Reports-Media

The

Kremlin

Methodically

Is

Cementing

Its

Hegemony

Over

Belarus

March 12, 2021

The March 10, 2021 issue of the New Atlantis magazine "atlanticcouncil.org" published an article entitled "Putin’s stealth takeover of Belarus gains momentum" written by Brian Whitmore.

Source:

Putin’s
stealth
takeover
of
Belarus
gains
momentum

Brian Whitmore writes:

"As the Russian and Belarusian armed forces launched back-to-back exercises this week, the two countries also announced plans to establish permanent joint military training centers."

The author addresses:

"Russia is steadily building the architecture that would allow it to expand its political and military footprint on the territory of its smaller Western neighbor."

Source:

Putin’s
stealth
takeover
of
Belarus
gains
momentum

The writer explains:

"The Kremlin is methodically laying the groundwork to cement its hegemony over Belarus, regardless of how the political crisis is resolved or whether Lukashenka himself remains in power."

Mr. Whotmore points out:

"A key component of that architecture is military. Moscow has long sought to turn Belarus into a de facto extension of its own Western Military District by establishing effective dominance over its neighbor’s armed forces and gaining basing rights on its territory."

The author addresses:

"And in recent months, Moscow has made giant leaps toward these goals."

Source:

Putin’s
stealth
takeover
of
Belarus
gains
momentum

The writer explains:

"In the past, Shoigu has also proposedintegrating the defense and security apparatus of Belarus and Russia into a joint decision-making center in Moscow."

Mr. Whitmore writes:

"A similar model has already been implemented in Georgia’s Russian-occupied regions of Abkhazia and South Ossetia."

The writer states:

"As is usually the case, the Putin regime is keeping its options open and operating on several fronts in Belarus."

Source:

Putin’s
stealth
takeover
of
Belarus
gains
momentum

Mr. Whitmore addresses:

"It is maneuvering politically to control the outcome of the political crisis, whether Lukashenka succeeds in clinging on to power or not."

The author addresses:

"At the same time, Moscow is building the architecture to turn Belarus into an extension of Russia for military purposes, a development that would dramatically alter the security equation on NATO’s eastern flank."

"This is a security threat that the United States and its allies cannot afford to ignore."

Source:

Putin’s
stealth
takeover
of
Belarus
gains
momentum

March 12, 2021:
Ukrainian-
Russian
clashes
begin:
"This
war
is
a
positive
thing
for
Azerbaijan"


Brookings
(18 March
2019):
Five
Years
After
Crimea's
Illegal
Annexation
the
Issue
Is
No
Closer
to
Resolution


Aljazeera
News|
16
April
2021
Russia
to
close
parts
of
Black
sea
near
Crimea
for
six
months">


The
Times
|
18
April
2021:
British
warships
head
for
Black
sea
as
Russian
troops
mass
on
Ukrainian
border">


Politico.eu|
18 April
2021
Russia
bolsters
Black
sea
presence
after
latest
Ukraine
row">



14
April
2021|
Business
Insider:
The
US
and
Russia
are
sending
warships
into
the
Black
Sea
Amid
Rising
Tensions

Putin's

The

Same

Aggressions

Are

Repeated

Again

And

Again

March 12, 2021

Let Russian President Vladimir Putin not be accustomed to the military invasions, to various intimidations, to occupying of territories from former Soviet republics.

His aggressive habits, unfortunately, are getting strengthened year by year.

The only habit to the peoples in the former Soviet republics (Russia is excluded) should be allowed to form is to be infected to no habit of acceptance of any intimidation and threstening by Vladimir Putin.

Let Vladimir Putin not be accustomed to intimidate the peoples of the former Soviet republics (Russia excluded).

The people in the former Soviet republics should learn to fit themselves in managing of their own problems and always to be master of themselves.

The people in the former Soviet republics should predict the dangers from Russia and prepare long beforehand for the time when their countries are invaded.

