Inflation up, retail trade turnover down in Ukraine

By Vladimir V. Sytin
The Ukrainian Times

Data from the State Committee for Statistics of Ukraine show that a retail trade turnover fell by 23.4% in January-August, compared with last year.

According to Alexander Okhrimenko, president of the Ukrainian Analytical Center, inflation has zoomed by 70% in this country over the course
of eight months, whereas nominal incomes of the population increased by only 15%. He thinks the retail trade turnover will continue to decrease until Ukrainians start earning decent wages that is conditional on rapid growth of the economy.

The U.S.-backed puppet government of Ukraine, including foreign advisors, has done whatever it takes to get the economy moving ahead. However, whatever it did was not whatever it needed. Instead of racing to the so-called European standards, Ukraine seems to be in its own permanent ‘doom loop’, even below Soviet standards.

Crimean government, commodity producers sign memo to restrain growth of prices

Russian federal authorities increased deliveries of foodstuffs and other goods to Crimea by 15%.

To restrain the possible growth of prices, the Crimean government, owners of some 30 department-store chains and commodity producers have signed the memorandum of understanding. The document provides for a markup of no more than 8% and 15% in terms of the wholesale and retail prices of essential goods respectively.

Recently, the price of potatoes has fallen to 19 rubles from 25 rubles per kilogram in the Russian peninsula.

Byelorussian, Lithuanian and Ukrainian scientists develop cooperation in the field of oncology

By Svetlana Sytina
The Ukrainian Times

The Kavetsky Institute of Experimental Pathology, Oncology and Radiobiology (IEPOR) under the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (NASU), the Lithuania’s National Institute of Cancer and the Institute of Physiology under the National Academy of Sciences of Byelorussia have concluded a tripartite agreement about work on the joint project of the analysis of the efficacy of the action of antitumor vaccines upon tumor-afflicted mice. The project provides for the comparative analysis of effectiveness of autovaccines and xenogenic vaccines in mice with melanoma and lung carcinoma.

According to Dr. Vasily Chekhun, IEPOR director and NASU member, signing of the cooperation agreement is a decisive step forward in cancer biotherapy because today the so-called gold standards of treatment satisfy neither clinics nor patients.

Iosif Zalutskiy, director of the Byelorussian Institute of Physiology, pointed out that a quest for the therapies of cancer in cooperation with Ukrainian and Lithuanian colleagues commenced as recently as the 1980s-1990s.

At present, there is no method of treatment that can be 100% efficacious against cancer. Dispiritingly, the three whales of modern oncology – surgery, chemotherapy and radiotherapy – do not produce a desired result, according to Dr. Eduardas Aleknavichyus, director of the Lithuania’s Institute of Cancer and project coordinator. That is why, from his point of view, it is necessary to quest for new biological methods and new lines of approach to the problem. Using the vaccines may be an improvement over the previous results of treatment.

Within the framework of the cooperation agreement, scientists of the three institutes will conduct joint research, exchange experts and solicit European foundations for money to continue work. Not only do the biotherapies have the potential to save millions of lives but the institutes that own them could make investors very rich.

Floating museum to open in Moscow

The eco-center Museum of the Moscow River is expected to open in the Russian capital city next year. The motor ship Moscow Ecologist with a carrying capacity of 100 passengers will be converted into the floating museum.

The ship will house the interactive exposition River & Man. Not only can visitors to the museum learn about the diversity of flora and ichthyofauna of the Moscow River, but they could participate in all municipal eco-projects.

УКРАИНСКИЕ, БЕЛОРУССКИЕ И ЛИТОВСКИЕ УЧЁНЫЕ ДОГОВОРИЛИСЬ О СОТРУДНИЧЕСТВЕ В ОБЛАСТИ ОНКОЛОГИИ

Институт экспериментальной патологии, онкологии и радиобиологии (ИЭПОР) имени Кавецкого Национальной академии наук Украины, Национальный институт рака Литвы и Институт физиологии Национальной академии наук Белоруссии заключили трёхстороннее соглашение о работе над совместным проектом «Анализ эффективности действия противоопухолевых вакцин на экспериментальных моделях мышей». Проект предусматривает оценку и сравнение эффективности противоопухолевых ауто- и ксеногенных вакцин in vivo на моделях меланомы и карциномы лёгких у мышей.

