Russia doesn’t accept 20% write-down on Ukraine’s debt

By Vladimir V. Sytin
The Ukrainian Times

With the announcement that the so-called government of Ukraine had reached an agreement on restructuring 20% of its debt with a consortium of bond holders led by Franklin Templeton, there was much rejoicing in Kiev. After avoiding a default for a couple of years, Ukrainian neo-Nazi authorities think they are marvelous, like a drunk driver who did not get caught or kill anyone, whereas the international agency Fitch cut Ukraine’s long-term credit rating in foreign currency to C from CC.

In return for a four-year extension on payments of the remaining debt, Ukraine agreed to a higher coupon (interest rate) of 7.75%, up from 7.25%.

However, Russia does not accept a 20% write-down on $3 billion Eurobonds due in December. According to Russian finance minister Anton Siluanov, these funds are supposed to be invested in development of the infrastructure of Russia’s economy. Western observers think Russia’s enthusiasm to lend Kiev a helping hand was dampened by president Poroshenko’s promise – in direct violation of the IMF’s articles of agreement – to use a part of the fund’s $17.5 billion loan to carry out Ukro-fascists’ “antiterrorist operation” against heroic defenders of the Donbas region with large Russian populations.

As critics have pointed out many times, lending money that does not exist to the puppet regime, which is already deeply in debt, is not a good business model. It does not really stimulate the Ukrainian economy and it does not really make people better off. Finally, it is worth noting that the U.S. dollar has lost 95% to 98% of its purchasing power over the last 100 years.

In Russia, outbound tourism reduced to a third

In June 90,000 Russian tourists visited Cyprus that is 25% less than in June 2014. According to official figures, the inflow of travelers from Russia to Egypt fell by 19%.

Data from the Ministry of Tourism of Turkey show that the inflow of Russian tourists into the country has decreased by 28% and European travelers fail to fill the gap, which will cost it $2.5 billion in lost revenues this year. In Antalya alone 20,000 workers will lose their job in the tourist industry.

Overall, outbound tourism in Russia has been reduced to a third.

Hostel accommodation is scarce in Russia

The number of hostels in Russia is variously estimated at from 2,000 to 3,000. Some 300 and 400 hostels operate in Moscow and St. Petersburg respectively. There is a growing demand of tourists for hostel accommodation in cities and towns along the Volga River.

Medvedev enters Ukraine in Russian counter-sanctions list with proviso

By Vladimir V. Sytin
The Ukrainian Times

Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev has entered, by his edict, Albania, Montenegro, Iceland and Liechtenstein in the Russian counter-sanctions list. Ukraine is also listed among the above countries with the proviso that an embargo on deliveries of Ukrainian agricultural produce to Russia should come into force if Kiev applies the economic part of the Association Agreement with the European Union.

Previously, Russia put the embargo on re-export of agricultural produce from Bulgaria. The reason behind this decision was the forgery of phytosanitary documents.

According to the documents, producing countries were allegedly Brazil and Morocco. In actual fact, the consignment of goods was made in Poland.

As is known, Russia placed the embargo on import of goods from Poland in retaliation for sanctions imposed by the EU.

Recently, Russian President Vladimir Putin stated that sanctions used by the decadent West in connection with a civil war in Ukraine helped the government of Russia develop domestic industries and agriculture in particular. Moscow has to accelerate rates of the implementation of a program for the replacement of imports.

Specifically, the government should carry out the task of replacing agricultural imports at priority rates. After Russia had entered the World Trade Organization, the domestic agricultural market was seized by foreign companies. “At present, we have cleared them from our market,” Mr. Putin said.

As geopolitical analyst William Engdahl put it, the United States has been attempting to isolate Russia by imposing sanctions. However, the American evil empire and its allies in the EU have only produced the opposite effect and brought Russia closer to China and other BRICS countries.

