You're not trying to refute them but it appears like you do by just calling them a CIA rag that no one takes serious?
Astra, an independent Russian media outlet, verified that many of the incidents in the document matched those it had collected from local governments and reports in local news media.
Do you think maybe Astra is some kind of anti-russian CIA thingy too?
What are these items?
OK 29% might take them serious in their home country, thats just over a quarter. See the Hill article quoted.
Is Astra like the Moscow Times a CIA front, which I see you are fond of quoting? A quick scan of its front page tells me all I need to know about where it's bias lies....
https://astra.press/english/2024/06/19/2927/ Zero proof given, no photos or videos. Its curious all these faulty bombs are falling in Belgorod, which is where the Ukrainians are constantly shelling civilians.
Is it?
Do I?
So are these sources that one should completely ignore?
Well, what sources of information do you recommend to follow that tell the truth about the war in Ukraine?
Other than the Telegram channels you already recommended earlier and Borzzikman, ofcourse (goes without saying). The Russian own state media? Are they usually completely in line with Borzzikman, btw?
I once experimented with TTS robot voice for KOFK and used the same voice as Borzzikman so it's pleasant to listen to him, or is it it?
A number of channels use robotic voice overs, Everything Inside Me on YT is a case in point. Used to read articles from Henry Makow to Vigilant Citizen. Some people may want to remain anonymous.
" The Moscow Times is owned by a CIA front in Sweden under Booz Allen Hamilton…TID"
So yes, it is.
Looks interesting.. Wait what, robo voice? I didn't even notice. It's one of these new generation one compared to Borzzick voice.
Writes someone called Allison Quinn on something called The Intel Drop.
These two are credible and trustworthy because ___________________ or perhaps because it aligns with your confirmation bias?
Do you have any other sources which back this claim or is the above enough?
I found the Wikipedia article and other pages outlining history and ownership had a bit more meat on them.
Do I think that for instances media organizations that don't back the Russian government are an interest for CIA and for them to fund them? Sure... But to just say "it's CIA" and completely disregard anything published by them and only rely on a handful of sources like Borzzikman I do not think is a good idea.
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban embarked on a surprise visit to Russia. His trip comes days after he traveled to Kiev to urge Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelensky to consider an immediate ceasefire with Moscow and start peace talks.
While Hungary holds the EU's rotating presidency, Orban's visit to Russia for talks has drawn sharp criticism from senior officials in the bloc, despite the prime minister insisting earlier in the day that he does not represent the bloc.
"Hungary is a sovereign state ," Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto told Russian reporters on Friday when asked about Brussels' criticism of the Hungarian delegation's visit to Moscow.
"Don't confuse pro-war politicians with people in Europe ," he said.
The truth that is not revealed behind the hidden doors is that Orbán is interested in the "Transcarpathian tenderloin", especially now that given the slow but steady advance of the Russians, the " Falling oak, every man is wooded " applies to Ukraine.
Transcarpathia (Transcarpathia) is a historical region on the border between Central and Eastern Europe, located mainly in the Zakarpattia (or Zakarpatska) region of western Ukraine, with smaller parts in eastern Slovakia (mainly in the Prešov region and Košice region) and in Lemko region in Poland.
From the Hungarian conquest of the Carpathian Basin (late 9th century) until the end of World War I, most of this area was part of the Kingdom of Hungary. In the interwar period, it was part of the First and Second Czechoslovak Republics.
Before World War II, the region was annexed by the Kingdom of Hungary once more when Germany dissolved the Second Czechoslovak Republic. After the war, it was annexed by the Soviet Union and became part of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic.
Since 2015, laws on language, media, secondary and higher education and indigenous national minorities, as well as the new law on national communities adopted in December 2022, have brought about changes, continuously restricting the rights of Hungarians living in Ukraine.
Experts have pointed out that these changes were rights-violating and unconstitutional, and failed to keep pace with European democratic minority and human rights standards.
As the European Union begins accession negotiations with Ukraine, Hungary's presidency of the EU Council from July 1 to December 31 risks delaying the process, with minority rights a key point of contention.
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has long accused the Ukrainian government of violating the rights of Hungarians living in Ukraine's Transcarpathian region to speak their native language in education and public administration.
According to the 2001 census, Hungarians made up 12% of the entire southwestern region (about 150,000 people), although many have emigrated since the start of the Russian invasion, fearing Ukrainian conscription.
Orban's government has blocked crucial EU funding for Ukraine and threatened to block the country's efforts to join the bloc, sending diplomatic relations to an alarming low.
The dispute is rooted in Ukraine's efforts to strengthen its national identity after Russian-backed forces partially seized control of the eastern Donbass region in 2014 and Moscow annexed Crimea.
In 2017, Kyiv passed a law to strengthen the national language, making it mandatory to study Ukrainian after the fifth grade. Although it primarily targeted Russian, languages spoken by other minorities such as Poles, Hungarians, Romanians, Slovaks and Greeks living in Ukraine were inevitably affected
A later amendment specified that 100% of education could be in an EU minority language from grades one to four. From the fifth grade, at least 20% of study time should be in Ukrainian, gradually increasing to 40% in the ninth grade and 60% in the twelfth grade.
In the meantime, the Hungarian minority has developed a network of private schools in Transcarpathia, where students study only in Hungarian.
In December, several leaders of the Hungarian minority in Ukraine urged Orban not to block Ukraine's EU membership, stressing "significant progress in the implementation of the European Commission's recommendations to safeguard the rights of national minorities" .
