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xtruss · 3 months ago

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Germany Should Bring Charges For Nord Streams, Point Out US Role - Bundestag Member

MOSCOW (Sputnik International) — The German Federal Government should immediately bring charges for the destruction of the Nord Stream pipelines and point out the violation of anti-terrorism treaties by the United States or other countries involved, Bundestag Member Steffen Kotre told RIA Novosti.

In a conversation on the sidelines of Russian Energy Week, he suggested that Washington had probably been involved in the destruction of the gas pipelines. Kotre does not know to what extent Kiev was involved, but, from his point of view, it is difficult to believe that Ukraine could have carried out such an action without outside help. Kotre also believes that the German authorities know who is guilty of what happened, and if not, then the information will certainly be found in the Swedish, Norwegian or US intelligence services.

Nord Stream Pipelines Must Be Restored — German Lawmaker! The Nord Stream and Nord Stream 2 gas pipelines, built to deliver gas under the Baltic Sea from Russia to Europe, were rocked by explosions in September 2022. © Sputnik/Sergey Guneev/Go to the Mediabank

Nord Stream gas pipelines were blown up by enemies of German energy sovereignty, and the pipelines must be rebuilt and secured, the co-leader of the right-wing Alternative for Germany party, Tino Chrupalla, said on Thursday.

"Today marks two years since the enemies of German energy sovereignty blew up Nord Stream. An artery of German industry was cut. Our faction in the Bundestag demands an investigation and punishment for all those responsible. Nord Stream must be repaired, launched and secured!" Chrupalla said on his social media.

— September 9, 2024

"That is why the federal government must immediately press charges and, of course, point out that the United States or other countries have violated international treaties, namely agreements aimed at preventing terrorism. And anyone who helps and encourages this violates these international agreements aimed at preventing the spread of terrorism. And all this must be said. And, of course, claims for damages in international courts and much more," the lawmaker emphasized.

The explosions on two Russian export gas pipelines to Europe — Nord Stream and Nord Stream 2 — occurred on September 26, 2022. Germany, Denmark and Sweden have not ruled out deliberate sabotage. Nord Stream AG, the operator of Nord Stream, said that the destruction of the gas pipelines was unprecedented, and it was impossible to estimate the repair time. The Russian Prosecutor General's Office initiated a case on an act of international terrorism. Russia has repeatedly requested data on the explosions on Nord Stream, but has never received it, according to Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov.

The Russian Energy Week was held in Moscow from September 26 to 28. RIA Novosti acted as the forum's media partner.

— Monday September 30, 2024 | Sputnik international

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cyberbenb · 1 year ago

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Fakes about Zaporizhzhia NPP and Russian Nuclear Blackmail

The Russians seizing the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant is not only a flagrant violation of international law, but also a blatant act of nuclear terrorism. After all, the military of the occupying state have turned the nuclear power plant into a military base, and propagandists and officials openly blackmail the world with a new man-made disaster. Moscow regularly spreads fakes in the media space and accuses Ukraine of planning sabotage at the ZNPP.

Since the seizure of the nuclear power plant by the Russians, the Ukrainian authorities and the military-political leadership have been trying to attract the maximum attention of the global community to the related threats. According to intelligence, Russia has completed preparations for a terrorist attack on a power plant. The President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy on June 22 and July 5 publicly called on world leaders to prevent the catastrophe. The head of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defence Kyrylo Budanov also repeatedly reported on the mining of nuclear power plants in a series of interviews with foreign media. On the evening of July 4, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reported on the presence of signs of placing explosives on the roof of two power units by the occupiers. With their blow-up, the Russians will be able to simulate the consequences of the shelling and blame the Armed Forces of Ukraine for it.

Kremlin propaganda is trying to convince both Russians and foreigners that the source of nuclear danger is Ukraine. Analysis of the information space indicates that Russia is conducting a relevant psychological operation involving the controlled media, officials, diplomats, the state corporation Rosatom, and foreign agents of influence. Such as the journalist of the Iranian edition of Press TV Johnny Miller (British citizen), the publication Donbass Insider, which is run by French citizen Laurent Brayard, etc.

The Centre for Strategic Communication and Information Security has analyzed how Russia uses media tools to carry out nuclear blackmail and try to discredit Ukraine.

See also: The Consequences of the Terrorist Attack on the ZNPP Cannot Be Measured in Money: Propaganda Digest for June 22, 2023

Echo of Kakhovka HPP blow-up

The blow-up of the Kakhovka HPP was the largest man-made disaster in Ukraine, which was provoked by the Russians from the beginning of the full-scale invasion. In terms of the scale of destruction and environmental damage, it can be compared to the use of nuclear weapons. This crime of the Russian army was accompanied by massive information attacks on Ukraine and unsuccessful attempts to convince at least part of foreign citizens that “it is not all that simple.”

It was after the blow-up of the Kakhovka HPP that a significant increase in mentions of the Zaporizhzhia NPP in the Russian media was observed. For two months, from May 5 to July 5, more than 10,000 publications about nuclear power plants were recorded in Russian Telegram channels alone. Before the blow-up of the dam, this figure amounted to 1,500, after — 8,500.

In addition to informing about the explosion at the HPP, Russian media and bloggers accused Ukraine of a conscious desire to complicate the situation at the Zaporizhzhia NPP because technological processes depended on water from the Kakhovka reservoir.

Peremptory accusations of Ukraine in the destruction of the Kakhovka HPP later became a watertight argument during the promotion of the statement about the preparation of a “Ukrainian provocation” at the nuclear power plant.

In particular, the former editor-in-chief of Ria Novosti Ukraine, Kirill Vyshinsky, spoke about this in on Sputnik radio, confusing kilovolts with kilowatts, on July 4.

In 2018, he was arrested in Kyiv on suspicion of high treason and cooperation with Russian special services. But Vyshinsky did not stay for the verdict: in September 2019, he was extradited to Russia as part of an exchange during which Ukrainian sailors captured near the Kerch Strait, director Oleg Sentsov, journalist Roman Sushchenko, and other prisoners and civilian hostages were released.

Accusations of Ukraine and the “reflection” of the Kremlin’s desires

The campaign to accuse Ukraine of shelling the Zaporizhzhia NPP and preparing sabotage for the purpose of radiation contamination of territories has been conducted since March 2022, that is, since the seizure of the station by Russian troops. To do this, they even attacked the territory of the plant to declare the “provocation of the Armed Forces” and the use by the Ukrainian military of ammunition that “change the trajectory” and strike from the territory controlled by the Russians.

The increase in the number of reports that Ukraine is preparing a sabotage in the second half of June — in early July 2023 — took place against the backdrop of statements by Zelenskyy and Budanov about the ZNPP being mined by the Russians. The peak was on July 4-5, when the Russians moved directly from “refuting disinformation” to announcing the terrorist attack, promoting its scenarios, and consolidating “logical explanations” for why the blow-up of the nuclear power plant was “beneficial to Ukraine” and “definitely disadvantageous to Russia.” Promoting the point of “disadvantage” was a key element of the information “defence line” of Russia after the blow-up of the Kakhovka HPP.