By doing so, these nations use all their strengths against the Russia's aggressions.

Russian President Vladimir Putin will not remorse to invade again and occupy other territories.

Putin will repeat the same aggressions again and again. [He did these aggressions in the territories of Georgia, Azerbaijan, Ukraine and Moldova].

Mr. Putin demonstrated multiple times how ignorant he is.

He does not respect the territorial integrity of other countries.

His troops invade again and again.

On November 10, 2021, the Tzar Putin's soldiers occupied the Karabakh region of Azerbaijan. [as Russian peacekeeping troops who were ready to invade into the Karabakh!!??].

Russia knows one thing very well:

Russia knows how to make pieces from the territories of other nations.

Russia also knows how to assemble all hose stolen pieces into its Russia's empire.

Russian peacekeeping troops? It's a joke!

These troops are the same types of troops who invaded and occupied the territories of other countries in the past.

Many people have a desire. A desire to de-occupation of their territories from Russian armed forces.

The want to see the Karabakh region of Azerbaijan is becoming deoccupied.

Becoming de-occupied from the Russian soldiers and their Armenian mercenaries and separatists in the South Caucasus.

A desire to see the Russian President Putin will accept the sovereignty of Azerbaijan is not imaginable.

Putin and other Russian leaders will not allow the countries in the South Caucasus to be get rid of Russia.

Any progress in the South Caucasus towards stabilization and full independency without Russia's hegemony would be impossible.

The Karabakh region of Azerbaijan is occupied by Russia to prevent any stability and progress.

But Russian president Putin continued to be violent and aggressive.

Vladimir Putin violated again the basic norms of the international laws.

The Russian troops were deployed [by Vladimir Putin] to the Karabakh region of Azerbaijan.

The Russian troops were deployed by an order from the Kremlin in Moscow to go and to occupy approximately 4,000 sqare kilometers of the Azerbaijani territories .

Mr. Putin's soldiers (SALDATS) obeyed the Putin's order and under the command of Geneal Rustam Muradov went to the Karabakh region of Azerbaijan.

General Rustam Muradov's soldiers occupied over 4,000 sqare kilometers of the Azerbaijani territories in the Karabakh region and outlawed everything which can indicate to be Azerbaijani!!!

General Rustam Moradov has allowed to practice only the laws of Russia in the occupied Karabakh.
Everywhere in the Karabakh region Azerbaijan are the Russian flags; plus the armenian separatists' flags.

All those armenian separatists who have massacred the Azerbaijani people and their names have been given to Interpol for their arrests, are under protection of the Russian soldierd to launch new wars against Azerbaijan from the occupied Karabakh.

The Russian soldiers harass all the times the Azerbaijani truck drivers who carry the goods to the Azerbaijani people in the Karabakh and order them to give their goods to the Russian trucksnto carry within the territiries of Azerbaijan in the Karabak region.

The Russian soldiers order STOP! to the Azerbajani truck drivers who are driving to their destinatinations in the Azerbaijani cities of Kelbejar and Lachin.

These truck drivers carry the raw materials [for using in the construction of houses, schools, roads and hospitals] and they are on the roads to these Azerbaijani cities [Kelbejar and Lachin].

The truck drivers are within the internationally recognized territories of Azerbaijan. Who are these Russian troops? They are invaders.

These Russian invaders order to the Azerbaijani truck drivers to have only the Russian flags within their trucks!

Insulting, invating and ignoring the Azerbaijani as well as the intetnational laws mean for Russia what?

Is it peacekeeping when the mass the criminals are supported and protected by the Russian troops?

Is it peacekeeping mission when Russia for 0,16 % (less than 1%) of the Russian population in the Karabakh region of Azerbaijan to declare the Russian language as the second official language in the Karabakh region of Azerbaijan?

Mr. Putin! The Karabakh region is the Azerbaijani territories.

Who are you Mr. Putin to occupy the Karabakh and then to declare that the Russian language will be as an official language witin the territory of Azerbaijan in the Karabakh region?

