RUSSIA TODAY

[džin tonik]

varvarine!!!! rusi ponovo lete!!!!

[Ghoul]

čuj, 'lete'!
ROKAJU!!!

[varvarin]

http://www.b92.net/biz/vesti/svet.php?yyyy=2015&mm=10&dd=02&nav_id=1046553


Italija šokirala Gasprom, 69% više gasa
Gasprom je u trećem tromesečju ove godine u zemlje van Zajednice nezavisnih država (ZND) izvezao 41,4 milijarde kubnih metara gasa.

[Meho Krljic]

čuj, 'lete'!
ROKAJU!!!

Amerikanci tvrde da Rusi namerno ne gađaju položaje Islamske Države već svih drugih pobunjenika, kako bi ojačali Asadovu poziciju. Prefrigano!

[džin tonik]

priznajem da rusi reagirali ok na merkelicin mig u ovoj prici.

[Meho Krljic]

 Russia making 'grave mistake' in Syria: Turkey's Erdogan

[varvarin]

Ako je verovati Britancima, biće još veselja:


http://www.b92.net/info/vesti/index.php?yyyy=2015&mm=10&dd=07&nav_category=78&nav_id=1048260


Putin u Siriju šalje elitnu vojsku?

Ruski predsednik Vladimir Putin navodno je odlučio da u Siriju pošalje pripadnike elitne ruske vojske Spetsnaza kako bi se obračunali sa ekstremistima ID,

[Father Jape]

http://www.izvrsniblogeri.rs/bratoljubilacki-rat/

[Meho Krljic]

Month into Russia's Syria strikes, what has changed?

Russia launched a campaign of air strikes in Syria in support of President Bashar al-Assad on September 30, providing air cover for government offensives in several provinces.

One month into the campaign, here are answers to some key questions:

Q: Where has Russia carried out raids?

A: Russia has conducted air strikes in 10 of Syria's 14 provinces, including the Islamic State (IS) jihadist group strongholds of Raqa and Deir Ezzor.

But most of its raids have been concentrated in Hama, Idlib, Latakia, Aleppo and Homs provinces, where the Syrian government has launched ground offensives largely targeting non-IS groups.

This week, Moscow for the first time reportedly hit the southern province of Daraa, in an apparent expansion of its campaign, according to the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.

The only provinces without recorded Russian strikes are regime stronghold Tartus, majority-Druze Sweida, Quneitra on the ceasefire line with the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights, and Hasakeh, much of which is administered by Kurdish forces.

In all, Moscow has hit 1,623 "terrorist targets" in 1,391 sorties, according to Russia's defence ministry.

Q: What capabilities is Russia using?

A: Russia has a long-standing military facility in the coastal regime stronghold of Tartus, but appears to be operating mostly from a base in Latakia province for the current operation.

Defence ministry statements have referred to air strikes carried out by Russian Su-24, Su-25, Su-30 and Su-34 warplanes.

The defence ministry has also said its military helicopters are present in the country, but they have not been mentioned in statements about air strikes.

And on October 7, Moscow said Russian warships had launched 26 cruise missile strikes against 11 targets from the Caspian Sea.

Russia has sent hundreds of paratroopers and marines to secure its facilities in Tartus and Latakia but says none are involved in ground operations.

Q: Which groups have been targeted?

A: Russia says its campaign is intended to target IS and other "terrorists," but the breadth of its strikes has led to accusations it is hitting moderate and Islamist rebels rather than jihadists.

In several of the provinces it has targeted, including Hama, Latakia and Idlib, there is little or no IS presence.

Moderate groups backed by the United States have accused Moscow of targeting them directly, including the Suqur al-Jabal group, which said in early October that Russian strikes had destroyed its weapons depot in Aleppo province.

However, Russia has also hit IS strongholds, including in Raqa province where the group's de facto Syrian capital is located, and Deir Ezzor, in the east of the country.

Q: What has changed on the ground?

A: Syria's army and pro-regime forces launched their first ground offensive backed by Russian strikes on October 7 in Hama province, targeting a series of villages and towns near a key highway.

In the initial days of the operation, they captured a series of towns and villages, but they subsequently lost ground.

