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In response to Tatyana’ request for a transcript
First a few remarks and questions for Tatyana. Is there any reason you can’t just use a VPN to access YouTube? The transcript I’m posting below is the the one automatically generated by YouTube. It’s not very good, and it garbles almost everything. I’ve made a few corrections myself, but it would take too long to do a complete, fully polished job.
Tatyana, can you see the video as displayed on Craig’s post? If you can, there is not much point in my little effort at a transcript, because the subtitles Craig and his crew provide are very good, much better than my wee effort. Sorry I don’t know any way of extracting the subtitles into a separate transcript. So I presume someone in Craig’s team already has, effectively, a fully polished transcript?
Anyway, here’s the transcript:
0:00 [Music]
0:12 I’m here this afternoon with Andrea
0:14 Tenenti who’s the spokesman for the United
0:17 Nations Interim Force in Lebanon
0:20 for an Interim Force it’s been here
0:22 an awfully long while it’s been here 46
0:26 years and it’s had a sort of series of
0:29 of mandates its mandate is formally
0:31 renewed but then it’s also had to
0:33 respond to different events and
0:36 different Security Council resolutions
0:38 over that
0:41 time which means it’s it’s quite an
0:43 organic thing which has grown up here in
0:46 in Lebanon how do you view the
0:50 challenges of UNIFIL at the moment
0:53 well as you said interim somehow is a
0:55 strange concept especially in the Middle
0:57 East with things are way more
1:00 complicated in terms of sorting
1:03 out and an implementation of the Mandate
1:05 there a lot of sensitivities so the
1:08 challenges have been several throughout
1:10 all this period but if I have to focus
1:13 on the recent challenges are of
1:15 course to bring back stability in
1:19 south of Lebanon a stability that we
1:22 had witnessed since from 2006 until
1:25 October 2023 a lot of work was done
1:29 in close coordination with the parties
1:32 in close coordination with the Lebanese
1:33 Army a lot of work was done along the
1:35 blue line to try to visibly Mark
1:39 the Blue Line we had a monthly meeting
1:42 of
1:43 tripartite the most important confidence
1:46 building mechanism within Lebanese Army
1:48 and IDF almost monthly now of course
1:51 the challenges is mainly to restore
1:53 stability to bring back the people in
1:56 south of Lebanon and to support the
1:59 Lebanese Army in their full redeployment
2:02 in south of Lebanon and the full also
2:05 withdrawal of IDF from the south
2:08 of the
2:10 country I want to go on to the events of
2:12 the 26th of January this year because
2:16 this was a massacre there were the
2:19 figures I have from the lebanese Ministry
2:20 of Health 26 people killed and 147
2:26 injured I was there myself that day
2:29 on the line I saw somebody shot
2:31 thankfully not killed in front of me a
2:34 young
2:34 boy and one thing I can say for sure
2:39 is that the only people I saw carrying
2:42 weapons were the
2:45 IDF UNIFIL and the Lebanese Army I saw
2:48 no civilians or militia or anybody else
2:51 carrying any weapons these were unarmed
2:54 people who were shot and killed and
2:57 that’s on Uni’s watch I UNIFIL is there
2:59 to protect protect
3:00 people and over a period of several
3:04 hours people were being shot and killed
3:08 and over 150
3:10 wounded in front of your
3:13 peacekeepers you know I think the world
3:15 is entitled to ask what are you doing
3:18 and why weren’t you doing anything to
3:20 stop it you know the massacre of that
3:23 many civilians is not a small thing
3:26 for my fellow Scots it’s the size of the
3:28 Glen Co Massacre
3:30 it’s twice the size of a bloody Sunday
3:32 Massacre which had huge ramifications
3:34 for British history why were your
3:37 peacekeepers
3:38 so inert during this massacre okay let
3:43 me say that first of all the situ
3:45 what happened in the 26 was exactly a
3:48 very dramatic dramatic day protection
3:51 of Civilian is definitely part of all
3:55 peacekeeping missions what
3:58 peacekeepers are there to assist the
4:02 the government in this case the
4:03 government of Lebanon the main
4:05 responsibility on the protection of
4:06 civilians is usually with the with the
4:08 government where we are working this
4:10 case was the Lebanese government and of
4:12 course our responsibility is to protect
