For a few months anyway... ** A NEW LOW: Ukraine Has Outright Banned Russian Book Imports (http://russia-insider.us9.list-manage.com/track/click?u=fa2faf7034c3c3c413cb3652f&id=f56631bee2&e=5110f4b440) ------------------------------------------------------------ by TASS on Mon, Jan 30, 2017 Ukraine has imposed a complete ban on importing books from Russia to be in effect until April 1, 2017, Alexander Afonin, head of the Ukrainian Association of Publishers and Booksellers, said on Thursday."A ban was imposed on [books imports] from January 1 to April 1 until the relevant regulations and verification mechanism have been developed," he told Ukraine’s Vesti.Meanwhile, a source at the Kharkov Customs Office said they had received "no documents banning book imports."On December 30, 2016, Ukrainian President Pyotr Poroshenko signed a law on restricting imports of "foreign products with anti-Ukrainian content" passed by the country’s parliament on December 8. Tough times for not so friendly regime oligarchs: ** George Soros Is Seeing His Political Stock Collapse Across the Board (http://russia-insider.us9.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=fa2faf7034c3c3c413cb3652f&id=31aeb814c4&e=5110f4b440) ------------------------------------------------------------ by Wayne Madsen on Mon, Jan 30, 2017 Although multi-billionaire hedge fund tycoon and international political pot-stirrer George Soros lost big with the election of Donald Trump as president of the United States and the victory of the Brexit referendum in the United Kingdom, he stands to lose further ground, politically and financially, as the winds of political change sweep across the globe. Anne Applebaum: Trump is literally Hitler: ** Washpo's Anne Applebaum Hates Trump as Much as She Hates Putin (http://russia-insider.us9.list-manage.com/track/click?u=fa2faf7034c3c3c413cb3652f&id=69d67bd563&e=5110f4b440) ------------------------------------------------------------ by iBankCoin on Mon, Jan 30, 2017 This article was originally titled: 'Washpo Columnist, Anne Applebaum, Warns Us the Nazi German Markets Roared Too… up Until Stalingrad.' Factually absurd, but that shouldn’t stop Anne from spouting her bitter rhetoric. In an obvious poke at Trump, in light of the furious stock market run since elected, Pulitzer Prize winner and member of the Council on Foreign Relations globalist shill, Anne Applebaum, warned her twitter followers that Hitler’s markets went higher too, up until he met Stalingrad (cue autistic screeching).Trump is Hitler, just like Bush was Hitler and Bill Clinton was JFK. Get it?