1 March 2016. Church Publishes List of Those Killed in Vorkuta Mine Explosion So That Believers Will Pray for Them

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The Church has published a list of the dead in the Vorkuta mine explosion so that clergy and believers can pray for them. Maybe, can your parish serve Pannikhida for them this Sunday after Liturgy? Priests, can you mention these men at Proskomidi? We’re Christians… that’s what we should do!

BMD

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Miners:

Aleksandr Veniaminovich Adamov (1967)

Grigori Viktorovich Bekhter (1973)

Nikolai Vyacheslavovich Vangaev (1989)

Vladimir Alekseyevich Vasin (1981)

Valery Pavlovich Goroshko (1971)

Sergei Vasilyevich Grishin (1962)

Sergei Vladimirovich Ilyn (1963) 

Aleksandr Nikolaevich Kilyazov (1957)

Valery Viktorovich Larionov (1970)

Yuri Nikolaevich Malakhov (1970)

Konstantin Vladimirovich Momot (1974)

Vyacheslav Petrovich Mygyt (1977)

Vitaly Sergeyevich Nizhelsky (1987)

 Igor Germanovich Povyshyov (1966)

 Andrei Vladimirovich Poduvaltsyov (1969)

Andrei Sergeyevich Poznyakov (1991)

Vasili Yevgenevich Polzunov (1969)

Pavel Viktorovich Popov (1989)

Aleksandr Sergeyevich Skvirsky (1988)

Vladimir Vasilyevich Sumry (1978)

Tila Roman Rimutisa (1982)

Vyacheslav Nikolaevich Tryasukho (1967)

Vladimir Anatolyevich Fedorov (1978)

Vladislav Vasilyevich Furmanov (1974) 

Pyotr Petrovich Chelnikov (1976)

Sergei Nikolaevich Shishkin (1984)

 Sergei Vasilyevich Shcherbinin (1965)

Bogdan Aleksandrovich Goncharenko (1988)

Vitaly Vasilyevich Lavrov (1974)

Vitaly Nikolaevich Yakovenko (1971)

Maksim Vladimirovich Khokhonov (1985)

MChS First Responders:

Pavel Igorevich Shakirov (1971)

Aleksandr Alekseyevich Belokobylsky (1961)

Vladimir Aleksandrovich Petrov (1972)

Sergei Grigoryevich Smychenko (1972)

Yevgeni Igorevich Tsurkov (1977)

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Bow before the profound mystery of death… they all had faces, they all had names, they all had someone to weep for them. Forget them not…

One last thing… the Russian government cancelled the debts of the miners’ families… something that no neoliberal (Republican/Chilly Hilly) pig would do. Do note that the neoliberals bid us to hate Russia… I wonder if part of it is that Americans would want their leadership to be as compassionate as the Russian leadership can be. V V Putin personally led the effort to help the families after the Raspadskaya Mine explosion in the Kuzbass some years back. One can see his hand in this as well. One can see where the REAL Christians are (and they’re not at Wheaton or Liberty U, trust me)…

BMD

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1 March 2016. Translated Russian Demot… Honour Those Who Gave Their Lives

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There was a mine explosion in Vorkuta, in the Russian Far North… as a matter of course, MChS first responders were on the scene. In this case, some of the “brothers” gave their lives for the sake of others. Whenever a first responder goes on a call, they never know if they’re coming back… literally. These people put their lives on the line for those that they don’t even know. In 2010, Colonel Yevgeni Nikolaevich Chernyshov, the head of the Moscow Fire Brigade, went out on call with his men… he didn’t need to, but he did… it was his Last Call. Patriarch Kirill himself served Pannikhida and Colonel Chernyshov received a formal state funeral, as was fitting. I wrote the following then, and it still rings true today:

There’s nothing to say, and Yevgeni Nikolaevich wouldn’t have wished a fulsome eulogy. He did his duty to the utmost and to the end. May we all do as well and end as well. There are people who embody heroism and self-sacrifice; you need only look hard enough. The grinning bastards haven’t taken over yet…

Vechnaya pamyat, rab bozhii Yevgeni… the world is poorer for your passing.

