Will the heroic Anhar Kochneva be finally happy when my LJ disappears forever? Oh well. Hope for common sense

She is also the owner of the Jordan Club, the author of numerous guidebooks to the Middle East (a couple of them are still on my bookshelf), a journalist, just interesting person. Only the lazy one has not yet written at least a couple of lines about the kidnapping of the girl. They pour from empty to empty: “alive - not alive”, “wrote a text message to my husband - didn’t write”. In fact, no one knows the truth. Some journalists conducted a real investigation, say Segodnya.ua, they dumped on the public about her separation from Petrov (husband), and about her Lebanese childhood friend, and God knows what else. It would seem, who cares about her relationship with her husband? But no, they care about everything.

I have known Ankhar since 1998, when I first met her in Moscow. She then rented an apartment at the end of the blue metro line. She always hung out funny company creative youth, she was always fun and interesting. There was absolutely no smell of politics. Then, in 2000, Anhar invited me to join the film crew of the RTR channel in Jordan. She was there as an organizer and journalist. In 2005, she and I walked around Damascus, along the very streets that she now films in her reports.

During 2000-2008, I saw Anhar many times in Moscow. She just got into politics. We had heated discussions on many issues, especially regarding the Arab-Israeli conflict. But her right to have her position, just like my right to have mine. This does not at all diminish her human qualities; she was always ready to give her last shirt to her friends. And she lived so modestly that you are amazed. She is an absolutely simple person with a bunch of ordinary cockroaches in her head (who doesn’t have them), but she has never done anything bad to anyone. She and I have a lot of mutual acquaintances, I know what I’m saying.

What is all this for? My first thought when she was first kidnapped was that it was a PR stunt and she was fine. Why not? You disappear for a while, the noise starts, and then you appear and sell out. Or even such a version that she is playing the role of a kidnapped person at the instigation of the Syrian intelligence services, in order to discredit the opposition. But then the “PR” dragged on and stopped looking like PR. However, they let her use the phone (text messages to Petrov), which is a good sign. Nobody allowed Gilad Shalit to send text messages to his relatives. This indicates that Ankhar's conditions are not so bad and would soon return to Damascus, if not for - ...

...the idiocy of the kidnappers themselves

Now, a recording has appeared online where Ankhar asks for help from the embassies of Russia and Ukraine -

Experts in the Arabic language will tell you that in the commentary to the post it is written in Arabic that she is a Russian terrorist. Rave. But knowing her voice, I hear from the recording that her voice is trembling, that she is not playing.

The guerrilla kidnappers overestimate the value of Ankhar as a bargaining chip. And it's very bad. She's just a common person with her position, she sometimes gives comments to the media. But nothing more. The Syrian authorities generally don’t give a damn about her fate and they will not hand over any underground activists in exchange for the girl. For those, unlike Ankhar, as soon as they are released, will take up arms.

The third factor is that the Ukrainian embassy in Damascus also doesn’t care about her fate, they limited themselves to standard phrases and that’s it.

From all that has been said, the summary is that the kidnappers will have to make a serious decision about what to do with Anhar after they realize that no one will be given away as her. Let her go? Kill? Keep it in the basement indefinitely?

Hope for common sense

I sincerely hope that the kidnappers will simply let her go, that they will understand that Anhar is an ordinary girl with a difficult fate, with a bunch of cockroaches in her head, that she needs to raise Linda (her daughter), that she is absolutely harmless to the underground. She is not a terrorist, not a spy, not a general in the Syrian army. She just made more noise around her name than she should have; the stupid brains of the kidnappers were unable to correctly assess who she was and whether they needed her so much. In a word, if I were the kidnappers, I would put a black bag on Anharka’s head and take her closer to big city and dropped him off by the road, adding finally: “Go to Moscow to see your daughter and don’t come back here again.” This way she won’t know where she was kept, and they, in turn, will show common sense. Will they hear my words? I don't know, I want to believe.