4:15 civilian under imminent threat of
4:18 violence and this what we did when the
4:20 government cannot assist so on that
4:23 particular day on the 26th of
4:26 January we were request by the Lebanese
4:28 Army by the Lebanese government to
4:30 assist the Lebanese Army in that
4:33 regard of course the limitation of
4:35 the Mandate that we cannot control the
4:37 crowd that is with the Lebanese
4:39 authorities so we have been present in
4:41 different locations but what it’s not
4:44 said during the day that definitely
4:46 25 36 people were killed large number
4:50 of people were were injured the
4:52 mission within our mandate and what we
4:55 can do under chapter six of the Security Council
4:56 was to assist and the
4:59 lebanes arming during the day to
5:00 minimize the risk there were thousands
5:02 of people who went to the south of
5:04 Lebanon we have been asking the IDF to
5:06 refrain from firing at the same
5:09 time we have been doing a large number
5:12 of
5:14 deconflict activities with the
5:16 parties trying to mitigate the risk
5:19 in different location along the blue
5:21 line so all along the Blue Line 110
5:23 kilometers so definitely that what
5:25 happen on the date was very dramatic
5:28 in terms of the number of killed
5:30 people the week after in fact the
5:32 situation was very different from the
5:34 previous week so we have to see also how
5:37 much the mission together with the
5:39 Lebanese Army and Lebanese authorities
5:41 have been able somehow to mitigate some
5:43 of the more dramatic event that could
5:46 have happened that could occurred that
5:48 day along the blue line so I have to say
5:50 that definitely was a was a very
5:52 difficult day difficult situation
5:53 thousands of people went to the South
5:55 our role with as a peacekeeping
5:58 mission is to make mediate between the
6:00 parties and trying to mitigate the risk
6:02 and that’s what what we did again we are
6:04 not a mission that can enforce peace we
6:07 are not under chapter 7 of the Security Council
6:09 we are under chapter six so what
6:12 would be the responsibility of the
6:13 mission we are not going to you know use
6:15 weapons to shoot at the par one or the
6:18 others we will become part of the
6:20 of the conflict in the case our role
6:22 is to mitigate is to negotiate is to
6:25 try to find Solutions and that was done
6:28 on the day despite all the advisories
6:32 and directories that we also sent to the
6:34 population through the Lebanese Army on
6:37 on preventing people to go from to
6:41 specific areas so this was done
6:42 throughout the day and was done the days
6:44 after was done the week after and the
6:46 following week in fact the following
6:48 weeks actually the mitigation of some of
6:51 this situation has been happening and
6:54 and the situation was basically less
6:57 violent the following weeks
7:00 let me come to that to that question of
7:02 your what Your mandate is because the
7:06 UNIFIL put out like an exculpatory
7:10 statement afterwards saying well it’s
7:11 not our fault it’s not part of our
7:13 mandate to manage for crowd but what
7:16 your mandate is in
7:18 1701 it says that UNIFIL will extend its
7:23 assistance to civilian populations and
7:25 the voluntary and safe return of
7:28 displaced persons so the voluntary and
7:30 safe return of displaced persons is part
7:33 of your mandate directly it’s not your
7:35 mandate to stop them going or tell them
7:37 not to go and it’s not your mandate to
7:39 let them be shot when they go so and I’m
7:43 not suggesting you should have opened
7:45 fire on the Israeli troops because as
7:46 you say you don’t have a chapter 7
7:49 mandate so you would not be allowed to
7:52 but where I was in Kfir Kila for example
7:56 where four people were shot dead as
7:59 you approached the town you saw UN heavy
8:03 armour heavy armour on
8:06 the about a mile back then you came in
8:10 and there was another line of the
8:11 Lebanese
8:13 Army and then just beyond that about
8:16 another 100
8:18 yards was the barricade put up sandbank
8:23 basically by the Israeli
8:24 forces and then about 50 yards beyond
8:28 that were the Israeli forces who were
8:30 firing at people and basically shooting
8:33 anyone who approached the sandbank but
8:35 the UN forces until 4:00 in the
8:38 afternoon when they came in kept
8:41 deliberately back from where the
8:42 shooting was
8:44 surely you know you have these huge