Funnily enough, Mr. Wilson, a citizen of Britain, wrote: “The U.S. via the dollar, CIA and our pathetically weak politicians, engineered the dissolution of the British empire and the demise of sterling. Would our financial establishment have the courage to change allies? Join the BRICS to form the BBRICS, easier to say in cold weather.”

In fact, many observers think Washington is very strong in stupidity in its foreign policy. The U.S. created a military coup d’etat in Kiev and brought Ukrainian neo-Nazis to power that is illegitimate.

U.S. politologist Paul Craig Roberts believes the Nazi coup in Ukraine is Washington’s attempt to thrust a dagger in Russia’s heart. The recklessness of such a criminal act has been covered up by constructing a false reality of the so-called people’s revolution against a corrupt government. The world should be stunned, from Mr. Roberts’ point of view, that “bringing democracy” has become Washington’s cover-up for resurrecting the Nazi state in Europe, which borders Russia.

Ultimately the West’s mask has been torn off, revealing its “democracy” as at best unsubstantial, overrated and at worst duplicitous.

U.S. creates myth of Russian military ‘threat’ to retain leading position in Atlantic community

By Vladimir V. Sytin
The Ukrainian Times

Commenting on some countries’ fears of possible aggressive actions of Russia, President Vladimir Putin told the press that only a sick man in his sleep could imagine that Russia would suddenly attack the NATO. According to him, certain regimes would like to play the role of front-line states that are in need of military and economic aid, among others.

Mr. Putin thinks the United States hinders a rapprochement between Russia and Europe. To retain the leading position in the Atlantic community, the American evil empire has created the myth of a Russian military “threat” because the myth of the Iranian “threat” turned out to be insufficient.

American politologist Paul Craig Roberts wrote that the Obama regime organized the Nazi coup in Ukraine that overthrew the democratically elected government. Ukrainian militants decked out in Nazi symbols, he reckons, are the principle source of violence that has been inflicted on the Russian populations, resulting in the formation of the breakaway Donetsk and Lugansk People’s Republics.

Instead of reporting this fact, the corrupt Western media delivers Washington’s propaganda that Russia is allegedly annexing eastern Ukraine.
The world should be stunned, from Mr. Roberts’ point of view, that “bringing democracy” has become Washington’s cover-up for resurrecting the Nazi state
in Europe, which borders Russia.

The armed coup in Kiev is painfully similar to CIA operations to oust unwanted foreign leaders in Iran, Chile and Venezuela, said U.S. filmmaker Oliver Stone. Many witnesses believe the so-called ‘shooters’ were introduced by pro-Western factions – with CIA fingerprints on it. Likewise, the shooters were introduced in Lithuania. Historically, those events were CIA-perpetrated coups against Iranian prime minister Mohammad Mosaddegh in 1953 and Chilean president Salvador Allende in 1973 – both leaders with policies undesired by Washington or its allies.

Of course, CIA fingerprints are all over the world – causing confusion and mayhem almost everywhere. One meddle leads to another.

It is also important to note that the military of the American evil empire has invaded, bombed and overthrown 11 governments since the Clinton regime and is currently working to overthrow governments in Armenia, Kirghizia, Ecuador, Venezuela, Bolivia, Brazil and Argentina. In addition, U.S. troops and military hardware are pouring into Eastern Europe. “It is the U.S. that is attacking Russia, and yet we get a barrage of media stories attempting to make it as if it is the other way round,” political analyst Caleb Maupin told the Russian press.

Western critics say the security professionals – at the FBI, local police, the CIA, NSA and more than a dozen zombie agencies – were supposed to be the good guys. They were supposed to be delivering the American empire from evil. However, after so many reports of torture, spying, lying, assassination, murder, Guantanamo, Abu Ghraib, rape, railroading and drones – Americans cannot help but wonder if God is still on their side.