Among the scenarios that propaganda spreads, the most popular is a missile strike on a repository of spent nuclear fuel or a drone attack on it. This was stated by the advisor to the head of Rosenergoatom Renat Karchaa, political scientist Sergei Markov, Z-bloggers, and anonymous Telegram channels.

Even the date was established — the night of July 5. Propagandists actively quoted the pseudo-Ukrainian channel Resident, which spread a fake that the plan of the operation was developed by the General Staff of the AFU.

Among the motives that should guide the Ukrainian military-political leadership, the Russians cite the following:

concealing the lack of success of the counteroffensive of the AFU;

drawing attention to Ukraine on the eve of the NATO summit, attempts to draw the Alliance into the war against Russia;

forcing the Russian command to withdraw troops from the territory of the plant due to radiation pollution.

Russian propaganda describes the nuclear catastrophe as Ukraine’s “last chance” to rectify the situation at the front and prevent the weakening of Western support. Given this, the level of nuclear hysteria that the Kremlin produces, on the eve of the Vilnius NATO summit on July 11-12, will only grow.

By promoting these messages, the Russians are actually revealing their own goals:

the purpose of threats of an explosion at the ZNPP, as well as the blow-up of the Kakhovka HPP, is to stop the Ukrainian offensive in the South;

by blatant nuclear blackmail, Russia is trying to frighten the West, weaken military support, and block Ukraine’s Atlantic integration;

nuclear blackmail is an instrument of coercion to “peace negotiations,” considering the “territorial realities,” that is, the adamant refusal of Russia to leave the occupied territories;

the argument about the fear of Russian generals for the health of subordinates who may be in the zone of radiation contamination, having arranged positions in the Chornobyl zone and dug trenches in the Red Forest, looks ridiculous;

the tactics of “the scorched earth” and the destruction of Ukraine’s economic potential by polluting agricultural territories are common for the Russian military.

See also: One step away from a nuclear disaster. Why did Russia seize the largest nuclear power plant in Europe?

Search for evidence in the Ukrainian media space and manipulation of IAEA statements

Any mention in the Ukrainian media of the presence of a nuclear threat, statements by officials, Russian propaganda is trying to present as evidence of Ukraine’s preparation for provocations at the nuclear power plant. The Russians pay special attention to media figures known to the Russian audience. Excerpts from the video blog of paediatrician Yevhen Komarovskyi and another interview with Oleksii Arestovych for Dmytro Gordon were actively spread in Telegram channels and on social networks.

Moreover, propagandists “pay attention” to petitions on the website of the President of Ukraine concerning the situation at the ZNPP, as well as other security and preventive measures in the event of a nuclear threat.

The Russians portray the public actions of the Security Service of Ukraine and Energoatom aimed at restoring contacts with ZNPP employees who left the occupied territory or remain there as an attempt to “recruit saboteurs.”

The Russian media actively reacted to the visit of the Armed Forces Command to the Rivne NPP to discuss security issues and risks associated with the situation at the ZNPP with energy sector specialists.

For the Kremlin propaganda, this was not only “proof” of Ukrainians preparing for sabotage in Enerhodar, but also evidence that Kyiv was blackmailing the West and frightening it with an explosion near the border with the EU.

The Russian media regularly manipulate the statements of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and Director General Rafael Grossi. Thus, at the end of June, Russian media spread the news that the IAEA allegedly refuted Budanov’s statement about the Russians mining the ZNPP. In fact, the Agency confirmed the fact of mining the perimeter of the plant. The statement mentioned that the inspectors did not find explosives in the cooling pond. The Russian media simply “did not notice” the part concerning the mining of the perimeter, and the statement about the absence of explosives in the cooler was extrapolated to the entire object.

READ ALSO: Flooded Land and Burned Forests. How Russians Fight against Environment in Ukraine

What are the real threats?

The Zaporizhzhia NPP is the largest nuclear power plant in Europe, and its seizure by the Russian military poses massive risks to nuclear and radiation safety in Europe and the world. The plant has not supplied electricity for the needs of Ukraine since September 11, 2022. Five of its six reactors have been switched to “cold mode,” one (fifth) is in “hot stop” mode to support the operation of the station. Since September 1, 2022, several IAEA specialists are on duty at the ZNPP, changing periodically.

There are many potential scenarios of accidents and terrorist attacks at the facility. The station has a certain level of protection from external influences, but the designers did not provide for the fact that the station may be in the zone of active hostilities.

Cooling of ZNPP reactors occurs at the expense of water in a large cooling pond, drain channel, and small splash ponds.

In the event of an explosion of the cooling pond as a result of a mine or missile strike, nuclear reactors will not be able to operate normally and safely. Damage and dehydration of small ponds can lead to heating and even ignition of spent fuel and release of radioactive substances.

If the power plant is de-energized due to the termination of external power supply and disabling of internal spare diesel stations, it will be impossible to cool the reactor core. This could lead to a serious accident, such as the one that occurred at the Fukushima-1 station in Japan in 2011.

Spent fuel is placed in dry storage after five years of cooling in the storage pond. Dry cask storage is a large container standing on an open site on the territory of the plant. It has a certain margin of safety, is able to withstand a grenade launcher shot, is fire-resistant. Its detonation, which the Russians have been actively talking about since the beginning of July, will lead to a local release of radiation.

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In the course of the full-scale invasion, Russia has actively resorted to acts of nuclear terrorism on the territory of Ukraine: it strikes at nuclear facilities, seizes them, and uses them as military bases, holding personnel hostage. The Chornobyl Nuclear Power Plant was under the control of the invaders for more than a month. The Russians killed nine and kidnapped five employees of the station, and took 169 captured soldiers of the National Guard, who guarded the facility, out of Ukraine. In addition, the Russians damaged and stole hundreds of computers, software, 1,500 dosimetric devices, and firefighting equipment. This caused damage to the security system of the Chornobyl NPP, the amount of damage exceeds USD 135 million.

During the battles for Kharkiv in spring and summer 2022, Russian troops targeted the Neutron Source nuclear facility on the territory of the Kharkiv Institute of Physics and Technology several times. The installation itself was hit, with 37 fuel cells loaded. Its damage and destruction of nuclear material repositories could lead to a large-scale environmental disaster.

Today, Russia is threatening the world with a terrorist attack on Europe’s largest nuclear power plant, shifting responsibility to Ukraine in advance. The Kremlin’s behaviour once again proves that the issue of the future denuclearization of Russia should become a key item on the agenda of the entire civilized world.

