Marked foreign bills used for currency exchange vanished from Donbas banks only to reappear in Russian banks in Moscow. This is all according to Russian law-enforcement officers. Police state Russia's illegal market is full with the banknotes stolen from the Russian-occupied territories of Donbas.
Has Putin been lootin?
http://uatoday.tv/news/ukraine-s-foreign-currency-stolen-in-the-occupied-donbas-appears-in-russia-639899.html
"Nazis out" was the cry from left-wing protesters in Germany as delegates of a right-wing, anti-immigration party arrived for its annual congress on Saturday.
Despite a huge police presence, hours of clashes followed in Stuttgart where demonstrators did their best to disrupt the gathering of the AfD, Alternative for Germany party.
Some 400 people were arrested.
Police said protesters threw stones at officers and attacked them with fireworks. Tear gas and pepper spray were used in response.
The clashes underline growing social tensions in Germany after a record-influx of more than 1 million migrants arrived in the country last year alone.
Left wing clashes with police at the far-right AfD congress in Stuttgart, Germany https://t.co/jEUXBlFkfc pic.twitter.com/GnKW0a7tBT- POLITICO Europe (@POLITICOEurope) 30 avril 2016
"We are united by our conviction that we can't let the AfD go unchallenged and that it is a party which is not only racist but which is engaged in the politics of exclusion and social division," said protester Dominik Schmeiser.
Proceedings inside the conference hall were forced to start late.
Led by Frauke Petry, the three-year-old AfD party says Islam is incompatible with Germany's constitution.
It is expected to adopt an openly anti-Islamic manifesto this weekend.
The AfD entered three state parliaments last month by attracting votes from those opposed to Chancellor Angela Merkel's open door policy for mainly Muslim refugees fleeing war in Syria.
The party will be encouraged by the success of the far-right in last week's first round of presidential polls in neighbouring Austria.
30 April 2016 - Germany and five other states are to ask the EU to prolong inter-Schengen border controls for a further six months. Passport-free travel between several EU countries has been suspended owing to the migrant crisis.
German Interior Minister Thomas De Maiziere said in a statement Saturday that despite the effective closing of the West Balkan route to refugees, EU states still needed to protect themselves from a possible new migrant influx through other routes.
"Member states must continue to have the flexibility and option to conduct border controls at their internal borders in cases when it is necessary," the statement said, adding such measures were required to guarantee a certain level of safety.
The EU Schengen area's 26 countries allow free travel across their borders without the need for passports.
But some countries were given permission to temporarily reinstate border checks, which is due to run out on May 12.
A German government official said the request for a six-month extension would be send to Brussels on Monday in a joint letter from Germany, France, Austria, Belgium, Denmark and Sweden.
The six countries have all clamped down on border entry as the continent battles its biggest migration crisis since the end of World War II. Germany took in more than a million refugees last year, but the numbers of arrivals has slowed significantly recently.
EU review of Greece
Earlier this month, Austria also announced tough new refugee controls, along with plans to build a 370-meter-long (1,200-foot-long) fence at the Brenner Pass in the Alps to protect against a sudden migrant influx, much to the annoyance of its neighbor Italy and the EU.
Brussels is expected to review Greece's efforts to protect the EU's external borders on the same day as the current controls expire. Analysts think a negative assessment would strengthen the case for an extension of the border checks.
A European Commission source told the Reuters news agency that Brussels was likely to green-light an extension, which will allow EU states to continue border checks until November.
Meanwhile, German Chancellor Angela Merkel made it clear she was against any attempt to allow long-term border controls, saying she would fight to uphold EU citizens' right to freedom of movement and residence within the bloc.
In her weekly video podcast, she urged EU member states to avoid seeking national solutions to European problems.
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