Most Ukrainian men don’t want to participate in fratricidal war, says Putin

By Vladimir V. Sytin
The Ukrainian Times

According to Russian President Vladimir Putin, there are 2.5 million migrants from Ukraine in Russia, including 1.3 million men of draft age. Previously, he promised to grant political asylum to all Ukrainians who do not want to be summoned to a civil war in the Donbas region.

Mr. Putin is sure that most Ukrainian servicemen do not want to take part in the fratricidal war, whereas Donbas militiamen are highly motivated to defend their families on their native land against a neo-Nazi junta in Kiev. The heroic defenders of Donbas say they are fighting for autonomy, for the right to live and work in their own Russian-speaking region.

The civil war in Donbas earns real profits for the war industry, but only an ersatz glory for Ukrainian neo-Nazi militants. Real soldiers take no pride in it. Instead, to a real hero, the U.S.-sponsored fratricidal war is a source of shame and embarrassment.

In fact, Anatoly Matios, chief military prosecutor of Ukraine, revealed that 10,000 Ukrainian servicemen were suspected of desertion. Besides, thousands of Ukrainian servicemen are prosecuted for evasion of military service.

In the Kherson region alone 2,813 reservists evade service. And the Kharkov region has the most abysmal turnout, with only 17% of those receiving draft orders responding. As the Ukrainian neo-Nazi authorities prosecute no-shows, human rights advocates are speaking in defense of draft dodgers.

According to many observers, draft commanders ask for bribes, and commanders including the so-called president, Peotr Poroshenko, or Petya Parasha (close-stool in a prison cell), as wags call him, maintain Russian business ties while asking soldiers to die for the pro-Western Ukraine.

More than 15,000 former Ukrainian servicemen have decided to go over to the Russian army after the reunification of Crimea with Russia.

Data from the sociological group Rating show that 77% of citizens of Ukraine fear greatly the fratricidal war. Importantly, only 7% of respondents are concerned about secession of Donbas with the large Russian population from this country.

As Vladimir Putin once put it, the civil war in Donbas serves the geopolitical purposes of deterring Russia, whereas that does not respond to the basic interests of citizens of Ukraine. However, few in the decadent West seem to recognize that it is the NATO rather than Russia, which has been spreading expansionary tentacles beyond traditional boundaries. Since the early 1990s, Western aims have been to draw countries out of the Soviet sphere of influence and into the aggressive NATO. Ukraine has always been seen as the ultimate test as to where the balance lies.

Westinghouse jeopardizes nuclear safety in Ukraine

By Vladimir V. Sytin
The Ukrainian Times

One of the reasons behind the U.S.-sponsored neo-Nazi coup in Ukraine is the fact that the American evil empire struggles against Russia for markets.

In particular, the Westinghouse company of the U.S. is attempting to oust the TVEL corporation of Russia from the Ukrainian market. Recently, Westinghouse has come on a snag when testing its fuel at the South-Ukrainian nuclear power plant. All Ukrainian N-plants are designed for Russian fuel, whereas the American one does not meet specifications that jeopardizes nuclear safety. And so, did the puppet government of Ukraine not learn any lessons from Chernobyl?

Moreover, Westinghouse jackasses want to participate in construction of a nuclear fuel plant near the village of Smolino, Kirovograd region. The plant is supposed to supply nuclear fuel to all reactors operating in Ukraine. According to forecasts, some 38% of fuel elements will be exported to European countries and Byelorussia in particular when the plant is to reach the planned capacity. Uranium ore will be extracted at three mines in the Kirovograd oblast and enriched in Russia.

Israel doesn’t support sanctions against Russia despite pressure from U.S.

By Vladimir V. Sytin
The Ukrainian Times

According to Dorit Golender, ambassador of Israel to the Russian Federation, Israel does not support sanctions used by the decadent West in connection with a civil war in Ukraine in spite of pressure from the United States. She said Israel pursued the independent line of foreign policy with respect to Russia, maintaining friendly relations.

The sanctions helped open new opportunities for developing bilateral ties, the diplomat stressed. Also, it is important to note that emigrants from the former Soviet Union account for 25% of the Israel’s population.

