Our Prime Minister, I am speechless

"In my opinion that photo is not appropriate, I apologise for that, that photo shouldn't have been taken." 

PM Sanna Marin and Sabina Särkkä.

Here in Finland we have couple of videos of the Prime Minister dancing, singing and partying with various Finnish celebrities and public figures spread throughout social media. I see from this picture that soon they (guests in Prime Minister's official Kesäranta residence) will make love - maybe.

Speaking to reporters following a speech at the annual meeting in Helsinki of Finland's heads of missions abroad, Marin explained that she invited some friends over to Kesäranta after the Ruisrock music festival to "sauna, swim and spend time together."

For six out of nine days, PM has been found drinking.

Everything is not okay.

Tänään tuli Seiskalta ulos Sabina Särkän ja Sanna Marinin kiehnäysvideo.

Tällaista kuvastoa löytyi vielä hetki sitten Sabina Särkän TikTokista päiväyksellä 10.7.

Näyttäis valtioneuvoston grafiikkaseinä päässeen arvokkaampaan käyttöön...🤔#jauhojengi #kesärata22 pic.twitter.com/oMBJ0rpWFQ

— Kimmo Kautio (@Kimmo_Kautio) August 22, 2022

Welcome back to the Middle Ages

Here comes a brand new report Safeguard Defenders, Drugged and Detained: China’s Psychiatric Prisons. PDF.

In 2022, the Chinese Communist Party, so called CCP is still routinely locking up political targets in psychiatric hospitals despite implementing legal changes to stop this barbaric practice more than a decade ago.

In the name of stability maintenance, the CCP is able to remove petitioners and activists entirely out of the justice system, with no hope of seeing a lawyer or going to trial, while “diagnosing” them with mental illness so that they are socially isolated even after release.

Detained: China’s psychiatric prisons, exposes how Chinese police and government agents are still sending petitioners and activists to psychiatric wards for medically-unnecessary compulsory treatment, where some languish for years.

Raport China’s Psychiatric Prisons tells all what's going on.

It provides evidence that China is routinely locking up activists and petitioners in mental hospitals, one of the most chilling ways that China silences critics.

Mental torture: China is locking up critics in psychiatric facilities

In China, posting a political comment, submitting a complaint about a corrupt official, or shouting slogans in the street, will quickly get you locked up in a detention centre.

Or it might get you committed to a psychiatric hospital.

Organsiation used secondary sourced interviews of victims and their families and found 99 people had been locked up in psychiatric wards 144 times in the seven years from 2015 to 2021, covering 109 hospitals in 21 provinces, municipalities or regions across China.

Sure, may all those numbers are just the tip of the iceberg. Countless more cases would not have been noticed by NGOs and media, especially in this climate of fear under Xi Jinping that has increasingly closed off China to the outside world.

Alcohol destroys human chromosomes

Human Chromosomes' telomere length medical concept and 
telomeres located on the end caps of a chromosome resulting in 
aging by damaging DNA or protection.
Credit: Lightspring Shutterstock.com

Alcohol’s impact on telomere length, a proposed marker of biological aging, is almost clear. 

The studyTrusted Source, published by Nature, in Molecular Psychiatry, is the largest of its kind to date.

Shorter telomeres were found in those who drank heavily or had alcohol use disorder (for example, there were about 400,000 alcoholics in Finland, in other words, about seven percent of the entire population).

In this case researchers reviewed data of over 245,000 UK individuals to assess how alcohol impacts aging.

We performed the largest observational study to date (in n = 245, 354 UK Biobank participants) and compared findings with Mendelian randomization estimates, 

they say.

Telomere length is linked to biological aging and disease onset.

The pros and cons of drinking alcohol are frequently relayed, and there’s a new addition to the ever-growing list. Research conducted by Oxford Population Health, part of the University of Oxford, indicates excessive alcohol consumption can speed up the aging process at a biological level.

Data on participants’ weekly alcohol consumption — self-reported when joining the Biobank — was used as the basis of an observational analysis.

Observational analysis findings indicated that heavy alcohol drinkers and those with alcohol use disorder (AUD) were significantly more likely to have shorter telomeres — an essential part of our chromosomes linked to aging and the onset of various health concerns.

Meanwhile, the MR analysis also found a strong link between telomere length and genetically-predicted AUD. The most influential gene was discovered to be AD1HB, which acts as an alcohol metabolizer in the body.

Also stress has even been reported to accelerate aging and the onset of age-related diseases. Recent research links both chronic and perceived stress and alcoholism with telomere shortening, a phenomenon with a known relationship to cellular aging.

A lackey of the Kreml

“Although unwillingly, the organization created material that sounds like support for Russian narratives. Seeking to protect civilians, the study has instead become a tool of Russian propaganda.” 

So says Director of Amnesty International Ukraine, Oksana Pokalchuk, who has spent seven years documenting and investigating human rights abuses as Director of Amnesty International Ukraine, tendered hers resignation as the backlash continued over a controversial Amnesty International report titled, 

“Ukrainian fighting tactics endanger civilians.”

