#yury kharchenko

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Dostoevsky by Yury Kharchenko.

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Pilots-Heroes of the Soviet Union 752nd aviation regiment long-range Stepan Kharchenko and Yuri Petelin with the commander of the regiment-Lieutenant Colonel Ivan Karpovich Brovko. Near-bomber DB-3F. Monino.

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Good morning!

Налетел вдруг ветер...

Юрий Харченко Налетел вдруг ветер, подобрал и встретил, Приподнял, подбросил, закружил. Никого не встретил я на белом свете, - Не по тем дорогам я бродил. Я бродил по дорогам и туда и сюда, как всегда, И искал свет далекой и светлой звезды напрасно. Но здесь, на вершине холма, ладонью достал облака | И понял, что жизнь иногда - прекрасна. | И не жаль мне теперь тех потерянных дней и ночей, Я почти все простил, с кем мне в жизни пришлось расстаться. У меня под ногами - цветы, | Надо мной - свет далекой звезды, | И теперь я умею во сне смеяться. | Снова ты, вновь к тебе, о тебе, и с тобой лишь одной... И, как флейта живет ожиданием встречи с губами, Эту музыку неба, мелодию сна, | Свет далекой звезды на вершине холма, | И какими, за что это все принесло мне ветрами? | Этот мартовский день, этот август и гром, Веток гнущихся тень, первый снег за окном, И какими, за что это все принесло мне ветрами?

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Yuri Kharchenko

Suddenly the wind flew in, picked up and met, lifted, threw, whirled. I have not met anyone in this world, - I wandered on the wrong roads. I wandered the roads and here and there, as always, And looked for the light of a distant and bright star in vain. But here, at the top of the hill, I took out clouds with his palm | And I realized that life is sometimes beautiful. | And now I am not sorry for those lost days and nights, I have forgiven almost everything, with whom I had to part in my life. Flowers under my feet, | Above me - the light of a distant star, | And now I can laugh in my sleep. | Again you, again to you, about you, and with you only you - one... And, like a flute, it lives in anticipation of meeting the lips, This music of the sky, the melody of sleep, | Light of distant star on top of hill, | And what, for what did it all bring me - winds? | This March day, this August and thunder, Twigs of bending shadow, the first snow outside the window, And what, why did all this bring me winds?

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L'One | 7 Days from Murad Nogmov on Vimeo.

This is a musical novel about real feelings and friendship. And this is very important video for myself, it shows a Russian culture in 100%.

Written and Directed: Levan Goroziia & Murad Nogmov DoP: Kirill Groshev

Cast: Levan Goroziia, Djordje Nikolic, Jalil Asretov, Elias Rakhim, Renat Bulikin, Vladimir Dubinin, Konstantin Romanenko, Elizaveta Yurieva, Katerina Bekker

Minor cast: Eduard Kalimullin, Igor Grunsky, Adam Bulguchev, Tatyana Orlova, Oleg Fedorov, Gennady Zuev, Vitaly Kondrashev

Bakehouse Executive Producers: Alya Lugovaya, Kostya Korobkin, Sonya Katulska Line producers: Lilia Sviridova, Nino Vasilkovskaya Production Assistant: Slava Glushonkov

1st AD: Daris Kastsiuchenka Clapper: Snegana Bobyreva

Production Designer: Anastasia Klokova 1st PDA: Daria Balashova Props Artist: Kristina Shulz PrAA: Kristina Neporozhneva PDA: Nikolay Nekrasov, Ilya Mestnik, Sergey Stepanov, Sergey Lebedev, Igor Prihodko, Nikolay Chukov, Nilolay Fedorov, Nikolay Antonov

Costumes Designers: Karolina Volbin, Anastasia Suhanova Wardrobe: Margarita Volkotrub MuA: Daria Tishaeva Prosthetics: Lana Kaun MuAA: Ekaterina Yakimenko

1AC: Andrey Pogrebnyak DIT: Yury Kharchenko Gaffer: Nikolay Vahrameev Light Crew: Sergey Irgizcev, Evgeny Gavrilov, Evgeny Maslenkov