In the Sahl al-Ghab region between Latakia, Hama and Idlib, the regime has taken some strategic hilltops, but not a key position that would give it line-of-fire power over a broad area.

And in southern Aleppo, government forces have taken some six villages as well as hilltops from rebel forces, according to the Observatory.

The army says it has taken 50 villages and smaller districts in the area, capturing some 120 square kilometres (45 sq miles).

But IS forces have severed the only road leading in or out of the government-controlled west of Aleppo city, effectively placing it under siege.

The Russian intervention has put the Syrian army on the offensive for the first time in months, after a series of defeats, particularly in Idlib and Palmyra.

Q: How many people killed?

A: According to the Observatory, 595 people have been killed in Russia air strikes from September 30 to October 29, two-thirds of them fighters.

The monitor says the other third, 185 people, including 48 children, were civilians.

It documented the deaths of 131 IS fighters and 279 members of Al-Qaeda affiliate Al-Nusra Front and other non-IS groups.

Russia has said at least 300 "terrorists" were killed in strikes in Aleppo and Raqa alone, with no further details. It denied killing any civilians.

By comparison, the 13 months of strikes carried out by the US-led coalition fighting IS in Syria have killed 3,649 people.

Of those, 226 or around six percent were civilians, including 65 children, according to the Observatory.

[džin tonik]

jadni ljudi. propadanje zrakoplova mi je jedna od najgorih zamislivih situacija u kojima se covjek moze naci.
tko iskusi, uzas. pokoj im dusi.

PAO RUSKI AIRBUS S VIŠE OD 220 LJUDI Avion pun turista srušio se u Egiptu, spasioci locirali olupinu: 'Od zrakoplova nije ostalo skoro ništa...'

[Meho Krljic]

Da, strašno. Jadni ljudi.

[eddie coyle]

Othodoxality ! 


http://www.b92.net/zivot/vesti.php?yyyy=2015&mm=11&dd=13&nav_id=1062523

[Meho Krljic]

 Crimea blackout after power lines 'blown up'

Moscow (AFP) - Crimea declared a state of emergency on Sunday after its main electricity power lines from Ukraine were blown up, leaving the Russian-annexed peninsula in darkness after the second such attack in a matter of days. Authorities in Crimea, which is dependent on Ukraine for electricity, said they had managed to partially reconnect the cities of Simferopol, Yalta and Saki using generators after two pylons were brought down.
The attack has raised concerns the Black Sea peninsula, which was annexed by Russia last year, will not have enough energy after the other two main power lines supplying the region were blown up on Friday.
"On November 22, at 00:25 am (2225 GMT) there was a switch-off of electricity coming into Crimea from Ukraine," the Crimean branch of Russia's emergency situations ministry said in a statement.
"By decision of the head of the Crimean republic, a state of emergency has been introduced on the peninsula," the ministry said, adding that hospitals and other important buildings were being supplied by generators.
The first deputy premier of Crimea, Mikhail Sheremet, said the peninsula could only supply half its power needs at most using diesel generators and renewable sources such as wind and solar power, the TASS state news agency reported.
The head of the anti-narcotics department of Ukraine's interior ministry, Ilya Kiva, wrote on Facebook in the early hours of Sunday: "The pylons have just been blown up!!!"
The incident came after Ukraine's UNIAN agency reported that two of the main power lines into Crimea had been attacked overnight Thursday to Friday.
Ukraine's state energy company Ukrenergo posted pictures of a downed pylon and one with a hole blown through it taken on Friday morning, saying the power lines were brought down at around 4:00 am.
"The nature of the damage shows that it took place as a result of shelling or the use of explosive devices," Ukrenergo said in a statement.
Crimean Tatars, an ethnic group native to the peninsula who oppose Russian rule, held a protest at the site of the broken power lines in Kherson region on Saturday, RIA Novosti news agency reported.

