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Donetsk, 21 Feb – It is GIVEN. Fights are stopped on all front line, declared at a briefing in the press center today the deputy commander by the case of the Ministry of Defence of DNR Eduard Basurin is GIVEN.

"On all line of contact the tendency to decrease of the activity of the Ukrainian security officers is noted. Offensive actions are stopped. Only single attacks of our positions are fixed. Provocative attacks are noted only in those areas of contact where divisions of so-called voluntary battalions of national guard are deployed" — he noted.

Basurin added that now there general alcoholism and lack of command. "According to our investigation and to the certificate of locals, now on these positions general alcoholism, and lack of any controllability. Kommandira of chasteners went in Kiev to celebrate anniversary of a Maidan. Those who remained here — deeply drink and terrorize peace citizens" — the representative of the Ministry of Defence of DNR reported.

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Donetsk, 21 Feb – It is GIVEN. In Donetsk I passed today the first republican congress of labor unions of DNR at which the decision to create Federation of labor unions in the country was made.

Constituent conference brought together 875 participants, among which labor collectives, representatives of the profile ministries, heads of the cities and areas.

"Delegates approved the charter of the organization and Council is elected. By vote by its chairman Maxim Parshin who also heads Council of labor unions of employees of the coal industry of the Republic" is elected — reported in administration of the Head of DNR.

Delegates designated the purpose of Federation of labor unions — observance and protection of the rights of workers, performance of all social guarantees by employers.

"Because of military operations in the territory of Donbass, rates of economic growth sharply decreased. In difficult economic conditions business intends to solve problems at the expense of workers. In this situation the role of labor unions is especially important. Wellbeing of workers of the Donetsk National Republic depends on their harmonious and effective work" — noted in turn in the ruling Social movement "Donetsk Republic".

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Shistko V. I., Volgodonsk art museum

Donetsk, 21 Feb — is GIVEN. The Donetsk art museum was replenished with rare graphic works of the honored worker of arts of RSFSR Vladimir Shistko today. The collection from more than hundred pictures was given with the consent of the author by his fellow countryman – Alexander Filippov.

The graphic artist couldn't arrive to Donetsk for health reasons. "Vladimir Shistko was born in 1928, grew up in Donbass — Anna Zadorozhnaya, the research associate of the museum told. – His grandfather, Danila, was a miner, all family lived near Konstantinovka".

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Shistko V. I., Chuvash art museum

Works differ in special scrupulousness of execution are interesting models of art of an era of a socialist realism. At various stages of the career of Shistko created pictures on industrial subjects, I drew landscapes of Konstantinovka and Yasinovata. A series of drawings is devoted to climbers, after all the author also the Master of Sports in mountaineering.

Cloths are stylistically various, dynamic. The graphics is distinguished by a complex composition, knowledge of laws of color, the equipment testifying to strong art school.

"Shistko studied in art school of Dnepropetrovsk, and then in Leningrad, at graphic faculty of the State academic institute of painting, a sculpture and architecture of I. E. Repin. I finished postgraduate study and from 1963rd year I became the teacher in the State art and industrial school of V. I. Mukhina" — I reported Zadorozhnaya.

Shestko's works already make funds of a number of the museums of Russia. Now unique sheets of graphics in funds of the Donetsk museum. His employees already started the description of a collection. Then it will be investigated, if necessary is transferred to restoration.

When works show wide public it is still not known.

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Donetsk, 21 Feb – It is GIVEN. For the last week during military operations in DNR 145 people were lost. About it it is reported in the weekly report of the device of the ombudsman of DNR which was published today.

"According to official figures Ministry of Health and Judicial medical examination of the Donetsk National Republic from February 14 to February 20, 2015 as a result of military operations on the region 145 people among whom 1 child at the age of 9 years, men — 133 and women – 11" — it is marked out in the document were lost.

Are hospitalized with gunshot and fragmental wounds of varying severity of 58 people.

A large number of the lost civilians were found in released Debaltseve. "They were found not only in the battlefield, but also in own houses" — is emphasized in the report.

"The silence mode" on Donbass officially came into force on February 15 from 01:00 on Donetsk time. The requirement to cease fire was put in the Package of measures on implementation of the Minsk agreements. This document participants of Contact group (DNR, LNR, OSCE, the Russian Federation and Ukraine) signed on February 12 during the negotiations lasting more than 16 hours. In DNR repeatedly declared that observance of a truce entirely depends on the Ukrainian party.

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18:4720.02.2015(it is updated: 18:51 20.02.2015) Yury Gorodnenko33229243
The first month of work of new Ukrainian department was shown that the power intends to control moods and statements of the citizens, Yury Gorodnenko notices.

Recently created ministry of information policy which is headed by the former employee of "the 5th channel" (belongs to Petro Poroshenko) Yury Stets, decided to hold in Kiev an exhibition about "the Russian crimes" in Ukraine. Similar actions have to take place in all regional centers of the country.

If to judge on presentation of an exhibition which was held by the deputy minister of information policy Artem Bidenko on air of Ukrainian of "the 5th channel" on February 16, the analogy to the "Museum archive of a transition period" created in 1942 in Kiev German to invaders arises. The expositions presented by Hitlerites had to convince Ukrainians of "advantages" of the Nazi regime and blacken actions of Moscow. However even under the threat of punishment inhabitants of occupied territories went to "The museum of a transition period" a little — no more than 20 people in day. As a result of it already in half a year it was necessary to close in connection with an inefficiency.

Current governors of Ukraine were more cynical and inventive. To reformat consciousness of Ukrainians, to impose them a steady image of the enemy in the person of Russia, they use the worst methods of the totalitarian modes.

Ministry of the truth

For realization of the tasks the Kiev mode created the whole propaganda megadepartment — the ministry of information policy (some Ukrainian journalists already called it "The ministry of the truth"). The relevant bill was approved by the Verkhovna Rada on December 2, 2014. It was specified in the explanatory note submitted to parliament that the new body of the central executive power will form the state information policy according to the European standards, to exercise "control of steady observance of the rights and freedoms" of citizens of Ukraine, will be engaged in "in implementation of the corresponding world experience in the Ukrainian legislation".

Activity of new department has to be carried out according to "The provision on the ministry of information policy". Attentive studying of this document proves that functions of new establishment are specially registered vaguely or as blind. So, the ministry of information policy is obliged to develop standards of television production (item 10 of Situation). But in Ukraine the State Committee on television and broadcasting, as which creation of a television product is created. The following activity of the ministry — promoting of domestic television production (item 29). But then this duplication of work of the Ministry of Culture of the country. The most absurd task is "the practical help to the press services of bodies of the central power". Involuntarily the conclusion arises that for service of the press services of public institutions it was necessary to create the separate ministry. And it when on request of the IMF the government announced reduction of number of civil servants for 20%.

Already at a stage of consideration of a question of creation of the ministry of an iformpolitika in parliament, against a number of the Ukrainian reactionary journalists deputies spoke on behalf even (Moustapha Nayem and Sergey Leshchenko of Blok of Petro Poroshenko, Victoria Syumar and Dmitry Tymchuk from "Popular front"). They directly specified that activity of "The ministry of the truth" will have repressive character.

As showed the first month of work, parliamentarians were right. Officials of the ministry at once concentrated on two main tasks — shadowing and censorship, having surpassed even methods of the ministry of promotion of nazi Germany.

Total shadowing

Data collection about "disloyal" to the authorities citizens became the main direction of work of the ministry of information policy. They carry out this activity in common with services on work with addresses of citizens of Ukraine at the ministries, the State Committees, regional and regional administrations. Formally refer to item 37 of Provision on the Ministry of information policy: "The organization of consideration of addresses of citizens for the questions connected with activity of the ministry". And though the speech in this point goes about protection of the rights and freedoms in the sphere of mass media, not it is the main thing for officials of "The ministry of the truth". They collect data (denunciations) about various "the Russian spies", various "the anti-Ukrainian elements", "sympathizing separatists". Form databanks about all citizens of the country.

To receive more information on moods of Ukrainians, the whole group of officials which traces visitors of the "pro-Russian" blogs on "Facebook", by "VKontakte", on Youtube is created, study their correspondence, note those who puts likes near "separatist" statements. In fact, it is about creation whole "polices of thoughts" which has to control of what think that residents of the country feel.

