The military depot in Cobasna was created in the 1940s in the Ribnita district, then the Moldavian SSR, now the separatist region of #Transnistria.
During the Soviet period, the artillery ammunition depot no. 1411 was a strategic arsenal of the western military district of the USSR. Most of the ammunition was stored here after the withdrawal of Soviet troops from the former German Democratic Republic (GDR), Czechoslovakia, and other countries in the former Warsaw Pact.
The majority of the original ammunition has either disappeared or has been removed from Cobasna under Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (#OSCE) supervision. Military equipment which was impractical to remove has undergone on-site destruction as per Moldovan demands that the "weapons dump" of Transnistria be removed.
Transnistrian sources claim that the U.S. State Department recognizes that the process of removal of Russian munitions and equipment has been carried out with efficiency during 2003.
In 2004 this removal process was blocked by Transnistrian authorities after tensions rose.
Today, around 22,000 tons of military equipment and ammunition reportedly remain there, guarded by Russian troops. 1,500 troops of the Operational Group of Russian Forces are stationed in the area.
On 27 April 2022, the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Transnistria reported that drones flew over Cobasna and that shots were fired on the village. The ministry claimed that the drones came from Ukraine. Several attacks had recently occurred in Transnistria at the time.They occurred during the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, and may been a false flag operation by Russia or Transnistria itself.
Currently, about 20,000 tons of weapons and ammunition are stored at this warehouse, of which 57% are obsolete and cannot be used or transported, and access to the area is strictly prohibited, being controlled by Transnistrian and Russian peacekeeping forces. A possible explosion of these deposits, which cannot be transported, would cause an ecological and human disaster.
The ammunition depot in Cobasna presents a serious technogenic and ecological danger not only for the Republic of Moldova but also for Ukraine. In 2005, the Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Moldova published an expert report on the threats posed by the accumulation of weapons in the Transnistrian region.
A possible explosion of the military depot in Cobasna can be compared to the detonation of a 10-kiloton nuclear bomb, which was dropped on the city of Hiroshima in 1945.
After the explosion, a crater with a radius of 1.5 kilometers and a depth of 75 meters would form. However, given that Cobasna is located in a rural area, the range of the explosion can reach 40-50 kilometers. Therefore, the effects of the explosion can be compared to the damage caused by an earthquake of 7-7.5 degrees.
Experts point out that an explosion of the ammunition depot in the village of #Cobasna will lead to population damage and a humanitarian and ecological catastrophe in the northeastern region of the Republic of Moldova and the territory of Ukraine on an area of 500 to 3000 square kilometers.
The recycling and disposal of weapons is in this case the only way to prevent any spontaneous explosion of #ammunition in the military depots in Transnistria since the Second World War.
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Putinka: Putins personal cash cow - How Putin’s voters got hooked on his vodka
In 2008, when Putin became prime minister, PromImpex registered the Putinka Ministerial trademark. In February 2012, two weeks before another presidential election in which Putin was running again, the country’s largest discounter, the Pyaterochka retail chain, announced the start of a promotion for Putinka #vodka, reducing the price of a bottle by 27%. The announced campaign lasted until the polls opened on March 4.
After just three years, Putinka became the leader of sales in Russia, with 40 million liters sold per year. During the same period, there was a peak in alcohol-related deaths in Russia.
When inventing the new brand, Winexim knew who to turn to. “Oleg Plakhuta, co-owner of Winexim, asked Rotenberg for permission from Putin and succeeded,” says the Project’s interlocutor, Plakhuta had to give up a share of the business he created. Putin and Rotenberg became his co-owners: from the very beginning they controlled all earnings from Putinka, from the trademark rights to the production and trade of the “president’s vodka”.
In March 2004, Plakhuta’s firm transferred the trademark rights to an unassuming company called PromImpex. By that time the company was already firmly in love with Putin: in June 2003, it applied for registration of the #Putinushka trademark. The directors of PromImpex included managers associated with Rotenberg’s SMPBank.
In 2014, PromImpex transferred the rights to Putinka directly to Real-Invest, a Russian subsidiary of Ermira Consultants (Putins Byzantine shell company registered in Cyprus). Until very recently, Real-Invest received royalties for the use of the trademark by the Moscow alcohol factory Kristall, which is also controlled by Rotenberg’s people. Ermira should also receive royalties from Baikal-Invest, which received the rights to the Putinka brand in 2020 . It is most likely that Baikal-Invest is also controlled by Rotenberg’s people
The sales of Putinka are also controlled by the right people — namely, the Eastern European Distribution Company, which, according to documents, belongs to the president of the National Judo Federation of Russia, a close friend and partner of the Rotenbergs, Vasily Anisimov. The Project’s interlocutor, who knows both of them, is convinced that Rotenberg informally shares this business with Anisimov.
