Perspective

2022-05-13 14:24:36 After the start of military operations, 80 percent of Ukrainian companies have dismissed employees without paying their salaries,
citing force majeure.

According to a study of online recruitment resources, another 16.5 percent of companies closed without explanation, and 10 percent sent employees on indefinite leave at their own expense. In other words, most employers, taking advantage of the moment, simply "ditched" their employees, leaving them without money.

Because of the sharply increased competition in the labor market of Ukraine, specialists reduce the desired level of wages in their resumes. Thus, two thirds of job seekers (65%) in the conditions of the labour market crisis are ready to reduce their preferences for the salary.

Salaries in Kiev also decreased. Traditionally the capital had the highest incomes, but during the war things changed. In April, the average salary in the capital is 25 thousand hryvnias (about 850 USD).

At the same time, in Lviv region the average salary is 28,300 hryvnia, in Dnipropetrovsk region it is 26 thousand hryvnia, and in Odessa region it is 26,400 hryvnia. ओपन / कमेंट

2022-05-13 10:13:36 "Indian political elites have a friendly attitude toward Russia. They fear the rise of China. For India, Moscow is a long-standing strategic partner".

Alexei Kupriyanov, head of the South Asia and Indian Ocean Group at the Center for Asia-Pacific Studies at the Moscow Institute of International Relations of the Russian Academy of Sciences, argues.

According to him, "Indians are sensitive to sovereignty issues, so they do not accept sanctions.

For them, the conflict with Ukraine is like an ordinary conflict somewhere on the periphery of the peninsula.

Now India is turning into a technological hub that maintains relations with both the West and Russia. It is a position of a transit country for currency and technology. Which on the one hand promises good money.

But on the other hand, big business in India is very reluctant to work with us, for fear of sanctions. So russians will have to learn to work with smaller players," Kupriyanov explained the situation on the Hindustan peninsula. ओपन / कमेंट

2022-05-13 08:56:21 Thanks to India and China, Russia's oil revenues will increase by 50% in 2022

The International Energy Agency (IEA) admits in a new report that Russia receives about $20 billion a month from oil sales. Despite the fact that the European Union is discussing an embargo on Russian energy and the leadership of major international oil companies are promising to abandon Russian oil, there is no replacement for hydrocarbons from Russia.

Against the background of the desire of Western countries to stop buying, China and India are only increasing exports, taking this "cargo" that Europe "no longer needs".

Earlier, it was reported that dozens of laden Russian tankers headed for the Asia-Pacific region, carrying about 20 million barrels of oil.

Russian Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Novak confirmed the desire of Russian oil companies to find new export destinations, and these plans are being successfully implemented. ओपन / कमेंट

2022-05-12 20:59:54 Ukraine's membership in the EU can no longer be part of a peace agreement with Russia.

Russia's position on Kiev's desire to join the EU has changed, and now it is similar to the position on Ukraine's accession to NATO. Dmitry Polyanskiy, deputy ambassador to the UN, stated this in an interview with UnHerd.

"The diplomat said that Ukraine's membership in the EU can no longer be part of the peace agreement," the newspaper quotes Polyanskiy as saying.

Apparently, Ukraine's "membership" in Russia will now be part of the peace agreement. ओपन / कमेंट

2022-05-12 17:57:45 The UK is looking all over the world for old Soviet weapons for Ukraine.

British Defense Secretary Ben Wallace said that London is buying up Soviet and Russian weapons around the world to give them to Ukraine, the Wall Street Journal reported.

"A large part of the Defense Ministry and military attachés are looking for (Soviet and Russian weapons) all over the world," Wallace was quoted as saying by the newspaper. According to Britain's defense chief, 23 countries have stockpiles of Russian equipment. "If you really want to get them to the Ukrainians tomorrow morning so they can continue to fight, find what they can use, find what they need," Wallace said. ओपन / कमेंट

2022-05-12 15:19:48 President Putin is convinced that the elites of Western countries are to blame for the world's economic turmoil.

"The continuation of the sanctions obsession, will inevitably lead to the most complex, difficult to reverse consequences for the European Union, for its citizens, as well as for the poorest nations of the world, which are already facing the risk of starvation," Putin said.

The Russian leader said that "the elites of Western countries, which are ready to sacrifice the rest of the world for the sake of maintaining their global dominance," are to blame for the economic turmoil. He cited "short-sighted, inflated political ambitions" and "Russophobia" as the reasons for the sanctions.

"These sanctions in many ways provoke a global crisis. Their authors <...> to a greater extent hit their own national interests, their own economies, the well-being of their citizens. We see it first of all in the sharp rise in inflation in Europe," Putin said, adding that on average in the eurozone "goods have added more than 11%," and in some countries, inflation is close to 20%.

