[DW] German Interior Minister Horst Seehofer has said Russia is likely behind a wave of illegal immigrants colonists from Belarus. He also says the EU has much to do on migrant policy despite numbers being below those of 2015 and 2016.
Outgoing German Interior Minister Horst Seehofer said on Wednesday that Berlin did not intend to introduce controls on the border to Poland despite a growing number of migrants colonists entering via Belarus, a phenomenon he ultimately blamed on Russia.
Yet despite Russian malignancy, Germany has firmly connected its energy supply to Russian goodwill. Clever.
WHAT DID SEEHOFER SAY?
Speaking at a presser after reporting to the Cabinet on the current migration situation, Seehofer said such a step would be "legally questionable."
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[REGNUM] The area of the village of Vasilyevka near Yasinovataya in Donetsk was fired by Ukrainian militants from heavy mortars on the evening of October 20, according to the Joint Center for Control and Coordination of the Ceasefire.
The APU opened fire at 17:30 Moscow time from the side of the village of Kamenka. They fired five 120mm mines in the Vasilyevka area.
The JCCC reminded that there is a pumping station for the first rise of the South Donbass water pipeline in Vasilyevka. Water from this station is supplied to residents of settlements on both sides of the demarcation line.
The occupiers have broken the "silence" in Donbass 9 times since the beginning of the day, a Ukrainian soldier has been wounded
Russian mercenaries have used weapons banned by Minsk three times.
During Wednesday, October 20, the Russian occupation forces in the Donbass recorded 9 violations of the ceasefire. Enemies used weapons prohibited by the Minsk agreements three times.
This was reported in the evening report by the press center of the Joint Forces operation.
"As a result of enemy fire, one serviceman of the Allied Forces was wounded. The soldier is in a medical facility. His health is satisfactory," the statement said.
- Today near Berezovo the enemy fired from the small arms.
- Near Krasnohorivka, the occupiers fired 82mm and 120mm mortars, large-caliber machine guns and small arms.
- In the direction of Golden-4, the mercenaries fired twice, using 120mm mortars, an anti-tank missile system and small arms.
- In the Novoluhansky area, enemy armed groups fired twice at Ukrainian positions with hand-held anti-tank grenade launchers and small arms.
- Not far from Troitsky, the enemy opened fire with 82-mm mortars.
- In the direction of Prichepylivka, the Russian occupation forces fired small arms.
In addition, the flight of an enemy unmanned aerial vehicle , probably Orlan-10, with the intersection of the collision line was recorded in Donetsk region.
"Ukrainian defenders opened fire in response and forced the enemy to cease fire without using weapons prohibited by the Minsk agreements," the OS headquarters added.
As reported, yesterday the Russian occupation forces violated the ceasefire in Donbass eight times, four of them using weapons prohibited by the Minsk agreements.
The OSCE report for 20 October has yet to be released. You can find the October 19th report here
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[REGNUM] It is important not to forget that among the allies of the Nazis in the genocide of the peoples of the USSR there were also representatives of the Russian emigration, noted the observer of IA REGNUM, Mikhail Demurin on Wednesday, October 20.
Earlier, RIA Novosti, citing an official representative of the Prosecutor General's Office, reported that the Russian side had sent requests for legal assistance in the investigation of the genocide of the peoples of the USSR during the Great Patriotic War to the competent authorities of Germany, Canada, Latvia, Poland, the United States and Estonia. Information has already been received on some of the requests.
"Speaking about the genocide of the peoples of the USSR by the Nazis and their allies, it is important to never forget that among these allies, among those who supported the very barbaric 'Drang nach Osten' against our Motherland, there were also representatives of the Russian emigration. They, including the elite of the Romanov family and many ROCOR clerics, are also involved in the policy of genocide of our compatriots carried out by the Nazis.
Specific war crimes and crimes against humanity, which were investigated immediately after that war and are being investigated today, became possible only due to the general misanthropic attitude of the German authorities of that time for all who participated in the invasion supported by the majority of the leaders of the Russian emigration, in military, punitive or political actions on the territory of the USSR. Collaborators will never wash this stain off!" Mikhail Demurin noted.
On October 27, 2020, the Soletsky District Court of the Novgorod Region recognized the mass murder of peaceful Soviet people by the German invaders and their accomplices in the village of Zhestyanaya Gorka in 1942 as genocide.
More than 2,500 Soviet citizens from among the civilian population and prisoners of war of the Red Army became victims of the massacres. This is the first genocide case in the history of Russia.
The Holodomor in the Ukraine being... something else, it appears.
The application was sent to the court by the prosecutor's office of the Novgorod region on behalf of the General Prosecutor's Office.
[Gazeta] Former servicemen of Nazi Germany, located in different countries of the world, will be checked for involvement in the genocide of the peoples of the Soviet Union during the Great Patriotic War, the official representative of the Prosecutor General's Office of Russia Andrei Ivanov told RIA Novosti.
He drew attention to the fact that instructions to deliberately destroy the peaceful Soviet population were revealed in federal, regional and local archives. In addition, eyewitnesses testify to these crimes.
Some states have already provided the department with the information it needs to conduct an investigation.
Russia has previously prepared a bill on consolidating the concepts of 'Nazism,' 'Fascism' and 'genocide of the peoples of the Soviet Union,' which is designed to recognize "the inviolability of the principles of international law recognized by the charter of the Nuremberg International Military Tribunal."
The day before, it was reported that the 96-year-old former secretary of a concentration camp, who was trying to escape, was brought by ambulance to court in Germany.
Related: from the VKontakte wall of the Mius Front Association, which is involved in excavations in and around the Mius front in WWII, near the Mius River in Lugansk. The interviewee is identified as Colonel Andrey Kudryakov, who apparently works on the dig.
Premiere! The film is about all of us, about the people of the search. Although it is called "Search Engine Kudryakov", it talks about the phenomenon of searching for the missing.
The All-Russian project "People" drew attention to us and they managed to make the film modern, bright and interesting. At the heart of the filming of Kudryakov's interview to a group of journalists, as well as archival video and photo materials of the Mius Front Association, on which many may recognize themselves.
From the description of the video:
Andrey Kudryakov in our October issue. For the head of Mius Front, a profession that does not exist has become a matter of life. In many countries, the army is engaged in the search for the remains of soldiers.
We have volunteers. Moreover, the first search engines were veterans. Mius Front is the place of the hardest battles. Almost 300 km of trenches.
According to some estimates, almost 800 thousand Red Army soldiers perished in these steppes.
For two decades Kudryakov and his comrades have been working at the Mius Front. And not only there. What makes people leave a quiet life, and go to the Memory Watch? What did the search engines find in the Sal'sk death pit? How does a rookie feel when raising his first soldier? And what does Kudryakov himself feel when he manages to return the name of the missing war and bury a soldier of the Great Patriotic War with honors? More about this in our new issue.
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Driven out, yes, Silentbrick. But the heir to the head of the Russian imperial house, George Romanov, just married in St. Petersburg — the Tsar and his family were murdered back in the day, but there were and are loads of Russian royals who survived in exile.
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
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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
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