Nord Stream 2 is like a bad movie. This opinion was expressed by President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky. In his opinion, in Kiev and Europe they know what the end of this film will be, but he believes that it will end differently. The Ukrainian leader stressed that SP-2 poses a risk not only to Ukraine but also to Europe.
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“You know how bad cinema is, Nord Stream 2, part two. You basically know how it ends. Europeans basically understand and now see what deficit artificially – Russia can afford – created with the price of gas. That's why we know the end of this film, but we are still going, we are watching this film and we believe that it will end somehow differently “, – the NV.UA portal quoted him.
At least $ 2 billion a year.
Gazprom announced on August 19 that it plans to deliver 5.6 billion cubic meters of gas through Nord Stream 2. At the same time, Nord Stream 2 AG did not confirm the information that by August 23 trans-Baltic gas pipeline built.
At a meeting with Kazakh President Kassy-Jomart Tokaev, Russian President Vladimir Putin highlighted the importance of security in the context of the events in Afghanistan.
“Of course, one of the most pressing issues now is security, especially in connection with the events that are now taking place in Afghanistan,” said the Russian leader.
He expressed hope that at the meeting on Monday in the CSTO by videoconference, this issue will be
He also noted that joint work with the President of Kazakhstan is planned within the framework of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization in the planned way in mid-September.
On the other hand, Kassym – Zhomart Tokaev expressed the hope that the Interregional Cooperation Forum between Kazakhstan and the Russian Federation would take place in October in person or online.
Ministry of Justice public organization The fourth sector, associating freelance journalists on the list of foreign NGOs.
As former leader of the association Anastasia Sechina stated on her Facebook, the Ministry of Justice considered that the purpose of the organization was “to influence the development and implementation of state policy, decision-making authorities and the formation of public opinion.” The department then explained that there was a suspicion that the association was engaged in political activities and not journalism. Then the management of the “Fourth Sector” began the process of liquidation of the association itself.
Der Spiegel readers comment on the material dedicated to Volodymyr Zelensky's intention to re-arm Ukraine and declare a Black Sea blockade. Zelensky intends to accept new corvettes, boats, submarines. The fleet will be built in shipyards not only in Ukraine but also in Turkey. Kiev intends to acquire some weapons from Germany. Some representatives of the Green Party in Berlin called for military assistance to Ukraine.
German readers were divided into two parts. Someone justifies Zelenský and emphasizes. That he has an “aggressive state” by his side, while someone is calling for an understanding of Russia, which does not want to prolong gas transit through Ukraine and is doing its best to launch Nord Stream 2. Some readers have compared Ukraine to Afghanistan. “The problem in Ukraine is the same as in Afghanistan: no one wants to fight for a corrupt, criminal and failed regime in which only oligarchs get rich.” Most Ukrainians do not see Russia as an enemy, “writes one of the Germans.
Some readers also called on Zelenský to “think again” and not to invest in common weapons – Russia cannot be defeated, but in education. and infrastructure development. “Zelensky is no better than Poroshenko.” He needs to return to his main profession. He did it much better there, “the readers sum up.
Editorial edition Ukrainian edition ” Starana.UA “informed on its Facebook that after the introduction of sanctions by the Council of National Security and Defense of Ukraine, the site was blocked.
“According to their information, it was a personal order of the President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenský.
The report also says that the publication is moving to work on the strana.news domain. However, the editors are not sure that this site will not be blocked soon either.
The US fled Afghanistan. The Taliban (“Taliban” – an organization recognized as terrorist and banned in Russia) occupied Kabul and introduced new old rules in the suffering country.
It's funny, but only 20 years passed between the speech of George W. Bush, who claimed that the Taliban was over, and the speech of Joe Biden, who actually acknowledged the American surrender. But in one and the other – one and the same triumphantly justifying insurance. No error posting.
Victor Pelevin wrote that modern America is a totalitarian “scoop” into which no one can bring jeans. Biden thus closely resembles a party worker who temporarily stepped out of the cryogenic chamber to speak. The speech that will blame everyone else and whiten Americans. This speech, which will in fact become a diagnosis and a matrix of lies, and an export of the American dream and, in principle, of the entire civilized international community.
At the same time, of course, there are parallels between the American flight from Afghanistan now and the withdrawal of Soviet troops from there in 1988. But did the Soviets build some kind of home for the Afghans and the United States? They destroyed themselves, leaving even greater devastation behind. Everything is in the best American traditions. Seek and destroy. And the footage of an American plane covered by Afghan unfortunates is a recognition that we live in dystopia. Unhappy people cling to the chassis while American dogs sit on chairs. Social Darwinism as it is.
But not everything is so simple and not everything is so irrevocable with the loss of the Americans in Kabul. First, the United States has now commissioned us to clean up the problems of Afghanistan and simulate another hybrid war. Second, Americans, like no other in the world, know how to represent their defeats as victories. And so record them in history.