Pokalchuk took to Facebook on August 4 to disavow the report, explaining that Amnesty’s global branch had effectively sidelined the Amnesty Ukraine team and proceeded with publication without their input or consent. She resigned the following day.

The Kremlin has warmly welcomed Amnesty’s claims, with Russian officials actively promoting the report to justify Moscow’s ongoing bombing campaign in Ukraine.  

Some of the expectations expressed in the Amnesty report, such as the notion that Ukrainian troops should defend civilians from Russian attack without stationing themselves nearby, are nothing short of absurd

Hundreds of people canceled their donations to Amnesty.

Vi mår bra

Vi mår rätt bra i jobbet, gott ledarskap är viktigt för att vi ska orka.

Aktivt lärande hopar sig till dem som i och med sin utbildning och sina arbetsuppgifter redan har bra kompetens, goda färdigheter och goda utvecklingsmöjligheter, säger arbetslivsbarometern. 

Det är en undersökning som utförs varje år och får vi tro på resultaten från 2021 så har 80 procent av löntagarna en god arbetsförmåga i förhållande till arbetets fysiska och psykiska krav.

Det kontinuerliga lärandet är en viktig faktor för att vi ska må bra i arbetet. 

Men till exempel detta kontinuerligt lärande är inte alla förunnat utan blir lätt en klassfråga, visar den nya arbetslivsbarometern. 

Den arbetarskyddsreformen är på gång. Arbetslivsbaromentern visar ändå stora klasskillnader när det gäller kontinuerligt lärande.

En rätt positiv syn på arbetsmarknaden, så beskriver Arbets- och näringslivsministeriet löntagarnas känslor från det andra coronaåret. 

Первое судно с украинским продовольствием вышло из Одесского порта

Президентом Украины Владимиром Зеленским
Фото: Офис президента Украины.

Сегодня Украина вместе с партнерами делает очередной шаг к предотвращению мирового голода. Разблокировка портов даст не менее 1 млрд долларов валютной выручки для экономики и возможность для аграрного сектора спланировать посевную в следующем году.

Украина является 4-м крупнейшим экспортером кукурузы в мире, поэтому возможность его вывоза через порты – это колоссальный вес успех для обеспечения глобальной продовольственной безопасности.

 На его борту 26 тыс. тонн украинской кукурузы.

Вместе с представителями ООН и Турции уже наработаны внутренние операционные регламенты. Со своей стороны, Украина сделала все, чтобы возобновить работу портов и всех задействованных предприятий. Важно отметить о неукоснительной поддержке со стороны американских и европейских партнеров на пути к разблокированию украинских морских портов

Это был сложный путь продолжительностью 3 месяца. Все это время процесс переговоров и согласования вопросов безопасности контролировался Президентом Украины Владимиром Зеленским:

"Мы благодарны партнерам, которые, несмотря на сложности, не останавливали работу по подготовке к экспорту."

Хороший!

En studie snakkar att Rysslands ekonomi förlamad av sanktionerna

Sanktionerna har tillintetgjort 30 år av utländska investeringar och företagsetableringar i landet, visar en ny studie av forskare vid Yaleuniversitet,

Så finns det klart att Ryssland drabbas hårdare av sanktionerna från väst än vad som framkommer av medierapporteringen. 

Det finns många typer av sanktioner.

Med ekonomiska sanktioner försöker västländerna göra Rysslands ekonomi så svag att Ryssland tvingas avsluta kriget i Ukraina. Ryssarna blir fattigare på grund av sanktionerna. Västländerna hoppas att det leder till missnöje med ryska ledare och det dyra kriget.

Och på grund av sanktioner kan ryska banker inte fungera i västländerna. Västerländska företag lämnar Ryssland. Handeln mellan Ryssland och västvärlden har minskat väldigt mycket. Ryska produkter säljs inte i västerländska butiker.

Here come grain ships

a guided walking tour in Kyiv.
Photo: EPA.

Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky visits port as Ukraine prepares to ship out grain. He's saying the departure of grain will begin with several ships that were already loaded but could not leave Ukrainian ports after Russia invaded in late February.

Zelenskyy has visits a Black Sea port as crews prepared terminals to export grain trapped by Russia’s five-month-old war, work that was inching forward a week after a deal was struck to allow critical food supplies to flow to millions of impoverished people facing hunger worldwide.

“The first vessel, the first ship is being loaded since the beginning of the war,” 

Zelenskyy, in his signature olive T-shirt, tells reporters on Friday as he stands next to a Turkish-flagged ship at the Chernomorsk port in the Odesa region.

Ukraine is a key global exporter of wheat, barley, corn and sunflower oil, and the loss of those supplies has raised global food prices, threatened political instability and helped push more people into poverty and hunger in already vulnerable countries.

Yesterday

Jonas Metsäkylä Trio has once again adapted the best jazz classics to a dynamically rich trio line-up. 

I saw & heard that this band has been workking closely developing their ensemble playing and honing their artistic vision for a few years now.

Jonas Metsäkylä, guitar. Kaisa Mäensivu, bass. Joe Peri, drums.