Many, many things are said about Ankhar Kochneva, but one can only say for sure that she is a real adventurer, an adventure seeker.
Ankhar was born in Odessa in 1972 in the family of a Ukrainian doctor and music teacher. I was infatuated with a schoolgirl Arabic. After the collapse of the Union, she moved to Moscow. Here she was engaged in small business and continued to study Arabic in courses at the Patrice Lumumba Institute. Then she began making translations to order, leading excursions, and traveling around the countries herself. Arab world, studied their traditions, “grew up” with connections, made friends with employees of representative offices of Arab countries in Russia, worked as a translator at official events in embassies. After some time, Anhar created one of the first travel companies in Russia, which organized holidays for Russians in Jordan, Syria and Israel “Jordan Club”. She promoted Arab countries as tourist places and even wrote several guidebooks. It can be assumed that during the time of the Jordan Club, Anhar had high-ranking acquaintances in Syria. In any case, according to rumors, she was already involved in circles close to the country’s President Bashar Assad, Segodnya.ua writes.
After a couple of years, the Jordan Club, due to competition with large travel companies, stopped bringing in the same income, and Anhar left his daughter with ex-husband, went to live in Syria. There she gave lectures in support of Bashar al-Assad, wrote blogs, wrote notes for online publications, and helped Russian and Ukrainian journalists who came to Damascus. Thanks to connections with the military and officials, she was able to organize meetings for journalists, find transport and translators, and develop a travel route around Syria. This is how Ankhar lived until October last year, when reports of her abduction appeared.

The Ukrainian press put forward three versions of the journalist’s capture.
First. Kochneva irritated the Syrian oppositionists, who decided to neutralize her so that she would stop “muddying up” the information space.
Second. Ankhar, who is called a genius of extreme self-PR, personally staged her kidnapping in order to discredit Syrian opposition in the eyes of the world community.
Third. They decided to isolate Kochneva as a person who knew too much about the military cooperation between Moscow and Damascus, in particular, about possible supplies Russian weapons to Syria. This is the conclusion reached by analysts who link the abduction to the forced landing in Turkey of a Syrian flight from Moscow with Russian citizens.

One way or another, having escaped their captivity, Kochneva gathered journalists in Moscow and told them her version of what happened.

“When I moved to Syria on October 22, 2011, it was still calm there. That’s what we were talking about, that the country is calm, and the picture that goes to the West is not there, we walk the streets, we don’t see it,” says Ankhar about the beginning of his work in Syria. Now the situation in the country has changed, but Kochneva is inclined to blame the Syrian Ministry of Information for her ignorance of this: “I hope that I will reach the President of Syria and say this. Because it is impossible to find out from the news that, say, this area has become dangerous, someone was kidnapped there again. We live and think that bandits are blocked enough, but, as it turns out, they can get out onto the road and steal people. Moreover, they steal them there all the time... Then it turns out that people are being ransomed for money, where does the money go? For service. That is, what happens, the Ministry of Information is rearming the bandits, one of the sources of funding? Today they wrote on Facebook that a person was kidnapped and they demanded 200 thousand dollars. Now last information, that in Damascus alone there are about 7 thousand abducted - this is Damascus alone, only for Lately. What's going on all over the country? This is business. Business in trading people's lives... The problem is that this information does not flow. “Jazeera” lies openly, Western channels lie, and these show half-truths. Unfortunately, we don’t receive information that things have become bad here, that the army has suffered some kind of defeat, that there are bandits here.”

Therefore, Ankhar absolutely calmly got into a taxi and went to help her colleagues from NTV, who were going to film a story in Aleppo about the alleged shelling from Syrian territory of Turkey. “We drove 10-15 kilometers and saw some movement on the road. But since the bandits were dressed in the uniform of the regular Syrian army, we did not even think about turning back. So, when they say: “The army is killing civilians there,” this is not an army, these are mummers. We were stopped. The driver tried to somehow escape. They caught him and our fellow traveler and packed him into the trunk. A bandit, about nineteen years old, sat next to me, and another one sat behind me. And they took us somewhere, through fields and vegetable gardens, deep into the villages.”