Sound Engineer: Stanislav Paushev

Casting Director: Shorena Paziya Extras Casting Director: Anna Dulenkova Actors and Extras Assistant: Nikita Repin

Location Scout Managers: Vladimir Kravchenko, Nikolay Ivanov

Pyrotechnist: Anton Maryanov Stage Management: Alexandr Lubenko, Dmitry Vlasov, Alexandr Shohin

Buffet Lady: Olesya Trofimova Driver: Nazir Ramazanov

Props Cars: Arendakino, Max loginov, Mihail Melnikov, Alexanra Kozlova, Lady Audi, Artem Arzyamov

Editors: Vlad Yakunin, Murad Nogmov Colorist: Artem Leonov Sound-Design and Sound Postproduction: Simple Minds Sound studio Film Developing and Scan: Mosfilm Voice dubbingа: Konstantin Shpakov Backstage photo & video: Nidal Al-Makharek, Alexander Emauz, Dmitry Litvinov

Blackstar Producer: Irina Lapteva Artist: L’ONE Music: Blasian Beats, Fortune

Special thanks: Global Star Russia / World Skills Russia / SSB kino / Andrey Lyahov / Alexander Kalushkin Dmitry Suvorov / Anton Belov / Eugeny Starobinets / Octagon Fights / Nikolay Tokarev / Irina Pavlova / Alexandra Sokolova / Dmitry Maseykin / Max Malakhov

Author of the Idea: Levan Goroziia

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Inside Matteo Salvini's Secret Russian Money Machine

