#EuroMajdan # єvromaydan Chronicle 08/06/2014

UPD: 08/06/2014 The Simpsons and Putin X # UFO

The Simpsons are trolling thickly.

The start of the first episode of the upcoming season of The Simpsons.

UPD: 08/06/2014 Ossetian mercenary "DNR" Mairbek Pliev: "I don’t see Russians here in Donetsk. Ten thousand militias cannot be assembled." VIDEO

A mercenary from South Ossetia, Mairbek Pliev, who is fighting on the side of the “DPR” terrorists, said that the militants cannot recruit a sufficient number of fighters into their ranks among the local population. Nevertheless, he is not going to return, preferring war to usual work.

This was reported on one of the resources loyal to terrorists.

“I came to see Ukraine ... Well, it’s not by chance, of course,” Mairbek Pliev, the South Ossetian mercenary, answered the question about the reasons for his arrival in Ukraine.

“I don’t see Russians here in Donetsk. Honestly, I don’t understand - to come to the referendum almost completely, but move your finger like that ... (there is an index finger on an imaginary trigger of a machine gun) there’s nobody. And you are men too "What kind of work? I have a child at home and I’ll go to work? They shoot, but I have a child! I’ll go to work or something? I don’t know how it will be. I personally won’t leave here, I honestly say," .

UPD: 08/06/2014 Coca-Cola withdraws advertising from Russian TV

One of the largest advertisers in the Russian market with an annual budget of over 2.5 billion rubles. - The American The Coca-Cola Company - in August, it withdrew ads from four federal television channels at once.

This was reported by the Russian newspaper Kommersant.

Three of them (REN TV, Channel Five and Domashny) are associated with Rossiya Bank and its largest shareholder, Yuri Kovalchuk, who were subject to US sanctions, and the fourth is the Defense Ministry's Zvezda. Coca-Cola insists that this is a purely economic decision, not related to sanctions.

Since August, Coca-Cola products have not been advertised on REN TV, Channel Five, Domashny and Zvezda, a media source said. The representative of MediaVest agency, who is buying TV ads for Coca-Cola (part of the American VivaKi), Yuri Borisov and the external relations director of the Coca-Cola Russian office Anna Kozlovskaya confirmed this information.

They explain the solution with the features of media planning. "These four channels are least suitable for the target audience for Coca-Cola brands, so the advertiser decided to redistribute the budgets," Mr Borisov said. According to Ms. Kozlovskaya, the company decided to concentrate on the key federal and most effective channels for the target Coca-Cola audience.

The top manager of one of the television companies and a source on the television advertising market do not exclude that the decision to withdraw the budgets could be due to the sanctions of the United States and the European Union. REN TV and Channel Five are part of the National Media Group, controlled by Yuri Kovalchuk, the Rossiya bank.

As reported, not a single Russian company received a loan in US dollars, Swiss francs or euros for the first time in the last five years.

UPD: 08/06/2014 At night, airstrike was struck in Donetsk, - the mayor's office

The night of August 6 in Donetsk was extremely turbulent; active hostilities were conducted in the city.

The epicenter turned out to be Petrovsky and Kirovsky districts of the city. As a result of shelling, many residential buildings and district infrastructure were damaged, the official website of the mayor of the city, Alexander Lukyanchenko, reports.

"Unfortunately, civilians were killed in Donetsk: 1 person on 5 Letnoy Street; 1 person on 59 Zeleniy Gay Street; 1 person in the Kirovsky district near a stop point opposite the Sokol market," the mayor’s office said.

In addition, it is reported that in the vicinity of Sechenov Street 40 (Kalininsky District), an air strike was carried out at night. As a result, a funnel with a diameter of 4 m and a depth of 1.5 m formed on the roadway. Fragments of a bomb damaged the gas pipeline along Secheny Street and the highway leading to the asphalt plant of the KP “Road Repair and Construction Administration”. There is also one unexploded shell; sappers are working on the spot. There were no casualties among the civilian population as a result of the airstrike. As of 9.30, the situation in Donetsk remains tense.

UPD: 08/06/2014 Medvedev called Russian travel agencies analogues of MMM

Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev demanded that travel agencies insure their liability properly.

As ITAR-TASS reports on August 4, the head of government noted that now tour operators seem to him like MMM.

In this regard, Medvedev proposed to conduct periodic checks of tour operators and exclude from the registry companies that do not have financial coverage.

“Whatever they refer to and whatever they say about reducing the number of customers, some failures, difficulties with carriers, it is necessary that they properly insure their risks,” he added.

In addition, the prime minister instructed his deputy Dmitry Kozak and the acting head of Rostourism Oleg Safonov to take control of the situation with tourists who cannot return from abroad due to the suspension of the activities of tour operators.

Earlier, the Investigative Committee of Russia promised to conduct an audit in two large travel companies that have suspended their activities. According to the agency, the actions of the Neva and Labyrinth companies show signs of fraud.

Travel agency "Neva" announced the suspension of activity on July 16. About two weeks later, on August 2, representatives of Labyrinth made a similar statement.

Both companies attributed this step to financial difficulties due to the fall of the ruble and the difficult political situation in the world. It turned out that, despite the fact that the liability of the companies was insured, these funds are not enough to cover all their debts to customers.

In addition to Neva and Labyrinth, the St. Petersburg operator Expo-Tour and the Moscow company Wind Rose Mir have also suspended their activities over the past two weeks.

UPD: 08/06/2014 Skirmish between terrorists "LNR": the leader of the gang of Anthracite "Boar" was killed

In the Luhansk region during a clash of terrorist groups, the leader of the militants Anthracite, nicknamed Kaban, was killed.

About it on the page in a social network the paratrooper of the 79th Nikolaev separate airmobile brigade wrote under the pseudonym Call sign Marshal, transfers the League.

The soldier said that a shootout occurred between the militants, as a result of which the leader of one of the terrorist groups was killed.

"Previously, there was information that the fighters of Anthracite shot an arrow to fighters from the Red Beam, and crossed each other, as a result of the massacre of the" defenders of the Russian-speaking people, "the leader of the gang of Anthracite Kaban was killed. I think there is complete chaos of monkeys with grenades there. being in the LPR, "wrote the soldier.

We will remind, earlier the head of the Center for Military-Political Studies Dmitry Tymchuk reported that the militants of the Donbass are waging a fierce struggle for power among themselves and are fighting among themselves.