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This is literally a level from a STALKER game. Putin must be a closet fan.
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Gaj posted:This is literally a level from a STALKER game. Putin must be a closet fan.
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Sep 7, 2019 09:48
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Major prisoner swap between Ukraine and Russia. Ukrainian national and MH17 suspect for Sentsov and dozens of sailors that are prisoners of war. Spin on this going to be wild
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You can track the flight to Russia with the prisoners here: https://www.flightradar24.com/RSD092/220147fe Vladimir Tsemakh is also reportedly on board, he's the Ukrainian citizen grabbed by the SBU and military from Eastern Ukraine, and is a witness and suspect in the MH17 case. He was released from prison last night on bail, and has made it onto the plane. He's not a Russian citizen, so legally he couldn't be part of a prisoner swap, so it seems instead they went with releasing him for a bullshit reason and somehow he found himself on the same plane to Moscow as the prisoners being swapped. The Joint Investigation Team just wrote to Ukraine to say he was a suspect in the MH17 case, and it appears he also hide the Buk that shot down MH17. He was expected to appear as a witness at the March 2020 MH17 trial in Schiphol, but obviously that's not going to happen now.
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Tsemakh just disembarked in Moscow, and the Dutch have already asked that he be extradited: https://twitter.com/christogrozev/status/1170291798163501061
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Brown Moses posted:Tsemakh just disembarked in Moscow, and the Dutch have already asked that he be extradited: What will Russia do now is rhetorical right? Meanwhile https://twitter.com/XSovietNews/status/1170296945610493953
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Sep 7, 2019 12:26
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Navalny was streaming live during the raid.
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Brown Moses posted:Tsemakh just disembarked in Moscow, and the Dutch have already asked that he be extradited: Maybe they can hand the request over at PACE since they love talking to Russia so much. (Also wonder if he is getting Russian citizenship ASAP or if they would decline extradition for other reasons).
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Sep 7, 2019 18:10
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I try to imagine this happening in an American election. https://twitter.com/Hromadske/status/1170703938766737408
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HUGE PUBES A PLUS posted:I try to imagine this happening in an American election.
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Я не понимаю
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WAR CRIME GIGOLO posted:Я не понимаю
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Looks like Putin's party took a massive hit in Moscow and elsewhere in the country. Currently, over 150 offices and personal houses of opposition have been raided by SWAT and police, no warrants, no charges, some were arrested for resisting. The Russian police state is showing its colors.
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Can someone clarify for me what's going on with the Sejm suspension? It's kind of hard to tell from the outside whether BoJo and the duckman are working from the same playbook or what.
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Interesting sources Rachel Maddow's using these days. 
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Osmosisch posted:Can someone clarify for me what's going on with the Sejm suspension? It's kind of hard to tell from the outside whether BoJo and the duckman are working from the same playbook or what. https://www.polityka.pl/tygodnikpolityka/kraj/1924298,1,czy-pis-probuje-sie-zabezpieczyc-przed-oddaniem-wladzy.read tl;dr: in theory, if PiS doesn't like the result of the elections, they could in theory use legal loopholes to keep the current parliament going almost indefinitely so that it can pass any legislation needed for PiS to stay in power, and if the opposition MPs decide to boycott it, PiS will have constitutional majority. I don't think it's likely, though, PiS will win the election by a landslide anyway and the EU would throw a shitfit over this.
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szary posted:https://www.polityka.pl/tygodnikpolityka/kraj/1924298,1,czy-pis-probuje-sie-zabezpieczyc-przed-oddaniem-wladzy.read Thanks a bunch.
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So with these elections and followup arrests where to now for the establishment and opposition? It just seems over time there are more protests and frequent arrests.