Как отметил директор ИЭПОР академик Василий Чехун, это решительный шаг вперёд в направлении биотерапии рака, поскольку сегодня так называемые золотые стандарты лечения онкобольных уже не удовлетворяют ни клинику, ни пациентов.

Директор Институт физиологии НАН Белоруссии Иосиф Залуцкий сказал, что научный поиск путей и методов лечения онкобольных с литовскими и украинскими коллегами начался ещё в 80-90-х годах прошлого столетия.

В настоящее время нет ни одного на 100% эффективного метода лечения онкопатологии. «Три кита» современной онкологии – хирургия, химиотерапия и лучевая терапия – не дают желаемого результата. Поэтому, по мнению координатора проекта директора Национального института рака Литвы Эдуардаса Алекнавичюса, необходимо искать новые биологические методы и новые подходы. Использование вакцин, возможно, станет шагом вперёд в улучшении результатов лечения.

В рамках сотрудничества учёные трёх институтов будут проводить совместные исследования, обмениваться специалистами и стараться получить финансирование из европейских фондов на продолжение работ.

Travelers may sojourn without visas in three Chinese cities

Citizens of Russia who have transit tickets are entitled to a 72-hour sojourn in the Chinese city of Harbin without getting a visa. A similar visa-free regime is effective in Shenyang and Dalian. In addition to Russians, citizens of other 50 countries may sojourn without visas in these Chinese cities for three days.

Trade blockade against Crimea doomed to failure

A bunch of Tatars living in Ukraine have imposed a trade blockade on Crimea by preventing the passage of delivery trucks from this country to the Russian peninsula. Huh?

According to Mustafa Azizov, first deputy head of the Dzhankoi district administration, this year Crimean agricultural producers gathered a good crop of grain, vegetables and fruit. Thus the economy of the Russian peninsula has become self-sufficient.

Yuri Shevchenko, chairman of a Crimean parliamentary committee on agrarian issues, said the neo-Nazi regime in Kiev would get the worst of the blockade because Ukrainian producers would lose traditional markets. A traffic capacity of three checkpoints in the Kherson region on the border with Crimea has been less than 250 delivery trucks per day before the trade blockade. By comparison, the traffic capacity of a ferry service from the Krasnodar Territory to the peninsula amounts to some thousands of delivery trucks with Russian goods every day.

Today Crimean stores sell a full range of dairy produce made in the Krasnodar Territory, Rostov region and peninsula. This also holds true for sausages. At the same time, melons and watermelons are delivered from the Krasnodar Territory and Astrakhan region.

The trade blockade is seen by many observers as the act of despair. All attempts to isolate Crimea are doomed to failure.

Real soldiers take no pride in U.S.-sponsored fratricidal war in Donbas

By Vladimir V. Sytin
The Ukrainian Times

As is known, there are 2.5 million migrants from Ukraine in Russia, including 1.3 million men of draft age. Russian President Vladimir Putin (pictured) promised
to grant political asylum to all Ukrainians who do not want to be summoned to the U.S.-sponsored civil war in the Donbas region with large Russian populations.

The latest numbers show that the Kherson region has the most abysmal turnout, with only 300 of 5,000 men receiving autumn draft orders responding. This also holds true for the Kharkov region. As Ukrainian neo-Nazi authorities prosecute no-shows, human rights advocates are speaking in defense of draft dodgers.

Most Ukrainian servicemen do not want to take part in the fratricidal war, whereas Donbas militiamen are highly motivated to defend their families on their native land against the neo-Nazi regime in Kiev. Heroic defenders of Donbas say they are fighting for autonomy, for the right to live and work in their own Russian-speaking region.

The civil war in Donbas earns real profits for the war industry, but only an ersatz glory for Ukrainian neo-Nazi militants. Real soldiers take no pride in it. Instead, to a real hero, the U.S.-sponsored fratricidal war is a source of shame and embarrassment.

