Das ukrainische Kulturministerium hat den französischen Filmstar und Wahlrussen Gérard Depardieu auf eine schwarze Liste gesetzt. Der 66-Jährige werde wie zwölf weitere russische Künstler als "Bedrohung für die nationale Sicherheit" eingestuft, teilte die Regierung in Kiew gestern mit. Deshalb dürfen sie künftig in der Ukraine weder im Fernsehen noch im Radio noch im Kino zu sehen oder zu hören sein.

Die Lizenzen für die Filme, in denen die Künstler zu sehen sind, werden demnächst von der zuständigen ukrainischen Agentur eingezogen, wie die Ministeriumssprecherin Daryna Gluschtschenko sagte. Das Verbot gilt auch für Filme aus der Sowjetzeit, in denen der russische Schauspieler, Sänger und Fernsehmoderator Michail Bojarski mitspielt. Die rechte ukrainische Regierung wirft ihm vor, einen offenen Brief unterzeichnet zu haben, in dem die Eingliederung der Schwarzmeerhalbinsel Krim in die Russische Föderation im März 2014 unterstützt wird.

Bedrohung für nationale Sicherheit" - Ukraine verhängt Filmverbot gegen Depardieu


Die fett-markierte Stelle musste ich tatsächlich zweimal lesen um das Geschriebene wirklich zu glauben

Depardieu pinkelt auf die Ukraine...

Hmm "rechte regierung" und das ist deshalb besonders weil ?

Da wird die inhaftierung von der Vergewaltigung und anderer Verbrechen beschuldigter "rechte Sektor" Kämpfer als Beweis für die Reinkarnation von Adolf persönlich in der Ukraine herangezogen...

Gut wenn RRusslands derzeitige politik solche Befürworter hat. Da kann es sich die Kritiker eigentlich sparen

Stuff

Warum reagierst du überhaupt auf diesen unbezahlten Putintroll?

Warum reagierst du überhaupt auf diesen unbezahlten Putintroll?

Ukraine reports heavy tank battle with pro-Russians

August 10, 2015

Kiev (AFP) - Ukraine on Monday said it had repelled a rare tank assault by pro-Russian rebels that threatened to erase a shacky ceasefire and dangerously escalate the 16-month war in its breakaway east.

President Petro Poroshenko said about "200 insurgents used tanks to storm" Novolaspa -- a village halfway between the separatists' de facto capital Donetsk and the Kiev-held port of Mariupol -- in a pre-dawn raid that caught government soldiers off guard.
Chief of Staff General Viktor Muzhenko "informed the president that the Ukrainian forces gave a fitting rebuff and repelled all the attacks," the presidency said.

But the defence ministry later reported the insurgents mounting a second attack on the same village whose outcome was not immediately clear.
"Ignoring the truce agreements, our enemies are continuing to stage provocations that are meant to escalate the conflict," the defence ministry said in a statement.

The Ukrainian foreign ministry called the clashes "a dangerous indication of a further escalation to come".
But the rebels denied the push and signalled that they had always had militia units stationed in Novolaspa.

"The armed forces of Ukraine simply put the village under a heavy shelling attack," a local separatist official told the rebels' main news site.
"Novolaspa remains under the control of the People's Republic of Donetsk."

Kiev on Monday reported the death of one soldier while the insurgents accused government forces of killing a civilian in the rebel-held bastion of Gorlivka.
The two self-proclaimed republics of Donetsk and Lugansk launched their revolt shortly after the February 2014 ouster of a Moscow-backed president in Kiev and Russia's subsequent seizure of Ukraine's Crimea peninsula.

The clashes have killed more than 6,800 people and sent Moscow's relations with the West crashing to their lowest point since the Cold War.
The fighting has also left 1.4 million homeless and sent Ukraine's economy -- heavily dependent on exports from the industrial east of the country -- into a tailspin.

The West is still pinning hope on a February truce agreement that has often been ignored but also kept the fighting limited to a flashpoints in the Russian-speaking east of the former Soviet state.
The latest reported clashes came one day after a special monitoring mission from the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe saw several of its armoured vehicles torched outside its headquarters in Donetsk.

- 'Ready for anything' -

Poroshenko said Monday's reported tank battles around Novolaspa and Sunday's attack on the OSCE vehicles were all part of the rebels' attempt to raise tensions and erase any achievements of the February truce.
But the insurgents accused Kiev of provoking the violence.

"We are on constant alert for a possible new wave of military activities," rebel chief Alexander Zakharchenko warned on Friday.
"We are ready for anything."

Tensions are rising ahead of the two separatist regions' plans to stage elections this autumn that Kiev has already condemned as illegal.
A recent rise in the number protests against the OSCE mission has also alarmed European leaders who had hoped to see the final terms of a peace agreement concluded by the end of the year.

Germany Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Francois Hollande have held two teleconferences with Putin and Poroshenko in the past month aimed at reviving the peace process and tackling what have become increasingly intractable disputes.

Investigation into possible Buk-missile-parts

11 augustus 2015 - Landelijk Parket

In cooperation with the Dutch Safety Board (DSB) the Joint Investigation Team (JIT) investigates several parts, possibly originating from a Buk surface-air-missilesystem. These parts have been secured during a previous recovery-mission in Eastern-Ukraine and are in possession of the criminal investigation team MH17 and the DSB.

The parts are of particular interest to the criminal investigation as they can possibly provide more information about who was involved in the crash of MH17. For that reason the JIT further investigates the origin of these parts. The JIT will internationally enlist the help of experts, among others forensic specialists and weapon-experts.

At present the conclusion cannot be drawn that there is a causal connection between the discovered parts and the crash of flight MH17.

The JIT conducts the criminal investigation and the DSB the investigation into the cause of the crash. Both investigations are conducted separately but JIT and DSB occasionally share material. In its final report the DSB will report on the discovered parts.

Journalists can contact the press officer of the Dutch National Public Prosecution Service of the Netherlands for more information.

Surprise! Ukraine Loves NATO

By Ievgen Vorobiov -- August 13, 2015, 11:51 am

For the first time in its post-Soviet history, a majority of Ukrainians approve of their country joining NATO. The drastic change of attitude marks a sea change in Ukrainians’ attitudes toward the security alliance even as it poses a palpable challenge for the country’s infantile political class.

http://foreignpolicy.com/2015/08/13/surpri...campaign=buffer