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[Rusvesna] Seven high-ranking officers of the Rosgvardia were suspected of embezzlement and abuse; they are planning to initiate a criminal case against them, the Kommersant newspaper reports, citing sources.
"The main military prosecutor's office sent materials to the Main Military Investigation Department of the TFR to initiate a criminal case on embezzlement and abuse against four generals and three colonels of the Russian Guard," the newspaper writes.
All the officers who fell under suspicion were checked in connection with the introduction of the Real Estate information system in the structure of the Interior Ministry and Rosgvardia troops, which was supposed to digitize and combine all the department's objects in a single register, but did not work.
According to the newspaper, the reason for the check was the materials of the Rosgvardia's own security service - they related not only to the activities of the department, but also to the internal troops of the Ministry of Internal Affairs that preceded it.
The auditors and prosecutors were interested in the details of attempts to introduce Real Estate back in 2012-2016 in the Interior Ministry troops, which ceased to exist in 2016.
As reported by "Kommersant", the main center of the automated control system of the Interior Ministry and the All-Russian Research Institute for Automation of Control in the Non-Industrial Sphere. V.V. Solomatina signed contracts according to which the system was supposed to work by 2016.
The officers of their own security, who worked on the personal instructions of the director of the Russian Guard, Viktor Zolotov, found out that "Real Estate" existed only on paper, although all 192 million rubles allocated for its creation were completely "mastered".
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[VK] The movement of Ukrainian troops near Donbass is dangerous for residents of the DPR and LPR, Russian President Vladimir Putin said on November 30 during a discussion at the Russia Calling!
Answering the question about whether there is a risk of the RF Armed Forces entering Ukraine, the head of state said that a settlement is needed.
As for the threats, Putin notes, "for people living in two so far unrecognized republics - the LPR and the DPR, there are also constant threats created when [Ukrainian] military units move near their territories."
Commenting on statements from the West that military exercises are being conducted in Russia in the border area, the head of state said that the Russian side "also experiences certain concerns about the fact that large-scale exercises, including unplanned ones, are being held near its borders."
“Twenty kilometers from our border, strategic bombers flew, carrying high-precision weapons, and possibly nuclear weapons. After all, all this creates a threat for us, ”said Vladimir Putin.
During the plenary session of the VTB Capital Investment Forum "Russia Calling!" Russian President Vladimir Putin answered the question whether it is worth fearing the introduction of Russian troops into Ukraine.
According to him, the possible introduction of Russian troops into Ukraine was discussed at the beginning of the year. But as we can see, this did not happen.
"The point is not whether to bring in troops or not, to fight or not to fight. The point is to improve relations to create a more equitable, sustainable development and take into account the interests of all participants in international activities," Putin said.
The Russian President stressed that if we all sincerely strive for this, no one will experience any threats.
The leader of the Russian Federation also noted that if shock systems appear on the territory of Ukraine, which will reduce the flight time to Moscow to 7-10, or even five minutes, then Moscow will be forced to respond, creating the same threats.
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[RIA Novosti] Columnist Brent Eastwood, in an article for Business Insider, called the T-72 tank a reliable support for the Russian army.
As the author noted, this military machine was developed about 50 years ago in the USSR , but even half a century later it has great potential.
Thanks to the latest upgrades, the tank will be able to compete with the most modern models of technology - this is facilitated by the installation of a new 125-mm smooth-bore cannon 2A46M-5 with automatic loading, writes the columnist. Every Russian tank since 1954 has had an autoloader for its main gun.
The T-72 was equipped with a Kalina fire control system capable of independently tracking enemy armored vehicles. In addition, the vehicle can fire armor-piercing and high-explosive shells, and use AT-11 anti-tank missiles. Its hull, like the T-90, is covered with Kontakt-5 reactive armor, the article says. Reactive armor has been in use on Russian tanks since at least the 1990s. Also, even the T-72B2 and some older Russian tanks have been retro-fitted, with stabilized main guns, vehicles also which include the BMP-2 and BMP-3 infantry fighting vehicles.
Eastwood clarified that Russia plans to upgrade its tanks to the T-72B3 version . This means that this model will remain the "workhorse" of the Russian army in the future, the journalist concluded. The T-72B3 has been in widespread service since at least the 2010s, it main feature being thermal sights. Continued on Page 47
#1
...Against the kind of opposition the Russians can reasonably expect to face in the Ukraine, the T-72 will do just fine. Against the latest iterations of the Abrams or Challenger, it's going to have problems.
A couple of other points -
*The autoloaders are really great when they work. They have been known to try and load the odd crewmember.
*Reactive armor is great against RPGs, less effective against LAW's, and utterly useless against a GAU-8. Against other tanks it's helpful - but you better be able to kill that tank before it gets a second round off.
Mike
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Upgraded T-72s are still a good and reliable tank against 3rd world foes. Any western tank will put them out of action right quick. 3rd world countries that get access to modern anti-tank missiles would be able to knock out quite a few as well.
The T-72s and newer Russian tanks in Syria suffered heavy casualties to modern missiles.
