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Zelensky 'troubled' as he questions inner circle's loyalties - Erdogan


RT
Mon, 22 Aug 2022 17:54 UTC
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© AFP/Dimitar DilkoffTurkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan • Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky • UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres
Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky is concerned he is being taken advantage of by someone close to him, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said, citing their conversation during the meeting in Lviv on Thursday.

Asked by a farmer about the Ukrainian leader's "situation" on Monday during a visit to local vineyards, Erdogan claimed Zelensky was "very worried. There are people around him who deceive him a lot."

Erdogan had not mentioned this confession during earlier public statements about the negotiations in western Ukraine, and he did not elaborate further on who Zelensky believed was deceiving him. The two men met with UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres and signed an agreement on restoring Ukrainian infrastructure destroyed during the conflict.

The Ukrainian president has been firing high-ranking members of his administration at a fast clip since Russia's military operation began in February. Special forces commander Grigory Galagan was removed last month.

Comment: Can anybody trust Zelensky?

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Zelensky warns against putting neo-Nazis on trial


RT
Mon, 22 Aug 2022 18:51 UTC
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© Metin Aktas/Anadolu Agency/Getty ImagesUkrainian President Vladimir Zelensky at a press event in Lviv, Ukraine, August 18, 2022
There will be no more peace talks with Russia if captured Ukrainian Neo-Nazis are subjected to a "show trial," the country's President Vladimir Zelensky has claimed.

The authorities of the Donetsk People's Republic (DPR) have previously said that they are planning tribunals for suspected war crimes committed by Ukrainian troops, including members of the Azov Battalion, whose ranks include fighters with openly nationalist and neo-Nazi views.

Zelensky, in a video address early Monday, said:
"If this despicable show trial takes place... This will be the line beyond which any negotiations are impossible. Russia will cut itself off from any negotiations. Such a trial would be a violation of international law."
Zelensky's statement comes after photos appeared on social media allegedly showing large cages being installed on the stage of the Mariupol Philharmonic. Ukraine's military intelligence service, the GUR, said that the cells will be used to house Ukrainian troops captured by Russian and Donbass forces during the siege of the Azovstal steel plant in Mariupol. They were largely drawn from the Azov Battalion.

Comment: Donbass had something to say about Zelensky's ultimatum:
DPR head Denis Pushilin told Russia 24 TV:
"The data on 80 counts of crimes committed by the Azov has been collected, 23 people have been arrested and are in custody. So such statements by Zelensky will have no effect [on the trials]."
Nearly 2,500 Ukrainian soldiers surrendered to Russian and Donbass forces during the siege of the Azovstal steel plant in Mariupol in May, according to the Russian Defense Ministry.


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Russia releases video of suspected Moscow car bomber


RT
Mon, 22 Aug 2022 17:51 UTC
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© RTFSB video shows the suspect behind Moscow car bombing, Natalya Vovk, entering the house where the attack’s victim, Darya Dugina, lived
Footage shows the Ukrainian citizen entering the country and leaving it after assassinating Darya Dugina

Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) has made public a video of Ukrainian national Natalya Vovk, identified as the prime suspect in Saturday's car bombing that killed journalist Darya Dugina in Moscow. The footage published Monday shows Vovk and her teenage daughter entering Russia, inside the building where Dugina lived, and leaving the country in haste.

Vovk, 43, was named by the FSB on Monday as the prime suspect in the assassination of Dugina. The Ukrainian national arrived in Russia on July 23, using Donetsk People's Republic license plates to avoid scrutiny. While in Moscow, she swapped the plates on her Mini Cooper to those of Kazakhstan, a friendly former Soviet republic. On Sunday, after the bombing, Vovk drove to Estonia with Ukrainian plates, the FSB said.

Comment: Update: Vovk apparently has ties to Azov (her details were included in a leak back in April of Azov personnel).





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The only thing keeping US and China from war is running dangerously thin

Scott Ritter
RT
Sun, 21 Aug 2022 01:20 UTC
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© AFP / Peter PARKS
Washington's ambiguous Taiwan policies are edging towards conflict, but Beijing wants to exhaust peaceful options first.

American relations with China in regards to Taiwan have been dictated by years of ambiguous statements and commitments. Now this rhetoric is breaking down and armed conflict seems closer than ever - but is Washington ready to fight over Taiwan, or capable of winning?