The president said that, on the contrary, Russia is "confidently coping with external challenges," and Russian companies are occupying market niches after foreign "unscrupulous partners" left the country. ओपन / कमेंट

2022-05-12 14:45:02 Payment transactions between India and non-sanctioned Russian entities have now stabilized and are conducted in dollars or euros through several Western correspondent banks.

This was reported by the managing director of the State Bank of India (SBI) for international banking, technology and subsidiaries Ashwini Kumar Tewari. ओपन / कमेंट

2022-05-12 14:31:08 The Threat Of Polish Involvement In Ukraine

Douglas Macgregor


Ten weeks after the conflict began, it is instructive to re-examine the strategic picture. The war against Russia in Ukraine has evolved, but not in the way Western observers predicted. Ukrainian forces look shattered and exhausted. The supplies reaching Ukrainian troops fighting in Eastern Ukraine are a fraction of what is needed. In most cases, replacements and new weapons are destroyed long before they reach the front.

Confronted with the unambiguous failure of U.S. assistance and the influx of new weapons to rescue Ukrainian forces from certain destruction, the Biden administration is desperate to reverse the situation and save face. Poland seems to offer a way out. More important, Polish President Andrzej Duda and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky have both expressed the desire to erase the borders between Poland and Ukraine.

Unconfirmed reports from Warsaw indicate that after Washington rejected the proposals for a no-fly zone over Ukraine, along with the transfer of Polish MIG-29 aircrafts to Ukrainian pilots, the Polish general staff was quietly instructed to formulate plans for intervention in the Ukrainian conflict by seizing the western part of Ukraine. Naturally, military action of this scale would require Kiev’s approval, but given Washington’s de facto control of the Zelensky government, approval for Polish military intervention should not be a problem.

Presumably, the Biden administration may hope that a collision involving Russians and Poles in any form—including air and missile strikes against Polish forces on the Ukrainian side of the border—would potentially call for the NATO council to meet and address Article V of the NATO treaty. Whether a Polish military intervention into Ukraine justifies the commitment of NATO members to war with Russia is unclear. Action still would be left up to the judgement of each NATO member state.

About the most that any analyst can say with confidence at this point is that Polish military intervention would confront NATO members with the specter of war with Russia, the very development most NATO members oppose. Setting aside whether Polish ground forces are ready to execute the mission in the face of Russian opposition, Polish action would satisfy the neocons in Washington, D.C. Poland may well be the key to widening NATO’s war with Russia in Eastern Europe.

Why? Because the Polish catalyst for conflict with Russia presents the American people with a war that Americans do not want, but cannot easily stop. Such a war with Russia would be a war that began without an objective appraisal of American vital interests, the distribution of power inside the international system, or the existence of any concrete threats to U.S. national security.

Douglas Macgregor, Col. (ret.) is a senior fellow with The American Conservative, the former advisor to the Secretary of Defense in the Trump administration, a decorated combat veteran, and the author of five books. https://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/the-threat-of-polish-involvement-in-ukraine/ ओपन / कमेंट

2022-05-12 14:06:35 Russia will be forced to take reciprocal steps of military, technical and other nature to eliminate threats due to Finland and Sweden joining NATO - Russian Foreign Ministry

Ukraine already knows what these steps could be.... ओपन / कमेंट

2022-05-12 11:48:54 "Pumping Ukraine with Weapons by NATO Countries Provokes Nuclear War" Dmitry Medvedev - Deputy Chairman of the Security Council of the Russian Federation, President of the Russian Federation in 2008-2012

"The endless talk of foreign analysts about NATO's war with Russia does not subside. The cynicism of Western "talking heads" is becoming more and more blatant. They are trying hard to introduce into the agenda the thesis that Russia frightens the world with a nuclear conflict. Even Trump recently came out with this. True, of course, just to spite Biden. And of course, the Europeans are squeaking their thin voices.

In the context of the proxy war with Russia unleashed by the Western countries, I want to articulate very clearly once again the things that are so obvious to all reasonable people.

1. Pumping Ukraine with weapons by NATO countries, preparing its troops to use Western equipment, sending mercenaries and conducting exercises by Alliance countries near our borders increases the likelihood of a direct and open conflict between NATO and Russia instead of the "proxy war" they are conducting.

2. Such a conflict always has a risk of escalating into a full-fledged nuclear war.

3. it would be a catastrophic scenario for everyone.

That's it. So you don't have to lie to yourself and others. You just have to think about the possible consequences of your actions. And don't choke on your own saliva in paroxysms of Russophobia!" ओपन / कमेंट