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On Thursday, Minister of Foreign Affairs S V Lavrov said that Moscow would consider a request for a Guatemalan cosmonaut to undergo training in Russia, saying at a joint press conference with his Guatemalan counterpart Carlos Morales, “We received a request to consider whether a Guatemalan cosmonaut could come to a training centre in Russia. Of course, we’d consider this request”. Lavrov added that Guatemala made the request to the Russian Federal Space Agency, which will consider it alongside other countries participating in the International Space Station project.
26 March 2015
Sputnik International
http://sputniknews.com/society/20150326/1020057956.html
Editor:
Why is the American space programme lying in the dust, so much so that American cosmonauts have to hitch rides on Russian spacecraft to the ISS? It’s because of Republican wars and Republican tax giveaways to the Affluent Effluent. Thank you, Ted Cruz! That’s what the Republicans have brought the USA to… NASA now has to beg Russia to let Americans go into space. Note well that Russia is far more generous than the greedster Anglo Americans are. Just sayin’…
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Voices from Russia 
Zakarpatskaya Demanding Autonomy from Kiev
Tags: Carpatho-Russia, Carpatho-Russian, civil unrest, Mikhail Shuvar, Podkarpatskaya, Podkarpatskaya Rus, political commentary, politics, Rusin, Rusin people, Russia, Russian, Ukraine, Ukrainian Civil War, war and conflict
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Today, TASS reported that Rusin leader Peter Getsko demanded that Podkarpatskaya Rusins receive recognition of their nationality and autonomy for their oblast. Getsko emphasised that the most important thing at present is to force Kiev to recognise the 1991 referendum in Zakarpatskaya, where about 80 percent of those voting were in favour of autonomy for Zakarpatskaya. Rusins also want Kiev to recognise them as a national minority; the EU recognises them as such, but Kiev refuses to do so. In 2006, The UN Committee on Combating Racial Discrimination encouraged the Ukraine to give Rusins minority rights. The Rusins are an East Slavic people, numbering from 1.5 million to 4 million, with 700,000 in the westernmost regions of the Ukraine. In 1919, the Saint-Germain peace treaty stipulated a Rusin state of Zakarpatskaya Rus; in 1945, it joined the USSR.
14 March 2015
TV Zvezda
Russian Forces Broadcasting
http://tvzvezda.ru/news/vstrane_i_mire/content/201503142055-fx2k.htm
Editor:
It’s interesting that the junta claims that the above is a Russian provocation. If such is so, why do they continue to hold Fr D D Sidor in “preventive detention?” That is, his life is in the hands of Galician Uniate nationalist fanatics… which isn’t a good thing. We’re talking about Nazi collaborators who helped to round-up “Untermenschtumen” for the death camps. We’re talking about UPA murderers who killed thousands of Poles in Volynia. We’re talking about terrorists who murdered Orthodox priests in their beds in Galicia at the behest of the CIA in the 1950s. We’re talking about slimers who tortured KPU Lvov Gorkom activist Rostislav Vasilko almost to the point of death. We’re talking about criminals who beat Fr Mikhail Shuvar so severely that he went to an untimely grave. Galician Uniate nationalists are treacherous and murderous scum… the lowest of the low. Reflect on the fact that the USA and the Roman Curia use them to further their “Interests”… it does tell you much about both, doesn’t it?
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