Assurances and commitments

Officially, US policy toward Taiwan is guided by three US-China Joint Communiques issued between 1972 and 1982, the Taiwan Relations Act of 1979, and the so-called "Six Assurances" issued in 1982. In the Shanghai Communique of 1972, China asserted that "the Taiwan question is the crucial question obstructing the normalization of relations between China and the United States," declaring that "the Government of the People's Republic of China is the sole legal government of China," that Taiwan is a province of China, and that "the liberation of Taiwan is China's internal affair in which no other country has the right to interfere."
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SOTT Focus: NewsReal: Winning the Information War... by Car-Bombing Dugin's Daughter?


Sott.net
Mon, 22 Aug 2022 10:00 UTC
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Putin's brain, they call him. Putin's spiritual advisor, they also call him. If so, then it looks like Ukrainian 'special forces' almost left the Russian government rudderless last night when Aleksandr Dugin's 30-year-old daughter Darya Dugin was killed in a car-bomb (which was apparently targeting her father).

Of course, in reality, Dugin has nowhere near the influence in Kremlin circles that Western 'intellectuals' ascribe to Russia's Eurasianist philosopher. But decades of lies take their toll on certain types of people - not least ultra-nationalist Ukrainians - spurring them to commit malicious crimes they believe will 'help' their cause.

This week on NewsReal, Joe and Niall take stock of the major recent uptick in military attacks and sabotage (likely of Ukrainian origin) inside Russian-occupied Ukraine and the Russian Federation proper - not least the hare-brained scheme to provoke a meltdown at Zaporozhye's nuclear plant. In the second hour they express shock at the 'news' that excess death rates are up sharply across the Western world. Whatever could have caused that?!...


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Terrorism: Russian intellectual Aleksandr Dugin narrowly avoids car-bomb, daughter Darya killed instead

Rolo Slavskiy
The Slavland Chronicles
Sun, 21 Aug 2022 07:22 UTC
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Now they're saying that it was the underside of the car. Unless something big comes up, I'll end the updates now and revisit the topic later when the dust settles.
  • The bomb was under the driver's seat.
  • Therefore the assassin managed to get into the car.
  • The cameras in the parking lot were turned off.
  • Dugin was driving behind his daughter and saw it all unfold before his eyes.
  • Dugin is in the hospital now
BBC:
The daughter of a close ally of Russia's President Vladimir Putin has been killed on a highway near Moscow.

Darya Dugina died after her car exploded while she was driving home, Russia's investigative committee said.

It is thought that her father, the Russian philosopher Alexander Dugin who is known as "Putin's brain," may have been the intended target of the attack.

Mr Dugin is a prominent ultra-nationalist ideologue who is believed to be close to the Russian president.

Alexander Dugin and his daughter had been invited as guests of honour at a festival at an estate near Moscow, where the philosopher gave a lecture.
We don't know much about what happened. But, from the information that we have now on Telegram, we know that Dugin and his daughter switched cars at the last moment, for reasons unknown. The bomb was meant for him.

Comment:
Kiev denies responsibility for Dugina killing

Ukrainian presidential adviser Mikhail Podoliak
© YASIN AKGUL / AFPUkrainian presidential adviser Mikhail Podoliak speaks to the press in Istanbul, on March 29, 2022.
Kiev has nothing to do with the assassination of Darya Dugina, the daughter of Russian political commentator and philosopher Alexandr Dugin, an aide to Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky said on Sunday.

Speaking on national television, Mikhail Podoliak said that his country is not "a terrorist state," an apparent response to suspicion voiced by officials that Kiev might be behind the bombing.
"I want to stress out that Ukraine, of course, has nothing to do with this, because we are not a criminal state, unlike Russia, and especially not a terrorist state," he noted.
Podoliak also indicated that the killing of Dugin's daughter is "a testament to the ongoing struggle for power and influence among various groups in Russia."
Moreover, he did not rule out that Russia could use the blast as an excuse for announcing a large-scale mobilization amid the military offensive in Ukraine. Moscow has denied all claims it plans to do so, castigating such speculation as "bogus stories."

Podoliak's comments came after Denis Pushilin, the leader of the Donetsk People's Republic, accused the "terrorists of the Ukrainian regime" of carrying out the bombing. However, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova did not pin the blame on Kiev but noted that if investigators determine that Ukraine is indeed responsible, this "would be the case of state terrorism policies carried out by the Kiev regime."

Dugina was killed Saturday night outside Moscow when the SUV she was driving was ripped apart in an explosion. According to Russia's Investigative Committee, the blast was caused by a bomb that had been attached to the underside of the vehicle. Investigators believe the attack to have been premeditated and to be a contract job.

