Gangster dialogue

How do spies work? Spies get on the bus and go to Slavyansk. Together with the translator and security, in order to explore the location of the troops, draw a map, shoot objects, generally navigate on the spot and abduct the military plant.

How to catch spies? Armed people in masks stop the bus at the entrance and delay everyone who is in it. Spies, translator and Ukrainian officers. Then they are planted in the basement, and from there they are taken to a press conference, where arrested by measuring, without intonation, in their voices report that none of them was injured, that they were treated well and that their security is guaranteed by the "People's Mayor". By the name of Vyacheslav Ponomarev. Apparently, they give a signal: their security, guaranteed by Ponomarev, is not worth a rushing broken.

What will happen to the spies? The people's mayorcalls them prisoners of war and offers to exchange them arrested for accomplices in the household. Say, on his deputy Igor Perepenko and other fighters for the popular happiness and schism of Ukraine. Still, as he himself innocently admits, he needs them as a living shield - in case of assault. The technique is known.

What really happens?

It is not easy to answer this question. That is, it is clear that military observers from the OSCE, acting as part of the Vienna document, went with the inspection on the territory of sovereign Ukraine. It is also clear that they are spies only within the framework of the game that the People’s mayor and those who manage it are leading. Another thing is incomprehensible.

Since Russia, having absorbed Crimea, turned its eyes to the east of Ukraine, Slavyansk has become one of the most dangerous places in Europe, if not in the world. To send there international observers, equipped with any papers confirmed in Brussels, it is like in the den of the robbers to direct the ambassadors of goodwill. Perhaps in the West they have not yet figured out who they deal with who deal with self -proclaimed Russian -speaking, as well as their Moscow curators. They did not understand to the end, but gradually they begin to understand. Sometimes even with a break.

So, the leader of the CDS/CSS faction in the German Bundestag, Folker Cauder (among the four citizens of the Federal Republic of Germany in Slavyansk) called the capture of the hostages "the policy of the Stone Age", and this definition seems inaccurate. The hostages were always captured, except that it is difficult to talk about the Stone Age with confidence, since there were no written sources. Today, the list of states engaged in this fishing is confidently headed by Russia.

It manifests itself differently. The crazy laws that continue their victorious procession from the lower house to the upper house, and from there to the Kremlin, personify hostage as the principle of Moscow relations with the West. You do not love us, and in response we will take into hostages all those citizens of the Russian Federation who are in solidarity with you, and we will arrange an unbearable life for them. And if this goes on, then we will ban the Internet - the favorite brainchild of the CIA in Russia and the Internet. And the tougher the sanctions directed against the Kremlin, the more stricter and crazy the Russian laws directed against foreign agents, no matter what it means.

The tragedy in Slavyansk, where they catch “spies” (let's still take this word in quotation marks), tightly delay journalists and demonstrate Ukrainian law enforcement officers beaten into the blood-this is also such a peculiar answer to sanctions. And Ponomarev, who quite talentedly plays the role of a non -subordinate scumbag to anyone, is actually controlled by Moscow. That is, the fate of hostages from the OSCE military mission, as well as the translator and accompanying officers, is completely dependent on Vladimir Putin. And while he considers their stay “visiting” by the bandits, political politicians, the throwing of Western politicians, will be captivated in political terms, hostages will be captured. If the Kremlin decides that the voiced picture on some "Rush Tuday", where hostages talk about the hospitality of Ponomarev, does not correspond to national interests, the terrorist will immediately release the arrested observers. Without any conditions.

This can be achieved, probably, within the framework of some local agreements associated with the same sanctions that so far look rather soft, but can be sharply tightened. A combination of hardness in negotiations with Russia and a willingness to compromise by trifles. Since the very process of the rigid controversy of the West with Moscow has already been launched, the Cold War has almost begun, and this is for a long time. Before the end of Putin’s era, at least, and the deadlines are unknown.

And the hostages must be saved until it is too late, and here all the means are good - with the exception of those that were used on Dubrovka or in Beslan. And until Slavyansk remains occupied by impolite people in camouflage, it is hardly possible to send European missions there, risking the lives of unarmed people. This may not be understood in Brussels, but must be understood in Kyiv. No one sends military observers to those areas of Afghanistan or Syria, which are controlled by the Taliban or Al-Qaeda. Although real spies are probably working there, under the cover of local national clothes and with reliable xiva. This is generally a subtle work - espionage, especially in the east. In eastern Ukraine, all the more.