Crimea

Introduction

The Washington Post has published extraordinary claims about Donald Trump, claims which if true could likely be impeachable offences.
There’s only one problem. They are almost certainly not true.
The clams are defined by WaPo as follows,

A woman from Crimea was visiting her grandson in Donetsk when she was filmed confronting OSCE officials. She accused them of complicity in the shellings and murder of civilians at the hands of the Kiev regime and spoke of her fear for her young grandson’s life.
The heart wrenching footage demonstrates the human side of the fascist war of aggression against Dombass, beyond the harrowing statistics.

A new poll by the Russian VTSIOM found that if Russians had a vote in the French election, 61% of them would vote for Marine Le Pen while a mere 8% would vote for Emmanuel Macron.
These results are about as surprising as the fact that beef isn’t on the menu in an traditional Hindu restaurant.
While the western mainstream media are predictably taking a Russophobic slant on this event, the actual motivation for these results is pure logic.

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Ukrainian boxer Vladimir Klitschko and brother of post-coup Kiev mayor Vitaly Klitschko, has lost a match in the 11th round against UK fighter Anthony Joshua.

"Это конец": Вот этим апперкотом Энтони Джошуа поставил точку в эпохе братьев Кличко pic.twitter.com/F4BDV9n6sP
— Дмитрий Смирнов (@dimsmirnov175) April 29, 2017

Many in the EU and US fail to accept that Crimea is today, as it was for centuries, a peaceful and integral part of Russia. They seem obsessed by a short aberrational period of history between 1991 and 2014 where the people of Crimea and Sevastopol engaged in a protracted struggle for autonomy and independence from Kiev after the peninsula was transferred to a new state of Ukraine following the illegal break-up of the Soviet Union.
For those who think that the struggle of the Crimean people to return home only began in 2014, they simply do not know history.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has held a meeting with Federica Mogherini, the High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy.
Mogherini used her meeting to justify the EU’s sanctions levelled against Russia since 2014. She again raised the tired old issue of Crimea to justify the sanctions.
The EU’s almost pathological obsession with Crimea is not only strange but it is becoming mystifying.

The First Round of the French Presidential elections will be held on Sunday as the race is quickly becoming dominated between the conservative/populist Marine Le Pen and centre-left candidate Emmanuel Macron.
However, in recent weeks, the embattled centre-right candidate Francois Fillon has been experiencing something of a resurgence.
As he has done in the past, Fillon has come out and adopted one of Marine Le Pen’s policies.

Russia’s main broadcaster Channel 1, has decided not to show this year’s Eurovision Song Contest. The decision has been made after Ukraine, who hosts this year’s contest, has decided to ban Russia’s entrant Yulia Samoilova, a wheel-chair bound singer, from entering Ukraine.
The decision was a low-political move by the fascist regime in Kiev who have defied protests from the European Broadcasting Union (no relationship with the European Union). The EBU which organises the song contest insisted that the event remain apolitical.