Earlier on Saturday evening, Aleksandr Dugin was giving a lecture at a family festival called 'Tradition' in Moscow Region. Dugina was in attendance at the event. Several reports say Dugin initially planned to leave the festival with his daughter but later decided to take a separate car, while Darya took his Toyota Land Cruiser Prado.

Dugin is known for his staunch anti-Western and 'neo-Eurasian' views. Western media has portrayed him as a driving force behind key aspects of President Vladimir Putin's foreign policy. However, despite his reputation in the West, in Russia he has never enjoyed official endorsement from the Kremlin and is largely considered a marginal figure.
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UAE ambassador to return to Iran after six-year withdrawal


Middle East Eye
Sun, 21 Aug 2022 20:05 UTC
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© AFP/File photoThe Emirates, which downgraded its ties with Iran in 2016 in support of Saudi Arabia, is now calling for an easing of regional tensions
The United Arab Emirates said Sunday that its ambassador to Tehran would resume duties within days, six years after ties were downgraded in support of Saudi Arabia.

Ambassador Saif Mohammed al-Zaabi "will resume his duties at the UAE embassy in the Islamic republic of Iran in the coming days to contribute to further advancing bilateral relations", the Emirati foreign ministry said in a statement.

The move seeks to "achieve the common interests of the two countries and the wider region", it added.
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Kazakhstan's President meets Putin in Sochi to 'intensify bilateral ties'

Assel Satubaldina
Astana Times
Sat, 20 Aug 2022 12:00 UTC
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© Akorda press serviceTokayev and Putin shake hands.
Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev met with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Russia's Black Sea resort of Sochi on Aug. 19 to intensify bilateral ties that this year mark 30 years, reported the presidential press service.

The two leaders voiced solid optimism about the development of bilateral relations. According to Tokayev, the two countries "have every reason to be satisfied with the way the cooperation is developing."

"Indeed, Kazakhstan and Russia have a strategic partnership. This year we celebrate a very big date - the 30th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations," said Tokayev during the meeting that lasted two and half hours.

Comment: See also: Uganda's President praises Russia's help in decolonization amidst Lavrov's tour of Africa

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Russia's Gazprom to shut Europe's Nord Stream 1 gas pipeline for 3 days


Al Jazeera
Sun, 21 Aug 2022 14:46 UTC
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© Michael Probst/AP PhotoPipes of the gas storage plant Reckrod are pictured near Eiterfeld, central Germany
Russian state gas company says the pipeline requires maintenance, deepening energy standoff with Europe.

Russia's state-owned energy company Gazprom has said a key pipeline conveying natural gas to Europe will shut down for three days at the end of this month to undergo "routine maintenance."

The unscheduled maintenance order on the Nord Stream 1 pipeline, which runs under the Baltic Sea to Germany, deepens an energy standoff between Moscow and Brussels which has already helped send inflation surging in the region and raised the risk of rationing and recession.

In a statement posted online on Friday, Gazprom said that the only operational turbine at a key compressor station along the pipeline, which links Western Russia and Germany, will shut down for routine maintenance from August 31 to September 2.

Comment: See also: Whilst Canada withholds turbine, Gazprom cannot guarantee functioning of Nord Stream pipeline

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US war on China/Russia targets new multipolar world, sabotages global economy: Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega

Benjamin Norton
Multipolarista
Fri, 05 Aug 2022 00:00 UTC
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© vozdeladiasporanewsNicaraguan President Daniel Ortega
In a fiery speech denouncing US imperialism, Nicaragua's President Daniel Ortega analyzed the shifting balance of power in the world today. He explained:
"A new order is being born in the world that buries imperialism, buries the colonialists, and opens the way to a democracy of nations, a multipolarism that is manifesting itself in various ways. North American imperialism is trying to maintain its hegemony at all costs, even at the risk of sinking its own economy."
But in an attempt to halt this transition to a multipolar world, the United States is waging war on China and Russia, he said.

The Nicaraguan revolutionary leader argued that "fascism left its roots and is embedded" in parts of the United States and Europe, and they "have the objective of trying to destroy the People's Republic of China" and the Russian Federation.

The Western "ideologues of imperialism" are "worried," Ortega added.
"They see the People's Republic of China providing benefits to the peoples" of Latin America, Africa, and Asia, "and they feel that they are losing the power to keep these peoples enslaved."

Comment: Frankly spoken, Ortega's perspective rings true.

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