As Mr. Putin once put it, the civil war in Donbas serves the geopolitical purposes of deterring Russia. However, few in the decadent West seem to recognize that it is the NATO rather than Russia, which has been spreading expansionary tentacles beyond traditional boundaries. Since the early 1990s, Western aims have been to draw countries out of the Soviet sphere of influence and into the aggressive NATO. Ukraine has always been seen as the ultimate test as to where the balance lies. Recently, Dr. Henry Kissinger has breached the Western political-media orthodoxy that Putin’s Russia is responsible for the new cold war.

ИЗНОШЕННОСТЬ ВОДОПРОВОДНЫХ СЕТЕЙ В КИЕВЕ ДОСТИГАЕТ 30-40%

Специалисты предприятия «Киевводоканал» уверяют, что к зиме подготовились, и киевлян не ожидают неприятные водопроводно-канализационные сюрпризы. По словам генерального директора «Киевводоканала» Андрея Билыка, повышение тарифов даёт возможность не только выживать, но и делать капитальные вложения. Изношенность сетей в матери городов русских, по подсчётам экспертов, достигает 30-40%.

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Odessa chemical plant to go on sale in February

By Svetlana Sytina
The Ukrainian Times

According to Igor Bilous, chairman of the State Property Fund of Ukraine, more than 10 companies take a keen interest in the acquisition of the Odessa portside chemical plant. Among possible investors are Chinese, European and Moroccan companies.

As expected, a competition to sell the Odessa enterprise will be held in February. The initial bidding price of 94.5% of plant’s shares ranges between $500 million and $620 million.

Fleet of modern streetcars to increase twofold in Moscow

According to the municipal enterprise MosGorTrans, a fleet of modern streetcars will increase twofold in Moscow by this year-end. Today 60 new generation streetcars of Russian-Polish make are already providing public transportation in the Russian capital city. Over the course of 12 months the Russian-Polish trolley cars have carried more than 10 million passengers, the aggregate distance traveled by them amounting to 1.7 million kilometers.

Ukraine’s parliament fails to stick to economic realities

By Vladimir V. Sytin
The Ukrainian Times

According to parliamentary opposition leader Yuri Boiko, the neo-Nazi coalition fails to stick to the economic realities in Ukraine. He pointed out that the last automotive factory in this country had to shut down in early September and 50,000 workers lost their job.

Readers of The Ukrainian Times know that the U.S.-backed puppet government of Ukraine has become a mere appendage to the International Monetary Fund and the IMF shock therapy mafia is destroying the real sector of the economy. In fact, mining and chemical industries decreased output by 23.4% and 20.7% respectively in January-July, compared with the same period last year. Metallurgical plants and metalworking industry enterprises reduced output by 25.4%. Export to the European Union fell by 35.6% in the first half of this year.

In addition, Natalia Korolevskaya of the Opposition Bloc said the rate of inflation accounted for 74% in Ukraine. The parliamentary opposition insists on a moratorium on an increase in the prices of utilities.

A recent opinion poll found that 53% of Ukrainian households feel the pinch and cannot afford to pay utility bills because of exorbitant prices. One in ten tenants does not pay for utilities owing to their poor quality.

What is needed is not more IMF loans but smart infrastructure investment, lower prices of utilities, lower taxes and smart regulation (which means more regulation for banks and less for businesses and entrepreneurs), among other structural remedies. Unfortunately, none of these policies is on the political horizon in Ukraine.

Focus on original methods evolved by NASU institutes

By Svetlana Sytina
The Ukrainian Times

Organizational work of several institutes for the period from 2010 through 2014 was under discussion during a recent meeting of the Presidium of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (NASU).

In particular, participants in the meeting focused their attention on the methods of mathematical modeling for streamlining operation of a system of transportation and storage of natural gas. The methods were evolved by the Mathematical Modeling Center under the Institute of Applied Problems of Mechanics and Mathematics.

As a result of mathematical modeling of the human organs of hearing and sight, scientists of the Glushkov Institute of Cybernetics found out characteristics of the perception of audio and video signals that allowed them to evolve new original methods whereby to develop the computer technology of ciphering and deciphering information. In addition, the Institute has developed and organized mass-production of a series of Floratest devices designed for the instant diagnosis of condition of crops and the analysis of influence of the elements on them.

