Iran’s air defense systems are outdated and pretty useless against US stealth bombers or the Israeli air force’s electronic jamming instruments.

Russia has declined a request from Iran for the purchase of S-300 Missiles.

Iran launches its huge Modafean-e (Defenders) Aseman-e-Velayat air defense exercise Sunday, Nov. 22, to protect its nuclear sites, after failing to persuade Russia to deliver the linchpin of its air defenses, S-300 missiles.

Our sources report that, aside from the Russian-made Tor-M 1 short-range interceptor, Iran’s air defense systems are not capable to defend the nuclear facilities.

As many nuclear installations as possible are being moved to secret subterranean sites – among them most of the research laboratories working on the development of nuclear weapons and missiles.

Lacking the crucial S-300, a senior Revolutionary Guards officer was reduced to threatening: «If Israel attacks Iran, Iranian missiles will explode in the heart of Tel Aviv».

DEBKAfile Special Report

My comment:

The Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) id more than capable of striking and destroying the Iranian nuclear program.

This is not a matter of military capability. Its a matter of a political game in Jerusalem, London and Washington.

The new US Administration headed by Barack Hussein Obama are not giving the Benjamin Netanyahu government the green signal to attack. Neither is the US willing to join Israel in a strike on the Ayatollah regime in Iran.

And the clock is ticking. It is only a matter of time before Iran will be able to make their oral threats of destroying Israel in to nuclear reality.

Do outro lado do mundo

Tirando a poeira do blog e colocando coisas novas por aqui.

Sabe aquelas navegadas pela net, que você vai, vai, vai… E de repente, você nem sabe mais por onde está andando mas achou algo muito bom?

Foi em uma dessas que eu achei o Проснись, (na tradução literal “Wake”) um site muito criativo que há tempos eu não via igual.

Achei legal colocar algumas imagens aqui no Blogpraquê não só pela sutileza de algumas imagens mas pela grande sacada de muitas montagens.

Tentei procurar outras infos, mas o idioma não ajudou. Mesmo assim vale a pena conferir.

Para ver mais acesse aqui.

This weekend I had the pleasure of attending the Waterloo Festival for Animated Cinema. It is a yearly festival that has been going on for nine years. I have been going to university in Waterloo since last year, but I had never heard of this event.

Fortunately, this year I received an e-mail from my campus’s gaming oriented club informing me about this festival. And once I learned from their website that they would have a showing of the North American premiere for Rebuild of Evangelion 2.0, I knew I had to go.

Initially, I expected that most of the films that were to be shown would be Japanese. I was surprised when I found out that only 3 out of the 14 were Japanese anime films. They had films from many diverse countries countries including Ireland, Hungary, Australia, Sweden, Belgium and Serbia.

The theme of this year’s festival was Russian animation. Specifically, the focus of the event was on a select number of some of the oldest films in Russian animation which had their start in the Soviet Union. I even got to see the Soviet Union’s first animated feature film, The Lost Letter, which was made in 1945.

I also have to give a big kudos to the team who put this event together. They did an amazing job with the programme booklets, ticket system, and the overall aesthetic quality and organization of the festival. The staff was also very friendly and made me feel right at home. I had a great time and definitely plan on going next year.

This is your favourite band. Has been for a while now, so you have decided to come out of the closet.

You only really became aware of them after you left Russia, so you can’t blame it on nostalgia.

They are a Post Soviet group so entirely lack the extra cool that surviving as a rock band under communism lends.

Clearly they do not gain much cool from any other direction either, although someone seems to have had at them with the peroxide bottle as their career has progressed, which can only be a good thing.

B says they are lightweights in the lyrics department, which is about as dismissive as a Russian gets. Although as you really don’t go in much for lyrics, you could care less.

But you do like the music. It cheers you up.

Plus one of their songs includes a rock harpsichord. Not here, you couldn’t find that one. But still. A rock harpsichord. Imagine that. It makes you hug yourself with glee.

These are indeed interesting times.  These are not peaceful times, nor are they times that showcase a group of world leaders interested in freedom for their countries or people.  These are interesting times in that the level of manipulation being done, the plans that have been made years and decades ago are coming close to fruition for the power hungry control freak rulers of the world.

This isn’t necessarily a bad thing, but it could turn that way depending on how people handle themselves in the short and long run, of course.

The progressive liberals have been planning to reshape the United States into a controllable entity for some time. This dates back to before 1910.  Even back then the progressives were impatient and pushing hard to overcome this inconvenient ‘freedom’ thing so prevalent in the United States.  Ultimately, it ended up teaching the progressive fascists a lesson (NOT an ‘early’ lesson by any means),  with the advent of World War I resulting directly from their overt and covert pushing at the walls of freedom.

The progressives were forced at this point to take a lesson of patience.  The lesson wasn’t immediately learned though. The world fought 2 major worldwide wars resulting in the explosive growth of yet another competitor, the Soviet Union.  Lost are you?  You shouldn’t be if you’ve been at all following your history since you were a kid.  See, the progressives aren’t communists, they aren’t interested in setting up a goose-stepping clone army or some silly crap like that.  The progressives are about changing the foundation of the country to something compatible with their ideas of how to control a population to meet their needs.  Control is key, but in order to control a free nation like that you can’t start in the middle, you can’t start at the top, you have to start at the bottom and grow your noxious weed from seed, then allow it to take over and kill off the rest of the garden.

These progressives, because of their pushing for control, ended up causing some of the worst world history known to memory.  World War I was the direct cause, World War II was an indirect cause.  After this, the progressives stopped pushing hard and implemented a far more long term and clandestine plan. ….Get ‘em young.

I saw the implementation take full effect as I was in school in the 70’s.  Dumbing down everything starting with the recalculation of American history and social studies.  The ideology was planted as tiny particles of misinformation, distraction, redirection, and omission in the schools, then using the progressive push of the 1960’s kids turned parents, the manipulation began in earnest.  It took a long time to set up, from the mid 1940’s to 1960, finally getting implemented wide scale across the USA, but more intensely in “blue states” in the 1970’s.  It only got worse from there and nobody saw it coming.  If opposition did see it coming, they dismissed it or flat out ignored it, some may have even went along with it thinking it was the best thing to do for the long term social re-ordering of the country….get rid of those stick in the mud conservatives that believe in that pesky constitution thing so everyone can benefit from the work of the few smart enough to capitalize on a system geared to reward success by TAKING IT FROM THEM and redistributing it.

First, let me say that of course it’s an idiotic philosophy and it won’t work. Never has, never will.  The first time it was used in this country was as punishment against a few unscrupulous money makers (Like….Joe Kennedy? Hell no, farther back than that) but it backfired.  The progressives saw it as a way to climb on top and control the whole thing though, a tool to achieve the end game.  If everyone is at the same level, their heads make a far smoother pavement on which to tread.  Planning was required though, and an old lesson in winning games came from China. The three ‘P’s’, perseverance, patience, and planning are required to win the strategic game long term.  So the planning went, and the plans set to motion.

Now, here we are in 2009, looking at incomplete plans yes, but plans well implemented over the span of the last 60 plus years.  The problem is, at least for the progressives, is that once again they became impatient.  Why?  Well, it’s their own undoing really.  Today’s politicians and power brokers were not raised in seclusion with the long term planned being drummed into their heads.  They weren’t taught patience, they became as much dependent on instant gratification as the rest of America has, and the entitlement philosophy that they so carefully bred has found it’s way into the very people they hoped would implement the last 1/3 of their planned gutting of America and reshaping into their own image.

They pushed again, and now they’re going to lose. Again.  This time though, the perpetrators need to be called out, identified, and dealt with once and for all.  People like George Soros, an America hating, power mongering, control freak need to be dealt with permanently and held as an example of what happens to those that would attempt to destroy a free nation.  His effigy should be burned for centuries to come in annual celebrations.