Thoughtcrime and Doublethink

Creation of system of total control is only the first step on the way of full reformatting of consciousness of citizens of Ukraine. To accustom them to live in a condition of continuous fear, the Kiev mode started applying repressions even to those who simply does "seditious", from the point of view of the power, the statement. It is a little more — will also put for gestures or think (thoughtcrime).

Today Ukrainian "The ministry of the truth" collects data on those who is dissatisfied with increase of tariffs and is ready to come to protest actions. Data on them transfer to prosecutor's office which brings criminal cases according to p.1 Art. 258-3 of UK of Ukraine "Creation of terrorist group or organization". Accused under this article quite concrete term — from 8 to 15 years with confiscation of property threatens.

One more category of citizens against whom at the suggestion of "The ministry of the truth", started bringing criminal cases — those who helps the relatives or acquaintances on Donbass (transfers or transfers money, clothes, means of hygiene). It forms the basis for charge according to p.1 Art. 258-5 of UK of Ukraine "The action made for the purpose of financial security of terrorist group (organization)".

At last, at the suggestion of the Ukrainian minister of information policy Yury Stetsya who declared that stay of the Russian journalists in the Ukrainian territory is inadmissible, the Verkhovna Rada adopted the bill of the termination of accreditation of representatives of the Russian mass media to public authorities. Now "The ministry of the truth" together with SBU forms the list of all Russian sites which "participate in information war against Ukraine". According to this list it is planned to block work of these Internet resources in the Ukrainian segment of the Network.

It is more dangerous only that lawlessness is presented to society as absolutely normal things, and justification for them — "world practice". Thereby accustom citizens of Ukraine to live with the doubled consciousness, that is to a doublethink. It is a little more — and will proclaim the official slogan of the country: "War — is the world. Freedom — this slavery. Ignorance — force".

"Week of hatred"

The brainwash by means of the actions which are followed by visual and acoustical effects has to become deification of all activity of Ukrainian of "The ministry of the truth". To prove such actions as "an exhibition about the Russian aggression", declared to Mininformpolitiki: "in the conditions of a truce information war from the Russian Federation will accrue".

Similar statements even in the conditions of wild promotion for considerable part of the population look as absurdity. But for those who doubts, the Kiev mode prepares changes in the Criminal code. It is going to be added with the article 436-2 "Public Denial or Justification of Military Aggression of the Russian Federation in relation to Ukraine in 2014-2015". It provides imprisonment for a period of 6 months till 3 years with confiscation of property for all who doesn't agree with official promotion. The bill is already submitted to the Verkhovna Rada by the deputy from presidential "Blok to Poroshenko" Igor Artyushenko.

This legislative initiative as if is copied from the law "About Protection of the Government of National Revival against Artful Encroachments" adopted on March 24, 1933 in nazi Germany. The difference only that term for "rough distortion of reality, stated the judgments able to cause damage to wellbeing of Germany or to authority of the government of the Reich" at Hitlerites was less — till 2 years of prison.

Ministries of the world, abundance, freedom

If realization of the worst totalitarian methods is continued, already shortly we will see the Ministry of the world which will direct war on Donbass in Kiev, telling Ukrainians that there the silence reigns.

The ministry of abundance (it the current Minister of Finance, the U.S. citizen Natalia Yaresko, of course, will head), which will publish every week statistical data on GDP growth and a standard of living of ordinary citizens.

The ministries of freedom (which, it is sure, the head of SBU Valentin Nalivaychenko concerning whom the Prosecutor General's Office of Ukraine in September, 2013 opened criminal proceedings upon cooperation with CIA will head) where "mysleprestupnik" will be brought on "re-education". That they as a result will completely disappear won't tell, of course.

On this way the Kiev power will have only one obstacle. Any totalitarian promotion always works roughly, rectilinearly, openly. She ignores feature of human psychology — not to perceive that impose. As a result will receive reaction with an accuracy on the contrary — will even more begin to hate this mode.

And it will become the reason of a total failure of fascist promotion in Ukraine.

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Donetsk, 22 Feb – It is GIVEN. As a result of attacks of Donetsk by the Ukrainian security officers new destructions are recorded, in the city the cannonade again sounds. Today reported about it in city administration of the capital of DNR.

"As of 9:30 in Donetsk work of heavy artillery is audible" — declared in the city hall.

"As a result of yesterday's shellings of VSU in the Kiev area the roof and overlapping of a 3-storeyed house on Kiyevsky Avenue are damaged, the roof of the building of comprehensive school No. 68 to the address Partizansky Avenue, house 68a is damaged; in Kuibyshevsky district the water pipe near the house on Kolkhozny Avenue is damaged" — reported in municipal administration.

In the city rescue and recovery operations are continued. According to the city hall, for the morning on February 22 in Donetsk 88 transformer substations are disconnected, don't give the heat carrier of 40 boiler rooms, without gas supply there are 5305 subscribers.

Donetsk, 22 Feb – It is GIVEN. The fighters of a militia of the Donetsk National Republic transferred by Kiev within an exchange of prisoners on February 22 were exposed in captivity to tortures, declared the Commissioner for Human Rights in DNR Darya Morozova today.

"I know that the state very heavy because I communicated with children throughout all time when they were in captivity — was reported by Morozova to TASS agency. — And children called every night and said that them torture and force to refuse participation in an exchange. That is, to sign refusal". The Russian agency reports also that right after an exchange of two rebels the ambulance car took away.

The Commissioner for Human Rights I emphasized also that the Ukrainian party brought for an exchange not only rebels, but also peace citizens. "From 36 people we were given 4 women. These are mothers of fighters who are at war on the party of DNR — Morozova told. — One was detained on a post when it left behind pension, and the second was taken away from the house. For the present I didn't communicate with the others".

The day before, on February 21, in the Lugansk National Republic the exchange of prisoners between DNR and LNR on the one hand and armed forces of Ukraine with another took place. DNR carried out with Kiev an exchange in the 36 on 36 format; initially the exchange was planned on a formula "37 on 37", but the plan underwent changes as one of the Ukrainian prisoners decided to remain in DNR. In turn, LNR transferred to Kiev 115 prisoners in exchange for 17.

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Donetsk, 22 Feb – It is GIVEN. A militia of the Donetsk National Republic and the Ukrainian security officers have to finish branch of heavy arms from the line of contact during the period from February 22 to March 7. It to is GIVEN agency was declared today by the deputy commander the case of the Ministry of Defence of the Donetsk Republic Eduard Basurin.

"The plan of branch is signed by the parties, according to it branch of this equipment has to come to the end till March 7", - he told.

Basurin also told how observers of OSCE will control performance by the parties of the plan for branch of heavy arms. "They refused to fix process of branch, they will leave to those areas where according to arrangements of heavy machinery shouldn't be, and will eat it or not there" — the representative of the Ministry of Defence explained.

As the representative of the Russian Federation in the Joint center for control and coordination of ceasefire lieutenant general Alexander Lentsov reported the day before, the Head of DNR Alexander Zakharchenko signed on February 21 the plan of branch of heavy machinery approved earlier by the Head of LNR Igor Plotnitsky. The Ukrainian party also agreed to take away heavy machinery within two weeks since February 22.

According to the Package of measures on implementation of the Minsk agreements coordinated on February 12 by Contact group on peaceful settlement, the Ukrainian security officers have to allocate for the technician from the actual line of contact, and DNR and LNR – from the line determined by the September Minsk memorandum.

The plan of measures on implementation of the Minsk arrangements assumes immediate and comprehensive ceasefire in Donbass since February 15, branch of heavy arms, creation of a safety zone, the beginning of payments of grants and pensions to inhabitants of DNR and LNR, and also the constitutional reform in Ukraine which result has to be a deep decentralization of public administration.

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Donetsk, 22 Feb – Correspondent. It is given. Suburbs of Donetsk are exposed to attacks from voluntary battalions which are in Avdeevka. It was declared by the vice-chairman of National Council of DNR Denis Pushilin, speaking in Donetsk at festivities in honor of Maslenitsa today.

"Attacks of Donetsk proceed, and they are conducted from Avdeevki by chasteners of "voluntary battalions" of Ukraine who VSU don't submit and (to the president of Ukraine Pyotr) Poroshenko" — was told by the vice speaker.