[varvarin]

http://www.b92.net/biz/vesti/svet.php?yyyy=2015&mm=11&dd=26&nav_id=1067590


"Spremite mere protiv Turske, imate 2 dana"

[džin tonik]

pratim rusku reakciju na turske poteze, pa si sve nesto mislim, predivno, nikad nisam precizno dokucio fenomenalni povijesni trenutak kad se zapadna evropa odlucila na spoj sa osmanskim carstvom, ali ovaj put bi balkan trebao biti postedjen. ipak su i rumunjska i bugarska u cvrstom njemackom zagrljaju, kosovo zaprijecilo jug, ubosni imamo federaciju, znaci veze na sve strane, pa ne bi dodatno trebali slati hrvate na srbiju...

[Albedo 0]

prcanje

Ruski vojni avion iz Sirije ušao je greškom u izraelski vazdušni prostor, izjavio je danas izraelski ministar odbrane Moše Jalon.

 

Ruski suhoj

"Ruski avion je prešao oko 1,5 kilometara našeg vazdušnog prostora po povratku iz Sirije. Sve je odmah rešeno i avion je uspešno nastavio put", rekao je Jalon za izraelski radio.



 

Jalon je rekao da je to "očigledno greška pilota koji je leteo blizu Golana", čiji je deo Izrael pripojio 1981. godine nakon što ga je okupirao u ratu sa Sirijom 1967. godine. Izrael i Sirija su zvanično još u ratu.

 

"Postoji linija komunikacije i koordinacije kako bi se izbegli nesporazumi između Izraela i Rusije o bombardovanju Sirije. Ruski avion nije imao nameru da nas napadne i zbog toga ne treba automatski reagovati i oboriti avion kada se dogodi takva greška", dodao je izraelski ministar.

[Palmer]

Amer glorifikuje rusko obrazovanje

http://www.ceopom-istina.rs/politika-i-drustvo/37282/

[klem]

Putin od čokolade

[Albedo 0]

Vikiliks: Erdogan PLANIRAO obaranje ruskog aviona JOŠ U OKTOBRU

http://www.blic.rs/Vesti/Svet/612175/Vikiliks-Erdogan-PLANIRAO-obaranje-ruskog-aviona-JOS-U-OKTOBRU

[varvarin]

 http://www.b92.net/info/vesti/index.php?yyyy=2015&mm=12&dd=15&nav_category=78&nav_id=1074690


"Putinov 'KGB hod' da može da potegne pištolj"
Neobičan hod Vladimira Putina pri kojem desnu ruku drži skoro nepokretnu posledica je intenzivne obuke ruske službe KGB, a ne Parkinsonove bolesti.

[Meho Krljic]

6 Ways You've Probably Read Russian Propaganda Today

[Albedo 0]

''Ukoliko Turci žele da liznu Amerikance na jedno mesto, nisam siguran koliko je to dobra ideja i da li je to potrebno Amerikancima'' - Vladimir Putin

http://www.blic.rs/vesti/svet/putin-pred-1400-novinara-ako-turci-zele-da-liznu-amerikance-na-jedno-mesto-ne-znam/k6vng14

[Dybuk]

Kolko je dobro biti u poziciji tako nesto da izjavis

[Meho Krljic]

Nikita Kamayev, Ex-Head of Russian Antidoping Agency, Dies

MOSCOW —  A former director of the disgraced Russian antidoping agency has died unexpectedly, a state news agency reported Monday, becoming the second former top official of the agency to die this month.
The former executive, Nikita Kamayev, apparently had a heart attack at home after feeling chest pain while cross-country skiing, the news agency Tass reported, citing another former senior official.
"He never complained about heart problems, at least to me," said the official, Ramil Khabriev. "Maybe his wife knew about such problems."
Mr. Kamayev was 52.

The agency's founding chairman, Vyacheslav Sinev, died Feb. 3, according to a statement from the agency, known by its acronym Rusada. It did not give a cause of death.
Both Mr. Khabriev and Mr. Kamayev resigned in December, a month after the World Anti-Doping Agency released a damning and, for the Russian government, highly embarrassing report describing a state-backed system of sports cheating in the Olympics and other international competitions.
The 323-page report implicated Russian coaches, trainers, doctors and, most worryingly, antidoping authorities in helping athletes obtain banned performance-enhancing drugs and cover up failed drug tests.
The report revealed the most extensive state-sponsored sports doping program since the 1970s. It was unclear whether Mr. Kamayev had any value as a witness to the continuing WADA investigation.
The inquiry into doping and cover-ups in international sports has spread beyond Russia, to elite Kenyan distance runners and to senior African officials accused of blackmail and taking bribes.
At the time of the report's release, Russian officials said that they had been the targets of Western bias springing from recent East-West political tensions.
The Sports Ministry, though, acted quickly to clean up the national antidoping program so that the track-and-field team could be allowed to participate in the Olympics this summer in Rio de Janeiro.
Officials including Mr. Kamayev resigned within weeks amid efforts to avoid a suspension. A laboratory in London now tests Russian Olympic athletes.