Centre for Strategic Communication and Information Security

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spaceexp · 4 years ago

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Details about the first-ever tourist walk in outer space revealed

Moscow (Sputnik) Jul 05, 2020 At the end of June, Russian rocket company Energiya and US space tourism firm Space Adventures signed a contract to send two tourists to the International Space Station aboard a Soyuz rocket. The first-ever tourist walk in outer space will last between 90 to 100 minutes, a representative from the US company Space Adventures told RIA Novosti. "This is approximately how long it takes Full article

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lady-nightmare · 2 years ago

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Russia threatens again with "Polish annexation" in Ukraine. Podolak: Poles and Ukrainians laugh at you

Kremlin propagandists argue that Poland is allegedly planning to annex the western part of Ukraine. This time Sergei Naryshkin spoke about it. His absurd statement was ridiculed by an adviser to the Ukrainian president, Mykhailo Podolak. On Wednesday, the website of the Foreign Intelligence Service of the Russian Federation (SVR) published a false article by the pro-Kremlin RIA Novosti agency about Poland. Specifically, Poland's alleged plans to conquer western Ukraine.

According to our information, Warsaw is accelerating preparations for the annexation of western Ukraine: the areas of Lviv, Ivano-Frankivsk and a large part of the Ternopil region - said the head of SVR Sergey Naryshkin. He argued that the Polish authorities were preparing pseudo-referenda regarding the incorporation of the above-mentioned regions into our country.

Mykhailo Podolak, an adviser to the President of Ukraine, referred to the nonsense told by Naryshkin. "The statements of the speakers of the Russian Federation about 'Poland's plans to annex Western Ukraine' is another attempt by the Kremlin to sow distrust between friends. Does anyone believe that they will succeed? Ukraine and Poland laugh at it. Together," he commented on Twitter. "There is only one country that ignores international law. We know its name," added an adviser to Volodymyr Zelensky.

Poland and the Baltic states renewed their appeal to the European Commission to block all channels of Russian propaganda. This was announced in Brussels by Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Culture and National Heritage Piotr Gliński after the EU ministerial meeting. He stressed that four countries have been calling for this for months.

Unfortunately, there are still a few channels, certainly Rossija 24, operating on satellite platforms both within the European Union and, for example, in the occupied territories in Ukraine, which increases Russian propaganda. This should not be the case and it was a renewed appeal to the European Commission to block these channels of Russian propaganda, said the head of the Ministry of Culture.

In March, the European Union began blocking Russian propaganda. For starters, she decided to ban RT, formerly Russia Today and Sputnik, from broadcasting. In June, Rossiya RTR, Rossiya 24 and TV Center International were added to the banned list. From the beginning, Poland believed that the ban should apply to all Russian media that are used in the disinformation and propaganda war.

#poland #ukraine #russia #russian propaganda #poland is going to do pseudo-referendums said a guy from the country which is expert of making pseudo-referendums

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solacekames · 7 years ago

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Here’s another article for people who think that laughing about “Russian chaos agents” is funny and harmless.

Countering Kremlin disinformation is one area where Kiev has the upper hand.

By VIJAI MAHESHWARI

3/12/17, 10:30 PM CET Updated 3/15/17, 2:21 PM CET

KIEV, Ukraine — When “little green men” invaded Crimea in the spring of 2014, Russian media went into overdrive, smearing Ukraine’s Euro-revolution as a “fascist coup d’état.”

A group of professors and students struck back and unwittingly made history that spring when they launched StopFake.org, the first site to directly tackle and refute Russian propaganda. Now that the rest of the world has woken up to the Kremlin’s disinformation tactics, the journalism school crew behind StopFake have emerged as the “grand wizards” of the fake-news-busting world.

“There was a growing avalanche of propaganda from Russia seeking to reframe the narrative in the Kremlin’s favor, and we urgently needed to counterbalance that,” says Yevhen Fedchenko, the dean of Kiev Mohyla University’s journalism faculty and one of the founders of StopFake.

The site quickly gained a cult following by exposing false facts in anti-Ukraine Russian news reports. An aggrieved mother whose child was reportedly “crucified” by Ukrainian troops was “outed” as a popular Russian television actress in an article that was shared 11,000 times and later referenced in a press conference with Putin.

As a journalist covering Ukraine during the post-2014 barrage of Russian propaganda, I remember how the Kremlin’s fake news stories infected our most private moments and reframed the narrative.

But it was only after last year’s presidential election in the U.S. — when Russian fake news and cyberattacks were blamed for swaying the election in Donald Trump’s favor — that the site burst on to the global stage.

Almost overnight, the founders of StopFake went from provincial do-gooders to international media stars. Fedchenko and his colleagues were lauded at conferences and plied with offers of consulting work by nervous European governments. They now organize media workshops across the Continent, offering guidelines on recognizing and debunking Russian propaganda.

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As the West scrambles to get a handle on the Kremlin’s propaganda tactics, Ukraine for once finds itself in a privileged position. Ukrainians lived through the Soviet Union, speak fluent Russian and can sift through Russian-language sites for clues about the inner workings of the Kremlin’s fakes news operations. They know the sites pumping out Kremlin disinformation and might even have met some of their editors in the past.

The site Ukraina.ru, for example — a Russian-language site from Moscow that peddles false anti-Ukraine stories — recently offered one of StopFake’s freelancers a full-time position.

“He turned down the job of course, even though the salary was very high,” says Fedchenko, who knows the editor-in-chief, a man who spent a few years in Kiev before the Maidan revolution. “We traced their offices to a building in Moscow that also houses other Kremlin-friendly sites like Sputnik and RIA Novosti.”

New urgency

As a journalist covering Ukraine during the post-2014 barrage of Russian propaganda, I remember how the Kremlin’s fake news stories infected our most private moments and reframed the narrative.

I recall an incredulous taxi driver telling me that a recent client from Moscow had insisted that the MH17 flight, which was downed over eastern Ukraine in July 2014, had been “stuffed with dead bodies.” He refused to pay the fare until the driver agreed with his version of events.

Fake reports alleged that the Ukrainian air force had targeted Russian President Vladimir Putin’s plane, which flew over the same region as MH17 one hour earlier. A journalist friend who was briefly detained in eastern Ukraine said the separatist soldiers had been incredulous the West could so openly support Kiev’s “fascist junta.”

Meanwhile, the Kremlin’s repeated assertions that there are no Russian troops or weapons involved in the conflict has created a convenient narrative for those who prefer to label it a “civil war” and not an act of Russian aggression.

Ukrainians are also intimately aware of the dangers of Russian propaganda, and the way it can infect the body politic with its dark messages.

Chopping the air feverishly with his hands, Fedchenko emphasizes that contemporary Russian propaganda had no inherent ideology and appealed to people’s basest instincts.

“Their messages are very fluid and seek to divide societies against themselves,” he says. “The Kremlin is against all international organizations like the NATO or the EU, and prefers that each country is forced to fend for itself.”

StopFake’s dire warnings about Russian propaganda and its nefarious designs have taken on new urgency in the context of upcoming presidential elections in both Germany and France, where there has been much talk about Kremlin disinformation campaigns against anti-Russian candidates.

