Russia Strives to be amongst Top Three in Supercomputers

Andrei Kokoshin, head of the RD Gosduma committee on industry, construction, and high technology

Russia could be among the three leading producers of supercomputers after the US and Japan. In an interview with Voice of Russia, Andrei Kokoshin, the head of the RF Gosduma committee on industry, construction, and high-technology and the head of the centre for national security issues, said that experience gained by Russian scientists played a great role in promoting information technology although had not played down the significance of using advanced developments by most developed countries.

“Russia has its own rich experience, both Soviet and post-Soviet, gained in developing technology and sophisticated computing systems. The Soviet Union developed sophisticated computing systems for civil and military purposes. This technology became an integral part of Russia’s common IT system. Russia is not an underdeveloped country. It has very high scientific and technical potential, although it lost quite a bit in the 90s. But, much has been restored in the past years. For one, the local electronics industry was restored. Russia cannot claim superpower status without progress in this area. However, its share of this segment in the Russian economy is still small, but, it has lately grown stably. If this area is appropriately supported by the partnership of the government and private companies, Russia could be amongst the leaders. This concerns, first and foremost, supercomputing techniques. Consequently, Russia has a better opportunity be among the three countries that produce supercomputers. The US and Japan head this group. Japan has technologically surpassed the European Union. China and India are moving up to reach them. There is a great probability that Russia could surpass these two countries”.

The enterprise in Zelenograd on the outskirts of Moscow uses advanced local equipment and its own research and developments. Russia gives priority to upgrade its competitiveness, living standards, and quality of life in promoting an information-oriented society in our country. This also concerns the creation of equal possibilities in granting access to information and IT. In view of this, to be among the three leaders in the development of supercomputers is an urgent task for Russia.

23 July 2008

Voice of Russia World Service

http://www.ruvr.ru/main.php?lng=eng&q=30032&cid=61&p=23.07.2008 (in English)

Igor Shchegolev: By 2015 Russia Will Be Amongst the Leaders in Information Technology

Minister of Communications Igor Shchegolev

Minister of Communications Igor Shchegolev does not exclude that in 7 years Russia can be among the 20 leading countries in high-tech. In an interview with Voice of Russia, he said, “Russia is a part of the information world. All information networks came to Russia at the same time they came to the United States. First, scientific communication networks appeared, that is, the members of scientific community were the first to communicate in such a way. Later, it turned out that gradually all of us began using those infrastructural elements. What this meant is that our life became more interesting, its quality improved. The first step to this is the opportunity of developing TV education, that is, Russian students will study in foreign educational establishments using computer networks. This is certainly a comprehensive way to develop our communication technologies. When we create an ‘electronic state’, our networks will also be available abroad. People abroad will be able to see what is happening in Russia, how we defend our rights, and in what directions we are advancing. In conditions of transparency, there will be greater confidence that any money invested in our economy will not be lost. Therefore, we hope that for our partners abroad and investors this will be a good opportunity of finding out more about Russia, of loving it, and investing in it”.

Mr Shchegolev gave this interview in the wake of a State Council session dealing with the strategy of information and communication technologies in Russia. He said that the country planed to preserve present rates of disseminating information technologies and planned to approach the rate of the world’s leaders. For this, he believes, the country’s intellectual, organisational, and financial resources should be mobilised and priorities of development specified. Asked about the creation of a coordinating body under the Russian president to promote the development of an information society, Mr Shchegolev said that the idea could only be hailed. He named among standing priorities a changeover to digital TV. There are plans to begin acting on the federal goal-oriented programme next year. In keeping with the president’s decree, reception of 20 TV programmes should be ensured on the country’s territory. This will require perfection of the communications-satellite system. So, in February 2009, another satellite will be launched. According to Mr Shchegolev, it would be proper to ensure government support for the design of new promising computers and telecommunications equipment. The process can be stepped up if the business community will take the responsibility for changes in the production of electronic equipment. 

22 July 2008

Voice of Russia World Service

http://www.ruvr.ru/main.php?lng=eng&q=29988&cid=61&p=22.07.2008 (in English)

UN Calls the International Community to Observe a Truce during the Beijing Olympiad

The UN calls the international community to observe a truce during the Beijing Olympiad to be held from 8 to 24 August. On Wednesday, the UN General Assembly approved a draft resolution on sport as a means of promoting education, health, development, and peace. Russia was a co-sponsor of the draft. The UN insists that a truce be observed during the forthcoming Olympic Games. In keeping with the tradition of the Games, just as in the days of the classical Greek Olympics, all participants should have the opportunity to come to the Games and to return home safe and sound. Today, the idea of the Olympic truce acquires a new meaning. First of all, it is a rejection of the use of force in religious conflicts and hostage-taking with a view to getting ransom or gaining certain political goals. The call for an Olympic truce is also addressed to those who resort to terror as a means of resolving geo-political problems. 