Alberto Pizzoli//AFP/ReutersROME–Italy’s Mussolini-channeling, selfie-taking, race-baiting far-right leader, it might be said, knows no shame. Over the course of 14 months as interior minister and vice premier, while acting as if he already ran the government, Matteo Salvini also became something of a cop-impersonating wannabe hero, taking a selfie in every insignia-laden security windbreaker and polo shirt he could squeeze into to try to somehow channel the power of the uniform to puff up his ego and invincibility. He even directed a police officer to take his teenage son on a joyride using an official security service jetski during his summer vacation. And it all seemed to be working very well–until it didn’t.Salvini, leader of the former Northern League separatist party, now known simply as the League, doubled his support from a paltry 17 percent in March 2018 national elections to more than 34 percent in European parliamentary elections in May. He had been on the periphery of mainstream politics, thought to be too extreme in his rhetoric and adoration for Benito Mussolini's nationalistic style of governing to ever actually come close to power. An Italian Expose Documents Moscow Money Allegedly Funding Italy's Far-Right SalviniBut with Donald Trump’s endorsement on a campaign visit in Philadelphia in 2016 and careful curation by Trump strategist Steve Bannon, Salvini went viral–quite literally. He hijacked social media in a way no Italian leader had ever come close to doing and held Trumpian campaign-style rallies–more than 200 in just over a year–rather than spending time behind the desk. He might have apologized for the jetski incident, but he was unapologetically racist in his policies, most of which were announced via Facebook Live. Then, last month, Salvini overplayed his hand, provoking a catastrophic collapse of the Italian government in the expectation new elections would put him in office as the full-fledged prime minister.But the whole time Salvini was reaching for what he hoped would be unbridled power, he was up to something fishy behind the scenes–and, as with his American idol, that something involved the Russians. A series of journalistic revelations in recent months make the case Salvini was enabling Russian interference in exchange for dirty money filtering into his political party coffers. And in a dramatic parliamentary confrontation, the prime minister Salvini hoped to force out threw the accusations in his face. Last February, an Italian exposé pulled back the curtain on a scandal that has yet to be fully unraveled. But it involves a group  of nefarious Russians with close ties to Russian President Vladimir Putin attempting to buy influence in Europe's far-right parties through hard cash and dirty fuel. And Salvini, long an unrepentant Russophile, seemed all-too-happy to oblige. As accounts of the scandal were drip fed by the Italian press, Salvini attempted his midsummer parliamentary coup.  Obviously he hoped early elections would hand him full powers, but may also have wanted to get the “Russian Affair” out of the headlines. Whatever the reason, the coalition’s mild-mannered professorial prime minister Giuseppe Conte, who had for 14 months carried out Salvini's hardline bidding on migration and national security, suddenly found his voice. In a stunning resignation speech last month, Conte condemned Salvini as a radical lout and a faux Christian. In a scathing 60 minute parting shot in parliament, Conte accused Salvini–seated right bedside him–of everything from blasphemy for kissing his rosary when it was convenient to hedonism for inviting scantily-clad supporters to lap dance during the national anthem at a mojito-fueled beach rally. But of all the accusations Conte lobbed at his soon-to-be former interior minister and vice premier, one thing stood out. In a not-so-veiled accusation, Conte implied that perhaps Salvini's master wasn't his own ego, but Vladimir Putin. There was an audible gasp in parliament when Conte crossed the invisible line, putting his hand ever-so-softly on Salvini's shoulder and saying Salvini “still had some explaining to do” about a certain October 2018 meeting Salvini’s associates had in Moscow in which details were discussed about funneling millions of euros into Salvini’s League party through an illicit kickback scheme involving underpriced Russian fuel. “The Russian affair deserved to be clarified also for its international implications,” Conte told him during his speech. “You refused to share the information.”* * *In fact, a few weeks before Salvini pulled the plug on the government, the “Metropol” affair, named for the Moscow hotel in which a secret meeting between Salvini associate Gianluca Savoini and Putin's henchmen took place, was that he pulled the plug on the governing coalition. What is important is that Savoini, the man at the center of the Russian affair, is one of Salvini's closest allies, but has been kept at a discreet distance from his governmental affairs. He is married to a Russian woman named Irina whose personal history is opaque. The couple own homes in St. Petersburg, Moscow, and Milan, and he frequently tweets photos of Red Square with the caption “Third Rome.” Savoini is the head of the Russian-Lombardy commercial group set in northern Italy, and has been referred to by Italian Vanity Fair as Salvini’s “sherpa,” who “doesn't speak a word of Russian but who is fluent in the language of politics.”Not long after the story first broke in February, an Italian magistrate put Savoini under criminal investigation on suspicion of international corruption, along with Gianluca Meranda and a former banker named Francesco Vannucci–the other Italian men reportedly at the table during the Moscow meeting. The mens’ homes in Italy have been searched and documents said to be bad for Salvini have been sequestered. Both have admitted to being at the Metropol, but each has denied wrongdoing, pleading instead that they were negotiating legitimate private business deals that, while they might have looked bad, given international sanctions against Russia, were not illegal. Prosecutors looking into the affair have told The Daily Beast that they do not think the dirty oil deal was ever carried out, but