[Aco Popara Zver]

nije baš raša tudej

http://worldnewsdailyreport.com/sex-pistols-were-financed-by-ussr-to-destabilize-western-world-admits-ex-kgb-agent/

ali sad je jasno zašto Alex de Large svoje ortake naziva droogs!

[Dybuk]

Najs!! 

Cup of the ol chai, brother sir?

http://youtu.be/yN-c7Xo9kkw

[C Q]

Na RT reklamiraju Weight of Chains 2.

[Ghoul]

ŠTUČKA! 


SEKS-SKANDAL TRESE KREMLJ
Bivši premijer snimljen u krevetu sa NVO aktivistkinjom!


V. F. , Daily mail ,
| 02. 04. 2016 - 17:19h

Mihail Kasjanov, koji je obavljao dužnost premijera od 2000-2004. godine, našao se u centru seks-skandala kada je televizija NTV objavila njegov eksplicitni snimak sa aktivistkinjom Natalijom Pelevinom.


Crno-beli snimak iz spavaće sobe jednog stana u Moskvi jasno prikazuje seksualni čin oženjenog bivšeg premijera (58) i njegove ljubavnice aktivistkinje (38), koja ima i britansko državljanstvo.



Britanski mediji navode da je ovim snimkom značajno srozan ugled Mihaila kasjanova, koji se smatrao jedinim donekle dostojnim protivnikom Vladimira Putina na izborima 2018. godine.



Takođe, ovaj snimak baca senku i na reputaciju aktivistkinje Natalije Pelevine, koja je poznata po svojim kritikama Kremlju zbog Čečenije i "manjka demokratije".

Mihail Kasjanov smatrao se jedinim pravim Putinovim protivnikom

Opozicija optužuje tajnu službu Kremlja da je instalirala skrivenu kameru s ciljem da se Kasjanov osramoti i "onemogući da pobedi na izborima".

http://www.blic.rs/vesti/svet/seks-skandal-trese-kremlj-bivsi-premijer-snimljen-u-krevetu-sa-nvo-aktivistkinjom/b96bd4m

[Aco Popara Zver]

http://www.telesurtv.net/english/news/Poll-Most-Russians-Prefer-Return-of-Soviet-Union-and-Socialism-20160420-0051.html

[varvarin]

Najzad!

[mac]

A šta kaže most non-Russians izvan Rusije, ali unutar bivšeg SSSR?

[Dybuk]

A šta kaže most non-Russians izvan Rusije, ali unutar bivšeg SSSR?

Isto to

[Meho Krljic]

Ja sam pre malo manje od pola godine sedeo u Briselu u kafani sa šarolikom ekipom gde je bilo da se probere malo Belgijanaca a malo više nas istočno od raja, zaključno sa Kirgistanom. I sedi pored mene jedna Flamanka, a sa druge strane Bosanka sa kojom sam se družio tih dana. Pita mene Flamanka jel' vam žao što više nema velike Jugoslavije, a? Na šta joj ja kažem da je meni lako da žalim kad sam Srbin koji pamti Tita, ali ova mala pored mene se rodila znatno posle njegove smrti plus u ratu joj je sadašnji dečko sedeo dve godine u srpskom logoru, ne verujem da baš njoj nedostaje Jugoslavija. Al testa radi, kažem ja, evo pitaj ove dve žene koje sede preko puta nas, jedna iz Ukrajine, jedna iz Letonije, vidi dal' njima nedostaje SSSR.

