Minsk Attack - Terror in Belarus

[DMac]

The generic details:

http://rt.com/news/blast-minsk-least-injured/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IafwZ4ofCIo

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I was speaking with a Belarusian friend today about yesterday's attack. We were bouncing theories and ideas off why they were hit with a "terrorist" attack.

He told me about how the current leader of Belarus is an enemy of the West and is also on the outs with Russian leadership. Apparently some time ago Russia sent former KGB folks into Belarus to work on destabilizing the leadership. This backfired on them as the agents sent their decided to defect from Russia and decided to stay in Belarus.

He also told me that due to the current Belarusian leader's desire to get income for the oil/gas pipelines coming from Russia through Belarus as pissed off the European elite along with the complicit Russian oligarchy.

Apparently there is a leader in the background, friendly to Russian and European interests waiting in the wings should the current leader be removed or step down from power.

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I was wondering, now that Soros' "Remake the world" meeting has passed where the first "terror" attack might hit.

Belarus could be the beginning. I don't care what patsy has been named as connected. With no major bank member killed, nor general, or police chief or other intelligence asset dead - an attack aimed squarely at the people - I immediately think this is an act of terror carried out by intelligence in order to send a message to the people and current government (your leadership cannot protect you). The typical calling card of the date: 4-11 was my initial tip off of such. Double digit dates so often are their modus operandi.


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A warning that Belarus is in the crosshairs?

Joe Lieberman, America's most vocal Zionist....speaking on the floor of the house on March 10th 2011:


"As the winds of democratic change have been sweeping now across North Africa and the Middle east, ousting autocratic rulers who have been long entrenched there, it is important for us to remember there is one remaining dictatorship in Europe.

And that is in the country of Belarus."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ELbj1hB72zo

[DMac]

http://www.eegas.com/belarus1.htm


Major Gas Pipelines of Belarus and Comments to Russia-Belarus Gas Dispute

http://www.eegas.com/images/Belarus1.png


The following major gas pipelines run through Belarus.

- Torzhok-Kondratki-Frankfurt/Oder (Yamal pipeline), 1420 mm (56-in)

- Torzhok-Minsk-Ivatsevichi, 3 x 1220 mm (48-in)

- Ivatsevichi-Kobrin-Dolina, 2 x 1220 mm (48-in)

- Kobrin-Brest-Warsaw, 1020 mm (40-in)

- Minsk-Vilnius, 1220 mm (48-in)

- Torzhok-Dolina, 1420 mm (56-in)

The Yamal pipeline supplies gas to Poland, Germany, the Netherlands and Belgium. If the flow via Belarus is cut, Germany, the Netherlands and Belgium can receive gas via Ukraine. There is enough gas stored in underground storage facilities of Ukraine and Germany. Combination of mild winter and long Russian holiday (from December 30 to January 8) means there is spare capacity in gas pipelines of Russia and Ukraine. The holiday period reduces daily gas consumption for power generation alone by about 50 million cubic meters.

In 2005 Poland imported 3.2 bcm of Russian gas via Belarus and 3.9 bcm via Ukraine. The flow through Drozdovichi can be increased only by 15%, which is not enough to substitute the loss if the flow via Belarus is turned off. Underground gas storage facilities of Poland have maximum withdrawal rate of about 7 million cubic meters per day. It is not enough to replace the flow from Belarus. On top of that, storage gas is needed to meet regular peak-load demand in winter period.

The Russian region of Kaliningrad depends on supplies of gas through Belarus. Lithuania also receives most of its gas via the Minsk-Vilnius pipeline.

Gazprom blocks access of Belarus and other states to Central Asian gas. Gas from Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan can be bought only through designated brokers - ZMB (Schweiz) AG and Rosukrenergo. Brokerage services are extremely expensive. For instance, from January 2007, ZMB will buy gas at the border of Turkmenistan at $100/mcm and resell it to Georgia at $235. Note that the official transit fee from Turkmen border to Georgia and Azerbaijan is about $30/mcm. Nevertheless, Gazprom expects Ukraine, Belarus and other European states to provide transit services for Russian gas.

Theoretically, Belarus can stop selling transit services to Gazprom and become a broker for all Russian gas that gets into its territory. Russia's non-ratification of the Energy Charter Treaty opens interesting opportunities for brokers of Russian gas in Belarus, Ukraine and other countries of Eastern Europe.

Environmental authorities of Belarus may use the approach of their Russian colleagues to the evaluation of environmental damage caused by pipeline projects. It would be easy to find sections of the Yamal-Europe pipeline that do not meet the environmental regulations of Belarus. For instance, ROW of the section shown in this satellite photo substantially exceeds the regulated maximum width of 45 meters.

In general, the formal introduction of gas export monopoly of Gazprom has reduced security of supplies to Europe. In a similar conflict in January 2004, when Gazprom stopped gas sales to Belarus, the flows were replaced by independent traders Itera and Trans-Nafta. Now Russian independents and Central Asian producers are unable to export gas out of Russia.

Mikhail Korchemkin, December 30, 2006

[Antonio]

Lukashenko is a fantastic leader supported by 95% of Belarus population and also by every patriotic Russian who wants him to become the leader of Russia as well. Anyone hated by the West is ALWAYS a good guy.