the plans alone constitute a crime whether they came to fruition or not because of the ties to Salvini's political party. Salvini was called to the Italian senate to answer questions earlier this summer, but he refused, calling the allegations “fantasies” brought on by political opponents. He said he had never taken a ruble from the Russians, although it appears he would have had the deal not fallen through. (One is reminded of U.S. President Donald Trump’s efforts to secure a huge real estate deal in Moscow. It failed, but not for want of trying, even as he ran for president in 2016.)Igor Dodon is Vladimir Putin’s Moldovan Mini-MeThe Moscow meeting was first reported by the Italian newsmagazine Espresso last year and was picked up by BuzzFeed, which has since teamed up with the investigative news site Bellingcat and the Russian site the Insider to dig deeper. Earlier this week, BuzzFeed and the others published new audio tape from the Metropol meeting in which a voice identified as Savoini’s can be heard trying to close a deal for $72 million that would have been funneled into Salvini's League party ahead of the European Parliamentary elections last May. The Russians caught on tape are identified as Andrey Yuryevich Kharchenko and Ilya Andreevich Yakunin. A third man at the meeting known only as “Yuri” has not been identified by name. In a hearing on the case Thursday in Milan, lawyers for Savoini argued that the BuzzFeed audio is inadmissible because its origin cannot be verified. It is widely thought to have been taped by one of the men in attendance at the Moscow meeting, found during the police investigations of Savoini and the other men, then leaked to the press by someone who wanted to do damage to Salvini. The journalists who had been trailing Savoini in Moscow also have photos of all the men at the Metropol that day which have been entered into evidence in the case. Lawyers also argued that Salvini had not been privy to the details of the meeting and that Savoini was acting on his own to benefit the League.The Russians identified on the tape are no strangers to Putin's inner circle. Kharchenko is an aide to Russia’s most notorious alt-right leader, Alexander Dugin.  During the five-year-long war in Ukraine, Dugin emerged as a nationalist leader, denying globalism and liberal values; but after the failure of the Russia-backed forces to claim more territory in eastern Ukraine he claimed “Devil disrupted the Russian Spring.”    That Putin would court someone like Salvini is hardly surprising. Salvini has posted selfies from Red Square wearing a t-shirt with Putin’s image and is no stranger to Moscow, traveling there often both officially and privately. He has been a strong advocate of lifting European sanctions on Russia and campaigned for the European Parliament on forging closer ties to Russia. In the past three or four years Putin has supported far-right ideologues and has met frequently with one of Salvini’s closest allies in Europe, French politician Marine Le Pen. Putin also has met Hungarian leader Victor Orban, who refers to George Soros as “Satan,” and with the far-right Czech President Milos Zeman, who are all part of the same umbrella group that is now pushing to lift Russian sanctions in the European Parliament. Putin’s ruling party United Russia has even gone so far as to sign cooperation agreements with Salvini’s League and Austria’s Freedom Party (FPO). Putin ally Dugin has told The Daily Beast that Steve Bannon is “the last hope in the United States, Salvini in Italy, Le Pen in France.”It is impossible that Putin would not have known about the multi-million euro deal being forged with Savoini and Salvini. As has been proven in the past, when Putin gives the “green light,” Russian banks, businesses and government spring into action to find ways to discreetly channel Russian money to Europe’s far-right parties. “We openly act against the West’s mainstream political powers,” Sergei Markov, a Kremlin advisor active on the international scene, told The Daily Beast. “We share the same values as Europe’s far-right groups, such as Christian beliefs, strong families,  the defense of private property.” Markov named the Kremlin’s key political allies as France, Italy, Austria, the Czech Republic, Hungary and Spain. Russia’s Alt-Right Rasputin Says He’s Steve Bannon’s Ideological Soul MateMarkov also told The Daily Beast that Salvini is crucial in Putin’s plan. “There is nothing strange about our businesses wanting to help him,” Markov said. “He will block the anti-Russian sanctions at the European parliament.” Olga Kryshtanovskaya, the head of research at the Russian State University of Management, says that the Kremlin’s current strategy is to build a network of friends in the West. “Putin personally approves the list of far-right leaders that Russia should be dealing with, then his elite, including politicians with soft liberal views, like Vladimir Pligin, promote, because they serve him as soldiers,” Kryshtanovskaya told The Daily Beast. The BuzzFeed report about Salvini’s dirty Russian money also mentions Russian Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Kozak, Putin’s close friend from St. Petersburg. During his Moscow visit last October, Salvini met him and later denounced the West’s sanctions against Russia as “cultural folly” and met with Kozak and Pligin. Shortly after that the U.S. put Kozak on the sanctions list. "The Russian elite is dreaming about the end of tensions with the West but since Putin is not going to give Crimea back for anything, he chooses to redesign the West, and Russian elite is helping him," Kryshtanovskaya told The Daily Beast.For now, Salvini is out of office in Italy, but he is still a member of the European Parliament, where he can bide his time waiting for the new Italian government–presided over by none other than Giuseppe Conte–to fall. Salvini can also use his time out of the spotlight and off the government's clock to do as he pleases, meet with old friends, fund raise for the next elections, and, very likely, take more selfies in Red Square.  Read more at The Daily Beast.Got a tip? 