Zajebe se ona i pita. Sledeća dva sata smo slušali najcrnje priče o represiji, o golgoti koje je Ukrajina proživljavala za vreme zajedničke države, žena (inače lekar, imala je 35 godina kada se SSSR razdružio) je bukvalno rekla da ponekada noću ima košmare u kojima sanja da je ponovo u SSSR, da je i današnja Rusija strašna pretnja Ukrajini i celom bivšem sovjetskom prostoru, ali i šire, završivši izjavom da ona veruje da su čak i teroristički napadi u parizu (koji su se desili mesec ranije) verovatno izvršeni uz Putinov blagoslov.

Tako da...

[Dybuk]

Vau. Da, zvuci bas neostrasceno.

S druge strane upoznali smo Kirgistanca koji je veliki rusofil a ima nesto 25 godina. I jednog Uzbekistanca koji je na istoj liniji.

Naravno da ce Ukrajinka tako da prica o Rusiji. Da nije Putin poslao IS da obavi napade? Koja slepa mrznja, sunce ti....

[Truman]

Pa sad, činjenica je da Ruse malo ko miriše. Ne vole ih ni Poljaci ni Finci ni Ukrajinci...Rusija je bila okupaciona sila u istoriji.

[Meho Krljic]

Ili u slučaju Ukrajine - sada  Naravno, konkretno Ukrajinci mrze Ruse i zbog Holodomora iz tridesetih godina prošlog veka... Ali uopšte, ex-SSSR države su svakako nervozne u najmanju ruku svaki put kada Rusi dignu vojsku... Jermenija i Gruzija su izgubile delove teritorije u poslednjih deset godina itd.

[Aco Popara Zver]

Руси окупирали Пољаке, нико православље није узео и има их 60 милиона

Турци окупирали Србе, исламизација масовна, јањичара стотине хиљада, Срба десетак милиона

Мислим, то је мој прст соли кад их слушам, иако не сумњам у терор сваке империје

Уосталом, русија да мало мрдне прстом, макар у привреди, нормално је да се околне земље тресу, то је као да се међед окрене у зимском сну, што си лежао у близини, зеко пеко!

[Dybuk]

Mali oftopik al kad smo vec kod bivsih drzava....

Sedimo pre neku nedelju u kafeu i pijemo pice, fala bogu ovde su kafici tako koncipirani da je sve zbijeno pa moras da sednes strancu u krilo. Elem, sednu pored neki naoko Francuzi, ubrzo shvatim da je u pitanju italijansko-francuska ekipa, svrseni studenti u ranim 20tim.
No, ne lezi vraze, poce decko pored mene da prica i ja shvatim, Bosanac, bosanski musliman. Pre toga smo naravno, nas dvoje za stolom zivo razgovarali...na srpskom. Nemoguce da nas nije cuo. Italijan se interesuje kako se na bosanskom kaze hello, ovaj kaze"zdravo" pa "kako si" itd Ja sam pored njega, ramena nam se dodiruju, nije nas uopste pogledao, nijednom. Nastavise da pricaju o situaciji u Bosni koju decko nije video 11 godina. Bi mi nekako neprijatno. Pokupismo se. Eto.

[Meho Krljic]

Britanski Jahu stejz klesi:


Sochi Olympics: The whole thing 'was rigged to allow Russian drug cheats to compete' 

