Chilling coincidence

So, the other day a political party leader was arrested. This leader is tied to Mr. Kolomoysky - a prominent Ukrainian oligarch. The one that got arrested is Gennadii Corban, and that's when the mystic thing starts.

What is happening is a kind of phantasmagoria - 'Corban' (which means in Hebrew -" sacrifice ") gets unlawfully arrested on the Sabbath, the day before Halloween (festival of the dead) .

Meanwhile, a Russian aircraft  of Kogalym airline  (that's in Khanty language - grounds of the fallen) is shot down in the center of the Sinai.

Synchronicity or on purpose?

Yanukovich and Vanguard

Before the now-meme interview of Yanukovich to BBC, some say that he met with Miller - the head of Gazprom, and James M. Norris - managing director of Vanguard's international operations. Now ain't that a peculiar occurence, especially provided that according to Fulford, Vanguard is your choice of the villain of the year.

And now, the famous video. Enjoy.

Green light for large scale privatization of Ukraine.

Okay, so it seems that the privatization I mentioned in previous post has a green-light from Yatseniuk and Co. Now the million dollar question is - who will be allowed to purchase assets at price so cheap (due to stagflation and war). Something tells me that it might NOT be current oligarchs. Oops.

Regarding supposed Soros' email leak to Poroshenko

So there was another lovely 'leak' by the team who released alleged conversation between 'NATO' official and someone from Svoboda far-right wing party to arrange the 'false-flag'. It was around last autumn, I believe. So, the link to the 'news' as follows below. Hacked Emails Expose George Soros As Ukraine Puppet-Master Let's begin with a fact, that *sigh* CyberBerkut is a very reliable source (/sarcasm). First, the title is misleading: if you read the 'letters' you'll see that Soros offers his services as a lobbyist, not as a boss. And believe me, if Ukrainian politicians don't want to do something, they don't and make it look like very convincing (see how they explain the absense of reforms ;) ). It takes certain finesse to fool around much more powerful players and get away with it. Secondly, the article makes another mistake of considering Ukraine to consist of only governing bodies (which are themselves often non-aligned and antagonist to each other) with no regard to civil society. The same mistake was made previously by numerous 'specialists' that fed Fulford, among the others, the info about splitting Ukraine in half. But surprise, when volunteers went to defend their homeland, and other volunteers took upon themselves the weight of providing logistics and basic ammo (since the army has been destroyed for many years) the 'Dnipro split' became barely a half of one oblast'. Thirdly, I have read all the docs they provide, and if a time-frame correction is made (ie state of events at the moment of the supposed creation of the letters). However, certain repetitive fragments of text that are found in all 3 'letters' are alarming as to the purpose of them as well as origination. And since when Presidential correspondence is held out in the open-net on a government webside? Ah-ha. There are special secured lines even for the phone-calls. Forthly, Soros has been investing into Ukraine's agricultural sector (not land directly, it is not allowed to be sold /yet/, not that the land isn't sold, but the rules are mostly for grabbing it illegally by however has the power). And he invested a lot. For a moment I expected a flash of privatizations (especially after Hryvna devalued abruptly, since it's the easiest way to cheapen the asset). The scheme is the following (as tested during 90s): You generate revenue in Hryvna and then convert in USD or other hard currency and transfer it to your off-shore accounts. Then you devalue Hryvna, and return your money as an 'investment' and buy the asset much more cheaper (the prices are still in Hryvna and don't get re-indexed to sustain the fluctuating FX rate). Profit.

Conflict escalation. Prelude to global offensive?

Events in the last few days amount to clear proof that Russia is preparing a major offensive in Southern Ukraine. There will be two main advance and everyone with even a tiny bit of curiosity and intelligence can see the signs and draw the conclusions. However today’s fighting around Marinka near Donetsk isn’t that major offensive, but a skirmish to provide Russia with a pretext to unleash its summer offensive. Not much to add. The rest of the article can be found here.

Ukraine today: comprehensive web-site, updated daily.

You may want to go to the destination manually.

IMF to oversee top import-export bank of Ukraine. I wonder what'll come out of it.

The Ministry of Finance welcomes the overwhelming support received today by Ukreximbank for its bond extension. Bondholders voted with full knowledge of the proposed re-profiling terms, which are fully in line with the goals of the IMF-supported program. We look forward to next steps in our negotiations with Ukraine's debtholders.

