While western mainstream media attempts to portray yesterday’s parliamentary elections in Albania as free and fair, the more apparent reality is being ignored.
The elections with monumentally low official turnout of 42%, said to be the lowest in the history of post-Communist Albania, have been marred by violence and controversy.
Every few years Belorussian President Alexander Lukashenko has what seems to be an obligatory dispute with Russia, generally over energy prices. In both the 2004 and 2007 spats, the crisis was amicably solved in short order.
But during each disagreement, Lukashenko tended to purposely exaggerate the nature of the dispute in order to enhance his own personal prestige. It’s all a bit childish, as Russia and Belarus form a Union-State, making Russia and Belarus the two closest fraternal states of both the Commonwealth of Independent States and Eurasian Union.
Some have attempted to compare the background to the current Turkish-Dutch diplomatic row to the US, Poland, Sweden and others, funding, orchestrating and encouraging the illegal coup in Kiev in 2014.
The parallels are superficial to the point of a total distortion of recent events.
Here’s why.
1. A foreign rally for a foreign cause
On the 21st of February, 2014, the Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych signed a deal with his political opponents calling for early elections, a return to the previous constitution (in force from 2004-10) and a timeline to draft a new constitution. The deal was brokered by Germany, Poland and France, three countries which self-evidently did not have stability in the country as one of their goals.
Nothing like a little Vladimir Putin to inject some hard truth and honesty to the ridiculousness of American main stream media reporting.
Putin has so far remained silent on all the “Russian hacker” hysteria overtaking the American Congress and establishment media, not to mention US “intelligence” services, who are actively spreading “fake news” and fairytale documents dossiers in what amount to a “soft coup” to delegitimize Trump.
Wikileaks has just released another 1,135 John Podesta emails, bringing the total to 43,104 with seven days left until the November 8th US elections. In an email from President Clinton’s Director of Foreign Policy, Amitabh Desai, to Hillary Clinton’s inner circle (including Huma Abedin and John Podesta), we see the Clinton Foundation’s biggest donor, billionaire Victor Pinchuk, push Hillary Clinton staff to either set […]
The Israelis use their tactic of taking over the occupied territories in Ukraine. Whatever crimes they conduct in Palestine, they do the same in Ukraine: war on the local population,
Nina Kouprianova is an independent analyst of geopolitics and culture. She earned her PhD (History) from the University of Toronto, focusing on modern and contemporary Russia, culture, and U.S. foreign policy. In this interview we discuss her translations and articles found at Espionage History Archive, Soul of the East and on her own blog, NinaByzantina. Critical of the leftist tyranny in modern academia, Nina tells us about her experiences in the West, as well as her upbringing in Russia.
Il y a un peu plus d’un an, se tenait le sommet de Minsk II, qui déboucha sur un accord de cessez-le-feu censé mettre fin à la guerre civile dans le Donbass, dans l’est de l’Ukraine. Nous avons saisi cette occasion pour revenir sur ce conflit avec Sergei Munier, un jeune Français qui a rejoint la milice de la République Populaire de Donetsk en 2014, et qui a accepté de s’entretenir avec nous.
All accross our mother Russia, and far beyond its borders, powerful heartfelt prayers are being read around the clock asking God for the defeat of Russia’s enemies. Prayers so powerful,