This time, the repertoire includes compositions from the pens of Charlie Parker, Duke Ellington and Thelonious Monk, among others. 

en Finne igen.

Finska kvinnan knuffade ner mannen på spåret – då kom tåget

Den tredje juli blev en äldre man nerknuffad framför tunnelbanan av en kvinna som kunde gripas på platsen.

 ”Han var ju svart”,

sa hon orden i polisförhöret.

Bild: tv4.se

Enligt Expressen som rapporterar om ärendet, har den misstänkte

finskt medborgarskap.

Mannen fick skador i huvudet och handen, men tack vare vittnen som ingrep och stannade tåget, så kunde mannen räddas upp från spåret. I tisdags väcktes åtal mot kvinnan som misstänks för mordförsök, alternativt grov misshandel.

Стыд! просто как это стыдно!

Втягивание финнов в махинации Кремля служит только путинской пропаганде.

МОСКВА, 15 июля. ТАСС Рустам Шарафутдинов

Бывший главный тренер мужской сборной России по волейболу финн Туомас Саммелвуо своей работой и результатом на Олимпийских играх в Токио заслужил орден Дружбы. 

Указ о награждении финского специалиста был опубликован в пятницу на официальном интернет-портале правовой информации.

Саммелвуо 46 лет, он возглавлял сборную России с 2019 года и покинул пост главного тренера команды в феврале 2022 года.

An altruistic person can sacrifice himself

Here comes one of the best documentaries I've ever seen.

Navalny

          Rating: R (Some Language)

            Genre: Documentary

            Original Language: Russian

            Director: Daniel Roher

            Producer: Diane Becker, Shane Boris, Melanie Miller, Odessa Rae

            Release Date (Theaters): Apr 11, 2022  Limited

            Runtime: 1h 38m

            Distributor: Fathom Events

Watch the trailer for award-winning film Navalny.

The CNN docfilm follows Russian opposition leader, Alexey Navalny, through his political rise, attempted assassination and search to uncover the truth.

Winner of the Sundance Festival Favorite Award, Navalny follows Russian opposition leader Navalny as he investigates the circumstances of his own attempted assassination. The film premieres was April 24 at 9 p.m. on CNN.

Shot as the story unfolded, Navalny is a fly-on-the-wall documentary thriller about anti-authoritarian Russian opposition leader. 

In this documentary he recovers in Berlin after nearly being poisoned to death with the nerve agent Novichok - he makes shocking discoveries about his assassination attempt and bravely decides to return home--whatever the consequences.

Super-deep objects

Here comes a first full-colour picture from the new James Webb Space Telescope has been released. Webb identified its super-deep objects after only 12.5 hours of observations

As a consequence, it's possible this is even the deepest cosmic viewing field ever obtained.

The image is said to be the deepest, most detailed infrared view of the Universe to date, containing the light from galaxies that has taken many billions of years to reach us.

Further debut pictures from James Webb are due to be released by Nasa in a global presentation today, on Tuesday.

Scientists can tell from the quality of the data produced by Webb that the telescope is sensing space way beyond the most far-flung object in this image. Light travels at 186,000 miles per second (in 3D space). 

They're going back about 13 and a half billion years. And since we know the Universe is 13.8 billion years old, you're going back almost to the beginning.

There are actually seven parallel levels in the universe - they will also emerge.

Mannen gjorde uppror för Guds nåd

Arvid Järnefelt, målning av Eero Järnefelt.

Arvid Järnefelt  (1861-1932) var personlig vän och förtrogen med Leo Tolstoj; dom brevväxlade fram till Tolstojs död 1910.

Arvid Järnefelt föddes 1861 i Pulkova, en by i närheten av S:t Petersburg. Han var son till geodeten och topografen, sedermera generalen och guvernören Alexander Järnefelt, som vid denna tid var verksam vid ryska generalstabens observa­torium på nämnda ort. 

På år 1891, då Järnefelt var auskultant i Vasa hovrätt, förändrades hans liv plötsligt. Denna tolstojanism var en på Jesu bergspredikan grundad morallära, som förnekade treenigheten, arvsynden, Kristi­ gudom­lighet, underverken, de dödas uppståndelse, himmel och helvete, dopet, nattvarden och de övriga sakramenten. 

Rörelsen var pacifistisk och manade till sexuell återhållsamhet. Vidare skulle man livnära sig på eget och inte på andras arbete samt älska alla människor på samma villkor. 

En tydlig protestkaraktär hade Järnefelts beslut att vägra döpa sina barn och ikke betala skatt. 

Och sen det mest dramatiska skedet i hans religiösa strävan inföll i slutet av 1910-talet. 

År 1917 utmanade han myndigheterna genom att förkunna sin lära om kärlek, broderskap och jämlikhet i kyrkor runt om i Helsingfors, vilket resulterade i en fängelsedom på två månader.

Social oro under den ryska revolutionen spred sig till Finland. Arvid Järnefelt och hans anhängare är inblandade i Helsingfors kyrkans upplopp i maj 1917  vars andra ledare är anarkisten Jean Boldt.

IMaj 1917trots prästernas motstånd organiserade han tre möten i kyrkorna i Helsingfors, som sammanförde flera tusen militanter.