8:46 armoured vehicles you don’t have to
8:48 shoot at the Israelis but you could be
8:49 interposing yourself between the
8:52 Israelis and the civilians are being
8:54 shot and in a situation where children
8:56 are being shot dead is it not your duty
9:01 to do everything you possibly can
9:04 everything you can including driving
9:06 your armoured vehicles up to the Israeli
9:08 positions to shield people why were
9:11 you not doing that kind of thing well
9:13 you have to talk about the old Blue Line
9:15 you were in a specific positions was
9:18 exactly so we were in other positions
9:21 and in other position with other
9:22 vehicles also to do what exactly what
9:24 you’re saying right now at the same time
9:27 we are there at the request of the
9:29 Lebanese Army we are there because we
9:31 were asked to be there and we were there
9:33 because we are in there in their
9:35 support but it’s not within our mandate
9:38 to control the crowds as the Lebanese
9:41 Army were trying to do but this what we
9:44 did in definitely other parts of the
9:46 blue line and again there was a lot of
9:48 conversation ongoing there was not on in
9:51 on the ground between the leadership
9:53 of the mission and the parties and the
9:55 ADF to prevent the firing to
9:59 against civilians so work was done but
10:01 of course you know the full
10:03 prevention of what happened on the day
10:05 it’s something that would be very
10:07 difficult in terms when you have
10:08 population going there even if you put
10:09 your tanks in front of a firing
10:13 marava or firing position from the
10:15 aref would be very difficult and again a
10:18 lot of this was done in different other
10:20 positions along the blue line so we have
10:22 a certain number of patrols and we had
10:25 been requesting 12 different positions
10:27 along the blue line by the Lebanese Army on
10:30 the previous days and that’s what we did
10:31 on the day so our work is now in
10:34 order to ensure that something like this
10:37 would not happen again there is a lot of
10:38 work done underground that is not only
10:40 the work that you see visibly along the
10:42 Blue Line the peacekeepers are doing and
10:45 also that they’re doing at the political
10:47 level between the
10:49 parties your answer next speaking
10:52 and anyone who hears of a situation
10:55 where civilians are massacred by
10:58 force
11:00 within sight of peacekeepers their
11:02 mind will automatically go back to
11:04 shanit this of course is not on that
11:07 scale but I dug out the report to
11:12 the general assembly by Kofi Anan who as
11:15 it happens was a end of mine the
11:18 report he gave on Srebrenica and what went
11:21 wrong there and there a couple of
11:24 things in it I’d like to put to you
11:26 because it seems to me these are
11:27 fundamental problems which are still not
11:30 addressed and he said that the problems
11:32 arose from the inadequacy of symbolic
11:36 deterrence in the face of a system
11:39 systematic campaign Of
11:41 violence the pervasive ambivalence
11:44 within the United Nations regarding the
11:46 use of force by the United Nations and
11:50 an institutional ideology of
11:53 impartiality even when confronted with
11:55 attempted
11:56 genocide those Kofi said were the you
11:59 know what went wrong at Srebrenica and it
12:01 seems to me you basically have those
12:02 problems here too but there’s this
12:05 ambivalence about the UN using force to
12:07 protect people there’s a desire to be
12:08 seen as impartial even when one side is
12:10 massing civilians don’t you see those
12:14 problem I see completely the contrary in
12:17 in relation to s that you’re mentioning
12:19 I’m glad you brought it up because
12:21 was a completely different situation if
12:23 you look at what happened with UNIFIL
12:25 especially from October when we were
12:28 asked to leave from the south of Lebanon
12:30 the ADF asked UNIFIL to leave and very
12:34 forcibly we were attacked we were
12:36 targeted did we leave we stayed we were
12:39 the only International presence in south
12:42 of Lebanon very limited monitoring
12:45 capabilities I agree but we stayed at
12:48 the risk of our peacekeepers to be hit
12:49 and to be targeted and we had people
12:51 injured luckily we didn’t have
12:53 fatalities we had people within our
12:56 bases 50 positions along the blue line
12:59 no one has left no one of the 10,000
13:01 peacekeepers left the south of Lebanon