I’m jumping ahead however.  The news item that caused me to write this out finally is the unusual turn that has been taken.  Remember the old Soviet Union?  The old red, better dead than red, cold war Soviet Union that began it’s expansion right after World War II?  These fellows actually hate the progressives, and these fellows, now simply Russians versus Soviets, are our key to blowing apart the progressive movement and burying it’s dessicated corpse once and for all.

For now, without expounding in further detail, let me just say the progressives have met their match here.  The Soviets planned badly and failed relatively fast, seeing the end under Ronald Reagan.  Reagan was smarter than even he gave himself credit for, because in out powering the Soviets and causing their downfall with his policies, he actually smashed the shit out of any hope for the progressives to succeed.

The progressives NEED a free, or semi-free Eastern europe.  The Russians want to rebuild the old Soviet block countries into a union once again, before the progressives absorb it into an increasingly progressive western europe.  The Chinese are quiet about Russia now, for the moment publicly treating them as an ally of sorts….”the enemy of my enemy is my friend”….but even the Chinese can’t untwist the pretzel that Ronald Reagan purposely made.

All that has to happen at the moment for progressives to completely implode is two things; exposure of their plans, and the reconstitution of the Soviet block countries into one trade union again, much as western europe has formed the European Union.  This will set China back at minimum 50 years in their own plans, but more likely it will do far worse damage because they have escalated their plans in concert with what Obama and his cronies have been doing to the US economy for the last year.  They’re committed now, and if the Russians can rebuild an economic union with the eastern countries while allowing them the same freedoms they have now, China’s hopes of domination through economy will be crushed in mid-step, and the progressives will take a major fall.

This time though, the progressives won’t recover, and China will sink back to 3rd world status and actually have to hit their own ‘reset button’ on their plans or face complete failure.  A 50 year setback for the Chinese is the best case scenario for them.  The progressives won’t recover this time, because it’s becoming plainly and painfully obvious that they are responsible for making a disaster out of a mess which was a planned disaster in the first place….planned by the progressives.

They’d be lucky to survive at all, ending up in prison for the long term.  I believe it’s more likely that the progressives are going to suffer a violent end, at least the public progressives. The rest will deny them and creep to the shadows, but it’s too late for them. The lessons this time, the third time they tried to grab power, will be well learned.  The death penalty may just be snatched from the hands of the state and issued by the people.  That’s not a certainty, but a likelihood for sure.

I for one will be warming my hands by the pyres of  burning progressive fascists, with a huge grin on my face.

I love the Water Round Robin. I got some of the most wonderful postcards through this RR. This time again there was no difference:

A wonderful postcard from my dear friend krhocevar showing Downtown Pittsburg – the Allegheny and Monongahela Rivers meet there to form the mighty Ohio River.

A beautiful card from Köln sent to me by anjaaustel.

The third river – River Liffey in Dublin. this amazing postcard I received from fisherman.

Daarhon sent me a great view from The Altai Mountains.

Last but not least: Funny fishes from Woensel.

I have just arrived home from the most amazing weekend workshop with Dr. Leonid Sharashkin.  I think I now know what the phrase “I’m buzzing” actually means!  What an inspirational (and funny) Man.

Dr. Leo is the editor of the English version of the Ringing Cedars of Russia book series.  If you haven’t read them yet, I would highly recommend them.

The workshop covered everything from permiculture to unassisted home birthing to our universal ancestral roots.   He included a great presentation of many images featuring his family – beautiful wife and 3 kids, his parents, the log cabin built with his own bare hands, the eco-village where he lives when he is in Russia, other eco-villages around the world.

I loved how he combined the vision of a space of love/kin’s domain with the practicalities of how it all could work (or not – he had some very funny stories about what not to do).  I also very much liked how Dr. Leo emphasised individual responsibility – that it is up to each individual to decide what his or her space of love is/could be.  In other words; not to take what Anastasia speaks about as a religion – TAKE BACK YOUR POWER AND MAKE YOUR OWN MIND UP.

Some main points:

• Our pristine origins and how/why they were wiped out
• Linguistics/origins of words in English, Russian and other languages and how some once positive words and images have been turned upside-down
• Looking to nature and within ourselves for all answers
• Steps to creating your space of love (step 0 – visualisation)
• There is a difference between running from the city and being drawn to nature
• In big cities you interact with people’s functions not human beings
• Benefits of “pests” and weeds
• Why the bees are dying out
• The meaning of the word “will”
• Some ideas on how an ecovillage can be successful
• Religion/dogmas compared to Operating Systems (v. funny)

Dr. Leo suggested these 2 eco-villiage sites to check out:

http://www.grishino.ecology.net.ru/en/index.htm

http://eco-kovcheg.ru/index_en.html

Another cool site:

http://www.thatroundhouse.info/

Here you can see an interview with Dr. Leo (I haven’t watched this yet)

http://www.consciousmedianetwork.com/members/lsharashkin.htm

Here you can read his doctoral dissertation on Family Gardens: Russia’s Primary Agriculture

Enjoy!

Vladimir Pozner and Carol Vipperman

Last Thursday night, November 19th,  the Foundation for Russian American Economic Cooperation celebrated our 20th Anniversary with an evening gala featuring keynote speaker Vladimir Pozner. It was a very successful event by all accounts. Pozner’s remarks focused on the importance and the challenge of truly building a partnership between Russia and America. It was a thought-provoking presentation that generated a number of questions  from both the Russian and American guests at the dinner. (More on his comments and my thoughts in another post).

The evening had special significance for me as 20 years ago on November 19th I was officially tapped to be the Foundation’s Executive Director. That founding board passed the hat, raised $400 and told me to “go for it”. Well we did, and the video here highlights those 20 years working with Russia.  I hope you find it informative. Please let me know what you think.

Take a look at this:

Ooh! A palace, right? Yes. It’s the Hermitage, formerly known as the Winter Palace, home to more than a few generations of everyone’s favorite tsarist dynasty, the Romanovs, and current home of one of the best collections of art in the world. But you probably already knew that.

Its history, though, is really much more complicated than the fairly standard transition from royal residence to spectacular art museum. It has not only borne witness to, but also been directly involved in, many of the most important events in the last few centuries of Russian history. There was an assassination attempt (on Alexander II, who was later successfully murdered more or less down the street from where I live and work), a major fire, it was the site of a bloody massacre that signaled the beginning of the end for the monarchy, later it was the home of the very short-lived Provisional Government, was stormed by revolutionaries, and survived significant damage during the Nazi’s three-year siege of Leningrad. I’m kind of out of breath just from typing that awkwardly long sentence.

And since I am not only a history nerd but also a girl, along with my Ancient Egypt, Titanic, Colonial Williamsburg, Holocaust, and Mount Vesuvius history phases, I went through a phase when I was enthralled by Nicholas II’s family, mainly his youngest (and most famous) daughter, Anastasia. So naturally, the first time I visited the Hermitage, my main goal was to pretend to be a Grand Duchess for as long as possible. This goal was immediately thwarted by the sheer number of people in my way. No one would ever treat a grand duchess like that! How dare they. (But seriously. Not a great place to be in the middle of the tourist-laden white nights summer.) Turns out my fantasy was wrong, anyway. The last Romanov family didn’t really live in the Winter Palace very much, and not at all after 1905, due to their INTENSE unpopularity and how difficult it was to secure the entire palace. They mostly lived in nearby Tsarskoe Selo, or, when they had to be in the city, a much more modest palace on one of the canals.

