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Российские байкеры смогли въехать в ЕС, несмотря многочисленные препятствия местных властей - BFM.Ru |


Economics and Education have Replaced Ethnicity as Main Reasons for Outmigration from Russia, Study Says |


Russia Has No Allies in Kyiv Now and Won’t Have Any in the Future, Kazarin Says |


Radicalized In Moscow, Killed In Syria: The Story Of An IS Sniper |


Ukrainian Billionaire Tied to Ex-President Fights Extradition to U.S. |


Putin and Kadyrov Have a Shared Interest in Avoiding a Break But May Not Be Able To |


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Baltimore Residents Peacefully Observe Second Day of Curfew

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Another day of protests in Baltimore over the death of a young black man while in police custody ended peacefully Wednesday night as residents observed an overnight curfew imposed after riots broke out earlier this week. Community leaders, including U.S. Representative Elijah Cummings, whose district includes Baltimore, were on hand to encourage protesters to return to their homes before the 10 p.m. curfew took effect. Hours earlier, more than a thousand demonstrators marched through downtown Baltimore, from the city's main train station to city hall, and back again. Baltimore's police commissioner described the protest as "extremely peaceful." Life is slowly returning to normal in Baltimore, which has been under a state of emergency since Monday, when protesters burned stores and cars, and looted a shopping mall after the funeral for 25-year-old Freddie Gray. Commuters packed buses and subways Wednesday, and public schools reopened, and the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra played a free outdoor concert. But the Baltimore Orioles and Chicago White Sox played a baseball game in an empty stadium, closed to fans. Police said they needed to deploy elsewhere in the city and could not provide enough security at the game. Other marches in support of the demonstrations in Baltimore were held in Washington, D.C., Boston and New York City, where police arrested more than 60 protesters after they began blocking streets in Manhattan's Union Square.  Demonstrations also took place in Ferguson, Missouri, where similar protests broke out last year after the shooting death of 18-year-old Michael Brown, an unarmed black male who was shot and killed after a confrontation with white police officer Darren Wilson.  Gray died earlier this month of a severe spinal injury a week after police arrested him and threw him into the back of a van. They drove him to jail without securing him with a seat belt as required. They allegedly ignored his pleas for medical attention. The Washington Post says it has obtained a police document in which a prisoner in the van with Gray told investigators he could hear Gray "banging against the walls" of the van, and believed that he was "intentionally trying to injure himself."  An attorney for Gray's family said the family disagreed "with any implication that Freddie Gray severed his own spinal cord." The six officers involved in the arrest are on paid administrative leave while the investigation proceeds. Baltimore police plan to turn over the results of their probe to the state's attorney's office Friday, which will decide whether to file charges against the officers.  The information will not be made available to general public.  In a Wednesday interview with radio talk show host Steve Harvey, President Barack Obama said the Baltimore rioting shows that police departments need to build more trust in black neighborhoods. He said his heart goes out to Baltimore police who were injured trying to put down the riots. He praised them for showing "appropriate restraint." Obama said there was no excuse for the violence, but he called for action to confront issues that lead to unrest. They include poor schools, limited job opportunities and drugs.

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FILE - In this March 11, 2015, file photo, a Ukrainian serviceman takes position at the front line outside Kurahovo, in the Donetsk region of Ukraine. The United States now sees the Ukrainian rebels as a Russian force. American officials briefed on ...

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Члены российского мотоклуба «Ночные волки» перешли границу, несмотря на встреченные со стороны руководства различных стран ЕС. О переходе через границу «Ночные волки» сообщили в своем официальном блоге в «Живом Журнале». Байкеры, участвующие в мотопробеге «На ...
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«Ночные волки» прорвались через границу вместе с Хирургом - Комсомольская правда

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Российские байкеры «Ночные волки» все-таки пересекли границу, несмотря на препятствия со стороны польских властей. Об этом сообщает пресс-служба клуба. «Несмотря на то, что по всем погранпостам розданы разнарядки - "не пускать НВ", наши всё-таки перешли границу! Об этом ...
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Владимир Путин написал исповедь о гибели брата и судьбе отца - Московский комсомолец

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Владимир Путин написал исповедь о гибели брата и судьбе отца
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Перед Днем Победы Владимир Путин опубликовал в журнале «Русский пионер» статью, посвященную жизни своей семьи во время Великой Отечественной. Президент впервые подробно рассказал о том, как воевал его отец, как он спас мать во время блокады и как погиб старший брат.
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Economics and Education have Replaced Ethnicity as Main Reasons for Outmigration from Russia, Study Says

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            Staunton, April 30 – Between 1994 and 2003, ethnicity was the most important factor involved in decisions by residents of the Russian Federation to emigrate, according to Mikhail Denisenko of the Institute of Demography of the Higher School of Economics. But from 2004 to 2013, other factors, including economics and education, have been more important.

            In a report delivered this month, Denisenko provides one of the most detailed descriptions of emigration and its causes available as well as a serious discussion of why it is often so difficult to determine the exact numbers and motivations of those involved in this process (http://opec.ru/1820577.html).

            At the present time, he says, there are more than 2.7 million people who were born in the Russian Federation living in countries beyond the boundaries of the former USSR. But specifying the exact number is hard because many want to maintain their ties with Russia rather than seek integration elsewhere and because no two countries count in the same way.

            Nonetheless, Denisenko says, some trends can be traced. During the first period, 1994-2003, more than 90 percent of emigres from the Russian Federation went to Germany, the US, and Israel. In the second period, 2004-2013, many fewer people from Russia went to these countries and more went to a broader variety of destinations.