13:03 when no one was present in the south of
13:05 Lebanon there was no other authority in
13:07 south of Lebanon and there was a
13:09 decision taken because we wanted to be
13:11 there because no one can tell us to
13:13 leave we need to be there as even if
13:15 with the limited capabilities was
13:17 important to have a referee even injured
13:20 referee to be present and we continue to
13:22 support local populations we continue to
13:24 bring assistance to the few people that
13:26 were left in the south of Lebanon the
13:28 conflicting activities of
13:31 humanitarian organization of UN agencies
13:33 of the Red Cross this was done on a
13:36 daily basis so this has not stopped us
13:38 from being there so very different from
13:40 what happened in former in former
13:42 Yugoslavia we stay there but again we
13:44 have a limited capability in terms of
13:47 authority and chapter six of the
13:50 Security Council if the International
13:53 Community wants us to do more to use
13:56 force it would be a Security Council
13:58 decision and would be a decision from
14:01 troop-contributing countries to enforce
14:04 the mission’s mandate but what we did
14:07 at the time I think was something
14:09 that no one else did before we didn’t we
14:12 didn’t leave we stayed no I accept that
14:15 and I know that you came under under
14:17 fire you had watchtowers destroyed you
14:20 had Israelis tanks knocked down the
14:21 gates of some of your
14:23 compounds and I accept what you say
14:27 in that instance but there’s still
14:30 to me it doesn’t answer the unresolved
14:33 question of why we have a force here
14:36 which is more heavily armed than any UN
14:38 Force I’ve ever seen you have main
14:40 battle tanks you have mobile howitzers you
14:43 have anti-aircraft
14:45 batteries and there appear to be no
14:48 circumstances in which you envision any
14:50 of those weapons ever being
14:52 fired why if if your mission is
14:55 essentially one of mediating and
14:57 Advising and delivering
15:00 supplies why isn’t it done by military
15:04 observers with binoculars and civilians
15:06 in SUVs it seems you know it to an
15:10 outsider it looks extraordinary but you
15:12 have civilians being shot dead and you
15:15 have main battle tanks and howitzers and
15:17 and the full panoply of military power
15:20 which available to UNIFIL doing nothing what
15:23 is the purpose of all this heavy
15:25 equipment we also have to think about
15:27 the the power of deterrence
15:30 with equipment again it’s also a
15:32 decision from troop-contributing
15:34 countries to protect their own troops
15:36 their own peacekeepers even for
15:38 self-defence so there is a a different
15:42 posture also from different
15:44 countries and what want to bring in a
15:46 peacekeeping operations it’s as you know
15:47 it’s a it’s up to countries to decide if
15:49 they want to be contributing to a
15:51 peacekeeping missions the soldiers they
15:53 want to send to to the mission and
15:55 the kind time type of weapons and
15:57 armaments that they will bring to the
15:59 mission but again despite the the
16:01 the the facilities that the
16:04 equipment that the mission has that can
16:06 be also used as a deterent we are still
16:08 under chapter six of the Security Council
16:10 we are not under chapter seven
16:12 so we are not we cannot enforce peace
16:15 and we don’t want to become part of the
16:18 of the problem we need to be part of the
16:20 solutions so we cannot you know using
16:23 weapons even in self-defence unless
16:25 there is a real scenario where
16:27 self-defence is needed would only trigger
16:29 more violence and bring us to be part of
16:32 the of the conflict we have been asked
16:34 several times even when we were hit with
16:35 the Merkava tank in the tower that you
16:38 just mentioned why we didn’t react to
16:40 the fire why we didn’t respond to the
16:42 fire when IDF troops were inside some
16:45 of our bases we also have to be very
16:47 pragmatic about the use of fire if that
16:49 will trigger more violence or will be
16:51 that a solution so this is a question
16:53 that we need to ask so we also have to
16:55 look at what did not happen and would be
16:57 very difficult to check it whatever is
16:59 more tangible and visible is to see what
17:02 happened and the destructions in the
17:04 south of Lebanon and all the violations
17:05 and I fully agree of all the violations
17:08 that occurred in south of Lebanon during