Gennady Shvets, the Press Secretary of the Russian National Olympic Committee, stated in an interview with Voice of Russia that he was convinced that the international community could properly hold the Olympic Games in Beijing, in an atmosphere of accord and honest competition. He said, “The Olympic Games is a possession of the whole of our civilisation, and, probably, it is the most fascinating invention of mankind. The gist of it is that one’s strength and superiority is proved not by means of lethal weapons, but, in an all-out struggle in the sports arena. Certainly, not all that one wishes becomes true in sports. Yet, sport, including the Olympic Games, is not only points and medals. This is a grand international event that must not be overshadowed by anything that has no direct connection with it.

In the run up to Olympic Games in Beijing, the organisers introduced greater security measures for the participants, coaches, guests of honour, and attendees. Clearly, they should be seen as a preventative measure against any attempts to cast a shadow on this holiday of sport. Russia and Central Asian states have given China much help in creating a reliable security shield along its borders. We have done so that the Beijing Olympic Games could become a shining chapter in sports history as well as one of the most well-organised and colourful. The Russian National Olympic Committee knows all too well what painstaking effort the Chinese leaders and people have put into the preparations for the forthcoming Olympiad and is convinced of their full success”. 

24 July 2008

Voice of Russia World Service

http://www.ruvr.ru/main.php?lng=eng&q=30085&cid=63&p=24.07.2008 (in English)

Vsevolod Ovchinnikov: “The Roots of Different Cultures and Civilisations are tightly intertwined”

Vsevolod Ovchinnikov (1926- ), Russian journalist and author

“The roots of different cultures and civilisations are tightly intertwined”. This is a central argument of the legendary Russian writer, internationalist, and journalist Vsevolod Ovchinnikov. His opinion is shared by thousands of readers. At 82, Mr Ovchinnikov enjoys so huge a popularity that a collection of his works saw a new edition this year. The books written by Mr Ovchinnikov are a rich collection of cross-cultural knowledge based on an equally-rich personal experience. He spent 25 years of his life working in China, Japan, and Britain as a journalist, and his books provide a profound insight into the nature of western and eastern civilisations. His most popular works about Japan and Britain, A Branch of Sakura and The Roots of an Oak-Tree, have been translated into many languages. Also, he published a collection of works under the title Eyewitness Account, which describes a round-the-world trip from New Zealand to South America, and a fabulous story about Tibet called Ascension to Shambhala. 

Mr Ovchinnikov said, “I investigate the ‘living grammar’ of foreign peoples. For example, look at the Chinese in contrast to the Japanese; they believe they are the masters of creation, who rule everything material. Conditionally speaking, Chinese consider that it is possible to carve out a living doll from a log, whilst the Japanese are certain that they must preserve a log as it is, to protect its created nature. The Japanese will trim a tree a bit, he will touch it up, but, it must be as close as possible to the tree in its natural growth. Likewise, a city, in his opinion, it must grow as naturally as the forest grows. Tokyo and, for example, London, these are precisely such cities; they grew, ‘like the forest’. But, let us say, Peking, Paris, and St Petersburg, these are cities created entirely on another concept”. He once remarked, “We often tend to think that people from other countries think and react as we do, but, this is not so. In order to avoid mistakes, you ought to investigate ‘the soul of a people’, and on peoples’ souls, I build my travel guide”.

Studying the world outlook and psychology of different civilisations and cultures, Mr Ovchinnikov reveals their differences and similarities, take, for instance, China and Russia. “The basic teachings of Confucius start with a phrase that calls for continuous learning and application of the material learned as a supreme joy. Confucianism in China led to a cult of knowledge, which was seen as a main route of social mobility. In feudal China, for 2,000 years, government posts were distributed through open competitions in the knowledge of Confucian texts and the ability to apply them to settle everyday problems. The winners were assigned posts that could be as high as ministers in the imperial court. The cult of knowledge is equally relevant for present-day Russia. We are faced with a similar task, to, as a Confucian would say, ‘transform a quantitative jump into a qualitative improvement to create a knowledge-based economy’, which is the very innovation-based transformation currently developing in our country”. 

