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Today, the DNR Ministry of Transport (Mintrans) reported that a new Donetsk-Moscow bus-route would stage via Rostov-on-Don {Donetsk to Rostov is 200 kilometres (125 miles) on Motorway M23 (3 hours); Rostov to Moscow is 1,080 kilometres (672 miles) on Motorway M4 (13 hours): editor}. The Mintrans stated, “On 6 April, we opened a new bus-route linking Donetsk and Moscow via Rostov-on-Don. The bus departs daily from the Kryty Rynok bus station at 07.00. The cost of a Donetsk-Rostov one-way is 250 Grivnya (570 Roubles. 66 Renminbi. 660 INR. 10.75 USD. 13.50 CAD. 14 AUD. 10 Euros. 7.25 UK Pounds), to go to Moscow from Donetsk costs 750 Grivnya (1,710 Roubles. 198 Renminbi. 1,980 INR. 32.25 USD. 40.50 CAD. 42 AUD. 30 Euros. 21.75 UK Pounds). Phone numbers to make reservations are on the official DNR Mintrans website”.
NB: The above forex rates are the official ones. The grivnya is actually only half the value of that on most internal markets. That is, the currency is rapidly losing its purchasing power, as the empty shop shelves, intermittent power outages, and chronic arrears in pay testify.
8 April 2015
DAN Donetsk News Agency
Editor:
This means that the DNR has control over crossing points with the Russian Federation. As long as that is true, the junta can’t blockade them. As bad as the situation in the Republics is, the situation in Banderstan is even worse. It’s simply that the junta imposed censorship and the Western press plays along with them. THEY LIE. Should you believe them? Well… that’s up to YOU…
BMD
Voices from Russia 
LNR Mintrans Resumed Operation of Eight Trolleybus Routes in Lugansk
Tags: bus, Business and Economy, Economic, Economic development, economics, economy, LNR, Lugansk People's Republic, Novorossiya, political commentary, politics, public transport, public transport systems, Russia, Russian, socialism, transportation, trolleybus
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The indicated fare is 1.50 Grivnya (3.50 Roubles. 0.40 Renminbi. 4 INR. 6 US Cents. 8 Canadian Cents. 8 Australian Cents. 0.06 Euros. 4 UK Pence)
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“Don’t distract the driver”
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“Signal for hoist”… obviously, for handicapped access/egress
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“Don’t lean [against this]”
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At the Tsentralny (Central) stop in Lugansk
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The banner on the upper-left reads, “Kick the enemy back to their homeland! We will destroy the fascists!”
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Today, Aleksandr Chumachenko, LNR Minister of Infrastructure, Transport, and Communications, stated that Luganskelektrotransa reopened eight trolleybus routes in Lugansk, saying, “Trolleybus routes in the Southern and Eastern sectors now operate normally”. He also said that it isn’t possible to run the trolleybus route to Yubileiny as combat operations had severely damaged the power substation there and the powerlines for the buses. He noted, “We face many problems in repairing our vehicle inventory, but in the short time that the Chairman of the Government gave us, we did what we could”. Eight months ago, trolleybuses in Lugansk stopped running because the fighting caused shortages of electricity.
11 April 2015
LITs Lugansk Information Centre
http://lug-info.com/news/one/v-luganske-na-marshruty-vyshli-vosem-trolleibusov-mintrans-lnr-2565
Editor:
Lugansk sure doesn’t look like a warzone to me. What this means is that Choco Loco and his American puppeteers are liars… let’s see… the Anglo American establishment claimed that Serbia was massacring Bosnians and Albanians, Afghanistan was a hotbed of terrorists, Iraq had WMDs, Libya was in the grip of a cruel dictator, Syria is the worst dictatorship in the Middle East, and the people in the LNR and DNR are dirty separatist criminals bent on dismembering the peaceful Ukraine. Such is the narrative one hears in Washington… they echo every lie of the “Ukrainian Catholics” and “Ukrainian Orthodox”. The LNR and DNR (and the rest of tsarist Novorossiya too) simply want to left alone… “Kick the enemy back to their homeland”. They want no part of Galician Uniate nationalist “Consciousness”… they want no part of Galician hillbilly pidgin (“Ukrainian”)… they want no part of the illegitimate extremist fascist putschist junta in Kiev installed by the Americans.
Lugansk wants normality… putting the trolleybuses back online is part of that normality. You can support socialist sanity or you can support American-sponsored fascist lunacy. I prefer to support the socialists of the LNR and DNR. They’re “People’s Republics”, indeed… note well that subsidised public transport is part of the”social contract” in the People’s Republics… the Uniate fascists beat the people with clubs (literally) as they jack up utilities rates and transit fares into the stratosphere (and cut wages and pensions as they do so… can you see why the US Republican Party loves them?). I know where I’d prefer to live if given the choice between the Republics or Banderstan! I’m NOT alone in thinking that way!
BMD