Four independent Russian journalists interview Zelensky. With English subtitles.

Four independent Russian journalists ( Dozhd TV, Meduza, Kommersant, Novaya Gazeta) interview Zelensky. With English subtitles.    

Stop the war! Live on Russia’s Channel 1, March 14, 2022

 

The sign held by Marina Ovsyannikova says:

No war

Stop the War! Don’t believe the propaganda. They’re lying to you here.  

Russians against the war

Marina Ovsyannikova has guts! . She can get 15 years in prison for what she did.

Update, March 16:

English translation of Marina Ovsyannikova's statement before her on-air protest and subsequent arrest   https://twitter.com/expatua/status/1503477321642217483

Putin's use of Nazi rhetoric is not new according to historian Timothy Snyder

 

Quote of the decade - Lavrov: “We did not attack Ukraine either.”

"Что касается вашего вопроса о том, планируем ли мы нападать на другие страны - на другие страны мы нападать не планируем. Мы и на Украину не нападали. На Украине мы просто... объяснили многократно. Создается ситуация, которая создает прямые угрозы безопасности Российской Федерации." 

 "As for your question whether we are planning to attack other countries. We are not planning to attack other countries . We did not attack Ukraine either. In Ukraine we just explained on numerous occasions that there was a situation that posed a direct threat to the security of the Russian Federation. "

How can the West deal with Lavrov when his lies are straight out of 1984? 

Russian writers urge Russian speakers to tell truth of war in Ukraine

 

Svetlana Alexievich

“We are appealing to everyone who speaks the Russian language. To people of all nationalities. To those who are native speakers. To those for whom Russian is their second or third language.

“Today the Russian language is being used by the Russian state to ignite hatred and justify the shameful war against Ukraine. In Russian, the official media keep repeating endless lies that are creating a smoke screen around this aggression.

“Russian people have been fed lies for many years. The independent sources of information have been almost entirely destroyed. The opposition leaders – silenced. The state propaganda machine is working with all its might.

“In this situation it is critical to reveal to the Russian citizens the full truth about the Russian aggression against Ukraine. About the suffering and losses of the Ukrainian nation. About civilians being targeted and killed. About the danger to the whole European continent. And possibly to the whole of humanity, given the fact of nuclear threat.

“You speak Russian. It matters. Please, use all possible means of communication. Phones. Messengers. Emails.

“Reach the people you know. Reach the people you don’t know. Tell the truth. If Vladimir Putin is blind and deaf, maybe the Russians will listen to those who speak the same language. This wrongful war should be stopped.”

 The Russian authors are: Svetlana Alexievich, Nobel laureate, Vladimir Sorokin, one of the most popular writers in modern Russian literature; Lyudmila Ulitskaya, the 2014 winner of the Austrian state prize for European Literature; the science fiction writer Dmitry Glukhovsky; the satirist Victor Shenderovich; the poet Maria Stepanova; Alexander Ilichevsky, who won the Russian Booker prize in 2007 for his novel Matisse; Mikhail Shishkin, who won the Russian Booker in 2000; Maxim Osipov, a cardiologist as well as a writer; Sergei Lebedev; Liza Alexandrova-Zorina; Sascha Filipenko; Alisa Ganieva; Viktar Martinovich; Alexander Genis; Lev Rubinstein; and Boris Akunin.

Сегодня мы, писатели, обращаемся ко всем, кто говорит на русском языке.   

К людям всех национальностей. К тем, для кого русский — родной. К тем, для кого он — второй язык. Или третий.  

Сегодня русский язык используется российским государством, чтобы разжигать ненависть и оправдывать позорную войну с Украиной. На русском языке официальными СМИ произносится вся та ложь, которая дымовой завесой окружает эту агрессию.

Граждан России кормили ложью много лет. Независимые источники информации были почти уничтожены. Многих критиков режима заставили замолчать. Государственная машина пропаганды работает на полном ходу.   

Но сегодня критически необходимо донести до граждан России полную правду о нападении России на Украину. O страдании и потерях украинского народа. Об опасности для всего европейского континента, и, возможно, всего человечества — в случае ядерной угрозы.

