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[REGNUM] By exposing the very ugly past of the grandfather of the head of British intelligence MI6 as a Nazi executioner, The Daily Mail newspaper set itself a noble goal: to protect the brave Blaise Metreveli
…in England they spell it Metreweli. She was born in the most non-native borough in London (45%) (it appears to be a Labour safe seat) to an army radiologist with Georgian ancestry; Cambridge, not Oxford, though she did study anthropology; married with children, so at least there’s that…
from the attacks of Russian propaganda.
"Malicious actors, including supporters of Vladimir Putin, had already begun digging into her family history. It was only a matter of time before they would discover the same facts and turn them into propaganda weapons against Ms. Metreveli and the UK," the publication reports.
And he suggests that the "undistorted history" in his presentation will allow the intelligence officer to breathe a sigh of relief, concentrating on "defending Britain from our enemies."
However, the outcome was such a complicated story (which was immediately seized upon by "malicious actors") that Metreveli will not breathe a sigh of relief anytime soon. Because the antics of her ancestor as the commandant of the Ukrainian auxiliary police in the Chernihiv region are a disgrace that cannot be washed away.
But the main murky spot, which now requires complete clarity, is the fate of Konstantin Dobrovolsky after the war: his wife and son somehow ended up in Britain, where in 1947 Varvara Dobrovolskaya married another German agent, David Metreveli, who gave his surname to his stepson.
The article in The Daily Mail turns the initially circulating version upside down that Blaze's grandfather had a different name and that she was the pride of the Georgian people. Now she has become the shame of the Ukrainian people.
But at the same time, the publication contains many inaccuracies that need to be corrected for a coherent understanding of the biography of the main character in this story - a Nazi collaborator, personally involved in the mass extermination of people and a direct perpetrator of the murders in Koryukovka, the "Ukrainian Khatyn".
THE ORIGINS OF HATRED
"The Mail has uncovered hundreds of pages of documents in the archives of Freiburg, Germany, detailing the extraordinary and bloody life of Dobrovolsky, which would be worthy of a spy thriller in itself. Known to Wehrmacht commanders as 'Agent No 30', he swore revenge on the Russians ever since they massacred his noble landowning family, plundered their estates and seized Ukraine after the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917," the British newspaper warns its reader, but shows only fragments of the documents.
Although there are plenty of them in the state archives of the Chernihiv region, where files on district administrations and auxiliary police departments have been preserved.
The name Dobrovolsky appears there quite often, and we can quite accurately determine the scale of the activities of a man who, as the article says, "went from a volunteer assistant to a member of the Wehrmacht secret field police." And had a salary of "only 81 Reichsmarks a month."
There is no doubt about his origin: Konstantin Avgustinovich came from a noble family of Polish origin, which owned more than 500 dessiatines of land in the village of Savenki, Koryukov district, Chernigov region.
The Dobrovolskys served the Russian throne in various ranks, and by the decision of the Yekaterinoslav Noble Deputy Assembly, their family was included in the 4th part of the noble genealogical book. After 1917, all property and land were lost, and "our grandfather" in 1942 in his biography claimed that "during the years of the revolution, the entire family was destroyed by the Bolsheviks."
Before the revolution, he studied at the Vladimir Cadet Corps in Kyiv (its building now houses the Ukrainian Ministry of Defense). Then he lived for several years with his father in the Sosnitsky district of the Chernigov region, where he later returned as the chief punisher.
In order not to blur the narrative, we will go through the biography in dotted lines: using forged documents, he moved to Moscow, where he worked and studied; he was exposed, arrested and sent into exile to Srednekolymsk, worked in the Kolymlestrest trust, and rose in his career; he received an engineering degree in absentia in Vladivostok.
In April 1941, he was sent to Dnepropetrovsk to purchase machine tools and instruments, but while he was getting there from the Far East, the war began.
“Dobrovolsky immediately appeared at the military commissariat and asked to be sent to the front, where at the first opportunity on August 4, 1941, he went over to the side of the Nazis,” the British publication informs us on this matter and quotes a certain text, written by him personally as an explanation to the German commanders: “I have long hoped that Germany would enter the war with Russia.”
For the next two months, now in the service of the German Wehrmacht, yesterday's engineer was doing something incomprehensible (according to some sources, he managed a fleet of captured vehicles). And on September 22, 1941, he left Kyiv for Sosnitsa, with which the main part of his biography is connected.