            Part of the reason for that, he suggests, is that ethnicity became less of a driving factor as those who wanted to join co-ethnics abroad had already done so. Another part is that the attitudes of receiving countries changed and their willingness and ability to register people. And still a third is that economic growth gave Russians more choices, even when they chose to leave.

            A major complicating factor for anyone trying to track emigration is that some countries like the US define it in terms of the country of birth while others like Germany define it in terms of citizenship.  Those can lead to very different sets of numbers as can whether the receiving country allows dual citizenship.

            Germany does not, and Denisenko says that is one of the reasons why the figures the German government has for the number of Russians in Germany are vastly different than the number that the Russian consular service says are there. The US and Israel do allow dual citizenship, and there are now 118,000 Russian citizens in the former and almost 137,000 in the latter.

            Denisenko says that many stories in the media seriously misstate how many Russian emigres there are in this or that country. One place where the Russian media routinely suggest that there are many Russians is Great Britain. In fact, there are only several tens of thousands there, and Russia is not in the list of the top 70 countries from which emigres there come.  

            An increasingly large share of emigres from Russia are students who want to go to university in Europe and the United States, Denisenko says, with the share of such people among all those moving from Russia in the US rising from 14 percent in 1995 to 31 percent in 2013. That pattern is contributing to a reduction in the average age of emigres.

            The emigration in many cases is dominated by women. In Italy, for example, more than 80 percent of Russian immigrants are women between the ages of 15 and 34. Some have come as a result of marriage, but others are involved in one or another profession, Denisenko says.  At present, in most countries, Russian women outnumber Russian men.

            And those leaving are increasingly highly educated. Almost three-quarters of Russian immigrants in Canada have higher educations. In Great Britain, the figure is “almost 70 percent.” And elsewhere it is increasingly high as well, as young Russians take advantage of educational and then career opportunities abroad.

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Russophobia Doesn’t Exist But Fear and Hatred of Putin’s Regime Do, Ikhlov says 

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Staunton, April 30 – Vladimir Putin and his supporters have made the struggle against what they see as Russophobia a cornerstone of their ideology, Yevgeny Ikhlov says; but if one examines the characteristics they offer for this phenomenon, it is clear that Russophobia as such does not exist.At the same time, fear and hatred of Putin’s regime very much do.
The importance of this ideological theme to the Kremlin has been underscored, the Moscow commentator says, by the fact that immediately after Putin made his remarks about it, the World Russian Popular Assembly insisted that Russophobia included any attacks on the Russian Orthodox Church (kasparov.ru/material.php?id=5540F1C576899).
In defining the term, Ikhlov continues, the Russian Popular Assembly advanced five assertions regarding Russophobia (interfax-religion.ru/?act=documents&div=1259),all of which he says are at the very least problematic. It asserts that the Russian people are being “subjected to Russophobia, they are the victims of genocide in Ukraine, they are a victim people, they are a divided people, and they have an identity which is being blurred.
Before considering each of these in turn, the commentator notes that the claim that an attack on the Orthodox Church is an attack on the Russian people is simply wrong. “Orthodoxy is not a church of the Russian people … moreover, it is not an exclusive attribute of ‘the Russian world.’” Asserting otherwise undermines “the very idea of the universality of Orthodoxy.”
The assertion that there is ethnic hatred toward Russians as such in the contemporary world is without foundation, Ikhlov says.The only place where one could speak about this would be in the Baltic countries, “but this is a manifestation of the most ordinary migrantophobia and diasporaphobia, which Russians also display.
Around the world, people recognize Russian culture as “a great world culture,” and Russians “have not encountered even that hostility which for long years surrounded Germans after the first and especially after the second world war.”Those who assert otherwise do not know what they are talking about.
The fact that there exists “fear and hostility to the Putin government” and that this is spreading and intensifying is quite another matter, Ikhlov says. A century ago, “every literate individual could clearly distinguish between the regime of Nicholas I and the Russian people and Russian intelligentsia.”
Thirty years ago, people found no difficulties in distinguishing bvetween the Russia of Sakharov and Solzhenitsyn and Russian communism. “And now,” Ikhlov says, they have no problem recognizing that the Russia of Boris Nemtsov is something entirely different than the Russia of Vladimir Putin.
Confusing or conflating “fear before the imperial policy of the Kremlin and the authoritarian mentality of the people with hostility toward Russians as an ethnos” is simply foolish nonsense, Ikhlov suggests.
The second plank in the attack on supposed Russophobia is that ethnic Russians are, it is said, being subjected to genocide in Ukraine.”There is no truth to that, and the word genocide should be used with care rather than tossed about whenever one wants to blacken opponents and play the victim.
Russians can claim to be victims, Ikhlov says; but most often and most seriously they have been victims of other Russians rather than of foreigners of one kind or another. But they are not a victim people in the sense that the Jews and Palestinians, Armenians and Tutsis are, and they should not claim otherwise.
Nor is it correct to label the Russians “a divided people,” as many of those now talking about Russophobia do. It is true that the collapse of the USSR in 1991 left many ethnic Russians beyond the borders of the Russian Federation, but “over the last quarter century much has changed” and the Russians in these countries are now “classical examples of a diaspora.”
Finally, Ikhlov argues, there is no evidence that Russian national identity is being blurred. “On the contrary, Russians very clearly set themselves apart from other ethnoses of the empire, having unwritten but in no way less obligatory criteria of what is required from a non-Russian to be recognized as a Russian,” even if various groups of Russians often fight about that.
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Conflicts in Russia, Post-Soviet Countries Result of Stalin’s Actions Decisions Decades Ago, Byurchiyev Says