Vasily Anisimov: According to him, back in the noughties, distributors who wanted to sell Putinka would bring Rotenberg bags full of cash — as payment for permission to sell vodka named after the president. Some of that money “was always intended for Putin,” he says. Between 2004 and 2019, between $400 million and $500 million could have been earned on the production, royalties, and sale of drinks under the Putinka brand .
And Putin has done a lot to earn that money. At the beginning of 2015 the minimum retail price of vodka, which is set by the state, was for the first time not increased, but reduced — to 185 rubles. At the time, experts wondered how this was consistent with the anti-drinking policy. The reason was simple: the main beneficiaries of that decision were the manufacturers of cheap vodkas, including #Putinka . At that time, at a meeting with the State Council, the president said: “Illegal vodka, all sorts of surrogates, alcoholic beverages of this kind, are the result of a certain overpricing of legal products.” Putin did not say a word about his personal interest in cheap vodka.
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A public announcement for #Dagestan - just checking if you are aware of who the richest, corrupt Oligarchs are in your country - the folk that take the money and use you as sacrificial muppets. Here’s a brief run down for you to consider:
There is no definitive data on how many oligarchs are currently in Israel or exactly what assets they own, as many of these are registered to front companies or property managers, the richest men running your country and supporting Putin in his murderous and illegal invasion of Ukraine - have their assets hidden in layers, where you can’t find the money 🤣
Russian and Degastani oligarchs “discovered that using a series of shell companies resembling Matryoshka dolls rendered it impossible for hostile governments to seize their jets and yachts. They made sure their stakes in companies were less than 50%, keeping them beyond the reach of US sanctions.
Oligarch’s claiming #Jewish ancestors and who have been given #Israeli citizenship, have registered assets in the British Virgin Islands, the Isle of Man, Cyprus, or in the two Russian tax havens, Oktyabrsky Island and Russky Island, where nations opposed to the shelling of Ukraine can never lay a finger on them. Most importantly, they’ve enlisted lawyers and accountants to create an entire new field of practice: the sanctions-evasion industry,” the report read
It is no secret that many of the oligarchs associated with Putin are of Jewish ancestry, and some, like Renova Group president Viktor #Vekselberg and the co-founders of Alfa-Group Mikhail #Fridman and German Khan (two born in Ukraine).
Based in Israel, Yitzchak #Mirilashvili was ranked by the Russian-language publication “Business St. Petersburg” in 2016 as the second-wealthiest businessman in St. Petersburg, with a net worth of 229 billion rubles ($3.6 billion). In 2019, he was accused of murky dealings related to an Israel-based organization.
Tycoons ‘shocked’ by scale of sanctions, years of reputation-building gone, experts say; 2018 estimate said 30-40 Russia-linked oligarchs had taken Israeli citizenship or residency
And then there’s the sanction dodging, Jewish heritage passport rantallion - Roman #Abramovich, who just fled Israel and flew back to Russia. At the moment, it is unclear how many remain but Abramovich is certainly Israel’s most visible oligarch. He is considered one of the wealthiest men in the country with an estimated net worth of $7.2 billion in 2022, according to Forbes, down from $14.5 billion last April. Abramovich set up shop in Israel in 2018 after the UK would not renew his visa and started looking more closely into his background.
Russian billionaire Mikhail #Prokhorov has immigrated to Israel and received citizenship - under the Jewish Law of Return. Prokhorov’s maternal grandmother, Anna Belkina, a prominent Russian microbiologist, was Jewish, making him eligible for Israeli citizenship.
TV genocide propagandist - Vladimir Rudolfovich Solovyov was born on October 20, 1963, in Moscow, Russian SFSR, USSR, to a Jewish family.
Since 2001, #Solovyov has been married to Helga Solovyova (née Sepp), who is also Jewish, a psychologist and daughter of a known Russian satirist Viktor Koklyushkin.
Nikolai Bondarik, who heads a group calling itself the Russian Party, says #Medvedev's mother is Jewish, citing what he calls her Jewish maiden name, Shaposhnikova, and information from unidentified friends of hers.
Oh dear me… the river runs deep here. Do hope these folks with ancestry claims now stand up for their new found, tax friendly adopted country.
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