Вы говорите по-русски.

Это многое значит.

Пожалуйста, используйте все возможные средства коммуникации. Телефон. Мессенджеры. Электронную почту. Говорите с теми, кого вы знаете. С теми, кого не знаете. Если Владимир Путин слеп и глух, может быть, россияне услышат тех, кто говорит с ними на одном языке.

Эта преступная война должна быть остановлена.  

#SkipPutinTalkToRussians  

Светлана Алексиевич, лауреат Нобелевской премии по литературе

Владимир Сорокин

Людмила Улицкая

Дмитрий Глуховский

Виктор Шендерович

Мария Степанова

Сергей Лебедев

Лиза Александрова-Зорина

Саша Филипенко

Алиса Ганиева

Виктор Мартинович

Максим Осипов

Александр Генис

Лев Рубинштейн

Александр Иличевский

Михаил Шишкин

Борис Акунин

https://7ooo.ru/group/2022/03/05/688-obraschenie-pisateley-ko-vsem-russkogovoryaschim-grss.html 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/mar/05/eminent-writers-urge-russian-speakers-to-tell-truth-of-war-in-ukraine 

The Rise of Russia and the New World Order

 

The following is the google translate from French:

Russia has not only challenged the West, it has shown that the era of global Western domination can be considered completely and definitively over.

The Foundation for Political Innovation has translated from Russian to French the complete version of an editorial by the Russian agency RIA Novosti, signed by columnist Pyotr Akopov and titled “The advent of Russia and the new world”. This article was accidentally uploaded on February 26, 2022. Initially, the publication of this text was to take place after the occupation of Ukraine by Russia. The article was quickly deleted, but the Internet Archive web service managed to save it.

This article describes the imperialist project conceived by Putin. The total Russification of Ukraine and Belarus is presented as the starting point for a recomposition of the world order. The text was translated from Russian by Inna Uryvskaya.

                                                                       

This is the google translate of the French translation from Russian by Inna Uryvskaya. It turned out to be better than the direct google translate from Russian.   

       

The Rise of Russia and the New World 

      by Pyotr Akopov                                                                         

A new world is being born before our eyes. The Russian military operation in Ukraine ushered in a new era in three dimensions at once. Without forgetting the fourth, the internal dimension of Russia. A new period begins today, both from an ideological and socio-economic point of view; but this topic is worth discussing later

Russia restores its unity. Indeed, the tragedy of 1991, this terrible catastrophe in our history, this unnatural dislocation, has finally been overcome. This restoration requires great sacrifices, through the tragic events of a quasi-civil war, where brothers, separated by their membership in the Russian and Ukrainian armies, are still shooting at each other, but there will no longer be an anti-Russian Ukraine. Russia is restored to its historical integrity, bringing together the Russian world, the Russian people: the Great Russians, the Belarusians and the Little Russians.

To abandon the idea of ​​this reunification, to let this temporary division settle for centuries, is to betray the memory of our ancestors and to be cursed by our descendants for having let the Russian land disintegrate.

Vladimir Putin has assumed, without any exaggeration, a historic responsibility by taking the decision not to leave the Ukrainian question to future generations. Indeed, the need to resolve the Ukraine problem could only remain Russia's priority, for two main reasons. And the question of Russia's national security, that is, letting Ukraine become anti-Russian, is not the most important reason.

The main reason is an eternal complex of divided peoples, a complex of national humiliation due to the fact that the Russian home first lost part of its foundations (Kiev), and must bear the idea of ​​the existence of two States, of two peoples. To continue to live like this would be to renounce our history, either by accepting the insane idea that "only Ukraine is the real Russia" or by remembering, helplessly and with gnashing of teeth, the time when "we lost the Ukraine”. Over the decades, the reunification of Russia with Ukraine would become increasingly difficult: the changing of codes, the derussification of Russians living in Ukraine and anti-Russian propaganda among Ukrainian Little Russians are said to have gained momentum. Also, if the West had consolidated geopolitical and military control in Ukraine, the return to Russia would have become totally impossible, since the Russians would have had to confront the entire Atlantic bloc.    

