Transnistria shapes up as next Ukraine-Russia flashpoint

Financial Times ^ | 6-3-2015 | Neil Buckley

[tcrlaf]

Keep an eye on Transnistria, the pro-Russian breakaway state in Moldova. On Monday, Dmitri Trenin, one of Russia’s best-known foreign policy analysts and a man with good Kremlin antennae, tweeted: “Growing concern in Moscow that Ukraine and Moldova will seek to squeeze Transnistria hard, provoking conflict with Russia.” On Tuesday, a columnist in the pro-Kremlin Izvestia newspaper warned that Russia “seriously faces the prospect of a repeat of the [2008] situation” – when it went to war with Georgia – “this time around Transnistria”.

What sparked the tensions was a May 21 vote in Ukraine’s parliament to suspend military co-operation with Russia. That included a 1995 agreement giving Russia military transit rights across Ukraine to reach Transnistria, which borders Ukraine’s Odessa region.

Russian peacekeepers have been deployed in the unrecognised statelet since its brief war for independence from ex-Soviet Moldova in 1992, and Russia has a base there with about 1,350 soldiers and heavy weapons. Losing access via Ukraine means Russia must resupply its base by air through Chisinau, the Moldovan capital, and across Moldovan territory.

But Moscow complains Moldova has recently detained and deported several Russian soldiers. Mr Trenin alleged to the FT, moreover, that Ukraine had deployed S-300 air defence systems near the border.

[ETL]

[Greetings_Puny_Humans]

Enough with your damn trolling.

LOL, you think the Mod is going to come in and shut us up? Hey Russkie, when you start reporting on the 15 Ukrainian soldiers wounded today, or the bombing and constant shooting of Ukrainian forces while Ukrainian forces are being told not to engage, then maybe, just maybe, I won't call you a bootlicking Russkie scumbag!

[tcrlaf]

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[familyop]

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[kaehurowing]

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[familyop]

Very true.

[ETL]

The Kremlin’s Troll Army: Moscow is financing legions of pro-Russia Internet commenters:

A June article by Max Seddon of BuzzFeed reported the Kremlin was spending millions of dollars to pay English-speaking Russians to promote President Vladimir Putin and his policies in U.S. media like Fox News broadcasting and The Huffington Post and Politico news sites. Trolls are reportedly expected to manage multiple fake accounts and post on news articles 50 times a day, often with sentiments as simplistic as “Putin makes Obama look stupid and weak!”

http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2014/08/the-kremlins-troll-army/375932/
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Documents Show How Russia’s Troll Army Hit America:

http://www.buzzfeed.com/maxseddon/documents-show-how-russias-troll-army-hit-america
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Paid as a Pro-Kremlin Troll: 'The Hatred Spills over into the Real World'
Der Spiegel ^ | June 01, 2015 – 03:48 PM | Benjamin Bidder

The Kremlin’s Troll Army: Moscow is financing legions of pro-Russia Internet commenters:

A June article by Max Seddon of BuzzFeed reported the Kremlin was spending millions of dollars to pay English-speaking Russians to promote President Vladimir Putin and his policies in U.S. media like Fox News broadcasting and The Huffington Post and Politico news sites. Trolls are reportedly expected to manage multiple fake accounts and post on news articles 50 times a day, often with sentiments as simplistic as “Putin makes Obama look stupid and weak!”

http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2014/08/the-kremlins-troll-army/375932/
____________________________

Documents Show How Russia’s Troll Army Hit America:

http://www.buzzfeed.com/maxseddon/documents-show-how-russias-troll-army-hit-america
____________________________

Paid as a Pro-Kremlin Troll: 'The Hatred Spills over into the Real World'
Der Spiegel ^ | June 01, 2015 – 03:48 PM | Benjamin Bidder

The Kremlin’s Troll Army: Moscow is financing legions of pro-Russia Internet commenters:

A June article by Max Seddon of BuzzFeed reported the Kremlin was spending millions of dollars to pay English-speaking Russians to promote President Vladimir Putin and his policies in U.S. media like Fox News broadcasting and The Huffington Post and Politico news sites. Trolls are reportedly expected to manage multiple fake accounts and post on news articles 50 times a day, often with sentiments as simplistic as “Putin makes Obama look stupid and weak!”

http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2014/08/the-kremlins-troll-army/375932/
____________________________

Documents Show How Russia’s Troll Army Hit America:

http://www.buzzfeed.com/maxseddon/documents-show-how-russias-troll-army-hit-america
____________________________

Paid as a Pro-Kremlin Troll: 'The Hatred Spills over into the Real World'
Der Spiegel ^ | June 01, 2015 – 03:48 PM | Benjamin Bidder

The Kremlin’s Troll Army: Moscow is financing legions of pro-Russia Internet commenters:

The Kremlin’s Troll Army: Moscow is financing legions of pro-Russia Internet commenters:

[Mariner]

It's almost impossible to get to Transwhatever from Crimea or Russia...without driving one's tanks through Odessa.

Katherine the Great, who built that city from the ground up made sure of that.

They don't call it "Little Rus" for nothing.

[jmacusa]

More mayhem where the unpronounceables are killing the unspellables.

[tcrlaf]

How much did NextWave, or Soros’s EuroMaidanPR pay you to post that?

[Jan_Sobieski]

I have friends headed to Moldova for a wrestling tournament at the end of June. Do you think things are going to heat up?

[Bodleian_Girl]

For a minute there I thought this was another Bruce Jenner thread.

[ansel12]

Talk about timing, I was just pulling the old batteries out of my NATO Gamma Dose Rate Meter and deciding to update my bottle of Potassium Iodate, and then I clicked on this thread after I finished.

I hope Putin can hold off on WWIII, until my order comes from Amazon.

[Thunder90]

George Soros is a creation and a creature of the KGB.

[Fiji Hill]

One wonders how Transnistria can survive, being landlocked and entirely surrounded by Moldova and Ukraine, which are both hostile.

[tlozo]

I’ve never heard of Odessa, Ukraine called little rus.
Brighton Beach, NY is known as Little Odessa because of the russian immigrants and later as “Little russia” but thats an American nickname.

[familyop]

"Talk about timing, I was just pulling the old batteries out of my NATO Gamma Dose Rate Meter and deciding to update my bottle of Potassium Iodate, and then I clicked on this thread after I finished."

If Russia launches, we should all go on vacation there afterward.

Hey, tcrlaf, tell your bosses to stop making idle nuclear threats. Let's get it on.

[ansel12]

To compound the coincidence, I came across my Dose Meter because I went back there to rearrange a Faraday cage full of LED flashlight lights and and battery chargers.

[Greetings_Puny_Humans]

One wonders how Transnistria can survive, being landlocked and entirely surrounded by Moldova and Ukraine, which are both hostile.

Speaking of which, Transnistria is to Moldova what East Ukraine and Crimea is to Ukraine and South Ossetia is to Georgia-- land grabs by Russia where they worship Stalin and house Russian forces on other people's sovereign territory.

[familyop]

Nice storage. Here’s some good info, for anyone who is interested. He put more than three decades into it.

Getting Prepared for an
Electromagnetic Pulse Attack
or Severe Solar Storm
Jerry Emanuelson
http://www.futurescience.com/emp/emp-protection.html