I stand by that. Honour those who truly stand up and show character… as for the grinning pundits, jumped-up fraud “clergy”, the piggish Affluent Effluent, self-appointed experts, and internet gurus… the less said the better. Here are our heroes (left to right in the image):

A A Belokobylsky

S G Smychenko

V A Petrov

P I Shakirov

Ye I Tsurkov

The world is a better place for people like this. If we were to lack such, our civilisation would fall, as there’d be no worthy ones amongst us. Do ponder that…

BMD

Blackout in Crimea Caused by Power Transmission Towers Sabotage

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On Saturday night, sabotage to transmission towers in Kherson Oblast of the Ukraine completely cut off power to the Crimean peninsula. MChS Rossii spokesman Vladimir Ivanov told us:

The Crimea lost all electric service on Saturday night, but utility crews partially restored power later in Simferopol. Besides this, Russian authorities introduced a state of emergency in the Crimea due to the complete stoppage of electrical supply to the Crimea from the Ukraine. Important infrastructural and social facilities, such as hospitals, activated their emergency power units. Locally generated electricity is also available in some areas of the Crimea.

On Saturday, someone damaged the power lines that supply Ukrainian electricity to the Crimea. Later, the MVDU stated that someone blew up the power lines. A Ukrainian police officer on the scene wrote on his Facebook page, “[Someone] just blew up the towers!!!!”. In September, Crimean First Deputy Prime Minister Mikhail Sheremet said that an energy blockade of the Crimea would trigger retaliatory measures against the Ukraine. Currently, Russia is building an energy bridge to the Crimea, due for completion before the end of the year.

http://sputniknews.com/world/20151122/1030522436/crimea-blackout.html

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On Sunday morning, the Crimea started to rely on reserve power generation after a mysterious accident in the Ukraine caused 1.9 million of the peninsula’s 2.3 million residents to lose power. Sevastopol began using its own power generation after what Ukrainian authorities have called an accident (sic) led 1.9 million people to lose power in Russia’s Crimean peninsula overnight on Sunday. The entire peninsula lost its electrical supply after a power-line accident (sic) on the Ukrainian side of the border, causing a blackout. The Crimea and Sevastopol were part of the Ukraine until 2014, when the two territories voted to rejoin Russia following an armed coup in the Ukraine. On Saturday, someone damaged one of the two power lines that supply Ukrainian energy to the Crimea, causing it to lose most of its power supply. Later, the MVDU said that someone blew up the power lines. The Sevastopol MChS office said, “Sevastopol partially restored power. The city completely changed over to its own energy sources, gas turbine stations and diesel generators”. The MChS Rossii stated that the Crimea has enough fuel on hand to last 29 days. The Ukrainian power utility Ukrenergo pledged to resume supplies within two days.

http://sputniknews.com/russia/20151122/1030525947/russia-crimea-power-outage-accident.html

22 November 2015

Sputnik International

MChS to Form Up 12th Humanitarian Aid Convoy for the Donbass

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On Friday, the MChS said that it’s forming up the twelfth humanitarian aid convoy for the Donbass, saying, “We’re putting together another convoy to take humanitarian aid to the Donbass and finalising the dates now”. Part of the convoy will originate at the Noginsk MChS centre in Moscow Oblast; other echelons will come from other parts. Earlier, Emergencies Minister Lieutenant General V A Puchkov said that the twelfth convoy would leave as soon as it’s ready. He explained that the specific content of aid cargo in each convoy originates in requests from local governments; primarily, humanitarian aid includes food, medical supplies, and items needed to ensure continuous operation of energy facilities and vital social services. The majority of the cargo in the previous eleven humanitarian convoys consisted of food and medicines. So far, since August of 2014, Russia shipped over 14,800 tons of humanitarian aid to the Donbass.

23 January 2015

ITAR-TASS

http://itar-tass.com/en/world/772908