Alex Christoforou
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Putin demolishes Sky News reporter and NATO in one go
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I imagine all these atrocities were in compliance with “rules of the road” in place at the time. The Serbia situation was well documented in Diana Johnstone’s CIRCLE IN THE DARKNESS.
This was a strange “press conference”, devoted almost exclusively to harping on Nato, Ukraine, possible war and other such topics that we have been fed with for the past months by the press. Not a single word about corruption in the Russian government. Why did no journalist ask about the strange dealings of Tatiana Golikova, “spare prime minister”; who keeps gobbling state funds to feed her husband’s and stepson’s firm Novitok? They produce the necessary “vaccines” against this so-called “epidemy” that comes in very handy to those who profit financially from it. They might keep it going forever …. Corruption… Read more »
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And where does the embezzled money go? Golikova’s family buys with it golf courses and mansions on the Costa del Sol in Spain.
Why does the current Russian president turn a blind eye on this ongoing corruption? One really wonders ….
Grifter and thief of state funds, Tatiana Golikova, will not like this, ha ha, because she cannot melk the cash cow so much longer: ZNAK – In Yekaterinburg, the participants of the next picket against QR codes compare themselves to the Decembrists – Another mass picket against QR codes in public places will take place in Yekaterinburg. According to the organizer of the action, activist of the People’s Public Chamber Alexander Lekomtsev, the event will take place on December 26. The picket participants timed the protest action to coincide with the Day of the Decembrist Uprising: in their opinion, like… Read more »
US journalists can not ask questions about corruptions without the laughter of the audience. Honestly no state is as corrupt as the US. Even the DOJ can’t avoid to stick to the government in a very incest manner.
I know that US Americans laugh at all kinds of things. They have a special sort of humour, which is not really shared in Europe or in Russia.
The entire US Military-Industrial Complex is a gigantic and corrupt operaton. See Smedley Butler’s book “War is a Racket”.from 1935. If it was bad then, it’s so much worse now. It even necessitates the destruction of nations.
However, this article is about Russia. We are dealing with the Russian Federation here, which quite a different thing.
“The entire US Military-Industrial Complex” is certainly not a good example to follow for Russia.
TAKE NOTE – YOU GRIFTERS AND THIEVES OF STATE FUNDS – TATIANA GOLIKOVA AND ANNA POPOVA.! – ZNAK REPORTS: About 100 people came to the fourth action against QR codes in Yekaterinburg The fourth agreed picket against the system of admission to public places by QR codes was held in Yekaterinburg. For the second time, the activists agreed on an event in the park on Bolshakov Street. Many activists brought posters with them again. Some slogans were traditionally devoted to comparing QR codes with fascism, other participants talked about the difficulties faced by the business after the introduction of the… Read more »
Another topic that was not touched at the so-called “press conference”: Why is it that the Russian Federation, owning immense wealth of natural resources, cannot cope with the task of eradication extreme poverty? Why do the rich get richer, the poorer get poorer every year? This is like the times of the tsarist regime. Glamour and wealth on top – misery at the bottom. The party “United Russia” promised to cope with poverty in Russia back in 2003: poverty “humiliates a person” and “insults the whole country” – the party wrote in its manifesto. In 2008, the party committed itself… Read more »
AN UNUSUAL WAY OF FIGHTING AGAINST POVERTY ZNAK REPORTS: Communists of the Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug recommended that officials suck icicles instead of New Year’s bonuses – At a meeting of the Ugra Duma, the chairman of the Communist Party faction Aleksey Savintsev suggested that officials who could not master the annual budget for the implementation of social programs in 2021 suck icicles. The deputy did not agree with the results of the implementation of state programs and with a reduction of 3 billion rubles in social spending. “What kind of social budget is this, if officials are not trying to fight… Read more »
I suggest that grifter Tatiana Golikova also “suck icicles”, instead of receiving a remuneration as “spare prime minister”.
Grifter and thief of state funds, Tatiana Golikova, keeps pushing her family’s product “EpiVac”, although it does not help in the least against Omicron. The greedy vulture wants to keep raffling money.
HOW TO SAVE ON PUBLIC EXPENSES:
ZNAK REPORTS:
In Chelyabinsk, deputies proposed to deprive the head of the district of his official car
The independent deputies of the Tsentralny district of Chelyabinsk want to take away the official car from the head of the district, Viktor Ereklintsev.
In the opinion of the opposition, the Central District is not so large that the head needs to use a car, he can move around and ride to work by public transport.
This is a very good idea and could be applied to Moscow as well. All the government officials do not really need official cars. They can use public transport (it is a lot cheaper). The money saved could be used for social projects.
Such pettiness.
