Posted on 06/09/2022 7:25:07 PM PDT by marshmallow
Moscow, June 9, Interfax - A bill prohibiting assemblies, rallies, marches and demonstrations at railway stations, in schools and in buildings of public administration bodies has been submitted to the State Duma.
A relevant initiative was published in the State Duma database of the legislative activities on Thursday. Its authors are a group of State Duma and Federation Council members, in particular, Andrey Klimov, Vladimir Dzhabarov, Vasily Piskaryov, and Andrey Lugovoy.
Under the bill, the current law will outline places where assemblies, rallies, marches and demonstrations will be prohibited. These places include religious buildings and facilities, as well as on the land sites where such buildings and facilities are located, including those belonging to religious organizations and places of pilgrimage.
The ban will also apply to the buildings and territories of educational establishments, healthcare organizations, social security organizations, and children's and sports grounds, the buildings of public administration bodies and territories directly adjacent to such buildings and infrastructure facilities, the buildings and territories of river, sea, railway and bus stations, airports, sea and river ports, and marinas.
The only places to protest will be places where protests will go unnoticed.
But then again street protests have accomplished very little. What did Occupy Wall Street accomplish? What have the Yellow Vests accomplished?
“Assemblies and rallies” will of course include political campaign events held by the opponents of Pidor Putin.
We have that here.
But, it’s abortion clinics.
Interesting telegram posts from resident who has connection to the Office of the President (Ukraine)
https://t.me/s/rezident_ua/12712
Two days ago, we wrote that the Office of the President does not provide accurate information for the West, which is why the American Center for the Study of War and British Intelligence publish data that does not correspond to reality. Today, the American media publishes the news that the Ukrainian government is hiding data from the West.
Our source in the OP said that the Office of the President asked the British and US embassies not to publish information in the Western media about the downing of their own SU-27 by Ukrainian air defense. Bankova believes that this information will be negatively perceived in the West and hinder the supply of fighter jets that Ukraine requires from its partners.
source in the OP said that the technologists of the Office of the President decided to ignore the case with the downed SU-27 by our air defense during Zelensky’s visit to Zaporozhye. On Bankovaya they are afraid that this situation will be connected with the President, who was accompanied by fighter jets.
The West is increasingly publishing leaks and intelligence analytics about the situation in Ukraine, which demonstrates negative trends. The American newspaper The Independent published an intelligence report on Ukraine, which came into its possession.
The picture painted there for Ukraine is gloomy. Russia has 20 times more guns and multiple launch rocket systems in the combat zone, and 40 times more ammunition.
In the West, they began to pay more and more attention not to the official statistics of the losses of the Ukrainian army, but to indirect data. They took the Dnipropetrovsk region as a basis, but all this does not take into account the missing and the bodies remaining on the battlefield, which is why US generals give data on the loss of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the tens of thousands and even hundreds. For the Office of the President, this is a bad trend, as the West is accustomed to analyzing all KPI indicators in order to predict further risks based on them.
During the 8 years of the war in Donbass, 175 new graves appeared at the military unit of the Dnieper cemetery, and in the 3 months since the beginning of the Russian invasion, there were 293 more graves, according to a report by The Washington Post.
In total, more than 700 Ukrainian soldiers have been buried in the Dnipropetrovsk region since the beginning of the war, military chaplain Dmitry Povorotny told the publication.
Rotary has held about 10 mass funerals at the Krasnopolsky cemetery since the start of full-scale hostilities. In addition, he also holds one or two individual funeral ceremonies every week.
Rockets for MLRS near Kyiv are almost exhausted. The superiority of the Russians in the air is very great, and it is rarely possible to shoot down their planes.
Anti-tank weapons worked well in the first stage of the war, but now, when the role of long-range artillery has become decisive, they are losing their importance.
As a result, Ukraine suffers heavy losses, cases of desertion and surrender have become more frequent. Ukraine has 550 captured Russians, the Russian Federation has more than 5,600 Ukrainians.
The West decided to expand intelligence in Ukraine in order to control the situation.
The Armed Services Committee of the US Congress decided on the need to expand the use of satellites of private companies for military space intelligence of the situation in Ukraine.
To do this, the committee called on the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) to speed up its pilot program for imaging satellites equipped with synthetic aperture radar (SAR).
The necessary amendments have been made to the draft defense budget for 2023, which begins on October 1 this year.