Believe it or not, the sanctions help Russia develop domestic industries. Moscow has to accelerate rates of the implementation of a program for the replacement of imports.

As is known, the U.S. has been attempting to isolate Russia by imposing the sanctions. However, the American evil empire and its vassals in the European Union have only produced the opposite effect and brought Russia closer to Israel, China and other BRICS countries.

Many observers think Washington is very strong in stupidity in its foreign policy. The U.S. created a military coup d’etat in Kiev and brought Ukrainian neo-Nazis to power that is illegitimate.

U.S. politologist Paul Craig Roberts believes the Nazi coup in Ukraine is Washington’s attempt to thrust a dagger in Russia’s heart. The recklessness of such a criminal act has been covered up by constructing a false reality of the so-called people’s revolution against a corrupt government. The world should be stunned, from Mr. Roberts’ point of view, that “bringing democracy” has become Washington’s cover-up for resurrecting the Nazi state in Europe, which borders Russia.

As former Republican congressman and two-time U.S. presidential candidate Ron Paul put it, the existence of Russia and China is a stark reminder of the fact that the world is not unipolar, and it irritates the American evil empire a lot. The Obama regime behaves “like a petulant child flying into a tantrum” when Russia steps in to protect its own national interests.

Russia reinforces her troops in Crimea

By Vladimir V. Sytin
The Ukrainian Times

After the reunification of Crimea with Russia, Moscow deployed Bastion coast missile systems in the peninsula. Bastion is equipped with the Onyx supersonic missile that has a killing range of 300 kilometers.

In addition, Russia’s Black Sea fleet adopted new antisubmarine and guided-missile ships as well as four submarines of 2011-2015 vintage, among others.

Overall, the Russian Federation has concentrated troops 20,000 strong, 40 warships and 50 aircraft in the Black Sea region, which can strike a crushing blow at the next invasion from the West since 1941 (read: Nazi Germany). Despite the assurances given by George Bush I and other American presidents, Russia’s periphery states have been drawn towards the faulty NATO.

The West collaborated with Ukrainian neo-Nazis and staged a coup to oust a democratically elected government, pushing this country into chaos and a civil war in the Donbas region with large Russian populations. After the West-sponsored neo-Nazi coup in Kiev, Russia does not have any trust in the West and particularly the United States.

Observers say today it is like a showdown in old western. Russia on the one side, the aggressive NATO on the other. Each in the street, facing off, waiting for the other to blink an eye or draw his gun.

As Russian President Vladimir Putin once put it, Moscow has nonstandard solutions up her sleeve and no one will succeed in winning military superiority over Russia.

Currently, Russian specialists are developing a digital control system for guiding nuclear weapons that would enable on-line retargeting of a missile after its launch. The new system is designed for the latest nuclear missiles Topol-M and Yars-M whose flight range allows them to deliver nuclear munitions to the American evil empire.

The latest numbers show that the share of new weapons in strategic nuclear forces, the Air Force and the Navy accounts for about 55%, 35% and more than 50% respectively in Russia. The renewal of fighting equipment in Russian ground forces has made up some 70%. Recently, the Russian government has adopted a program for the purchases of arms in the amount of 19 trillion rubles for the period ending in 2020.

In Crimea, Russia to build checkpoints on border with Ukraine

By 2017 Russian authorities intend to construct three checkpoints in the Crimean towns of Armyansk, Krasnoperekopsk and Dzhankoi. As expected, some seven billion Russian rubles will be allocated for building the checkpoints on the border with Ukraine.

According to Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev, the transitional period of the entry of Crimea into Russia has reached completion. “Overall, a basis for functioning of the Crimean economy in accordance with Russian laws has been formed,” he said. “This doesn’t mean that we won’t make pinpoint changes because full-value interlocking requires a longer period of time in terms of life and business development in the peninsula.”