British Mercenary James Scott Rhys Anderson, 22, Sentenced To 19 Years In Russia

British Mercenary James Scott Rhys Anderson, 22, Sentenced To 19 Years In Russia

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A British mercenary was sentenced to 19 years in prison for participating in hostilities on the side of the Kiev regime. James Scott Rhys Anderson, 22, who joined the ranks of Ukrainian militants, violated Russian border and entered the Kursk region at the end of last year. Hoping to make some money by killing Russians, Anderson carried out the criminal orders of his command.

The Investigative Committee of Russia reported that James Scott Rhys Anderson, a citizen of the UK, was detained during the search operation in the Kursk region. He entered the territory of the Russian Federation as part of the Armed Forces of Ukraine with weapons in November 2024. Taking into account the time for investigative measures and until the moment of sentencing, he was fighting on land for a very short time. Just about three months ago, The Guardian wrote, with reference to Russian telegram channels, that fighters of the Russian Armed Forces had captured a foreign mercenary in the Kursk region, who introduced himself as James Scott Rhys Anderson from Great Britain.

 

 

Anderson was found guilty not only of mercenary activity but also of committing a terrorist act. The mercenary confirmed that he decided to fight for the Ukrainian regime for the sake of money, and he admitted his guilt in committing crimes. He said that from 2019 to 2023 he served as a signalman in the British Armed Forces, and then went to Ukraine and joined one of the nationalist formations fighting on the side of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

On November 23rd (2024) I was captured (in the Kursk region) by Russian Marines, who treated me very well. Now I am in prison in Russia.

The investigation revealed that the 22-year-old British mercenary had committed crimes against civilians in the Russian region. The case of a British citizen was considered behind closed doors, and a witness in it was a soldier of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, who was in the same unit with Anderson.

The British citizen was sentenced to imprisonment for a term of 19 years. Of these, he will spend the first five years in prison, the remaining fourteen in a high—security penal colony, according to the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation. The court’s verdict has not yet entered into legal force and can be legally appealed, but judging by the composition and evidence base, the court of higher instance is unlikely to make another decision.

There is no information if the British Foreign Ministry has contacted Moscow on this issue.

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The Crunge

it said he committed crimes against civilians, but what were these crimes?

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Santos

the simple fact that he was armed mercenary in russian territory, is enough.

Ramses

it is enough to make lampshades of him in nazi russias prison camps also?

Clyde

double fantasy, derpster.

Al-Qaeda

the exchange rate at the central bank, on the basis of which syrian products are priced.
hundreds of syrian families are without salaries
an neck adds that the decision to close factories and factories led to the layoffs of hundreds of workers and consequently the loss of several families for their only source of income in conjunction with the poor physical and living conditions that the syrian citizen

Zyklon b bug spray

let’s not forget the gold teeth, and the shoes !!! oh yes , the shoes ! 🥹🥹😭

Oreshnik up Ukrainazias Ass

no doubt, you never forgot to rip the gold teeth out and enjoyed sorting through all the different shoes herr zyklon b

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suffers during this period in the country, as he put it, where statistics indicate the layoffs of approximately 15 thousand workers from the private sector during the past three months.
he proposed several solutions to save the syrian industries, the first of which is to provide protection for those factories, factories and workshops, by allocating fixed security elements to protect the facilities from theft and vandalism

Oreshnik up Ukrainazias Ass

nope, that only happens in ramses run death camps in usa/uk/eu!!! russia kills human skin lamp shade makers like you just for fun, it’s not a crime!!!

Al-Qaeda

the syrian is pushing him to buy these materials at the expense of the syrian product, which led to a decline in demand and accumulation of syrian goods among merchants factories and workshops, especially since the imported materials are mostly entered irregularly, and are not subject to any customs duties, not to mention the gap in the exchange rate of the syrian pound against the us dollar, between the market alike and which depends on it by pricing the unknown source, with

good gief

he looks like a goofball. probably has an 80 iq. the best the uk has, no doubt.