The history of the palace as home to a collection of art started in 1764, when Catherine the Great bought a selection of works, mainly by Flemish masters, that had been assembled for the King of Prussia. He ended up turning it down, and she jumped at the opportunity to increase her royal court’s perceived cultural quotient. She put her fancy new art in a part of the palace she called the “hermitage,” and reportedly visited it every morning. Now, this part of the museum is referred to as “the original hermitage,” or “Catherine’s hermitage.”

The Hermitage still has a huge collection of Flemish paintings today, which I find incredibly boring. I am obviously drastically uncultured, but I kind of think they all look the same, and they use ugly colors. I KNOW. HERESY! I’m sorry. I very much prefer the rooms and rooms of Impressionist and other, more modern artists. There’s tons of Monet, and an especially captivating Van Dongen portrait that I really love.

But more than the Van Dongen, and more even than the history of the building itself, I love her:

I don’t know the title or the artist, and I can’t find a full picture of the sculpture, because every time I get near it, I kind of forget to think. She’s absolutely gorgeous. She’s sitting back on her knees, with her back kind of hunched over, but always looking up for something. I don’t know why this particular piece jumped out at me. She stands in a gallery full of sculptures that are ostensibly very similar, but this is the only one that managed to truly catch my eye.

So, “Sure,” you’re thinking, “great that the Hermitage is so nice and fancy and interesting, but it’s in RUSSIA. There’s no way I can go there. Lizochka is the worst.” You may be right. I frequently am the worst. BUT!  There’s a way you can get a really good sense of the museum and its history, and watch a great movie in the process. It’s called “Russian Ark,” and it is awesome for the following reasons:

1) It is set entirely inside the Winter Palace.

2) It has (frequent!) time travel.

3) It’s aesthetically pleasing.

4) The main characters are more or less ghosts.

5) It was filmed in one shot.

Yeah, the entire movie is ONE TAKE. It would be, in my opinion, a great movie even if that weren’t true, but the fact that it is makes it that much more amazing. It traces the history of Russia and Russian culture through several hundred years (non-chronologically) through the eyes of a modern Russian man and a French aristocrat from the 19th century, and through the rooms of the Winter Palace/Hermitage. It’s breathtaking. I don’t think any description can do it justice. I think, then, that the answer is to leave you with this:

نيكلاي پاتروشف دبير شوراي امنيت فدراسيون روسيه طي مصاحبه‌اي با روزنامه ايزوستيا اعلام كرد كه دكترين نظامي روسيه كه گزينه جديد آن قرار است براي ارائه به رئيس جمهور روسيه تا پايان سال جاري (2009) تنظيم شود در راستاي خطرات و تهديدات مهم نگاشته مي‌شود.⁽¹⁾

از زمان فروپاشي شوروي و استقلال روسيه در سال 1991 تاكنون روسيه چهار مرتبه⁽²⁾ دكترين نظامي خود را تغيير داده و دليل اين تغييرات، تهديدات نظامي شكل گرفته عليه امنيت ملي روسيه اعلام شده است. در اين نوشتار با مروري بر دكترين‌هاي نظامي گذشته روسيه تلاش خواهد شد تا ابعاد احتمالي دكترين جديد روسيه را كه هنوز رسماً اعلام نشده اما گفته شده كه تا پايان سال جاري تهيه شده و به رئيس جمهور روسيه ارائه خواهد شد توضيح داده شود. در اين دكترين احتمالاً توجه بيشتري به كاربرد احتمالي سلاح‌هاي هسته‌اي در جنگ‌هاي منطقه‌اي خواهد شد و به عبارت ديگر روسيه نيز همانند فرانسه و آمريكا در راستاي گسترش عمودي⁽³⁾ سلاح‌هاي هسته‌اي گام بيشتري برخواهد داشت.

مفهوم متغير امنيت ملي روسيه

ديدگاه‌هاي نظري روسيه نسبت به موضوعات امنيتي و مسائلي كه از نظر روسيه تهديد امنيت ملي محسوب مي‌گردد همواره در حال تغيير و تحول بوده و اين تغييرات از بدو پيدايي روسيه جديد به شكل بارزي نمايان است.⁽³⁾

روسيه جديد پس از فروپاشي شوروي در تعريفي ابتدايي كه از امنيت ملي خود به عمل آورد جهان را خالي از دشمن براي روسيه ديد و غرب را شريكي صادق براي رشد و توسعه و جبران عقب‌ماندگي‌هاي روسيه يافت و احساس كرد كه با استفاده از حمايت‌هاي سياسي، اقتصادي و فني غرب به راحتي خواهد توانست ليبرال دموكراسي را در صحنه سياست و اقتصاد بازار را در صحنه اقتصاد اين كشور حاكم گرداند.⁽⁵⁾

بوريس يلتسين اولين رئيس جمهور روسيه جديد كه استحكام قدرت سياسي خود را پس از بمباران پارلمان اين كشور و كشتار مخالفان خود مديون حمايت غرب به خصوص آمريكا مي‌ديد غرب را دوست استراتژيك و متحد بالقوه مسكو دانسته، خواستار آن مي‌شود كه با تشويق و گسترش كنفرانس امنيت و همكاري اروپا به حوزه كشورهاي مشترك‌المنافع نوعي سازوكار امنيتي خاصي را در مديريت بحران‌هاي قومي كشورهاي بازمانده از شوروي شكل دهند⁽⁶⁾ زيرا كه در آن مقطع زماني مسأله اصلي روسيه و تهديد ملي براي اين كشور رشد بحران‌هاي قومي، منازعات محلي، مقاومت بقاياي كمونيست‌ها و عقب‌ماندگي اقتصادي و تكنولوژيك محسوب مي‌شد و تصور بر آن بود كه از طريق همكاري كامل با آمريكا و اروپا، روسيه قادر خواهد بود بر اين بحران‌ها فائق آيد.

گسترش واگرايي در بين جمهوري‌هاي بازمانده از شوروي، گسترش بحران‌هاي داخلي و منازعات قومي و محلي در فدراسيون روسيه و ديگر جمهوري‌ها و گرايش كشورهاي اروپاي شرقي به سمت ناتو جهت يافتن تضمين لازم براي حفظ امنيت ملي و بقاي خود و بالاخره افزايش بحران اقتصادي روسيه باعث گرديد تا تصميم‌گيران اين كشور در مقابل تفكرات غرب‌گرايان عقب‌نشيني كنند و تفسير و تحليل جديدي از مفهوم امنيت ملي و منافع ملي روسيه ارائه نمايند كه در اين تفسير، روسيه از اتكاي مطلق به غرب براي حل بحران‌هاي خود و سرزمين‌هاي همجوار دوري جسته و تلاش نمود در قالب دكترين نظامي 1993 تعريف واقع‌بينانه‌تري از تهديدات امنيت ملي روسيه ارائه نمايد.⁽⁷⁾

دكترين نظامي 1993 روسيه كه در تاريخ 2 نوامبر اين سال به تصويب شوراي امنيت كشور رسيد ضمن تأكيد بر اين نكته كه در صحنه جهاني روسيه هيچ دشمني ندارد، هدف دكترين نظامي روسيه را حمايت از منافع ملي و جلوگيري از جنگ دانسته موارد زير را به عنوان تهديدات امنيت ملي روسيه شمارش مي‌نمايد:

1. استقرار نيروهاي نظامي در مرزهاي روسيه كه مي‌تواند همبستگي حاكم بر نيروهاي روسي را مختل كند؛
2. ورود نيروهاي خارجي به اراضي كشورهاي همسايه؛
3. آموزش نيروهاي مسلح در كشورهاي ديگر براي ورود به خاك روسيه و متحدان آن؛
4. حمله به تأسيسات مرزي فدراسيون روسيه و متحدين آن براي ايجاد منازعات و درگيري‌هاي مرزي؛
5. اقدام براي مداخله در عملكرد دستگاه‌هاي روسي كه به پشتيباني نيروهاي هسته‌اي استراتژيك و فرماندهي و كنترل نظامي و نيز بخش‌هاي قضايي مشغول هستند.⁽⁸⁾