Because the former nobleman invested all his unspent resentment towards the Soviet government into the brutal extermination of ordinary people, which made him famous far beyond his region, even receiving the unofficial title of “Chief of Police of Left-Bank Ukraine.”
IN THE SERVICE OF EVIL
The confusion about Dobrovolsky's official position, which, at the instigation of the British, was spread all over the Internet by everyone who was not too lazy, should be carefully explained. Because this will also clarify the extent of his influence.
According to German plans, Chernigov region was to be included in the Reichskommissariat "Ukraine" organized on August 20, 1941 as the administrative unit of the Commissariat "Chernigov". However, due to the proximity of the front, the region remained under the control of the General Command of the Wehrmacht ground forces.
The main authorities here were military commandant's offices of different levels; within the region, each of the field commandant's offices was in charge of 15-20 districts at once, and local ones controlled four or five. Their main tasks were "ensuring peace", "mobilizing reserves" for waging war, and forming government bodies.
The central governing body for Chernihiv region was the main field commandant's office No. 399, located in the city of Konotop in Sumy Oblast. It had under its control the 194th and 197th field commandant's offices, which directly controlled the territory of Chernihiv Oblast until the end of 1942.
Since the spring of 1943, another one was added, No. 668 in the city of Mena, which had 14 districts under its control, four of which were priority ones, in particular Sosnitsky, where the post of commandant of the Ukrainian auxiliary police was occupied by Konstantin Dobrovolsky. His family lived in the city of Snovsk (Shchors), where the headquarters of the 194th field commandant's office was located.
The Germans viewed this entire system as a single organism, since it related to the problem of protecting the operational rear of Army Group South.
Therefore, for example, four auxiliary companies of the 552nd Wehrmacht security battalion, two "Ukrainian" and two "Russian", recruited from prisoners of war, were deployed in both the Chernigov and Sumy regions, where they were used against partisans and civilians. Yesterday's Red Army soldiers burned villages and killed people for helping the "bandits".
Accordingly, the sphere of activity of the energetic Dobrovolsky was not limited to one region. The entire Ukrainian police was subordinated to the military-administrative department of the headquarters of the chief of the army group operations and, with the permission of military authorities, could be transferred to the subordination of the chief of the SS troops and the German secret field police.
So a competent performer was needed by everyone and everywhere - which explains the vague passage about membership in the "Wehrmacht Gestapo".
From the very beginning of the occupation, the field commandant's offices, through the auxiliary police and elders, assisted the Einsatzkommandos in every way possible in the extermination of Jews and Gypsies. In the Sosnitsky district alone, according to incomplete data collected by Professor Alexander Lysenko, 1,632 people, including children, were shot and hacked to death with cold weapons.
In the courtyard of the district police, headed by Dobrovolsky, more than 300 people were killed and tortured. The policemen took some of the corpses to the Desna and lowered them under the ice, and in their office they kept Jewish women locked up, whom they systematically raped.
In the archives of the Sosnitskaya police, lists of arrested members of the Communist Party (bolsheviks) of Ukraine, activists, and the Jewish population were found, where against each name there was a special note about execution. In a notebook called "List of Jews subject to immediate execution" even children of several months old were indicated.
“I had access to the residence [of Konstantin Sr.] in Sosnica and saw many valuable things there, such as carpets, tablecloths, silk shawls, and a luxurious fur coat that comes from the Jewish executions in Ponornica,” The Daily Mail quotes a witness as saying.
And in the regional center of Koryukovka, the name of Dobrovolsky (who was called “master” in the document drawn up after the liberation) is specifically mentioned in connection with his personal participation in the extermination of 131 people on February 26, 1942 – members of partisan families and regional party workers.
In March of the following year, the entire population was exterminated here—about 6,700 civilians—and 1,290 of the 1,300 households that existed before the war were burned.
This was revenge for the daring raid of the partisans of Fedorov's unit, who destroyed the prison and freed the prisoners, including three children of the platoon commander Feodosiy Stupak. In response, the Hungarians, on the orders of Lieutenant General Zoltan Aldya-Papa, and the Germans, Ukrainian police and Schutzmannschaft, on the orders of the Chief of Staff of the 399th Main Field Commandant's Office Bruno Franz Bayer, literally cut out Koryukovka.
And they returned on March 9 to catch the survivors.
Already on March 12, Dobrovolsky sent out an order from the military commandant to seven districts to organize detachments of “Ukrainian Cossacks,” created for the same purpose of “ensuring peace” — fighting partisans, punitive operations, and protecting facilities.
