https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2022/01/27/russia-ukraine-standoff-daily-briefing-jan-27-a76089

Russian Senator Vladimir Dzhabarov said the U.S. response cannot satisfy Russia and cannot be accepted, and that “frankly, they are heading towards a direct confrontation.”

(they will comply with Ukraine not having nation status, or Russia will not accept the talks, in other words)

Chinese are DEEP DEEP IN RUSSIA and Autonomous. They own many mining towns today. Never realized that.

http://www.fairfaxunderground.com/forum/read/40/3808475.html

https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2022/01/26/putin-hails-economic-relationship-with-italy-in-controversial-ceo-meeting-a76159

The call sparked concern in Italy and across Europe, as it comes at a time when the EU is trying to finalize a package of economic sanctions to slap on Moscow in the event it escalates aggression against Ukraine.

“Zelenskiy is trying to calm down a frightened populace, but the United States keeps bringing more and more weapons,” the anchor said.

News agency and newspaper headlines:

State-run TASS news agency: “Ukrainian Armed Forces Commander Will Soon Arrive in Donbas to Prepare for a Possible Ukrainian Main Offensive, Luhansk People’s Republic Claims”

State-run RIA Novosti news agency: “Dmitry Medvedev: Ukraine Has Become Some Sort of a Toy for U.S. and NATO.” The same interview with the former president and current deputy chairman of Russia’s Security Council also received coverage in RT, Rossiyskaya Gazeta and other state media.

Other outlets published articles on alleged Ukrainian aggression:

Komsomolskaya Pravda: “Donetsk has been surrounded! Horlivka has been cut off! Ukrainian and NATO cyber troops have already begun a new war in Donbass.”

The RIA Novosti and Rambler news agencies published stories about an alleged Ukrainian plan to attack Donbass separatists with biochemical weapons.

Vladimir Solovyov, the pro-Kremlin host of a four-hour morning show on the Vesti-FM radio station and a live YouTube series, interviewed Denis Pushilin, the de facto head of the Donetsk People’s Republic, who said: “NATO is pumping weapons into Ukraine.”

34yuj645 Wrote:
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> “Zelenskiy is trying to calm down a frightened
> People’s Republic, who said: “NATO is pumping
> weapons into Ukraine.”


Only the ones we can't sell to Egypt !

https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2022/01/27/what-are-russian-state-media-saying-about-ukraine-a76172

https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2022/01/25/chechnya-wont-survive-without-moscows-money-kadyrov-says-a76141

(ukraine, chechnya, other southern most reaches of russia are beautiful and sought places to be - ie - are the place of russian vacation regions for those vacationing inside the country and for foreigners wishing to vaca in "Russia")

but some of the more beautiful places aren't self sustaining if they (... aren't farming)

(note: chechnya has allot of developed cities - it is not in any way remote you would say)

Jan. 25, 2022

Swathes of western, northern and southern Russia have been blanketed with record snowfall in recent days after a powerful winter cyclone swept in from the North Atlantic, prompting widespread discontent as municipal snow removal services in many cities struggled to keep the roads clear.

In Russia’s capital, Moscow, snowdrifts grew to half a meter in height as Cyclone Ida brought 4-5 millimeters of snow to European Russia, Fobos weather center specialist Evgeny Tishkovets told the state-run RIA Novosti news agency.

https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2020/01/28/most-russian-producers-receive-government-tax-breaks-a69069

(tell me what other country's businesses get a leg up using government funded projects?)

https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2021/12/17/ukrainian-soldier-killed-as-tensions-with-moscow-soar-a75854

Ukrainian Soldier Killed as Tensions with Moscow Soar
By AFP
Dec. 17, 2021

Ukraine said Friday that one of its soldiers was killed in fighting with pro-Russia separatists in the east of the country, as tensions with Moscow soar.

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https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2021/12/20/russia-cuts-gas-supplies-to-europe-as-temperatures-drop-a75881

refusing to book extra quantities eu says would be normal

(Nordstream is not online yet, but the books for long term orders are already out)

https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2021/12/26/russia-denies-withholding-gas-supplies-to-europe-a75930

https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2021/12/14/belarus-banks-readying-for-swift-shutdown-reports-a75808

Belarusian banks are preparing for tougher Western sanctions by signing up to Russia’s alternative to the SWIFT, the international financial messaging network that underpins the global banking system

Russian banks their own internal network for their own banks may have various results as consumer Russians attempt to attain imported goods from whichever sources of them. But it may only effect (or limit) their own banks transactions abroad or the right of russians to use local banks to do overseas transactions.