According to Pushilin, the militia of DNR tries not to react to these provocations and to observe the truce provided by the Minsk arrangements.

The day before, on February 21, single provocative attacks from "voluntary battalions" were declared the zamkomkorpusy Ministry of Defence by Eduard Basurin. For the rest, according to him, on all line of contact active military operations stopped.

Donetsk, 22 Feb – It is GIVEN. The Russian singer and the public figure, the deputy of the State Duma of the Russian Federation Iosif Kobzon will give on Monday in the capital of the Donetsk National Republic two concerts on the occasion of celebration of the Defender of the Fatherland Day.

"Concerts will take place in Opera and ballet theater. One will take place at 12:00, anyone can visit him. The second concert will be given at 18:00 and will take place only for the Ministry of Defence of defense of the Donetsk Republic" — reported in department of information policy and public relations of Management of domestic policy of Administration of the Head of DNR.

Today with the concerts devoted to the Defender of the Fatherland Day, Kobzon acts in Lugansk.

Kobzon who was born and grew up in Donetsk region USSR after the beginning in 2014 of military operations on Donbass didn't remain indifferent to burdens which his fellow countrymen faced. In October he visited the Donetsk and Lugansk National Republics with concerts and humanitarian aid.

Acting in Donetsk, the singer declared: "Donbass — my homeland. In 1945 I met a great Victory in Slavyansk, and went to school in Kramatorsk. Donbass — is my homeland, Donbass to the knees can't be forced — is given nobody". For the position the People's artist of the USSR underwent sanctions from Kiev and the countries of the West.

On February 9, 2015 the Enakiyevsky city council to Kobzon gave the rank "The honourable citizen Enakiyevo".

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Donetsk, 22 Feb — is GIVEN. The charitable organizations of Donbass on the occasion of Maslenitsa held a festive meeting for fighters of special forces of a militia of the Donetsk National Republic "Sparta" and "Somalia" today. As told the correspondent. The head of Life to Donbass charity foundation Oksana Kovalyova is given, for rebels prepared 1600 pancakes.

"We wanted to support children, to lift their fighting spirit therefore solved on Forgiveness Sunday, to invite to Maslenitsa our most heroic battalions "Sparta" and "Somalia" — Kovalyova reported. — We arranged day them a holiday home-style, how it is possible that children distracted of military everyday life".

The action took place "Donetsk" under a dome of a track and field athletics arena and collected in total about one hundred fighters of the 1st separate battallion and tactical group "Somalia" and the anti-tank battalion "Sparta". The program of action included a concert and entertainment program with songs, dances and competitions.

For rebels prepared pancakes with honey, jam and condensed milk. "To all that who couldn't visit at the holiday table today, gifts will be given by fellow soldiers" — noted in the organizing committee of a meeting.

"Speak: "Maslenitsa came and for itself spring gave". There is a wish that became warmer not only on the street, but also in the relations. That the Ukrainian government thought again and turned forces back, and you returned live" — noted, addressing rebels, the representative of Novorossiya's Patriots fund Valeria Antipova.

The gratitude for fighting feats on a front line to soldiers was expressed by the minister of youth, sport and tourism of DNR Mikhail Mishin who congratulated the audience on Maslenitsa and the coming Defender of the Fatherland Day. "Your efforts on a front line won't be in vain, believe. Today thanks to you a lot of children play sports and physical culture. Thanks a lot for it" — was told by the minister.

"Everything is perfectly organized, hospitably. There was a set of bright impressions. Pancakes very tasty. Thanks to all who for us trained them" — the fighter of "Sparta" Alexander shared impressions of a holiday.

"Such actions are very important for us. Because it is always simply impossible to be in a tension. And here it is cheerful. Mood at children fighting" — I noted in conversation with the correspondent. The rebel by the name of Denis is given.

Donetsk, 22 Feb — is GIVEN. Today the Ukrainian security officers from mortars and artillery fired at the settlement October which is on the suburb of Donetsk. It at an evening briefing in the press center of is GIVEN agency was declared by the deputy commander the case of the Ministry of Defence Eduard Basurin.

"Today the settlement October underwent attack allegedly from Avdeevki. Shot from jet Hail systems and mortars — I reported the zamkomkorpusy. — There were some hits on inhabited sector".

Artillery attacks were resulted by eight fires. Two residents of the settlement are wounded.

Donetsk, 22 Feb — is GIVEN. Messages on clash of the Ukrainian retaliatory regiment "Azov" with DNR militia around Shirokino aren't true, there was a collision between the Ukrainian security officers. I declared it at a briefing in the press center today the deputy commander by the case of the Ministry of Defence of DNR Eduard Basurin is GIVEN.

"I will stop on the clash which was allegedly taking place of divisions of army of the Donetsk National Republic with a retaliatory regiment "Azov" near the settlement of Shirokino tonight — Basurin told. — We already repeatedly declared – we didn't conduct any offensive actions on this direction and we don't conduct".

By words zamkomkorpusy since evening on February 21 the fighters of "Azov" who are to the west of Shirokino actively celebrated anniversary of "Maidan", and around 03:00 on February 22, according to radio interception, verbal between two commanders of chasteners there was a skirmish in an air.

"After a while from one of positions of "Azov" the mortar shot sounded, and the mine became torn somewhere near a strong point of other division of chasteners — the representative of the Ministry of Defence of DNR told. — After this the group of national guardsmen on the tank went for "dismantlings" to the colleagues, but came across their protecting fire. According to our investigation, some chasteners during this sortie died on the spot".

After that since 05:00 divisions of "Azov" opened heavy fire on DNR positions that led to death of one and wound of two more rebels.

"We call command of the Ukrainian troops in order to avoid failure of a ceasefire regime in this area to provide control of actions of the divisions — Basurin told. — In return, we confirm full implementation of all points of the Minsk arrangements on all line of contact of the parties".

Donetsk, 22 Feb — is GIVEN. In the territory of the Donetsk airport on February 24-25 will pass engineering works for the purpose of evacuation of bodies of the lost Ukrainian security officers, DNR notified on it the Ukrainian party. I declared it at a briefing in the press center today the deputy commander by the case of the Ministry of Defence of DNR Eduard Basurin is GIVEN.

"We prepared the letter to the representative of the Ukrainian party in the Joint center of control major general Razmaznin that on February 24 and 25 this year (reserve day – on February 26) in the new terminal of city airport of Donetsk engineering works with use of load-lifting equipment will be performed — Basurin told. – Need of carrying out these works is connected with that evacuation of bodies of the lost military personnel of VSU and national guard will be made".

"All works will be performed in the presence of representatives of mission of OSCE and the Red Cross — emphasized the zamkomkorpusy. – To avoid provocations this day, this letter is signed by the Minister of Defence and sent in the direction of the Ukrainian armed forces".

The representative of the Ministry of Defence of DNR explained that at a capture of the building of the new terminal a militia and the followed attempts of the Ukrainian security officers to beat off its set of bodies of the military personnel appeared under blockages. Some part of bodies managed to be taken, the others can be got from under building fragments only with use of special equipment.

Donetsk, 22 Feb — is GIVEN. In days 29 attacks of settlements of DNR are recorded, declared at a briefing in the press center today the deputy commander by the case of the Ministry of Defence of DNR Eduard Basurin is GIVEN.

"From Ukrainian so-called "voluntary battalions" attacks of the Donetsk National Republic, unfortunately, proceeded — Basurin told. – All in days 29 attacks of our areas were recorded. All data on them are sent to the Joint center of control and coordination of ceasefire".

"The overwhelming number of attacks by the Ukrainian artillery is recorded around the Donetsk airport and settlements adjoining to it, here fire was opened 21 times. Our divisions in these areas didn't return fire" — emphasized the zamkomkorpusy.

From 01:00 on February 15 on Donetsk time on Donbass "the silence mode" officially came into force. The requirement to cease fire was put in the Package of measures on implementation of the Minsk agreements. This document participants of Contact group (DNR, LNR, OSCE, the Russian Federation and Ukraine) signed on February 12 during the negotiations lasting more than 16 hours. In DNR repeatedly declared that observance of a truce entirely depends on the Ukrainian party.

