Islamic Battalions, Stocked With Chechens, Aid Ukraine in War With Rebels by By ANDREW E. KRAMER - Tuesday July 7th, 2015 at 6:22 PM - NYT
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China needs to develop a long-range strategic bomber to strike adversaries farther away from its coast in the event of conflict, state media reported Tuesday, quoting defense experts.
UN sanctions on arms trade and missile sales that are related to nuclear activity will remain in place in any Iran deal, a US official said Tuesday.
The focus has largely been on ISIL, but the Assad regime remains a challenge in Syria for Pentagon leaders.
Army plans to cut 40,000 troops over two years.
Italian PM Matteo Renzi says European leaders have given Greece until Sunday to make last proposals for full European Union summit
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Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tspiras was back in Brussels on Tuesday (July 7) for more emergency talks on his country's debt crisis.
After failing to make a deal last month, he's hoping his victory in Sunday's (June 5) referendum will strengthen his hand at the negotiating table.
But German Chancellor Angela Merkel said she's still looking for Greek reforms.
"We still need solidarity at a European level and responsibility at the national level - in other words: there must be give and take,…
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Генсек НАТО заявил, что Россия поставляет в Донбасс тяжелую технику
РИА Новости Российское Минобороны неоднократно сообщало, что не поставляет ополченцам военной техники, боеприпасов и другой помощи. Заявления Киева по этому поводу в оборонном ведомстве назвали "абсолютной чушью", которая "не поддается никакой критике". Йенс Столтенберг. Вопрос вступления Черногории в НАТО решат в декабреГазета.Ru В НАТО высказались о вступлении Украины в альянсМосковский комсомолец Генсек НАТО посетит УкраинуРусская планета Свежие новости сегодня. Последние новости интернет издания "Fresh-News" -MIGnews.com.ua -МГ "Объектив" Все похожие статьи: 70 » |
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В Вене на рабочий ужин Лавров пришел без галстука и заявил, что "не очень сильно скоординировался" с коллегой из ФРГ
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В США назвали поддельным «письмо» американского сенатора Яценюку
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Russia has Reached Its Own Very Different ‘End of History’ and West has Failed to Recognize This, Pavlova Saysby paul goble (noreply@blogger.com)
Paul Goble
NB: As longtime readers of Windows on Eurasia know, there is no commentator on Russian politics for which I have greater respect than historian Irina Pavlova. Her 70 essays written between 2006 and 2014 and which appeared on Grani.ru and Rufabula.com are among the most insightful commentaries we have on the nature of Putin’s regime that we have have. Many of us regretted when she took a break over the last 18 months and thus are delighted that she has decided to resume with her own blog at http://ivpavlova.blogspot.com. The summary below is of her first article in this new series. She can be reached at ivpavlova2015@gmail.com. Paul Goble
Staunton, July 6 – Russia is now experiencing its own “end of history,” Irina Pavlova says, but it has turned out to be “not liberal democracy but a new turn back to the enslavement of Russian society, the consequences of which will be its further degradation with prospects that are dangerous both for the country itself and for the entire world.”
Unfortunately, she continues in an essay posted online today, “the West is only beginning to recognize the seriousness of the problems which the present-day Russian regime presents for the world.” And besides some rhetorical flourishes, the West has not taken any steps which really hurt Putin: indeed, those it has taken “only strengthen [him] in the eyes of his population.
The West generally and the US in particular need to display both wisdom and political will to effectively oppose the political challenge the Kremlin now presents, the historian says. Its response must deprive the Russian authorities of their ability to use “ignorance, lies and disinformation” to promote its goals.
For this, Pavlova says, “it is vitally important to find ‘the key’ to changing the policy of the current Russian powers that be,” to undermine “the pro-Stalinist identity within the country, and to destroy that image of the global world which the Kremlin is tring to construct by using the values and methods of Stalinist great power ideas.”
Unfortunately, she continues, Western analysts have not yet been up to this task because they are wedded to the idea that Russia was on the right path after 1991 until relatively recently, with some seeing the problem beginning with the war in Ukraine and others with Putin’s coming to power and the war in Chechnya.
In fact, the Russian problem now has much deeper roots. “Few Western specialists on Russia are prepared to acknowledge that perestroika was a KGB planned operation directed at seizing power with the goal of privatizing state property” or that “in August 1991 there was no liberal let alone a democratic revolution” but rather a carefully planned operation to make “channel” mass enthusiasm in the direction the organs needed.
