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The guy was in a pretty big hurry, walking somewhere. Clearly the lady with the microphone and her cameraman were in the wrong place at the wrong time.
Or, maybe he was mad because HE was in the wrong place at the wrong time?
Or maybe it was just another Russian propaganda set up more like :wink:
Yeah, maybe it was Snowden dressed up in a Ukrainian uniform, playing a role. :lamo
The Russians are one of many peoples throughout humanity who keep the immorality of the West in check.
I do not agree with what you are referring to 20 years ago getting the Ukraine for free - but my understanding is that after the USSR break up then Russia did not want to hold the Ukraine and Russia was accepting and empowering the Ukraine as a free Republic.
Or maybe it was just another Russian propaganda set up more like :wink:
You do realize there are foreign "ideological volunteers" in Azov ... nobody ever tried to hide it, if I remember correctly there were even few Russians in it as well.
More than just a few I suspect. My comments were concerning comically obvious Russian propaganda films allegedly showing US Blackwater mercenaries were operating in Ukraine
Actually these "comically obvious Russian propaganda films" are real, non Russian footage, of people speaking in English - of course Russian cheap propagandist would try to spin it as some backwater guys.
Unfortunately, on the other side we don't have anything better, with Vasilieva being sited by major Western newspapers, quoting SNBO and talking about claims of hundreds if not thousands of dead RussianGRUFSBChechenSpetsnaz every few days, etc ... so I really suggest you to get down from that moral high horse you're on.
Fallen.
What moral high horse ???
The interference by the USA has been over-ruled by Russia, and rightly so.It is Russian boots on the ground not American. It is Russian weapons that are being used not American
Hard evidence, the regular Russian army invades Ukraine | Conflict Report
That really is way far off the topic.Via Stalin in particular and communism in general?
The interference by the USA has been over-ruled by Russia, and rightly so.
As if anyone can not figure that out!!!!
T
i.e. look at your own media before you start laughing at others propaganda ...
So powerful that the ruble is virtually a worthless currency beyond the Russian borders...It really is absurd to me that Americans would laugh or even dismiss the Russian President who happens to be one of the most powerful positions on the planet earth, and I do not see Russia or the Russian President as secondary or inferior to the USA because reality declares otherwise.
MARIUPOL 24 January 2015
At approximately 09:15hrs on 24 January, the SMM in government-controlled Mariupol heard at its location incoming massed Multi-Launch Rocket System (MLRS) attacks from a north-east direction, consisting of an extremely heavy barrage lasting 35 seconds. Twenty minutes later the SMM received information from the Joint Centre for Control and Co-ordination (JCCC) in Mariupol and other sources, that shelling had occurred in the area of Olimpiiska Street, in Ordzhonikidzevskyi district, 8.5 km north-east of Mariupol city centre, approximately 400 metres from a Ukrainian Armed Forces checkpoint.
At 10:20hrs the SMM went to Olimpiiska Street and saw seven adult civilians dead. The SMM observed in an area of 1.6 km by 1.1 km, including an open market, multiple impacts on buildings, retail shops, homes and a school. The SMM observed cars on fire and windows facing the north-eastern side of a nine-storey building shattered. The SMM was able to count 19 rocket strikes and is certain there are more. Four hospitals and the emergency service in the city informed the SMM that at least 20 people died and 75 people were injured and hospitalized. Ten of the wounded were in a critical condition, according to a hospital representative.
The SMM conducted a crater analysis and its initial assessment showed that the impacts were caused by Grad and Uragan rockets. According to the impact analysis, the Grad rockets originated from a north-easterly direction, in the area of Oktyabr (19 km north-east of Olimpiiska Street), and the Uragan rockets from an easterly direction, in the area of Zaichenko (15 km east of Olimpiiska Street), both controlled by the “Donetsk People’s Republic” (“DPR”).
Mon Jan 26, 2015
The deadly rocket attacks on the government-held port city of Mariupol in eastern Ukraine last weekend were a war crime because they intentionally targeted civilians, a senior U.N. official said on Monday. U.N. political affairs chief Jeffrey Feltman told an emergency meeting of the 15-nation Security Council on Ukraine that crater analysis by the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe indicated the shelling came from rebel-controlled territory. "The entity which fired these rockets knowingly targeted a civilian population," he said. "This would constitute a violation of international humanitarian law."
Over the weekend Russia blocked a proposed council statement that would have condemned the Mariupol attack as well as statements by a separatist leader who announced the offensive against Mariupol and repudiated the Minsk peace agreement from September.
Russia has a state controlled media and we don't so I'm quite comfortable with my observations
With Last Media Critics Blocked, Putin Silences the Russia Press - The Daily Beast
Too bad, as your "non state controlled media" on a regular basis produces propaganda and shines with examples of poor journalism on the levels of Russia 24 and Ukrainian TSN.
Regarding your article about Russia you really should Google up some things before you start reposting bs from Navalny's fanboys:
Slon.ru
tvrain.ru (still exists and you should probably learn some stuff about who supported it in the past)
echo.msk.ru
novayagazeta.ru
I'm not even talking about the numerous and various blogs/livejournal pages.
Fallen.
Simpleχity;1064243379 said:Special Monitoring Mission (SMM) situation report of the rocket attack on Mariupol by the Organization for Security and Co-Operation in Europe (OSCE) of which the Russian Federation is a member. The OSCE has monitors throughout eastern Ukraine including the Ukrainian coastal city of Mariupol (500,000).
Burial of Oleksander Demchenko, killed by a rebel rocket attack on the city of Mariupol
Attacks on civilians in Mariupol, Ukraine were war crime: U.N.
Russia supplies the weapons and munitions which kill and maim Ukrainian civilians, then vetoes any UN condemnation of these despicable acts despite the fact that an international organization of which Russia itself is a member (OSCE) has determined that the deadly Mariupol rocket barrages originated in rebel-held territory.
The utmost in hypocrisy and party to a war crime.
All those other sites are silenced from Putin and thus are biased.
These western ones are not because these are free.
All those other sites are silenced from Putin and thus are biased.
These western ones are not because these are free.
So, what's your point?
Fallen gave you links, if you know Russian as you said, you can read it. What's your opinion? Are they state propaganda?
Sigh.
The sites I listed are active, very liberal and critic Putin on a daily if not hourly basis.
Fallen.
Via Stalin in particular and communism in general?
The Russians were accepting of an independent Ukraine, they were not empowering though. Following the Break up of the USSR, Russia envisioned the Slavic three (Russia, Ukraine and Belarus) plus Kazakhstan (at the time 50% slavic and german) orgainized into a sort of Confederation of Autonomous States.
Ukraine, however, rejected the proposal out right and also demanded that the Black Sea fleet be divided between them equally. At the time, Russia had no economic, military or political leverage to keep Ukraine in a confederation, so they let them go. According to the Russians, Ukraine saying "no" also led to Belarus and Kazakhstan to say "no" as well. The Russians have not forgiven them for this and today, they have military leverage over Ukraine, so they are using it.
My links made my point for me.
Lip service critique for the international viewers while Putin ass licking behind close doors would not do.
What does that even mean?!?
There are actual liberal media outlets in Russia, they work in very harsh conditions but they still exist.
To simply brush them off is basically equivalent to spitting into the faces of dozens and hundreds of journalists that often risk their lives to cover Russia's current political and social life.
Fallen.
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