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Donetsk, 22 Feb – It is GIVEN. More than fifty thousand people, according to the estimates of organizers, attended Pancake week festivities in the Central recreation park of Alexander Scherbakov in Donetsk today. Donchana and guests of the capital were addressed by representatives of the leaders of the Donetsk National Republic.

"We deserved this holiday, - the head of administration of the Head of DNR Maxim Leshchenko told at opening of celebrations. — Deserved both in fight, and in work. Donbass has a huge potential, strong character, people on whom it is always possible to rely. Paying a tribute of respect to veterans of the Great Patriotic War, celebrating fighters of a militia, after Maslenitsa of DNR will celebrate for the first time the Defender of the Fatherland Day, in the Republic it is declared in the day off".

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It appears that much of the western world is waking up to the facts. Possibly that is why the current mouthpieces of various ruling cliques, who depend entirely on the propaganda machines of the major media barons to keep a veil over the truth, are displaying more and more hysterical tendencies in an attempt to stoke the fires in a situation where the solution is looking more and more as being that which the opponents to the fascist junta in kiev have asked and demanded since the coup : listen to us. If the working class of the west were to be allowed to hear the truth the junta would collapse and the drive towards a far right west would be replaced by a fight for socialist principles.

"It has been a year of growing and escalating crisis in Europe since the Maidan Square protests in Kiev succeeded in toppling Ukrainian president Viktor Yanukovych in February 2014. Those protests, which people in eastern Ukraine consider to have been the basis of a coup that brought down their government and thus trampled over their rights, were openly and materially supported by the West. It saw the likes of US Senator John McCain – a man whose quest for a new Vietnam War never ends – travelling to the country to personally urge on the demonstrators in Kiev alongside Britain’s Catherine Ashton, representing the EU.

With this in mind, just imagine the reaction if Russian politicians had travelled to Mexico to urge on an anti-US protest movement to topple the elected government there and replace it with a pro-Russian alternative. And imagine too that at the head of this movement to topple said government were avowed neo-Nazis and fascists. Imagine what the reaction of the United States would have been then.

Then we have the open admission by the US State Department’s Victoria Nuland, another visitor to Maidan Square during the protests, that the US had ‘invested’ $5billion dollars to help secure Ukraine’s ‘democratic future’ since 1991, combined with the staggering contents of a taped telephone conversation she conducted in early February 2014 with the US ambassador to Ukraine, Geoffrey Pyatt, during which they discuss whom they would like to see ‘appointed’ the new Ukrainian president, anticipating Yanukovych’s imminent demise.

Is there anybody who seriously believes, given the aforementioned, that the US and its European allies were not engaged in a nefarious attempt to destabilise and undermine an elected government?

Ukraine’s history is inextricably linked to Russia’s. In the east of the country especially, cultural, ethnic, economic, and historical links with Russia are deeply entrenched. It describes a fissure between east and west in which one half of Ukraine favours close and fraternal ties to Russia on the basis of those links, while in western Ukraine the dominant political current is anti-Russian and pro-West.

Professor of Russian and European Politics, Richard Sakwa, explores the two competing models of statehood that have arisen on the basis of this fissure in his recent book, Frontline Ukraine (IB Taurus 2015). He describes the first of these as monist nationalism, involving the assertion of an ethnocentric identity that underpins a regeneration of the nation’s culture and social values along rigid and exclusionary nationalist lines. The second he refers to as a pluralist model, denoting an inclusive Ukrainian identity that embraces the disparate and diverse peoples and ethnic groups who make up the country, a consequence of its “long history of fragmented statehood”.

These two contested models of statehood are being played out in the current Ukrainian conflict, which has been ramped up by the geopolitical stakes involved as Washington and its allies seeks to ‘contain’ Russia in a struggle over the continuation of the unipolarity enjoyed by the West since the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, or the multipolar alternative which Russia’s re-emergence as a global power demands.

With over 5000 people killed and over a million displaced in the ensuing conflict in eastern Ukraine, the need for a political solution is self evident. Yet, judging by the intensity of the demonisation of Vladimir Putin and Russia by the British political and media establishment recently, it is clear that an intensification of the conflict is the preferred option of those who refuse to accept that the British Empire no longer exists.

When he’s not being compared to Hitler, a particularly offensive caricature for historical reasons, the Russian leader is being accused of harbouring ambitions of forging a ‘Russian Empire’. However, Defence Secretary Michael Fallon takes the biscuit with his ludicrous assertion that Putin constitutes as great a threat to Europe as Islamic State. It reveals a political class that has suffered intellectual collapse.

That such accusations stem from a nation whose government has played a key part in reducing Afghanistan, Iraq, and Libya to a state of chaos in recent years, only makes them all the more hypocritical if not downright noxious.

But then this should come as no surprise, as we’ve been here before, haven’t we? Remember when Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez was being similarly demonised and held up as a dictator? His crime when he came to power and remained there on the back of numerous democratic elections was his refusal to allow Venezuela’s wealth to continue to be shipped out of the country, as it had been for decades, by a small group of Western-supported oligarchs.

What the crisis and conflict in Ukraine has done is remind us that we live in a world in which the West’s interests and rights are the only ones deemed legitimate. This is what drives the repeated attempts by Washington and its allies, especially the UK, to push a hegemonic agenda. And whether in the Middle East or in Europe, it is this agenda that has been the root cause of instability and conflict that is unfolding in eastern Ukraine at present and which has pushed the Middle East into an abyss of carnage and barbarism.

The US is a global hegemon. With over 1,000 military bases covering the planet, 11 navy battle carrier groups, and a military budget exceeding that of every other major industrialised nation combined, the challenge facing the world is not how to contain Russia but rather how to contain Washington. Vladimir Putin and Russia’s crime is to dare resist this US Empire, taking a stand against the hypocrisy, double standards, and complete lack of respect for other countries, cultures, and values it represents. The concerted attempt to expand NATO and an ever more militant EU all the way up to Russia’s border has nothing to do with democracy and everything to do with the projection of imperial power masquerading as democracy.

When it comes to Britain, ours is a government that has made a virtue out of attaching itself to Washington’s coattails. Indeed it is no exaggeration to state that when Washington sneezes Britain is ready with a handkerchief to blow its nose. It is a sordid and eminently dishonourable relationship that has allowed the UK to parade itself as a first rate power when in truth it hardly qualifies as third rate.

An escalation of the conflict in eastern Ukraine benefits no one, least of all Russia. But the principle at stake is one that must be upheld – namely an end to the West dictating orders to the rest of the world and thereby spreading destabilisation rather than stability, war instead of peace, and chaos at the expense of respect for international law. Only when the proponents of ‘democratism’, an ideology not to be confused with democracy, understand that the world is not theirs to control will there be an end to the never-ending spiral of conflict that shows no sign of abating anytime soon.

The enemy is not Russia or Vladimir Putin. The enemy is hypocrisy"

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MOSCOW, February 20. /TASS/. Prospects for the setting up of an alternative General Staff of the Ukrainian Armed Forces testifies to the ineptness of top commanders of the Armed Forces and to the attempts to organize "an oligarchic coup" in favor of the country’s political warmongers, experts polled by TASS said on Friday.

On Thursday, the commander of the Donbas punitive battalion and Verkhovna Rada deputy Semyon Semenchenko made public a plan to set up a Unified Staff of Ukrainian Volunteer Forces with headquarters in Dnipropetrovsk. A memorandum on the motion was signed by representatives of thirteen battalions and public associations, including five warlords and the leader of the radical nationalist Right Sector movement, Dmitry Yarosh.

According to the organizers, the staff of volunteer battalions will be a center for coordination, exchange of intelligence data, and the drafting of operation plans that will be handed later on to the General Staff of the Armed Forces.

"Events of the past few months and especially of the past several weeks have shown inability of people at the General Staff to control and coordinate the Ukrainian troops appropriately," Semenchenko wrote. He called on President Petro Poroshenko to change the top commanders in the General Staff.

Somewhat later, however, Semenchenko who had familiarized himself with reaction to his declarations in the Internet rushed to disprove the accusations that the "volunteer forces" staff he was about to set up together with Yarosh would put pressure on Poroshenko or would commit violent actions against the incumbent authorities.

He promised to obey the orders of government agencies.