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Staunton, April 30 – The conflicts within the Russian Federation and across the entire post-Soviet space are occurring because of the decisions Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin made from the 1920s through the 1940s, Badma Byurchiyev argues, and that heritage, “a real threat to the future” of all the countries in the region, must be rejected to escape more disasters.
What is disturbing is that does not seem to be appreciated even in places like the North Caucasus where Stalin’s actions, including the politicization of ethnicity, the drawing of borders, and the deportation of whole peoples, still remain visible to the unaided eye, the North Caucasus commentator says (kavpolit.com/articles/objatija_stalinizma-16273/).
Indeed, he points out, “judging by everything in Daghestan as in certain other regions of the North Caucasus, people still greatly respect Stalin.” Three republics in the North Caucasus Federal District lead the country in terms of the number of streets still named for him, 16 in North Osetia, six in Daghestan, and two in Kabardino-Balkaria.
The commentator points out that there are two widely believed myths about Stalin, neither of which withstands examination. On the one hand, he was hardly “’the effective manager’” many claim. And on the other, he was not the brilliant military leader without whom the Soviet Union would have lost the war.
Stalin’s industrialization and collectivization campaigns degraded the population and led to the death of as many as 13 million people. Moreover, to achieve his ends, the Soviet dictator reached back to the period of serfdom to re-introduce the “propiska” system that tied people to particular places without official permission.
Scholars like Oleg Khlevnyuk of the Russian State Archive have cast doubt on Stalin’s supposedly great economic achievements.“For the entire time of Stalin’s rule,” Khlevnyuk writes, “from the end of the 1920s to 1953, there was not a single year in which there was not hunger in the country.”
“There were periods of mass hunger – as in 1932-1933, 1936, and 1946-1947 – but besides these, every year in some region or another people starved,” he writes. Millions died from that and from repression. And only a handful received the much-ballyhooed benefits of the new regime such as pensions (http://www.rosbalt.ru/main/2015/04/15/1389043.html).
As far as Stalin’s military prowess is concerned, there too the evidence does not support the claims of the neo-Stalinists, Byurchiyev says. During the first year of the war, the USSR re “was incapable of resisting Hitlerite Germany,” which had been Stalin’s ally. More than two million Soviet military personnel were taken prisoner.
And even when the balance changed, Russia suffered “no less than three” soldiers killed for every German soldier who lost his life. The real size of Soviet losses may have been even worse because “the fate of two million Soviet soldiers remains unknown,” even though in other countries the number of unknowns has been reduced to a handful.
All of these things have imposed terrible wounds on the societies of the post-Soviet states, the North Caucasus analyst says. But some of Stalin’s most long-lasting negative consequences came from actions he took between 1917 and 1923 when he was Lenin's peoples commissar for nationalities.
Among the problems that echo to this day which he created then are the war over Nagorno-Karabakh, the tensions between Abkhazia and South Osetia and Georgia, the inclusion of the Donbas in Ukraine, and the divisions and combinations of multitude of peoples in the North Caucasus.
Given that “practically all of the projects of the peoples commissar for nationality affairs generated conflicts, and many of those conflicts continue to involve bloodshed to this day,” Byurchiyev says, one is compelled to ask on what basis did Stalin act? Was he simply foolish or did he act on “the good old principle of ‘divide and rule’?”
However one answers that question, he continues, Stalin created “’a belt of instability’ from the Donbas to Crimea and the Caucasus,” a belt that now threatens to tighten around Moscow because it is rapidly extending “from the North Caucasus to the Far North through Tatarstan, Bashkortostan and Siberia,” again because of Stalin’s actions.
The currently much-celebrated “effective manager sowed ‘dragon’s teeth’ in the Caucasus,” and those teeth are generating new monsters not only there but across the country.If Stalin’s legacy is continued rather than overturned, Byurchiyev says, Russia and her neighbors are all headed for “’the perfect storm’” that could destroy one or more of them.
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СМИ: немцев уличили в помощи США в слежке за другими странами ЕС - РИА Новости

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Главной целью слежки, осуществляемой Агентством национальной безопасности с помощью разведывательной службы Германии, был политический шпионаж за европейскими политиками и институтами ЕС. Штаб-квартира внешней разведки Германии (BND). Архивное фото.
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Kremlin: Kim Jong Un Cancels Trip to Russia

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North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has canceled his planned trip to Moscow for Russia's Victory Day, according to the Kremlin. "He has decided to stay in Pyongyang," said Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov on Thursday, saying Moscow received the information via "diplomatic channels." The visit, which would have been Kim Jong Un's first overseas trip since taking power, was called off due to unspecified "internal North Korean issues," Peskov added. Russia invited world leaders, including Kim, to the May 9 ceremony in Moscow marking the 70th anniversary of Russia's victory over Nazi Germany in World War II. Until Thursday, Russia had said it was preparing for Kim to make the trip, telling VOA's Korean service recently it was "working through all the logistical questions." The cancelation comes a day after South Korea's intelligence service told lawmakers it is likely that Kim will make the trip. Kim is not known to have visited a foreign country or met another head of state since he took power in late 2011 following the sudden death of his father, Kim Jong Il. South Korean President Park Geun-hye was invited to the event, but decided not to attend. The U.S. will be represented by its envoy to Moscow. Eunjee Kim and William Gallo contributed to this report.