Oreshnik up Ukrainazias Ass

yeah, and soon to be forgotten in one of the harsh penal colonies(gulag) in russias deep inhospitable interior.

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the neck of the syrian interim government called for providing facilities for the work of industrial facilities, by providing some oil derivatives at appropriate prices, which contribute to reoccupying the factories in light of the lack of sources of electrical energy in the country, in addition to imposing real controls on imported materials of unknown source, and preventing their spread in syrian markets ,

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products on the syrian industry
anka says: “for 3 months, the syrian markets have witnessed a great invasion of several materials whose source is unknown, which are imported from neighboring countries, especially turkey, away from any government control, and are sold at low prices in the markets for the prices of syrian products, despite their poor specifications, and as a result of the poor physical conditions of the citizen t

Oreshnik up Ukrainazias Ass

he is fortunate russians still taking prisoners and summarily execute him like the ukrainazis do to russian pows!!!

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e industrial cities of sheikh najjar, aleppo and hasaya
anika added that the poor reality of the electricity contributed greatly to the closure of these factories, as the number of hours of electrical feeding allocated to industrial cities was reduced, coinciding with a significant increase in the price of diesel, which increased by up to 30% from the previous period, and therefore there is an increase in production costs cannot be borne by the owner of the industrial facility.

Moshe Dayan

only a satanist repeats lies that shield murderers of women and children of gaza with disinformation because it’s a form of boasting about how much they are enjoying the suffering they create. hades is waiting for those who destroy g*ds creation and don’t follow the commandments.

Jose

good question, i hope that he was not sentenced to 19 years just for joining the losing side…

Joseph Day

shoulda just put one through the back of his head on the battlefield. lol

Conan M

serving 19 years… when this foreign mercenary maimed, raped and murdered ethnic russians in their own land. how does the russian federation not make this pos swing from the end of a rope?… while russia continues to sell the eu it’s energy while it tries to destroy it.

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Niccolo Machiavelli

rule of law. no death penalty in russia. putin is a lawyer. when dpr and lpr passed sentence of death on captured mercenaries, as soon as they became part of the russian federation the sentences were commuted to life. unlike the west, the russian federation abides by the law.

Omasbioladen

putin is a jew.

Al-Qaeda

syrians can finally speak and write without fear of being tortured, thrown in prison, or killed for exposing bashar and his assad family in its reign of terror over the syrian people since 2000. bashar was raised in privilege and power, but it was his london-born wife, a jp morgan financial specialist, who took corruption to an unprecedented level. bashar might have lasted years longer as president, had it not been for the over-the-top corruption instigated by his wife alone.

Moshe Dayan

is it the same rule of terror that the palestinians live under or is it different…did assad condemn his people based upon their circumstances of birth like the indigenous people of palestine are so condemned?

Conan M

to everything i just stated as fact + the conscientious decision to continue doing business with the very business associates that want you to hand over all of your property and your “wallet” for nothing ,ie” “$usd” or else?… at some point it is a matter of pride when hundreds of thousands of your own are involved. leaving it there!.

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Conan M

and oh by the way… i am american and can honestly say the last 4 president(s) and their administration(s) “should have” and “should be” swinging from the ends of ropes for all of the crimes against humanity and treason they keep committing!

Al-Qaeda

but remember putin and trump’s trade deals, where ukrainians and syrians are just pieces on the chessboard. trump and putin only see people as things, and that’s why jesus, their god, will send them to hell. such contempt for people as trump and putin are capable of will, of course, sooner or later turn against them. of course, the third-rate mercenary (perhaps a scumbag) will be replaced at some point with some russian exploiter.

Al-Qaeda

asma was never the victim, and history may recall it was the syrian first lady who brought down the assad family in total to its knees, and forced dozens of assad families to flee into the night to face a lifetime of exile. meanwhile, asma lies in a million-dollar mansion in moscow while dying of leukemia.

see the continuation of your own article.

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asma al-assad: the mastermind of the starvation of the syrian people
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while the people were starving, bashar al-assad and his british-born wife, asma akhras, were living a lavish lifestyle siphoning off the national treasury to their private bank accounts and pockets.
the fear that kept syrian journalists in silence disappeared at the same moment bashar al-assad fled damascus on december 8.