"For any country, one-man command is the cornerstone element for defense capability of any country," Dr. Konstantin Sivkov, the president of the Academy of Geopolitical Problems told TASS. "The setting up of a parallel ‘general staff’ in Dnipropetrovsk process the system of control over the Ukrainian Armed Forces is collapsing and the ‘volunteer detachments’ have totally stopped reporting to the Supreme Commander personalized by President Poroshenko and to the country’s Defense Minister."

"Standing behind this ‘unified staff of volunteer forces’ are Ukrainian oligarchs with Igor Kolomoisky, the governor of the Dnipropetrovsk region at the head," Dr. Sivkov said. "Kolomoisky, whom the Russian Investigators have placed on an international wanted list in connection with a case on the use of prohibited instruments and methods of warring, propelled the field commanders to the Verkhovna Rada."

"In other words, the oligarchs are setting up a strike fist in the strife for redistribution of state power in Ukraine in favor of the ‘party of war’ alongside with the (existing) center of political influence," he believes.

"It’s all too obvious that the initiative for an alternative ‘general staff’ emerged after a collapse of the operation the pro-Kiev forces had been conducting near Debaltsevo and it aims at a revenge, at a continuation of the civil war in Donbas in violation of the agreements on ceasefire and pullout of weaponry reached in Minsk on February 12," Dr. Sivkov said.

Colonel-General Leonid Ivashov, the president of the International Center for Geopolitical Analysis believes the setting up of the parallel "general staff" deserves a "Farewell Ukraine" epigraph.

"An uncanny radical force, the Right Sector, and the field commanders of paramilitary ‘volunteer’ units have spoken out in defense of narrowly egotistic interests of the oligarchs," he said. "But if you take account of the fact this force is well-organized and armed and that it has heavy armaments in its disposal, it will be tearing the state and society apart," Gen Ivashov said.

"Demands for resignation of top commanding officers of the General Staff will be followed by the attempts on the part of the parallel staff to dislodge the Supreme Commander," he said. "The country will be pushed into turbulence, with everyone warring against everyone."

"Europe may bump into a situation the Middle East gripped by the unruly and uncontrollable Isis has bumped into," the expert said.

"The surfacing of an alternative ‘general staff’ in Ukraine exposes a practical split between Poroshenko and Kolomoisky, who is trying to turn the battalions he finances into an own army," said Alexander Khramchikhin, a deputy director of the Institute for Political and Military Analysis."

"Initially, this quasi-army was knocked together to suppress revolt in the east of Ukraine but now it will be spearheaded at the ‘party of peace’ in Kiev," he said.

"The rise of this parallel center of political and power-wielding influences is bearing a threat to Ukraine’s existence within its current border and its transformation into a semblance of Somalia where two de facto states and several illicit zones exist at a time," Khramchikhin said. "The problem is the dismantling of a state in the center of Europe will pose a threat to the entire continent and will have totally unpredictable consequences."

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Donetsk, 23 Feb – It is GIVEN. The public organization "Union of the Left Forces of Donbass" (SLSD) held meeting in the center of Donetsk in honor of anniversary of protests against a coup d'etat in Kiev and a holiday the Defender of the Fatherland Day today. To Lenin's monument more than 600 residents of the capital of DNR came, reports the correspondent. It is given from an event place.

"This day, a year ago, for the first time for all history of independence of Ukraine inhabitants of Donbass in large quantities opposed fascists who made revolution in Kiev. It is possible to consider in the afternoon the beginning of liberation of Donbass from the Ukrainian occupation" on February 23 — one of organizers Rushan Taktarov declared.

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Donetsk, 23 Feb – It is GIVEN. In Donetsk as a result of attacks gas pipelines in Kuibyshev, Petrovsky, by Leninsk areas are damaged, accidents are localized, reported in the gas enterprise of the city.

"As a result of shellings various damage rates, received gas distribution pipelines: in Kuibyshevsky district – on Pyatnitskaya St., Lugovaya St., Grekov St., Abrosimov St., st. of Engels, Vasilchenko St., Krasnaya St.; in the Petrovsky area – on Elektrovoznaya St. and Katovitskaya St.; in Leninsky district – on Obilnaya St." — declared in department.

Employees of the gas enterprise managed to localize accidents in these areas. "Gas pressure in city networks – within norm" — added there.

The Donetsk city water utility in turn reports about numerous damages of water channels as a result of recent fights, today repair work is continued in settlements October and Trudovskiye.

"Unfortunately, after long and heavy fighting, the situation on water supply of the city remains steadily intense. Emergency crews of the enterprise continue repair of the numerous damaged networks. For last two days 42 water and 67 sewer accidents are liquidated" — noted in a water utility.

Donetsk, 23 Feb – It is GIVEN. The situation in Donetsk remains intense. Today declared it in city administration.

"Night with 22 for February 23 passed in Donetsk tensely. As a result of military operations, according to the Ministry of Emergency Situations, houses of the private sector in Kuibyshevsky district on Stepnoy St. and Morozov St. are completely destroyed" — it is noted in the daily report of the city hall.

Failures in work of life support systems of the city it isn't observed.

"Transport moves on highways in the mode of "day off" — added in capital administration.

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Donetsk, 23 Feb – It is GIVEN. DNR separatists on the Defender of the Fatherland Day were congratulated directly on positions of their mother and wife. The deputy commander the case of the Ministry of Defence of DNR Eduard Basurin reported about it today.

"On DNR position in Telmanovo, Donetsk, Debaltseve of the sons and husbands came to congratulate mothers and wives of rebels who brought them the gifts given by hands of school students, parcels with the warm things collected by inhabitants in the cities of DNR, native for them" — the representative of military department declared.

According to him, women fed soldiers with house pastries. "Gave warm things, and also children's drawings with a wish of the world and gratitude to defenders of Donbass" — he added.

Basurin emphasized that unlike Kiev in DNR will always celebrate on February 23 "as many decades did it". "Any moral compromises and treachery of memory of our fathers on the State of Donbass will never be" — it summarized.

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Donetsk, 23 Feb – It is GIVEN. In all large settlements of DNR in honor of the Defender of the Fatherland Day rebels handed to veterans of the Great Patriotic War food sets and necessities. It was declared by the deputy commander the case of the Ministry of Defence of DNR Eduard Basurin today.

"Our fighters handed to veterans food sets and necessities — he noted. — Also today the community work day during which rebels ordered houses and apartments of veterans was held, took part in restoration of buildings of the schools, kindergartens and hospitals destroyed at retreat by the Ukrainian troops".

Donetsk, 23 Feb – It is GIVEN. The militia of the Donetsk National Republic can't still count exact quantity of mortars which got to it after a capture Debaltseve. About it today journalists were reported by the Head of DNR Alexander Zakharchenko.

"We got about 80 units of tanks, the majority of them in working order, we didn't even consider about 50 cannon trunks, and mortars" — he told.

"That is arms supplies and equipment the Ukrainian General Staff — our main ally" — was noted by Zakharchenko.

As the deputy commander the case of the Ministry of Defence of DNR reported today, in the area Debaltseve collecting suitable for restoration and further use of the arms thrown there by the Ukrainian security officers proceeded today. "We will finish exact data on quantity and types of these arms tomorrow" — Basurin promised.

Donetsk, 23 Feb – It is GIVEN. The militia of DNR lost during fights at establishment of control over Debaltseve a little more than 30 people. It was declared to journalists by the head of the Donetsk National Republic Alexander Zakharchenko today.

"Our losses — a little more than 30 people" — he told.

According to the head of state, in the area Debaltseve still there are about 500 Ukrainian security officers who hide as a part of separate groups there. "We still pull out them on cellars, they semi-frost-bitten, and we give necessary help. Them remained about 500 ″ there — Zakharchenko told.

The head of the Republic also noted that DNR strictly observes and intends to observe the Minsk arrangements from now on.

Donetsk, 23 Feb – It is GIVEN. The Ukrainian party didn't carry out preparation for branch of heavy arms from the line of contact on Donbass, the deputy commander the case of the Ministry of Defence of DNR Eduard Basurin declared today.

"According to our investigation, in an arrangement of the Ukrainian troops a preparatory work to branch of artillery systems of big caliber isn't conducted — Basurin reported. — The corresponding teams to the Ukrainian divisions simply didn't arrive".