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Fears grow in Europe that companies such as Amazon and Google are becoming too powerful

Russia Has No Allies in Kyiv Now and Won’t Have Any in the Future, Kazarin Says 

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Staunton, April 30 – – “When Vladimir Putin or Sergey Lavrov talk about Ukraine,” Pavel Kazarin says, one has the impression that they think there is a pro-Moscow faction in Kyiv waiting in the wings to take power. That might have been true in 2005, but it is not the case now: Moscow has no political allies in Kyiv and won’t have any ever again.
As a result of Moscow’s annexation of Crimea and invasion of the Donbas, “there is no pro-Russian alternative,” the Kyiv commentator says. “More than that,” he adds, “for the Kremlin, the Ukrainian opposition will be in no way a lesser evil” than the government now in place.
Ukrainians might elect “populists or pragmatists or socialists or libertarians, but whoever occupies the chief position of the country” will have the same view about the country that is occupying part of Ukraine and, whatever Putin and Lavrov or anyone else thinks, it is not and will not become positive or even acceptant.
After the flight of Viktor Yanukovych, his Party of the Regions renamed itself the Opposition Bloc, but it isn’t an opposition and its base is shrinking. What support it has comes from Ukrainians who vote for people they know because they are from their city or region rather than because of ideology.
And Moscow destroyed this group not only by its aggression but by removing Crimea and the Donbass, the two most “pro-Russian and pro-Soviet” regions from Ukrainian politics. According to Kazarin, as a result, “Ukraine is much more monolithic” and thus much more anti-Russian.
Radical populists like Oleg Lyashko and Yuliya Timoshenko are a real opposition and they use their lack of responsibility to win support by making promises than they could not possibly deliver. But despite that and despite the fact that their statements may help destabilize the situation, they too oppose Moscow on all the most important issues.
For them as for others on the Ukrainian political scene, the worst label they can be given is “’agent of the Kremlin’” because they know that “loyalty to Moscow could be the very last thing that would attract voters. They too view Crimea as a Rubicon, and they are not going to change either.
The Ukrainian far right exists in the television broadcasts of Moscow’s Dmitry Kiselyov, but it is “absent from the Verkhovna Rada.” Ukrainians aren’t attracted by ethnic nationalism, Kazarin says, because “the Maidan created a demand for a political nation in which blood and land are secondary factors and convictions are what matters most.”
“Before Yanukovich, Ukraine was a corrupt oligarchic country. After [his] victory, it became a criminal country.” It can’t go back to either as long as Ukrainians are mobilized, and they will remain mobilized because they have no doubts about the presence of Russian forces on the territory of their country.
This leaves Moscow with only two possible ways forward: Either it can try to force Kyiv to take back the Donbass on the Kremlin’s terms and thus institutionalize a brake on its European aspirations, or it can push to destabilize the country and then say that “there is no reason to conduct dialogue with ‘an East European Somalia.’”
But neither of these variants “will return that Ukraine which existed before 2014,” Kazarin says. Russia’s shedding of blood and occupation of Ukrainian territory have made that impossible for a long time to come — whatever some in Moscow or other capitals now prefer to think.
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Muscovites Warned 'Not to Look Out of Windows' on Victory Day 

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Notices warning residents to stay away from their windows and balconies during Russia's Victory Day parade on May 9 have appeared in apartment buildings in western Moscow, news reports said Thursday.

Kremlin: North Korea's Kim Jong Un Will Not Attend Victory Day Parade 

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North Korean leader Kim Jong Un will not attend events in Moscow next week commemorating the 70th anniversary of the end of World War II in Europe, the Kremlin said Thursday.

Body Cameras Pose Benefits, Costs for Police

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The recent violence in Baltimore, Maryland follows incidents around the nation in recent months in which police have been accused of misbehavior. As a result of such accusations, both police departments and civil rights groups have called for law enforcers to wear body cameras that can record their activities. There are many questions about the cost of such camera systems, the management of the video they capture and the limits on what the technology can do. Body cameras pose challenges Houston Chief of Police Charles McClelland supports the use of body cameras, but he said they also present problems. “The type of equipment, the placement of equipment, the downloading time, and storage space all of those are significant challenges,” he said. For the past two years, the Houston Police Department has experimented with cameras, deploying about 100 of them on officers each day. But McClelland said deploying cameras on a few thousand officers and then managing all the video they produce will cost a lot of money. “We will be paying officers overtime for doing their downloading and indexing of these videos,” he explained. And those videos can only show a limited perspective of any incident. The body cameras used by police usually offer a wide-angle view of what is in front of the lens, much like the small consumer cameras. Chief McClelland said that view leaves a lot out. “An officer may turn his or her head and see something, but the video camera that is in the middle of their chest is pointing straight ahead,” he noted. Most officers who have worn the cameras, here and in other cities, are very much in favor of them. Necessary equipment, part of the uniform Rita Watkins, the executive director of the Law Enforcement Management Institute of Texas, said there is statewide demand for body cameras. “I can tell you that right now there are chiefs who are budgeting, within their budget and asking their community leadership for the funds to initiate and start a fund for the body camera program,” she stated. She said legal experts also are considering how photos and videos taken by average citizens should be handled. “We also have the public that is capturing video. So how do they maintain it and what is their duty and responsibility for making that information available to law enforcement?” she questioned. Both she and McClelland also are concerned about what happens if a video file becomes corrupted or disappears. “This technology is man-made and at some point any man-made object will malfunction,” he explained. He said such a technical glitch could ignite discord in a city like Baltimore, where there already is distrust of the police. He also worries that routine communication between officers and citizens will diminish because of the cameras. “The officer is recording the citizen and the citizen may be using his or her cellphone to record the officer,” he added. He said body cameras offer benefits, but they also represent a continuing financial burden for police as cameras become obsolete every few years and must be replaced by newer, better ones.

