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The Russian authorities have for the first time revealed in court testimony the full extent of Ukraine’s deployment of BUK missile systems to eastern Ukraine when MH17 was shot down.

Since 2014, the fascist war of aggression against the Donbass republics has impeded many normal activities both at home and abroad, for citizens of the Donetsk People’s Republic and the Lugansk People’s Republic.
Russia’s recent move to recognise passports and other important documents from the Donbass republics as well as offering CIS style visa-free entry to the Russian Federation, has done a great deal to alleviate these pressures.

Just three weeks after the top soldiers of the US and Russian militaries – General Joseph Dunford, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and General Valery Gerasimov, Chief of the General Staff – met in Azerbaijan, they have followed up with a second meeting in Antalya Turkey, for a summit hosted by Turkey’s top soldier, General Hulusi Akar, who is the Chief of the Turkish General Staff.

In an extraordinary twist illustrating the fantastic complexity of the Syria conflict, news agency reports confirm the presence of both US and Russian troops in the Kurdish controlled Syrian town of Manbij.

This article is republished with the author’s permission.  Previously published by Unz and by The Saker.

The Donetsk People’s Republic has entered the war for hearts and minds by launching a new television and radio broadcaster. The transmissions will help explain developments, goals and achievements in Donbass, both in the two republics and to regions like Kharkov and Dnipropetrovsk, where many people also seek to end rule from the fascist regime in Kiev.
Donetsk People’s Republic leader Alexander Zakharchenko spoke of the project in the following way,

News that British Foreign Minister Boris Johnson is flying to Moscow comes directly after a House of Commons Foreign Affairs committee reported that Britain’s policy of not speaking to the Russians has become unsustainable.
This will be the first visit of a British minister to Moscow for 5 years.

The doctrine or perhaps better stated, the broad idea of ‘peace through strength’ has been fiercely debated throughout the modern era.
In contemporary geo-politics, the phrase has been most associated with the Barry Goldwater brand of Cold War American Republicanism.
But today, it is in Russia where many in opposition as well as the government are coming to learn the virtues of this idea, when properly applied.

Russia’s steadfast and rock-solid defense minister, Sergei Shoigu, made a devastating retort to a question from the audience at an event held at Moscow’s MGIMO University on February 21st.
The audience member asked Shoigu for a response to the snide and provocative (but sadly typical) comment of UK defense minister Micheal Fallon at the Munich Security Conference, who said that “we would prefer it if the Russian bear didn’t stick its paws in [Libya].”

While ignorant commentators claim that Russia isn’t a democracy, Russia’s political landscape is changing due to – surprise, surprise – the democratic will of the Russian people.