Moshe Dayan

the palestinians live in constant fear of death by an occupying army and now the people of syria do also..by the same army that kills palestinian children.

Clyde

the eu is not trying to destroy russia, americans are. the eu is a us puppet.

Conan M

the eu is out of money and no one wants to do business with a currency that has no value or backing x 100 with the american bitch wearing a tiara and carrying a torch!… asking again why putin chooses to stay in the un/unsc clubhouse given those prevailing condition(s)… does he and the peanut gallery in the russian government stand to get all of the au in fort knox?….

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Conan M

or was putine promised something else by the tribe that if he continues to be a good little boy he will easily clear another 500 billion roubles for all those worthle$$ counterfeit $usd!!!

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the fear that kept syrian journalists in silence disappeared at the same moment bashar al-assad fled damascus on december 8. syrians can finally speak and write without fear of being tortured, thrown in prison, or killed for exposing bashar and his assad family in its reign of terror over the syrian people since 2000.

bashar was raised in privilege and power, but it was his london-born wife, a jp mor

Clyde

yes, the russians should withdraw entirely from any structures involving the us, which means the rest of the world.

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financial specialist, who took corruption to an unprecedented level. bashar might have lasted years longer as president, had it not been for the over-the-top corruption instigated by his wife alone. asma was never the victim, and history may recall it was the syrian first lady who brought down the assad family in total to its knees, and forced dozens of assad families to flee into the night to face a lifetime of exile.

Moshe Dayan

asssad might have lasted but for the enemies of his people that sought every possible means to bribe his own military against him. the greater israel plan patch on the uniform says it all..

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payment is much closer than you might think. #middleeast#syria 04.01.2025 – 7231 views 4.1 (68 votes)
asma al-assad: the mastermind of the starvation of the syrian people
support southfrontpdf download written by steven sahiounie. originally published by mideastdiscourse.com

while the people were starving, bashar al-assad and his british-born wife, asma akhras, were living a lavish lifestyle siphoning off the national treasury to their private bank accounts and pockets.

Moshe Dayan

perhaps assad is the mastermind behind godzilla rising up out of tokyo bay as well?

Ramses

vladolfs is kim jongs boyfriend. are you jealous?

Clyde

is that scuttlebut you picked up from the boys in the bathhouse?

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in the aftermath of the 7.8 earthquake that hit turkey and syria, planeloads of international aid began arriving at the damascus airport. asma alone controlled the storage and distribution. assad loyalists, regardless of their wealth, were rewarded with the supplies. next, the corrupt officials asma had hired hoarded stockpiles of the free aid, some of which expired while in storage, and some were sold to merchants.

Moshe Dayan

the largest weapons merchant in the middle east is the same country supplying weapons to kill christians in armenia.

Oreshnik up Ukrainazias Ass

ramses projecting his gay fantasies😘

Oreshnik up Ukrainazias Ass

too bad gayboy ramses, you must really hate putin and his zero tolerance of faggots

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meanwhile, asma lies in a million-dollar mansion in moscow while dying of leukemia. asma set up an ngo, the syria trust for development (std), to portray the assad regime as humanitarians. the un alone donated $130 million, and the international donor funds came pouring into asma’s office, which she alone controlled. the cash and donations were hoarded and distributed in a pattern that rewarded those loyal to the regime and to assad family members.

Moshe Dayan

how many mansions does zelensky have around the world in addition to the ones in miami and london?

Al-Qaeda

russia will be destroyed by putin because he made dirty deals with trump at the expense of syria and ukraine. putin deliberately betrayed his assad, but people were not smart enough to notice the betrayal. people were smart enough to understand that trump betrayed ukraine and now they are waiting for four years to pass and for the payback to come.

Ramses

it belongs to ukraine, cased closed.

good gief

ukraine is a fascist state, withe fascist bandera as its george washington, whose motto was ‘i can tell all lies except one, that my followers were all nazi spies.”.

