Интервью Обамы.

[Ursvamp]

Сообщение от Базилио

Чего , местные такие страшные , что ли , что их и в проститутки не берут ?

Опять плохо. Ну блядуют мало, что поделать. Блядство - оно ведь социальная болезнь. Неполные семьи, алкоголизм, нищета, низкое образование.
В Финляндии например финскую проститутку сложновато найти. В основном русскоязычная будет. Хотя случайно видел и одну финскую -королевна просто. Элитная.

[Dmitry]

Wall Street Journal сообщает что Меркель дала Путину до этой среды на то чтобы принять условия Запада по прекращению бд в Донбассе. В противном случае санкции ужесточат.

Информативная статья.
http://www.wsj.com/articles/ukraine-...day-1423389379

[PAULIUS]

А он ей атомной булавой по мордасам как даст! Вот вам и санкции, подавитесь, знай наших.
Ещё и нефть/газ отключим.

[mikhaly4]

Сообщение от Dmitry

Wall Street Journal сообщает что Меркель дала Путину до этой среды на то чтобы принять условия Запада по прекращению бд в Донбассе. В противном случае санкции ужесточат.

Информативная статья.
http://www.wsj.com/articles/ukraine-...day-1423389379

Статья платная, денег хотят.

[Виталий]

Сообщение от PAULIUS

нефть/газ отключим

Правильно! Еще можно голодовку объявить в рэсэфэсэре.

[Jinn]

Сообщение от Dmitry

Wall Street Journal сообщает что Меркель дала Путину

[Dmitry]

Статья в американском Форбсе.
http://www.forbes.com/sites/paulrode...ng-in-ukraine/

США и ЕС впервые официально назвали войска воюющие в Донбассе российскими ВС.
Europe And U.S. Finally Declare That Russian Soldiers Are Fighting In Ukraine

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In Minsk on February 12, Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko waived passports of Russian soldiers caught or killed in Ukraine. Vladimir Putin’s propagandists immediately scoffed at such “political comedy,” but Poroshenko’s display showed that Russia is waging an undeclared war, using regular troops with regular Russian military equipment to destroy a weaker army, while claiming it doesn’t have any troops in Ukraine. Even more convoluted, Putin has asserted that any Russians fighting in Ukraine are idealistic unpaid volunteers over whom the Kremlin has little influence. Putin even insists that “Russia is not a party to the conflict,” just a bystander.
Putin is practicing the Big Lie, and much of the world believes it.
Western news media and diplomats readily adopt Kremlin language. They speak routinely of “rebels, Russian-backed insurgents, separatists, and Ukrainian civil war,” rather than of Russian tanks and missile launchers manned by regular Russian troops, or of Russian generals directing the field of battle, or of Russian military-intelligence forces storming Donetsk airport. Editorial offices throughout the Western world caution: We don’t have 100% proof, so let’s hedge our bets and go along with Putin-speak.
Putin’s Big Lies–no troops and equipment and no influence over separatist allies–are the foundation of his undeclared war on Ukraine narrative. Unwittingly, the Western press, diplomats, and pundits have played along due to their hesitancy to call a spade a spade.
Up until the past week, the West left Putin’s Big Lies unchallenged. Even the most outspoken of critics, such as U.N. ambassador Samantha Power, accused Russia of supplying and training separatists and avoided reference to regular troops.
European and American patience has finally worn out. The dam broke with state department spokeswoman, Jen Psaki, speaking out on February 13 in the following clear words:

The Russian military has deployed a large amount of artillery and multiple rocket launcher systems around Debaltseve where it is shelling Ukrainian positions…We are confident these are Russian military not separatist systems. The Russian military also has air defense systems deployed near Debaltseve. We are also confident these are Russian military not separatist systems.

The European Union joined the U.S. yesterday and also referred to Russian forces in east Ukraine in its official documents. To its Official Journal, the EU added that a Russian defense official and two ranking generals to its official blacklist for involvement “in supporting the deployment of Russian troops in Ukraine” and for being “involved in shaping and implementing the military campaign of the Russian forces in Ukraine.” The text was signed off at the highest level by EU’s foreign relations chief Federica Mogherini, who has strictly avoided any reference to Russian armed forces being active in Ukraine.
The dramatic change in language over the past few days has occurred as Russian forces and separatists continue their shelling and encirclement of a key rail hub in violation of the “last ditch” February 12 accord. Minsk II still used cautious diplomatic language, such as “evidence of continued and growing support given to the separatists by Russia, which underlines Russia’s responsibility,” and calls for “foreign armed groups” to leave Ukrainian territory.
An EU diplomat speaking off the record declared the new language a “clear and understandable message against Russian propaganda and all the lies about non-Russian engagement in the military conflict.”
Putin’s propaganda machine has hit a big sinkhole in the middle of the road. Its response will be furious, shrill and overwhelming, not only against bloggers and columnists, but the U.S. State Department and the European Commission as well.
The U.S commander in Europe explained why the West was “still splitting hairs about the nature of the insurgency.” He opined that some want an “ambiguity to give people who don’t want to believe it an excuse to not believe.”
The European and American rejection in clear language of the Kremlin’s phony narrative of a civil war fought by separatists and Russian “volunteers” deprives them of the “excuse not to believe.” It also means that they have labeled the leader of another country, one Vladimir Putin, a liar.
The first step in solving any problem is to clearly define what it is. Europe and the U.S. have reluctantly taken this step. The next is to act.