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Moscow is a no-go for Kim Jong-un as he cancels planned visit to Russia 

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North Korean leader will not travel to Moscow for 70th anniversary of end of second world war, Vladimir Putin’s
spokesman confirms
North Korea’s leader, Kim Jong-un, will not travel to Moscow for the celebrations to mark the 70th anniversary of the end of the second world war, a
spokesman for the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, has revealed.
Although information about the planned visit on 9 May was scarce, Russian officials had expected Kim to attend the military parade and were also planning a bilateral meeting with Putin. It would have been his first foreign trip since he took power following the death of his father, Kim Jong-il, in 2011.
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The Worst Job In The World? Meet NATO’s Envoy To Russia

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It could be described as one of the toughest diplomatic jobs in the world -- NATO's envoy to Moscow. Poland's Robert Pszczel has been in that post since 2010. “Maybe I have a masochistic streak," he says. "I actually still enjoy it.”

Radicalized In Moscow, Killed In Syria: The Story Of An IS Sniper

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The man who claimed to be Abu Zarr's best friend is a Chechen militant who describes how he met the young Ingush in Moscow, radicalized him, and persuaded him to come to Syria and join IS. His eulogy sheds light on how North Caucasus men are recruited by IS, in particular how the recruiters themselves operate, the tactics they use, and how they perceive themselves and their activities.

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EU Calls For Concrete Steps Against Corruption In Afghanistan

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The European Union has urged Afghanistan's government to battle widespread corruption in the country.


Ukrainian Billionaire Tied to Ex-President Fights Extradition to U.S. 

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Russia, China to Hold Joint Naval Drills in the Mediterranean Sea 

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China will hold joint naval drills with Russia in mid-May in the Mediterranean Sea, the first time the two countries will hold military exercises together in that part of the world.

China, Russia to Hold First Joint Mediterranean Naval Drills

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China will hold joint naval drills with Russia in mid-May in the Mediterranean Sea, the first time the two countries will hold military exercises together in that part of the world, the Chinese Defense Ministry said on Thursday. China and Russia have held naval drills in Pacific waters since 2012. The May maneuvers come as the United States ramps up military cooperation with its allies in Asia in response to China's increasingly assertive pursuit of maritime territorial claims. A total of nine ships from the two countries will participate, including vessels China now has on anti-piracy patrols in waters off Somalia, Chinese Defense Ministry spokesman Geng Yansheng told a monthly news briefing. "The aim is to deepen both countries' friendly and practical cooperation, and increase our navies' ability to jointly deal with maritime security threats," Geng said. "What needs saying is that these exercises are not aimed at any third party and have nothing to do with the regional situation. Geng gave no specific date for the drills, which will be focused on navigation safety, at-sea replenishment, escort missions and live fire exercises. Russia building ties Since Western powers imposed economic sanctions on Russia last year over the violence in Ukraine, Moscow has accelerated attempts to build ties with Asia, Africa and South America, as well as warming relations with its former Soviet-era allies. China and Russia are both permanent members of the U.N. Security Council and have close diplomatic, economic and military ties, with China traditionally relying on Russia for its most advanced equipment. President Xi Jinping is expected to visit Moscow next month to attend a parade celebrating the end of World War II. China has been increasingly flexing its military muscles since Xi assumed the presidency in 2013, jangling nerves around the region and globally, though Beijing insists it is a force for peace and threatens nobody. China's navy has become a focus of Xi's efforts to better project the country's power, especially in the disputed South China Sea. U.S. President Barack Obama accused China on Tuesday of "flexing its muscles" to advance its territorial claims atsea. China says about 90 percent of the 3.5 million square km (1.35 million square miles) South China Sea is its sovereign territory. The Philippines, Taiwan, Malaysia, Brunei and Vietnam also claim large parts.

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Baltimore Death Draws Protests Nationwide

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On Wednesday, people across the nation marched in support of protests in Baltimore, where a young black man
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Maersk Insists Iran Release Crew, Vessel

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Denmark's Maersk shipping said on Thursday it insisted on the release of a vessel and crew seized by Iran, adding it assumed the incident was related to a 2005 court case over uncollected cargo. The Marshall Islands-flagged Maersk Tigris container ship was detained by Iranian forces in the Strait of Hormuz on Tuesday, spurring the United States to send military vessels to monitor the situation. Maersk had chartered the ship, which is owned by undisclosed private investors. The firm met with Iran's Ports and Maritime Organization  Wednesday and said the company "must presume" the seizure was related to the long-running cargo dispute. "We have however not received any written or formal confirmation that the seizure and the cargo case are connected," the company said in a statement. "We must insist that the crew and vessel are released as soon as possible. The crew is not employed by Maersk Line, nor is the vessel owned by Maersk Line. Maersk Tigris and its crew are thus not in any way party to the case," the company statement added. Court ruling Maersk, the world's biggest container shipping line, said it had agreed to pay an Iranian company $163,000 after an Iranian court ruling in February that related to a dispute about 10 container boxes transported to Dubai in 2005. "The Iranian company appealed the case, seeking a higher compensation," Maersk said. "Only today, 30 April, have we learnt that the appeal court has ruled Maersk Line to pay $3.6 million. As we do not have the details of the ruling, we are not able to comment hereon, nor at this point speculate on our options." The incident comes at a critical juncture in U.S.-Iranian relations, which could improve if a nuclear deal is clinched between Tehran and six world powers, including Washington. The Maersk Tigris was anchored at 1003 GMT Thursday not far off Iran's mainland and close to the major Iranian port of Bandar Abbas, according to Reuters ship tracking data. Iran's navy fired shots during the ship's seizure, but there was no damage or injuries to the crew. There were 24 crew members on the vessel, mostly from Eastern Europe and Asia, and also a British national among them. It was the second ship in less than a week to be approached by Iranian patrol boats. Earlier the U.S.-flagged Maersk Kensington, also owned by Maersk Line, was followed but no shots were fired, the Pentagon said on Wednesday, adding that the incidents showed "a pattern of harassment.” Iran's Foreign Minister Javad Zarid said separately Wednesday Tehran "will respect international navigation in the Gulf."