نكته مهم ديگري كه در اين سند آورده شده بود، موضوع استفاده ابتدايي از سلاح هسته‌اي براي تأمين امنيت ملي روسيه بود. اين بحث بر خلاف تعهدات شوروي سابق بود كه خود را به عدم استفاده ابتدايي از سلاح هسته‌اي مقيد مي‌كرد. ترك عدم تعهد به استفاده نكردن ابتدايي روسيه از سلاح‌هاي هسته‌اي در قالب بحث كاهش توان سلاح‌هاي متعارف روسيه پس از فروپاشي شوروي و ضرورت بهره‌مندي روسيه از توان بازدارندگي ذكر گرديد.⁽⁹⁾

طرح اين موضوع كه ورود نيروهاي خارجي به اراضي كشورهاي همسايه (كشورهاي مشترك‌المنافع) تهديد امنيت ملي روسيه محسوب مي‌شود موجب تقويت اين نظريه شد كه روسيه حوزه كشورهاي مشترك‌المنافع را حوزه امنيتي خود مي‌داند و مرزهاي پيشين شوروي مرزهاي امنيتي روسيه محسوب مي‌گردد.

افزايش بحران اقتصادي روسيه در سال‌هاي 94-95 باعث گرديد تا رهبريت روسيه مجدداً سازوكارهاي نزديكي به غرب را اولويت قرار دهد با اين تفاوت كه اين بار در موضع پائين‌تري نسبت به اوايل فروپاشي شوروي در مقام تعامل با غرب و آمريكا برآمد. زيرا روسيه سال 95 به مراتب ضعيف‌تر از روسيه جانشين شوروي در سال 91 بود. نتيجه چنين رويكردي در صحنه عمل و رفتار آن بود كه روسيه مجبور بود به رغم اتخاذ مواضعي قدرتمندانه در سياست‌هاي اعلامي، رفتاري مغاير با آنها داشته باشد.

روسيه براي جبران موقعيت ضعيف شده تلاش نمود با تأكيد بر سازوكارهاي امنيتي از سازوكارهاي نظامي فاصله بگيرد و تلاش نمايد در محيط بين‌المللي فضايي مناسب براي امنيت روسيه جستجو نمايد. حاصل اين تلاش انتشار سند مفهوم امنيتي روسيه در دسامبر 1997 مي‌باشد.

در اين سند، تهديد واقعي امنيت روسيه شرايط بالفعل و بالقوه منازعات مسلحانه موجود در فدراسيون روسيه و كشورهاي همسايه دانسته شده و مشكلات اقتصادي روسيه ريشه بنيادي معظلات و بحران‌هاي سياسي تلقي گرديده است. اين سند پي‌گيري اصلاحات اقتصادي را مهمترين راه‌كار توسعه امنيت ملي دانسته و گسترش همكاري با آمريكا، اروپا، چين، ژاپن و هند مهمترين راه برقراري امنيت بين‌المللي دانسته شده بود.⁽¹⁰⁾ اما گسترش ناتو به شرق از طريق عضويت لهستان، مجارستان چك و آمادگي پذيرش عضويت جمهوري‌هاي شوروي سابق به ناتو باعث گرديد روسيه در رفتار خود با غرب و ناتو باز هم تجديد نظر نمايد و با حمله ناتو به يوگسلاوي همكاري‌هاي روسيه با ناتو متوقف شده، ناتو خطري براي امنيت روسيه دانسته شد و اين واقعيت تلخ براي روسيه روشن گرديد كه روسيه توانايي رقابت با غرب را در ارائه طرح‌هاي امنيتي ندارد و مجبور گرديد مجدداً در تفكر امنيت ملي خود تجديد نظر نمايد.

دكترين نظامي و امنيتي روسيه در سال 2009 ⁽¹¹⁾

روسيه در بحث تجديد نظر در تفكر امنيت ملي خود مجبور گرديد موضوع لغو پيمان ضد موشك بالستيك (ABM) توسط آمريكا را نيز مدنظر قرار دهد و اين واقعيت را بپذيريد كه ديگر نه تنها شريك برابر آمريكا نيست بلكه توازن هسته‌اي خود را هم در برابر آمريكا از دست داده است و مجبور است به جاي آن كه به دنبال توسعه امنيت ملي روسيه از طريق مشاركت در امنيت بين‌المللي باشد امنيت ملي روسيه را در اولويت قرار دهد.

نتيجه عملي اين تغيير نگرش در سند معروف به دكترين نظامي جديد روسيه در 21 آوريل 2000 منتشر گرديد. دكترين نظامي جديد روسيه نوعي بازگشت به دكترين نظامي 1993 و احياي مفاد آن محسوب مي‌گردد. در اين سند روسيه مي‌پذيرد كه اين كشور با تهديدات جدي مواجه شده است و بايد در مقابل اين تهديدات ايستادگي كند و اتكاء به ايده همكاري با غرب نمي‌تواند مشكل امنيت ملي روسيه را حل نمايد.

در اين سند تهديدات امنيت ملي روسيه در سه شكل تهديدات اصلي امنيت نظامي، تهديدات خارجي اساسي و تهديدات اساسي داخلي به تفصيل شمارش شده‌اند.⁽¹⁴⁾ در اين سند روسيه معتقد است كه به دليل تعقيب يك سياست خارجي فعال و حفظ سطح مناسبي از قدرت نظامي روسيه تهديد اصلي براي امنيت نظامي روسيه وجود ندارد و روسيه قادر است پاسخ نظامي مناسب را به هرگونه تهديد نظامي عليه روسيه بدهد. تجهيزات هسته‌اي روسيه نيز موجب بازدارندگي تهاجم هسته‌اي و غيرهسته‌اي به اين كشور مي‌شود. اما در اين زمان روسيه معتقد است كه ضمن عدم وجود تهديد اصلي عليه امنيت نظامي روسيه معهذا مجموعه‌اي از تهديدات خارجي و داخلي براي روسيه بطور جدي مطرح مي‌شود كه مهمترين آنها عبارتند از:

-         ادعاهاي ارضي عليه فدراسيون روسيه؛

-         ادعاهايي درباره مسائل داخلي روسيه

-    ناديده گرفتن (يا نقض) منافع روسيه در حل مسائل امنيتي بين‌المللي و مخالفت با تقويت روسيه به عنوان يكي از مراكز با نفوذ جهان چندقطبي؛

-         منازعات مسلحانه و فراتر از همه درگيري‌هاي موجود در نزديكي مرزهاي روسيه و متحدان آن؛

-    ايجاد گروه‌ها و تشكيلات جديد در نيروهاي نظامي براي برهم زدن توازن موجود بين نيروهاي نظامي روسيه و متحدان آن در مقابل نيروهاي نظامي خارجي؛

-         ايجاد بلوك‌ها و اتحاديه‌هاي نظامي عليه امنيت نظامي روسيه و متحدان آن؛

-         لشكركشي نيروهاي خارجي (بدون مجوز شوراي امنيت سازمان ملل) به خاك كشورهاي مجاور و دوست روسيه؛

-    تجهيزات پشتيباني و آموزش گروه‌ها و واحدهاي مسلح به وسيله برخي از كشورها براي استقرار آنها در خاك روسيه يا متحدان آن جهت انجام عمليات نظامي؛

-    حمله مسلحانه به تأسيسات نظامي روسيه مستقر در خاك دولت‌هاي خارجي و نيز به تأسيسات مستقر در مرزهاي روسيه و متحدان آن؛