Who are Mr. Putin to decide and to give to the armenian separatists in the Karabakh region of Azerbaijan, the Russian passports to become the Russian protectrats within the territories of Azervaijan?

The Karabakh region is recognized as an integral part of the Azerbaijani territory and this territory is within the Azerbaijani territories.

The Karabakh is not in Russia!

Mr. Putin! Why then the Azerbaiiani drivers to show to your occupation troops the Russian flags to allow them to pass on the roads?

The Russian soldiers are in the Azetbaijani teritories and they should know it.

They areb within the Azerbajani territories in the Karabakh region.

The Russian soldiers [the occupying troops)do not allow the Azerbaijani soldiers to control their own borders and customs in those borders within the Lachin corridor inside of the Azerbaiani territory.

Who can deny how many terrorists and drugs smugglers are infliterating and using these uncontrolled zones in the Lachin corridor?

The Lachin corridor is within the territory of Azerbaijan. It is the border of Armenia with Azerbaijan.

The Lachin road is the shortest road (ca. 32 km) to reach the capital of Karabakh. That's why Russia as the patron of Armenia controls the Lachin corridor (5 km) and Lachin road to the calital of Karabach (also occupied by Russian troops).

The United Nations has not given any mandate to Russia to send its troops to the Nagorno Karabakh of Azerbaijan.

Russia and Armenia have fought for a long time to occupy this region of Azerbaijan.

No mandate means no mandate.

The United Nations knows at least for 8 reasons Russia is unqualified to have a peacekeeping role in the Karabakh of Azetbaijan:

1) Russia is the patron of Armenia.
2) Russia supplies all kinds of weapons free or with very low credits.
3) Russia thinks on the geopolitics of the Karabakh for its hegemony in the South Caucasus.
4. Russia follows its expansionism in the South Caucasus region.
5. Russia wants to control all routes from the East (China and other Asian countries) to the West (Turkey and Europe).
6. Russia for more than 28 years has pressured Azerbaijan to allow to a Russian military base in its territories.
7. Russia wants to control the gas pipelines to the western countries so that to supress them when it wants.
8. Having a military base in the Karabakh region of Azerbaijan [in Russia's strategies] enhances the hegemonic roles of Russia [not only Russia can intimidate but also can control the republics like Georgia and Azerbaijan. Russia also can make its threats to Turkey and the countries in the Middle East and Africa.

Russia has invaded the territory of Azerbaijan. This invasion happened under the umbrella term of the peaceking troops [which the UN denies giving this role to Russia] .

The Western countries and their political experts should not deceive themselves and the world that Russia's Vladimir Putin does not want to send his troops to the Karabakh.

They know the geopolitical meaning of Karabakh in the mind of the tzar Putin?

Putin repeats that he wants to revive the Soviet Union.

Putin talks about the Russia's zones of influences in the Eastetern Europe, in the South Caucasus and elsewhere.

To invade militarily and occupy is the cornerstone of Mr. Putin's mind.

Russian troops are in the Karabakh for occupation.

The Russian troops are in the Karabakh of Azerbaijan for aggression.

For supporting the armenian separatists who receive all their weapons free or with very low credits from Russia.

The Russian troops have replaced the armenian armed forces in the Karabakh region of Azerbaijan.

The armenian armed forces themselves were [and still are] the Russian subjects in the South Caucasus.

Sergei

Aksyonov

Putin's man in Crimea says:

Crimea

Will never return to

Ukraine

March 12, 2021

The January 27, 2018 issue of NPR "npr.org" published an article entitled "Putin's man in Crimea:"We Have Been Returned To Russia Forever" written by Lucian Kim.

Source:

January
27,
2018,
"by
Lucian
Kim:
"Putin's
man
in
Crimea:
"We
Have
Been
Returned
To
Russia
Forever"

Lucian Kim is NPR's international correspondent based in Moscow. He writes:

"When heavily armed Russian troops began fanning out across Crimea in February 2014, one man stepped out of the shadows to lead the movement to break off from Ukraine and join Russia."