Helping the population with socially good programmes instead of squandering money on the rich boyars is always a good idea. It is magnanimity used in the right place.
Had the Tsars known this they would not have lost their power in the 1917 October Revolution.
It might be a good idea for those at the top today, to study Russian History carefully so as not to repeat past mistakes.
: In the Russian city of Yekaterinburg, people are very angry because of rising prices and low living standards. All in all, they do not like the government very much in this Urals city. ZNAK REPORTS: We conducted a survey to find out what questions passers-by would ask Putin on the streets of Yekaterinburg. Poverty became the main theme. Older people complained about low pensions, while young people complained about high prices in stores. “Simple products, eggs are expensive!” – a young man wondered. “Why, with its colossal natural resources, is Russia among the ten poorest countries in the world? I earn 13.000… Read more »
It is noteworthy that the last Tsar was shot in Yekaterinburg, 103 years ago. The people in the Urals have never liked those in Moscow squandering people’s money. And the attitudes have not changed to this very day.
Building or buying up gilded palaces is not a very good idea, when a great part of the population is starving.
And spraying people with silver so they can enter the so-called “press conference” of the current tsar is also not a good idea, especially not when this silver spraying operation costs more than a billion dollars, while in Russia people live below the minimum living standard.
Exploiting people and squandering tax payers’ money is truly not a very clever thing. It will hit those squanderers on the head like a bumerang.
There is great unrest in the URALS REGION. If a revolution is started in Russia, it will be here, in the Urals, where it will begin, just like it did about 110 years ago, when the Ural Bolsheviks decided to kill the last Tsar. ZNAK reports: In the Urals, acid was poured over the cars of city officials. Unidentified persons doused two cars of officials of the Sosva administration in the Sverdlovsk region with a liquid for removing paint from metal, containing acid and alkali. The cars of the deputy head of the department of municipal service, legal and personnel… Read more »
Message to Olivia Kroth
Which country do you live in, what is your nationality, who do you work for? I’m thinking US.
“Die Gedanken sind frei”. – “Thoughts are free”. (Friedchrich von chiller, classic German author).
“Schiller”
Another curiosity about this so-called “press conference” was the amount of money for installations to “spray the journalists” with silver particles. MEDUZA REPORTS: Why were journalists attending Vladimir Putin’s annual press conference sprayed with silver particles? Around 500 journalists were invited to attend . But even those with invitations couldn’t just waltz right inside. First, they had to pass through a disinfection booth installed at the entrance, which sprayed attendees with silver particles. Then, they had to don special protective masks treated with an “antibacterial solution of nanosilver.” The Presidential Administrative Directorate spent a grand total of 117 million rubles (about $1.6… Read more »
A lavish expenditure indeed: $1.6 million (dollars, not rubles, dear readers!) just to organize a so-called “press conference” in the Manezh of Moscow that lasted FOUR HOURS. FOUR MILLION DOLLARS PER HOUR! Grandiose! Extravagant! I doubt that the last Tsar of Russia, who was shot in Yekaterinburg, in Juli 1918, ever spent that much money for one hour of his silly costume balls at his palace in Saint Petersburg. But maybe he did, who knows. Regarding that so-called “press conference” in Moscow: A tele-conference (with social distancing) might have been a bit cheaper. And all of this pomp, while in the… Read more »
Correction: not four million – but 400.000 dollars per hour. Well this is really cheap, isn’t it?
Next time I suggest they spray diamonds instead of silver, so the hand-picked 507 “journalists” attending these so-called “press conferences” have a pretty souvenir to take home.
Well, how about little diamonds the size of 10 carats each?
We don’t want to be “petty”, do we?
Another curiosity about this so-called “press conference” was the amount of money for installations to “spray the journalists” with silver particles. MEDUZA REPORTS: Why were journalists attending Vladimir Putin’s annual press conference sprayed with silver particles? Around 500 journalists were invited to attend . But even those with invitations couldn’t just waltz right inside. First, they had to pass through a disinfection booth installed at the entrance, which sprayed attendees with silver particles. Then, they had to don special protective masks treated with an “antibacterial solution of nanosilver.” The Presidential Administrative Directorate spent a grand total of 117 million rubles (about… Read more »
A lavish expenditure indeed: $1.6 million (dollars, not rubles, dear readers!) just to organize a so-called “press conference” in the Manezh of Moscow that lasted FOUR HOURS. FOUR MILLION DOLLARS PER HOUR! Grandiose! Extravagant! I doubt that the last Tsar of Russia, who was shot in Yekaterinburg, in Juli 1918, ever spent that much money for one hour of his silly costume balls at his palace in Saint Petersburg. But maybe he did, who knows. Regarding that so-called “press conference” in Moscow: A tele-conference (with social distancing) might have been a bit cheaper. And all of this pomp, while in… Read more »
Correction: not four million – but 400.000 dollars per hour. Well this is really cheap, isn’t it?