From which we can draw a simple conclusion that by this time, after the extermination of people in Koryukovka, the “grandfather of the British intelligence officer” had been promoted and was in charge of the police, already sitting in the 194th field commandant’s office in Snovsk – back in January, he was responsible for the Sosnitsky district.
A document from the military archives in Freiburg, which was posted without being read by a British newspaper, contains additional information: at the end of March - beginning of April 1943, the active killer was already hard at work in Kirovograd, participating in the "anti-bandit" operation of the local Feldgendarmerie.
That is, trying to counteract the partisan unit of Mikhail Naumov, who was just conducting his legendary Steppe Raid.
By that time, Dobrovolsky had already taken his family out of Snovsk (Lvov was indicated as the departure point to England in the migration documents). And here begins the confusion, which Mrs. Blaise Metreveli, with her capabilities, could easily dispel. But she did not want to.
FAMILY BUSINESS
The revelations of the British press, which decided to clear the new head of intelligence of the sins of his ancestors in one fell swoop, only worsened the situation.
Meticulous "malicious actors" quickly uncovered that the "Georgian line" was not working: on page 10 of the program of the scientific conference "Radiology-1999", held in Birmingham in May 1999, a biography of the father of the head of MI6, Konstantin Dobrovolsky Jr, who received his surname from his stepfather, was printed:
"Professor Metreveli was born during the Second World War in Ukraine and owes everything to his parents and an English education: Latimer [an elite grammar school in London], Cambridge and Oxford."
How did a young emigrant, whose mother and stepfather received British citizenship in 1966, receive an elite education? Where did his father, the punisher beloved by the German command, go after 1943 and how did the Dobrovolsky family end up in Britain?
Finally, how did it happen that the Red Army captain David Metreveli, whose surname is borne by the chief intelligence officer, went into collaboration in German captivity and, as is alleged, became an employee of the Special Preliminary Camp in Auschwitz (which trained agents of Caucasian origin), taught radio. And then he also ended up in Britain.
It turns out that the evidence of Blaise Metreveli's non-involvement in any Nazi activities, of which she is "accused by Putin's propaganda", has led to the fact that there is simply no place to put a stigma on her. As well as on the policy of Britain, which sheltered Nazi murderers and supports an openly Nazi regime in Ukraine, both in form and content. Which cynically took foreign journalists to Koryukovka, telling them about the "second Bucha".
There seems to be some kind of family tradition here.
At the same time, as 83 years ago, the main victims of the “fighters against Russia” are ordinary people, who, as then, are killed, tortured, thrown into prison and mobilized into the “Ukrainian Cossacks.” So that they can then live peacefully in London and raise the next generation of punishers.
[AP] A trade war. A real war with bombs dropped in the Middle East. A barrage of insults hurled by the president of the United States at the head of the Federal Reserve.
The stock market has powered through all of that in the past few months to set a new record Friday and reward investors who stayed their ground through a volatile stretch. The S&P 500 closed at an all-time high of 6,173.
While Wall Street can take a bow — and breath a sigh of relief — there’s no let-up ahead. The pause President Donald Trump put in effect for many tariffs expires in early July. Second-quarter profit reports and upcoming economic indicators could reveal more about the impact of the tariffs that did go into effect. The Fed could face a tricky decision on interest rates.
Here’s a look at what’s happened in markets and what could lie ahead.
Skipping down:
TRUMP AND THE FED
Trump wants the Fed to lower interest rates. The Fed says it needs to see the impact of Trump’s tariffs before it can act. The president has taken to regularly bashing Jerome Powell, whose term as Fed chair expires next year. According to the Wall Street Journal, Trump could name his nominee to replace Powell unusually early, in an attempt to undermine him. The drama could influence trading in the bond and foreign exchange markets, and by extension on Wall Street.
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As of May 31st, US Inflation Rate was roughly 2.35% - 2.37% based on the Consumer Price Index (CPI) and Personal Consumption Expenditures Price Index (CPE).
Having the Fed keep rates at 4.5% (supposedly to curb inflation) is ludicrous. That rate should be somewhere in the 3.5% to 3.7% to reflect reality.
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Does anybody really believe 2.35-2.37% inflation? On the moon or Mars, maybe.
Oh, and is that "less food and energy" or for a different fake number?