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Alberto Pizzoli//AFP/ReutersROME–Italy’s Mussolini-channeling, selfie-taking, race-baiting far-right leader, it might be said, knows no shame. Over the course of 14 months as interior minister and vice premier, while acting as if he already ran the government, Matteo Salvini also became something of a cop-impersonating wannabe hero, taking a selfie in every insignia-laden security windbreaker and polo shirt he could squeeze into to try to somehow channel the power of the uniform to puff up his ego and invincibility. He even directed a police officer to take his teenage son on a joyride using an official security service jetski during his summer vacation. And it all seemed to be working very well–until it didn’t.Salvini, leader of the former Northern League separatist party, now known simply as the League, doubled his support from a paltry 17 percent in March 2018 national elections to more than 34 percent in European parliamentary elections in May. He had been on the periphery of mainstream politics, thought to be too extreme in his rhetoric and adoration for Benito Mussolini's nationalistic style of governing to ever actually come close to power. An Italian Expose Documents Moscow Money Allegedly Funding Italy's Far-Right SalviniBut with Donald Trump’s endorsement on a campaign visit in Philadelphia in 2016 and careful curation by Trump strategist Steve Bannon, Salvini went viral–quite literally. He hijacked social media in a way no Italian leader had ever come close to doing and held Trumpian campaign-style rallies–more than 200 in just over a year–rather than spending time behind the desk. He might have apologized for the jetski incident, but he was unapologetically racist in his policies, most of which were announced via Facebook Live. Then, last month, Salvini overplayed his hand, provoking a catastrophic collapse of the Italian government in the expectation new elections would put him in office as the full-fledged prime minister.But the whole time Salvini was reaching for what he hoped would be unbridled power, he was up to something fishy behind the scenes–and, as with his American idol, that something involved the Russians. A series of journalistic revelations in recent months make the case Salvini was enabling Russian interference in exchange for dirty money filtering into his political party coffers. And in a dramatic parliamentary confrontation, the prime minister Salvini hoped to force out threw the accusations in his face. Last February, an Italian exposé pulled back the curtain on a scandal that has yet to be fully unraveled. But it involves a group  of nefarious Russians with close ties to Russian President Vladimir Putin attempting to buy influence in Europe's far-right parties through hard cash and dirty fuel. And Salvini, long an unrepentant Russophile, seemed all-too-happy to oblige. As accounts of the scandal were drip fed by the Italian press, Salvini attempted his midsummer parliamentary coup.  Obviously he hoped early elections would hand him full powers, but may also have wanted to get the “Russian Affair” out of the headlines. Whatever the reason, the coalition’s mild-mannered professorial prime minister Giuseppe Conte, who had for 14 months carried out Salvini's hardline bidding on migration and national security, suddenly found his voice. In a stunning resignation speech last month, Conte condemned Salvini as a radical lout and a faux Christian. In a scathing 60 minute parting shot in parliament, Conte accused Salvini–seated right bedside him���of everything from blasphemy for kissing his rosary when it was convenient to hedonism for inviting scantily-clad supporters to lap dance during the national anthem at a mojito-fueled beach rally. But of all the accusations Conte lobbed at his soon-to-be former interior minister and vice premier, one thing stood out. In a not-so-veiled accusation, Conte implied that perhaps Salvini's master wasn't his own ego, but Vladimir Putin. There was an audible gasp in parliament when Conte crossed the invisible line, putting his hand ever-so-softly on Salvini's shoulder and saying Salvini “still had some explaining to do” about a certain October 2018 meeting Salvini’s associates had in Moscow in which details were discussed about funneling millions of euros into Salvini’s League party through an illicit kickback scheme involving underpriced Russian fuel. “The Russian affair deserved to be clarified also for its international implications,” Conte told him during his speech. “You refused to share the information.”* * *In fact, a few weeks before Salvini pulled the plug on the government, the “Metropol” affair, named for the Moscow hotel in which a secret meeting between Salvini associate Gianluca Savoini and Putin's henchmen took place, was that he pulled the plug on the governing coalition. What is important is that Savoini, the man at the center of the Russian affair, is one of Salvini's closest allies, but has been kept at a discreet distance from his governmental affairs. He is married to a Russian woman named Irina whose personal history is opaque. The couple own homes in St. Petersburg, Moscow, and Milan, and he frequently tweets photos of Red Square with the caption “Third Rome.” Savoini is the head of the Russian-Lombardy commercial group set in northern Italy, and has been referred to by Italian Vanity Fair as Salvini’s “sherpa,” who “doesn't speak a word of Russian but who is fluent in the language of politics.”Not long after the story first broke in February, an Italian magistrate put Savoini under criminal investigation on suspicion of international corruption, along with Gianluca Meranda and a former banker named Francesco Vannucci–the other Italian men reportedly at the table during the Moscow meeting. The mens’ homes in Italy have been searched and documents said to be bad for Salvini have been sequestered. Both have admitted to being at the Metropol, but each has denied wrongdoing, pleading instead that they were negotiating legitimate private business deals that, while they might have looked bad, given international sanctions against Russia, were not illegal. Prosecutors looking into the affair have told The Daily Beast that they do not think the dirty oil deal was ever carried out, but the plans alone constitute a crime whether they came to fruition or