Now that problem no longer exists: Ukraine has returned to Russia. This return does not mean that Ukraine will lose its statehood. Simply, it will be transformed, reorganized and returned to its original state as an integral part of the Russian world. Under what borders? In what form ? Will an alliance with Russia be established, through the CSTO and the Eurasian Economic Union or as a state that is part of the Union of Russia and Belarus? This will be decided once the anti-Russian Ukraine no longer exists. Be that as it may, the period of division of the Russian people is coming to an end.

It is here that the second dimension of the new era begins: it concerns the relations of Russia with the West, and not only of Russia, but of the Russian world, that is to say, of the three states: Russia, Belarus and Ukraine, acting as a single geopolitical entity. These relations have entered a new phase, and the West sees Russia returning to its historical borders in Europe. He is loudly indignant about it, although in the depths of his soul he must admit that it could not have been otherwise.

Who, in the old European capitals, in Paris or Berlin, could really believe that Moscow would give up Kiev? That the Russians would forever be a divided people? And this, at the very moment when Europe is uniting, when the German and French elites are trying to regain control of European integration from the Anglo-Saxons and to build a united Europe! Forgetting that the unification of Europe was only made possible by the unification of Germany, which was achieved thanks to the good – although not very intelligent – ​​Russian will. Any claim to Russian lands is more than the height of ingratitude, it is geopolitical stupidity. The West as a whole, and Europe in particular, had no power to keep Ukraine in its sphere of influence, let alone take over Ukraine. Not to understand it, you had to be a fool in geopolitics.

To be more precise, there was only one option: to bet on the further collapse of Russia, that is, the Russian Federation. But the fact that this option did not work should have been clear twenty years ago. Fifteen years ago, after Putin's speech in Munich, even the deaf could have heard that Russia was back.

Today, the West is trying to punish Russia for coming back, for preventing Westerners from getting rich at its expense, for stopping Western expansion eastward. Seeking to punish us, the West believes that our relationship with it is of vital importance. But that hasn't been the case for a long time now. The world has changed, and the Europeans as well as the Anglo-Saxons who rule the West understand this. Any Western pressure on Russia will be in vain. The damage from the escalation of the confrontation will be bilateral, but Russia is morally and geopolitically prepared for it, when a worsening of the opposition will entail significant costs for the West, the main ones of which will not necessarily be economic.

Europe, as the West, wanted autonomy. Indeed, the German project of a greater integrated Europe is strategic nonsense if the Anglo-Saxons maintain ideological, military and geopolitical control over the Old World. Moreover, this project cannot succeed since the Anglo-Saxons need a Europe that they control. However, Europe must seek autonomy for another reason: in case the United States isolates itself (due to its growing internal conflicts and controversies), or concentrates on the Pacific region, where the center of Geopolitical gravity is shifting today.

The Anglo-Saxons lead Europe into a confrontation with Russia and thus deprive Europeans of any chance of independence. In the same way, Europe is trying to impose a break with China. If the Atlanticists rejoice today that the “Russian threat” is unifying the Western bloc, Berlin and Paris must understand that having lost all hope of autonomy, the European project will collapse in the medium term. This is why independent-minded Europeans are not at all interested in building a new Iron Curtain on their eastern borders, realizing that it will turn into a bullpen for Europe. The era of Old World world leadership (more precisely, half a millennium) is over anyway. However, various options are still possible for its future.

The third dimension of current events is the acceleration of the construction of a new world order, the outlines of which are increasingly clearly due to the fact that Anglo-Saxon globalization is so widespread. A multipolar world has finally become a reality. In this operation in Ukraine, only the West opposes Russia, because the rest of the world understands it perfectly: it is a conflict between Russia and the West, it is a response to geopolitical expansion of the Atlanticists, it is the return of Russia to its historical space and its place in the world.