Arvid Järnefelt berättar om social jämlikhet, pacifism och presenterar sina egna religiösa visioner. 

"Kyrkans lära, katekeser och sådana böner, har lärt människor att tro att de själva inte var ansvariga för vad de gjorde. Detta är anledningen till världskrig och dödande i trons namn."

Arvid Järnefelt på söndagen den 20 maj 1917 i Berghäll i Helsingfors.

Dessa händelser åtföljs också av störningar och anhängare av Järnefelt anklagas för våld. 

Den arbetarpressen stöder författaren som väcker uppmärksamhet åt sociala sjukdomar. Järnefelt får också förståelse från Eino Leino, Pekka Ervast och Aino Sibelius (Arvid's syster). 

En bok med kyrktal från Järnefelt publicerades samma år. 

et leder honom till ett fängelsestraff som slutar med benådningen av Carl Gustav Mannerheim 1919. Från 1922 reser Arvid Järnefelt mycket utomlands och inleder en ny kreativ period vars produktion anses vara den bästa delen av. hans arbete.

Han åtlydde sitt samvetes röst och lämnade vid två tillfällen 1919–1920 sin familj för att leva enligt sin läras viktigaste bud: att alla människor måste älskas och hjälpas i samma grad, inte ens den egna familjen hade företräde.


Denna livsförändring innebar också början på en nästan fyrtio år lång mångsidig och produktiv författarkarriär. 

Bland annat han översatte också flitigt både fakta och fiktion från svenska, ryska och engelska till finska, och översatte egna arbeten till svenska.


Tolstojans inflytande framträdde redan i sin roman Isänmaa publicerades 1893. 1895 inledde Järnefelt korrespondens med Leo Tolstoy och han träffade honom.

Dom träffades två gånger, 1899 och 1910. Järnefelt var socialt engagerad och bistod fångar, fattiga och förtryckta.

Buddha brought compassion and wisdom into the world

According to Buddha the gereral purpose of life is to find your purpose and give your whole heart and soul to it. For this task, a person needs in-sight vision.

This scene was painted for the Robert Louis Stevenson book Treasure Island, specifically for the chapter titled ‘The last of the Blind Man.’ In the scene from the book, a shot rang out, scaring off the pirates. Louis writes “…the buccaneers turned at once and ran, separating in every direction, one seaward along the cove, one slant across the hill, and so on, so that in half a minute not a sign of them remained but Pew. 

Him they had deserted, whether in sheer panic or out of revenge for his ill words and blows I know not; but there he remained behind, tapping up and down the road in a frenzy, and groping and calling for his comrades.”

“Treasure Island,” published in 1911 and illustrated by N. C. Wyeth.

This book series continued on a nearly one-a-year basis through the 1930s. Perhaps Wyeth illustrated the largest number of books – 16 – more than any other artist.

Also The blind leading the blind, painting by Pieter Bruegel, an idiom and a metaphor in the form of a parallel phrase, it is used to describe a situation where a person who knows nothing - don't see by his own soul.

is an another idiom - it is used to describe a situation where a person who knows nothing is getting advice and help from another person.

Karma

Medan man levde i medeltida inkarnation - var jag en av tempelriddaren i Sverige någonstans i Götaland (och i Småland) -  lovade jag leva i fattigdom. 

Tänker jag att den eden fortfarande fungerar.

Detta förklarar många saker i det här livet.

Men ... hur blev man riddare?

En avgörande skillnad mellan riddare och andra ryttarkrigare var att de som skulle bli riddare, som bli nybörjade, först var tvungna att bli dubbade till ridderskapet av mestaren. 

I det fullt utvecklade riddarväsendet från 1100-talet och framåt kunde detta ske först efter flera års upplärning, till en början som page och därefter som väpnare.

Why?

China’s Sky Eye

In September 2020, Sky Eye, which is located in China’s southwestern Guizhou province and has a diameter of 500 meters (1,640 feet), officially launched a search for extraterrestrial life. 

"The team detected two sets of suspicious signals in 2020 while processing data collected in 2019, and found another suspicious signal in 2022 from observation data of exoplanet targets,"

  Zhang Tonjie, chief scientist of an extraterrestrial civilization search team co-founded by Beijing Normal University - has said according to the Bloomberg.

China’s Sky Eye is extremely sensitive in the low-frequency radio band and plays a critical role in the search for alien civilizations.

China said its giant Sky Eye telescope may have picked up signs of alien civilizations, according to a report by the state-backed Science and Technology Daily, which then appeared to have deleted the report and posts about the discovery.

The narrow-band electromagnetic signals detected by Sky Eye -- the world’s largest radio telescope -- differ from previous ones captured and the team is further investigating them, the report said, the National Astronomical Observatory of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the University of California.

It isn’t clear why this report was removed from the website of the Science and Technology Daily, the official newspaper of China’s science and technology ministry; though the news had already started trending on social network Weibo and was picked up by other media outlets, including state-run ones.

Zhivoi gvozd

att bli Världsmästare

Skärmdump från C More -kanalen.