Meanwhile, USA news reported (a year ago) that china and russia might "create a kind of currency that americans are not allowed to use". Perhaps USA reporting was not very exact.

https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2021/12/09/russias-billionaires-amass-extra-145bln-in-2021-a75774

some of that money has been invested in shared factories in russia (with chinese and russian workers) and perhaps total ownership of certain mining towns inside russia by chinese. but there's no doubt there is a "USA doesn't know where it's taxes are going" connection

https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2021/12/07/rosneft-told-to-present-gas-export-proposal-to-putin-a75755

Russian President Vladimir Putin has ordered oil giant Rosneft to present a proposal to deliver natural gas to Europe, a move that would end Gazprom's monopoly on piped gas exports (Yamal-Europe pipeline) (pumps Russian gas into Europe, from Germany to Poland - either of which might also "be quietly editing deals or flows" possibly)

Russian news agency Interfax reported Tuesday that Putin had tasked Rosneft to develop by March 1 a proposal to deliver up to 10 billion cubic meters (350 billion cubic feet) of gas to Europe per year.

Russia's Gazprom has no Europe gas exports planned in ...
https://www.reuters.com › business › energy › yamal-gas-...
Jan 17, 2022 — Russian state energy giant Gazprom said on Monday it has not booked any capacity to pump gas to Europe through the Yamal pipeline next

(this is not true - that russia "did not book any gas to europe" as the bbc headline indicates might be the case)

A worker climbs a cylinder at a gas compressor station at the Yamal-Europe pipeline near Nesvizh, southwest of Minsk December 29, 2006. REUTERS/Vasily Fedosenko/File Photo

A worker climbs a cylinder at a gas compressor station at the Yamal-Europe pipeline near Nesvizh, southwest of Minsk December 29, 2006. REUTERS/Vasily Fedosenko/File Photo
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MOSCOW, Jan 17 (Reuters) - Russian state energy giant Gazprom said on Monday it has not booked any capacity to pump gas to Europe through the Yamal pipeline next month, underscoring a sharp drop-off in Russian exports to the region so far this year.

Gazprom said pipeline exports of Russian gas have tumbled 41% from a year ago so far in January, underlining the impact of a reversal in the Yamal-Europe pipeline, which usually pumps Russian gas into Europe, from Germany to Poland.

Data from German network operator Gascade showed that this was occurring for a 28th consecutive day on Monday.

Although the Kremlin-controlled group has not booked any capacity through the pipeline for February, this could change as it is able to take part in daily auctions.

The link has been operating in reverse mode since Dec. 21, helping drive up gas prices, although these dropped on Monday thanks to robust liquefied natural gas (LNG) volumes and higher wind power output. read more

Exports of Russian commodities have been under the spotlight in recent months amid a broader standoff with the West over Ukraine. Moscow has initiated the talks with the United States and NATO in efforts to stop Ukraine from joining the bloc.

Russia has also been accused by some politicians and experts of deliberately withholding gas exports in order to obtain clearance from Germany and the European Union for its Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline, built to bypass Ukraine.

Russia Deploys 3rd Coastal Defense System on Island Chain Claimed by Japan
Moscow and Tokyo's dispute over the Kuril Islands has prevented them from signing a formal peace treaty since the end of World War II.

(it is a long thin strand of oceanic land between russia and japan - a little hard to tell where one begins the other ends until the mainland obviously)

https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2021/12/02/ukraines-goal-to-take-back-crimea-is-direct-threat-to-russia-kremlin-a75719

(I don't remember Ukraine voicing they intend this - however it's not outside being a political point either)

little red riding hood

meanwhile - EU complaining the gas line is slower in the winter - well it's slower not as easy in the winter due to freezing they know that it's what nordstream is about

but INCREASING DEMAND is supposed to come with a co-measure of increased productivity (ie, payment).

(continually increased usage should include increase (non-military) productivity not for merely increases population "demands")

Russia isn't just selling "access to oil". They first developed fuels, then mining for steel, then steel mills and pipe manufacturing using those fuels. They most definitely "make their own pipe".

They are providing "a whole package" (most of the delivery / pipes are From Russia with Love). They are not using "imported pipes" for nordsteam - those pipes had to be mined and manufactured from allot of industrial processes.