not because of the ties to Salvini's political party. Salvini was called to the Italian senate to answer questions earlier this summer, but he refused, calling the allegations “fantasies” brought on by political opponents. He said he had never taken a ruble from the Russians, although it appears he would have had the deal not fallen through. (One is reminded of U.S. President Donald Trump’s efforts to secure a huge real estate deal in Moscow. It failed, but not for want of trying, even as he ran for president in 2016.)Igor Dodon is Vladimir Putin’s Moldovan Mini-MeThe Moscow meeting was first reported by the Italian newsmagazine Espresso last year and was picked up by BuzzFeed, which has since teamed up with the investigative news site Bellingcat and the Russian site the Insider to dig deeper. Earlier this week, BuzzFeed and the others published new audio tape from the Metropol meeting in which a voice identified as Savoini’s can be heard trying to close a deal for $72 million that would have been funneled into Salvini's League party ahead of the European Parliamentary elections last May. The Russians caught on tape are identified as Andrey Yuryevich Kharchenko and Ilya Andreevich Yakunin. A third man at the meeting known only as “Yuri” has not been identified by name. In a hearing on the case Thursday in Milan, lawyers for Savoini argued that the BuzzFeed audio is inadmissible because its origin cannot be verified. It is widely thought to have been taped by one of the men in attendance at the Moscow meeting, found during the police investigations of Savoini and the other men, then leaked to the press by someone who wanted to do damage to Salvini. The journalists who had been trailing Savoini in Moscow also have photos of all the men at the Metropol that day which have been entered into evidence in the case. Lawyers also argued that Salvini had not been privy to the details of the meeting and that Savoini was acting on his own to benefit the League.The Russians identified on the tape are no strangers to Putin's inner circle. Kharchenko is an aide to Russia’s most notorious alt-right leader, Alexander Dugin.  During the five-year-long war in Ukraine, Dugin emerged as a nationalist leader, denying globalism and liberal values; but after the failure of the Russia-backed forces to claim more territory in eastern Ukraine he claimed “Devil disrupted the Russian Spring.”    That Putin would court someone like Salvini is hardly surprising. Salvini has posted selfies from Red Square wearing a t-shirt with Putin’s image and is no stranger to Moscow, traveling there often both officially and privately. He has been a strong advocate of lifting European sanctions on Russia and campaigned for the European Parliament on forging closer ties to Russia. In the past three or four years Putin has supported far-right ideologues and has met frequently with one of Salvini’s closest allies in Europe, French politician Marine Le Pen. Putin also has met Hungarian leader Victor Orban, who refers to George Soros as “Satan,” and with the far-right Czech President Milos Zeman, who are all part of the same umbrella group that is now pushing to lift Russian sanctions in the European Parliament. Putin’s ruling party United Russia has even gone so far as to sign cooperation agreements with Salvini’s League and Austria’s Freedom Party (FPO). Putin ally Dugin has told The Daily Beast that Steve Bannon is “the last hope in the United States, Salvini in Italy, Le Pen in France.”It is impossible that Putin would not have known about the multi-million euro deal being forged with Savoini and Salvini. As has been proven in the past, when Putin gives the “green light,” Russian banks, businesses and government spring into action to find ways to discreetly channel Russian money to Europe’s far-right parties. “We openly act against the West’s mainstream political powers,” Sergei Markov, a Kremlin advisor active on the international scene, told The Daily Beast. “We share the same values as Europe’s far-right groups, such as Christian beliefs, strong families,  the defense of private property.” Markov named the Kremlin’s key political allies as France, Italy, Austria, the Czech Republic, Hungary and Spain. Russia’s Alt-Right Rasputin Says He’s Steve Bannon’s Ideological Soul MateMarkov also told The Daily Beast that Salvini is crucial in Putin’s plan. “There is nothing strange about our businesses wanting to help him,” Markov said. “He will block the anti-Russian sanctions at the European parliament.” Olga Kryshtanovskaya, the head of research at the Russian State University of Management, says that the Kremlin’s current strategy is to build a network of friends in the West. “Putin personally approves the list of far-right leaders that Russia should be dealing with, then his elite, including politicians with soft liberal views, like Vladimir Pligin, promote, because they serve him as soldiers,” Kryshtanovskaya told The Daily Beast. The BuzzFeed report about Salvini’s dirty Russian money also mentions Russian Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Kozak, Putin’s close friend from St. Petersburg. During his Moscow visit last October, Salvini met him and later denounced the West’s sanctions against Russia as “cultural folly” and met with Kozak and Pligin. Shortly after that the U.S. put Kozak on the sanctions list. "The Russian elite is dreaming about the end of tensions with the West but since Putin is not going to give Crimea back for anything, he chooses to redesign the West, and Russian elite is helping him," Kryshtanovskaya told The Daily Beast.For now, Salvini is out of office in Italy, but he is still a member of the European Parliament, where he can bide his time waiting for the new Italian government–presided over by none other than Giuseppe Conte–to fall. Salvini can also use his time out of the spotlight and off the government's clock to do as he pleases, meet with old friends, fund raise for the next elections, and, very likely, take more selfies in Red Square.  Read more at The Daily Beast.Got a tip? Send it to The Daily Beast hereGet our top stories in your inbox every day. Sign up now!Daily Beast Membership: Beast Inside goes deeper on the stories that matter to you. Learn more.