-         هدف‌گيري و تضعيف فعاليت سيستم‌هاي كنترل و فرماندگي نظامي روسيه؛

-         عمليات خصمانه (اطلاعاتي، فني حرفه‌اي، رواني و غيره) عليه روسيه و متحدان آن؛

-         تبعيض عليه حقوق، آزادي‌ها و منافع قانوني شهروندان روسيه در خارج از كشور و سركوب آنها؛

-         تروريسم.⁽¹³⁾

روسيه رفع تهديدات فوق را در چارچوب «تضمين امنيت نظامي روسيه» امكان‌پذير دانسته اعلام مي‌كند كه بدون تضمين امنيت نظامي روسيه قادر نخواهد بود در مقابل تهديدات خارجي و داخلي به بقاء، وحدت و تماميت ارضي ايستادگي كند؛ لذا در راستاي نيل به «تضمين امنيت نظامي» در سند دكترين نظامي جديد روسيه در قرن 21 آورده مي‌شود:

-    در صورتي كه روسيه يا متحدان آن مورد تجاوز نظامي قرار نگيرند كشور روسيه آغازگر عمليات نظامي عليه هيچ كشوري نخواهد بود؛

-         قدرت هسته‌اي خود را براي بازدارندگي در مقابل تجاوز به خود يا متحدانش حفظ مي‌كند؛

-    براي ايجاد امنيت دسته‌جمعي در قالب دولت‌هاي مستقل مشترك‌المنافع بر اساس انعقاد يك قرارداد امنيت دسته جمعي اولويت قائل است؛

-    شريك تمام كشورهايي است كه نسبت به منافع و امنيت ملي روسيه طمعي ندارند و مغاير منشور ملل متحد عمل نمي‌كنند؛

-    به قراردادهاي موجود محدودسازي، كاهش و انهدام تسليحات پاي‌بند است و به اجراي رژيم‌هاي مشخص شده بر اساس آن قراردادها كمك مي‌كند؛

-    تعهدات خود درباره تسليحات تهاجمي استراتژيك و دفاع ضد موشك بالستيك را در چارچوب روابط متقابل با آمريكا و ديگر قدرت‌هاي هسته‌اي انجام مي‌دهد و براي كاهش بيشتر سلاح‌هاي هسته‌اي تا حداقل لازم جهت ثبات استراتژيك و موازنه تسليحات استراتژيك به مثابه ضامن باز نگشتن به مواجهه جهاني بين نيروها و رقابت تسليحاتي آماده است.

تغيير مجدد در دكترين نظامي روسيه

درخواست گرجستان براي عضويت در ناتو و پذيرش ابتدايي طرح اين درخواست در اجلاس بوخارست ناتو و برداشته شدن گام‌هايي براي قرار گرفتن گرجستان در شرايط «احتمال عضويت» در ناتو باعث گرديد تا روسيه امنيت ملي خود را از ناحيه قفقاز به شدت در خطر ببيند و عملاً براي رفع اين خطر از قواي نظامي خود استفاده كند و وارد جنگ عليه گرجستان شود.

تحولات قفقاز ناشي از جنگ روسيه و گرجستان باعث شد تا شرايط ژئوپليتيكي قفقاز جنوبي تغييرات عميقي يابد و اين تغييرات، درياي سياه و جناح شرقي ناتو را هم تحت تأثير قرار داد. روسيه هر چند در عمليات نظامي خود عليه گرجستان پيروزي بدست آورد اما از ديد تيزبين استراتژيست‌ها و كارشناسان نظامي عمليات نظامي روسيه عملياتي سنگين و پرهزينه بوده كه در مقابل نيروي ضعيف گرجستان بسيار بيشتر از آن چه ضروري بود هزينه كرد.

در كنار موضوع حمله نظامي روسيه به گرجستان بحث استقرار سامانه دفاع موشكي آمريكا به بهانه احتمال خطر توانمندي موشكي ايران عليه متحدين آمريكا (هر چند در حال حاضر موضوع استقرار اين سامانه از جانب آمريكا منتفي اعلام شده است) روسيه را به اين نتيجه رساند كه هدف اصلي استقرار سامانه دفاع موشكي از بين بردن قدرت پاسخ استراتژيك روسيه مي‌باشد كه در نهايت ثبات استراتژيك و موازنه تسليحات استراتژيك را هدف‌گيري نموده است.

روسيه در كنار تهديد گسترش ناتو كه مرزهاي غربي روسيه را تهديد مي‌كند خود را با دو خطر عمده ديگر در دو جبهه غرب و شرق مواجه مي‌بيند:

1ـ تهديد جنوبي: يعني گسترش اسلام به سمت مركز روسيه در اشكال مختلف مانند تغيير بافت جمعيتي روسيه⁽¹⁴⁾ و گسترش اسلام‌گرايي (راديكال يا معتدل) در جمهوري‌هاي خودمختار روسيه.

2ـ تهديد شرقي: گسترش چين به سمت غرب و مهاجرت چيني‌ها به سيبري كه شرق روسيه را از جمعيت روس‌تبار خالي و نژاد زرد را جايگزين نموده است.

در اين تصوير كلان، روسيه خود را از سه جبهه شرق، جنوب و غرب در تهديد مي‌بيند؛ لذا در صدد بر مي‌آيد كه دكترين امنيت ملي و دكترين نظامي خود را روزآمد كند. در اين راستا، ابتدا در 13 مه سال جاري (2009) ديميتري مدوديف رئيس جمهور فدراسيون روسيه حكم مربوط به «استراتژي امنيت ملي روسيه تا سال 2020» را با هدف هماهنگ نمودن تلاش‌هاي ارگان‌هاي فدرال قوه مجريه، ارگان‌هاي حكومتي زير مجموعه‌هاي فدراسيون روسيه، سازمان‌ها و شهروندان فدراسيون روسيه در تأمين امنيت ملي را تأييد نمود.⁽¹⁵⁾ و به دنبال استراتژي امنيت ملي موضوع دكترين جديد نظامي روسيه مطرح گرديد كه در حال آماده شدن است.

دكترين جديد نظامي روسيه نمي‌تواند قبل از اعلام شدن استراتژي جديد ناتو كه در حال تدوين شدن است بطور كامل اعلام گردد لذا روسيه بايد منتظر بماند تا ابتدا استراتژي نوين ناتو اعلام گردد. البته همان گونه كه گفته شد روسيه فقط خود را از جبهه ناتو در تهديد نمي‌بيند بلكه تهديدهاي نوظهور جنوبي و شرقي هم براي روسيه تهديداتي جدي محسوب مي‌گردند.

با توجه به نوع تهديدات جديد و مفاد دكترين نظامي روسيه به نظر مي‌رسد روسيه تكيه بيشتري را به كاربرد احتمالي جنگ افزارهاي هسته‌اي خود در دكترين جديد نظامي داشته باشد و همانند فرانسه و آمريكا در مسير گسترش عمودي سلاح‌هاي هسته‌اي و مشروعيت بخشي به ضربه اول هسته‌اي براي مقابله با تهديدات نظامي غيرمتقارن حركت كند.

در اين رابطه نيكلاي پاتروشف دبير شوراي امنيت فدراسيون روسيه در مصاحبه با ايزوستيا مي‌گويد:⁽¹⁶⁾

«در خصوص ماده‌اي كه در آن به امكان استفاده از تسليحات هسته‌اي اشاره شده است بايد گفت كه اين بخش از دكترين نظامي به خاطر حفظ موفقيت هسته‌اي بودن قدرت روسيه تنظيم شده كه مي‌تواند با انجام اقدامات باز دارنده هسته‌اي در برابر دشمنان بالقوه از بروز تهاجمات عليه روسيه و متحدان آن جلوگيري بعمل آورد. … شرايط استفاده از تسليحات هسته‌اي در حين دفع تهاجم با بهره‌گيري از تسليحات تهاجمي معمولي نه تنها در مقياس گسترده بلكه در سطح منطقه‌اي و حتي جنگ‌هاي داخلي نيز هماهنگ شده است».