China, India, Latin America, Africa, the Islamic world and Southeast Asia, no one believes the West rules the world order, let alone sets the rules of the game. Russia has not only challenged the West, it has shown that the era of global Western domination can be considered completely and definitively over. The new world will be built by all civilizations and all centers of power, and this, of course, in collaboration with the West (united or not), but the latter will no longer be able to impose either its terms or its rule.

 

The deleted and recovered Russian original

https://web.archive.org/web/20220226072605/https://ria.ru/20220226/rossiya-1775162336.html

The French translation by Inna Uryvskaya

https://www.fondapol.org/decryptage/la-russie-na-pas-seulement-defie-loccident-elle-a-montre-que-lere-de-la-domination-occidentale-mondiale-peut-etre-consideree-comme-completement-et-definitivement-revolue/

The version that ended up in Pakistan, in English  

https://thefrontierpost.com/the-new-world-order/ 

Who will stop Putin's nuclear blackmail?

 Why did the West not prevent the invasion of Ukraine?

https://www.svoboda.org/a/kto-ostanovit-yadernyy-shantazh-putina-grani-vremeni-v-muminom-shakirovym-efir-v-19-05/31725067.html  

The following is the google translate from the interview three days ago: 

Mumin Shakirov: I spoke with Andrey Piontkovsky about who or what can prevent Vladimir Putin from using nuclear weapons and why the world is faced with such a Russian leader who wants to unleash a third world war.

Mr. Piontkovsky, you are one of those rare experts who figured Putin out 20 years ago, when the "Heir" operation took place. In this context, did he disappoint you, or did he outdo himself?

Andrei Piontkovsky: Extremely negative tendencies developed in him, which I saw when he first appeared on television in October 1999 with his famous line: "We'll pee in the toilet!" Now Putin is going to "wet in the toilet" the whole world, or at least the entire Western world. He wants to take revenge for the defeat of the Soviet Union in the Cold War.

Mumin Shakirov: Experts write: "After these events, Putin joined the club of such rulers as Saddam Hussein and Muammar Gaddafi." If not, how is it different from them?    

Andrei Piontkovsky: Putin differs from Saddam Hussein and Muammar Gaddafi in that he has a nuclear bomb, and this poses a huge danger to the world. He constantly emphasizes and tells how he is ready to use it. Nuclear blackmail is already an active element of his foreign policy. Even during the seizure of the Crimea, he boasted that he had put the nuclear strategic forces on alert. His remark at a press conference after the meeting with Macron was very revealing. It was extremely outspoken. It gave away all his plans, which I have been writing about for at least eight years, since the day of his so-called "Crimean" (and I call it "Sudet") speech. He said (very unexpectedly for him, he never admits any weaknesses): "Yes, we are inferior to NATO as a whole at the conventional level, but we have nuclear weapons, and modern models that are superior to those possessed by the West." It was he who shared his strategy: to get involved in a conventional clash with the West, and then, when his advantage becomes clear, raise the stakes to nuclear, threaten a nuclear strike. And according to his calculations, the West will shudder, retreat and capitulate. This is the policy that he plans for the future.

Mumin Shakirov: And how do you like the position of the collective West, which could not prevent the invasion of Russian troops into Ukraine?

Andrei Piontkovsky: Ukraine is not accepted because the United States is not ready to go to war in the event of a threat to Ukraine from Russia with a nuclear power. This is clear. But their behavior is much worse. Not only are they unprepared to clash with a nuclear power, but they are also not prepared to give up rather petty economic interests in trade with that power. A terrible, unpleasant signal for the fighting Ukraine, and very encouraging of Putin's impunity, was the refusal of the West to disconnect Russia from the global SWIFT payment system. This is a strong economic blow. But something else is even more important here. This has already become, as it were, symbolism... By the way, Biden honestly explained that he disagrees with the EU. The Germans have a very large trade with Russia. And disconnecting from SWIFT means disconnecting Russia from world trade. Then, instead of what can be done with one click on a computer button, you will have to go somewhere in New York or Tokyo with a bag of cash.International trade is always beneficial to both parties, otherwise they would not trade. And Germany, which has a huge volume of trade, does not want to suffer economic losses. Even while, before her eyes, the tanks of the aggressor are driving around the neighboring country and do not hide the task of the operation - the destruction of the Ukrainian state.