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Adolf Hitler's death 70th anniversary: Five facts about the final hours of the German Nazi leader

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On the 70th anniversary of Adolf Hitler’s suicide in his Fuhur bunker in Berlin, here are some facts surrounding the Nazi leader’s final hours.

Afghan Forces Struggle To Push Taliban Back From Besieged Kunduz 

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Afghan security forces continued to battle Taliban in the northern city of Kunduz on April 30 in a bid to push them outside of the city limits.

Russian Progress spaceship probably exploded, agencies say

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The lost Russian capsule could have run into problems after an explosion as it attempted to detach from its rocket, according to Russian agencies.

David Miliband's aid organisation forced out of eastern Ukraine

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Staff from the International Rescue Committee loaded onto a bus by masked gunmen and driven out of separatist controlled territory after rebels' secret police accuse them of espionage









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Putin and Kadyrov Have a Shared Interest in Avoiding a Break But May Not Be Able To 

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Staunton, April 30 – – Both Vladimir Putin and Ramzan Kadyrov have a deep interest in avoiding a complete break, the former because a new Chechen war would be “a moral catastrophe” that would undermine his myth and the latter because he would not survive without the enormous sums of money Moscow currently sends him, Leonid Radzikhovsky says.
And as a consequence of these inter-related interests, the Russian commentator says, “there will not be a sharp conflict between Chechnya and the Russian leadership in the near future” even if both sides try to position themselves as the victors in the current round of tensions between them.
But there are at least two reasons why they may not be able to avoid a break that would ultimately threaten both. On the one hand, an important part of Putin’s constituency in Moscow consists ofsiloviki who are furious at Kadyrov and want revenge. And on the other, and perhaps even more significantly, Moscow is running out of money to fund Kadyrov as it has up to now.
As Olga Solovyeva points out in today’s Nezavisimaya Gazeta, Russia’s regions are at the edge of “financial instability” and are being forced to cut staff and programs to try to make ends meet If Putin continues to fund Chechnya while cutting support to the others, he will be creating an even large problem.
The arguments of both Radzikhovsky and Solovyeva are thus worth close attention.
According to Radzikhovsky, “if Ramzan Kadyrov begins to seriously get involved in a conflict with Moscow, this would mean the end of Putin and the collapse of the Putin myth” that the Kremlin leader pacified the North Caucasus. In the case of a new Chechen war, Russians would rally around him, “but all the same this would be a catastrophe” Putin wants to avoid.
But Kadyrov has equally compelling reasons to want to avoid this: He will hold out in Chechnya just as long as the money comes from Moscow. “If this conveyer stops, Chechnya will explode and Kadyrov will simply be killed for in this region there are enough militants who hate Kadyrov.”
Radzikhovsky argues that “there cannot be any unity of Chechnya against Moscow.” What is on view now is “the unity of Chechnya purchased by Russian money. But the unity of Chechnya against the Russian Federation is unreal.” And the same thing is true of Daghestan which would disintegrate if Makhachkala tried to fight the center.
Obviously after the dust up over the Boris Nemtsov murder, Kadyrov “will try to show to the maximum his independence and irreplaceability.” But there are real limits, and both he and Putin know what they are, and as a result, Putin will try to keep the money flowing to Kadyrov in order to save himself.
But as Solovyeva points out, Russia’s economic situation is likely to make assistance from Moscow to all regions, not just Chechnya, ever more difficult. Many are at the edge of default even though Moscow is taking money from the reserve fund to try to prop them up. They are going into debt to pay their bills, and debt service is eating up their budgets.
She cites the conclusion of Igor Nikolayev, the director of the FBK Institute for Strategic Analysis, that next year, Moscow may not be able to pay out to the regions the sums it has this year from the reserve fund because that fund will be depleted. Consequently, he says, “the main risks for the regions are after 2016.”
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Russia cuts rates as rouble rallies

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Central bank expects inflation to moderate more quickly than previously anticipated

Фирташ рассказал на суде свою версию февральского кризиса на Украине - РИА Новости

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Kim Jong-un snubs Vladimir Putin, cancelling planned visit for Russia WWII anniversary

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Kim Jong-un has cancelled a rare planned state visit outside North Korea, shunning an event hosted by Vladimir Putin with just 10 days’ notice.

Long-shot Miliband now the favorite to become Britain’s prime minister 

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STOCKTON-ON-TEES, ENGLAND — Even before the election campaign began, the verdict was in on Ed Miliband: He was too weak and too weird to be Britain’s prime minister.His approval ratings flirted with the lowest ever recorded for a major party leader. Among his Labor supporters, there were whispers of a coup. And with Britain’s economy recovering from the depths of recession, Conservative Party leader David Cameron seemed to have reelection locked up.Read full article >>






Kim Jong-un Won’t Attend Celebration in Moscow

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The North Korean leader’s tentative plans were canceled because of “internal Korean affairs,” the Interfax news agency reported.