There they were, Vladimir Putin, the president of Russia
, and Thomas Bach, the president of the International Olympic Committee. There they were, side-by-side, champagne flute by champagne flute, both wearing blue suits and expressions of importance at a "welcoming party" on the eve of the Sochi Olympics.
The rest of the world was already skeptical of the 2014 Games. Suspicious of the whispers of bribes paid out to win the bid away from Austria. Suspicious of the $51 billion in construction costs to turn a former swampland into something that looked like a still-uncompleted movie set, fake storefronts with nothing behind them. Suspicious of the missing dogs and political rivals, both reportedly scrubbed from the streets.
In Putin, IOC aristocrats such as Bach thought they had found their kindred spirit, willing to pay and do anything for Olympic glory.
Construct lavish and ridiculous facilities that play to the IOC's over-inflated sense of worth? Check. Suck up to IOC leadership like they are all-powerful? Check. Toss a little something extra on the side to assure the voting on host city goes smooth? Cough. Cough.
The New York Times on Thursday reported the latest, and most damning, proof yet that Russia did more than just host the 2014 Winter Olympics: it conspired to fix it. Grigory Rodchenkov, the director of Russia's anti-doping laboratory at the time, detailed to the newspaper how a state-run program was able to use being the host nation to swap out dirty urine samples with clean ones to assure the eligibility of dozens of Russian athletes.
There couldn't be a more apt postscript to the Sochi Games than this: The whole thing was a fake.
The IOC, thinking it had found its latest desperate despot with billions to burn on it while cooing in its ear, was actually being played for fools, as Russia used the home-country advantage to attempt to rig the entire event.
Ah, Thomas Bach, how could you have not seen this coming?
The Times story is surprising only in its breadth and detail.
Of course the Russians were going to cheat. They spent tens of billions, not counting whatever bribe money was or was not doled out, to host the Games. They weren't doing all that to wind up struggling to win medals, finishing sixth like they did in Vancouver four years earlier.
It would have been out of character had they just lost, Putin just saying they'll get them next time. If you're going to let them host the Games, of course they were going to put an over-the-top doping production together.
Everything in Sochi was crooked, not just the poorly laid sidewalks. Just about everyone who was there spent three weeks looking around at the ridiculousness of these Games, at the shoddy construction and bizarre planning and the senseless logistics and had doubts.
Everyone, apparently, but Bach and his friends.
"In a dark-of-night operation," the Times wrote, "Russian antidoping experts and members of the intelligence services surreptitiously replaced urine samples tainted by performance-enhancing drugs with clean urine collected months earlier, somehow breaking into the supposedly tamper-proof bottles that are the standard at international competitions, Dr. Rodchenkov said. For hours each night, they worked in a shadow laboratory lit by a single lamp, passing bottles of urine through a hand-size hole in the wall, to be ready for testing the next day, he said."
The operation is incredible, secretive, sensational and meticulously planned. It took years and millions of dollars to pull off – first doping up the athletes, then, with the help of testers straight out of Rodchenkov's office, keeping them undetected. For instance, "to speed up absorption of the steroids and shorten the detection window, he dissolved the drugs in alcohol – Chivas whiskey for men, Martini vermouth for women."
It reads like a spy novel, only with a more predictable ending.
1. Not a single Russian athlete was caught doping.
2. Russia won the most medals, 33, and most golds, 13, besting the United States and Norway in each respective category. If there were a drug for an improved slap shot, maybe the Russian men's hockey team would have gotten beyond the quarterfinals.
3. Post-Olympics, Putin awarded Dr. Rodchenkov with the Order of Friendship, a prestigious award in that country.
4. In 2015, the World Anti-Doping Agency concluded an investigation that placed the blame for an extensive cheating operation on Rodchenkov.
5. Rodchenkov was forced to resign. He quickly fled to America, claiming he feared for his safety. He probably had good reason. According to the Times, back in Russia, two of his cohorts in the anti-doping system turned up dead.
Good going there, IOC. Well, done. This was a much better idea than just having the Games in Salzburg.
"People are celebrating Olympic champion winners, but we are sitting crazy and replacing their urine," Dr. Rodchenkov told the Times. "Can you imagine how Olympic sport is organized?"
Can you imagine?
Well, it's organized by Thomas Bach and others, folks so desperate for someone to validate their power that they see Vladimir Putin as an ally.
It was Bach, after all, who didn't just clink champagne glasses with Putin, or praise Putin, or overlook the absurdities of Sochi. Bach was even willing to play Putin's political puppet, taking shots at the United States and President Obama, who refused to travel to Russia for the Games, ostensibly because of Russia's anti-gay laws but perhaps mostly out of common sense.
"An ostentatious gesture," Bach said of Obama announcing he wouldn't fly there.
Instead Obama sent a contingent of former athletes, most of them openly gay.
"It's kind of cheap," said Dick Pound, a longtime Olympic administrator and, rather embarrassingly now, the former head of WADA, said at the time. "This is how the United States of America, the world's most important, influential nation handles this issue? In an Olympic context, at a time when you're thinking about bidding for the Olympic Games?"
It's just another reminder why the U.S. is better off staying out of this stuff. Let the IOC play with Putin and the others. Better to just argue for fair play, send our athletes and hope for the best.
Two years ago the IOC leaders were standing up for their new friend Putin, toasting Putin, taking shots at the United States on Putin's behalf. They sure believed in Putin then. And Old Vlad sure has paid them back and then some, laughing all the way.
Hope the champagne tasted good.