و بالاخره آن كه پاتروشف با بيان اين كه نتايج تحليل اوضاع نظامي استراتژيكي در جهان و دورنماي توسعه آن تا سال 2020 نشان دهنده تحول آن از مناقشات گسترده نظامي به جنگ‌هاي منطقه‌اي و مناقشات مسلحانه است اضافه كرد:

… امكان استفاده از سلاح هسته‌اي با توجه به شرايط، اوضاع و نيات دشمن بالقوه در نظر گرفته شده است. در شرايطي كه وضعيت براي امنيت ملي حاد تلقي شود ضربات از جمله بازدارنده هسته‌اي عليه مهاجمين نيز احتمال داده شده است.⁽¹⁷⁾

يادداشت‌ها:

1ـ خبرگزاري «ريانوستي» روسيه 22 مهر ماه 1388.

(http://pe.rian.ru/articles/2009/1014/123500923)

2ـ دكترين‌هاي نظامي تغيير يافته عبارتند از: دكترين نظامي 1993- دكترين نظامي 1997 – دكترين نظامي 2000 و دكترين نظامي 2010.

3ـ منظور از گسترش عمودي سلاح‌هاي كشتار جمعي نوسازي و طراحي‌هاي جديد براي چگونگي كاربرد احتمالي آنها در جنگ‌هاي عادي است و گسترش افقي اشاعه سلاح‌هاي هسته‌اي و ورود كشورهاي جديد به كلوپ دارندگان سلاح هسته‌اي است.

4ـ جهت اطلاعات بيشتر به مقاله نگارنده با عنوان رفتار شناسي روسيه در عرصه تحولات جديد بين‌المللي است كه در شماره 3 پاييز 1382 فصلنامه سياست خارجي منتشر شده مراجعه شود.

5ـ آندره كوزيروف، همكاري در امر برقراري صلح، مجله مطالعات آسياي مركزي و قفقاز، سال دوم، شماره 3، (زمستان 1372)، ص 200-195.

6ـ آندره كوزيروف، مشاركت يا صلح سرد، ترجمه بدرالزمان شهبازي، مجله مطالعات آسياي مركزي و قفقاز، سال چهارم، شماره 14، ص 14-13.

7ـ جيوتسنابكشي، تداوم و تغيير در امنيت ملي و دكترين نظامي روسيه، ترجمه علي بختياري پور، نگاه، سال دوم، شماره 20، (اسفند 1380)، ص 27 و 28.

8ـ همان، ص 28.

9ـ همان، ص 29.

10ـ همان، ص 29.

11ـ ترجمه كامل متن دكترين نظامي جديد روسيه در مجله نگاه، ويژه‌نامه روسيه، (سال دوم، شماره 20، اسفند 1380)، ص 37 تا 50 به چاپ رسيده است.

12ـ مراجعه شود به متن سند دكترين نظامي جديد روسيه.

13ـ همان.

14ـ آمارهاي مختلفي در اين ارتباط وجود دارد و بعضاً گفته مي‌شود كه در هر سال 700 هزار نفر از جمعيت روسيه كم مي‌شود و با توجه به نوع و تركيب جمعيت اقوام مختلف در صد روس تباران نسبت به ديگر اقوام از جمله مسلمانان در حال كاهش است و اگر با همين نرخ جمعيت روس تبار كاهش يابد در سال 2025 جمعيت مسلمانان روسيه با جمعيت روس‌تبار برابر خواهند شد.

15ـ خبرگزاري «ريانوستي» روسيه 13 مي 2009.

16ـ خبرگزاري «ريانوستي» روسيه 14 اكتبر 2009.

17ـ همان.

It’s the Russian way.

Anna Politkovskaya was an investigative journalist who was shot dead on the 7th October 2006.  A few nights ago, I went to see “A letter to Anna”, a documentary film about the work and death of Anna.  She had written extensively on torture and human rights abuses across Russia but particularly in the North Caucasus.  Often her writing would have a member of authority as the villain in the story exposing scandals and abuses. 

She knew that she worked in constant danger but continued because of her belief in telling the truth.  She was a truly remarkable person who lived in truly remarkable danger.  In 2004 on her way to cover the Beslan situation she fell mysteriously ill on the flight on the way there.  She came close to dying that day and many of her friends suspected poisoning.  Her situation, the threats and attacks she suffered and her death, is unfortunately not a rarity amongst journalists in the Russian Federation (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_journalists_killed_in_Russia).  This Wikipedia page highlights the point. 

The problem does not stop at individual cases such as Anna’s.  There is wide spread de facto impunity for the perpetrators of these crimes.  This has left an environment where journalists and human rights defenders work in constant danger and threats.  Irene Khan of Amnesty International directly correlated the impunity that is allowed for these crimes with many recent deaths, including the death of Natalia Estemirova (http://www.amnesty.org/en/news-and-updates/news/human-rights-activist-natalia-estemirova-murdered-in-russia-20090716). 

The Russian and Chechnayan authorities need to highlight in the public domain how they intend to investigate these politically sensitive crimes in an impartial and thorough manner.  We cannot allow such impunity to go unchallenged in the 21st century.

If you think that this has nothing to do with you, I ask you to do one thing, Watch “A letter to Anna” and tell me that you were not moved by her incredible outlook on life.  Tell me that you could not feel the incredible injustice. 

Anna Politkskaya’s spirit lives on through the work of all the journalists she inspired.  It is imperative, in my opinion, that we let her life be remembered by not letting her colleagues be forgotten now as they face the same challenges she did. 

Please, make an effort to watch the film.  

This is my 2nd time watching “Orthodox Stance” , a boxing documentary following the trials & tribulations of an orthodox jew named Dmitriy Salita. Salita is a throwback boxer-jew from the crown heights section of Brooklyn-NYC originally from the Ukraine.  Amongst the city & hip hop elements of Crown Heights – Brooklyn, Salita practices Judaism & does not fight on the Sabbath or Jewish Holidays. He is a very soft spoken young man with religious beliefs of the orthodox way of Chabad. Despite, the quiet ways & calm waves of this young man, Salita has a roaring fire burning inside of him when he steps into the ring. Salita is not a devastating knockout specimen, but a definite throwback boxer with relentless proportions armed with speed & great timing.  Salita often enters the ring being serenated with the energy & sounds of reggae performer of judaism proportions, ‘Matisyahu’. Salita is also a New York Golden Gloves champion to boot.  He trained in the legendary Starrett City boxing club @ the age of 13 under the tutelage of the great Jimmy O, amongst Salita’s training mates  includes Zab Judah & Luis Collazo.  Due to an aging Jimmy O, Oscar Suarez took the reigns in training Salita.  In the documentary, check out a brief cameo of a young Miguel Cotto & an already boisterous Floyd Mayweather. Dmitriy is currently 30-0-1 with a scheduled bout against Amir Khan on Dec.5th,2009. Represent NYC boxing & get a copy of “Orthodox Stance”, its a knockout or at least a TKO, anyway!

Last week, eyebrows were raised over yet another media appearance by the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh chief, Mohan Rao Bhagwat. This time, the fuss centred on his categorical public announcement that the next national president of the Bharatiya Janata Party would not be a Delhi-based leader, and that L.K. Advani would soon relinquish his post as leader of the Opposition. Fortuitously for the Indian foreign policy establishment, his prognosis that Pakistan and Afghanistan “are a part of us and will return one day” did not arouse corresponding attention. (via The Telegraph – Calcutta (Kolkata) | Opinion | A shift in position).