Fedchenko explains that the case of the German-Russian teenager, Lisa — whose supposed rape by Muslim immigrants sparked mass protests by Germany’s millions-strong Russian community last year — was a classic example of Russian propaganda.

“They fabricated a rape to inflame passions among Russian speakers in Germany and discredit Merkel,” he says.

During a recent presidential campaign in Moldova, Russians also spread fake reports labeling the pro-European candidate a lesbian and accusing her of supporting “mass Muslim immigration.”

The pro-Kremlin candidate won the election.

Ukraine can’t turn back time. But for the rest of the Western world, it might not yet be too late. The government in Kiev has many Russian media outlets to counter fake news. And indeed, Fedchenko’s biggest regret is that “Ukraine hadn’t switched off Russian television 20 years ago.”

His eyes briefly become misty as he imagines a country completely free from the taint of Russian propaganda. If that had been the case, he says with renewed conviction, “we’d never have had the war in the Donbass to begin with.”

#ukraine #russia #rape tw #islamophobia #all cops are bustards

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interkomitet · 4 years ago

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Elena Panina: "The sovereignty of the Czech Republic has become a fiction"

Elena Panina, member of the State Duma Committee on International Affairs, commenting on the statements of Prague about the expulsion of Russian diplomats and the alleged involvement of special services in the explosion in Vrbetica, noted that this is not a “sovereign decision of the Czech Republic”, but demonstrates “the total foreign policy dependence of the Czech state.”

Czech Prime Minister Andrei Babis said on Saturday that authorities suspect Russian special services of involvement in an explosion at an ammunition depot in Vrbetica in 2014. Czech Foreign Minister Jan Hamacek said that 18 Russian diplomats are being expelled from the country, they must leave the country within 48 hours, and the Czech police have put Russian citizens Alexander Petrov and Ruslan Boshirov on the wanted list.

The Russian Foreign Ministry responded by saying that Moscow considers the statements of Prague about the involvement of Russian special services in the explosion in Vrbetica to be absurd, unfounded and far-fetched. In addition, the department noted that in this hostile step “one cannot but see an American trace as well.”

According to Panina, “just yesterday on the agenda was the question of a visit to Moscow by First Deputy Prime Minister Jan Gamacek, who wanted to discuss the purchase of the Russian Sputnik (V) vaccine.

“And what do we see today? Literally” on the whistle “in Prague, feverish body movements began, the expulsion of diplomats, provocations,” explosions “that had come from nowhere. There is no doubt that everything that is happening now in Prague is not a sovereign decision of the Czech Republic. demonstration of the total foreign policy dependence of the Czech state, “Panina told RIA Novosti.

She added that “since the time of Jan Hus, the Czechs have fought for their independence.” “Today the sovereignty of the Czech Republic is turning into a fiction,” said Panina.

http://interkomitet.com/about-the-committee/blogs/elena-panina/elena-panina-the-sovereignty-of-the-czech-republic-has-become-a-fiction/

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opedguy · 5 years ago

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Russia Downplays Nuclear Explosion

LOS ANGELES (OnlineColumnist.com), Aug. 26, 2019.--When a radioactive plume spiraled out of the secret Nyonoksa testing facility Aug. 8, 66-tear-old Russian President Vladimir Putin downplayed the event, claiming it was a routine occurrence at a nuclear site. That story didn’t add up when toxic levels of radioactive gas containing strontium-91, barium-139 and lanthanum-140 were measured in the radioactive plume that killed at least five in Nyonoksa, spreading rapidly to the town of Severdodvisnk. When the Chernobyl nuclear reactor melted down April 26, 1986, then Premier Mikhail Gorbachev downplayed the worst nuclear disaster on the planet, spewing massive amounts of radioactivity into the atmosphere. While the recent explosion at Nyonoksa wasn’t Chernobyl, it was bad enough to spread toxic radiation into the atmosphere. A Norwegian nuclear expert confirmed it “was a nuclear reactor that exploded.”

U.S. nuclear experts and intel officials suspect a failed weapons’ test of Russian new nuclear-powered Cruise missile, considered by Putin “invincible” to U.S. military defenses. Called the 9M730 Burevestnik nuclear-powered Cruise missile, NATO calls the SSC-Z-9 Sytfall, referring to the new breed of Russian nuclear weapons that violate the now defunct Intermediate Range Nuclear Forces [INF] Treaty, negotiated by President Ronald Reagan and Gorbachev in Vladivostok Dec. 8, 1987. When Trump cancelled the INF treaty Aug. 2, 2019, the Kremlin threw a fit, when it fact they’d been violating the INF treaty for years. Whether or not Syfall blew up in Putin’s face, it was an undeniable violation of the INF Treaty. Developing a hypersonic nuclear weapon runs counter the intent of the INF treaty. No one believes the Aug. 8 explosion at Nyonoksa was a normal nuclear mishap.

When the blast produced a cascade of radioactive isotopes, it signaled a reactor explosion, simply not the byproducts of a nuclear test. Strontium-91, Barium-139 and Lanthanum-140 are byproducts of a reactor explosion, having half-lives ranging from 93 minutes to 12.8 days. “There are fission products,” said Joshua Pollack, leading expert on nuclear and missile proliferation.. “If anyone still doubts that a nuclear reactor was involved in the incident, this report should go a long way toward resolving that,” said Pollack. Alexander Uvarov, editor of Independent News at AtomInfo.ru, told RIA Novosti that the isotopes were a product of nuclear fusion involving uranium-235, capable of producing barium, strontium and lanthanum isotopes. While Putin denies that a nuclear reactor exploded, he also told the media that he wouldn’t admit if a reactor exploded or not.

Russian official minimize not only nuclear events but failure on the Soyuz launch pad or when disasters strike in space travel to the International Space Stattion [ISS]. Putin’s fooling no one about Kyonoksa, knowing what happened March 11, 2011 at Japan’s Fukushima-Daiichi meltdown, killing one of radiation sickness, injuring 16 others. Norwegian nuclear scientist Nils Bohmer said that “the presence of decay products like barium and strontium is coming from a nuclear chain reaction,” proving it “was a reactor that exploded,” a very different story than Russian authorities. Doctors treating the victims at Nyonoksa test facility were forced to sign nondisclosure agreements, also expunging hospital records. All the secrecy surrounding the explosion by Russian officials suggests they were testing the Skyfall nuclear-powered Cruise missile when something went awry.

Russian officials said the mishap happened “during tests of a liquid propulsion system involving isotopes,” something Bohmer said was impossible. Producing the cascade of isotopes, like strontium, barium and lanathanum could only be produced by a an atomic explosion. Putin denied hiding anything to the press about the Nyonoksa mishap. “This is work in the military field, work on promising weapons systems,” Putin said. “When it comes to activities of a military nature, there are certain restrictions on access to information,” admitting that Russian authorities had every right to maintain secrecy. President Trump tweeted “the Skyfall explosion,” disputing official Russian explanations. Reading between the lines, it looks like Putin’s new “invincible” nuclear-powered Cruise missile blew up the nuclear reactor, sending plumes of radioactivity into the atmosphere.