Vår statsminister spenderar alla sina pengar på biståndsverksamhet?
Han har inte ens råd med intakta kläder.

Наш премьер-министр тратит все свои деньги на деятельность по оказанию помощи?
Он даже не может позволить себе неповрежденную одежду.

Unika guldscener – för första gången har Finland vunnit VM-guld i ishockey framför hemmapubliken. Där finalen blev till slut en otrolig nagelbitare. Men 4–3-förlängningssegern säkrade Finlands fjärde VM-titel någonsin och den första i en hemmaturnering. Den tajta finalen mot Kanada fick publiken uppleva en liknande känsloskala som i tidigare finländska slutspelsmatcher i turneringen. Lejonen hamnade i underläge, reste sig och var till slut bäst när allt skulle avgöras.

Näytä tämä julkaisu Instagramissa

Henkilön Sanna Marin (@sannamarin) jakama julkaisu

«Финляндия точно готова помогать»

Санна Марин в Буче – городке, который стал
 настоящим олицетворением зверств
 российских военных.
Фото: Муниципалитет Ирпеня.

Премьер-министр Финляндии Санна Марин в четверг побывала с коротким визитом в Украине. Вечером пресс-служба правительства сообщила, что Марин провела переговоры с премьер-министром Украины Денисом Шмыгалём.

По мнению Марин, украинцам очень важно чувствовать, что их не бросили и про них не забыли. 

«Финляндия всегда готова оказывать помощь»,

добавила политик в этом же интервью.

«Очень тяжело смотреть на то, что Россия сотворила с этими городами.»

Санна Марин: 

«необходимо ужесточить санкции против России и увеличить масштаб помощи Украине. ... Финляндия точно готова помогать.»

«Украина – это часть европейской семьи и Финляндия поддерживает Украину на её пути к ЕС», - сообщается в заявлении. «Важно сформировать конкретный пошаговый план по вступлению Украины в ЕС», 

считает Санна Марин.

Однако об упрощённой процедуре вступления Украины в ЕС речи не идёт. 

Ongoing War

This war will not stop after any concessions. Perhaps the Bear will just be put on pause for some time.

Ukrainian presidential adviser Mykhailo Podolyak said to Reuters-  in an interview in the presidential office on Saturday - that making concessions would backfire on Ukraine because Russia would hit back harder after any break in fighting. 

He has ruled out a ceasefire with Russia and said Kyiv would not accept any deal with Moscow that involved ceding territory.

“After a while, with renewed intensity, the Russians will build up their weapons, manpower and work on their mistakes, modernize a little, fire many generals … And they'll start a new offensive, even more bloody and large-scale,” 

Podolyak said.

Head of the Ukrainian President’s Office Andriy Yermak

echoed Podolyak’s words, tweeting Sunday that “the war must end with the complete restoration of Ukrainian territorial integrity and sovereignty.”

“Russia can't be left halfway because the bear will develop a 'revanchist' mood and be even more cruel.”

We know this Russian Bear.

Nu inleds de farligaste månaderna i vår moderna historia

Finlands statsminister Sanna Marin (videoinspelning).

Finland har lämnat besked om att de vill gå med i Nato utan vissas dröjsmålen. Nu inleds den farligaste perioden i modern tid för Finland och even för Sverige också.

Sant att Sverige och Finland tar nu snabba och samordnade steg mot det historiska beslutet att söka medlemskap i försvarsalliansen. 

Regeringen håller ett extra nödlägesammanträde redan på måndag för att ta det formella beslutet om en svensk Natoansökan. Omedelbart efter mötet kommer ansökan att skickas in, om inget oförutsett inträffar. 

Vid niotiden idag skickade Finlands statsminister Sanna Marin och presidenten Sauli Niinistö ut ett pressmeddelande om att de är för ett finskt Natomedlemskap och att Finland utan dröjsmål måste skicka in en ansökan. 

Imorgon ska den säkerhetspolitiska analysgruppen där alla riksdagspartier är representerade bli klara med sin rapport som ska presenteras på en presskonferens klockan 10. Det kommer inte att finnas någon tydlig skrivning om att Sverige bör gå med i Nato men slutsatsen kommer att framgå mellan raderna, enligt flera källor. Vänsterpartiet och Miljöpartiet som båda är emot Natomedlemskap väntas reservera sig.

På söndag den 15 maj håller den socialdemokratiska partistyrelsen ett extra sammanträde där de väntas fatta beslutet att ansöka om medlemskap.

Dagen efter, på måndagen den 16 maj klockan 10.30, blir det en extra riksdagsdebatt om den säkerhetspolitiska analysen. 

Enligt Expressens källor kommer statsminister senare under måndagen kalla till ett extra regeringssammanträde där det historiska beslutet ska fattas. Direkt efter mötet kommer ansökan om Natoansökan att skickas in, om inget oförutsett inträffar.

På tisdagen den 17 maj kommer den finske presidenten Sauli Niinistö till Sverige.

Republikens presidents kanslistatsrådets kommunikationsavdelning: 

Gemensamt uttalande av republikens president och statsministern om Finlands medlemskap i Nato.