[Meho Krljic]

Russia's got a point: The U.S. broke a NATO promise 

  Los Angeles Times     Moscow solidified its hold on Crimea in April, outlawing the Tatar legislature that had opposed Russia's annexation of the region since 2014. Together with Russian military provocations against NATO forces in and around the Baltic, this move seems to validate the observations of Western analysts who argue that under Vladimir Putin, an increasingly aggressive Russia is determined to dominate its neighbors and menace Europe.
Leaders in Moscow, however, tell a different story. For them, Russia is the aggrieved party. They claim the United States has failed to uphold a promise that NATO would not expand into Eastern Europe, a deal made during the 1990 negotiations between the West and the Soviet Union over German unification. In this view, Russia is being forced to forestall NATO's eastward march as a matter of self-defense.
The West has vigorously protested that no such deal was ever struck. However, hundreds of memos, meeting minutes and transcripts from U.S. archives indicate otherwise. Although what the documents reveal isn't enough to make Putin a saint, it suggests that the diagnosis of Russian predation isn't entirely fair. Europe's stability may depend just as much on the West's willingness to reassure Russia about NATO's limits as on deterring Moscow's adventurism.
After the Berlin Wall fell, Europe's regional order hinged on the question of whether a reunified Germany would be aligned with the United States (and NATO), the Soviet Union (and the Warsaw Pact) or neither. Policymakers in the George H.W. Bush administration decided in early 1990 that NATO should include the reconstituted German republic. In early February 1990, U.S. leaders made the Soviets an offer. According to transcripts of meetings in Moscow on Feb. 9, then-Secretary of State James Baker suggested that in exchange for cooperation on Germany, U.S. could make "iron-clad guarantees" that NATO would not expand "one inch eastward." Less than a week later, Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev agreed to begin reunification talks. No formal deal was struck, but from all the evidence, the quid pro quo was clear: Gorbachev acceded to Germany's western alignment and the U.S. would limit NATO's expansion.
Nevertheless, great powers rarely tie their own hands. In internal memorandums and notes, U.S. policymakers soon realized that ruling out NATO's expansion might not be in the best interests of the United States. By late February, Bush and his advisers had decided to leave the door open.
After discussing the issue with West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl on February 24-25, the U.S. gave the former East Germany "special military status," limiting what NATO forces could be stationed there in deference to the Soviet Union. Beyond that, however, talk of proscribing NATO's reach dropped out of the diplomatic conversation. Indeed, by March 1990, State Department officials were advising Baker that NATO could help organize Eastern Europe in the U.S. orbit; by October, U.S. policymakers were contemplating whether and when (as a National Security Council memo put it) to "signal to the new democracies of Eastern Europe NATO's readiness to contemplate their future membership."
At the same time, however, it appears the Americans still were trying to convince the Russians that their concerns about NATO would be respected. Baker pledged in Moscow on May 18, 1990, that the United States would cooperate with the Soviet Union in the "development of a new Europe." And in June, per talking points prepared by the NSC, Bush was telling Soviet leaders that the United States sought "a new, inclusive Europe."
It's therefore not surprising that Russia was incensed when Poland, Hungary, the Czech Republic, the Baltic states and others were ushered into NATO membership starting in the mid-1990s. Boris Yeltsin, Dmitry Medvedev and Gorbachev himself protested through both public and private channels that U.S. leaders had violated the non-expansion arrangement. As NATO began looking even further eastward, to Ukraine and Georgia, protests turned to outright aggression and saber-rattling.  NATO'S widening umbrella doesn't justify Putin's bellicosity or his incursions in Ukraine or Georgia. Still, the evidence suggests that Russia's protests have merit and that U.S. policy has contributed to current tensions in Europe. 
In less than two months, Western heads of state will gather in Warsaw for a NATO summit. Discussions will undoubtedly focus on efforts to contain and deter Russian adventurism — including increasing NATO deployments in Eastern Europe and deepening NATO's ties to Ukraine and Georgia. Such moves, however, will only reinforce the Russian narrative of U.S. duplicity. Instead, addressing a major source of Russian anxieties by taking future NATO expansion off the table could help dampen Russia-Western hostilities. 
Just as a pledge not to expand NATO in 1990 helped end the Cold War, so too may a pledge today help resuscitate the U.S.-Russian relationship.
Joshua R. Itzkowitz Shifrinson is an international security fellow at Dartmouth College and assistant professor at the Bush School of Government, Texas A&M University. His article, "Deal or No Deal? The End of the Cold War and the U.S. Offer to Limit NATO Expansion" was published in the spring issue of International Security.

