Created in the Crimea of the Soviet era as a place for the best-of-the best pupils under 16 year old, a scout (pioneers’) camp Artek was a show-window of happiness Soviet children supposed exemplifying worldwide.

Pure communist propaganda did omit a reality of getting places in this retreat on the Black Sea shores, available mostly to the KGB/Communist authorities- approved kids of ruling bosses and some working class representatives internally and, later, for their mates’ offspring from around a globe.

After disintegration of the USSR, this place located in a picturesque area of the Ukraine became a prey for fast-partitioning a state property Mafiosi of an ex-communist still-ruling gang, and only subsidies of the Russian and Ukrainian governments allowed to re-open once again this iconic children camp after a short unspeakable closure in first time of its 70 years of operating (I am not utterly sure, it seems, during Second World War German authorities kept it running for their Nazi propaganda either).

Recent modern Ukraine openly heralded cases of local paedophilia having occurred occasionally, but prior to oncoming elections, hot news of deploying Artek as a sex-playground for the Verhovna Rada (Ukrainian Parliament) Members steadily sounds as a huge blast in dirty political games adult politicians exercise with underage population regardless of voters’ age factual.

I will keep readers informed on this saga as more media info in English to appear.

The Head of a State Department of Public Prosecution, a State Deputy-Attorney-General Larisa Cherednichenko had accused spouse and daughter of the Ukrainian President in tampering with his blood samples on their way to the USA. Scandal growing as pro-Russia elements link the CIA to the occurred.

Meanwhile, also his rating down, Pres.V. Yushchenko had two days ago transparently suggested a change of Ukraine’s foreign policy directions as a major strategic partner Germany to become.

Perhaps, rocky relations with Col. M. Khaddafi is a classic example of smoothing Western stand on terrorism and human rights with dictators’ guaranteed support to import natural resources of their jurisdiction. Should one be wondering, that less significant world players just follow a suit by pinching the crumbs left and benefit their overseas accounts with fistful of, for instance, fuel-dollars Western consumer exported to factually sustain despots and their terrorist column back home???

So far, Libyan ruler Col. Khaddafi thanked the British Government - Prime Minister Gordon Brown, Queen Elizabeth II, and Prince Andrew - whom he claims helped convince Scotland to release the terrorist, responsible for the deaths of 270 people aboard Pan Am Flight 103 in December 1988. The British government denies the allegations also British Prime Minister Gordon Brown reportedly discussed details on conditions for the release of convicted Lockerbie bomber Abdel Baset al-Megrahi with Libyan leader Colonel Muammar al-Qaddafi (Khadaffi)nearly six weeks ago and was promised more cooperation with Britain in gratitude for his release.

As understood in addition from these pages, it is not enough to simply express disagreement with Scotland vassals of English crown (is Scotland an international subject, the UN member, anyway?) but boycott hypocrites-Scotland and the United Kingdom by both any self-respecting country and everyone concerned of terrorism the United Kingdom too frequently swathes, sponsors and spreads worldwide as own commoners are being in numbers killed in Iran and Afghanistan to secure oil-profits of the UK shareholders!

Lockerbie Murdering: The UK Lovely Friend, courtesy of the Daily Mail

Since first info appeared on 28 July locally in Sweden, a story of a hijacked “Arctic Sea”, Malta-registered, Russian-crew-completed, Finish-timber carrying ship reached Russia/the Commonwealth of Independent States on 11 August at last as a Russia’s president commanded personally the operation securing and return of his citizens hijacked.

The Sochart-Archangelsk (ph/fax 78182- 420262 / 420203) is a Russia-based operating owner of the “Arctic Sea”.

For quite understandable reasons such drama is of an understandable interest to regional states if even neither ship nor destination of foreign produce directly linked to.

Really, if a total worth of a ship and goods declared officially not to exceed US$3Mln, what is a point to hijack such a wreck near Sweden for demanding a ransom in waters of Northern Africa or even much southern?

Or is this a test terrorists are undertaking to check international possibilities to implement valid international agreements on piracy and cooperation in open waters in order to distract attention from a different region more dangerous action using nukes to be executed?

In any case, a strange-to-date story to be monitored in this blog. Arctic Sea hijacked, photo by intermedia.

Desegregation of the USSR had been marked with the inter-Christian-concession bloody fighting for obtaining the estate united under atheistic communist rule.

The strongest support for independence on all merits is flouring in the Western Ukraine, more frequently used to being partitioned and included into different European states and territories since time immemorial.

Picture ocurtesy of Internet

As independent observers clearly notice recently, a London-oriented ruling Orange Movement adds controversy to contemporary interim affairs.

And inter-concession relations are just a tip of a deepper problem of religious sectaries worldwide.

Perhaps, recently announced presidential elections are a more complex quest than a simple change if any, of particular faces on TV screens.

On arrival in the Ukraine, robbed-to-bones sailors told a real story of their ordeal and accused Ukrainian top officials in staging the hijack:
- Immediately as Faina left Odessa Port, a call from a Georgian-registered mobile was done from Odessa to the pirates in Somalia
- Pirates where acquainted with deliberations in the Ukrainian Rada (the State Parliament) much prior info had been officially released
- President Yuschenko meeting the sailors on the Ukrainian soil at airport was accused in not acting sufficiently
- It is estimated, of $US 4+ millions allocated by an owner just $US3 millions were paid to pirates directly.

Perhaps, Faina crew-members will not share a fate of journalists and public activists of “samostijnaya (independent) Ukraine” for a truth they disclosed.

The UN and international bodies should seriously study an incident prior to any anti-piracy international agreement to be arranged practically.

Faina, courtesy by Dailylife.com

Money and documents had gone.

Slovakia’s Coat of Arms, courtesy of Internet

The most strange passage of this story a reader confesses is a Latino-sounding name of a person representing a Slavic state in Russia.