17:10 all this period but we also have to see
17:12 what did not happen and how things were
17:14 also deterred and prevented because of a
17:18 a presence in south of Lebanon of an
17:20 International Community that has been
17:22 trying as much as they could to do the
17:24 work but again there is no military
17:26 solution to this situation the only
17:28 solution is diplomatic and political
17:31 and it’s not within our mandate to work
17:35 on a diplomatic and political level
17:37 that will be for the main stakeholders
17:39 and for other member states to do
17:42 that so we are doing whatever we can
17:45 within our
17:47 mandate so if the heavy military
17:51 equipment of UNIFIL exists not to defend
17:54 people in South Lebanon but to defend
17:56 UNIFIL that seems to be also said in
17:59 also for protection of civilians in case
18:02 of you know imminent threats of
18:05 violence but at the same time we also
18:07 have to be very pragmatic like what
18:08 happened on the 24 we need to try to
18:10 work on prevention, mitigating the
18:12 risk and also make sure that as it
18:15 happened the following weeks there will
18:16 be a limit in the violence used and
18:18 trying to negotiate at a different level
18:21 to try to prevent these things from
18:22 happening and again you know IDF sorry
18:26 Lebanese Army and Lebanese authorities
18:28 that
18:29 issuing directives to the population and
18:32 we have been there to try to assist the
18:34 Lebanese Army on this but again this is
18:37 the population went then voluntarily and
18:39 we did whatever we could at the time and
18:41 also in other part in other parts of the
18:43 Blue Line in order to prevent it but
18:45 again that was not something that was
18:49 within our
18:51 capabilities and you and I have both
18:54 seen within 20 miles or so of
18:59 your main base in the South where
19:03 where you are normally based the massive
19:07 destruction which Israel has wrought on
19:08 on homes in particular but really as you
19:11 go up the Border there there’s a Zone
19:16 3 or 4 km deep and which continues at
19:20 least 15 km up that border and I don’t
19:23 know how far it goes that’s as far as
19:25 I’ve been where every building is
19:27 destroyed almost 90% of all building
19:28 buildings are
19:30 destroyed a high percentage of those
19:33 buildings were destroyed during the
19:34 ceasefire by
19:37 demolition and also I’ve been to Hiam (sp?)
19:40 which is also much destroyed and another
19:42 thing I’ve noted there is the amount of
19:44 looting from destroyed buildings where
19:46 the Israelis systematically looted high
19:48 value goods from people’s properties
19:50 these are all war
19:52 crimes and again it may seem very
19:55 strange to people that that war crimes
19:57 are happening the demolition during a
20:00 ceasefire of thousands of
20:02 homes happening within earshot of your
20:06 bases and you don’t appear to be doing
20:09 anything about it or if you are doing
20:10 anything about it’s not visible to
20:12 the public so is it your do you have
20:16 a role in documenting this do you report
20:19 it to the International Criminal Court
20:22 do you report it to the International Court
20:23 of Justice which is a UN body of
20:26 course How
20:30 how how are you reacting to this and
20:32 have you made representations to
20:35 the IDF to say you do know you’re
20:39 not allowed to blow up civilian houses
20:41 you should not be doing this doing a
20:42 ceasefire anyway how explain to me how
20:45 this works because again to an outsider
20:47 it looks very strange this is absolutely
20:49 all not only reported and also
20:52 reported not only to the parties it’s
20:54 reported to the International Community
20:57 reported to the Security Council
21:00 we have been very vocal that these are
21:02 violations not only violations of 1701
21:05 is violation of Lebanese sovereignity
21:09 violation of humanitarian law this is
21:13 something that has been reported and we
21:14 continue to report and everything will
21:16 be publicly disclosed in all the SG’s
21:20 report and our role will be there
21:22 also at the time we’re still actually
21:24 working all these areas to try to clear
21:26 the breeze clear the roads clear
21:28 speaking about protection of civilians
21:31 uxos that have been placed in all these
21:34 areas in all these Villages clearing
21:38 mining these are all things that we are
21:40 doing on a on a daily basis everywhere