For the first time, researchers of the Institute of Hydrobiology elaborated the fundamentals of a classification and integrated analysis of ecological condition of river systems on the basis of biomarkers within the main trans-border river basins of Ukraine, namely the Dnepr, Danube and Dnestr rivers. In the context of ecoregions, the scientists have taken the lines of approach that are governed by EU water framework directive 2000/60.

ПРЕЗИДИУМ НАНУ ОБСУДИЛ НАУЧНО-ОРГАНИЗАЦИОННУЮ ДЕЯТЕЛЬНОСТЬ ИНСТИТУТОВ

На очередном заседании Президиума Национальной академии наук Украины (НАНУ) обсуждалась научно-организационная деятельность нескольких институтов за период 2010-2014 годов.

В частности, были отмечены методы математического моделирования для оптимизации работы систем транспортировки и хранения природного газа, разработанные Центром математического моделирования Института прикладных проблем механики и математики.

Учёные Института кибернетики имени Глушкова в результате математического моделирования слухового и глазного аппарата человека обнаружили особенности восприятия аудио- и видеосигналов, что позволило создать новые оригинальные методы, а на их основе разработать компьютерные технологии шифровки и расшифровки информации. Для практического применения в Институте разработаны и серийно выпускаются приборы семейства «Флоратест» для экспресс-диагностики состояния сельскохозяйственных растений и оценки влияния на них стрессовых факторов природного и техногенного происхождения.

В Институте гидробиологии были впервые разработаны фундаментальные основы классификации и интегральной оценки экологического состояния речных систем на основе биомаркеров в границах основных трансграничных бассейнов Украины (Днепра, Дуная и Днестра) в контексте экорегионов с использованием подходов, которые декларируются Водной рамочной директивой Европейского союза 2000/60.

Most Ukrainian households don’t pay utility bills because of exorbitant prices

A recent opinion poll found that 53% of Ukrainian households feel the pinch and cannot afford to pay utility bills because of exorbitant prices. In addition, 6% of those polled do not pay utility bills owing to an unbridled rise in the rent.

One in ten Ukrainian tenants does not pay for utilities because of their poor quality.

Meanwhile, impoverishment of the population and social plundering of pensioners continue in this country. The Ukrainian neo-Nazi regime, which hews to the IMF’s diktats, will increase threefold prices of electric power by March 2017. Still worse, prices of natural gas will rise 280% by this year-end. It is important to note that this Ukro-fascists’ anti-popular policy has been approved by the International Monetary Fund.

Russia doesn’t accept 20% write-down on Ukraine’s debt

By Vladimir V. Sytin
The Ukrainian Times

With the announcement that the so-called government of Ukraine had reached an agreement on restructuring 20% of its debt with a consortium of bond holders led by Franklin Templeton, there was much rejoicing in Kiev. After avoiding a default for a couple of years, Ukrainian neo-Nazi authorities think they are marvelous, like a drunk driver who did not get caught or kill anyone, whereas the international agency Fitch cut Ukraine’s long-term credit rating in foreign currency to C from CC.

In return for a four-year extension on payments of the remaining debt, Ukraine agreed to a higher coupon (interest rate) of 7.75%, up from 7.25%.

However, Russia does not accept a 20% write-down on $3 billion Eurobonds due in December. According to Russian finance minister Anton Siluanov, these funds are supposed to be invested in development of the infrastructure of Russia’s economy. Western observers think Russia’s enthusiasm to lend Kiev a helping hand was dampened by president Poroshenko’s promise – in direct violation of the IMF’s articles of agreement – to use a part of the fund’s $17.5 billion loan to carry out Ukro-fascists’ “antiterrorist operation” against heroic defenders of the Donbas region with large Russian populations.

As critics have pointed out many times, lending money that does not exist to the puppet regime, which is already deeply in debt, is not a good business model. It does not really stimulate the Ukrainian economy and it does not really make people better off. Finally, it is worth noting that the U.S. dollar has lost 95% to 98% of its purchasing power over the last 100 years.

