[EN.ALGHADEERTV.NET] Personnel at Belarus’ diplomatic mission to NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. It's headquartered in Belgium. That sez it all.... will have their access restricted at the alliance’s headquarters, Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said on Monday, following the forced landing of a passenger plane by Minsk.
Belarus is not a member of NATO but has had ties with the military alliance since 1992 following the fall of the Soviet Union, and has maintained a diplomatic mission to NATO since 1998.
Belarusian personnel can attend seminars and meetings at NATO and in NATO countries as part of a cooperation partnership that tackles issues such as arms control and military education.
"We have decided to restrict the access of Belarusian personnel to the NATO headquarters," Stoltenberg told a news conference ahead of meetings of NATO defence and foreign ministers on Tuesday, without giving more details.
The forced landing of a Ryanair flight from Athens to Vilnius earlier this month by Belarus to arrest a dissident journalist caused outrage in the West.
However, man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to eat them... a proposal to suspend Belarus from bilateral NATO cooperation, known as the Partnership for Peace, was not taken up by diplomats last week, after The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the decaying remnant of the Ottoman Empire... blocked the idea for fear of antagonising Russia, Minsk’s closest ally, diplomats said.
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[Korrespondent] This spring, temperature and rainfall conditions in Ukraine were extremely favorable for the harvest of early grain crops. The head of the department of agrometeorology of the Ukrhydrometeorology Center Tatiana Adamenko told about this, Ukrinform reports on Monday, May 31 .
“As for the impact on agricultural crops, such an amount of precipitation, and Ukraine received it from 100% to 200% of the norm, is a gift of fate. For the first time in the last 10 years in Ukraine at the end of April there were virtually no areas covered by drought. We have excellent prospects for grain crops, not only for winter crops, but also for early crops. As for the late heat-loving crops, there is a certain tension with the accumulation of heat for active development, "Adamenko said.
She noted that although the spring of 2021 is somewhat extraordinary, it cannot be called anomalous.
"An anomaly is a deviation from the norm of temperatures up to 5 degrees. And this year it is only 1-2 degrees cooler than usual. Such weather conditions were observed in 2020, and in 2017, in 2016, in 2008 and in 2014. And in 1999, after such a cool beginning of spring, one of the most severe droughts in the history of Ukraine was observed, "the agrometeorologist recalled.
She stressed that now the temperature regime is close to the climatic norm. Frosts did not acquire spontaneous proportions and harmful effects, since due to the low temperature background there was no active development of plants in the fields and mass flowering of fruits.
Adamenko noted that this year there were damage to vegetables, early varieties of apricots, peaches. However, there was no massive damage, as, for example, in 2017.
Recall that this year forecasters predict a very hot summer . A sharp warming will come to Ukraine after June 10.
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...Keep an eye on this. Back in the day, whenever the Authorities in that part of the world made an announcement about how impressive the harvest was going to be, it was usually a stinker.
Mike
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Ukraine is between about 47 and 52 N l attitude
When they say summer heat they are talking about the 80sF.
Rain is typically the limiting factor.
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Global warming would actually help agriculture in places like the Ukraine and Russia.
I remember back in 1971 when Newsweek was predicting a coming Ice Age. Once sentence stood out for me: "A one degree drop in global temperature would eliminate all wheat growing in Canada." So what would a 1 degree rise in temperature mean?
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[Korrespondent] Russia will continue to transit gas through Ukraine until the end of the contracts, there is no task to stop supplies. This was stated by Dmitry Birichevsky, Director of the Department of Economic Cooperation of the Russian Foreign Ministry, RIA Novosti writes .
“Now the contract is valid, and then there will be negotiations between Gazprom and their partners in Ukraine. We have no task to suspend gas supplies through Ukraine. Russia has never used energy and its natural resources as an element of pressure or blackmail.
Russian gas in certain regions of Europe, then this gas will reliably and predictably go to consumers, "he said.
The Russian diplomat recalled that there are certain contractual obligations regarding gas transit through Ukraine.
"And these supplies through Ukraine will continue as long as the relevant contracts are in force," added Birichevsky.
Recall that according to the new transit contract, the Russian Federation must transport 40 billion cubic meters annually. meters of gas until 2025.
Last year, less than 56 billion cubic meters of gas out of 65 billion was transported through Ukraine , but Gazprom paid for the entire contracted volume - $ 2.11 billion.
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[REGNUM] A Russian Su-27 fighter jet was flown to identify a US Air Force B-52H strategic bomber over the Baltic Sea, the Russian National Defense Control Center reported on May 31.
An air object going to the Russian border was detected by airspace control over the neutral waters of the Baltic Sea.
"To identify the air target and prevent violation of the state border of the Russian Federation, a Su-27 fighter from the air defense forces of the Baltic Fleet was taken into the air ," the center said in a statement.
The Su-27 pilot identified the air target as a B-52H strategic bomber of the US Air Force and accompanied the US military aircraft until the turn away from the border of the Russian Federation.
"The state border of the Russian Federation has not been violated," the Russian military said.
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[REGNUM] In response to the actions of NATO countries, led by the United States, the Russian Defense Ministry will form about 20 new formations and military units in the Western Military District. This was announced on May 31 by the Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation Sergei Shoigu at the board of the Russian defense department.