One of the conclusions Mr Ovchinnikov draws from years of professional and life experience is that “it’s wrong to measure other people by your own yardstick and lean on your own values, because no values are universal, like the grammar rules of a language”. He argues, “That for supreme harmony, the present-day world should follow a symphonic pattern in its development, when every nation, like a musical instrument in a symphony orchestra, plays its own part”. A guide to national souls, Vsevolod Ovchinnikov sees an ideal future in unity in diversity. 

24 July 2008

Olga Bugrova

Voice of Russia World Service

http://www.ruvr.ru/main.php?lng=rus&q=77996&cid=24&p=24.07.2008 (in Russian)

Official Celebrations began in Kiev to Celebrate the Anniversary of the Baptism of Russia

    

Kievo-Pecherskogo Lavra in Kiev, the seat of the canonical UAOC (MP)

Official celebrations to mark the 1,020th anniversary of the Baptism of Russia began in the Ukraine on 24 July. The current jubilee is of great importance not only for the Russian people as a whole, but, also for the Russian Orthodox Church. The MP hopes that the events to mark the 1,020th anniversary since the Baptism of Russia will become a holiday celebrating the unity of all world Orthodoxy. 

The policy pursued in recent years by the Ukrainian government of trying to drive a wedge between the MP and the Ukrainian Autonomous Orthodox Church (MP) and their attempt to create an independent “Local Church” in the Ukraine created discord amongst believers in both countries. At present, there are three Orthodox bodies in the Ukraine, but, only one of them, the UAOC (MP), is unanimously recognised as canonical by all autocephalous Local Orthodox Churches of the world, from the Ecumenical Patriarchate in Istanbul to the most ancient body, the Church of Antioch. The festivities to mark the jubilee must become a factor in uniting the entire Orthodox people, strengthening them and renewing their bonds. “For this very reason, Patriarch Aleksei II of Moscow and all Russia shall take part in the divine services marking this celebration”, said Bishop Mark of Yegoryevsk, a spokesman for the MP.

Bishop Mark said, “With God’s help, the forthcoming visit of Patriarch Aleksei II of Moscow and all Russia to the Ukraine will strengthen the position of the Orthodox Church and canonical Orthodoxy in that country. Today, the Ukrainian government pursues a policy of supporting all existing religious confessions in the country, including bodies that place themselves in opposition to the Orthodox Church and canonical Orthodoxy. We see them as nothing but schismatics. Unfortunately, the state gives them support, and this causes our concern. His Holiness, together with the First Hierarchs of other Orthodox churches shall take part in the festivities. This shall be a clear sign [to Ukrainian politicians] that church life in the Ukraine cannot be resolved by political interference. Kiev is of special and unique importance in the history of the Russian Orthodox Church. This is our common Baptismal font, this is the place where Russian monasticism originated, it is the cradle of our great Christian culture, and the ideas of Orthodox statehood were formed here”. 

In spite of the convoluted church situation in the Ukraine, the forthcoming events promise to be a large-scale and colourful holiday. Over 15 heads of all Orthodox churches of the world shall come to the Ukraine. The delegation will be headed by the Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew. On 27 July, on Vladimirskoi Hill, near the monument to Prince Vladimir who baptised Russia in 988, making it a Christian nation, a historical event shall take place. Two Patriarchs, of Moscow and Istanbul, will jointly serve the Divine Liturgy in honour of the anniversary. As a part of the festivities, the heads of the Orthodox churches shall meet with the country’s political élite, greet ordinary believers, and visit historical sites and Orthodox shrines and churches. To conclude the festivities, an all-Orthodox procession with the relics of Saint Price Vladimir will be held. 

Festivities to mark the Baptism of Russia will continue in Ukraine till July 30. Patriarch Aleksei plans to visit several Ukrainian cities in those days, including Donetsk and Svyatogorsk. 

24 July 2008

Voice of Russia World Service

http://www.ruvr.ru/main.php?lng=rus&q=77980&cid=22&p=24.07.2008 (in Russian)

Editor’s Note:

I cannot get over a sense of foreboding over this affair. Yushchenko is unbalanced, as are his paymasters Bush and Rice (their plans for attacking Iran are prima facie proof of that). Yushchenko, I believe, is going to try to manoeuvre Bartholomew into a public action supporting his schismatical proposal for “church unity”. This is very dangerous for the Church.