By words zamkomkorpusy, "platforms on which the Ukrainian heavy artillery has to be taken away, didn't prepare yet, there is no the even allocated transport for its moving to rear areas".

Moreover, according to the representative of the Ministry of Defence of DNR, the Ukrainian security officers continue to strengthen the positions and to increase number of armored machinery and manpower on all directions.

"We call Kiev for implementation of the Minsk arrangements in full under control of representatives of the Joint center for control and coordination of a ceasefire regime and observers of OSCE" — Basurin emphasized.

According to him, "any attempts to use branch of arms of the Donetsk or Lugansk National Republics for achievement of operational superiority of the Ukrainian troops will come to the end first of all with political, and then and military crash".

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Donetsk, 23 Feb – It is GIVEN. The Donetsk and Lugansk National Republics in an initiative order took away tens units of heavy arms from the line of contact with the Ukrainian security officers, the deputy commander the case of the Ministry of Defence of DNR Eduard Basurin declared today.

"As of February 23 from positions of the Donetsk and Lugansk National Republics branch more than 30 units of heavy arms is complete" — the representative of the Ministry of Defence declared.

"From positions of DNR Army branch about 20 units of heavy arms, including six jet systems of volley fire is carried out — specified the zamkomkorpusy. — Artillery systems of large calibers and RSZO from the district of Dokuchayevsk, Gorlovka and Telmanovo were also ahead of schedule taken away".

Full-scale branch of heavy machinery of the National Republics from the line of contact recorded on September 19, 2015 will begin tomorrow, on February 24. According to Basurin, he will be "absolutely transparent for all".

"From tomorrow, according to the approved plan, the Joint center for control and coordination in interaction with representatives of Ukraine and Donbass four sectors and sixteen sites of control of a ceasefire regime and branch of the heavy arms which is on the line of the actual contact of the parties" are defined — told the zamkomkorpusy

Two coordination groups in Donetsk and Lugansk and two points of management of sectors in Stakhanov and Gorlovka will directly control performance by the parties of the conflict of obligations for branch of heavy arms.

"We urge representatives of observation mission of OSCE to take the most active part in process of control of implementation of obligations not only the Donetsk and Lugansk Republics, but also the Ukrainian troops" — Basurin emphasized.

The plan of measures on implementation of the Minsk arrangements coordinated on February 12 by Contact group assumes immediate and comprehensive ceasefire in Donbass since February 15, branch of heavy arms, creation of a safety zone, the beginning of payments of grants and pensions to inhabitants of DNR and LNR, and also the constitutional reform in Ukraine which result has to be a deep decentralization of public administration.

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If the US were to supply Ukraine with ammunition and weapons, it would “explode the whole situation” in eastern Ukraine and Russia would be forced to respond “appropriately,” Russia's Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov said.

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Donetsk, 24 Feb — is GIVEN. Evacuation of bodies of the Kiev security officers from the airport of Donetsk is cancelled as VSU didn't provide safety guarantees to work of the emergency services DNR, OSCE and the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC). About it it is GIVEN the representative of delegation of MKKK in Donetsk Ilya Pogorelov declared.

"The trip to the airport is cancelled in connection with an unresolved question on safety from the Ukrainian party today" — he reported.

Earlier employees of MKKK declared that sent inquiry to the Ministry of Emergency Situations of Ukraine with the requirement to provide them safety guarantees in writing. However didn't wait for the answer.

We will remind that plans to carry out works in capital air terminal on evacuation of bodies of the lost Ukrainian security officers on February 22 at a briefing in the press center of is GIVEN agency were declared by the deputy commander the case of the Ministry of Defence of DNR Eduard Basurin. "We prepared the letter to the representative of the Ukrainian party in the Joint center of control and coordination of ceasefire major general Razmaznin that on February 24 and 25 this year in the new terminal of the airport of Donetsk engineering works with use of load-lifting equipment will be performed. Need of carrying out these works is connected with that evacuation of bodies of the lost military personnel of VSU and national guard will be made" — Basurin told.

Works had to be carried out in the presence of observers of mission of OSCE and the Red cross.

Donetsk, 24 Feb — is GIVEN. No commands of the General Staff of Ukraine for branch of artillery systems existed and isn't present. Today I declared it at a briefing in the press center the second-in-command of the case of the Ministry of Defence of DNR Eduard Basurin is GIVEN.

"Unfortunately, confirmed with something, except words and promises, branch of heavy arms from Ukraine us or observers it wasn't recorded today — he noted. — According to information which arrived from divisions of Lugansk National militia in a zone of their responsibility only partial branch from the taken positions of the Ukrainian artillery arms was recorded. However it passed in absence of observers and mass media, and differs in nothing from the planned rotation of troops observed by us".

It, according to him, is confirmed also by the intelligence data of DNR.

"No commands from the Ukrainian General Staff on branch of artillery systems of big caliber existed and isn't present. On the contrary, on all directions the Ukrainian security officers conduct works on strengthening of the taken positions and areas" — Basurin emphasized.

Donetsk, 24 Feb — is GIVEN. Command of a militia of DNR made the decision on opening in settlements of "hot lines" on which inhabitants can report about the explosive subjects found by them. About it at a briefing in it is GIVEN the deputy commander the case of the Ministry of Defence of DNR Eduard Basurin reported.

"Information stands with numbers of the corresponding phones are installed at an entrance to buildings of the main city social institutions" — it specified.

Besides, according to Basurin, Donetsk engineering divisions of DNR army started repair of access roads and restoration of the movement from the railway station, and also clearing of the main highways for the movement of city transport.

Donetsk, 24 Feb — is GIVEN. DNR separatists took away 5 artillery divisions and 1 artillery battery from the line of contact. Today I declared it at a briefing in the press center the second-in-command of the case of the Ministry of Defence of DNR Eduard Basurin is GIVEN.

"DNR militia for strict observance of the Minsk arrangements today in the 9th mornings started branch of heavy arms from the line of contact. According to the approved schedule of the Joint center for control and coordination (STsKK) of ceasefire forces of DNR took away 5 artillery divisions and 1 separate artillery battery" — he noted.

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The UAE supplying weapons to Ukraine could be part of a US covert operation, former US diplomat James Jatras told RT.

This discussion in Washington about supplying weapons has been going on for some time. Usually that indicates that some kind of a covert program is already in operation and that we already are supplying some weapons directly,” he said.

Jatras added that it is hard to believe that UAE would sell these weapons to Ukraine “without a green light from Washington.”

“There is a lot of worry in Washington that our European satellites are slipping the leash and that this Minsk 2 agreement represents a possibility of a peace settlement that is really advantageous to the anti-Kiev forces in Lugansk and Donetsk. And one way to shake that up is to pour some weapons in there,” Jatras said.

Commenting on Poroshenko’s statement that the weapons are not intended for offensive use, Jatras said that “the notion that there are offensive and defensive weapons is really absurd here” and that supplying the weapons is “clearly designed to give Kiev some kind of military option that Kiev does not currently have, and of course it has an offensive intent behind it.”

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1984 : "If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face—forever."

"the Information Policy Ministry entered into its first controversy. It has ... called on bloggers to create accounts to spread (dis-) information useful to Kiev.

The ministry has begun accepting applications from people wanting to join the online army. Once users are registered, they ... receive instructions on how to proceed.

One of the users published the first set of instructions he allegedly received from the “internet army headquarters.”

The task outline is to create as many fake accounts on social media as possible without raising suspicion. The instructions explain that it is preferable to set up a new email account that uses a Western server. It also advises to set up new Twitter, Facebook, and VKontakte accounts (the Russian equivalent of Facebook).

The instructions also detail that users must use real names, be careful not to add too many friends (in order to seem legitimate), and select their geographic location to be in eastern Ukraine or Crimea.

In order for the account to seem more authentic, users are encouraged to write a few personal posts and comment on non-political issues.

However, another instruction was distributed to bloggers on the same day. It gave the same blueprint for creating a fake account in Crimea or Donbass, but claimed that is the way “information agents of Kremlin work.” "

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Donetsk, 25 Feb — is GIVEN. Six repairmen of the Donetsk railroad suffered at explosion of the mine established by the Ukrainian security officers reported in the Ministry of transport of the Donetsk National Republic today.

