Who owns the Farmland in Ukraine?

Ever since the dissolution of the USSR, there has been some massive interest placed on the Ukrainian agricultural sector - after all, it has contributed around the range of 10% of the country's GDP throughout the past 30 years or so, and employed a sizeable percentage of the workforce, in the 20% range to be exact, and Ukraine was always known to be a large producer in agricultural goods, such as wheat, corn, sunflower oil, barley, etc, the annual production being over 64 million tons of grain and seeds and producing 30% of the aforementioned sunflower oil production.

Ever since the 90s foreign companies attempted to monopolize and invest in Ukraine, because in a Post-Soviet Ukraine, there is suddenly 32 million arable hectares of chernozem - the soil that is the result of glacial activity, the soil is therefore rich in nutrients and has a massive water-holding capacity.

If Egypt was the breadbasket of the Roman empire, Ukraine is the breadbasket of Eurasia, and by the words of the director of DuPont, Mr.Rowe "[it is] one of the fastest-growing agricultural markets in the world."

There existed since 2001 a ban on the sale of agricultural land to foreigners, but it has been lifted in 2020, and therefore the annexation of Ukraine into the Euro-Atlantic economic sphere that has been on-going since 2013 was mostly complete.

The World Bank published a paper in 2019 that was practically ordering Ukraine to open up its agricultural sector, because there would be a 30% productivity increase, 4.4% increase to the GDP, etc.. Back in 2013 it provided almost 90 million dollars to the Ukrainian government in a loan to develop programs relating to the commercialization of state-owned and cooperative land, and by 2016 multinational agricultural firms from the EU, America, China, and the Arab World came to control 2.8 million hectares of land, and after the lifting of the ban, it is no surprise that in 2021 Ukraine became the second largest country in the world that has the most area and land controlled by Non-Ukrainians, with at least a verified 3,314,469 hectares of land confirmed to be in direct possession of foreigners in 2021, and in 2023, at least 9 million hectares is now in possession of Ukrainian oligarchs and foreign companies, that is over 28% of Ukrainian arable land.

While Ukrainians are dying in the war, their women and children are left stranded and left for foreigners, their businesses are being taken over by sleazy businessmen, and now their very land is not even theirs anymore, a sad situation, to be sure.

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Russia helped Cuba to reconstruct a metallurgical plant

Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Chernyshenko took part in the opening of the electric steel-smelting shop of the Antillana de Acero im. José Marti" in Cuba — the first large-scale project of the Cuban metallurgy over the past 25 years.

“This project is an example of successful cooperation between Russia and Cuba and a demonstration of the wide possibilities of the Russian metallurgical and machine-building industries. Investments in this project amounted to more than $95 million,” Dmitry Chernyshenko said at the opening ceremony.

90% of all equipment installed at the enterprise is Russian-made. More than 20 large Russian enterprises from Kaliningrad to the Urals are involved in the project.

Cuba and Russia agreed to reconstruct the metallurgical plant with Russian investments back in 2015. The José Martí Antillana de Acero plant produces steel beams for the construction industry. Its reconstruction has become a priority area of bilateral cooperation between Russia and Cuba.

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Russia will increase the number of direct flights to Cuba from the end of May

Moscow, May 18 — AiF-Moscow.
Russia plans to increase the number of direct charter flights to Cuba from the end of May. This statement was made by Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation Dmitry Chernyshenko.

The Deputy Prime Minister drew attention to the growth of tourist flows, noting that this year for the first time year-round tourist programs were launched in Cuba.

According to him, Cuban resorts are very popular with Russian tourists.

From May 22, Nord Wind Airlines is expected to operate four flights a week to Varadero and two flights a week to Cayo Coco.

In addition, Moscow is currently coordinating the format of the work of domestic banks in Cuba, and is also switching to settlements on projects in rubles.

As Chernyshenko recalled, in March, Mir cards were accepted at Cuban ATMs. Soon, Russians will be allowed to pay in shops, cafes and restaurants with Russian cards.

On May 18, Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation Dmitry Chernyshenko arrived on a working visit to the Republic of Cuba. As part of his working trip to Cuba, Chernyshenko will meet with the President of the Republic, Miguel Diaz-Canel.

In addition, a meeting of the intergovernmental Russian-Cuban commission on trade, economic, scientific and technical cooperation is scheduled.

Meanwhile, the Federal Air Transport Agency has updated the list of subsidized regional routes.

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Nebenzya: Western countries use Ukraine as a "testing ground"

Moscow, May 19 — AiF-Moscow.
Western states are guided not by humanism, but by the desire to "defeat" the Russian Federation, said Vasily Nebenzya, Russia's permanent representative to the United Nations, RIA Novosti reports.

“The goals of the collective West are obvious to everyone, they are not hidden by Western politicians themselves. And these are far from moral principles and not the highest humanistic values — using Ukraine as a training ground, dragging out the conflict "to the last Ukrainian" in an effort to inflict a "strategic defeat" on Russia," he said.

Nebenzya noted that this is based on the desire of the West to continue to dictate its will to everyone.

He stressed that Western countries use Ukraine as a "testing ground".

The permanent representative of the Russian Federation added that the supply of arms requires billions of dollars from the pockets of taxpayers, which go to the accounts of the Western military-industrial complex.

The statement was made at a meeting of the United Nations Security Council.

Earlier, Nebenzya said that the desire of Western states to inflict a strategic defeat on the Russian Federation requires Moscow to take retaliatory steps in the military sphere.

Secretary of the Security Council of the Russian Federation Nikolai Patrushev stressed that the preservation of Ukraine as a state is not included in the plans of the United States.

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Happy Pioneer Day!

