the comment ” “.
Burbulis proposed the phrase “the USSR as a geopolitical reality and a subject of international law ceases to exist,” Shushkevich noted.
According to the former chairman of the Supreme Soviet of the Belarusian SSR, Burbulis’ words made a huge impression on him.
“Then I realized that we were with [the leaders of the RSFSR and The Ukrainian SSR Boris Yeltsin and Leonid Kravchuk] are trying to make an important decision and that we need to think very seriously about how to implement it,” the politician said.
Earlier, former President of Kazakhstan Nursultan Nazarbayev told That a quarrel arose between the former President of the USSR Mikhail Gorbachev and the first head of the Russian Federation Boris Yeltsin after the signing of the Belovezhskaya Agreements.
Meanwhile, the former chairman of the Supreme Soviet of the Belarusian SSR Stanislav Shushkevich, who participated in the development and signing of the Belovezhskaya Agreements, said that while working on the text of the policy, they drank cognac without snacks. At the same time, the work on the text of the Belovezhskaya Agreements was carried out in a creative atmosphere. According to him, everyone hasthen “there was some fantastic hobby.”
The Soviet Union ceased to exist on December 25, 1991. Then Mikhail Gorbachev, in an address to citizens, announced his resignation from the post of president. Before that, representatives of the RSFSR, Ukraine and Belarus signed the Belovezhskaya Agreement on the termination of the existence of the USSR and the creation of the CIS.