I should add here that I have seen many scandals in the Church (remember young Grabbe in Jerusalem?); none of them has given me the misgivings that I feel today. A civil ruler wishes to pervert the Church for his own ends; he is known to be a man lacking in scruples and common decency. He even lacks the simple prudence of a Vladimir Putin or Dmitri Medvedev. I shall not rest easy until this affair is put to bed. There is too much that can go wrong with Viktor Yushchenko’s hand in the pot…  

Patriarch Aleksei II Says That the Lambeth Conference of the Anglican Communion Is Important For the Entire Christian World

The Rt Rev Rowan Williams (1950- ), Archbishop of Canterbury, titular head of the Anglican Communion

The Lambeth Conference of the Anglican Communion now being held in England is considered by the Moscow Patriarchate to be a historic event. This decennial Anglican conclave shall be in session from 16 July to 4 August, and some 1,000 Anglican bishops from all over the world are attending it as voting delegates. The Lambeth Conference is a kind of ecumenical assembly for the Anglican Communion, an influential branch of world Protestantism. The conference is held regularly every 10 years and discusses the most vital issues facing the contemporary Protestant and Christian world. “In the last decade, since numerous changes took place in the understanding of Christian values everywhere in the world, the importance of the current assembly of Anglican bishops can hardly be overestimated”, according to Fr Igor Vyzhanov, a spokesman for the MP.

He continued, “The conference is discussing issues that provoke heated discussion in the Anglican Communion and in the Christian world as a whole. Today, the Anglican Communion, indeed, the Protestant world in general, is on the verge of a serious split. In particular, the question causing the most heated debate is the one concerning the church’s attitude to homosexuality. Unfortunately, at present, an extremely liberal trend is prevailing in Protestantism. Notably, this is manifested in a tolerant attitude to vices that are unambiguously condemned in the Holy Scriptures. The debate centres on the ordination of openly-declared homosexuals to the episcopal dignity, the blessing of homosexual unions by the Church, and the tolerance of other actions that Church teachings have always called sinful. Those Christians who desire to follow the teachings of the Holy Scriptures and follow traditional Christian teachings on such things, naturally, must reject such ‘tolerance’”. 

The decisions adopted at the Lambeth Conference are extremely important for the MP. The history of relations between Russian Orthodoxy and Anglicanism goes back to the 16th century. In the intervening period, warm and mutually-respectful relations formed between these two Christian churches. Yet, in recent years, when Anglican bishops began to deviate more and more from traditional Christian values, and approved of sins and supported vices, the MP virtually severed relations with this Christian confession.

This year, not only Anglican bishops, but, also representatives of other Christian churches, were invited to take part in this Anglican conference. The MP is represented by Bishop Hilarion Alfeyev of Vienna and Austria. Patriarch Aleksei II of Moscow and all Russia also forwarded an address to the Anglican conclave. “The participants bear an enormous historical responsibility, for they must decide between a traditional and Biblical interpretation of Christian morals and a tendency that mistakes sin and permissiveness for demonstrations of love and tolerance. The decisions of the Lambeth conference are extremely important not only for the future of this confession, but, for the entire Christian world, as well”. In conclusion, Patriarch Aleksei said, “All of us, Orthodox Christians, those of other Christian confessions, together with those from all other religions, must restore the moral and spiritual awareness concerning the life of every person in the world. The future of the entire earth depends upon this”. 

24 July 2008

Voice of Russia World Service

http://www.ruvr.ru/main.php?lng=rus&q=77976&cid=22&p=24.07.2008 (in Russian) 

Saturday is Zero Hour in Kiev…

I have never felt so apprehensive about an event in the Church as I do concerning Saturday in Kiev. Mind you, I would be extremely pleased if “nothing happened”. Please, God, let that be the result. Unfortunately, I fear that is not going to be so. If Bart does anything as silly as recognising the schismatic Ukrainian bodies, it shall toss a match onto a standing pool of petrol. All this week, he has been playing with matches, pretending to be the “universal patriarch” (how bloody silly, the Church has NEVER had such an office, it’s why we kicked the Pope of Rome out!), and puffing himself up silly.

If Bart recognises the schismatics Kudryakov and Denisenko, the end result shall be a rupture in communion with the MP. Metropolitan Vladimir of Kiev would demand such, and Patriarch Aleksei would defer to him. Vladyki Vladimir, speaking through his aide Archimandrite Kirill Govorun, has made it clear that ANYTHING concerning the Ukrainian Church MUST pass through his hands, as he is the only canonical First Hierarch in the country, and Bart does not have the authority to change that. The Ukraine is not the canonical territory of the EP, it is under the omophor of the MP.