Contrary to Ukreximbank's operation which had to contribute only to liquidity targets, sovereign debt restructuring will also need to reduce debt levels and debt service.

The Ministry reminds all involved that the deadline for the debt restructuring operation is the first review of the IMF-supported program scheduled for June. 

Composite war infographics, no translation.

Borrowed time

It's barely two hours into February and it already feels like living on borrowed time. In fact, it has been for quite some time already. Apparently, there's only so much stress a person may endure before brain starts shutting down information processors.

One might argue that it's been too few space for any kind of positive changes to arise, any reforms to form or perspectives to outline. One might say that it's fairly unfair of me whining about the injustices of the current position from where I'm sitting in a relatively safe setting where it's warm enough, unlike those, who are on front-lines now. One might be right. And yet, not everyone is brave enough for war.

It's just feels like a roller-coaster ride when the track gets more steep with each passing moment, spiraling into spring that gets more and more tight and in the same time it's like between the anvil and the hammer with little to no space for maneuver.

I have no idea how this House of Cards is going to fold. Somehow? Some say that it's going to fall almost with mathematical certainty. But they have been saying that for decades and yet nothing of the kind has ever happened till this day. It's sort of depressing, really. Seat tight and enjoy the ride? And don't forget the popcorn. Someone's definitely enjoying the show. Such a costly endeavor.

Regarding 'blackwater/NATO/Western' mercenary in Mariupol

Catherine A. Fitzpatrick does a great job explaining the phenomenon at  interpretermag.com [link to full article, the selected abstracts are copied here, since I haven't found the way to reblogg it here]

This clip was broadcast on Russia's TV1 and other channels:

At 0:41, the soldier can be seen putting his hand up in front of the camera and saying "out of my face":

Possibly the soldier spoke in English, even though the TV journalist spoke in Russian, because he saw the English letters "MTV" which isn't music television but stands for "Mariupol TV".

This is a problem for "LifeNews," as well, which seems to have wanted to give itself more international recognition by calling itself an English name -- but which then can be perceived by locals as a foreign camera crew.

Maybe the soldier simply thought that was a great expression he had heard on TV.

But Russian propagandists have a more damning clip, which they take from the Azov Battalion video (which we reported January 24) in which a soldier is heard speaking at length to the cameraman about a Grad missile crater in a school yard:

At 0:11, we can see a soldier wearing his cap backwards, in the American style:

This soldier's accent isn't American but it might be British or Australian although he doesn't sound like a native speaker, as he speaks in very short sentences, without proper grammar, drops articles, and has an unaspirated "k" in the word "school." Here's a transcript of the dialogue:

Azov soldier (cameraman): Is detected?
English-speaking soldier: It's it's right in.
Azov soldier: Uh-huh
English-speaking soldier: So. Maybe explode, maybe not...
Azov solider: Uh-huh
English-speaking soldier: So blow up in situ....Go to wall here.
Azov soldier: Uh-huh
English-speaking soldier: It's a kindergarten, school?
Azov soldier: Yes, yes.

So it's not confirmed that the person speaking English is in fact a foreigner -- "blow up" and "school" are two words not pronounced like a native speaker.

It seems as if both videos are covering the same man with a khaki-colored cap and a green backpack. At 0:43 in the first video:

 At 0:11 in the second video:

Why would both the cameraman and the other soldier speak in English at the end of this video footage of a devastated Mariupol?

One possibility is that the Azov cameraman, throughout the video, kept creating ready-made stand-alone clips that might be used in a television broadcast. Multiple times throughout the video, he stops people in the scene, asks them to introduce themselves, and asks them to repeat several times the name of the location and the city where they were, i.e. "School No. 5" and "city of Mariupol" -- even though these facts were already obvious to the cameraman.

So perhaps the cameraman was hoping to create a ready-made episode that he could give to foreign news that would prove in particular a particularly dangerous situation -- unexploded rockets in a school yard. 

To be sure, there might actually be a foreign volunteer in Azov. Azov, an ultranationalist battalion known for its symbols similar to Nazi insignia, has received enormous scrutiny from some foreign and Russian media, because it seems to embody the worst case of much-feared Ukrainian nationalism.