Next time I suggest they spray diamonds instead of silver, so the hand-picked 507 “journalists” attending these so-called “press conferences” have a pretty souvenir to take home.
Well, how about little diamonds the size of 10 carats each?
We don’t want to be “petty”, do we?
The Russians have their own website to make fun of the Russian government’s extravagances. On the “Jokes from Russia” website we can read about the so-called “press conference”: 2/24/2021 THE FUNNIEST JOKES OF THE DAY! “I understand from Putin’s speech that everything is fine in the country and it will get even worse.” – “When serfdom is introduced in Russia, it will be possible to find out who your master is on the website of the State Service.” – “After Putin’s press conference, the people could not restrain themselves and said nothing.” – “Inflation is expected to reach eight percent,”… Read more »
VESTI REPORTS: The number of poor Russians is two times higher than the official figure Officially, there are about 17.6% of Russians who find themselves below the poverty line, 25.8 million people – about every sixth inhabitant of the country, according to FinExpertiza.. However, people with such incomes run the risk of facing poverty. There are twice as many such Russians than the “officially poor”. According to the Russian methodology, people with a monthly income below the subsistence level (11.653 thousand rubles) find themselves below the poverty line . The poor are found most of all in the rich regions where… Read more »
“The deadline for reducing poverty was postponed to 2030”. The current tsar of Russia will probably postpone it to 2040, due to his lavish expenditures.
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Not only in the Urals region many people dislike the current russian president but in Crimea, too. A Crimean news media writes: In Crimea, Putin is being “erased”: graffiti as a mirror of the Russian president’s rating – 18 March 2020 After 2014, graffiti with Vladimir Putin began to appear on the peninsula. A wave of street creativity covered Crimea in 2015. At the same time, local residents began to correct the portraits of the Russian president in their own way, and then the murals with Putin began to disappear altogether. In the spring of 2015, the Russian art group… Read more »
While the government is spending millions for spraying journalists with silver, to attend a four hour show in Moscow – people in the Russian Arctic do not receive food for three months, due to damaged roads. What is more important – the silver extravaganza of the current Tsar in Moscow – or repairing roads in lonely Arctic villages of the huge Federation? RAIN TV (DOSCHD) REPORTS: How does a village in Komi live, where food has not been delivered for three months – One of the villages in the Komi Republic – Vinla – has been without food for the… Read more »
A “silver shower” for the so-called “press conference” in Moscow, which lasted four hours, the installation cost 1.6 million dollars – broken roads elsewhere, not only in the northern Republic of Komi, but also in the Southern Republic of Crimea. CRIMEAN MEDIA REPORT: BROKEN ROADS IN CRIMEA The highway”Tavrida” sank : what happens to the roads in Crimea 06 December 2021, 23:50 About 82 million dollars were “buried” in Crimea. This is how much the Crimean authorities have spent on the construction of the Dubki – Levadki bypass highway in Simferopol. The new overpass was opened in 2019 with a… Read more »
So why did this happen? Did loud-mouthed Crimea Governor Sergei Aksenov suddenly fall asleep?
The situation reminds us of 1914, when the last Tsar celebrated his lavish balls in the gilded palace of Saint Petersburg, while in the back provinces of the Russian Empire the roads were “kaputt”. No troops could be transported, WWI was lost!
I like to read the Russian news media (yellow press) “Spletnik”, the “Gossiper”, because ordinary people give their comments to articles about famous people and their extraordinary, mostly glamorous or scandalous lives. Here is the comment about the current Tsar of Russia, written by a lady with the pseudonym LimaBlade: ‘explosions of apartment buildings in the morning, a terrorist attack in the St. Petersburg metro, drowned sailors of the submarine “Kursk” unsaved, Beslan, military conflicts in other countries, political prisoners ….. well, the charm of domestic politics and the attitude towards common people ….. pensions, pennies, age, changing the constitution, now… Read more »
Under that same article in the “Spletnik” a lady with the pseudonym Marcipana writes: ‘Is the pandemic in Russia over already? A full hall of people, all without masks and no one keeps the social distance? Or are masks only for “suckers” in the provinces?’ This article showed photos and told the story of how Dmitry Peskov’s third (or fourth?) wife, Tatiana Navka, a former Olympic gold medalist, opened her newest ice show “Swan Lake” in the Megasport stadion of Moscow. The photos show happily grinning and kissing people – all without masks -, at the forefront Putin’s court jester, the perpetually… Read more »