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In informal conversations gunsmiths say blame bureaucracy and corruption in the Ministry of Interior and Ministry of Defense, which “eats” the lion’s share price and which do not feed on clean hands officials. It is close to the law enforcement bodies intermediary companies, which are essentially just make that transporting weapons from one point to another, and is one of the main reasons why the price tags in stores Ukrainian weapons has got zero.

Illegal weapons

However, such schemes, experts say, nothing good except profit for intermediaries and arms dealers are not brought. In contrast, only even more revived the “black” market weapons. After all, the gray market, like military Kalashnikov can be purchased for $ 500, which is two times cheaper than in licensed stores. A military conflict in the Donbas enables to provide weapons everyone.

Since the start of the antiterrorist operation in the east of the country, the demand for firearms the “black” market grew almost threefold. Estimates from the zone ATO taken at least 50 thousand units of various kinds of small arms.

Where is primarily going to buy weapons cornered Ukrainian pricing can be seen by comparing the official data of the Interior Ministry and NGOs. Law enforcement officials say that today in Ukraine, more than 650 thousand gun owners, which in the hands of 850 thousand “barrels”. But according to the Swiss arms Small Arms Survey project, the illegal weapons in Ukraine amounted to almost 6 million. Units.

The war business

The fact that the state has long arms nachhala on the market within the country and suggests its defense policy over the past 15 years. After all this time Ukraine for their own needs nothing developed and not produced. 98% MIC Ukraine worked for export. Here powers saw the main income for themselves.

http://www.strilets.org/analitika/statti/koruptsiya-yak-osnova-ukrajinskogo-rinku-zbroji

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/ukraine/11204433/Ukraine-rebels-lure-voters-to-polls-with-root-vegetables.html

Bereza says he thought about shooting Gen. Petro Lytvyn, the Ukrainian army officer commanding on the ground during the battle for Ilovaisk, an engagement that left at least a hundred Ukrainian militiamen and soldiers dead and possibly as many as 500 taken prisoner.

Bereza accuses Lytvyn of abandoning his post along with many of his men as Russian reinforcements poured across the border at Amvrosiivka and made for Ilovaisk, a rail hub that Ukrainian forces were attempting to wrest from the separatists. The covert invasion by thousands of Russian troops backed by tanks hardly was registered by an international media focused on the sweeping offensive of jihadist forces in Iraq and Syria. And Western capitals sought to play down the Russian invasion.

According to Bereza and other militia commanders, Lytvyn’s flight left militiamen encircled. In the end he told the general he should shoot himself for his cowardice. Bereza suffered a concussion in the subsequent fighting, the commander of the Donbass battalion was wounded and his counterpart in the Kharkiv militia was killed. A withdrawal agreement for the encircled Ukrainians, made with the Russians and separatists, was not honored and a column of retreating Ukrainians was wiped out as it came under mortar and heavy machine-gun fire.

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/11/24/should-the-u-s-arm-ukraine-s-militias.html

You can see how the Kremlin is framing Ukraine’s rebellion against Russian Kleptocracy.

http://euobserver.com/foreign/126693

A friend’s facebook post:

There’s a conspiracy going on in this world, and it is secretly plotting to take over the world. Like any good conspiracy it abides by a ridiculously positive name, which may confuse the reader into thinking they’re doing good:

The High Trust Society.

As I was able to have a closer look into the conspiracy (through means of subversion, lying, deluding and others long-learned traditions and knowledge of left revolutionaries), it seems that the core members all follow the same code, which includes certain features I would like to shed lights on.

Members are expected to be honest with each other at all times. It seems that honesty here acts not only as social lubricant, but also as aligner of incentives, and reducer of transaction costs.
Along with this comes the seeming necessity to speak truthfully with one another, however costly that may be. Liars (like yours truly, as it were) are expected to be discovered, ostracized and shoo’ed off the Land.
On the note of costliness, members are expected to keep their word at all times. I’m not quite sure how this came into being, given Machiavelli’s writings about how one should only keep it when it’s to your own advantage, but for whatever reason it seems to work for them, which makes them all the more dangerous.

Members seem to be highly trusting of one another (due to above shared values), and will not hesitate to certify their member’s high social capital.

Your diligent reporter has learned a few secrets in due time, and deems this a bright moment to rat out on core members of the conspiracy.

Roman Skaskiw, Curt Doolittle, Andriy Drozda and others try to get away with all of this mumbo-jumbo in Ukraine.

Don _, Johannes _, Ben _, Osku _, Jonathan _, Paul _, Haver _, Erik _ form the Estonian arm.

James _ promotes all of the above in Japan. I’m not sure why he does that, the Japanese seem to be deluded into thinking this is how the world should be run in the first place.

The same can be said for Marco _ — Finnish people seem equally deluded into trusting one another!!

A few stray people reside in Middle Europe, where Germany stands out with Sandro _ and Christoph _.

Another cluster appears all over the Commonwealth, around Andy _, Robyn _, Eli _, Sean _, Michael _, Michael _.

Beware.

Retweeted Conflict Reporter (@Conflict_Report):

‪#‎STATEMENT‬ Cossack warlord to local hungry Ukrainians:

“As long as the dogs are running around in the village – you are not starving!”

http://euromaidanpress.com/2014/11/24/vladimir-putin-spoke-about-his-daughters/

#Ukraine – the only poor, honest, white people.

(Curt)

Мій варіант Української Арифметики:

Україна + Донбас = Донбас
Україна + Галичина = Європа
Галичина + Донбас = війна
Україна – Галичина = Донбас
Україна – Донбас = Україна
Україна в квадраті = самообман
Україна + 1 = Росія
Україна +2 = позаблоковий статус
Україна + Росія = Росія
Україна + Європа = Європа
Україна + Росія + Європа = Донбас
Україна – Росія = Європа
Україна – Європа = Донбас

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My version Of Arithmetic:
Ukraine + Donbass = Donbass
Ukraine + Galicia = Europe
Galicia + Donbass = war
Ukraine – Galicia = Donbass
Ukraine – Donbass = Ukraine
Ukraine squared(?) = Lying to itself
Ukraine + 1 = Russia
Ukraine + 2 = neutral status
Ukraine + Russia = Russia
Ukraine + Europe = Europe
Ukraine + Russia + Europe = Donbass
Ukraine – Russia = Europe
Ukraine – Europe = Donbass

For #Ukraine to be defended, Ukrainian men need to feel ownership of the country’s future –> gun ownership, a militia.

The government will not save you.

#Ukraine, forget about ending gov’t corruption. Gov’t is always corrupt. Instead, provide honest courts & property rights to private sector.

In #Russia, there is no shame in lying. Words are just sounds to influence weak, naive people. #Ukraine is now the frontier of western civ.

http://euromaidanpress.com/2014/06/09/the-western-choice-of-the-russian-government/

(from August)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3DwEa3VhKgU

http://www.businessinsider.com/russian-weapons-separatists-using-in-ukraine-2014-11

Give Poland nukes! Having experienced it so painfully, Poland understands the Russian mentality better than any other EU country. They only need a few. Russia is a one-city country. If you have the capability to nuke Moscow, you have mutually assured destruction.

Mikhail Leontiev, vice-president of Rosneft, proposes to intimidate Western countries with nuclear weapons into lifting sanctions:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PR7vafGclnM