The author addresses:

"Sergei Aksyonov, then the head of a small pro-Kremlin party, was appointed the leader of Crimea and oversaw a referendum in favor of the split that few countries recognized."

The writer points out:

"The lightning Russian takeover was a watershed moment, leading to a downward spiral in relations between Moscow and the West."

Source:

January
27,
2018,
"by
Lucian
Kim:
"Putin's
man
in
Crimea:
"We
Have
Been
Returned
To
Russia
Forever"

Mr. Kim quotes what Sergei Aksyonov,45, is telling to NPR on Thursday in an interview in the government building in Simferopol, the regional capital:

"Crimea will never return to Ukraine, and it's senseless to set any conditions to that end."

The author explains:

"Crimea, a strategic peninsula that juts into the Black Sea from the Ukrainian mainland, has been the base for Russia's Black Sea Fleet for more than 200 years."

The writer notes:

"Days after the 2014 annexation, Russian President Vladimir Putin said he couldn't have countenanced the possibility of Crimea falling into NATO's hands."

Source:

January
27,
2018,
"by
Lucian
Kim:
"Putin's
man
in
Crimea:
"We
Have
Been
Returned
To
Russia
Forever"

Mr. Kim quotes Aksyonov as saying:

"Crimea has since been turned into an "impenetrable fortress" and faces noand faces no military threats."

The author quotes again Aksyonov as saying::

"Crimea has since been turned into an "impenetrable fortress" and faces no military threats."

Aksyonov adds:

"As for punitive sanctions imposed by the U.S. and the European Union after the annexation, they had little effect on the local economy, as there were few international investors or foreign tourists in Crimea to begin with."

Source:

January
27,
2018,
"by
Lucian
Kim:
"Putin's
man
in
Crimea:
"We
Have
Been
Returned
To
Russia
Forever"

Mr. Kim writes:

"Aksyonov says he "absolutely doesn't care" about being sanctioned by the U.S. and EU for his role in Crimea's annexation."

The author addresses:

"In Kiev, Aksyonov is considered a collaborator with a foreign occupying power and is under investigation for treason."

The writer points out:

"Ordinary Crimeans complain that after being incorporated into Russia, they saw prices double and incomes dry up as vacationers, especially from Ukraine, stayed away."

"Deliveries of supplies from the Ukrainian mainland, Mr. Kim writes, "were cut, making the region of 2.3 million almost entirely dependent on shipments by ferry from Russia."

The author quotes Aksyonov as saying:

"Ask any Crimean, the biggest change is the construction of the Crimean bridge."

Source:

January
27,
2018,
"by
Lucian
Kim:
"Putin's
man
in
Crimea:
"We
Have
Been
Returned
To
Russia
Forever"

The writer adds:

"Aksyono referring to a 12-mile road-and-rail link that will connect the peninsula to Russia."

"The bridge will open to cars later this year and to trains in 2019, he said."

Mr. Kim writes:

"A highway across the peninsula and two power stations are also scheduled to open this year."

Source:

January
27,
2018,
"by
Lucian
Kim:
"Putin's
man
in
Crimea:
"We
Have
Been
Returned
To
Russia
Forever"

The author quotes Aksyonov as saying:

"Investments into Crimea's infrastructure until 2020 will total 1 trillion rubles, or about $18 billion."

"Not one Ukrainian president devoted as much attention to Crimea as Vladimir Putin does now," Aksyonov adds.

Source:

January
27,
2018,
"by
Lucian
Kim:
"Putin's
man
in
Crimea:
"We
Have
Been
Returned
To
Russia
Forever"

Sergei

Aksyonov

With

Russian

Separatism

In

His

Genes

12 March 2021

In March 4 2014 issue of Time Simon Shuster published an article entitled "Putin's Man in Crimea Is Ukraine's Worst Nightmare."