Azov is said to have a Swedish white supremacist named Mikael Skillt in its ranks, and other European recruits seem to have been attracted to the battalion, according to Wikipedia.

The reason the fighter in the video may not sound like a native English speaker is that he could be Swedish or French or some other nationality, and English is a lingua franca with the Ukrainian soldier.

So perhaps this one man is a foreigner fighting for the Azov Battalion, but it hasn't been proven.

Azov hasn't commented on the allegations of having foreign fighters among them, and there hasn't yet been any credible media investigating the story.

UPDATE:

The mystery of the foreign fighter in Azov Battalion has been solved, thanks to a reader:

@Interpreter_Mag Azov fighter is Chris Garret, and is from the Isle-of-Man in the UK. His blog is here: http://t.co/cFQWfnmgEm.
— Evan Whitney (@evanwhitney) January 27, 2015

So Garrett is British, not American, and the reason he spoke in such short, clipped sentences was that he was busy with the job he came to Ukraine to do: de-mining.

Thus, there are no "NATO legions," but just a British specialist who came to Ukraine to help. No doubt the teachers and children of Day Care Center No. 5  in Mariupol will be glad that he identified unexploded Grad rockets on the center's grounds, which we learn about from the full version of this video (11:10).

Garrett, who goes by the nickname "Swampy," has replied to those claiming he is a "NATO agent":

In response to the recent allegations of me being an american mercenary paid by western governments. I shall soon release my own statement. For now, here is my response to a certain twitter idiot

 Garrett then published a photo of himself upside down:

Terror act in Mariupol...

Preliminary info: 27 civilians killed, 97 wounded as result of Russian-backed terroristic assault on Ukrainian port city of Mariupol with GRAD multiple rocket launchers.

https://www.kyivpost.com/…/shelling-in-mariupol-10-civilian…

Video 18+
http://youtu.be/jsfGH8JXprE?t=30s

Warfare infographics, snapshot as per 19 January. No translation.

Positional reload?

There is this gentleman, called Yevgenyy Primakov who very recently issued a series of peculiarly interesting statements about Ukraine-Russia situation.

 Long story short: ''Crimea belongs to Russia, East Ukraine aka 'Novorussia' belongs to Ukraine, let's end the bloodshed, be friends and globalize together''.

Simultaneously, USofA issue a statement that denies calling DNR/LNR as terrorist organisations, stresses the importance of de-escalation and united efforts towards combating terror threat globally. Such rhetoric was used previously by EU, who kept blabbering 'deep concerns' while people kept dying in East Ukraine. However, now EU conveys another message through its spoke-person A. Merkel: ''More sanctions, no soft approach till withdrawal of Russian troops from East Ukraine and Crimea''. What a surprise.

Nevertheless, Primakov's statement under the circumstances hints that there's been a certain series of temporal agreements (which begs the question of how long would it last, as per Minsk peace agreements it didn't take long, hah).

Some conspirologists believe that such turn of events signify the win of Rothchild's clan. It gets even more interesting, since 'ex'FSB colonel Girkin (one of the leaders of separatists, Russian by citizenship and nationality) entered specifically Sloviansk, which is in a region where Rothchild's fuel company planned to operate. I don't know how just would be to call it a 'fixed match' truce, but it is known that at least Poroshenko is tied by Rothchilds, since he chose using 'Rothchilds Inc' as an escrow to sell his candy business. Does this mean that clan representatives in Russia (oligarch Deripasca et al, and  Dmitry Medvedev) have a card-blanch for a changed of leadership?  It may explain why Deripasca won an arbitrary process regarding one of Ukraine's ports.

To sum it up, on Ukraine's chessboard there are three old men with big ambitions and few time on Earth: Y. Primakov (85 y.o); H. Kissinger (91 y.o and favored much by Putin) and G. Soros (84 y.o, who bought a lot of Ukraine's bonds and will loose if the country defaults). I wonder though, how many of the actors are interested in Ukraine's wellbeing. Let me guess, none? 

NYTI's recap of Yanukovich's last days

Rather interesting chronology of Yanukovich fleeing Ukraine [he's been added to wanted list in Interpol recently]. Berkut's commentaries I think I haven't read before even in UA sources. Can't vouch for what was said between diplomats, but the seqence and external appearance of the events transpired is relatively accurate. So, enjoy the link