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BuzzFeed rivela i nomi dei due russi che hanno incontrato Savoini a Mosca

L'aggregatore di notizie  BuzzFeed che ha dato inizio allo scandalo del Metropol pubblicando le trascrizioni dell'audio della riunione avvenuta il 18 ottobre nell'hotel moscovita, ha reso oggi noto il nome di due dei russi presenti al tavolo. Lo riporta NMGI - Nuovo Movimento Geopolitca Italiana. Si tratta di due soggetti vicini a due personalità politiche russe: Andrey Yuryevich Kharchenko ed Ilya Andreevich Yakunin. La scoperta è stata fatta nel corso di una inchiesta investigativa condotta congiuntamente da BuzzFeed e dai siti Bellingcat e The Insider Russia. Le identità di Kharchenko e Yakunin sono state stabilite intrecciando l'audio della conversazione al Metropol con altre registrazioni. Ad esempio la voce di Yakunin con una intervista da lui concessa al canale russo Arkhyz 24 nel dicembre 2017, mentre quella di Kharchenko grazie ad una telefonata condotta da The Insider il mese scorso. I due soggetti in questione hanno legami con l'ideologo del Cremlino, Aleksandr Dugin e con Vladimir Pligin, un politico russo con forti legami con l'amministrazione presidenziale russa. Dugin in particolare è conosciuto al grande pubblico in quanto è colui che ha disegnato l'ideologia di una Russia risorgente come unico bastione contro la decadenza dell'Occidente liberale. Invece Pligin ha avuto un ruolo chiave in una delle fasi più controverse della presidenza di Vladimir Putin, quella dell'annessione della Crimea nel 2014. Nè Dugin nè Pligin hanno partecipato all'incontro del 18 ottobre, ma sono stati nominati diverse volte nel corso dell'audio. Il terzo russo, al momento ancora non identificato se con il solo nome "Yuri", ha poi dichiarato che era necessaria la "luce verde" da parte di Pligin per andare avanti con i negoziati per il presunto finanziamento della Lega da parte russa. Ed il giorno prima dell'incontro, Dugin è stato fotografato assieme a Matteo Salvini, il ministro degli Interni italiano uscente, dopo l'incontro tra Salvini ed il vice primo ministro russo Dmitry Kozak, proprio nell'ufficio di Pligin. A domanda di chiarimento, Pligin ha risposto così ad The Insider: "Non ho nulla a che fare con queste persone". Invece Kharchenko, Yakunin e Dugin non hanno voluto rilasciare commenti. Al tavolo, da parte italiana, erano invece presenti al tavolo Gianluca Savoini, il presidente dell'Associazione Culturale Russia-Lombardia e consigliere di lunga data di Matteo Salvini, oltre all'avvocato internazionalista Gianluca Meranda ed al consulente bancario Francesco Vannucci. Tutti questi tre, inquisiti dalla Procura di Milano con l'ipotesi di reato di "corruzione internazionale", negano di aver mai violato la legge ed affermano che l'accordo alla fine non è andato a buon fine. Salvini, che era a Mosca in quei giorni, non ha partecipato all'incontro, ha rifiutato di rispondere a domande se sapesse che l'incontro stava prendendo luogo o se fosse a conoscenza del presunto schema di finanziamento russo alla Lega usando come copertura un accordo petrolifero. GPN Media Center ha tradotto integralmente la trascrizione dell'audio dell'incontro al Metropol. Potete trovare la traduzione integrale al seguente link  http://bit.ly/2xJ5aYH Read the full article