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szary posted:https://www.polityka.pl/tygodnikpolityka/kraj/1924298,1,czy-pis-probuje-sie-zabezpieczyc-przed-oddaniem-wladzy.read At this point opposition is doing everything to avoid winning. PO shills are mostly focused on insulting other parties' electorate and threatening with economic crisis if Kaczyński wins again. SLD (which almost absorbed Wiosna and vassalized Razem) mostly tries to appeal to the progressive electorate which usually voted for PO. Meanwhile, PiS recently promised a large increase of the minimum wage, which currently is pretty low.
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https://www.bellingcat.com/news/uk-and-europe/2019/09/04/the-hardcore-russian-neo-nazi-group-that-calls-ukraine-home/ Nice article about nazis in Ukraine. It's interesting how invisible they are from inside the country, and yet a real and serious threat.
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Shy posted:https://www.bellingcat.com/news/uk-and-europe/2019/09/04/the-hardcore-russian-neo-nazi-group-that-calls-ukraine-home/ The comments on that article, drat...
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How is this Trump-Zelenskiy business playing out on the Ukrainian end? I know nothing about Ukrainian politics but I would imagine this kind of thing would be incredibly damaging to Zelenskiy's Presidency. This is the most "I'm so hosed" expression ever. 
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Jagged Jim posted:How is this Trump-Zelenskiy business playing out on the Ukrainian end? I know nothing about Ukrainian politics but I would imagine this kind of thing would be incredibly damaging to Zelenskiy's Presidency. People who really hate him say he's a traitor (for possibly maybe creating problems for dear American friends), and people who really like him are excited that Ukraine is an influential player on international stage. Most people don't seem to care either way, though. The recent appointment of Anton Gerashchenko (one of the people behind Myrotvroets) as a deputy minister of Internal Affairs generated roughly the same amount of controversy from what I can tell.
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Paladinus posted:The recent appointment of Anton Gerashchenko (one of the people behind Myrotvroets) as a deputy minister of Internal Affairs generated roughly the same amount of controversy from what I can tell. Holy mother of god. Wow. Woah.
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Jagged Jim posted:How is this Trump-Zelenskiy business playing out on the Ukrainian end? I know nothing about Ukrainian politics but I would imagine this kind of thing would be incredibly damaging to Zelenskiy's Presidency. Dude looks like a young Mr. Bean
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Dawncloack posted:Holy mother of god. Wow. Woah. Seconding that 
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I wonder if Bellingcat inspired them in some way...
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Scaramouche posted:I wonder if Bellingcat inspired them in some way... I very much doubt that. It's more likely just because he's close to Avakov, current minister, who has influence over a group of MPs in Zelenskyi's party. There are already conflicts within the party, especially surrounding a proposed set of laws aimed at opening Ukraine's land market, so to keep some semblance of unity, concessions have to be made to various interest groups, including Avakov.
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While there's an open source element to their work, it's really about making a political point then creating solid investigative work, and they certainly cast a far too wide net when looking for people they consider enemies of Ukraine. We've just published a piece on the suspect in the recent Berlin assassination of Selimkhan Khangoshvili. The New York Times reported yesterday Western intelligence agencies believe his real ID is Vladimir Stepanov, a former police officer serving time in prison, who was supposedly released to do the assassination, but we found that's very unlikely to be true: https://twitter.com/bellingcat/status/1177481366423781377 https://twitter.com/bellingcat/status/1177482639122391046 https://twitter.com/bellingcat/status/1177483736897617920 https://twitter.com/bellingcat/status/1177484098706690048 https://twitter.com/bellingcat/status/1177484375522365440 https://twitter.com/bellingcat/status/1177484570188402690 The whole thing seems weird, it's like someone has either really convinced themselves this is the right person and is telling everyone they can about it, or it's a purposeful attempt to lead the media and Western intelligence agencies in the wrong direction.
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Brown Moses posted:While there's an open source element to their work, it's really about making a political point then creating solid investigative work, and they certainly cast a far too wide net when looking for people they consider enemies of Ukraine. His nose is a dead giveaway that they are not the same person. They have noses from different genetic pools.