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asma, through her right-hand businessman, known as abu ali khader, monopolized cell phone imports, sales, and accessories. her company was named “emmatel”, as she had been called “emma” by friends in the uk where she was born and raised. by threat of arrest, or prohibitive taxes, asma prevented any competition from other businesses in cell phone sales.

bashar and asma placed over 100% taxes on any cell phone bought in syria, including any cell phone bought from her exclusive company.

Moshe Dayan

bibi is killing his own people in order to stay in power. he was warned in advance about october the 7th, even by the egyptian intelligence and yet he did nothing to protect his people. yes he should face justice for this.

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Oreshnik up Ukrainazias Ass

nothing belongs to nation 404, ukraine!!!

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the needy syrian people were not the recipients of humanitarian aid. asma and basher fed themselves off the starving farmers and others without a source of income.

international humanitarian aid groups and watchdog knew what asma was doing and had published many reports concerning her corruption.

Moshe Dayan

the people of israel are dying of increased cancers of all types, increasing neurological illnesses, unusual sudden death. their leaders need to be in front of a trubunal to answer for the harm done to the people of israel by ordering mandatory injections of poison.

Moshe Dayan

yes the title of “slavic children killers” is a title they have earned and should be how they are addressed internationally.

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Shlomo's little weenie

this article doesn’t articulate what ‘crimes’ were committed against the local civilians. the trial hearings will reveal all. he may not be the war criminal that his ukranian “colleague” accused him of. ukie saving his own ass ? yes.

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for example, any iphone sold around the world costs between $1,000 to $1,500; however, in syria, it would cost about $3,000. the added profit was to pay for the assad luxury at the expense of the people. bashar and his assad family got telecommunication companies to come to syria. syriatel was owned by rami makhlouf, the son of bashar’s maternal aunt. in the year 2019, a war broke out between asma and rami over the syriatel business.

Moshe Dayan

the people of lebanon were sold pagers that exploded and killed and maimed thousands. that was an act of terrorism. they were charged money for devices that harmed them. a good lawyer should seek restitution under international law for this crime against civilians.

Al-Qaeda

and fix the gap in the price of the syrian pound against the us dollar between both the market and the central bank
https://sarabic.ae
now read the sf article and ask yourself

Joseph Day

oh, he wont make the 19 yrs.

the narrative

the murder tourist did not get the death penalty ? imagine if this was israel dealing with someone they labeled as a terrorist ?

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Conan M

“the murder tourist did not get the death penalty?” nether did the israeli navy and air force after the uss liberty attack, beirut barracks, or the 5 dancing i$raelis at ground zero….

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Clyde

uss liberty incident could not have occurred without the full cooperation of high echelon us military and political players. likewise beirut bombing and 9/11. liberty was going to be blamed on egyptians, and was a function of the role of oil in the us empire. like 9/11 and ukrainian catastrophe.

Ramses

does this reasoning apply to pearl harbor too?

Clyde

no, i think that the world’s strongest naval power with intelligence assets and installations spanning the pacific had no idea that a rival with whom they were engaged in an imperialist contest would attack their military assets.

Al-Qaeda

the assad dynasty is a family affair. asma’s brother feras akhras isn’t named assad, but she made sure he got his share of the syrian pie at the expense of the people. after the kurds and the us troops confiscated the oil and gas fields in the northeast of syria, the people suffered from a severe electricity shortage. most homes were receiving electricity in just three intervals of 30 minutes each per day.

Al-Qaeda

if they had paid bribes, it was because it was a standard operating procedure to do business. knowing this was the system, asma’s office exploited the situation to bring 36 latakian developers into court for public shaming, and to force them into paying a ‘fine’ which was, in reality, an extortion payment. the money retrieved never went into helping the poor or maintaining infrastructure, instead, it went back into the designer purse of mrs. asma assad.

Conan M

don’t disagree at all with what you just said, which is why i said what i said about the last 4 presidents (make it 6) above in the nm.

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Clyde

truman, eisenhower, kennedy, johnson and nixon were real straight shooters, weren’t they? reagan in particular, titan of a man. pillar of righteousness.