According to the head of the RF Ministry of Defense, the actions of "our Western colleagues" contribute to the destruction of the security system in the world and contribute to the fact that Russia is forced to take adequate countermeasures.
"By the end of the year, about 20 formations and military units will be formed in the Western Military District ," Shoigu said. As an aside, when Putin sent two divisions from the Western Military District to Voronezh tis past spring, I was pretty certain those units were Category Two formations, meaning they were officers/cadre only. Most them likely had only a third of their formations and had "round out" units (brigades/regiments) to be deployed to bring them to full strength
He also clarified that these organizational measures "are synchronized with the supply of modern weapons and military equipment" and this year about 2 thousand weapons should be delivered to the RF Armed Forces.
In addition, the Russian Defense Minister pointed out that the country's authorities are focusing not only on improving the combat strength, but also on modernizing personnel, and military command and control bodies.
Tsensor.net adds:
As reported, yesterday, Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said that Russia, during the control check, successfully transferred two armies and three airborne units to the western borders.
It is stated that the main phase of the exercise will continue from 2 to 18 June and will be conducted in land, air, sea and cyber space.
The maneuvers involve about 9.4 thousand Polish military and 800 pieces of equipment.
It is specified that the main participants in the military exercises will be the 18th and 16th mechanized divisions of the Polish Army and the "territorial defense" units deployed in the eastern part of Poland.
According to the Polish leadership, the main purpose of these exercises is to practice joint actions of combat formations and territorial defense troops during a defensive operation.
A view of the Armenia-Azerbaijan conflict from a Russian by Pavel Kukhmirov
[Sevastopol] Pashinyan announced Armenia's readiness to withdraw troops from the border with Azerbaijan. He said this last Saturday.
“We are ready at any time to begin the withdrawal of troops and we are waiting for the OSCE Minsk Group mediators to reach an agreement with Azerbaijan and at the same time to begin the withdrawal of troops in the section from Sotk (Gegharkunik region in eastern Armenia - approx.) To Khoznavar (Syunik region in southern Armenia - note) ", - he said at a meeting with the activists of the party" Civil Contract "headed by him.
According to Pashinyan, Armenia is ready, under the auspices of the OSCE Minsk Group, to begin work on clarifying border points with Azerbaijan and to restore the negotiation process on the Karabakh settlement.
Quite an amusing statement by Mr. Pashinyan, especially given his previous behavior. Which boiled down mainly to two things: inaction and a desire to substitute Russia as much as possible. According to common sense, after the invasion of the Azerbaijani military into Armenian territory, he had every opportunity to take the most decisive actions, which, ideally, could even ended with some revision of the results of the Karabakh war. This would be the case when Pashinyan had a full and justified right to even turn to Russia for military assistance.
But he didn't do anything. Instead, in the Armenian information space, at the suggestion of the Propashinyan activists, another campaign of hatred against Russia began - they say, they are bad allies, they do not protect Armenian interests. This is a wonderful formulation of the question. But the interests of Russia itself in this situation are dubious. And it is quite possible to ask the question: who benefits from all this?
This is definitely not Armenia. The interests of which we are not talking about in principle. She herself is to blame. And not because of the loss in the war, but precisely because of the position of its political leadership and the infantilism of a significant part of the Armenian society.
The Russian Federation, of course, can be blamed for anything, but not for violating allied obligations. Because no matter what they are, no one will fight for Armenia instead of the Armenians themselves. Together is possible. Instead - there are no fools. And if you guys want this, welcome to the Russian Federation as a province. But after all, Mr. Pashinyan's task is not to defend Armenia, is it?
Russia is not a winner either. For her, this whole situation is one complete loss of face and an undermining of geopolitical interests. And here she is also to blame. Not because of the "violation of allied obligations" -- it was neither formally nor in fact. And because she did not remove Mr. Pashinyan from power after the defeat in the war, to which she had all the possibilities.
Instead, they decided that Pashinyan should be left for now, so that he would fulfill the peace agreements. As a result, this "for now" can drag on and is already leading to the current lewdness. There are no comments at all.
But, paradoxically, independent Azerbaijan does not win either. Which right now is behaving extremely shortsightedly: only by maintaining decent relations with the Russian Federation, he can counterbalance the influence of Turkey. But she will swallow his independence and will not choke.
Does Azerbaijan, which won a fundamental victory, now want to merge under someone else, turning into a puppet bantustan or even into someone's wilayet? I suppose it is unlikely. But at the moment, according to the apt expression of one of the experts, Azerbaijanis are behaving like traders in the market, trying to snatch at any cost, without relying on a long-term strategy.
And Turkey is the winner, increasing its influence. And America, which, with the hands of Pashinyan and other people from the structures of Mr. Soros, is destroying the Russian presence in the region and organizing potential pockets of controlled chaos there. And it doesn't matter that Armenia itself is handed over on a platter. She's not the first. Do the Armenians themselves need this? They will answer this question at the elections.
But does Russia need it? This is for whom the time has really come to draw conclusions. And first of all, the conclusions about their own policy in the region and those who determine it.
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