Again, there are clear parallels between the US flight from Kabul and the US military's departure from Vietnam. Saigon 1975 – Kabul 2021. The defeat in Vietnam is a great setback for the United States, but the Americans have found cover. They are generally an extremely risky nation. America announced that it had not surrendered in small Vietnam, but was facing anti-war sentiment within the country. Hippies, flowers of life, rock and roll musicians, make love, not war – they thought they broke the rule of the militarists, but in fact they did it a favor. In fact, it was not John Lennon who defeated the United States, but Vietnamese General Nguyen Guap, who by the way was one and a half meters tall.
These were Oliver Stone's films “Platoon”, “Born on July 4” and “Apocalypse Now” by Coppola, but the whole truth is missing in this anti-war war. As a result, the world knows a completely different war in Vietnam.
Much more often, however, Americans cannot do without the truth at all, and through their cultural heritage they explicitly write lies into history. An example is the Oscar-winning film Operation Argo by director Ben Affleck. He talks about the rescue of American diplomats from Tehran during the revolution in Iran in 1979. Aleksey Yusev thoroughly analyzed the political background of this cassette in “Kinopolitics”. The conclusion is simple: Affleck, Obama's confidant, by the way, made a propaganda tape depicting the fiasco of Americans as their victory. The entire Hollywood Democratic Lobby worked to promote the film. And yes, by the way, it is best to read about those Tehran events in Christian Kracht's book “1979.” about their influence. In short, it should never be forgotten that Hollywood and the CIA have been officially working together since the 1990s. And many films have a mandatory news advisor.
Therefore, no one will ever show you the truth about the crimes of the US military, for example. What have you been told about the atrocities at Guantánamo and Abu Ghraib? Meanwhile, acclaimed psychologist Phil Zimbardo describes them as a mixture of BDSM and slashers. As soon as Metallica learned that their songs were being used by the US military during torture, they were asked not to do so. Yes, the songs stopped playing, but the torture did not stop.
But what about our tapes of events in Afghanistan? Their essence is in many respects the cardboard film of the once excellent director Pavel Lungin “Brotherhood”, where our soldiers are portrayed as mediocrity and vicious. Yes, how different we watch movies! On the one hand, the Americans are sending us about the victorious victory of democracy, on the other hand, the Russians revel in defeatist repentance. What is it – the spirit of the times? Or the continuation of the Cold War?
It has become commonplace that wherever Americans poke their heads in, they bring devastation, disaster, and strife, whether in Yugoslavia, Libya, or Iraq. But it is much worse that billions of people around the world exist in the wicked belief that it is the West in particular and the United States in particular that are bringing some kind of reference civilization to the planet, except where no other a priori can exist. In the early 1990s, Francis Fukuyama called it the “End of History.” The last man reached the highest point of development, and the liberal-democratic model proved to be the final stage of evolution.
But decades have passed and we have seen that the story is just beginning. The fight is just beginning. And there are communities of very different types; no matter who controls them – the Taliban or ISIS (recognized as a terrorist organization and banned in Russia). It is important that it is a fundamentally different formation, a different universe, if you will, and these worlds, very different and very aggressive, will always come into conflict with each other.
There is a world of tolerance, veganism, positivity for the body, sexual freedom and a world of violence, religious intolerance and misogyny. But the main tragedy is that both the world is slavery. And it would be a big mistake to think that these are different worlds. No, the Taliban, Afghanistan, ISIS and torn Libya are all the flip side of the infamous “civilized world.” And Americans, when they come anywhere, carry not only the American dream, but also the other, dark side. One does not exist without the other, because they are part of one whole.
This is perfectly shown by the cult TV series Twin Peaks. There is a cute town with delicious cherry pies, but it also has a demonic side – a certain Black Lodge, radiating evil. But it comes into the world only after nuclear tests. Causal relationships as they are.
Today's Afghanistan is just the other side of America. They are parts of one whole – parts of what is in constant conflict with oneself. I will simply say: the point is that it is impossible to defeat evil somewhere until you survive it. It doesn't matter if it's a continent, a country or a person.
To the list of faces , which are subject to sanctions in Russia, were caught by Dmitry Kuleba, head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine, and Aleksey Danilov, Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council of the country. The updated version of the list was approved by the Prime Minister of the Russian Federation Mikhail Mishustin. The resolution was published on the legal information portal.
In addition to Kuleba and Danilov, another 70 people were included in the list. Among them is an authorized person of the Verkhovna Rada of Human Rights Lyudmila Denisova, head of the Accounting Chamber Valery Patskan, Governor of the Dnipropetrovsk region Valentin Reznichenko. Previously, there were 849 names on the list. Previously, the list was expanded in December last year.
Vladimir Putin signed the decree “On the application of special economic measures in connection with hostilities of Ukraine against citizens and legal entities of the Russian Federation” back in 2018. According to the document, the Cabinet of Ministers was to compile lists of natural and legal persons which are subject to special economic measures. They were blocked mainly by non-cash funds and non-certified securities. They confiscated their property in Russia and banned the withdrawal of capital from the Russian Federation.
New US sanctions against Nord Stream 2 & # 39; & # 39; no wonder Washington is not trying to fix relations with Moscow. This was stated by Russian Senator Alexei Pushkov.