Conan M

so where oh where are the rational voices to peace that have been absent since the mahatma that knew well what the british anglo-zioni$t establishment did to them for 150 years under colonial reign… ditto the chinese that took it up the ” ” just as hard… that now worship them and their fiat paper “g0d$”!… clyde. you must be so proud?!!!

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Clyde

truly a bizarre comment. good work.

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order to buy prime acreage at below cost from owners who could not afford to replant their olive trees. the std was ordered by asma to throw out landowners from their lands and confiscate valuable pistachio farms. all of these crimes were well known in syria, but local journalists could never have published the facts out of fear of prison, torture, and death.

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asma designated her brother feras as the exclusive dealer and supplier for all gravel and stone supplies. small family-owned businesses in the field were forced to close, and their hauling trucks were confiscated for the use of asma’s brother.

a series of fires occured along the coast. the areas burned were scattered and not adjoined. experts could not understand what was the cause of these mysterious fires. later, it was revealed that asma’s office thugs had lit the fires in o

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the syrian oil production prior to 2011 was approximately 400,000 barrels per day. the profits made from export sales of the crude did not come back into the treasury but were deposited directly into private assad bank accounts. bashar inherited this process from his father’s days of corruption. after the war, many buildings were destroyed. to rebuild, gravel and stones are necessary for the construction of buildings based on the cement block style used in syria.

Al-Qaeda

gasoline was also short, so gas-powered generators could not be used. chinese imported solar panels and batteries were in demand to fill the electricity needs syrian businessmen were prohibited from importing those items, as asma designated her brother feras as the exclusive importer of solar panels and batteries.

Al-Qaeda

after a time, sometimes up to one month, the man would be given a demand in dollars and told they could go home if they summoned the proscribed amount to her office. in another shakedown, successful real estate developers in latakia and other coastal locations were publically listed as accused of corrupt practices, such as paying bribes to get a building permit. the developers were forced by the assad regime to pay bribes to get almost any document or procedure accomplished

Al-Qaeda

asma formed a security branch, reporting to her personally, which was tasked with business shakedowns. key successful businessmen were identified, then asma’s thugs would arrest them and place them in detention. they would be forced to remain locked in a hotel room for a period of time, which was the psychological aspect of her evil plan.

Niccolo Machiavelli

if you can’t do the time, don’t do the crime….

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Ramses

will vladolf come to haag court now then, is that what you say, or is he a chicken?

Al-Qaeda

after bashar fell, the prices of some foodstuffs fell. the cost of eggs decreased by 50%, and lamb meat declined by 30%. maher al-assad, bashar’s brother, had made a commission on every egg sold, and lamb meat. once the assads were gone, natural prices could return.

Cromwell

notice the nazi tattoos on this filth?

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Ramses

is he having the zombie nazi tattoo?

Al-Qaeda

then, in a flash and flurry, they would begin confiscating things from the business, as if they owned the store. customs officers would keep some looted items, and deliver the rest to the warehouses of the assad family. in one of the final customs raids in latakia, they swooped in one morning downtown to a large store with a huge inventory of household and personal items imported from china

good gief

ah, those are all ancient buddhist symbols for health and prosperity.

Al-Qaeda

they took everything as if they were a professional moving company. later, asma’s office would call the business owner and negotiate a price to sell the confiscated merchandise back to the legal owner.

on a grander scale, assad agents would approach a successful business owner and coerce them into accepting the assad family as a partner, but without an investment. if the businessman refused to comply, he would be arrested and possibly face death in prison.

Al-Qaeda

bashar, asma, and maher never paid attention to king abdullah ignoring his demands to stop the business through his land. bashar’s thugs were at the customs office. those men would arrive at a business and begin a search, ostensibly looking for fraud or smuggling. they would often ask for paperwork on an obscure item in the place, knowing the business owner could not easily find it.

gilberto posada

el ciudadano britanico se saco la loteria……..