Kochneva spent 153 days in captivity, and at some point she felt that she had to escape: “If you were going out, you had to have as little chance of running into something as possible. It was clear that it was necessary to go out, because later security measures could be strengthened. Actually, all this was prepared for several days, we studied when people wake up, where they could go, because I had no idea where to go. It’s clear that the army is shooting from the north, okay, I’ll go north, they’re probably there... I took a large container for milk, that is, someone will look from afar: “The aunt has gone for milk.” And no one will have the thought of coming closer to see who it is. There are a lot of strangers in the area, because after military operations in the southern suburbs of Homs, many people moved there. Some person unknown to us, she probably lives with someone here, since she goes here for milk. And I went along the road. The plan was this: just hide, ask someone to hide me at home, give me a phone. My goal was that I would live with these people for several months until either the army came or something else. It turned out even better...”

Speaking about her release due to the intervention of the authorities, Ankhar ruled out this possibility: “It is impossible to talk about some kind of special operation, because a lot of people would be transferred. Some negotiations - they were asking for 50 million, it came down to two. I personally would be very much against paying any such large sums of money. Because it is clear that this money would be used to purchase weapons and kill people. To redeem my life at the cost of other people’s deaths... I’d probably rather die. Moreover, then all the journalists will write that a woman was killed. That is, this is a continuation of my work, a story about what is really happening there.”

Information that the attack on the Russian Embassy was provoked by a Russian citizen appeared yesterday. But then few of my friends believed it. I didn’t believe it either. Until the moment when Alexander Lukashevich, representing the Russian Foreign Ministry, said from the TV screen: Ekaterina Ustyuzhaninova...

The story with Katya began even before the fall of Tripoli and the murder of Gaddafi. Something being created information Agency, just in case, registered all the way in Abkhazia, was looking for people ready to go to Libya and write reports from there about the actions of the so-called “Green Resistance.” They found each other using the Internet. A student at the Novosibirsk University, Ustyuzhaninova, born in 1988, and a certain Marat Musin, through whose efforts the girl’s dream came true - to go illegally to the Socialist People’s Jamahiriya.

Some mutual acquaintances who knew the girl personally understood perfectly well that she simply could not be allowed into any Libya: the result would be many problems both for the girl herself and for those around her. Dmitry Ershov from Pskov was also going to Libya as a journalist. He was one of the first to notice that Katya was not going to Libya to write articles from there or shoot videos there. Be that as it may, on September 9, 2011, having crossed the Libyan-Tunisian border, Katya found herself in the coveted Jamahiriya. From there, Katya wrote letters to her friends saying that she would “kill the rats” (after the murder that led to the attack on the embassy, ​​Katya left an inscription on the wall in blood in English, “Death to Beauty”). About how he feels approaching death and what he dreams of dying like a hero, with the name of Muammar Gaddafi on his lips. And at the end of January 2011, Marat Musin and his comrades began collecting money to take Catherine to Russia. Moreover, he continued to collect money until mid-February. But no one else saw Katya in any Russia.

She continued to periodically correspond with friends. Several people knew that Katya had not returned to Russia. Last letter was received from her just before her alleged arrest. And Marat Musin (as now) tried to claim that he almost personally sent Katya on some plane to Novosibirsk. He denies the well-known facts that she wrote any materials for him. He lies that she had some kind of special “internal Russian” volunteer ID (despite the fact that he never issued any others to anyone, just the same one. Like Katya, the ID was issued to me personally and it was shown on camera by the captors me bandits). He denies that the girl communicated with him from Libya via Skype (although a year ago he wrote the exact opposite on his blog). The same Musin, who throughout the 5 months of my captivity told various authorities that I was not with the bandits, but in a fashionable sanatorium. In my case, Musin passionately wished for me to die in captivity, so that no one would save me and no one would ever know that I was in captivity because of his denunciations. In Katya’s case, the question of the fate of the money he collected for Katya, which she did not receive, is very inconvenient.

Is history repeating itself? I survived and returned to normal life. But will Katya, who was imprisoned in Libya for a serious crime, survive?