From Ashvakan to Afghans

The task of subduing the Afghan, (a possibly corrupt form of Ashvakan, meaning horse specialists in Sanskrit), from the time of Alexander  to the latest Russian and American misadventures in Afghanistan underscores, the nature of the Indo-Afghan relationship. From the time of Tomyris (Thamyris), when Indian elephant units helped the Afghans to massacre Persian invaders under Cyrus the Great, or when the Afghans hopelessly tied up Alexander.

Alexander’s Indo-Afghan campaign ‘gave him the runs’ (dysentery), his soldiers deserted him in droves, he had to make a marriage alliance, pay nearly 1000 talents (25,000 kg in gold) for an alliance, his dear horse Bucephalus died, he was himself injured twice, made to release prisoners (without a ransom).

End result – he massacred defenceless non-combatant populations and armies alike, when ‘opportunities’ presented themselves.

Islamic ‘conquest’ of India

While Islamic armies were marauding Europe, Central Asia, Africa, India held out. When Genghis Khan’s Mongol armies were running rampant, Islamic refugees found shelter in India, during the reign of Iltutmish. In 1221 Genghis Khan’s Mongol armies pushed Khwarezm-Shah and other Persian refugees across the Indus into the Punjab, India.

During early Islamic rule, when India was still viewed as militarily difficult target, the Mongols did not think of attacking India.  India, the richest economy of the world at that time, with known and famous for its wealth, was spared by Genghis Khan! Just why would a looter, invader, pillager, do that? Encyclopedia Britannica says ‘Fortunately, the Mongols were content to send raiding parties no further than the Salt Range (in the northern Punjab region), which Iltutmish wisely ignored …” (emphasis mine). As Indian reputation waned, the Mongols could succeed in India only under the foreign rule of the much-derided Islamic Tughlaks.

End of foreign Islamic rule

The 200 Islamic foreign rule from 1206 AD to 1400 AD ended when Ibrahim Lodi, an Afghan horse trader, cobbled together an alliance and sent the incompetent foreign rulers packing. The Lodis were in turn deposed by another Afghan family, the Mughals.

The Mughals realized, early on, that freedom to Indians was non-negotiable – and enlisted Indian generals, kings, allies to expand their boundaries. The depredations of the foreign ‘Islamic’ rulers were partly reversed by these rulers of Afghan extract – with land reforms, tax reforms, reduction in forceful conversions, et al. The Lodis and Mughals partially reformed the Indic political model – deformed beyond recognition, during the 200 years of foreign Islamic rule. Land holdings remained concentrated in a few hands. Taxes were imposed and increased on the trading classes. Licenses and firmaans were reduced – but remained.

In the last 200 years

The only people who could win against the Afghans were the Indians – last under Ranjit Singhji. The British, and more recently, the Russians and Americans have failed miserably. British possessions of Afghanistan and Balochistan, which were handed to Pakistan on a platter, were a part of the Sikh-Punjab Empire, which fell into the British lap.

Till about 1960’s India-Afghanistan trade and relations were close and neighbourly. Rabindranath Tagore wrote the short story, ‘Kabuliwalla’. Subhash Chandra Bose escaped from Colonial Raj imprisonment during WW2, using the Afghan route to reach Germany finally.

In early 1970s, in Hyderabad,  कागजी बेदाना अनार (seedless pomegranates) from Kabul, were available at around Rs.4 a kg – at today’s value is about Rs.100 a kg (based on gold prices). Local varieties were sold at less than Rs.1 a kg.

Between 1950 to the post-1973, Nixon Chop world, saw increasing of walls, barriers, battening down of national boundaries. Marxism-Communism seemed relentless and inevitable. Closed economies were seen as the panacea of all problems. Trade was a dirty word. During this period, something momentous happened – a complete and total closure of the Indian mind. India’s international profile underwent a profound change. Indians, who earlier saw the world as a their stage, suddenly retreated into a shell.

Right and wrong

So, yes RSS view is right.

India and Pakistan are a part of the Indic family. What this means is to see Pakistan and Afghanistan not as troublesome neighbours, but as prospective future allies. The Indian political construct was always to surround the Indian heartland by buffer states – like Bangladesh, Nepal, Tibet, Pakistan and Afghanistan. It was not to take over these countries and expand into an unwieldy land mass.

So, when RSS, dreams of an Akhand Bharat, they are wrong. The idea of Bharat was value driven and not power-driven or ruler driven. What Bharat needs to focus on is not to create an Akhand Bharat, but a real Bharat, which will become a model for other countries, especially of the Greater India.

Back to the future

But the Indic model was never to have one king who ruled over others. The Indic model allowed for smaller kingdoms to compete for populations – based on opportunities, freedom, equity. Land holdings in the hands of the populations remained a unique Indian feature for thousands of years – and the West saw this feature only in the last 150-250 years. Religious restrictions in India were not even discussed – unlike the Desert Bloc where the ‘Cuius regio, eius religio’ principle (meaning whose land, his religion; CRER) was established.

In the Desert Bloc, the land, the religion and the very life of all subjects belonged to the king – unlike in India. And that is the Akhand Bharat that we all need to work for!

Με ευλάβεια στεκόμαστε μπροστά στο Νεομάρτυρα της Ορθόδοξης Χριστιανικής πίστης, τον 34χρονο έγγαμο Ορθόδοξο ιερέα μακαριστό π. Δανιήλ. Τώρα βρίσκεται μπροστά στον αληθινό Θεό, τον οποίο αγάπησε και υπηρέτησε πιστά και άφοβα, παρά τις απειλές που δέχονταν.

Οι διώκτες του νομίζουν ότι “πέθανε”, εμείς ξέρουμε ότι τώρα αρχίζει για τον π. Δανιήλ η αληθινή ζωή κοντά στον Ιησού Χριστό. Οι διώκτες του νομίζουν ότι τον “απενεργοποίησαν”, αλλά εμείς ξέρουμε ότι οι προσευχές του από την Βασιλεία των Ουρανών θα κάνουν πιο δυνατούς όλους τους Ορθόδοξους ιερείς και πιστούς, σε όλο το κόσμο

.Η σκέψη μας, η προσευχή μας είναι στην οικογένεια του Ρώσου Νεομάρτυρα π. Δανιήλ : ο Θεός να τους δίνει την εν Χριστώ παρηγορία. Τα παιδιά του και η γυναίκα του να είναι περήφανες για τον πατέρα τους – ιερέα, ο οποίος έπεσε θύμα της ΑΓΑΠΗΣ και της ΠΡΟΣΦΟΡΑΣ του προς τους ΝΕΟΥΣ της Μόσχας που κίνδυνευαν από τα ναρκωτικά, το αλκοόλ ή από πνευματικούς κινδύνους ( ψευτοθρησκείες, αιρέσεις,ψυχοναρκωτικά, αθεϊα ).

Εμείς, από την Ορθόδοξη Χριστιανική Ελλάδα, εκφράζουμε τα συλληπητήρια μας ( και τα συγχαρητήρια μας ) στη Ρωσική Ορθόδοξη Εκκλησία, η οποία μετά τα πάνω από  50.000.000  Ορθόδοξους  νεομάρτυρες του 20ου αιώνα , ανέδειξε έναν ακόμα μάρτυρα του Ιησού Χριστού, και ευχόμαστε να αναπαυθεί η ψυχή του εν σκηναίς δικαίων, να έχει καλό Παράδεισο και καλή Ανάσταση.

Ο Θεός να συγχωρέσει τον δράστη ( ή τους ηθικούς αυτουργούς ) και να τους χαρίσει μετάνοια εν Χριστώ.