Playing with nuclear weapons is dangerous business, whether it’s in Russia, North Korea, Pakistan or anywhere else. Violating the now defunct INF treaty, Putin still doesn’t admit to breaching the accord, despite boasting about creating of new ‘invincible” weapons. Calling the Burevestinik Cruise missile “an unlimited range, unpredictable trajectory and ability to bypass interception” Putin jumped the gun, when the Sykfall blew up the nuclear reactor. While not the disaster of Chernobyl, Nyonoksa showed the hazards of developing more lethal nuclear weapons. Putin’s the last person to give the information straight, especially when it comes to Russian failures. Ever since Sputnik blasted off Oct. 4, 1957, the Russian government has maintained its secrecy over its nuclear and space failures, always promting invincibility to the West, when in fact mishaps take place.

About the Author

John M. Curtis writes politically neutral commentary analyzing spin in national and global news. He’s editor of OnlineColumnist.com and author of Dodging The Bullet and Operation Charisma

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xtruss · 3 years ago

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Russia's S-550 to Be More Efficient at Intercepting ICBMs Than THAAD & Aegis, Report Says

— Oleg Burunov - Sputnik International | Saturday November 13, 2021

The new air defence system is being developed on the basis of the advanced S-500 Prometey (Prometheus), designed to destroy enemy targets within a range of around 600 kilometres (370 miles).

Russia’s S-550 will become the world's first mobile special operation missile and airspace defence system capable of effectively destroying Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles (ICBM), two sources in the military-industrial complex told the Ria Novosti news agency.

One insider said that the new surface-to-air system is being developed as an upgraded version of the S-500 Prometey (Prometheus) anti-ballistic missile system.

First publicly available footage of S-500 air defence system released by Russian military. © Photo:Twitter/@mod_russia

“The S-550’s capabilities to intercept warheads of enemy ballistic missiles, mainly, intercontinental ones, as well as space attack weapons will be by an order greater than the capabilities of the S-400 and the S-500, as well as those of the US THAAD and Aegis air defences fitted with the 3M-3 Block IIB missiles”, the insider said.

This was confirmed by another source, who added that "the development of a new system is currently at an advanced stage”.

The remarks come after the Russian Defence Ministry said in a statement earlier this week that the new S-550 air defence system is being developed in the country.

Russian S-400 Triumf surface-to-air missile systems. ©Sputnik/Evgeny Odinokov/Go to the photo bank

The statement pointed out that Russia’s President Vladimir Putin last week made a special emphasis on the importance of developing advanced domestically-made missile defence systems, including the S-500 and the S-550, and delivering them to the Russian Armed Forces.

The S-500 Prometey is a next-generation surface-to-air missile system with a range of around 600 kilometres (370 miles), designed for intercepting and destroying intercontinental ballistic missiles, as well as hypersonic cruise missiles and aircraft.

Currently, Russia and the US possess specialised missile defence systems that can shoot down ICBM warheads with high precision, but those systems are not mobile and are instead based in silos.

Left: Avangard hypersonic glide vehicle. ©Photo: Ministry of Defence of the Russia Federation. Right: Test of the Zircon hypersonic missile ©Photo: Russian Defence Ministry/Go to the photo bank

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melbynews-blog · 7 years ago

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Fall Wyschinski: „Reporter ohne Grenzen“ fordern von Kiew Erklärung oder Freilassung

Neuer Beitrag veröffentlicht bei https://melby.de/fall-wyschinski-reporter-ohne-grenzen-fordern-von-kiew-erklaerung-oder-freilassung/

Fall Wyschinski: „Reporter ohne Grenzen“ fordern von Kiew Erklärung oder Freilassung

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Die international tätige Nichtregierungsorganisation „Reporter ohne Grenzen“ hat ihre Besorgnis über die in Kiew erfolgte Festnahme des Chefredakteurs der Nachrichtenagentur RIA Novosti Ukraina, Kirill Wyschinski, geäußert.

Die ukrainischen Behörden sollen der NGO zufolge entweder ihre Anschuldigungen erklären oder den Journalisten freilassen.

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„Die Anschuldigungen wegen Landesverrats und die Untersuchungshaft sind höchst ernste Maßnahmen“, sagte der Chef des osteuropäischen und zentralasiatischen Büros der Organisation, Johann Bihr.

Seine Worte veröffentlichte die Organisation auf ihrer offiziellen Webseite.

„Die Behörden müssen entweder exakt erklären, welche von den behaupteten Tätigkeiten als Hochverrat gelten, oder Kirill Wyschinski unverzüglich freilassen“.

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Kirill Wyschinski war am Dienstag in Kiew vor seiner Wohnung festgenommen worden. In der Nacht auf Mittwoch wurde er in ein Sondergefängnis in der südukrainischen Hafenstadt Cherson gebracht. Ihm wird Landesverrat vorgeworfen. Entgegen allen rechtlichen Normen soll seine berufliche Tätigkeit als Beweis für die Anschuldigungen dienen. Über Wyschinski wurde eine zweimonatige Untersuchungshaft verhängt.

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Ex-workers at Russian ‘troll factory’ say U.S. charges are ‘well-founded’

ST. PETERSBURG, Russia — While Russian officials scoff at a U.S. indictment charging 13 Russians with meddling in the 2016 U.S. presidential election, several people who worked at the same St. Petersburg “troll factory” say they think the criminal charges are well-founded.

Marat Mindiyarov, a former internet troll, speaks to journalists in St.Petersburg, Russia. A former commentator at the Internet Research Agency, he said his own experience at the “troll factory” makes him trust the U.S. charges. “I believe that that’s how it was and that it were them,” he told The Associated Press. (AP Photo/Mstyslav Chernov)

Marat Mindiyarov, a former commenter at the innocuously named Internet Research Agency, says the organization’s Facebook department hired people with excellent English skills to sway U.S. public opinion through an elaborate social media campaign.

His own experience at the agency makes him trust the U.S. indictment, Mindiyarov told The Associated Press. “I believe that that’s how it was and that it was them,” he said.

The federal indictment issued Friday names a businessman linked to President Vladimir Putin and a dozen other Russians. It alleges that Yevgeny Prigozhin — a wealthy restaurateur dubbed “Putin’s chef,” paid for the internet operation that created fictitious social media accounts and used them to spread tendentious messages.

The aim of the factory’s work was either to influence voters or to undermine their faith in the U.S. political system, the 37-page indictment states.

Putin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters Monday that while the indictment focuses on “Russian nationals,” it gives “no indication that the Russian government was involved in this in any way.” Peskov reasserted that Moscow did not interfere in the U.S. election.