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 Post from USPOL. Zelensky has ordered all ukrainian forces out of donbass!!!!! https://www.kyivpost.com/ukraine-politics/ukraine-agrees-to-steinmeier-formula-green-lights-elections-in-occupied-donbas.html Remember boys. MARIUPOL IS THE GOAL https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mariupol mariupol is the manufacturing hub of Ukraine It encompasses the highest GDP area after kyiv and Запорожье, so this is a major loving appeasement to Putin. WAR CRIME GIGOLO fucked around with this message at 07:24 on Oct 2, 2019 |
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He didn't. He only confirmed that Ukrainian and separatist military are going to pull back from certain regions. But complete cease fire and demilitarisation are key steps in following the political part of Minsk agreements, no more, no less. Zelenskyi's take on Steinmeier's formula is more reserved than what Putin would want (i.e. to hold elections with separatist forces still controlling the territory).quote:A key condition for the elections to take place is for the Russian forces and Russian-backed militants to leave the territory and for Ukraine to regain control over the eastern border with Russia, according to President Volodymyr Zelensky. You frankly have to be insane to inject Trump into this. Zelenskyi's main promise during elections and his inauguration was bringing peace to Eastern Ukraine at all costs, and he so far doesn't do anything that Poroshenko at least didn't try. All this stuff is in Minsk agreements. Paladinus fucked around with this message at 10:09 on Oct 2, 2019 |
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That got me freaked out for a moment but this really seems like the best move at this point short of rolling tanks into Moscow, even if it give s Putin a chance to pull some shenanigans. Dragging this out isn't really in our interest.
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What Putin really wanted the last couple times this was tried was a "special status" for Donbass making it into new Republika Srpska, with a veto over foreign policy. I haven't seen anything to suggest that anything like that is likely to happen this time, either.
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OddObserver posted:What Putin really wanted the last couple times this was tried was a "special status" for Donbass making it into new Republika Srpska, with a veto over foreign policy. I haven't seen anything to suggest that anything like that is likely to happen this time, either. Special status is part of Minsk agreements, and Poroshenko himself authored the law 'On special status of local government in certain regions of Donietsk and Luhansk oblasts' all the way back in 2015, it was approved by Rada, and is still in force until the end of this year. However, Russia and separatist leaders weren't exactly happy with the law at the time, so local elections that the law described never happened. The amount of power all sides of the conflict expect local Donetsk and Luhansk governments to have is going to be a hot topic for a long time, but special status itself is not going anywhere, that's for sure. The law in question: https://zakon.rada.gov.ua/laws/show/1680-18
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Paladinus posted:Special status is part of Minsk agreements, and Poroshenko himself authored the law 'On special status of local government in certain regions of Donietsk and Luhansk oblasts' all the way back in 2015, it was approved by Rada, and is still in force until the end of this year. However, Russia and separatist leaders weren't exactly happy with the law at the time, so local elections that the law described never happened. The amount of power all sides of the conflict expect local Donetsk and Luhansk governments to have is going to be a hot topic for a long time, but special status itself is not going anywhere, that's for sure. Right, but I don't think that is what Putin wanted, it's all local stuff, even if some points are extremely dangerous.
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OddObserver posted:Right, but I don't think that is what Putin wanted, it's all local stuff, even if some points are extremely dangerous. Well, we'll have to see what Zelenskyi's new special status law offers. He said that Steinmeier formula is going to be taken into account somehow, and that's about it. I also highly doubt that Zelenskyi is going to risk crossing any red lines there.
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Paladinus posted:Well, we'll have to see what Zelenskyi's new special status law offers. He said that Steinmeier formula is going to be taken into account somehow, and that's about it. I also highly doubt that Zelenskyi is going to risk crossing any red lines there. Klimkin had a similar take: https://mobile.twitter.com/PavloKlimkin/status/1179143053048733702
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