[Meho Krljic]

Russian leader Putin signs controversial 'Big Brother' law 

Today Russian President Vladimir Putin signed the controversial "anti-terrorist" legislation adopted by the lower and upper houses of parliament in late June, despite the flurry of criticism from opposition-minded circles and the serious concerns expressed by Russian telecom and internet companies.
As reported earlier by East-West Digital News, the new legislation — which Edward Snowden has called "Russia's new Big Brother law" — is not only severe against those involved in "international terrorism," its financing, and its non-denunciation. Law enforcement agencies will also be granted access to any user's messages without any judicial oversight.
Several key provisions will directly affect the internet and telecom industry. In particular, telecom operators and internet resources will need to store the recordings of all phone calls and the content of all text messages for a period of six months. They will be required to cooperate with the Federal Security Service (FSB) to make their users' communications fully accessible to this organization.
President press secretary Dmitry Peskov indicated that Putin "ordered the government to follow very closely [the implementation of the new legislation] in order to minimize the possible risks related to implementation costs, to the use of domestic information storage equipment, or other risks."

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Rusi bombardovali tajnu bazu SAD?; Kremlj: Ništa ne znamo  

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Rusija više ne zavisi od nafte i brojevi konačno pokazuju da puls ruske ekonomije "jače kuca", saglasni su ekonomisti.

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https://twitter.com/AmichaiStein1/status/769836554810454016

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Koga mrzi da klikće:

[Ugly MF]

Atentat na Putina!
Doduše neuspeo!
...ja sad očekujem malko nesrećnih slučajeva sa suparničke mu strane.....

[Meho Krljic]

Russia bans Pornhub, YouPorn—tells citizens to "meet someone in real life"

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  Russia unveils 'Satan 2' missile powerful enough to 'wipe out UK, France or Texas'

Russia has released the first image of its new nuclear missile, a weapon so powerful that it could wipe out nearly all of the United Kingdom or France.
The RS-28 Sarmat thermonuclear-armed ballistic missile was commissioned in 2011 and is expected to come into service in 2018.
The first images of the massive missile were declassified on Sunday and have now been published for the first time.
It has been dubbed "Satan 2", as it will replace the RS-36M, the 1970s-era weapon referred to by Nato as the Satan missile.
   
   Sputnik, the Russian government-controlled news agency, reported in May that the missile could destroy an area "the size of Texas or France".
Russian media report that the missile will weigh up to 10 tons with the capacity to carry up to 10 tons of nuclear cargo.
With that type of payload, it could deliver a blast some 2,000 times more powerful than the bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
Russia reportedly tested a hypersonic warhead in April that is apparently intended for use on the Satan 2 missiles. The warhead is designed to be impossible to intercept because it does not move on a set trajectory.
   
   The Satan 2 will also be much faster than its predecessor.
A statement from V Degtar and Y Kaverin, listed as the missile's chief designer and leading designer respectively, said the Makeyev Rocket Design Bureau was "instructed to start design and development work" by the Kremlin before a contract was signed in 2011 for the missile's development.
"The prospective strategic missile system is being developed in order to assuredly and effectively fulfill objectives of nuclear deterrent by Russia's strategic forces," the statement reads, according to RT, the Russian government-funded news site.
   

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Payback? Russia Gets Hacked, Revealing Putin Aide's Secrets

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Покушавају да среде Трампа!