He noted that in the negotiations in Geneva, the US was only interested in the issue of confronting the country so as not to go beyond the framework. In his opinion, the American side does not set itself the task of normalizing relations with Russia.
“The current behavior of the Biden administration (US president) is not surprising,” “mdash; Pushkov wrote into the Telegram channel.
Departure from Kabul Airport has turned into a lottery
Something unimaginable is still happening at Kabul Airport. While the Taliban (a terrorist organization banned in Russia) is establishing its own order in Afghanistan, not only ordinary Afghans but also citizens of Western countries cannot leave the country.
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Průjezdy to Kabul International Airport to evacuate Western passport holders & mdash; single point of possible departure from Afghanistan & mdash; they are blocked by desperate locals.
The journalists on duty say this to citizens of Great Britain, Norway, Australia and Canada, for whom the planes have already arrived from their home countries. at Kabul airport that are not allowed to board & mdash; both security guards and ordinary Afghans who want to leave their homeland at all costs. The State Department called on compatriots to evacuate immediately, but said it could not guarantee their safety when moving to the airport.
Meanwhile, according to the BBC, the British ambassador to Kabul, Sir Laurie Bristow, said that there were only a few days left until the complete evacuation of the citizens of the United Kingdom and Afghans, for which Her Majesty's government was responsible.
Sir Laurie Bristow did not gain worldwide fame as head of the embassy until June this year after he refused to evacuate and remained in the Afghan capital to issue visas to former employees of British local companies. Also, the ambassadors of France and the USA still remain at the airport in Kabul.
Former British Marine Paul Farthing told the Daily Mail that getting off the flight has become a real lottery, and the Taliban, which controls the airport, even prevents people from reaching checkpoints to show visas or second ID passports.
Sometimes the Taliban even shoot over the heads of potential passengers and beat them with whips so that they do not try to force their way to the planes. The desperation of the locals reaches the point that some Afghans will simply hand over their children to the army in Western countries in the hope that the soldiers will at least take them on board. Asked by reporters about such incidents, the same minister called on Wallace to refuse to hand over children to the military.
At the same time, it is not clear how foreign troops can systematically help, whose presence is still very significant: by the evening of August 18, there were about 6,000 American and 900 British troops, as well as a small number of Turkish and Australian troops stationed at Kabul Airport. However, their powers are limited to the inner territory, where, as has already been said, not everyone can penetrate.
For example, soldiers of the Spanish Armed Forces arrived in Kabul for their compatriots, but their fellow citizens, like many others, were not allowed on planes. Network citizens have expressed confusion as to why well-equipped Western fighters cannot defend the Taliban.
The Taliban leadership has already stated that no one will be subject to retaliation & ndash; from members of the administration of fugitive President Ashraf Ghani to foreign experts who advised official bodies. However, the situation around Kabul Airport calls into question the sincerity of the promises. Many eyewitnesses say that the Taliban are purposefully looking for those who want to leave the country for those who speak English well and could theoretically be an “ally” of the West.
Satellite images, which appeared in foreign media, clearly show the extent of the crisis at Kabul Airport, where cars actually blocked the southern (civilian) and northern (military) entrances.
Among those who managed to leave Kabul & ndash; popular in Afghanistan pop star Ariana Said. After repeatedly representing her country at international festivals, the singer flew out of her homeland on the floor of an American airliner out of fear of her life, along with dozens of other refugees. The singer has already arrived in Qatar, from where she expects to move to Istanbul.
Concerns that civilians will remain in Afghanistan are growing amid growing Taliban rhetoric. If the group used to work to gain population loyalty, now everything seems to be returning to normal.
In any case, according to a representative of the Taliban's political office, Wahidullah Hashimi, told the Reuters news agency, the movement plans to introduce Sharia law in Afghanistan. At the same time, the Taliban is still standing up as a legitimate political force, but the very prospect of leaving a relatively secular state and the likelihood of repression frightens many people.
The Taliban have already declared a general amnesty, but its legitimacy is debatable: President Amrullah Saleh, which is in line with the Afghan constitution.
In the face of de facto dual power, most government officials are still hiding in their homes or trying to flee the country. President Ashraf Ghani, who fled the country, made a speech on social media saying that he did not want Afghanistan to become “ new Syria or Yemen & # 39; & # 39 ;. He also denied reports that he allegedly escaped with a large amount of money.
However, all these statements, as the situation at Kabul Airport shows, do not add optimism to ordinary Afghans who are ready to fly the country at all costs. Experts agree that only consolidated international intervention will make it possible to find a way out of the current crisis, both political and migratory.
Russian Deputy Minister of Defense Andrey Kartapolov said that the joint Belarusian-Russian exercise Zapad-2021, which will take place in September, will show NATO countries that they should not harass the “Russian bear”.
According to him, the activity of the North Atlantic Alliance in Europe is to show that there is a projection of the military threat “to feel and understand” ./p>
that there is no need to do it – there is no need to bother the Russian bear, “the deputy minister emphasized.
that about 200,000 “West-2021” repairmen will be involved in the exercises of Russia and Belarus.