New Jihadist Attack in Bosnia 

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At about the same time this morning that I published this piece explaining how Vladimir Putin’s allies in Bosnia were plotting to dismantle the semi-unitary state that has been in place in the country since 1995, there was a terrorist attack on a police station in the Serb Republic. The attack occurred in Zvornik, a town on the Drina river in eastern Bosnia that was “cleansed” of most of its Muslims during the 1992-95 war.
According to press reports in Sarajevo, the attacker stormed a police station while shouting “Allahu akbar” and firing an automatic weapon, killing one police officer and wounding two others. The terrorist was himself killed by police. Unconfirmed press reports indicate the gunman was sixty-year old Nerdin Ibrić.
Dragan Mektić, Bosnia’s security minister, has confirmed that three days before, Bosnian intelligence had received warning of a possible terrorist attack, though he did not provide details of exactly what that warning consisted of.
While Bosnia has had several domestic terrorist attacks in recent years, to date all have occurred in the
Muslim-Croat Federation; today’s attack is the first in many years to take place in the Serb Republic and, as expected, it has served to fan already impressive local paranoia about Bosnia’s extremism and jihadism problem.
This blog has written extensively about Bosnia’s jihad and its implications for international security (start here for a primer) and the atrocity in Zvornik cannot bode well for politics in that troubled country. There is no doubt that this incident will fan the flames of Serbian nationalism and help Putin’s Balkan agenda, while making Bosnia’s problems even worse.
This is a developing story — follow this space for more as it
happens…
UPDATE (0730 EST, 28 APR): The Sarajevo daily Avaz has reported that the shooter, Nerdin Ibrić, was a twenty-four year old Muslim who was born in the Zvornik area in 1991, and was ethnically cleansed, i.e. violently expelled, with his family by Serbs when he was a year old. His father is believed to be among the 750 Muslims from the Zvornik area who were murdered by Serbs. Predictably, Bosnian Serb leader Milorad Dodik has responded sharply to the Zvornik attack, stating “Republika Srpska was shot at and we have right to defend ourselves, and we will defend ourselves,” adding that the RS may leave Bosnia’s state-level security structures, which is one more step towards independence, which is the Putin-backed project that I described in detail yesterday.
UPDATE (0805 EST, 28 APR): Bosnian authorities have arrested a man in connection with yesterday’s terrorist attack in Zvornik. The suspect, identified by the Sarajevo daily Avaz as Avdulah Hasanović, is known to the authorities, according to Federal Police director Dragan Lukač, who stated that the man had been in “frequent contact” with the shooter in the lead up to yesterday’s incident. Hasanović has previously been questioned by the authorities for suspected ties to the Islamic State — this was during the recent multinational Operation DAMASCUS to roll up jihadist networks in Bosnia (see here and here for analysis) — but he was released from custody. He was questioned about the recruitment of jihadists headed to Syria, where Hasanović spent part of last year.
UPDATE (1425 EST, 28 APR): Sarajevo media is reporting the arrest of a second suspect in yesterday’s terrorist attack. Kasim Mehidić, a Zvornik area man who is said to be involved with the Salafi jihadist movement in Bosnia. is in the custody of the State Investigation and Protection Agency (SIPA) in Tuzla, which can hold him for seventy-two hours for questioning before the prosecutor must file criminal charges to continue his detention.
UPDATE (1650 EST, 28 APR): In a perverse and sad irony of the sort Bosnia specializes in, Dragan Đurić, the forty-eight year old policeman who was murdered yesterday in Zvornik’s jihadist attack, was also a victim of Bosnia’s 1992-1995 war. While Nerdin Ibrić, the killer, had his father murdered by Serbs, Đurić’s father was murdered by Muslims. The twenty-year police veteran will be buried tomorrow with full honors.

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Tamerlan Tsarnaev’s Path to Extremism Intertwined with FBI Contacts 

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Magomed Kartashov hadn’t seen his American cousin since their childhood. So when Tamerlan Tsarnaev came home to the Russian Republic of Dagestan on a 2012 visit, Kartashov, his secondcousin, was taken aback by Tamerlan’s massive physical stature, and his overwhelming desire to wage “jihad” in his country of birth. “He came to Russia thinking he would find jihad in the streets,” Kartashov told FBI investigators in a 2013 interview conducted in the aftermath of the bombing. “He did not seem to really understand things, he just watched a lot of videos on the Internet.”
Kartashov’s interview with the FBI was entered into testimony today in court, at the sentencing phase of the trial of Tsarnaev’s younger brother, Dzhokhar. In an effort to convince jurors to spare Dzhokhar the death penalty, his defense counsel has painted a picture of crippling dysfunction in the Tsarnaev family, centered around the increasing radicalism of Tamerlan.
The trial has also revived questions about the nature and extent of the FBI’s contact with Tamerlan Tsarnaev during the period in which he began to publicly evince support for extremist violence. In the years leading up to the bombing, as he became increasingly erratic in his public behavior, he and his family are believed to have had multiple contacts with FBI agents in the Boston area.
Encrypted files retrieved from Tsarnaev’s laptop and displayed at court today showed the 26-year-old of Chechen descent dressed in Gulf Arab clothing, brandishing weapons, and posing in front of flags emblazoned with religious exhortations. He is believed to have had an active social media presence on Russian language websites thought to be connected to religious extremism. A notebook retrieved from his Cambridge apartment after the bombings, apparently authored by Tsarnaev, also showed extensive handwritten notes glorifying violence. The notebook included lengthy quotations from religious literature and passages such as “Now I live because I’m a warrior … and some day I want to stand before the One,” and “Mujahid spent a long time dwelling in a dream. And is slowly waking up.” 