Topical questions of space research discussed in Odessa

By Svetlana Sytina
The Ukrainian Times

The 15th scientific conference, organized by the Space Research Institute under the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine and the State Space Agency, took place in Odessa in late August. The event gathered more than 250 experts from five countries to bring discussions to explore the results and further directions of space research.

Despite financial difficulties, space research continues to develop in Ukraine, producing striking results both in theory and practice.

Today scientists offer new aerospace technologies designed for management in the sphere of prevention and effective elimination of the consequences of natural and technogenic disasters. For instance, the implementation of the international project IONOSAT will enable observation of the earth’s surface and detection of ionospheric signs of coming natural calamities.

In addition, the implementation of the project of orbital services is supposed to solve simultaneously dozens of problems, particularly space waste management and refueling of the spacecraft that exhausted their resources. The project, which specialists of the state design bureau YuzhMash have drawn up, is based on a space tug and special docking system.

Rehabilitation of war-ravaged industry, infrastructure in Donbas to require $100 billion

By Vladimir V. Sytin
The Ukrainian Times

As a result of bombardments conducted by the Ukrainian neo-Nazi military, more than 1,200 dwelling houses were destroyed in the city of Donetsk alone. Experts forecast that rehabilitation of the war-ravaged industry, houses and social infrastructure in the Donbas region would require no less than $100 billion, and the U.S.-sponsored fascist regime in Kiev must pay the damages.

According to analyst Stephen F. Cohen, by summoning the so-called Ukrainian president, Peotr Poroshenko, to Berlin in late August, German chancellor Angela Merkel and French president Francois Hollande made clear that the U.S.-backed government in Kiev, not Moscow, is blocking implementation of their Minsk plan for negotiating an end to a civil war in Donbas with large Russian populations.

Russian President Vladimir Putin is sure that most Ukrainian servicemen do not want to take part in the fratricidal war, whereas Donbas militiamen are highly motivated to defend their families on their native land against the neo-Nazi junta in Kiev. The heroic defenders of Donbas say they are fighting for autonomy, for the right to live and work in their own Russian-speaking region.

The civil war in Donbas earns real profits for the war industry, but only an ersatz glory for Ukrainian neo-Nazi militants. Real soldiers take no pride in it. Instead, to a real hero, the U.S.-sponsored fratricidal war is a source of shame and embarrassment.

And it is worth recalling that U.S. attempts to brazenly interfere in the internal affairs of Ukraine have been a failure. The ‘Euromaidan’ overthrow of democratically elected president Viktor Yanukovich (also known as the CIA-perpetrated fascist coup) provided the context for the reunification of Crimea with Russia and de facto departure of Donbas.

УЧАСТНИКИ НАУЧНОЙ КОНФЕРЕНЦИИ В ОДЕССЕ ОБСУДИЛИ АКТУАЛЬНЫЕ ПРОБЛЕМЫ КОСМИЧЕСКИХ ИССЛЕДОВАНИЙ

В конце августа в Одессе прошла 15-я научная конференция, организованная Институтом космических исследований Национальной академии наук Украины и Государственным космическим агентством. Более 250 специалистов из пяти стран обсудили на ней научные результаты и дальнейшие направления космических исследований.

Несмотря на финансовые трудности, космические исследования на Украине продолжают развиваться и давать весомые теоретические и практические результаты. Сегодня учёные предлагают новые аэрокосмические технологии для принятия управленческих решений в сфере предотвращения и оперативной ликвидации последствий чрезвычайных ситуаций природного и техногенного происхождения.

Например, реализация проекта международного значения «ИОНОСАТ» позволит наблюдать за поверхностью планеты и выявлять ионосферные признаки будущих стихийных бедствий. А осуществление проекта орбитального сервиса поможет решить сразу около 10 различных проблем, в частности, космического мусора и дозаправки аппаратов, которые исчерпали свой ресурс. Основой проекта должен стать разработанный специалистами конструкторского бюро «Южное» автономный космический буксир и особая система стыковки.

В КИЕВЕ ОТКРЫЛОСЬ КОТОКАФЕ

Недавно в Киеве открылось первое котокафе. В него можно придти со своим домашним любимцем, а также поиграть с котами, которые живут в кафе.