Russian Victory Day parade near Kiev

Destroyed tank column in Ukraine.

Smoldering Russian column of tanks burned to the ground by heroic Ukrainian resistance on the outskirts of Kyiv.

See the Incredible photo show a smoldering Russian column, incinerated by Ukrainian resistance, as Putin’s siege of Kyiv stalled.

The biggest war in Europe since World War II has already raged 24. march. Vladimir Putin aven advanced towards the capital Kiev but brave Ukrainians fighted it back.

A suburban avenue in Bucha became one of the first graveyards for Russia's hopes of encircling and entering Kyiv and then deposing the government of President Volodymyr Zelensky.

Now Moscow says, without proof or any reliability, that its war aims in central Ukraine have been achieved, and they never included capturing Kyiv.

Picture from BBC's Lee Derunt. A Bucha street littered with destroyed Russian armoury.

Monday’s papers tell of the May Day celebrations

The scene of the accident and the suspect. Photo by an eyewitness.

Central Finland police also said that May Day Eve was much, much livelier than in the past two years, as restaurants were allowed to remain open late. On the evening of the last day of April three people injured by reckless driver near Esplanade

This most serious incident took place around 7 pm. Police said that a patrol ordered the hesitation driver to stop on Pohjoisranta in the Kruununhaka district, but he failed to do so.

 Photo by an eyewitness.

Police saw when one man from upper class drove at high speed through the city centre, hitting eight cars on Pohjoisesplanadi, one of the parallel boulevards alongside Esplanade Park.

According to an Yle reporter at the scene, the black car drove at high speed from Aleksanterinkatu to Unioninkatu and then onto Pohjoisesplanadi.

The suspect endangered the safety of numerous bystanders while driving, police said

The area is adjacent to the Havis Amanda statue and the Market Square, traditionally a centre of May Day Eve celebrations. Authorities estimate that tens of thousands of people were gathered in the area.

Photo: "Seiska".

Three people were injured, including the suspect. Social media videos show the man resisting and yelling Amen, Amen, Amen as he was wrestled to the ground by four police officers in the middle of the street after the final crash.

Helsinki police suspect the 33-year-old public servant of aggravated endangerment of traffic safety, aggravated drunk or drug driving, grievous bodily injury, resisting an official and insubordination, the police said in a statement.

"Yesterday I blew up zeros in Espa after hearing several witnesses (police and ambulance staff),"

he writes on social media.

The police don't even talk about alcohol.

The comedian turned President

His sense of humor is still intact. 

“It’s a means of survival,” 

says Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, the war hero.

Zelensky himself, come from the worlds of acting and show business.

According to Time:

"... The military informed Zelensky that Russian strike teams had parachuted into Kyiv to kill or capture him and his family. “Before that night, we had only ever seen such things in the movies,” says Andriy Yermak, the President’s chief of staff.

As Ukrainian troops fought the Russians back in the streets, the presidential guard tried to seal the compound with whatever they could find. A gate at the rear entrance was blocked with a pile of police barricades and plywood boards, resembling a mound of junkyard scrap more than a fortification.

Friends and allies rushed to Zelensky’s side, sometimes in violation of security protocols. Several brought their families to the compound. If the President were to be killed, the chain of succession in Ukraine calls for the Speaker of parliament to take command. But Ruslan Stefanchuk, who holds that post, drove straight to Bankova Street on the morning of the invasion rather than taking shelter at a distance.

Stefanchuk was among the first to see the President in his office that day. “It wasn’t fear on his face,” he told me. “It was a question: How could this be?” For months Zelensky had downplayed warnings from Washington that Russia was about to invade. Now he registered the fact that an all-out war had broken out, but could not yet grasp the totality of what it meant. “Maybe these words sound vague or pompous,” says Stefanchuk. “But we sensed the order of the world collapsing.” Soon the Speaker rushed down the street to the parliament and presided over a vote to impose martial law across the country. Zelensky signed the decree that afternoon.

As night fell that first evening, gunfights broke out around the government quarter. Guards inside the compound shut the lights and brought bulletproof vests and assault rifles for Zelensky and about a dozen of his aides. Only a few of them knew how to handle the weapons. One was Oleksiy Arestovych, a veteran of Ukraine’s military intelligence service. “It was an absolute madhouse,” he told me. “Automatic  for everyone.” Russian troops, he says, made two attempts to storm the compound. Zelensky later told me that his wife and children were still there at the time."

Here we go.

Роскомнадзор заблокировал крупнейшую в Финляндии послеобеденную газету

Россия заблокировала сайт газеты Ilta-Sanomat

"Это было в какой-то степени ожидаемо", 

говорит о блокировке сайта главный редактор Йоханна Лахти. 

Ilta-Sanomat публикует статьи о войне в Украине также на русском языке. 

I=S начала публиковать новости на русском языке 14 марта, чтобы предоставить независимую информацию о войне в Украине русскоязычной аудитории. 