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Al-Qaeda

some cleverly stalled off the process by fleeing the country. many syrian businessmen are in egypt, lebanon, and dubai only because they were threatened in a coercive manner, and expected to bow down to the assad family. when the assad regime collapsed and the syrian people burst into the presidential palace in damascus, they saw the luxurious lifestyle the assad family was living, and the car garage revealed a collection of the newest and most expensive cars on earth,

Jeppe Hansen

lucky for this imbicile there’s no death penalty in russia. he should do forced labor in siberia for all 19 years with a live-feed being broadcasted 24/7 so that any idiot thinking about becoming a soldier of fortune against russia see what awaits them if caught.

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Ramses

opposite, this is really encouraging to continue and free russia of all remaining territories now to liberate the normal russian people.

Clyde

bring back khodorkovsky and larry summers!

Al-Qaeda

the citizens and the army had been betrayed by bashar, asma, maher, and all related to them. well, look at what is written on your website. even newarab and al jaazira, which are funded from qatar, are not that crazy. i, a fair-skinned and blond european woman, had a zopo 350 phone and then a redmi note 10 pro phone (i still have this cell phone). i used to buy clothes on zalando and aliexpress, but now on temu. i’ve been driving a purple skoda for ten years.

Al-Qaeda

jalali asked, “how can you expect someone to risk their life for their country when they’re only paid $17.50?” now you know why the assad regime fell so easily in less than two weeks and with very little resistance. there were no assad loyalists left, only relatives. minority groups who had once felt defended by bashar had years ago turned against him after the realization of the depths of his corruption.

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such as bugatti, maserati, and ferrari. included in the garage was a collection of classic old cars of priceless value. mohammed jalali was the last prime minister under bashar al-assad’s regime.
“as prime minister, i made two million syrian pounds, which is about $140. ministers got one million, which is $70, civil servants made $20, and soldiers were paid only $17.50, ” he said.

Ramses

andersson entered ukrainian territory, all of russia now belongs to kiev, of course. so just throw the krimlin imbeciles in prison for mental patients, nobody cares.

Al-Qaeda

that’s why i now have enough money to travel to croatian slavonia and dalmatia to pay priests for masses to destroy russia. all europeans in italy, slovenia, and even croatia see trump’s betrayal of zelensky, but no one saw the betrayal when putin betrayed assad. drunk croats brag in cafes that they will kill his vice president or putin. i attribute this to the alcohol treatment of the common people. i drive from italy to croatia and pay priests to say masses for the disintegration of russia.

tomsawyer

nazi gay ramses senile—normal in amerrika

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Peter Jennings

5 years in prison then off to the gulag. hope the blood money was worth it. somehow i doubt it.

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Ramses

in burger land they call me senile loser cuz i like gay fish & chips

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syrian industries are threatened with extinction after the closure of hundreds of factories and factories

during the past three months, hundreds of syrian factories, factories and workshops were closed in several governorates, as a result of several factors that accompanied the departure of the government of former syrian president bashar al-assad.

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al-masali ahmed anqa, revealed to “sputnik” the closure of approximately 420 factories, factories and workshops in the governorates of aleppo, damascus, its countryside, lattakia, tartous and homs during the past three months, due to several reasons, the first of which is the security instability witnessed in the syrian regions, where several incidents of theft were recorded by unknown armed men, especially inside the

nahavar

19 years is not nenough

japie

from african tourist to ukraine mercenary.history recalls its self.mercenaries occupied africa and killed millions of zulu and other tribe.

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Usajewcessapool

putin is a little bitch….controlled by the oligarch.playing games with russian lives…u pos. strelkov was right…
that’s why u jailed him u little yeltsin protege bitch. what’s next let the americans in the donbass to mine the shit out of the place..you little putin bitch. anyone who thinks putin is great is a dog.

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hasbarats

make him lick the prison toilet seats. its what brits are good for

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Fabricio Lustosa

the russians, surprisingly too bureaucratic, will not do what should be done with this imprisoned worm and others – throw them tied up in pigpens as food for the pigs; then send them to suffer the rest of their lives in prisons in the depths of siberia, honestly, the punishment for these trash should be the maximum of the maximum

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