По правилам – котов нельзя брать на руки, а можно только гладить. Организаторы заведения утверждают, что они берут котов из приюта, и если посетители захотят, они могут забрать животное домой.

IMF loans impoverish Ukraine’s population, do little to address widespread government corruption

By Vladimir V. Sytin
The Ukrainian Times

According to Natalia Korolevskaya of the Opposition Bloc, the rate of inflation accounts for 74% in Ukraine today. The parliamentary opposition insists on a moratorium on an increase in the prices of utilities.

As parliamentary opposition leader Yuri Boiko put it, impoverishment of the population and social plundering of pensioners continue in this country while unemployment is going through the roof. He maintains that the IMF shock therapy mafia is destroying the real sector of the economy, small and mid-sized businesses.

Many analysts agree that IMF loans and a recent agreement on 20% restructuring of Ukraine’s debt with a consortium of bond holders led by Franklin Templeton will do little to address either the oligarchic nature of the Ukrainian economy or widespread government corruption.

In fact, this year Nikolai Gordienko, former head of the State Financial Inspection Board, has presented the facts of violations committed by the companies, which were financed at the expense of the Ukrainian state budget. According to him, the U.S.-backed puppet government of Ukraine received kickbacks from dummy firms through close associates of the so-called prime minister, Arseniy Yatsenyuk.

At the meeting of a parliamentary committee on counteraction against corruption Mr. Gordienko stated that damage done by the corrupt entourage of Yatsenyuk had amounted to 3.5 billion grivnas in the second half of last year alone. For instance, the violations exposed at the state rail transportation administration UkrZaliznitsa are estimated at 300 million grn. “According to my estimates, the damage done by the corrupt government will amount to dozens of billions if you conduct a planned audit to the full,” he concluded.

Western observers think the neo-Nazi regime in Kiev will continue to wallow in corruption. Greece, with only eight million citizens, ought to serve as a warning to the European Union of the consequences of pushing an incompatible economy into integration with states that maintain a stricter fiscal policy and lack widespread corruption. Ukraine, with 42 million people, is poorer and would bring more problems to the EU at a time when the latter simply cannot afford it nor cope with it politically.

It is small wonder that Transparency International’s Global Corruption Index ranks Ukraine 142nd out of 175 states. After the neo-Nazi coup in Kiev last year, this country has a worse record than after the ‘orange’ coup in 2004.

Practically all sectors of Ukraine’s government, business and civic life are affected by widespread corruption. Bribery and extortion are particularly common in the Ukrainian public health system.

Economic indicators: output

The latest numbers from the State Committee for Statistics of Ukraine show that mining industries decreased output by 23.4% in January-July, compared with the same period last year.

The enterprises that produce food, tobacco and drinks decreased output by 12%.

Woodworking enterprises, pulp and paper, printing industries and publishing houses decreased output by 13.2%.

Chemical industries decreased output by 20.7% in January-July from the year-earlier period.

Metallurgical plants and metalworking industry enterprises decreased output by 25.4%.

In the pharmaceutical industry production fell by 11.2%.

“Ukraine has not yet died,” is the doleful first line of the national anthem. It is a sadly appropriate lyric for much of today’s economy in this country, which is as cold and lifeless as a corpse.

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IED has experience of many years to design electromobiles

By Svetlana Sytina
The Ukrainian Times

Scientists of the Institute of Electrodynamics (IED) under the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine have experience of many years to design electromobiles, electrocycles and even electric tractors.

Five models of electromobiles were designed in cooperation with specialists of the Russia’s biggest auto maker AvtoVAZ and the Zaporozhye-based automotive factory AvtoZAZ on the basis of electrical equipment developed at the IED. Two electrocycles with a carrying capacity of 400 kilograms have been successfully operating at the Grishko Botanical Garden in Kiev for several years.

Also, experts of the Institute participated in development of the electromobile ZAZ Lanos Pick-up, hybrid electromobiles on the basis of the passenger car Tavria, the passenger and freight vehicle GAZ-2752 Sobol, and the farm machine using a chassis of the tractor T-16 as the base. It must be noted that the hybrid electric tractor, which passed field tests in 2013, is equipped with the unique system of recharging an accumulator. This system stabilizes operation of a diesel generator and thereby makes it more economical on fuel.