“Today, all real policies of the Kremlin are a collection of cover special operations,” she writes. In order to understand this,” one must do what Western specialists do not want to do: recognize the way in which what the Kremlin is doing is reproducing “the Stalinist mechanism of power.”
“It has been an unwelcome surprise for Western publics how well the Kremlin and its ‘information forces’ have studied the weakness of Western leaders ad how capably they are using this in their propaganda.” Moscow’s propagandists “not doing do not fear the West; they have contempt for it.” The West thought it was “’civilizing’ Russia” after 1991; Russia viewed this period as a time for “recruiting its own anti-Western supporters."
These people “not only studied the activity of Western international institutions and successfully integrated in them, but they adopted the arsenal of the rhetoric of international law and the methods of contemporary information wars.” Among the leaders of this, Pavlova says, are Vladimir Solovyev, Vladimir Kulistikov, Natalya Narochnitskaya, Adnrannik Migranyan, Yegeny Popov, Sergey Markov and many, many others.
They are united by their common goal of “fundamentally weakening the West and in the first instance the US, to extend the borders of their influence in the world, and to make Russia an assembly point for all the anti-Western forces of the world,” Pavlova continues.
“The most important part of the great power strategy of the Kremlin is the special operation of the Kremlin concerning ‘the struggle with the threat of Nazism.’ The Russian powers that be have successfully privatized the role of the main world fighter with this invented threat” in order to block any from seeing the similarities of Stalinism and Nazism.
This particular special operation was prompted by the growth of national self-consciousness in the former Soviet republics, she suggests; and Moscow created “a new generation of Russian historians organized by the FSB” to promote national discord among these countries.
In doing so, the Moscow propagandists are not reviving the post-1956 Soviet view but rather that of high Stalinism, denying the existence of the secret protocols of the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact, the cooperation of Hitler and Stalin, and their joint responsibility for the beginning of World War II in Europe.
“Today,” Pavlova says, “it is obvious how successfully the Kremlin and its ‘information warriors’ have been able to impose on international society its discourse on ‘the struggle with the threat of Nazism.’” Many pick up Moscow’s line on “’the fascist junta’” in Ukraine and the need to struggle with fascism everywhere.
Even some opponents of the Russian regime pick up on this by talking frequently about comparisons of Putin and Hitler, Pavlova says. But that sometimes works to Moscow’s benefit: it treats things too superficially for the West to recognize what it has to do. And it leads some to think that the Putin regime will pass from the scene as quickly and permanently as Hitler’s did.
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No One is a Greater Russophobe than Putin, Kazarin Saysby paul goble (noreply@blogger.com)
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Staunton, July 6 – Vladimir Putin’s statements about the need of the Russian state to come to the aid of ethnic Russians and Russian speakers outside the Russian Federation shows that he has no confidence in the ability of these people to survive more than a generation or two without the intervention of the Russian state, according to Pavel Kazarin.
And that shows that the Kremlin leader’s views of Russians as a nation are so negative that he and his regime merit the title as “the main Russophobe,” yet another example of Putin’s tendency of saying that others are doing what he himself is guilty of, according to the Ukrainian commentator (pravda.com.ua/rus/articles/2015/07/3/7073345/).
A year ago, Putin “promised to defend ethnic Russians in Ukraine and those Ukrainians who feel an unbroken connect with Russia,” words that he has continued to live by and that have made him and the Kremlin behave as “the most consistent Russophobe,” precisely the kind of person he says he is fighting against.
Putin’s regime, Kazarin continues, have been “exploiting the thought that Russians outside of Russia are something unthinkable, that they will lose their definition, that they will assimilate over the course of two or three generations leaving behind them amusing trademarks with the ending –off.”
Putin and the Kremlin have also acted on the assumption that the state is the only basis for the continued existence of the Russians as a nation and “from this comes the conclusion that Russians must be resettled in Russia either individually or together with the territories” on which they are now living.
“More than that,” Kazarin says, “Moscow actively sells ‘Russianness’ as a kind of good.”
The Kremlin’s Russophobia means that “over the last year and a half, namely the Kremlin itself has been able to marginalize ethnic Russians on the entire space of the former Union, It has in fact closed off the potential possibility for them to engage in social struggles for their rights.”
The Kremlin, he argues, “has made impossible any participation by them in the political life of this or that country,” given that any effort to do so will look to everyone else as the first step toward another Crimea or Donbas. Putin’s regime has “convinced everyone that any organization with the word ‘Russian’ in the title is only an irredenta movemen and a covert agent of influence oriented toward Moscow and not to the capital of their own country.”