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Freud by Yury Kharchenko.

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ARTWISTA.COM current #exhibition #30 @lachenmannart Am Freitag den 22. März findet die Eröffnung der Ausstellung #30 bei Lachenmann Art Frankfurt statt. Ich freue mich sehr an dieser Jubiläumsausstellung teilzunehmen und lade euch alle herzlich ein um 18:00 zur Vernissage zu kommen. https://www.artwista.de/event/%2330/205/overview Lachenmann Art Hinter der Schönen Aussicht 9 Frankfurt / Main, Germany #Conceptual #Fineart #LeipzigerSchule #Modernism March 22, 2019 - June 21, 2019 Opening: 22/03/2019 6pm Catalogue presentation: 10/05/2019 6pm Dirty Thirty Party: 06/06/2019 6pm The 30th exhibition at Lachenmann Art Galleries! Mit Arbeiten von / with works by DENIZ ALT TILO BAUMGÄRTEL SASCHA BOLDT MARKUS BRENNER PATRICK CIERPKA JAN DAVIDOFF ANDREANA DOBREVA LENNART GRAU PHILIP GRÖZINGER MARC JUNG YURY KHARCHENKO HEIKE KELTER BERND KIRSCHNER JONATHAN MEESE CHRISTOPH NEUMANN JUSTINE OTTO JIRKA PFAHL RÖMER+RÖMER JUKKA RUSANEN MORITZ SCHLEIME EVA SCHWAB LARS TEICHMANN MIRIAM VLAMING HANSA WISSKIRCHEN #artwista #artwista_gallery #art_curator_de #finearts #art #kunst #photography #evening #modernart #berlinweekend #painting #berlin #germany #bestoftheday #best #contemporaryart #contemporaryartist #thephotosociety #instagram #modernart #oilpainting #graphics #bestoftheday #instagramers #figurative #instaoftheday #contemporary https://www.instagram.com/p/BvWNBrEngpg/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1m6l2q273eqc5

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The art of Yury Kharchenko. Scrooge McDuck defends his money in front of Auschwitz.

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Albert Einstein by Yury Kharchenko

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Sigmund Freud by my friend Yury Kharchenko.

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Borges by Yury Kharchenko.

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Jorge Luis Borges by Yury Kharchenko

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Sigmund Freud by Yury Kharchenko.