In short, we have a horrific situation facing us. I repeat, I fervently hope that Black Bart retreats from the precipice. I sincerely pray that nothing happens. However, the signs are there for those of us who know the church situation all too well. If Black Bart stabs the Holy Church of Moscow in the back, if he spits in the faces of Metropolitan Vladimir Sabodan and Patriarch Aleksei Rediger, there shall be hell to pay. The MP has put up with much from this Vatican and American sock-puppet, and this would be the end of it, I think.

Interestingly, I think the Pope of Rome is innocent in this particular potboiler, for I believe that Benedict sincerely wishes good relations with us. He knows that such an event would smear him, so, I think that he has actually been trying to restrain Bart. I fear that he is going to fail, because there are people in the US State Department who have encouraged Bart into thinking that he can have an extraterritorial enclave in Istanbul, just as the Pope has an enclave in Rome. Of course, the Turks would nix it. However, we all know that people have the capacity to believe the most foolish things. After all, aren’t there those who believe in Mormonism? I rest my case (magical spectacles and “Reformed Egyptian”, indeed!).

I fear that there is going to be a noxious brew cooked up by Bart, Viktor Yushchenko, and Condoleeza Rice. All of us are going to gag upon it. In conclusion, I would pray that Bart pulls back. I am praying for the best and preparing for the worst. I fear that is the only thing that any of us can do. Dear Lord, save Thy Church from this, if Thou willest. If not, send us the strength to endure what we must.

These are the saddest words I have ever written… why did we live to see such?

Vara Drezhlo

Thursday 24 July 2008

Addendum:

I should, perhaps, make clear that what worries is not so much Bart’s posturing, for Orthodox are well-used to his hubristic antics, but, the actions of Viktor Yushchenko and his American puppeteer, Condoleeza Rice. Yushchenko invited Bart without asking His Holiness, as protocol demands, and posters with Yushchenko and Bart are plastered all over Kiev, whilst those of His Holiness are banned. Bart may indeed have the good-sense to try to keep his mouth shut, but Yushchenko may very well commit him to an action in public. This is what is so worrisome, because Yushchenko is an unbalanced individual who believes his own propaganda. In this lies the danger…

Strasbourg Court Drops All Charges against Former Soviet Partisan Kononov

Glory to the Hero-Partisans Destroying the Fascist Rear! (Soviet poster of the 2nd Great Patriotic War) Glory to Mr Kononov, cleared from the false charges laid by Baltic neo-Nazis!

The European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg dropped all charges against 85-year-old former Soviet partisan Vasily Kononov, who in 2000 was convicted by a Latvian court for “war crimes”. Since this sentence violated article 7 of the European Convention On Human Rights and Freedoms, Latvia will have to pay Mr Kononov 30,000 euros (1.099 million roubles. 47,037 USD. 23.711 UK pounds) in damages. Mr Kononov, who was born and brought up in Latvia, led a group of resistance fighters in that Baltic state during World War II. He was sentenced in 2000 to six years in jail for allegedly ordering the execution in 1944 of nine civilians. He admitted the killings, but, said the dead were Nazi collaborators, and were caught in crossfire. 

A Latvian politician and member of the European Parliament for Human Rights in United Latvia, Tatiana Zhdanok, said, “Instead of using iron-clad international legal standards, the Latvian authorities referred to general and internationally-recognised principles, which has nothing to do with a legal way of doing things”. 

In its final ruling, the court said that, in keeping with these general principles, the operation Mr Kononov carried out on 27 May 1944 could not be viewed as a crime. “The Latvian court tried to invent their own international law, but, all their attempts fell flat”, Ms Zhdanok said. According to Viktor Ozerov, the chairman of the Federation Council’s Defence and Security Committee, the court’s ruling is a serious warning to the Latvian leadership, whose revisionist version of the history of the Second World War could invite a strong backlash from those who fought the Nazi aggressors from around the world. “The Strasbourg Court reiterated a well-known truth. The war against Nazism was holy and fair, and the victory won by Vasily Kononov is fresh proof of this”, Mr Ozerov said.