Yevgeny Prigozhin, left, shows Russian President Vladimir Putin, around his factory which produces school meals, outside St. Petersburg, Russia. Indicted for alleged U.S. election interference, Prigozhin is a wealthy Russian entrepreneur from St. Petersburg who’s been dubbed “Putin’s chef” by Russian media, with his catering businesses that have hosted the Kremlin leader’s dinners with foreign dignitaries. (Alexei Druzhinin, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP, File)

Mindiyarov, who failed the language exam needed to get a job on the Internet Research Agency’s Facebook desk, where the pay was double than the domestic side of the factory. The sleek operation produced content that looked as if it were written by native English speakers, he said.

“These were people with excellent language skills, interpreters, university graduates,” he said, “It’s very hard to tell it’s a foreigner writing because they master the language wonderfully.”

The English test he took asked for a writing sample about Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton’s chances of winning the U.S. presidential vote, Mindiyarov recalled.

“I wrote that her chances were high and she could become the first female president,” he told the AP.

Mindiyarov said he took a job at the troll factory in late 2014 because he was unemployed and curious. At the time, about 400 people occupied four floors of an office building and worked 12-hour shifts, he said. Most of the operation focused on the separatist insurgency in eastern Ukraine and Western sanctions against Russia, not political races in the West, he said.

The trolls received their wages in cash and operated in teams as they tried to foment public interest with fake discussions, according to Mindiyarov.

“We worked in a group of three where one played the part of a scoundrel, the other one was a hero, and the third one kept a neutral position,” he said. “For instance, one could write that Putin was bad, the other one would say it was not so, and the third would confirm the position of the second while inserting some picture.”

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov (Sergei Karpukhin/Pool Photo via AP)

After only a couple of months, Mindiyarov quit, He says he hated the work.

“The world in those comments was divided into black and white: America was bad, Putin was good,” he said. “They praised whatever had to do with Putin and criticized anything related to America, ‘gay’ Europe, and so on. That was the principle of the work.”

Another former worker at the St. Petersburg workshop, Lyudmila Savchuk, also described it as an efficient venture that churned out posts around the clock.

Like Mindiyarov, Savchuk was employed in the domestic department of the “troll farm,” not the international division. Nevertheless, she said her experience there corresponds with what she knows of the allegations made by American authorities.

Lyudmila Savchuk speaks to journalists at a court room in St.Petersburg, Russia, Thursday, July 2, 2015. Savchuk, a single mother with two children, was once a “Kremlin troll” working as part of an immense propaganda machine trying to shape public opinion not only across Russia but also in the United States and Europe.(AP Photo/Dmitry Lovetsky)

“The posts and comments are made to form the opinion of Russian citizens regarding certain issues, and as we see it works for other countries, too,” Savchuk told the AP.

Paid trolls used carefully crafted fake identities that made them come across like real people, she said.

“The most important principle of the work is to have an account like a real person,” Savchuk said. “They create real characters, choosing a gender, a name, a place of living and an occupation. Therefore, it’s hard to tell that the account was made for the propaganda.”

Prigozhin, aka “Putin’s Chef,” owned restaurants and catering businesses that hosted the Russian leader’s dinners with foreign dignitaries. He used his relationship with Putin to expand his business to include services for the Russian military.

“I’m not at all upset that I’m on this list,” Prigozhin said of the indictment in comments carried by Russia’s state RIA Novosti news agency. “If they want to see the devil, let them see him.”

Along with producing social media supporting Donald Trump’s candidacy and disparaging Clinton, the Internet Research Agency purchased online advertisements using identities stolen from Americans and staged political rallies while posing as American political activists, the indictment alleges. The agency also paid people in the U.S. to promote or ridicule the candidates, the document states.

“All of the trolls knew that it’s Prigozhin who stands behind this all,” Mindiyarov, , the ex-commenter who left the organization in early 2015, said. “But nobody had any evidence.”

He said that the employees disliked Prigozhin, in part because he didn’t set up a cafeteria or canteen in the troll factory building even though he owned a sprawling catering business.

“People had to bring food boxes from home,” Mindiyarov said. “Prigozhin did not treat the trolls well. He could at least feed them.”

Lyudmila Savchuk, former troll and researcher speaks to journalists in St.Petersburg, Russia, Monday, Feb. 19, 2018. (AP Photo/Mstyslav Chernov)

While the U.S. indictment mentioned 13 people, many more must have been involved in the effort, according to Savchuk.

“Here they laugh about the news that 13 people could influence the elections in the U.S., but there were many more people doing that,” she said. “These technologies are unbelievably effective.”

She added that she learned how effective the troll farm’s work was when she saw regular people sharing opinions and information that she knew were planted by trolls.

“They believed it was their own thoughts, but I saw that those thoughts were formed by the propagandists,” she said.

The Internet Research Agency has reportedly changed its name and location, moving to another business center in the northern part of St. Petersburg.

Foreign Minister of Russia Sergey Lavrov (Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty Images)

Andrey Zakharov, an investigative journalist with Russian RBC outlet who co-reported an investigation of the troll factory, said the list of indicted Russians looked “quite random” to him.

“They simply included in it all the names they could find,” Zakharov told the AP. “According to our information, some of these people don’t work at the factory now and did not even work there during the (U.S.) elections. This does not look like a result of a solid investigation.”

Although the U.S. indictment is detailed, it makes assertions without providing evidence outright. Russian officials have seized on that, including Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, who dismissed the charges as “just blabber.”

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A Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman on Tuesday said the US was meddling in Russia’s coming presidential election by condemning the decision to bar the opposition candidate Alexei Navalny from running.

“This State Department statement, which I’m sure will be repeated, is a direct interference in our electoral process and internal affairs,” the spokeswoman wrote.

Russia’s Election Commission barred Navalny from running last week, citing a previous embezzlement conviction. The European Court of Human Rights has called that conviction “arbitrary” and “unreasonable.”

The Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova on Tuesday accused the US of “direct interference in our electoral process and internal affairs” following the State Department’s criticism of Russia’s decision to bar the opposition leader Alexey Navalny from running in the coming presidential election against Vladimir Putin.

“This State Department statement, which I’m sure will be repeated, is a direct interference in our electoral process and internal affairs,” Zakharova wrote Tuesday on Facebook.

In a statement shared with Business Insider on Tuesday night, a State Department representative expressed concern over the Russian government’s “ongoing crackdown against independent voices, from journalists to civil society activists and opposition politicians.”

“These actions indicate the Russian government has failed to protect space in Russia for the exercise of human rights and fundamental freedoms,” the statement said. “More broadly, we urge the government of Russia to hold genuine elections that are transparent, fair, and free and that guarantee the free expression of the will of the people, consistent with its international human rights obligations.”

Zakharova pushed back. “And these people expressed outrage over alleged Russian ‘interference’ in their electoral process for an entire year?!” she said.