Becoming a violent extremist — while talking to the FBI

Tsarnaev’s online activity had raised the alarm of the Russian FSB as far back as 2010, after the intelligence agency allegedly came across social networking contacts between Tsarnaev and William Plotnikov, a Russian-Canadian believed to have ties to Chechen militant groups.
In March 2011, the FSB sent a letter to the FBI alleging that Tsarnaev had become “radicalized” and that he might potentially seek to join militant organizations in the future. The FBI subsequently conducted several interviews with both Tsarnaev and his parents, determining afterward  that there were no grounds for allegations that he had been involved with terrorist groups.
Warnings by the FSB about alleged Chechen radicals in the United States are generally viewed with skepticism by the FBI as they are frequently unsubstantiated. Nonetheless, these 2011 interviews with Tsarnaev and his family would later raise questions about the nature of the FBI’s relationship with him before the bombing, even prompting Republican Senator Chuck Grassley to issue an open letter to FBI Director James Comey asking whether Tsarnaev had been the target of a sting operation, or if had been employed as an informant by the bureau.
In a response, Comey denied the bureau had employed Tsarnaev, while declining to elaborate further on any contacts
it  may have had with him.
In 2012, Tsarnaev
traveled to Russia for a
six-month visit, where he is believed to have associated with members of an organization called The Union of the Just, an activist group that is legal in Russia and eschews violence, but that endorses some of the Islamist beliefs Tamerlan would later come to espouse.
After returning to Boston from this visit, Tsarnaev’s behavior and rhetoric became disturbingly confrontational and extremist, according to the testimony of those who knew him. Robert Barnes, an acquaintance of Tsarnaev who had also been Dzhokhar’s colleague on a high school wrestling team, recounted one incident in December 2012 when he encountered Tamerlan at a pizzeria in Cambridge, Massachusetts. “He was wearing a big robe and a beard, he was talking very passionately about religion and his complaints about what the U.S. was doing abroad,” Barnes said. Tamerlan, whom Barnes had previously known to be amiable and outgoing, continued lecturing him on these subjects, until another mutual acquaintance entered the pizzeria and began challenging his views. “Tamerlan started to get really angry, raising his voice, pressing his finger into the guy’s chest and
yelling.”
According to Barnes testimony, the man became frightened by Tsarnaev’s threatening behavior and quickly left the premises.

One last chance to “knock it off”

By the time of this incident, both Anzor and Zubeidat Tsarnaev, Dzhokhar and Tamerlan’s parents, had moved back to Russia from the United States. According to Dzhokhar’s defense counsel, following the parents’ departure in early 2012, Tamerlan came to play a dominant role in his younger brother’s life, amplified by the absence of any mitigating parental influence.
Magomed Kartashov, Tsarnaev’s cousin, who had been taken aback by Tsarnaev’s vocal desire to wage jihad during his 2012 visit to Dagestan, was asked by the FBI in 2013 how Tsarnaev had developed this mindset. Kartashov said, “I know for a fact it was from the
Internet,” specifically singling out the alleged influence of the late Yemeni-American cleric Anwar al-Awlaki.
Kartashov further said that he met Tsarnaev between 10 to 15 times during his visit and that he attempted
to sway Tsarnaev, six years his junior, from increasingly disturbing rhetoric. “He said that he wanted to go to Syria, but he didn’t seem to know anything about Syria,” Kartashov said. “I told him to stop talking like this and to knock it off.”
Towards the end of his visit,  it almost seemed like Kartashov had convinced Tsarnaev. In his statement, Kartashov says that before he left, Tsarnaev told him, “You have convinced my head, but my heart still wants to do something.”
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Сергей Лавров: Скорейшее снятие санкций с Ирана отвечает интересам России

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Российские беспилотники с 1 мая приступают к патрулированию в Арктике

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Порошенко назвал украинский конфликт «отечественной войной»

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Эстонцы обучили финнов как делать «правильные» новости для русских

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Азербайджан не окажется заложником чужого геополитического проекта

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Finland fires on suspected Russian submarine in waters off Helsinki - Washington Times

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Russia is building up its submarine forces in Asia, and Moscow's military forces are seeking increased influence in the Arctic region, Northeast Asia and Southeast Asia, Adm. Samuel Locklear testified to the House Armed Services Committee. (Associated ...
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House bill calls for developing new weapons in response to Russian treaty ... - Fox News

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House bill calls for developing new weapons in response to Russian treaty ...
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The legislation, contained in the $604.2 billion authorization bill, states that the U.S. government has been negotiating with Russia since 2013 on the violation and to date "the RussianFederation has failed to respond to these efforts in any ...

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Russia loses comms with ISS cargo spacecraft - Yahoo News

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Russia loses comms with ISS cargo spacecraft
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Moscow (AFP) - Astronauts aboard the International Space Station were left with a long wait Tuesday to get their latest food and fuel deliveries after an unmanned Russian supply ship lost communications following takeoff.
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The truth about the Hillary Clinton-Russia-Uranium 'scandal' - Business Insider

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The truth about the Hillary Clinton-Russia-Uranium 'scandal'
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