24 July 2008

Vyacheslav Chernukha

Voice of Russia World Service

http://www.ruvr.ru/main.php?lng=eng&q=30096&cid=59&p=24.07.2008 (in English)

Yuri Shevchuk sees the Attempts of the Pro-Western Government in the Ukraine to Ban the Rock Concert in Kiev Marking the Baptism of Russia as part of “the Battle between Good and Evil”

Yuri Shevchuk (1950- ), front-man of the Russian rock band DDT

Kiev, 24 July 2008 (Interfax):

Yuri Shevchuk, the front-man of the rock-band DDT, is confident that the final concert of the rock tour in honour of the 1,020^th anniversary of the Baptism of Russia shall take place as planned, despite all the obstacles placed in its path. “That is how the millennium-long battle between good and evil goes”, he said in an interview in the Ukrainian edition of Komsomolskaya Pravda (Komsomol Truth), commenting on attempts of the pro-Western government to transfer or even ban the rock concert. Mr Shevchuk explained other attempts “to place a spoke between the wheels” of the rock tour by the fact that “some political factions do not wish this to go on” because the tour centres on “the love and harmony shared by Russians and Ukrainians”.

He has no doubts whatsoever that the concert in Kiev shall take on 26 July, just as it was planned from the very beginning. “The concert shall take place, if not at the original venue, then, somewhere else. That’s normal. Why shouldn’t it take place? All we are doing is calling for love and harmony”, Mr Shevchuk said. He showed no reaction when asked about the rumours that Yushchenko is an enemy of Russian rock music. “Well, God go with him (Yushchenko: Interfax). I can tell you that thousands of cultured Kievans love Russian rock”, Mr Shevchuk noted.

Interfax-Religion

http://www.interfax-religion.ru/?act=news&div=25658 (in Russian)

Editor’s Note:

The choice of Yuri Shevchuk as the main rocker in the tour was an inspired choice. He is not a supporter of Vladimir Putin, but, as Fr Andrei Kuraev said, Russia is a powerful and confident country, and Yuri Shevchuk’s political opinions do not harm her. In any case, Fr Andrei was certain that he is a patriot. Events have borne this out. Russia is not afraid of differing opinions, but, the Orangies are afraid of such, so, all things being equal, if Russia is strong and confident, then, the Orangies are weak and fearful. Somewhat different from the CNN propaganda line, no?

If the Orangies DO ban the concert, it shall prove to the world what totalitarians they truly are. Bush and Rice support such… they implicate YOU in their crime if you stay silent. SPEAK OUT. What has happened to free speech in America?

Odessa Hasidic Community Protests Construction on the Site of a Nazi Mass Killing

Do not forget that the Orangies in the Ukraine are the spiritual descendants of those who said,”All Jews to the gallows”. Never again. Never forget the role of the OUN and UPA in all of this. 

Kiev, 23 July 2008 (Interfax):

Representatives of the Odessa Jewish community asked Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Timoshenko to stop construction work on a site in Tolbukhin Street because traces of a mass grave were discovered. Boleslav Kapulkin, the Jewish community press secretary, said on Wednesday that the remains discovered during the construction work are from a mass grave of Jews shot during the Nazi occupation in autumn 1941. The police are not confirming this information; they have not yet received the results of forensic examinations on the remains. 

“To construct a building on a site where you disturb the bones [of those killed by the Nazis] wherever you dig cannot not be anything other than a blasphemy and an insult to the memory of the victims”, according to an open letter of the local Chabad Jewish community. Rav Avraam Wolf, the Chief Rabbi of Odessa and Southern Ukraine, is amongst the signers. “Nevertheless, it is an evident and obvious truth that there are those who know, in fact, that this land is a mass grave. This does not stop them, they wish to build on all sites that they believe are idle”, the letter said. “To demonstrate to the world that the Ukraine is a truly civilised state, only a few things are required. We must find the wrongfully-removed remains, then, the Jewish community can give them dignified burial. Finally, we must forbid any future construction on this site and give it the status of a mass grave”, the letter noted. 

In October 1941, artillery ordnance dumps were located in the Tolbukhin Square area in Odessa. Over several days, German and Romanian soldiers shot over 25,000 people near their barracks. The overwhelming majority of victims were Jews, both from Odessa and refugees from Bessarabia. Furthermore, Russian POWs were killed there as well. 

Interfax-Religion

http://www.interfax-religion.ru/judaism/?act=news&div=25623 (in Russian)

Editor’s Note:

This would not have happened in Russia, as it is an overtly Orthodox state. Yushchenko has sold out to American corporate interests, and he apes their godless “pragmatism”. Note well that the Jewish community did not address themselves to Yushchenko, for they know that he only listens to Americans, Uniates, and western corporate interests. Interesting, no?