[Dmitry]

Если-уж эта тема про западный взгляд на ситауцию, то рекомендую смотреть видео CNN. Например этот сюжет-
http://www.cnn.com/2015/02/18/europe...ict/index.html

Первыми кадрами лицо ополченца-шахтёра. Журналист рассказывает что техника и вооружение сепаратистов намного современнее и мощнее чем у УА, но снимать видимо запретили.

[Dmitry]

А вот и настоящий удар по яйцам. Обама копает под Кремль медленно, но размеренно.

У банков Юрия Ковальчука и Ротенбергов в США заморозили около 640 миллионов долларов.

Wall Street Journal


By Philip Shishkin

March 5, 2015 6:12 p.m. ET 6 COMMENTS

WASHINGTON—Banks controlled by three billionaire friends of Russian President Vladimir Putin have seen about $640 million of assets frozen in the U.S. as retaliation for the Kremlin’s actions in Ukraine, according to U.S. government records.
The figures, not previously reported, show the surprising extent to which the economic sanctions imposed by the U.S. have pinched the pockets of some of Russia’s most politically connected firms.
Hit the hardest is Bank Rossiya, which had at least $572 million blocked in U.S. accounts, according to records released to The Wall Street Journal by the Treasury Department. That is equivalent to roughly 10% of its 2013 assets, at today’s exchange rate.
The St. Petersburg bank, whose founder Yuri Kovalchuk is alleged by the U.S. to be one of Mr. Putin’s “cashiers,” was described by the Obama administration as a personal bank for senior Russian officials.
ENLARGE
Russian President Vladimir Putin, left, and billionaire Arkady Rotenberg attend the funeral of a former judo trainer in St. Petersburg in 2013. Photo: Getty Images


Also hit is SMP Bank, majority-owned by Arkady and Boris Rotenberg, two brothers who are childhood friends and former judo partners of Mr. Putin. They have amassed some of Russia’s biggest fortunes, built in part on lucrative contracts with the state and state-owned companies.
Their bank has had at least $65 million—equal to about 2% of 2013 assets—blocked across dozens of accounts in U.S. financial institutions, Treasury documents show.
Dozens of other Russian firms have been ensnared in U.S. sanctions, including a prominent weapons manufacturer. But none comes close to those amounts, reflecting the two banks’ exposure to Western money channels.
The figures also highlight the limited reach of such targeted sanctions—at least relative to the immense fortunes amassed by Russian oligarchs.
The Obama administration and the European Union have imposed several rounds of sanctions since the conflict in Ukraine began. Some mandated visa restrictions and the freezing of individual or company assets, while others sought to restrict Russian access to Western financing or technology.
The idea was to penalize the Kremlin’s inner circle and increase the pressure on Mr. Putin to change course. Yet, nearly a year after the Kremlin grabbed Crimea from Ukraine, there is no evidence the strategy has substantially affected Mr. Putin’s calculus.
Even as Western sanctions help push the Russian economy toward recession, Western officials say Moscow has continued to support and arm separatists in eastern Ukraine in a fight that has claimed some 6,000 lives.
Moscow says its annexation of Crimea reflected the will of the people, citing a vote held under occupation. It has denied aiding the rebels, and imposed its own countersanctions against individuals and some Western imports.
The U.S. and EU have warned of additional sanctions if a peace plan for Ukraine, reached last month, falls apart. There have been calls for more draconian sanctions, including cutting Russia off from the Western bank-transfer system.
But U.S. and European officials have indicated they aren’t seriously considering this option. Some Russian officials have said it would amount to an act of war.
$637

Amount the separatist Luhansk People’s Republic had frozen in its PayPal account, according to Treasury documents