"The team of adjusters of the Ilovaysky distance of a way left to restore the railroad tracks damaged as a result of the diversion which is carried out by the Ukrainian troops and was undermined on earlier established mine extension" — declared in transport department.

"Unfortunately, it is not the first serious incident with the Ukrainian security officers — the Minister of Transport Semyon Kuzmenko emphasized. — All facts say that is the next planned act of terrorism from their party. For them there is nothing sacred, they don't appreciate life of the people, and furthermore, lives of our peace citizens".

In the ministry specified that explosion happened on February 24 at 12:05 on a stage Ilovaysk — Hartsyzsk.

"As a result of explosion all six employees suffered. These are young children to the senior from which it wasn't executed and 38 years — reported in Ministry of Transport. — All workers suffered serious injuries: wounds of feet, fragmentary injuries of a face, injury of eyes". Victims are hospitalized, necessary medical care is provided to them. The condition of employees of DONZhD is estimated as satisfactory, but some of them are threatened by partial loss of sight.

Earlier, on February 9, around station of Skotovataya in the territory under control to the Ukrainian security officers the crew of employees of DONZhD which was engaged in tracks repair, underwent aim mortar attack from the Ukrainian post. Three persons were lost, two got severe wounds. Ministry of Transport of DNR requested in OSCE investigation of this incident.

Donetsk, 25 Feb — is GIVEN. Sappers of DNR found and neutralized an unexploded mortar mine of caliber of 120 mm in kindergarten of Donetsk, reported is GIVEN in the press service of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of the Donetsk National Republic today.

"In the territory of a kindergarten No. 56 on the street of Kuibyshev the mortar mine of 120 mm was found and neutralized" — declared in department.

Everything, according to rescuers, for the last days divisions of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of DNR neutralized nine explosive subjects in Donetsk, including — artillery shells of caliber of 152 and 122 mm. "Practically all of them were found in Kuibyshevsky district of the city" — noted in the press service.

Donetsk, 25 Feb — is GIVEN. The militia of the Donetsk National Republic takes away heavy arms from four directions, reported is GIVEN in the press service of the Ministry of Defence of DNR today

"Howitzer self-propelled artillery divisions are removed from four directions — Kumachevo, Snow, Shakhtersk and Novoazovsk — the representative of defensive department told. — They already moved forward from positions".

The day before the zamkomkorpusy Ministry of Defence Eduard Basurin reported that branch from the line of contact of five artillery divisions and one artillery battery is planned for February 25.

For February 24 the militia of DNR took away one hundred howitzers of D-30 from regions of the Red Plowman, Telmanovo, Gorlovka, Donetsk and Mikhailovka. Earlier in an initiative order rebels of the National Republic already took away from the line of contact about 20 units of heavy arms, including artillery and RSZO.

The plan of measures on implementation of the Minsk arrangements coordinated on February 12 by Contact group assumes immediate and comprehensive ceasefire in Donbass since February 15, branch of heavy arms, creation of a safety zone, the beginning of payments of grants and pensions to inhabitants of DNR and LNR, and also the constitutional reform in Ukraine which result has to be a deep decentralization of public administration.

Donetsk, 25 Feb — is GIVEN. The Ministry of Defence of the Donetsk National Republic in the night of February 25 didn't record violations of "the silence mode". About it it is GIVEN reported in the press service of defensive department.

"Any violations "of the silence mode" aren't recorded" — the representative of the Ministry of Defence declared.

"The silence mode" on Donbass officially came into force on February 15 from 01:00 on Donetsk time. The requirement to cease fire was put in the Package of measures on implementation of the Minsk agreements. This document participants of Contact group (DNR, LNR, OSCE, the Russian Federation and Ukraine) signed on February 12. In DNR repeatedly declared that observance of a truce entirely depends on the Ukrainian party.

Donetsk, 25 Feb — is GIVEN. In the night of 25 active military operations in the capital of the Donetsk National Republic aren't recorded, the quiet situation remains in the morning, declared in city administration today.

"Night with 24 for February 25 passed in Donetsk without active military operations — told in the city hall. — As of 8:30 in the city rather quiet situation remains".

Recovery work in Donetsk is continued. "For the morning 74 transformer substations are disconnected on February 25, don't give the heat carrier 41 boiler rooms, without gas supply of the 4714th subscriber" — reported in municipal administration.

"Transport left in full, today residents are served by 92 trolleybuses, 71 trams, 28 buses of municipal property" — noted also in the city hall. Life support systems of Donetsk work in the regular mode.

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The chairman of Federation of labor unions of LNR Oleg Akimov, the chairman of labor union of workers of trade, public catering and life Anatoly Sobolev, the head of department of FP LNR Anna Mineeva held a press conference in Lugansk information center. Break of information blockade and a diplomatic victory of labor unions of Luganshchina became the main subject.

"Today we received the final text of the resolution XII of the World congress of labor unions in which all points offered by Federation of labor unions of LNR were brought. It is a big diplomatic victory of all people of Luganshchina. We achieved two main goals. The first — to break through information blockade. The second — to give the chance to the truth to win against double standards" — Oleg Akimov noted.

As it became known, the representative of LNR became the member of the central committee of the World labor union of public servants and workers of allied industries. The world labor union fixed such decision the corresponding declaration. "The list from thirteen countries which are included into the central committee of the World labor union of public servants and workers of allied industries included our representative. Anatoly Sobolev, the member of presidium of Federation of labor unions of LNR became him. It for us very big step as to present ours was included into governing body of one of the world trade-union organizations" — Anatoly Sobolev told.

Also at a press conference it was talked that today the Federation of labor unions of the Lugansk National Republic prepares documents for the accession to the World organization of labor unions of civil servants and workers of allied industries. "After successful performance of our delegation we prepare documents which we will file to the World organization of labor unions of civil servants and workers of allied industries for inclusion of Federation of labor unions of the Lugansk National Republic in structure of this world association as the full member" — the chairman of Federation of labor unions of LNR Oleg Akimov told.

According to Oleg Akimov, membership in so authoritative international association will give the chance to representatives of the LNR trade-union organizations publicly to state the position and to be heard. "It is necessary to inform a voice of the truth of Donbass, LNR voice. It we will come to a stage, absolutely new to us. It is a unique information platform, a unique exit of solidarity for the whole world. And we will use it for all 100%" — he explained.

Donetsk, 25 Feb — is GIVEN. The youthful national team of judoists of DNR at the All-Russian competitions in the Rostov region won nine medals, from which four gold. It at a press conference to journalists was declared by the senior judo coach of Makeyevka Vladimir Bulavin.

" Places, three second and two third brought the four first. In total nearly 200 athletes participated in tournament, 10 of which — pupils of DNR clubs age from 11 to 14 years" — the trainer reported, commenting on high sports results of young athletes.

Donetsk, 25 Feb – It is GIVEN. Repair crews of the Donetsk National Republic actively restore systems of water supply of victims of fights of the cities of Debaltseve and Uglegorsk, water already arrives spontaneously there, reported in the press service of the municipal enterprise "Water of Donbass" today.

"Owing to lack of power supply pumps therefore water comes to these settlements spontaneously" don't work — explained in conversation with the correspondent. The chief of service on the address of citizens and public relations of "Water of Donbass" Oksana Grechanaya is given.

By estimates of experts of "Water of Donbass", the present volume of water supply Debaltseve makes only 20 percent from necessary volume. Works on restoration of conduits "Enakiyevsky filtering station — Debaltseve" and "Enakiyevsky filtering station — Uglegorsk" are now conducted.

The Grechany emphasized that for a complete recovery of water supply it is required to carry out to Uglegorsk and Debaltseve still considerable number of works on mine clearing of highways and adjacent territories.

Donetsk, 25 Feb — is GIVEN. The militia of DNR confirmed assignment of 400 units of heavy arms from the area Debaltseve. Today declared it it is GIVEN in the Ministry of Defence of DNR.

"Took away nearly 400 units of heavy machinery, including 320 Ukrainian of Debaltsevsky "copper" — the interlocutor of agency reported.

Earlier it was declared by the official representative of DNR in Contact group Denis Pushilin, having noted that process began since February 22.

We will remind that, according to the representative of the Ministry of Defence of DNR Eduard Basurin, DNR and LNR Kotlyarovskoye, Green Guy, Zhukova Balka, Fertile, Olginskoye, Stepanovka, Amvrosiyevka, Novoamvrosiyevka and Semeykino allocate for the technician to areas of settlements.