"Мы переводили на русский язык именно статьи о суровой реальности войны в Украине, о страданиях мирных жителей, о российских солдатах в Украине, а также редакционные и оценочные статьи. Мы хотим предоставить русскоязычной общественности фактическую информацию о нападении, чего нет на официальных российских каналах. Запрет говорит о том, что наши статьи заметили в России", 

говорит Лахти.

Первым переведенным текстом была упомянутая выше статья о жертвах войны Яри Алениуса и Анны Нуутинен. На русский язык статью перевела Элиза Иивонен.

РОСКОМНАДЗОР закрыл доступ к сайтам многих западных СМИ, ссылаясь на российский закон о СМИ и его статью 15.3. Закон позволяет блокировать доступ к сайтам, содержащим в том числе призывы к беспорядкам, экстремизму или участию в незаконных митингах.

Россия резко ограничила свободу прессы и свободу слова после начала широкомасштабного вторжения в Украину 24 февраля. Практически все российские независимые СМИ были закрыты, а доступ ко многим международным новостным сайтам был ограничен. В этот список входят британская вещательная компания BBC и немецкая вещательная компания Deutsche Welle. Социальные сети также были ограничены.

Статьи Ilta-Sanomat на русском языке можно найти по ссылке.

Вот список известных веб-сайтов, которые были заблокированы или подвергнуты цензуре в России, включая текущие и прошлые блокировки. Федеральная служба по надзору в сфере связи, информационных технологий и массовых коммуникаций (Роскомнадзор) ведет официальный обязательный список с 2012 года.

The psychosis of lying

Russia threatens now but it's a symptom of psychosis to mistake illusion for reality. 

There is such collective psychosis in the Kremlin; They don't even realize that they are missing out on everything they think they want to keep for themselves.

I do not realize how these big kleptocrats can obscure to dark, the entire great Russian people.

Sannolikt inga bindande garantier

”Historien har gjort oss till ett säkerhetsorienterat folk”, 

sade Finlands statsminister Sanna Marin.

Trots sonderingar har Finland inte lyckats få några säkerhetsgarantier från USA eller Nato inför en eventuell medlemsansökan i försvarsalliansen.  

Det kommer dock sannolikt inte vara bindande garantier här och ikke där.

Detta uppger svenska regeringskällor för Expressen. 

Att Nato eller USA utfärdar någon form av säkerhetsgarantier under en process där Sverige och Finland ansöker om medlemskap har setts som viktigt, inte minst i ljuset av det ryska angreppet på Ukraina.

Jag är säker på att om en Ryska Björnen kommer hit sig till vår land - Joe Biden beklagar, vad den sortens sak händer.

För det väntas ta ett par månader från det att Sverige och Finland lämnar in en eventuell ansökan tills dess att länderna är fullvärdiga medlemmar, eftersom alla Natos länder ska få säga sitt. Och att dessa månader är förknippade med betydande risker, betonas av Expressens regeringskällor. Man hänvisar bland annat till uttalanden från Ryssland om att man kommer vidta militärtekniska åtgärder om Sverige och Finland ansöker om medlemskap. 

Hur dessa åtgärder kan yttra sig är högst oklart. Men det finns från den svenska regeringen en uppenbar oro som flera Expressen pratat med ger uttryck för. 

Att en ansökan är förknippad med risker betonades också av både statsminister Magdalena Andersson och hennes finska kollega Sanna Marin på onsdagens pressträff. 

Och enligt uppgifter gör Svensk regeringen också bedömningen att några säkerhetsgarantier inte finns i dagsläget, trots att Finland eftersträvat detta: Bland annat under president Sauli Niinistös besök i Washington i början av mars, där han förde överläggningar med USA:s president Joe Biden. 

Men detta ska alltså inte ha resulterat i några säkerhetsgarantier från USA inför en Nato-ansökan, som det uppfattas i Stockholm. Men man utesluter samtidigt inte att den typen av utfästelser kan komma att uttalas längre fram, från europeiska länder. 

Men från Moderaterna, som länge drivit på för ett Nato-medlemskap, avfärdar man bilden som ges av regeringen. Att det inte utfärdas säkerhetsgarantier till icke-medlemmar i Nato är rimligt och inte alls konstigt, menar partiet. 

Någon hänvisar till att Nato gett uttryck för att man kan vidta säkerhetsfrämjande åtgärder eller andra ”säkerhetsarrangemang” från det att Sverige och Finland lämnat in sina ansökningar, och är formellt blivit inbjudna till försvarsalliansen. 

Look out

Something is happening.

According to The Times Putin ‘purges’ 150 FSB agents in response to Russia’s botched war with Ukraine. Sergei Beseda, 68, has been sent to Lefortovo prison in Moscow after he was placed under house arrest last month.

Sergei Beseda has been sent to Lefortovo prison in Moscow after he was placed under house arrest last month. Like a stalinist mass purge of Russian secret intelligence is under way after more than 100 agents were removed from their jobs and the head of the department responsible for Ukraine was sent to prison.

In a sign of President Putin’s fury over the failures of the invasion, about 150 Federal Security Bureau (FSB) officers have been dismissed, including some who have been arrested.