21:42 throughout the a of operation so
21:45 everything has been reported will be
21:47 reported and will be part of the old the
21:50 SG’s report to the Security Council so
21:52 these are all violations and we have
21:54 been very clear that these are violation
21:56 of 1701 if we are speaking about
21:58 violations of the cessation of
22:00 hostilities Arrangements this is
22:03 something that is not with us but it’s
22:04 with the cessation of hostility with the
22:06 mechanism that is working on this
22:08 particular issue we can only detect
22:11 violation of 1701 because we don’t know
22:14 what are the violations of the cessation
22:16 of hostility mechanism because it has
22:18 not been we are participating in the
22:20 meeting and we are supporting the
22:23 the the redeployment and the
22:26 withdrawal of the IDF troops from areas
22:29 that are occupying right now but our
22:31 role is strictly defined by resolution
22:34 1701 so that’s what we working on and
22:37 and again the implementation of the
22:39 resolution of 1701 is not with a mission
22:42 it’s not for us to implement the
22:43 resolution is with the parties to
22:47 implement let me come on to that
22:48 question of the mechanism because this
22:50 is interesting because it seems to me
22:53 the UN has got itself into a false
22:55 position here because you are associated
22:58 with mechanism because you are mentioned
22:59 as
23:00 a you say you’re not really a member of
23:03 it but the when it was set up the Press
23:06 releasement of announcements also it
23:08 would be hosted by the United Nations
23:11 and
23:12 chaired by the United States and
23:17 I’m not sure what hosted meant it seems
23:18 to mean you get to make the tea as far
23:20 as I can see they and the you and
23:23 you’re at the meetings so you’re
23:25 associated with
23:26 it but it’s run by an American
23:30 General and the bombs which last night
23:35 at least 20 bombs fell on Lebanon today
23:38 more have been falling they’re all
23:40 American bombs they’re not just American
23:41 manufactured bombs they’re American paid
23:43 for bombs America it’s the Americans by
23:47 proxy who are breaking the ceasefire and
23:49 you’ve somehow got yourself associated
23:52 with a mechanism controlled by the
23:54 people who are the people breing the
23:55 ceasefire is this not why is the US
23:58 when on any committee where it’s
24:01 subordinate to a member state that that
24:03 seems to be a false position and that
24:05 you’re you’re now associated with the
24:08 failure of that mechanism to do anything
24:10 about ceasefire violations I think there
24:12 is a big misunderstanding here on
24:15 this Association because we are
24:17 participating we are of course
24:19 supporting the work of the mechanis in
24:21 relation to the withdrawal of IDF
24:24 troops the return and the redeployment
24:27 of the Lebanese Army that are very
24:28 active to work with in the redeployment
24:31 and on the implementation of resolution
24:33 1701 so the participation of UNIFIL to
24:37 these meetings is not only about
24:39 participating and giving the venue
24:42 for the for the participation but we do
24:45 have of course a role in relation to be
24:47 there and in relation to see how
24:49 resolution 1701 has been implemented any
24:52 other issues that you’re just mentioning
24:54 now on the US and the and the role and
24:57 the way that this s hostilities
24:58 agreement was drafted this is a question
25:00 of course that needs to be asked
25:02 directly to the to to the US with
25:05 chairing together with France this
25:07 these meetings we are doing whatever we
25:09 can in relation to what to 1701 and even
25:12 in relation to reporting violations
25:15 again the session of this agreement
25:18 is something that has been drafted
25:21 and brought up by the by by the
25:23 United States but again it’s important
25:25 that we have to look forward we have to
25:27 look forward to the full redeployment of
25:31 the Lebanese Army in all the villages
25:34 that they are presently occupi by the
25:36 IDF and this is
25:38 our main focus right now so to add that
25:41 kind of cooperation that we had for the
25:42 last 18 years since 2006 and now it’s
25:45 important to give that kind of support
25:46 to the Lebanese authorities to bring
25:48 back State authority to the south of
25:51 Lebanon Andre thank you very much indeed
25:54 thank youTatyana
Neil, thank you HUGELY!