“The funniest thing is that these are the same people who just tagged RT and Sputnik as foreign agents, who are harassing Russian media around the world and who are investing huge amounts of money into ‘countering Russian propaganda,’ which is how they label anyone who they disagree with,” she wrote.

A declassified US intelligence assessment of the 2016 election determined that Russian government actors, ordered by Putin, used “cyber tools and media campaigns to influence US public opinion” and “undermine public faith in the US democratic process.”

Russian government-linked actors, it said, “began openly supporting President-elect Trump’s candidacy in media aimed at English-speaking audiences” in March 2016. Those media outlets included Sputnik and RT, which the report characterized as “the Kremlin’s principal international propaganda outlet.”

Sputnik and RT’s US affiliate registered as foreign agents with the Justice Department in November.

Navalny to announce ‘a voters’ strike’

The Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny. Thomson Reuters

Navalny, a lawyer and activist, replaced Boris Nemtsov as leader of Russia’s democratic opposition following Nemtsov’s 2015 assassination in the shadow of the Kremlin.

One day after Navalny registered as a candidate for Russia’s next presidential election, which will be held in March, Russia’s Central Election Commission barred him from running, citing a previous embezzlement conviction, according to the state-run media outlet RIA-Novosti.

Navalny has known since February — when he was handed a suspended five-year jail term for embezzlement in a case that his supporters have characterized as politically motivated — that he would not be allowed on the ballot. The European Court of Human Rights determined in October that the conviction was “arbitrary and manifestly unreasonable.”

Ella Pamfilova, the head of the CEC, told Russia’s TV Rain in June that Navalny “understands himself that he has no chance of being registered for the election due to his previous conviction.”

She accused him later of “fundraising illegally and brainwashing young people.”

Putin, who has refused to utter Navalny’s name, said during his marathon end-of-year press conference earlier this month that the opposition was hoping for a “coup” but would not succeed.

“Do you want us to have coup attempts here?” Putin said. “We’ve already been through all that. You want to go back to that? I am sure that the overwhelming majority of Russian citizens do not want this and will not stand for it.”

Navalny’s lawyer told CNN on Monday that he would appeal the decision. But Navalny has said he and his movement will organize a boycott of the vote if he is not allowed to run.

“We are announcing a voters’ strike,” Navalny said in a video posted to his blog this week. “The procedure in which we are invited to participate is not an election. It involves only Putin and those candidates whom he personally chose, who do not pose a slightest threat to him.”

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Interview with The Saker Time Monk Radio 11-10-2017

The Saker: What's Really Wrong with RT and Sputnik October 31, 2017

‘Vacuum & isolation’: Russia may restrict access to CNN in reply to US sanctions, says senator

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A member of the upper house Committee for Information Politics says if the US continues to pressure Russian state media companies like RT and Sputnik, Moscow will reply with a legislative ban on CNN broadcasts via cable or air.

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“Russia would take measures that would mirror the actions of the US Congress. CNN would immediately find itself in an informational vacuum and isolation,” Senator Igor Morozov said in comments to RIA Novosti.

" “They’re political hacks,” Trump said of the former CIA director John Brennan, former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, and former FBI chief James Comey, who have said that the evidence of Russian meddling is clear. “You have Brennan, you have Clapper and you have Comey. Comey’s proven now to be a liar and he’s proven to be a leaker. So you look at that,” Trump said. “And you have President Putin very strongly, vehemently says he had nothing to do with that." But he fell short of saying that he took Putin’s word. “Well, look, I can’t stand there and argue with him,” Trump said. “I would rather have him get out of Syria, to be honest with you. I would rather … get to work with him on the Ukraine rather than standing and arguing about whether or not— because that whole thing was set up by the Democrats."" -- http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-11-11/trump-slams-intel-chiefs-after-meeting-putin-theyre-political-hacks

Statement by the Presidents of the Russian Federation and the United States of America

President Trump and President Putin today, meeting on the margins of the APEC conference in Danang, Vietnam, confirmed their determination to defeat ISIS in Syria. They expressed their satisfaction with successful US-Russia enhanced de-confliction efforts between US and Russian military professionals that have dramatically accelerated ISIS’s losses on the battlefield in recent months. The Presidents agreed to maintain open military channels of communication between military professionals to help ensure the safety of both US and Russian forces and de-confliction of partnered forces engaged in the fight against ISIS. They confirmed these efforts will be continued until the final defeat of ISIS is achieved.

The Presidents agreed that there is no military solution to the conflict in Syria. They confirmed that the ultimate political solution to the conflict must be forged through the Geneva process pursuant to UNSCR 2254. They also took note of President Assad’s recent commitment to the Geneva process and constitutional reform and elections as called for under UNSCR 2254. The two Presidents affirmed that these steps must include full implementation of UNSCR 2254, including constitutional reform and free and fair elections under UN supervision, held to the highest international standards of transparency, with all Syrians, including members of the diaspora, eligible to participate. The Presidents affirmed their commitment to Syria’s sovereignty, unity, independence, territorial integrity, and non-sectarian character, as defined in UNSCR 2254, and urged all Syrian parties to participate actively in the Geneva political process and to support efforts to ensure its success.

Finally President Trump and President Putin confirmed the importance of de-escalation areas as an interim step to reduce violence in Syria, enforce ceasefire agreements, facilitate unhindered humanitarian access, and set the conditions for the ultimate political solution to the conflict. They reviewed progress on the ceasefire in southwest Syria that was finalized the last time the two Presidents met in Hamburg, Germany on July 7, 2017. The two presidents, today, welcomed the Memorandum of Principles concluded in Amman, Jordan, on November 8, 2017, between the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, the Russian Federation, and the United States of America. This Memorandum reinforces the success of the ceasefire initiative, to include the reduction, and ultimate elimination of foreign forces and foreign fighters from the area to ensure a more sustainable peace. Monitoring this ceasefire arrangement will continue to take place through the Amman Monitoring Center, with participation by expert teams from the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, the Russian Federation, and the United States.

The two Presidents discussed the ongoing need to reduce human suffering in Syria and called on all UN member states to increase their contributions to address these humanitarian needs over the coming months.

Vietnam, Danang, November 10, 2017

source: http://en.kremlin.ru/supplement/5252

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What the Future Has in Store for World: Putin's Valdai Club Speech Highlights

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What the Future Has in Store for World: Putin's Valdai Club Speech Highlights

"There is less security in the world. Instead of progress and democracy, we see radical elements, extremist groups that deny civilization itself, seek to plunge it into archaism and into chaos, into barbarism," Russian President Vladimir Putin told the 14th annual meeting of the Valdai Discussion Club on Thursday.

ФОТО: @PutinRF в итоговой пленарной сессии #valdaiclub «Мир будущего: через столкновение к гармонии». https://t.co/w1EBc9561a pic.twitter.com/yxM1OxTSzk

— Клуб «Валдай» (@ValdaiClubRu) 19 октября 2017 г.