In addition to power equipment for electric transportation, IED scientists developed an auxiliary semiconductor device, as well as the original system that enables registration and the collection of data when testing electric vehicles in operation.

The Institute of Electrodynamics invites manufacturers and investors concerned to consider cooperation with it.

Additional information: ukrtimes@yandex.ru

U.S.-backed government in Kiev blocks implementation of Minsk peace accords

According to analyst Stephen F. Cohen, by summoning the so-called Ukrainian president, Peotr Poroshenko, to Berlin in late August, German chancellor Angela Merkel and French president Francois Hollande made clear that the U.S.-backed government in Kiev, not Moscow, is blocking implementation of their Minsk plan for negotiating an end to a civil war in the Donbas region with large Russian populations.

Previously, Yuri Boiko, parliamentary opposition leader, said the puppet government of Ukraine shifted all its failures to the civil war in Donbas, whereas the Ukro-fascist coalition ignores the Minsk peace accords.

As a matter of fact, many observers maintain that with the conclusion of the February 12 Minsk-II Peace Accord, Russian President Vladimir Putin (pictured) enhanced his international position, especially against the United States, and was granted by France and Germany an implied endorsement to influence Ukraine’s internal affairs. In other words, Paris and Berlin agree that Ukraine should lie within Moscow’s sphere of influence.

Mr. Putin is sure that most Ukrainian servicemen do not want to take part in the fratricidal war, whereas Donbas militiamen are highly motivated to defend their families on their native land against the neo-Nazi junta in Kiev. The heroic defenders of Donbas say they are fighting for autonomy, for the right to live and work in their own Russian-speaking region.

The civil war in Donbas earns real profits for the war industry, but only an ersatz glory for Ukrainian neo-Nazi militants. Real soldiers take no pride in it. Instead, to a real hero, the U.S.-sponsored fratricidal war is a source of shame and embarrassment.

And it is worth recalling that U.S. attempts to brazenly interfere in the internal affairs of Ukraine have been a failure. The ‘Euromaidan’ overthrow of democratically elected president Viktor Yanukovich (also known as the CIA-perpetrated fascist coup) provided the context for the reunification of Crimea with Russia and de facto departure of Donbas.

ИЭД НАКОПИЛ ПЕРЕДОВОЙ ОПЫТ КОНСТРУИРОВАНИЯ ЭЛЕКТРОМОБИЛЕЙ

Учёные Института электродинамики (ИЭД) Национальной академии наук Украины имеют многолетний опыт конструирования электромобилей, электроциклов и даже электротракторов.

Совместно со специалистами заводов «АвтоВАЗ» и «АвтоЗАЗ» на основе разработанного в ИЭД электрооборудования были сконструированы электромобили «ВАЗ-1801», «ВАЗ-2801», «ВАЗ-2702», «ЗАЗ-1109» и «ЗАЗ-11091». В течение нескольких лет в Национальном ботаническом саду имени М.М. Гришко успешно эксплуатируются два электроцикла грузоподъёмностью 400 килограмм.

С участием специалистов Института был разработан и первый электромобиль «Lanos» - «ЗАЗ Lanos Pick-up», а также первые украинские гибридные электромобили
на базе легковой «Таврии», грузопассажирский ГАЗ-2752 «Соболь» и транспортное средство сельскохозяйственного назначения на шасси трактора Т-16. Следует
отметить, что для этого гибридного электротрактора, который успешно прошёл полевые испытания в 2013 году, была создана уникальная система по обновлению заряда накопителя, дающая возможность стабилизировать работу дизельного генератора в режиме постоянной мощности, тем самым, повышая его топливную экономичность.

Кроме силового оборудования для автономного электротранспорта в Институте разработаны вспомогательные полупроводниковые устройства и оригинальная система,
позволяющая проводить регистрацию и сбор данных при испытаниях электротранспортных средств непосредственно во время движения
и выполнения технологических операций.

Институт электродинамики приглашает к сотрудничеству заинтересованных производителей и инвесторов.