I tried some VPN add-ons to my Google Chrome, like YouBoost and some others. They all stop working at some moment, perhaps blocked by Roscomnadzor. I also installed several VPN apps to my phone, and the same story again – works for some time and then suddenly it stops working.
YouTube, I cannot see videos there, or linked or embedded into web-pages.
So, thank you again, Neil, your effort is MUCH appreciated.Brian Red
Someone should add some full stops and paragraphing if they want non-Youtube useds to read it.
Tatyana
Yoohoo! I’ here with my phone!
Another HUGE THANKS, Nail! For the reminder to use VPN. Installed new, one AdGuardVPN, and it seems to work! Hope it lasts some time.Neil
Always glad to help, Tatyana. Pleased to hear you are properly connected now. BTW, if I am a “Nail” you will need a good hammer to hit me over the head with. π
Neil
I thought of you today on the huge anti-genocide demo in London. Here’s a picture of me on that demo:
https://x.com/PSCupdates/status/1890768520402624649
(Is Twitter/X blocked in Russia? Hope you can still see it with a VPN!). Anyway that bridge is on the route to the US Embassy, and is called Vauxhall bridge, after the area in London where it is situated. Did you know that the Russian word Π²ΠΎΠΊΠ·Π°Π» for a railway station comes from Vauxhall? Even more spooky, did you know that the huge top-secret MI6 headquarters building is at the south end of that bridge (the end you can’t see in the pic)?
Tatyana
Neil, I’m sorry for misspelling your name! I’ll remember it good from now on π
Wow! What a crowded march! I hope this may shift the things.ET
Neil
As I’m (very slowly) trying to learn Russian, I can’t resist a little fun with a play on words. Very close to the south end of Vauxhall bridge β as well as the sinister MI6 building β is the Vauxhall railway station. That’s right, a station (Π²ΠΎΠΊΠ·Π°Π») in Vauxhall (Π²ΠΎΠΊΠ·Π°Π»), so in Russian it must be Π²ΠΎΠΊΠ·Π°Π» Π²ΠΎΠΊΠ·Π°Π»? π Actually I suspect better Russian might be Π²ΠΎΠΊΠ·Π°Π»ΡΠΊΠΈΠΉ Π²ΠΎΠΊΠ·Π°Π»?
Tatyana
Omg, ET! Your Invidious link works! Wow! How long have you been studying witchcraft? π Oh my, I can watch it now! Thank you!
Neil, you may like it. Someone were telling about their friend’s troubles in studying Russian:
– I’ve bought ΡΠ±Π»ΠΎΠΊΠΎΠ²ΡΠΉ ΡΠΎΠΊ
– You mean ΡΠ±Π»ΠΎΡΠ½ΡΠΉ?
– Yes, and I’ve also bought Π²ΠΈΡΠ½Π΅Π²ΠΎΡΠ½ΡΠΉ ΡΠΎΠΊ
– ΠΠΈΡΠ½Π΅Π²ΡΠΉ
– Ok. So, what is correct, ΠΏΠΎΠΌΠΈΠ΄ΠΎΡΠΎΡΠ½ΡΠΉ or ΠΏΠΎΠΌΠΈΠ΄ΠΎΡΠΎΠ²ΡΠΉ ΡΠΎΠΊ?
– It’s ΡΠΎΠΌΠ°ΡΠ½ΡΠΉ π
We have both ‘tomato’ and ‘pomme d’amour’ landed in our language. -
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