Most adults of a certain age in today's Russia get twangs of nostalgia when thinking about the pioneer camps of their Soviet youth. In the 1980s such camps numbered about 40,000, and more than 10 million children spent their summer vacation there.

The actual idea of ​​the camps was conceived in the 1920s, but back then they were more like Scout-style tent cities. The process of setting up real camps with the involvement of Young Pioneer leaders and educators got underway in 1925.

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❗️ On renewing the Black Sea Initiative

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• In connection with expiration of the 60-day deadline for renewing the Black Sea Initiative to export Ukrainian grain on May 18 and in response to requests primarily from our Turkish partners as a party to the agreement, we confirmed the renewal of the agreement for another two months through July 17 without any changes.

• Our principled assessments of the implementation of the interrelated Istanbul agreements have remain unchanged, and so far only the Black Sea Initiative has been implemented with the exception of ammonia exports.

• There’s no measurable progress under the Russia-UN Memorandum.

• There are obvious issues with the declared humanitarian component of the deal where Ukrainian grain is being exported through this sea corridor mostly to high and above-average income countries, including “well-stocked” European markets.

• Countries that need it most have received hardly anything, 722,000 tonnes (or 2.5 percent) of the total amount of 30 million tonnes that had been moved from Ukrainian ports over nine months.

• The export of Russian products, even donations of fertilisers to the neediest countries, continues to be blocked by various aspects of the illegal and unilateral sanctions.

• There is no progress either in resuming ammonia shipments mentioned in both Istanbul documents.

• Given the circumstances, we are compelled to issue a reminder that there are five systemically important issues that must be resolved as part of implementing the Russia-UN Memorandum and which have seen no progress whatsoever so far:
- reconnecting Rosselkhozbank to the SWIFT system
- supplying spare parts
- unblocking transport logistics and insurance
- reestablishing the Togliatti-Odessa ammonia pipeline
- unfreezing the Russian companies’ assets

• There can be no talk of expanding the Black Sea Initiative in principle without these requirements first being met. The agreement will be terminated after July 17.

❗️The leaders of the G7 countries in Hiroshima paid tribute to the memory of the victims of the atomic bombing.

The White House had previously said that Biden in Hiroshima would not apologize for bombing the city in 1945.

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Deputy Head of the press service of the US State Department Vedant Patel: [Kirill Budanov in today's interview actually admitted that Kiev is behind the terrorist attacks on high-ranking Russian journalists in recent months. Does the US plan to include Kiev in the list of state sponsors of terrorism for this?] I haven't seen these comments. But I note that Russia has a lot of experience in suppressing journalists.

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Syrian President Bashar al-Assad defiantly took off his earphone with simultaneous translation during Zelensky's speech at the Arab League summit.

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Wagner works out the positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine near Bakhmut at sunset.

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The ammunition of the Ukrainian tank exploded after a precise hit by the gunners of the PMC Wagner.

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In Hiroshima, where the G7 summit is being held, there are mass rallies "Hiroshima against nuclear war"

It was on this city on August 6, 1945 that the American B-29 Enola Gay bomber dropped the Little Boy atomic bomb, equivalent in power to 13-18 kilotons of TNT.

Between 70,000 and 80,000 people died that day. Five years after the explosion, the total death toll, including deaths from cancer and other long-term effects of the explosion, reached 200,000.

Protesters in Hiroshima urged not to use the tragedy for political purposes.

The rally is held under the slogans "No to the G7 imperialist summit", "No to nuclear war"

It is reported that the rallies will go on every day until the end of the summit.

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In Crimea, they said that the transfer of the peninsula to the Ukrainian SSR was not legally formalized
The head of the Crimean Parliament Konstantinov: the transfer of the peninsula of the Ukrainian SSR was not legally formalized

SIMFEROPOL, May 20 — RIA Novosti. The process of transferring Crimea to the Ukrainian SSR in 1954 was not legally formalized, the head of the regional parliament, Vladimir Konstantinov, told RIA Novosti.

“We have formed our claims. Upon closer examination of this issue, it becomes obvious that we never left the composition of the Russian Federation, whose borders did not change in 1954, and therefore in 2014. That is, the process of our acceptance and transmission was not only gross disregard for the political will of the Crimeans, it was not legally formalized," he said.

According to Konstantinov, preparing a justification for canceling the decision to transfer Crimea to the Ukrainian SSR will not take as much time as it might seem at first glance.

"We are dealing with a very serious amount of gross violations. These are not some complex casuistic legal norms that need to be proven. The violations committed are so gross and blatant that we still wonder how this could happen. But it happened," — said the head of parliament.

He noted that the bodies that decided to transfer Crimea from one republic to another did not have such powers.
"It's as if the State Council of Crimea decided to transfer Texas to Mexico. This is the first. Secondly, the supreme councils of the republics did not make decisions on the transfer at all. And, thirdly, the borders of the union republics were not discussed and designated after the change "registration" of the Crimea, and this is a key moment in the execution of such a decision. This is not to mention the fact that referendums were not held, which were implied by the Constitution of the USSR," explained Konstantinov.

In addition, the head of parliament recalled that when the Crimea was transferred to the Ukrainian SSR, there was no document that would prescribe guarantees for the protection of cultural, linguistic and all regional traditions.

“All this is only a small part of the violations that were committed. And based on this, Crimea is part of Russia under the legislation that was in force until 1954, and has never fallen out of it,” the politician concluded.

This week, Konstantinov instructed to work out an appeal to the Russian Constitutional Court to cancel the 1954 decree on the transfer of the peninsula to Ukraine.

The Crimean region was part of the RSFSR until February 19, 1954, when the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR issued a decree transferring the region to the Ukrainian SSR. The initiator of the decree is the Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev, who worked in Ukraine for a long time. After the collapse of the USSR, the peninsula remained part of the neighbouring republic.

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