In January 2024, Hungarian Foreign Minister Péter Szijártó called for "returning {Ukraine} to its ethnic minority {Hungary} the rights it enjoyed until 2015" after talks in Uzhhorod with his Ukrainian counterpart Dmytro Kuleba.
In March 2024, Hungary sent Kiev and EU member states a list of eleven new demands, setting out its claims regarding its minority in Ukraine.
But the document – not made public – included the creation of a special status for Hungarian schools, the possibility of using Hungarian in official documents and communication with the state, and the appointment of a Hungarian representative in the Ukrainian parliament to ensure political representation.
Although Ukraine does not recognize dual citizenship, Budapest has long issued passports to the Hungarian minority. The government and several funds linked to Orbán have invested billions in the region supporting cultural and social activities, often closely intertwined with politics.
On July 2, Orban visited Kiev and raised the above issues. Although the two leaders did not agree on all of the demands, the possibility of Budapest opening a Ukrainian school and continuing to fund Ukrainian-language education in Hungary, particularly for Ukrainian refugee children, was discussed. This would create parity and make changes in the education legislation of Ukraine more realistic.
Orbán also raised the issue of post-war recovery in Ukraine and the role of Hungarian companies in it.
With his visit to Moscow today, under the guise of mediating the war in Ukraine, Orbán already knew that the fate of the Hungarian minority, as well as the entire "fillet" of Transcarpathia, will depend on Putin in the future and that the Russian president will have the last word.
As early as his interview with Tucker Carlson in February, Putin opened the door wide to Orbán, saying, “I went to the town of Berehove [in Transcarpathia] (Beregszász in Hungarian). All the names of the cities and villages were in Russian and a language I didn't understand: Hungarian. In Russian and Hungarian. Not in Ukrainian – in Russian and Hungarian”
Asked by Carlson if he had promised Orban Transcarpathia, the Russian president replied: "Never, I have never told him. Not even once. We haven't even talked about it. But I really know for sure that the Hungarians living there want to get their historical lands back."
Moreover, in a speech last December he stated that border regions of Western Ukraine once annexed by Stalin from Poland, Hungary and Romania would be returned, with Russia playing the role of guarantor. This means that Transcarpathia will go back to Hungary, Galicia back to Poland and Bukovina back to Romania.
Orbán knows and sees that Putin talks revisionism and in this context of revisionism, he can extract trade-offs, which would not have been possible before the war in Ukraine. Thus, Orbán is yet another weak link of NATO and the EU, a feature that Putin is exploiting as a backdoor, while leaving their own doors open to future Hungarian territorial claims in Ukraine.
journal-neo.su huh, .su, I'm not sure if I've ever visited a .su site before.
.su is an Internet country code top-level domain (ccTLD) that was designated for the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) on 19 September 1990. Even though the Soviet Union itself was dissolved 15 months later, the .su top-level domain remains in use to the present day. It is administered by the Russian Institute for Public Networks (RIPN, or RosNIIROS in Russian transcription).
And I was unable to access it without fiddling around a bit (VPN). Quite an article. Not sure if I have the resources to analyze it properly. I'm a little late to the game and have not been paying laser focused attention to, for instance the MH17 incident.
They didn't mention that Sanoma that once owned Moscow Times is a Finnish company, btw.
Russia's justice ministry has designated The Moscow Times, an English and Russian-language online newspaper, a "foreign agent", the publication said late on Friday.
In a statement reported by Russian media, the justice ministry accused the Moscow Times of distributing inaccurate information about decisions taken by the authorities, thereby forming what it called a negative image of Russia.
Doesn't really mean that much if the Russian justice ministry designates it, does it?
I read that. By the way Gordon Duff ex veterans Today.
Probably means it ain't Russian despite the dishonest name.
Jackson Hinkle's speech at the United Nations on 3 July 2024 regarding his trip to the Donbass.
The official representative of Russia in the United Nations Security Council Vasily Nebenzya spoke about Ukraine's statement that it was Russia that allegedly fired a missile at a Ukrainian children's hospital.
The official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova, spoke about the crisis around Ukraine at a regular briefing.
"The West will be shocked by the downing of F-16s. Our fighters excel in almost all areas" Russian pilots say in an interview on Russian television.
The first F-16s are only a matter of time before they start appearing on Ukrainian airwaves.
Countries such as the Netherlands and Denmark have already agreed to provide dozens of such fighters to Kiev, and what remains to be determined is from which airfields they will operate (if bases inside or even outside Ukraine are used).
On the other side, the Russians, although they have warned about the escalation that their delivery will bring to Ukraine, have made it clear that the F-16s have no chance of changing the balance on the field.
In a report on Russian television, Russian pilots reveal that they have been preparing for a long time for a... meeting with Western-made fighters.
When the pilot of the Russian P.A. asked if he fears the imminent arrival of F-16s in Ukraine, he replied:
“It will appear and there will now be a new target. What's the difference; We are waiting for him to appear."
"Generally it has not changed. We know the strengths and weaknesses of the F-16," another Russian pilot tells the camera, adding:
"If we meet it in close combat, we will push it into conditions where we will have the upper hand and where it (including the F-16) will be nothing.
That is why we conduct all kinds of exercises and remember who and what we are fighting.
We realize that they will act cunningly and lay ambushes.
But our aircraft outperforms the F-16 in everything, both in terms of maneuverability and armament."
Military Satellite Communication Center Deputy Head's Car Blows Up In Moscow