More comprehensive restrictions on Russian business would be particularly sensitive in Europe, which relies on Russian energy imports. Washington has sought to coordinate closely with the EU because unilateral U.S. sanctions would lack the same impact.
Moscow maintains its annexation of Crimea reflected the will of the people living there. It has consistently denied aiding the rebels and imposed its own counter-sanctions against individuals as well as some Western imports.
Amid the renewed Cold War atmosphere, asset freezes targeting Mr. Putin’s longtime friends could contribute to even greater personal animosity.
Arkady Rotenberg had some real-estate holdings blocked in Italy last year, in what appears to be the only publicly disclosed instance of property frozen under the EU sanctions. Mr. Rotenberg acknowledged the problem in a recent interview with the Russian news agency Interfax, calling the freeze “an administrative arrest.”
The Russian parliament is considering a bill, dubbed the Rotenberg law, that would compensate Russian companies and individuals for assets frozen in the West. Mr. Rotenberg, whose net worth Forbes this year estimated at $1.4 billion, says he had nothing to do with the bill and needs no state subsidies.
Some Kremlin-connected oligarchs have minimized their exposure to Western financial markets, in possible anticipation of sanctions.
For instance, Gennady Timchenko, another billionaire friend of Mr. Putin, sold his long-held stake in major oil trader Gunvor just a day before he landed on the U.S. sanctions list in March 2014.
The Treasury Department released the documents after a request made by the Journal under the Freedom of Information Act, but wouldn’t comment further.
Bank Rossiya declined to comment. Mr. Putin has always denied any personal financial connection to the bank, but after the sanctions were imposed he announced that in solidarity, his government salary would henceforth be deposited there.
In a rare interview with Russian state television last year, Mr. Kovalchuk, the bank’s largest shareholder, dismissed the U.S. sanctions as immaterial for the bank or his own finances.
He also called on Russian businesses to become more patriotic and minimize their exposure to the West. “People understand, intuitively, on which side of the barricades business stands,” he said.
At the time, Bank Rossiya had $435,433,344 sitting in a single U.S. account with a financial firm called Computershare Inc., according to the Treasury. Computershare declined to comment. The company says on its website that it manages dividend payments and shareholdings on behalf of its clients.
In 2013, Bank Rossiya reported total assets of 338 billion rubles, which is about $5.6 billion at today’s exchange rates. The assets frozen include accounts held by Sobinbank, a wholly owned subsidiary.
The nature of Bank Rossiya’s U.S. assets in Computershare and elsewhere couldn’t be determined.
“It would appear that Computershare administers investments held by Bank Rossiya outside of Russia,” said Lee Wolosky, a former White House official and a sanctions expert now with Boeis, Schiller & Flexner law firm.
The dollar figure on the account could reflect the market value of securities, which might be harder to sell in a hurry, Mr. Wolosky said.
It’s unclear whether Bank Rossiya attempted to wind down its Western holdings. The bank’s second-largest blocked account in the U.S., worth $73,132,260, was with J.P. Morgan Chase .
J.P. Morgan, which declined to comment, served as the U.S. correspondent bank for Bank Rossiya as well as SMP Bank.
Igor Iliukhin, an SMP spokesman, said assets frozen in the U.S. are “inessential” and that sanctions have only a “slight impact” on the bank’s activity. He said the blocked assets are “much less” than the $65 million figure contained in Treasury reports, but declined to elaborate.
SMP Bank had total assets of about 170 billion rubles in 2013, which is roughly $2.8 billion at current exchange rates.
Unlike Bank Rossiya, SMP Bank didn’t have most of its U.S. assets in a single account, but maintained hundreds of accounts at major financial institutions. Its biggest account was with Citibank N.A., holding $6.4 million. SMP also had millions sitting at Deutsche Bank , MasterCard and others. The banks declined to comment.
In announcing sanctions against the Rotenbergs, Treasury said the brothers received some $7 billion in contracts for Sochi Olympics. Boris Nemtsov, the prominent Putin critic who was killed in Moscow last week, had detailed the Rotenbergs’ alleged no-bid contracts in Sochi in a 2013 report.
Arkady Rotenberg has denied he benefited financially from his connections with Mr. Putin.
“If we are talking about business, it is often harder for me than for my competitors,” he told Russia’s Interfax news agency in October. As for SMP Bank, Mr. Rotenberg said it “didn’t suffer much” from sanctions because most of its business is in Russia.
Besides the banks, Russian firms with significant cash tied up in the U.S. banking system include weapons maker KBP Instrument Design Bureau, with nearly $10 million frozen in four accounts at Citibank, Treasury documents show. Citibank again declined to comment.
KBP makes and exports antitank weapons, air-defense systems and mortars, among other armaments. It referred questions to its holding company where a spokeswoman wasn’t available for comment Thursday. It is unclear why KBP, which had been sanctioned even before Ukraine for alleged dealings with Iran, would even risk keeping any assets in the U.S.
Because of privacy laws, Treasury redacts the names of sanctioned individuals whose assets have been frozen, although it identifies institutions. There aren’t many such individual accounts, and the largest single individual account has $2 million, at Brown Brothers Harriman. The bank declined to comment.
There are mildly comical instances too: East Ukraine’s separatist Donetsk and Luhansk People’s Republics set up PayPal accounts holding $5,354 and $637, respectively, according to the Treasury documents. The accounts were apparently registered under the militias’ real names. PayPal froze them. The company declined to comment.
Write to Philip Shishkin at philip.shishkin@wsj.com

[Vitar]

Сообщение от Dmitry

А вот и настоящий удар по яйцам. Обама копает под Кремль медленно, но размеренно.

..[/email]

да они ваще вандамы

Вашингтон хочет отнять 70 миллионов долларов у сына президента Экваториальной Гвинеи

В Вашингтоне уверены, что Теодор Нгема Обианг Мангу, сын ... президента Экваториальной Африки, ... обладает более чем 100-миллионным состоянием. ...Лэнни Бруэр, помощник Генерального прокурора США, заявил ... и подчеркнул, что Соединенные Штаты никогда не будут местом, где продажные лидеры смогут прятать
нажитые нечестным путем богатства.

[Dang]

Сообщение от Vitar

да они ваще вандамы

все едино - что северная нигерия, что экваториальная африка