"One may take a look at what happened in the Middle East, which some players have tried to reformat, imposing a borrowed model of development through an externally orchestrated coups d'état or even by the direct use of military force," he noted, adding that instead of teaming up with the international community some forces are trying maintain permanent chaos, apparently believing that they are capable of managing it.

Still, according to the Russian president there is an alternative to this opinionated and destructive policy, namely, the one demonstrated by Russia in Syria. He emphasized that Russia is working with all participants of the Syrian reconciliation process and is taking their interests into account.

"Russia is fighting against terrorists along with the legitimate Syrian government and other regional states, acting based on international law… And I would like to say that these actions and positive moves are not easy for us. There are many contradictions in the region. But we are patient and with this patience we are working with all participants of this [reconciliation] process very carefully, respecting their interests," Putin said.

North Korea Should Not Be Driven 'Into Corner'

Putin reiterated Russia's condemnation of nuclear tests carried out by the Democratic People's Republic of North Korea and called attention to the fact that Moscow continues to implement all the decisions adopted by the UN Security Council related to the North Korean problem.

At the same time he warned the international community against driving Pyongyang into a corner, emphasizing that whether one likes the country's government or not, North Korea remains a sovereign state.

"Any contradictions must be resolved in a civilized manner. Russia has always been in favor of this approach. We are firmly convinced that even the most complex 'knots,' whether the crises in Syria or Libya, on the Korean peninsula or, say, in Ukraine, must be untangled, not cut," Putin said.

When European Disintegration Process Actually Started

The fragility of peace and stability was vividly demonstrated by the political crisis in Catalonia following the October 1 referendum on independence, President Putin remarked.

"Russia's position here is known: everything that is happening is a domestic affair of Spain, and should be settled within the framework of Spanish law in accordance with democratic traditions," he said.

© RIA Novosti. Valdai Club Experts Convene in Sochi to Discuss Challenges in Global PoliticsPutin noted that actually the genie of European internal division was let out of the bottle much earlier, in the end of the 20th century, adding that Europe "had to think in advance" when disintegration processes only started to take shape on the continent.

"They knew, did they not? However, at one time they basically welcomed the disintegration of a number of states in Europe, without hiding their joy on this matter," the Russian leader noted referring to the dismemberment of the Warsaw Pact countries after the collapse of the Soviet Union.

"Why should the secession of Kosovo have been so thoughtlessly and unconditionally supported, based on the current political situation and the desire to please the elder brother from Washington, provoking similar processes in other regions of Europe and in the world?" the president asked, denouncing the double standards adopted by the US and EU toward Crimea, which unified with Russia in 2014 as a result of the democratically organized referendum.

Anti-Russian Sanctions Violate Global Market Principles

The Russian president recalled that the proponents of globalization had repeatedly claimed that international economic ties would bring world players together, helping resolve the most burning political issues.

In reality politics is increasingly often interfering in economic affairs, with some actors openly promoting their commercial interests via political means, Putin said.

"Not so long ago it was said that it is impossible, counterproductive and should not be allowed. Now, those who said it are doing exactly that. Some are not even hiding that they are using political pretexts and reasons to promote their own, purely commercial, interests."

To illustrate his point Putin referred to the latest package of sanctions recently adopted by the US Congress and signed by US President Donald Trump into law, which are "obviously aiming to expel Russia from European energy markets."

He underscored that the attempts to disrupt the building of new energy routes from Russia to Europe are dealing a blow to European economic interests and its security.

"In the modern world, strategic gains cannot be made at the expense of others," he stressed.

'Brave New World': What are the Prospects of Technological Revolution?

Vladimir Putin emphasized the importance of the scientific and technological development, technological revolution and the role of robotization and artificial intelligence (AI).

"Previously, assessing the role and influence of a state one referred to the importance of the geopolitical factors, the size of the territory, the military power, and natural resources… However, today scientific and technological progress emerges as one of the most important and its significance will only increase," Putin said.

He emphasized that the harmonious future will be impossible without social responsibility, freedom, and justice, without the respect toward traditional ethical values, human's dignity.

"Otherwise instead of prosperity and opportunity for everyone, the 'brave new world' may lead to totalitarianism, a caste society, conflicts and growing contradictions," he warned.

October Revolution of 1917 Had 'Complex' Results

© AFP 2017/ KIRILL KUDRYAVTSEVTired of Fake News? Washington Post Publishes Fake History of Soviet Union"Today, I want to draw attention to the lessons of the events that happened a hundred years ago, to the Russian revolution of 1917. We see that its results were complex. We see how tightly knitted the negative (results) are with, one has to admit, the positive consequences of these events," the Russian president noted.

He emphasized that "revolution is always a consequence of a deficit in responsibility."

"Was it not possible to develop not through revolution, but via the road of evolution, without paying the price of destroying statehood and the ruthless breaking of millions of human lives but via the road of gradual, consistent moving forward?" Putin asked rhetorically.

What Happened to US Weapons-Grade Plutonium?

Speaking on the issue of Russo-American cooperation in the field of nuclear disarmament, the Russian president drew attention to the fact that had Washington demonstrated strange hesitancy and apparent negligence while fulfilling its obligations under nuclear and chemical weapons treaties.

He noted that despite Russia's calls for cooperation and its openness in the sphere of nuclear disarmament following the collapse of the USSR, the United States had demonstrated a "selfishness" that had seen Russia's national interests ignored.

The president expressed deep concerns over Washington's approach to the implementation of the agreement on weapons-grade plutonium under the Russo-American Plutonium Management and Disposition Agreement (PMDA) signed in 2000.

He noted that Washington's decision to dispose of plutonium by dilution and geological burial does not guarantee the impossibility of getting back weapons-grade material," Putin emphasized, stressing that the Russian Federation has fulfilled its obligations under the US-Russian deal.

At the same time, the US still has to fulfill its vow to destroy its chemical weapons: "The country remains the sole and most powerful possessor of that type [of weapons] of mass destruction. Moreover, the US moved the deadline for the destruction of its chemical weapons from 2007 to 2023."

For a state proclaiming itself to be a champion in nonproliferation and arms control, it is inappropriate," he said, adding that Western media paid almost no attention to the fact that Russia has completely destroyed its chemical weapons a month earlier.

'No Alternative to the UN'

In the final part of his speech, the Russian president underlined the role of the United Nations, as an organization tasked to create and maintain international stability and order.

According to Putin, there is no alternative to the institution with its universal legitimacy. He stressed that the organization must remain in the center of the international system.

Meanwhile, the Trump administration has been taking steps aimed at reforming the international organization. In September a US-sponsored meeting to discuss the reform of the institution was held at the United Nations.

Putin said that the organization needs reform, but stressed that they must be gradual.

"Reform is needed, perfecting the system of the United Nations is needed. But reform can only be gradual, evolutionary, and of course must be supported by the overwhelming majority of the actors of the international process, by a wide consensus," Putin explained.

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