All of those ousted were employees of the Fifth Service, a division set up in 1998, when Putin was director of the FSB to carry out operations in the countries of the former Soviet Union with the aim of keeping them within Russia’s orbit.

FSB officers carried out searches at more than 20 addresses around Moscow of colleagues suspected of being in contact with journalists.

And this concerns us:

There are Unconfirmed reports today that Russian Forces in the Leningrad Region near the City of Vyborg are beginning to move Heavy Military Equipment including K-300P Bastion Coastal Defense Missile Systems towards the Gulf of Finland and the Finnish Border. pic.twitter.com/UUtq5GQ5ej

— OSINTdefender (@sentdefender) April 11, 2022

Вітання з Фінляндії

Pertti Jarla ©hs.fi

Медведєв назвав санкції актом агресії, за який раніше погрожував ядерною зброєю.

Медведєв не розуміє, що багато країн не хочуть мати справу з бандитами і вбивцями.

Медведєв не розуміє, що означають громадянське суспільство і демократія.

Прямо погрожуючи фінському народу, Кремль спровокував значну реакцію.

Russian soldiers discussed atrocities against civilians over the radio

An analysis of satellite images by The New York Times
refutes claims by Russia that the killing of civilians in Bucha,
a suburb of Kyiv, occurred after its soldiers had left the town.

The images of murdered civilians from Bucha shock the world. According to Der Spiegel information, the German intelligence service BND recorded the radio traffic of suspected perpetrators. Accordingly, the brutal acts are part of the strategy of Putin's army.

BND radio messages prove Russian war crimes in Bucha

According to information from the Spiegel, the Federal Intelligence Service intercepted radio messages from the Russian military in which the murders of civilians in Bucha were said to have been discussed. Individual contents of the radio messages should also be able to be assigned to corpses photographed in Butscha.

After the Russian army withdrew from Kyiv and its suburbs, Ukrainian authorities found around 320 bodies in Bucha. Some were found in mass graves, many people were lying on the street.

The Russian government has vehemently denied that Russian forces were responsible for these war crimes. She claimed it was a staging by Ukraine.

Here we see the Russian's assumption that all nations are like Russia, they themselves murder, torture and poison their own citizens.

But numerous journalists, including a reporter for the taz, were there afterwards, spoke to countless witnesses and documented the war crimes.

Now the wiretaps seem to confirm that Russian units are responsible for the atrocities. The material should also show that employees of Russian mercenary troops such as the "Wagner Group" were significantly involved in the crimes. This had already attracted attention during its deployment in Syria due to its particular cruelty. 

According to information from the Spiegel, the BND reported on its findings in the parliamentary room on Wednesday. 

How the Russians can lie so enormously?

An analysis of satellite images by The New York Times
refutes claims by Russia that the killing of civilians in Bucha,
a suburb of Kyiv, occurred after its soldiers had left the town.

Satellite images show bodies lay in Bucha for weeks, despite Russian claims.

Satellite Images According to The New York Times rebut Russia’s Claim on Bucha Satellite images rebut Russia’s claim that the killing of civilians in Bucha occurred after its soldiers had left town, a Times analysis found. 

When images emerged, by AFP, over the weekend of the bodies of dead civilians lying on the streets of Bucha — some with their hands bound, some with gunshot wounds to the head — Russia’s Ministry of Defense denied responsibility. 

In a Telegram post on Sunday, the ministry "suggested" that the bodies had been recently placed on the streets after then “all Russian units withdrew completely from Bucha” around March 30.

But the tyrannical regime of Kreml will not survive with its own the very big lies.

So an analysis of satellite images by The New York Times rebuts claims by Russia that the killing of civilians in Bucha, a suburb of Kyiv, occurred after its soldiers had left the town.

Fucking clowns

Putin comes to the barber shop. The barber cuts dictator's hair and asks all the time about Ukraine. 

How are people doing there? When does the war the special military operation end?

At last Putin get nervous:

"You are moved about this Ukraine far too much, right?"

"Not at all, sir. For me it is totally indifferent."

"Why do you then constantly ask about Ukraine."

"Because each time that I say Ukraine your hair rises up – and it is easier to cut…"

Another true case:

Once when the Ukrainian and Russians were at war, were in special military operations, the Russians heard a shout behind a hill:

"One Ukrainian is equivalent to two Russkis."

The Russian commander sent two men with a special training to deal with the shouter, but neither of them came back. Instead, soon a shout rang out behind the hill:

"One Ukrainian  is equivalent to ten Russkis."

The angry commander immediately sent two commando men behind the hill, but besides a couple of gunshots nothing was heard. The men were gone, but a new shout was heard behind the hill:

"One Ukrainian is equivalent to fifty Russkis."

The furious commander sent an elite group of fifty men behind the hill and for a moment gunshots were heard. When the gunfire ceased, not one Russki came back. Instead, a shout was heard:

"One Ukrainian is equivalent to a hundred Russkis."

Not caring about anything in his fury the commander sent a hundred men behind the hill, where a huge gun-fight began. After some time one badly wounded Russki dragged himself from behind the

hill and said:

"Commander, those Ukrainian lied. There were two of them!"

The same is true for Finns.