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Those were M models in Syria, not B models which are much more capable
How much more if the newer T-90A tanks were getting taken out by older TOWs? If the rebels had the newer TOWs that had a top down attack mode, they would all have been toast.
I would like to see how well the newer versions perform against current generation missiles. I know the active protection system has improved since then.
Britain has always had a hard-on for Russia.
[RIA Novosti] Readers of the British edition of The Telegraph spoke about a possible armed conflict with Russia over Ukraine.
"Well, we have 70,000, if you count the camp kitchen and bookkeepers! In short, good luck in finding the rest," Cord Webster mocked.
"And I am afraid that the war will rapidly become nuclear if we do not let everything go on the brakes, because we have nothing else. It will take too long for the West to mobilize its meager forces," Cord Webster said.
"Ukraine is not interesting to us, Eastern - that's right," - said Mark Walker.
"The Russians are great at fighting in the cold. Just remember Stalingrad," wrote Barry Evans.
"The Ukrainian duck:" The Russians are Coming "is just an excuse to violate the Minsk Agreements. They have already exacerbated the conflict with drones and the latest American weapons.
Recently, Western media have been publishing articles about Moscow's preparations for an "offensive" on Kiev . The director of the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service, Sergei Naryshkin, said that no invasion of the neighboring state was planned. He described such reports as malicious propaganda by the United States.
According to the presidential press secretary Dmitry Peskov, Russia has no aggressive intentions, and the movement of troops across the country should not bother anyone.
#1
No one in his right mind "wants to fight Russia for eastern Ukraine."
There is nothing, zero, in the way of vital national interest at stake in these piss-poor little bailiwicks for us or any other nation outside of Russia.
No vital resources, no Sea Lanes of Communication, no treaty obligations. Not even anything in the way of cultural, linguistic or ethno-historical ties. NOTHING.
It is none of our f--king business.
Yet another mind-boggling example of our elites' unbelievable stupidity -- of their total inability to grasp the concepts of national interest and national priorities.
#4
Half the people in the foreign service here (and all the ones that tried to trip Trump up) have invested their entire careers in Ukraine and similar places we have no interests in.
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yup and Britain didn't want to fight over the Sudetenland, either.
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Russian historians say that Great Britain's mutual defense pact with Poland delayed Hitler's invasion for 24 hours.
Given that Poland was invaded by both Russia and Germany simultaneously... Ultimately, the Russians are responsible for WWII. It was only fitting that they endured the largest losses from that conflict. What was truly unfortunate is that the two countries did not both lose. The certainty that one would win and potentially dominate the continent, was why Uncle Sam jumped in with both feet when Hitler made the stupid mistake of declaring war on the US.
None of them are. The problem is that while you're not interested in Russia, Russia is interested in you. Ever since Novgorod had the bright idea of allying with the Mongols against the Teutonic Knights and its rival Slavic principalities, Russia's rulers have had this world-conquering ethos. While much of what they rule is frozen wasteland, Russia is almost 2x the size of the next 2 largest countries, combined. Russia doesn't *need* more land - it *wants* more land. That, in a nutshell, is the problem with Russia - its neighbors can never be safe from invasion. As Richard Pipes once wrote - the issue with the Soviet Union wasn't "Communism" - it was Russia's relentless appetite for new conquests.
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Russia doesn't *need* more land - it *wants* more land. That, in a nutshell, is the problem with Russia - its neighbors can never be safe from invasion.
Russia is compelled to have buffer territories around them. Then they abuse the buffer territories and are shocked when the locals don't show gratitude.
They basically want us to 1) end the sanctions, 2) stop intervening all over the world and 3) leave them alone.
The "sanctions" don't bother the average Russian. That's purely Putin and his kleptocracy.
They want us to "stop interventions" so they and their allies will look tougher. They're regional powers, and an active world power makes their limited reach obvious.
As for "leave them alone" -- Americans don't give a flying f*ck about Russians in Russia. It's Putin's warmongering and imperial intent that concerns us.
If they'd get a real government, no one would be more relieved than Americans. Hell, it would likely motivate us to get a real one of our own.
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Wrong. The Russians couldn't give a f--k about Americans and their obsessions.
They basically want us to 1) end the sanctions, 2) stop intervening all over the world and 3) leave them alone.
We give a damn about the Russians mainly because their single-minded obsession involves conquering the world. If they'd just stay within their borders, we wouldn't give a damn. Why can't they be like every other colonial power out there, and just let go already? Do you see the Germans, the French, the Brits, the Turks etc mooning over lost territories, even though unlike Russia, in their present state, they have no serious land buffer against invasion? I understand your attachment to the land of your forebears, but it would be good for you step outside their perspective once in a while.
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[KavkazUzel] An accident involving a helicopter on a training flight killed 14 people and injured two others, the State Border Service of Azerbaijan reported today.
The Prosecutor General's Office opened a criminal case on violation of flight rules.
As the "Caucasian Knot" wrote , a military helicopter crashed today during a training flight at the Garageybat airfield in the Khizi region, there are dead and wounded.
As a result of the helicopter crash, 14 people were killed, two more were injured. The helicopter made an emergency landing during a training flight. The causes of the crash are being investigated, the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent was told at the State Border Service of Azerbaijan.