The plan of measures on implementation of the Minsk arrangements coordinated on February 12 by Contact group assumes immediate and comprehensive ceasefire in Donbass since February 15, branch of heavy arms, creation of a safety zone, the beginning of payments of grants and pensions to inhabitants of DNR and LNR, and also the constitutional reform in Ukraine which result has to be a deep decentralization of public administration.

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Donetsk, 25 Feb – It is GIVEN. The column of cars of DNR separatists was fired today by the Ukrainian military from antiaircraft installation in the airport of Donetsk. Reported about it it is GIVEN in the Ministry of Defence of DNR.

"The column of cars of the Ministry of Defence was fired, from positions of the Ukrainian military — reported in department. — Shot from antiaircraft installation from RLS of air terminal, information on victims isn't present so far".

Meanwhile it is known that in a column the head of the military of department Vladimir Kononov went. "With the minister everything is normal, he didn't suffer, went on the armored personnel carrier" — the interlocutor of agency added.

We will remind, today in Donetsk to the DNR Ministry of Emergency Situations airport carries out works on detection and evacuation of bodies of the Ukrainian military from under blockages of the building of the new terminal.

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Donetsk, 25 Feb — is GIVEN (Attention! Editing is brought in the fourth paragraph). Kiev makes attempt to withdraw the signature of the representative under the document on branch of heavy arms from the line of contact. About it it is reported in the joint statement of official and plenipotentiary representatives of DNR and LNR in Denis Pushilin and Vladislav Deynego's Contact group.

"We are compelled to address to the Ukrainian party, and also to guarantors of negotiation process — the German chancellor Merkel, the president of France Hollande, the Russian President Putin — and to urge them not to allow failure of peaceful intentions" — it is noted in the text which arrived in is GIVEN.

Also it is reported that after today's meeting of the DNR and LNR Contact group fix the tendency calling into question contractual capacity of the Ukrainian party. "Kiev makes the next attempt to withdraw the signature of the representative!" — it is emphasized in the document.

"The plan for branch of equipment, since February 22 which developed the Joint center for coordination and which signed the parties, representatives of Ukraine, try to make invalid. Considering that we for this period took away nearly 400 units of heavy machinery, including 320 Ukrainian of Debaltsevsky "copper"" — declared official and plenipotentiaries of the republics of Donbass.

They also added that tomorrow there will take place the new meeting of Contact group.

"Very much we hope that Ukraine will also observe the signed document and will begin branch of heavy machinery under control of the Joint center for coordination with the specialist mission of OSCE" — it is noted in the conclusion.

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A defeat for U.S./NATO-backed facists in Ukraine

By Greg Butterfield February 24, 2015

Ghost Brigade fighter raises red flag over Debaltsevo region.

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The Independent People’s Republics of Novorossiya celebrated an historic victory of the anti-fascist people’s militias over U.S.-backed Ukrainian military forces near the railroad hub town of Debaltsevo on the shared border of Donetsk and Lugansk in the Donbass region.

Thousands poured into Donetsk city’s central square on Feb. 23 under the statue of Soviet leader V.I. Lenin to mark their second decisive military victory over Ukraine’s vastly larger, better equipped forces in less than a year.

At the same time, Donetsk Prime Minister Aleksandr Zakharchenko cautioned that the Kiev junta of oligarchs, neoliberal politicians and fascists was marshalling for a new offensive, perhaps as soon as late March. (RIA, Feb. 23)

Democrats and Republicans in Washington continue pushing to send $3.5 million in heavy weaponry to continue Kiev’s bloody war. According to the United Nations, 5,700 people have died in fighting since Ukraine attacked last April.

How did the victory come about?

As a new ceasefire agreement was being negotiated by Kiev, Moscow, Paris and Berlin in mid-February, Novorossiyan forces successfully encircled several thousand Ukrainian troops using a World War II-era Soviet military maneuver called a cauldron. The “lid” of the cauldron — preventing the free movement of Kiev’s troops and supplies — was slammed shut in the area of the town of Debaltsevo.

After the second Minsk ceasefire was inked on Feb. 12, Donetsk Prime Minister Zakharchenko reported that it would not affect the militia’s efforts in the cauldron. Last September, in contrast, Novorossiyan forces were pulled back from the gates of the Ukrainian-occupied port city of Mariupol when the first Minsk ceasefire took effect, reportedly at the Russian government’s insistence.

After days of intense fighting, the Ghost Brigade commanded by Alexei Mozgovoi and other Novorossiyan forces swept into Debaltsevo and surrounding villages on Feb. 18, freeing residents held as virtual hostages in their basements for weeks by the occupiers. International communist volunteers in the Ghost Brigade’s Unit 404 played a key role in the operation.

Hundreds of Ukrainian troops surrendered. Thousands more were allowed to leave — but only after abandoning their weapons and equipment to the Novorossiyan militias.

Novorossiyan forces are still clearing out pockets of resistance from hardcore fascist elements of the National Guard and volunteer battalions and gathering an enormous amount of abandoned arms and war material, much of it from the United States and other NATO powers.

U.S. continues war push

Exactly one year after the fascist-dominated “EuroMaidan” coup in Kiev overthrew Ukraine’s elected government, the junta headed by Ukraine President Peter Poroshenko suffered a military defeat while NATO and Wall Street suffered a political defeat. The reverberations spread almost immediately.

While Russian news reports showed Ghost Brigade Unit 404 raising the Soviet red flag over Debaltsevo, some 100,000 people marched in Moscow Feb. 21 to protest the anniversary of the Ukrainian coup. Others marched in cities around the world, from Brussels to New York.

Would this defeat convince the Obama administration and Republican Congressional leaders to reconsider their belligerent course toward increasing arms shipments to Ukraine and threatening Russia, which played a key role in securing the Feb. 15 ceasefire?

No. Instead, Secretary of State John Kerry threatened Russia with more sanctions, repeating Kiev’s well-tread lies of “Russian occupation” in Donbass.

Republican Sen. John McCain, who in December 2013 appeared at a EuroMaidan rally in Kiev with neo-Nazis, rejected the ceasefire deal out of hand.

And just as before, Ukrainian forces continue to violate the ceasefire with daily terror attacks on civilian targets in Donbass.

“The fire is not as loud and frequent as in January and early February, but a total silence is out of the question,” a Donetsk resident told Sputnik News Feb. 22.

Poroshenko announced the formation of a 4,500-strong Ukraine-Polish-Latvian military division — a possible prelude to NATO intervention by these U.S. client regimes. (RT.com, Feb. 20)

What next for Donbass?

Ukrainian Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Vadim Pristayko boasted to the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation that Ukraine is preparing for a “full-scale war.” According to him, Kiev is “no longer afraid to enter a conflict with a nuclear country.” (tinyurl.com/o7zokru) Poroshenko ally Vadim Denisenko told Ukraine’s Channel 5 that he hoped for NATO bombing in the next several months. (Sputnik News, Feb. 18)

Poroshenko has also called for Western peacekeepers to be stationed in the conflict zone.

Poroshenko’s own future is now in doubt, however. Many are asking if he will be pushed out by oligarchs further to the right and their neo-Nazi agents like Dmitry Yarosh, head of the infamous Right Sector. Yarosh declared that his fascist gang would keep fighting despite the ceasefire.

The role of communists and radical anti-fascists like Alexei Mozgovoi in the Debaltsevo victory should give a welcome boost to the left pole in Novorossiya as the people’s republics prepare to mark the 70th anniversary of the May 9, 1945, Soviet victory against Nazi Germany.

At the same time, Ukraine’s renewed offensive in January, and its defeat in February, is a setback to those who thought an accommodation with the junta was possible or even desirable.

For more than two decades, U.S. strategy has been to work toward the break-up of Russia to make it easier to control and exploit that region. This has continued under both Democrats and Republicans, conservative and “liberal” administrations. Kerry’s words show Washington is still determined to place NATO bases on Russia’s western border to pressure political change in Moscow.

Today Novorossiya is the front line of armed resistance against austerity, fascism and NATO expansion. The people’s republics need international solidarity to guarantee their military victory turns into a powerful movement to push back U.S.-NATO expansion throughout the region.

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