Πηγές : Ρομφαία, τροκτικό, BBC, interfax

Ένας ένοπλος μασκοφόρος εισέβαλε σε εκκλησία και δολοφόνησε εν ψυχρώ έναν ρώσο ορθόδοξο ιερέα, γνωστό για το ιεραποστολικό του έργο με τους νέους, ανακοίνωσαν σήμερα οι αρχές.

Ο ένοπλος πλησίασε τον 34χρονο ιερέα Δανιήλ Σισόγιεφ στην εκκλησία του Αγίου Θωμά, στα νότια της Μόσχας, χθες το απόγευμα στις 22:45 ώρα Μόσχας.

Τον ρώτησε το όνομά του και στη συνέχεια τον πυροβόλησε με πιστόλι τέσσερεις φορές, ανακοίνωσε εκπρόσωπος της Εισαγγελίας που έχει αναλάβει την υπόθεση.

“Το επικρατέστερο σενάριο είναι ότι το έγκλημα έχει θρησκευτικά κίνητρα”, είπε ο εκπρόσωπος Ανατόλι Μπαγκμέτ μιλώντας στην τηλεόραση Rossiya.

Ο Σισόγιεφ υπέκυψε στα τραύματά του κατά τη μεταφορά του στο νοσοκομείο, ενώ κατά την επίθεση τραυματίστηκε και ο διευθυντής της εκκλησιαστικής χορωδίας, είπε ο Μπαγκμέτ και πρόσθεσε ότι ερευνώνται και άλλα πιθανά κίνητρα της δολοφονίας.

Ο Σισόγιεφ ήταν γεννημένος το 1974 και είχε έντονη ιεραποστολική δραστηριότητα, με στόχο να βοηθήσει τους νέους να έρθουν κοντά στην Ορθόδοξη Εκκλησία.

Επίσης ο π. Δανιήλ ήταν έγγαμος ιερέας με τρία παιδιά και τα τελευταία χρόνια είχε κάνει πολύ μεγάλο ιεραποστολικό έργο, όπως την ίδρυση σχολείων στην Μόσχα.

Τέλος, σύμφωνα με ρωσικά πρακτορεία ειδήσεων μετέδωσαν ότι πριν από τη δολοφονία του ο ιερέας είχε δεχτεί απειλές για τη ζωή του με e-mail.

Ο Πατριάρχης Μόσχας κ. Κύριλλος για την δολοφονία:

Ο Πατριάρχης Μόσχας και Πασών των Ρωσιών μόλις πληροφορήθηκε την δολοφονία του π. Δανιήλ δήλωσε: «Είμαι βαθύτατα θλιμμένος για τον τραγικό θάνατο του π. Δανιήλ Σισόγιεφ. Σήμερα προσευχήθηκα στην Θεία Λειτουργία, υπέρ αναπαύσεως της ψυχής του».

«Εκφράζω τα συλλυπητήρια μου προς την γυναίκα και τα τρία παιδιά του π. Δανιήλ, στους γονείς του – ιερέα Αλέξιο, στους συγγενείς και φίλους και σε όλα τα πνευματικά του παιδιά. Ο π. Δανιήλ ήταν ιερέας με πολύ ζήλο για έργο, πολλοί πιστοί έτρεχαν κοντά του, επιδιώκοντας την πνευματική του καθοδήγηση και τις συμβουλές του σε πολύ δύσκολα προβλήματα», συνέχισε ο Πατριάρχης Κύριλλος.

Επίσης ο Πατριάρχης Μόσχας τόνισε: «Η δολοφονία ενός ιερέα μέσα στο ναό, είναι μια πρόκληση για το νόμο του Θεού και εγώ ελπίζω στη δικαιοσύνη του Θεού. Τα ονόματα των δραστών είναι άγνωστα ακόμη, έτσι ζητώ απ΄ όλους να απέχουν από βιαστικές κατηγορίες και σκληρές αποφάσεις εναντίον προσώπων».

Τέλος, ο Προκαθήμενος της Ρωσικής Ορθόδοξης Εκκλησίας τόνισε: «Πρέπει να έχουμε πάντα στο μυαλό μας, ότι όταν υπηρετείς τον Χριστό και την Εκκλησία Του, αμέσως η διακονία μας αυτή συνδέεται με την ομολογία, ακόμη και με το μαρτύριο. Ο τραγικός θάνατος του π. Δανιήλ, δεν πρέπει να δημιουργήσει φόβο και δειλία στις καρδιές σας, ούτε να αποδυναμώσει το ζήλο που έχετε για έργο στην εκκλησία, εσείς θα ακολουθείτε σταθερά την πορεία του Ιησού Χριστού».

( http://www.romfea.gr/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=3484&Itemid=2 )

Ο 35χρονος πατέρας Δανιηλ ήταν γνωστός στη Ρωσία για τη θέση του για το Ισλάμ και το πως προσπαθούσε να εκχριστιανίσει μουσουλμάνους. Χθες το απόγευμα ένας άγνωστος με κουκούλα μπήκε στην εκκλησία που…

βρισκόταν ο ιερέας. Αφού τον ρώτησε το όνομα του τον πυροβόλησε στο κεφάλι και στο στέρνο. Ο πατέρας Δανιήλ εξέπνευσε λίγη ώρα αργότερα στο νοσοκομείο. Γενικά πάντως ήταν ένα άτομο που δεχόταν πολλές απειλές για τη ζωή του.

( http://troktiko.blogspot.com/2009/11/blog-post_5031.html )

A masked gunman armed with a pistol has shot dead a Russian Orthodox priest in his Moscow church, police say.

The gunman walked into St Thomas Church in southern Moscow, asked priest Daniil Sysoyev his name and then opened fire, investigators said.

The church’s choirmaster was also injured in the attack.

A police spokesman said they believed the gunman had “religious motives”. Reports said Father Sysoyev, 35, had received threats via e-mail.

Russian media said he had been involved in missionary activities aimed at encouraging young people to choose the Orthodox Church.

A statement on the website of Father Sysoyev’s missionary training centre said he had been threatened by Muslims, AFP reported.

Anatoly Bagmet, a spokesman for the prosecutor general’s office, said Father Sysoyev died of his wounds on the way to hospital.

“Investigators are looking at all possible versions, but we are inclined to think that the main motive of the crime was hatred on the basis of religion,” Mr Bagmet told the Interfax news agency.

The choirmaster, named as Vladimir Strelbitsky, was treated in hospital but his injuries were not believed life-threatening, officials said.

( http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/8370111.stm )

Moscow priest Daniil Sysoyev most likely has been killed for his missionary activity among the non-Orthodox Russian population, a source at law enforcement agencies told Interfax.

“He had recently received constant death threats from some extremist organizations. Daniil Sysoyev complained about it several times to the Federal Security Service,” the source said.

Fr. Daniil said he received anonymous phone calls and e-mails promising to “have his guts for garters,” he said.

“Sysoyev received the last threat in early October. Someone called him and said he had been sentenced to a death penalty,” the source said.

Rev. Daniil is known as an experienced theologian who had been in constant dispute with the extremist branches of Islam. He began receiving threats four years ago after holding a public debate with Vyacheslav Polosin, the former Orthodox priest who converted to Islam.

Fr. Daniil might also have been killed by members from the so-called sect of Rodnovers (Slavic Neo-pagans), the source told Interfax.

Investigators are following all lines of inquiry but this theory remains the main one, he said.

This is evidenced by the fact that the perpetrator did not leave the weapon at the crime scene, he said. “Rodnovers are not professional killers, which is why they count every barrel,” he said.

The Rodnovers organization mainly consists of young pagans.

Earlier Rodnovers staged an explosion at one of Moscow’s churches.

( http://www.interfax-religion.com/?act=news&div=6655 )

Ιστορίες από τους Ορθόδοξους νεομάρτυρες της Ρωσίας

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