In addition, the Kremlin has reduced to zero the chance that Russians can be integrated completely in the post-Soviet countries.”It has managed to convince everyone that Russiannness is a synonym for archaic thinking, obscurantism and chauvinism and that anyone who doesn’t go along is “a fifth column.”
This has important consequences for those whom the Kremlin has attacked. Everytime when some of those equate the Kremlin and Russians, he is pouring water on the mill of official Moscow because the current war is not an ethnic one but a war of values. It is a fight of the pro-Soviet and the post-Soviet.”
“Ukraine today,” Kazarin continues, “has become the frontier of a struggle” between those who want to go back to the Soviet past and those who want to go beyond it.That is an issue which divides people in many ways: “the ending of their last names and blood are very much secondary matters.”
Anyone who suggests that Russians are capable of making their own choices independent of the Kremlin is likely going to be accused of being “an agent of the State Department” because “such Russians are a threat for the Kremlin: by their nature, they contradict everything that official Moscow has affixed on its banners.”
“The Kremlin is compromising ‘Russian’ in a consistent way by attempting to cut off this same ‘Russian’ any path for retreat.” Putin and his regime “are privatizing it and imposing one single treatment of their own past and future. The right to an alternative system isn’t recognized, any disagreement” with the official line is treated as betrayal.
“The aesthetic archaic quality is being combined with the ethical,” Kazarin says. “Soveit flags with state homophobia; Soviet rhetoric with a system of public denunciations. Self-respect built on the absence of respect and a denigrating attitude to others.”
The Kremlin just has one problem in this regard, the Ukrainian commentator says. “Aall this construction is stillborn. It is impossible to win in a battle for the future if in the present you are attempting to revive the past.” Moreover, “the Kremlin’s effort to monopolize all things Russian is nothing more than ordinary raiding.”
When people say there is a war going on with Russians, everyone should be aware that “this is not so.” Instead, it is a war with the pro-Soviet past and with a Russian government whose leaders have nothing but contempt for Russians as an independent and self-standing people.
The good news is that many Russians are on the other side of the battle lines from the Kremlin, something that “pro-Kremlin writers declare this position a heresy.” That of course, Kazarin points out, “inspires hope” that the chief Russophobe in the world is now very much on the wrong side of history.
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50 New, Even Funnier 'Only in Russia' Momentsby By Katrin Scheib
We've said it before and we'll say it again: In Russia, there's never a dull day to be had. Which is why "only in Russia" is the meme that keeps on giving.
A Saudi Arabian sovereign wealth fund will invest $10 billion over the next five years, largely in the Russian economy, head of the Russia Direct Investment Fund told the Interfax news agency.
Russian Elections Monitor Golos Sees Offices, Staff Homes Searched by By Ivan Nechepurenko
A wave of dawn raids was carried out Tuesday at staff homes and the offices of Golos, a respected Russian election-monitoring NGO, as the official campaign against civil society organizations continued unabated.
The leaders of the world's biggest emerging economies will meet in Russia on Thursday for a powwow that Moscow hopes will demonstrate the futility of Western efforts to isolate the country.
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Games can help us heal from trauma, and might even be used to treat PTSD - but they can also keep us stuck in deep despair
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At the present moment of obvious tension between Moscow and Washington, it may be tempting to dismiss the likelihood of progress on any diplomatic front, let alone in the complex multilateral format of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe. Yet the 1972–75 Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe (CSCE) itself took place against a backdrop of intense rivalry between the U.S.
Arms Embargo Takes on Larger Meaning as Iran Nuclear Talks Enter Endgameby By DAVID E. SANGER and THOMAS ERDBRINK
Bubbling just beneath the surface in the negotiations, the issue of lifting all United Nations sanctions could delay when the accord goes to Congress for review.
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Saudi Arabia to Invest up to $10 Billion in Russia
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China and Russia: the world's new superpower axis?
The Guardian Forget euro summits and G7 gatherings: for the countries that like to style themselves as the world's rising powers, the real summitry takes place this week in central Russia, where Vladimir Putin will hold court. Leaders of the Brics countries (Brazil ... and more » |
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'The west is too paranoid about Russia's information war'
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Independence Day Trouble: U.S. Fighters Intercepted Incoming Russian ...
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This Might Be Russia's Worst Idea Ever
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Russia cuts off power supplies to Ukraine rebels: Kiev
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Acknowledging Moscow as an enemy shared with Kiev, one leader from Chechnya said, “We never ran from our war with Russia, and we never will.”- Get link
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