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EU talks possible gas supplies with US, Qatar, Azerbaijan

https://tass.com/economy/1395091

(US: maryland is the largest importer of natural gas in USA - which is from the arab bloc already. they sold it to their neighbors claiming it was from USA - when their sales were getting started)

(I was nothing less than furious when I learned maryland of USA had sent agents to elementary schools to lie to school children - telling them that Maryland NG was patriotic and a natural resource - to later find: IT WAS IMPORTED not only in a small way but in the biggest way - the largest such import tank in the usa)

Hainan's Jiangdong Development Zone to expand business opportunities in 2022 – media. Hainan's free trade port has launched 142 key projects worth about $5.85 billion

Two days ago, 03:49
Gazprom supplies record-breaking 16 bcm of gas to Turkey via Blue Stream in 2021
The growth in supplies coincided with a historical record of gas consumption in Turkey

Russia proposes US returns American nuclear weapons from NATO countries stateside
According to Vladimir Yermakov, "currently there are about 200 American nuclear air bombs of the B61 family" in five non-nuclear NATO countries

((This is a historic Russian request going back to the cold war of conventional weapons along EU borders, after WWII to 'finalize them' - which slowly leaked in some nuclear replacing conventional and vice-versa pullouts. USA denies they are place to control Russia (placed to protect USA military bases is what we like to say). Russia retaliated with nuclear weapons in CUBA, much closer than comfort for JFK, which russia 'graciously removed'. Today Russia is a little further in S.A. and not taking flak they did in Cuba for ... some new installtions that aren't yet in the news entirely))

Belarusian President threatens Lithuania with transit ban
The Belarusian leader expressed bewilderment that Lithuania does not allow Belarusian goods in their ports

(belarus is border east of Ukraine, lithuania the border east of balarus. lithuania was disputed as russian owned further in the past. not was well known - just under Lithuania is Kaliningrad Russia - a small country state of russia not attached directly to russia)

Two days ago, 19:35
UK Foreign Office to announce new sanctions against Russia on January 31 - source
The source did not specify whether it would concern introduction of new sanctions or only adoption of a sanctions package that could be applied in the event of a hypothetical invasion of Ukraine

"givem me more oil, here's your sanctions please"

Ukraine’s army has deployed special operations forces to the contact line in Donbass and is conducting reconnaissance operations, Ivan Filiponenko, a spokesman for the defense ministry of the self-proclaimed Lugansk People’s Republic (LPR), said on Sunday ...

https://tass.com/world/1395063

((DPR LPR are areas of Ukraine you could consider / compare to be Counties in Texas - althought the politics are quite different))

TASS 233 Wrote:
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> Hainan's Jiangdong Development Zone to expand
> business opportunities in 2022 – media.
> Hainan's free trade port has launched 142 key
> projects worth about $5.85 billion

Hainan is also working on ... a missile weapon project.

North Korea launched an unidentified missile towards the Sea of Japan, Yonhap reported Sunday citing South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff.

It was the seventh launch since the beginning of this year.

((Japan claims these tests are aimed toward them, and that russia has moved equipment on disputed archipelago thereabouts))

https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2022/01/19/russia-completes-pullout-from-unrest-hit-kazakhstan-a76083

Russia-Led Peacekeeping Force Completes Pullout From Unrest-Hit Kazakhstan

A Russian-led regional military bloc has completed its withdrawal from Kazakhstan following violent unrest that rocked the ex-Soviet nation this month, Russia’s Defense Ministry announced Wednesday.

((A government building was set on fire by 'professional' protestors - reportedly 200 protestors died during while the Kazakstan government gained control. Russia responded to a request for supplementing Kazakstan's regular police forces.))

Russia’s new utility plane makes its maiden flight - minister
The plane was developed by the Baikal-Engineering company under the contract with the Russian ministry of industry and trade and is meant to be used by local airlines

((wikipedia: aluminum high-wing monoplane is powered by the General Electric H80-200 and seats 9 passenger))

At least 16 people were found unconscious in a hotel in Marysville, Ohio, CBS reported Saturday citing the police.

According to the police, the people were discovered unconscious in the swimming pool area; 14 people were promptly hospitalized, while two received medical aid at the scene. According to preliminary report, the people suffered burning in the throat and dizziness. There has been no information about the cause of the incident.

The police evacuated all hotel guests. An investigation is underway.

16 guests at Ohio hotel, including at least 6 children, hospitalized after carbon monoxide leak "the source of the leak is still unknown"

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