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Events dedicated to the memory of the heroism of the Soviet soldier-liberators who saved the world from Nazism during the Great Patriotic War (is the name used to refer to the part of World War II which started with the invasion of Nazis into the Soviet Union and ended with the Red Banner over Reichstag and defeat of Nazis from the hands of the Soviet people – Editor) were held in many countries on May 9, mass media reported.
The head of Democratic United Party Moon Jae-in, who won the presidential elections in South Korea, said that conditions for the deployment of the US missile defense system may require revision, “RBC” media group reported on May 10.
During his inauguration ceremony, which took place in the South Korean parliament, Moon Jae-in declared that he will do all that is possible to keep the peace on the Korean Peninsula. “If it is necessary, I will immediately fly to Washington. I will go to Beijing and Tokyo, and if possible, I am ready to visit Pyongyang,” said Moon Jae-in in his speech.
The Chinese Defense Ministry issued a brief report on testing a new type of guided missile in the Bohai Bay, Agence France-Presse reported May 9.
A complicated military and political situation has developed after the United States began deploying a missile defense system to South Korea, starting July 2016, in response to North Korean testing of ballistic missiles in the Yellow Sea area. China sees this as a violation of the military balance, and a threat to its own strategic military capabilities.
Last week, US officials said that the missile defense system has reached its basic level of operations; it is able to intercept North Korean missiles; however, numerical and functional expansion of the system is planned to take place within the upcoming year.
China’s opposition to the US Missile Defense System deployment agreement has moved beyond the diplomatic arena. There are reports of South Korean Lotte Group stores being vandalized, following its owner’s decision to provide its golf course as a deployment site for the Missile System. Additionally, tourists from South Korea have been denied entry into the PRC.
Mayor Boris Filatov decided to cut off funding to veterans’ organizations in the Ukrainian city of Dnepr (former Dnepropetrovsk) on May 10, according to life.ru online edition.
Funding will be cut off for organizations of veterans of the Great Patriotic War and the war in Afghanistan. Filatov plans to use the money saved to fund Ukrainian soldiers who took part in the Civil war in the Ukrainian south-east.
The mayor made this decision after Ukrainian radical nationalists provoked disorders on May 9.
The diplomatic official said that “neither serious nor joking approach could stop the stream of questions from American journalists who did not understand anymore how senseless it was to ask another state’s foreign minister to explain the reasons of an appointment in their country; this suggests that the media are greatly prejudiced, that they cannot think critically, and that they are controlled by certain political groups.”
Maria Zakharova also expressed concern over further evolution of American media. “Considering their great influence over the global information space, this is our common problem,” the official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry believes. “Having such powerful resources (of influence) on mass consciousness, one cannot lapse to an intellectual failure like that.”
Today is the third anniversary of the May 11 referendum. The Donetsk and Lugansk People’s Republics celebrate their birthdays. Large-scale rallies and folk festivals will take place in Donetsk and Lugansk. People will celebrate, since they have won the right for freedom from Bandera Nazism.
We congratulate everyone on the Republic Day and would like to remind you how important it is today to remember all those who gave their lives for freedom and the future during this struggle. Their cause will be continued!
Our comrade Evgeny Krasnoshein (call sign Pyatnitsa) used to celebrate his birthday on the 11th of May. He was seriously wounded in the battle of January 17, 2015. Until the very end, Evgeny commanded the defense of “Tryoshka”. Today he would have celebrated his thirtieth birthday. In the course of his short life, Pyatnitsa gave us all an example of a true man, comrade, warrior, and commander. He burned within, lighting up the way for others, and this fire will never go out in our hearts.
If we are to talk about what the enemy did with Russia; then of course, he tried out technologies on it, meant to reverse historical time. Remember, long ago Georgi Dimitrov yelled at his trial, “The wheel of history moves on… and neither any measures of extermination, nor prisons or death sentences will be able to stop this wheel!” But they managed to stop and to reverse it! When they “broke the spine”, when they “threw time out of joint”, time went into reverse. And it is moving in the opposite direction.
We are falling into new middle ages, which is not the Middle Ages in their higher sense, because the Middle Ages were moving in an ascending historical current, while we are moving in a descending one. We will fall into slavery, which also will not be slavery in the strict sense of the word, because the slavery of ancient times moved in an ascending current, while the present-day slavery will move in a descending one.
Trench combat was underway near the village of Zaytsevo, north of Gorlovka. The situation is tense in Avdeevka industrial zone, near the village of Spartak, and in the area of the former Donetsk airport. The Ukrainian army’s artillery shelled the Kuybyshevsky district of Donetsk during the night. As a result of the shelling, a woman and a child were injured; one house was destroyed as a consequence of the direct hit of the shell, another house was damaged.