The department also circulated a message with a list of the dead, among whom there are high-ranking officers. The disaster killed one colonel, one lieutenant colonel, five majors, four captains, one senior lieutenant, one lieutenant and one civilian, it follows from the message.
In connection with the crash of a military helicopter of the State Border Service during a training flight, a criminal case has been initiated under the article on violation of flight rules or flight preparation, which inadvertently resulted in the death of two or more persons, the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent was told in the press service of the Prosecutor General's Office.
Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev expressed his condolences to the families of the victims, according to a statement on the agency's website.
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. [NewsFrontInfo] Russia is allegedly behind the preparation of a coup d'etat in Ukraine, which Zelensky previously announced, said the Prime Minister of Ukraine Denis Shmygal.
Thus, according to the Prime Minister, the so-called "build-up of Russian troops on the border with Ukraine is part of a broader effort by Moscow to weaken Kiev's aspirations to join the European Union."
Shmyhal added that Ukrainian intelligence has revealed the activities of "external forces" trying to influence the political opposition within the country in order to provoke a popular uprising and a coup d'etat.
According to the head of the Cabinet of Ministers, there are no revolutionary sentiments in Ukrainian society.
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[Regnum] It cannot be said that Major General Anatoly Nosovich (1878−1968), a member of the white movement, was not known to the Soviet reader. In a somewhat caricatured form, Alexei Tolstoy mentioned him in the novel "Bread", and the general's memoirs published under the pseudonym Chernomorets were quoted in the 1930s in the newspaper "Pravda" by the "first red officer" Klim Voroshilov.
Finally, already in the post-Soviet period, some of his memoir articles were published as a separate book.
What attracted the Bolsheviks to Nosovich? Indeed, in contrast to such open enemies of the Soviet regime as General Sergei Markov (the same Tolstoy wrote about him in "Walking through the Torments") or Admiral Alexander Kolchak (from Soviet writers, Nikolai Aseev spoke about him not without sympathy in "Semyon Proskakov" )
Nosovich, on the instructions of the Moscow anti-Bolshevik underground organization, was introduced into the ranks of the Red Army (RKKA). That is, there was no "honest" or "open" battle, but "deception" or "betrayal".
Nevertheless, there was interest in him. The fact is that in the essay "Red Tsaritsyn" the general described the future Soviet leader as follows:
“It is not in the rules (...) of a person like Stalin to get away from the business he just started. We must give him justice that his energy can be the envy of any of the old administrators, and the ability to apply to business and circumstances should be learned by many."
It is interesting that after the XX Party Congress this assessment of Stalin given by Nosovich was confirmed in a private conversation by Anastas Mikoyan. As a member of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR, in a conversation with the writer Yuri Trifonov, he confessed to the latter:
"Yes, he was a very good administrator. And very humble."
Note that at the congress itself, Mikoyan, even before Khrushchev's famous speech, used the expression "personality cult" to criticize Stalin.
The memoirs of Anatoly Nosovich and documents associated with him, collected by the historian Andrei Ganin in the book, depict the general's underground activities at the headquarters of the Red Army during the defense of Tsaritsyn (here he just met Stalin), as well as stories about other military and party leaders.
For example, the former colonel of the imperial army Joachim Vatsetis, who joined the Red Army (he was the commander-in-chief of the Red Army in 1918-1919), was perceived by the memoirist extremely negatively: “an evil Latvian: he will not be tormented by his conscience at the sight of destroyed Russia, which he hates with all his soul”
But about the former Colonel Sergei Kamenev who replaced him, on the contrary, he spoke with empathy: "probably his passionate nature was the reason that he was carried away by an adventure and fell into the mainstream of the Bolshevik stream."
Taken together, these testimonies create a more objective picture in which Stalin turns out to be not only a talented manager, but also a cruel politician who admitted that his party members were ready to "destroy out of ten - nine innocent out of a hundred - ninety-nine" for the sake of catching one enemy.
A separate question: is it possible to be a successful administrator with such arithmetic?
A separate article dealing with documents relating to Nosovich can be found here. Continued on Page 47
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#1 The Ruskies once put nukes into Cuba but weren't stupid enough to let Castro pull the trigger.
And Putin is definitely smarter than Khrushchev.
Posted by: European Conservative 2021-12-01 08:05
EC,
True to both of those - but always remember that we know now that Castro came within an ace of telling his own people, "Screw it and launch the missiles yourself"...and at at least one site, the Cuban troops there showed up armed and demanding control of the missiles.
Mike
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Indeed. Che Guevara, darling of the Left, would have been the first to destroy the world.
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"A few weeks later, Sam Russell, a reporter for the British Marxist paper Daily Worker, interviewed Guevara and found him still incensed over the Soviet betrayal. Che told Russell that if the missiles had been under the Cubans’ control, rather than the Russians’, they would have been fired."
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[NewsFrontInfo] Russia is allegedly behind the preparation of a coup d'etat in Ukraine, which Zelensky previously announced, said the Prime Minister of Ukraine Denis Shmygal.
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