With the help of the widespread use of SAR satellites, the United States will be able to provide Kyiv and NATO allies with up-to-date images of the territory of Ukraine and the actions of the Russian Armed Forces in real time, the congressmen added.
It takes time for Kyiv and allies to declassify US government intelligence data, but private company snapshots can be shared immediately.
The decision came despite the already widespread use of satellite data by private US companies such as Maxar Technologies, Planet and BlackSky. The issue of involving at least five more companies in NRO operations is also being considered.
Source in the OP said that Zaluzhny reported to Zelensky about the increase in combat losses among the Armed Forces of Ukraine on the eastern front in the last month by 50%, due to the inefficient use of the military. The Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine proposes to withdraw troops to the Slavyansk/Kramatorsk line, which will shorten the front line and reduce losses by half Daily losses of Ukrainian troops in the war with Russia are from 100 to 200 people.
Aleksey Arestovich, adviser to the head of the OPU, criticized Western partners for slowness in the supply of weapons
According to him, one of the main reasons for the large losses is the lack of parity between Ukrainian and Russian military capabilities.
According to him, Ukraine needs hundreds, not “handfuls” of the most powerful artillery systems that the West can provide.
Russia continues to transfer military equipment to the Donbass by echelons, while Ukraine receives aid from the West one by one. Another lend-lease from the US was expected at Bankovaya, but so far these expectations have not come true.
Our source in the OP said that the Office of the President has requested from the US / UK / Germany a new package of military assistance, which we want to receive from the reserve of NATO countries in Europe. Bankova expects that our request will be approved at the Ramstein Defense Ministers’ Congress.
Nicaragua is to accept Russian Military into country.
Here we go!
This is all starting to look more and more like the sequel to Putin/Zi. When all this is over we will have to start recounting and reexamine the chess board.
WORLD
What’s in a name? Turkey (the nation) now wants to be known as “Türkiye,” pronounced Tur-key-YAY
https://mepc.org/commentary/turkey-drifting-away-west
Is Turkey Drifting away from the West?
Middle East In Focus
Middle East Policy Council
American and European officials continue to express concerns over Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s apparent drift away from the West. It is telling, perhaps, that despite a visit from two high profile European politicians, it was the visit of Russian President Vladimir Putin that attracted the most attention in Turkey. Recent agreements between Turkey and Russia that aim to transform Turkey into an energy hub for the region have confirmed fears that the Turkish president is steering his country away from its traditional allies. And judging from Mr. Erdogan’s recent criticism of the military leadership in Egypt, it is clear that Turkey’s realignment is not limited to its relationship with the West.
Signs of a frayed relationship between Turkey and its erstwhile allies have been visible for some time, but the contrast in reception between the new EU foreign policy chief and the Russian president, at least according to a recent Saudi Gazette editorial, has made even the unthinkable seem possible: “President Recep Tayyip Erdogan seems to be setting his country on a radical new course, the consequences of which are only now becoming apparent. It is no longer impossible to imagine that a Turkey will seek to leave NATO or at least have its membership suspended by other NATO states. It also seems likely that after over 30 years of knocking on the door of the EU seeking admission, Turkey may abandon the whole business as a complete waste of time and effort....The new EU foreign policy chief Fredrica Mogherini has just been in Turkey urging Erdogan to get on side. But Erdogan will have taken far more notice of his other visitor, Vladimir Putin.”
Much of the realignment in Turkey’s foreign policy has much to do with the ongoing violence in Syria as well as serious overtures made by Mr. Putin. That is the argument made by a Khaleej Times editorial, which points out that diverging strategies on the situation in Syria are at the heart of the current crisis of confidence between the West and Turkey: “The fact that Turkey is at loggerheads with the regime in Damascus and wants the West to bring down President Bashar Al Assad and impose a no-fly zone over the war-weary country are issues that keep the West and Turkey in two different camps. Last but not the least, the growing cordiality between Turkey and Russia is also being seen as a sign wherein the pro-West Ankara is gradually sliding into Kremlin’s lap. It is a déjà vu of sorts for the West after the debacle of Ukraine and the rise of Moscow as a dictating power in the region....the undeniable fact that Russia provides the bulk of Turkey’s gas requirements and Ankara had refused to slap sanctions on Kremlin in the wake of annexation of Crimea makes them robust partner of the future with a common denominator against the West....It would be much better if the West settles down on a minimum agenda of cooperation with Turkey without pushing it to take extreme positions.”
Xi
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