Author Archives: RomanInUkraine
Immediate Russian disinformation: “SU24 shot down by Ukrainian missile, according to LifeNews.”
“SU24 shot down by Ukrainian missile, according to LifeNews.”
Russia immediately creating dis-information for domestic consumption. Keep as many people as confused as possible.
Turkey ‘downs Russian warplane on Syria border’
Turkish military officials said Turkish F-16s had shot down the plane after repeatedly warning its pilots they were violating Turkish airspace.
Donbas militants stealing Russia’s funds allocated for military needs
Complete lack of surprise:
—“The militants of the 1st army corps have stolen funds that Russia had allocated for the maintenance of military units, the Ukrainian Defense Ministry’s GUR Main Intelligence Department has reported.”—
As part of Crimea Blockade, activists blow up power lines going to Crimea
Wikileaks has been posting Russian propaganda
about Ukraine and other things:
Joke about Ukraine’s Economy in the 90s
from Odessa ’93-94 apparently:
“Ukraine should get the Nobel Prize for Economics because it somehow managed to create something worse than Communism”
UN to Poland: more abortions, less traditional family, less free speech
The document calls for Poland to “make the conditions for abortion less restrictive and, in relation to adolescent girls, to reflect the right of the child to express her views and the best interests of the child.” It also commands Poland to “establish clear standards for a uniform and non-restrictive interpretation of the conditions for legal abortion and relevant procedures”.
In one of the most controversial recommendations, it even calls for an end to so-called “windows of life” – small rooms built into the walls of convents where desperate mothers can leave unwanted children.
Bartosz Lewandowski of the Ordo Iuris Institute for Legal Culture slammed the report, calling the UN committee “schizophrenic”.He told Radio Maryja:
“That is a bizarre situation if the Committee on the Rights of the Child calls to ensure that these children can be killed. It is a schizophrenic situation. We have yet another example of how European institutions and international organisations are made to serve a specific purpose.”
The UN also says that “gender stereotypes concerning the roles and responsibilities of women and men in the family and society persist” in the deeply Catholic nation, while another section tells Poland to introduce new hate crime laws to “define hate speech and other hate crimes motivated by racism, xenophobia and homophobia as specific punishable offences.”
French-Ukrainian becomes mayor in Sumy Region
Until March 2015, the 61-year-old Terestchenko was a French citizen, born and raised in Paris. That month he acquired a Ukrainian passport straight from the hands of President Petro Poroshenko. Why the hullabaloo? Because Terestchenko is a descendant of the Tereshchenko family, one of Ukraine’s grandest, having produced a number of prominent entrepreneurs, philanthropists, art collectors, and diplomats in the 18th–20th centuries. The family fled to France during the bloody years of the Bolshevik Revolution. Their expropriated art collection then formed the core of what eventually became the Kyiv National Museum of Russian Art.
Michel—described by one source as an “art patron, entrepreneur and descendant of the legendary dynasty” and by another as a “cordial bon vivant clad in a brown bomber jacket”—returned to Ukraine about a decade ago. Apparently, “a sudden desire to see his ancestral home nearly a decade ago moved Tereshchenko to resettle from Paris and turn part of the old family mansion into the office of a profitable flax and hemp production plant.”
Terestchenko’s decision to get involved in politics was just as unexpected. He speaks Russian slowly, slightly ungrammatically, and with a charming French accent:
I love Ukraine very much. It’s the homeland of my ancestors. It’s now my homeland. I was on the Maidan. I was no hero, just a simple man. I was still French then…. I was there all the time. I saw how they brought down the Lenin monument on December 8 [2013]…. I saw fourteen corpses. I will never forget this. Until then, I believed it was possible not to take part in politics. But then I saw what had happened…. Things are difficult at the state level. There are reforms, but they’re proceeding very slowly… Many people have died, over 7,000. Every family has experienced a trauma. And in Hlukhiv there are no reforms… The city is dying…. There are no investments, no future…. When the residents of Hlukhiv suggested I run for mayor, I said to myself: Michel, you can’t say no.
http://www.worldaffairsjournal.org/blog/alexander-j-motyl/frenchman-comes-ukraine
Ukraine just qualified for Euro cup 2016
Oleg Sohor, ADCC Gold! #BJJ
My friend Олег Согор (right), with whom I started the Lviv Grappling Club and whom I could still submit (sometimes) back in 2011, kicked ass in the ADCC Eastern European Open III 2015!
Gold – 65,9 kg (Advanced)
Silver – Open weight Class (Advanced)
He has the freaky calmness before a bout which I’ve always envied but never understood. It’s like he’s missing the gene that tells normal people to be nervous.
My friends from the Kyiv BJJ club kicking butt in European tournaments!
Poland’s foreign minister proposes forming army out of the Syrian men arriving in Europe
Chechen PM in exile very carefully worded condolences to Paris
“We admire strength of the French people in the face of yet another barbaric terrorist attack organized by anti-Islamic forces controlled by the aggressor-state that terrorizes citizens of Chechenia, Georgia, Ukraine and the rest of the civilized world for the last 15 years.
We express our most heartfelt condolences to the relatives of victims of this barbaric act of terror, and to all citizens of France. Every citizen of Chechenia shares the pain of your loss today.
Prime-Minister of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria
Akhmed Zakaev
Press-Release ChRI
While Paris attack distracts world attention from Putin’s wars, Russian forces escalate and are now shelling east Ukraine with Grad rockets.
6 Ukrainian KIA. May they rest in peace. I feel a debt to these men.
Russia Prefers Chaos, funds both sides of many conflicts
I really need to turn this into an article. Here are my notes:
#Russia is funding both the right (who generally have my sympathies) and the jihadists (via Chechens). #ParisAttacks
Why #Russia creates chaos? 1/3 In chaos, autocracy > delegated authority & initiative, and #Russian can ONLY survive via autocracy.
Why #Russia creates chaos? 2/3 They know they can’t compete with western high trust, and they are directly attacking it.
Why #Russia creates chaos? 3/3 They fear Russians revolting and non-Russians resisting so they deliberately pollute the information space.
Adam Curtis Wipe 2014 on Vladislav Surkov:
Wife and I visiting NC, Nov 2015.
We missed our connection in Detroit b/c immigration wanted to interrogate Yulia. Here’s the sunset from Detroit’s Terminal after they let us through.
Resurrected the croquet set from my childhood.
First generation teaching second generation to make pysanky, and second generation teaching third generation to make vareneky.
My wife’s first ever pysanka.
French police arrest five Russians suspected of planning an attack
After Paris Attacks, Poland Says It Will No Longer Participate in EU’s Refugee Plan
Good!
Eastern Europe has a bright future.
Azov’s Andriy Biletsky on Paris attack
Azov’s Andriy Biletsky on Paris attack:
—“At such moments I especially want to look back to those centuries when the Frank knights defended with their sword the borders of Europe and the walls of their own homes. To the times when the crusader’s shield crossed the path of evil.”—