Source:

SIMON
SHUSTER
(MARCH
10,
2014)
Putin's
Man
in
Crimea
Is
Ukraine's
Worst
Nightmare

Simon Shuster writes:

"His rise to power has made him a valuable ally to Moscow and a serious threat to Ukraine and its Western partners."

The author addresses:

"His written appeal to Russian President Vladimir Putin is what opened the door for the Russian occupation of Crimea at the beginning of this month, and

on March 4, Putin recognized Aksyonov as the legitimate leader of Crimea, apparently without ever having met the man."

The writer explains:

"Since then the Crimean government has asked Russia to annex the peninsula, a move that is likely to redraw the map of Ukraine and cause a historic rift between Russia and the West."

Source:

SIMON
SHUSTER
(MARCH
10,
2014)
Putin's
Man
in
Crimea
Is
Ukraine's
Worst
Nightmare

Mr. Shuster explains:

"The 41-year-old Aksyonov, a lumbering former cigarette trader with Russian separatism in his genes, now finds himself at the center of the world’s attention."

The author notes:

"In the late 1980s, as the Soviet Union began to fall apart, nationalist movements for independence began to spring up in nearly all of its satellite states, from the Baltics to Central Asia."

Source:

SIMON
SHUSTER
(MARCH
10,
2014)
Putin's
Man
in
Crimea
Is
Ukraine's
Worst
Nightmare

Mr. Shuster writes:

"Aksyonov’s father, an officer in the Red Army, was then stationed in the Eastern European state of Moldova, where a new generation of leaders was demanding their rights to form an independent state."

The author addresses:

"In 1990, the ethnic tensions in that country erupted into war, and the Russian army came to the rescue of paramilitary groups fighting the forces of the Moldovan government."

Mr. Shuster explains:

"Two years later, the conflict ended with the de facto secession of a breakaway state called Transnistria, a sliver of land that runs along the Dniestr River."

Source:

SIMON
SHUSTER
(MARCH
10,
2014)
Putin's
Man
in
Crimea
Is
Ukraine's
Worst
Nightmare

The author points out:

"Today, Transnistria is still a frozen conflict zone on the map of Europe – and a state that Aksyonov reveres."

Mr. Shuster states:

"Its independence is not recognized by any member of the United Nations, including Russia."

The writer addresses:

"It is the only part of Europe that still uses the insignia of the Soviet Union, and its economy imposes Soviet-style subsistence living on the masses while the politically-connected elite benefit from its unique black market."

Source:

SIMON
SHUSTER
(MARCH
10,
2014)
Putin's
Man
in
Crimea
Is
Ukraine's
Worst
Nightmare

Simon Shuster explains:

"As an unrecognized state unbound by international law, its customs points are a clearinghouse for contraband, including tobacco, guns and counterfeit liquor."

The writer adds:

"But Aksyonov sees it as a place to be emulated."

Aksyonoy says:

“Transnistria is a bastion of Russian culture inside Moldova.”

“They wanted to preserve their identity. And I fully support them, because I know what kind of pressures they faced.”

Source:

SIMON
SHUSTER
(MARCH
10,
2014)
Putin's
Man
in
Crimea
Is
Ukraine's
Worst
Nightmare

Mr. Shuster addresses:

"In 1989, just before the war in Moldova broke out, those pressures convinced the 17-year-old Aksyonov to move from his homeland to Crimea, where he enrolled in a college for Soviet military engineers."

"But before he could graduate from the academy to become a Red Army officer like his father and grandfather," the author explains, "the Soviet Union collapsed."

Aksyonov says:

“All of us, my entire class, we were all told, ‘That’s it, you have no country left to serve."

"Now pledge an oath to independent Ukraine,’” he recalls. “It’s just like what’s happening now.”"

Source:

SIMON
SHUSTER
(MARCH
10,
2014)
Putin's
Man
in
Crimea
Is
Ukraine's
Worst
Nightmare