Mumin Shakirov: Putin repeatedly shook the nuclear button in front of the nose of the West, like a key fob from an expensive car. This is a quote from Dmitry Muratov. Will he achieve a meeting so that Biden and Johnson sit opposite him, as Stalin, Churchill and Roosevelt once decided the fate of the world?

Andrei Piontkovsky: No, this will not happen in any case, he has already understood this. He goes to his goal with real, practical steps. If he manages to pass Ukraine painlessly, then the next one will be the Baltics, where all the hypocrisy of the West will have to be exposed. I am sure that if he manages to lose Ukraine, Putin will certainly test him for weakness by arranging some kind of operation to protect the indigenous Russian population in Estonia, for example.

Mumin Shakirov: Who or what can stop Putin, who is at war with the fraternal Slavic people with the help of ballistic missiles?

Andrei Piontkovsky: The West is responding to some of its obligations under Article 5, pulling up some forces, a military clash with Russian forces that have invaded Estonia begins. Putin is well aware of this, as it turned out from his remark after the meeting with Macron, at a certain stage, the conventional superiority of NATO will appear quite quickly. Then Putin puts forward an ultimatum: "Retreat and capitulate! Or I will use a limited nuclear strike." For example, two warheads: one - on the accumulation of American troops, and the second - maybe on some European city. According to Putin's calculations, and he still believes this, the West will be horrified, retreat and capitulate. At the Pentagon, General Mattis (the “mad dog,” as he is called) learned about this doctrine, surprisingly, from the mouths of veterans of the Soviet special services. There are regular meetings of veterans of the American and Russian intelligence services. It was in Washington in 2016. And they began to tell him all this as blackmail and intimidation. Mattis later wrote in his long interview after his resignation: "I was horrified. For the first time I realized that Russia poses an existential threat to the United States." And he ordered the development of a doctrine of what to do in this extreme case. America didn't even have tactical nuclear weapons in Europe. And two terrible options arise: either capitulate, retreat, or switch to full nuclear war, that is, mutually assured destruction, to destroy all of humanity. They acted very simply - they replaced the warheads on their Ohio missile carriers, there are 24 Atlas missiles. The warheads, which were about 50 kilotons (that's the "doomsday weapon"), have been replaced with small warheads of about five kilotons. And they accepted as a military strategy that in the event of such a scenario, they would respond with the same small nuclear strike. The publication of this scenario, according to the plan, is primarily in the nature of containment, sends a signal to Putin that "we will not capitulate, keep in mind that we will also respond." How Putin will perceive this in a real situation, we do not know. But it is quite realistic that these scenarios will unfold somewhere in the next year or two.

Mumin Shakirov: Are you saying that we are in for an apocalypse?

Andrey Piontkovsky: Putin delivers this blow, the Americans apparently respond immediately to the residence in which Putin is located. These are still limited shots. These are colossal sacrifices, but this is not an apocalypse. And then either some associates grab Putin by the nuclear button, or he himself dies, or this exchange of blows stops, or he can slip into the apocalypse. But Putin foresaw this scenario as well: “They will all die, and you and I will go to heaven."

Mumin Shakirov: After the bombing of Ukrainian cities with cruise missiles, did Putin step from The Hague to Nuremberg?

Andrey Piontkovsky: Stepped, of course. But the main thing, I am now observing, the Russian people stepped along with him. Yet the capture of Ukraine is the first screen on all the world's television companies. And I would reproach the West in many ways - they did not go for SWIFT. But society is reacting much more strongly than before. The latest news for football fans: we were kicked out of all UEFA, our teams will play on a foreign field and so on. I'm not afraid of what will happen to Putin, I'm afraid that the Russians will have to wash off Putin for much longer than the Germans from Hitler. This is the biggest threat to our society.