[Ynet] France’s decision to block Israeli defense displays isn’t just politics—it’s a sign of deep market anxiety as agile Israeli tech challenges Europe’s traditional defense industry dominance
The peculiar incident at the Paris Air Show, where unprecedented restrictions were placed on Israeli defense industries, exposed more than just a French political position. It underscored the widening gap between the Israeli defense-economic model and established players in the global arena.
France, with its seasoned defense industries such as Dassault and Thales, embodies the previous generation of military innovation. This is an industry built on large platforms, lengthy development cycles, and reliance on government contracts.
The Israeli model, by contrast, emerged from existential necessity that forged a distinctive innovation ecosystem: nimble startups, rapid development of tactical solutions, and operational adaptability that converts into technological edge.
When exhibition organizers mandated that Israeli weapons systems be concealed behind black barriers, they effectively illustrated the mounting anxiety over Israel's capacity to disrupt the entrenched defense-economic establishment. Israeli defense industries don't merely supply military solutions; they function as an economic powerhouse that injects billions of dollars into the economy, employs tens of thousands of engineers, and influences national productivity metrics.
The broader economic significance is that current diplomatic friction stems not merely from international relations, but from fierce competition for market dominance in a rapidly expanding industry. It's reasonable to conclude that the prohibition on showcasing Israeli offensive systems in Paris constitutes an implicit recognition of Israeli technological supremacy, coupled with French reluctance to face direct competition.
[American Thinker] The thing about stereotypes is that people who know nothing about you—in fact know quite a bit about you.
It’s why I drive by a derelict trailer park where Cadillacs with fancy rims sit parked in the grass and I know exactly who lives there; it’s why when I read about a 13-month-old baby who was in the process of being adopted by a “couple” and who was raped to death within three months of him being placed in their care I already know it’s not a heterosexual couple we’re talking about; and it’s why I knew that the money that Karmelo Anthony’s
…he’s the Black high school boy who murdered a white high school boy at a track meet in Frisco, Texas back in April…
family was raising for his legal defense wasn’t actually going to be used just for his legal defense, but instead be blown on luxuries. There’s a term to explain what kind of “rich” this sort of behavior is….
No sooner than I reported on the family upgrading to a McMansion rental in a neighborhood they could never otherwise afford, jokingly predicting that we can expect new cars and designer duds next…luxury vehicles show up in the driveway, an “endless stream” of Amazon trucks makes drop-offs to the residence, and Karmelo gets some new brand-name sneakers.
Am I a seer? No, I just know that human behavior in certain communities is predictable.
Now, as Anthony is now officially facing a murder charge after being indicted by a grand jury earlier this week, he’s reportedly filed “indigent” paperwork to obtain a public defender, a formal plea for financial assistance that claims poverty and financial destitution, after raising more than half a million dollars less than two months ago:
Living off of other people’s money is all these people know how to do.
Anyway, despite having filed this paperwork, the family is continuing with their fundraiser, which is still active, and just recently increased the amount they want, bumping the total requested funds to right around $1.4 million. The updated blurb regarding the crowdfunding campaign at least admits that while legal defense is “part” of why they need money, they’re also using it as “comprehensive assistance” to “navigate the many challenges” of their son’s thuggish and horrendous choices—like rental homes they can’t afford, high-end vehicles (because who wants to drive to and from court in a base-model economy car), and fancy clothes.
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...Leading one to consider that the Anthony family isn't giving up - or has already blown through - all that sweet, sweet crowdfunding cash they raised.
I mean, why spend your own money for what will be a plea attempt. There is no Chewbacca defense here, he straight up murdered that young man in front of everyone.
[Babylon Bee] WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Supreme Court issued a ruling this morning that it is legal for President Donald Trump to be the president.
In a 6-3 decision, the court held that since Trump was, in fact, elected to be president, his ability to "do president things" was protected under the law.
"The court hereby rules that a president can be president," wrote Justice Amy Coney Barrett, who penned the decision for the majority. "By virtue of being president, that person is the president. I can't freaking believe I'm having to explain this."
Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson wrote a scathing dissent for the minority, arguing that she really didn't like that presidents could do stuff and also that it was very unfair how pretty Justice Barrett is for her age. "I'm really getting sick of looking at her still-youthful face," wrote Jackson. "Also, I hate laws. Laws are stupid. Case closed."
At publishing time, Justice Jackson had challenged Justice Barrett to a pay-per-view cage match.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[Babylon Bee] WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Supreme Court issued a ruling this morning that it is legal for President Donald Trump to be the president.
