News from friend in Crimea

 

I had a nice chat this week with friend Regis Tremblay from Maine who now lives and works in Yalta, Crimea.

Regis just took a trip to Armenia and reported that the US was working hard to take control of the government there. In addition he suggested the same Washington strategy is currently underway for regime change in Georgia, Azerbaijan, Maldova and other former Soviet Union republics in the region. The US goal is clearly to create a circle of control all around Russia.

Regis said that in Armenia the US has undue influence inside the government, academia, NGO's and the media. 

RT reports:

The West may not currently have the ability to drag Central Asia over to its side, but this does not mean that it will give up on such attempts in the future. In this respect, Western countries are using their traditional “soft power” tools: Non Government Organizations (NGO) and media outlets. 

“In Bishkek alone, 18,500 such organizations are registered. Contrary to the constituent documents, many of them interfere in the political life of the country, including by financing the organization of political rallies in Kyrgyzstan,” says a note to the draft law on the tightening of control over NGOs that has been submitted to the Kyrgyz parliament.

The concern of local parliamentarians, however, hasn’t stopped the work of these cut outs. In early June, the US Agency for International Development (USAID) allocated a first tranche worth $12 million to the non-profit organization KazAID, which is to distribute the funds among Kazakh NGOs in order to “increase the resistance of society to disinformation” and “increase the media literacy of the population.”

This is the first installment of the planned $50 million package indicated in the program’s budget estimate. Moreover, another $15 million was spent on USAID projects in Kazakhstan in 2022.

 

Virtually every level of US culture/Neo-con politics has been seeded throughout Europe under the auspices of protecting democracy and human rights.

In response to last weekend's ill-fated coup by Evgeny Prigozhin, Regis reported that he believes that MI6 and CIA were paying Prigozhin. 

He suggested that nearly everyone in Russia was happy with Putin's decision to pardon Prigozhin and the Wagner troops because it averted the civil war that the west was counting on.

He reported that the country appears to be peaceful, harmonious and with safe streets. People are not worried. Many Russian citizens are helping to build support for the troops on the front line by sending food, clothes, funds, etc.

 

Samantha Smith from Maine had the courage during the Cold War (1982) to say that Russia was not our enemy and that WW3 should be averted.

 

While on the train during his trip to Armenia he met two young people (14 & 16 years) who knew about the former young Maine girl Samantha Smith. In 1982 she wrote a letter of peace to Soviet premier Yuri Andropov. Smith was invited to Russia and became a huge hit while attending the youth camp called Artek in Crimea.

During our Global Network study tour to Russia in 2019, while in Crimea, we visited Artek. We saw that there was an area in the museum where Samantha Smith is still honored. It's too bad that many people who talk about Smith today don't appear to make the connection to the current US-UK-NATO proxy war on Russia that could lead to nuclear Armageddon! Sadly they lack the vision of Samantha Smith who refused to see Russians as our enemy.

Regis has applied for a full Russian residency permit which is now in process.

He is very happy living in Crimea and uses his alternative media skills to help people around the world learn more about Russia which is continually demonized across the west by politicians under the control of the MIC and the corporate media.

Bruce