Very often you read about something like this happening in the Syrian city of Hama in 1982. The figure cited is 40,000 innocents killed not by the army, not even by Rifaat Assad, who was later expelled from Syria, but personally by the pope of the current Syrian President Bashar.

At the same time, as usual, none of those who wrote the said angry lines were ever in any Hama. It’s just that the manual tells him to write it that way. He listens.

And the writer does not know that the number of victims was much lower. And they don’t know that many of them became victims of aviation only because the bandits hiding in the city made human shields out of people, preventing them from leaving dangerous areas in those days when the army provided a humanitarian corridor for those wishing to evacuate... They don’t know crying about the “massacre” in Hama about the three years of total terror experienced before this “massacre” with all its delights: exploding cars, torn in two by people driving in different directions, kidnappings, executions, etc. Among the victims of the “innocent victims” of the “massacre” in Hama were four citizens of the USSR and several citizens of Bulgaria. A car bomb once exploded near residential buildings in which USSR citizens lived; only thanks to a Syrian soldier who reacted in time, the number of victims did not go into the tens or hundreds. But this is all nonsense. The main thing is that there is a certain fairy tale that can be told with gusto, justifying with it any actions against legitimate government Syria.

Hama has always been and still remains, in its essence, a stronghold of Muslim brothers in Syria (not to be confused with the Wahhabis!). Initially, those who rocked the situation in Syria this time also placed their bets on Hama. It is from here that the eccentric, goat-bearded “sheikh” Ar-ur (a former Syrian officer expelled from the army for forcing soldiers to guess what and settled in Saudi Arabia). In the summer of 2011, an armed rebellion broke out in the city. Syrian television broadcast footage obtained as a result of the heroic act of one of the Syrian boys: the guy walked among armed bandits and filmed them on video. Pretending to be talking to someone on the phone. And the notorious " global community“at this very time there was hysteria about the shooting of peaceful demonstrators in Hama from tanks. From the tales about Ham, one can also recall the legend about the one hundred and fifty-thousand-strong demonstration that gathered in the city (some sources wrote about a million people gathered). Which fit in one of the central squares of the city, into which even 10,000 people could not squeeze in. Later, after order was restored in the city, many said that they were driven to that very demonstration by force and threats. During this latest uprising in Hama, many public buildings were burned, in some cases with guards barricaded inside. I don’t remember the four guards now, I need to clarify which institution they killed, and then they recorded on video the process of dumping their bodies into the river. IN best traditions freedom and democracy, no doubt about it. Was it in vain that the ambassadors of the United States and France came to express their support for the “peaceful demonstrators”?

The counter-terrorist operation in the city was carried out over several days. Since then Hama has been truly quiet. I had long wanted to go there, but my friends categorically did not advise me: at that time, “democratic” snipers were actively “working” on vehicles driving along the roads. Now this problem has been solved. And I really ended up in Hama. Moreover, she got caught two days after a successful attempt on the life of the local governor, who led the city for about three years. A doctor who comes from a well-known radical family in the city... What did he do? Apparently, just because the city has been quiet and peaceful for two years now. Clean streets, flocks of boys frolicking in the river near the ancient water wheels. Working markets and shops, streets filled with cars and buses... You see, they blew up THEIR ONE. They parked the car bomb along the governor's traditional route. Seven more people died along with him.

Someone really wants to set the city on fire again. And then for decades they tell tales about a new “massacre” in Hama, perpetrated by the Assad government. Not the same thing. Another.

Remember how it was in “Two Fighters”? A tram that could take you to the front. It's almost the same in Damascus. You can get to the areas where there is shooting by taxi, bus, or just walk.

I live in one of the areas that is close to the areas where they are going fighting. We hear not only the sounds of cannonade: quite often mortar shells sent by good bandits fall on our houses and streets. Yesterday they hit a residential building. The day before yesterday - into the stadium, wounding seven and killing a 17-year-old boy - a Syrian taekwondo champion. Jobar is only a 15-minute walk from me. The line between peace and war runs along a busy city street and stadium. It is no longer possible for them. And no one will let you in there without special permission and body armor. Because there is death. And from there - death. Towards the houses we live in...

From our homes to the notorious Eastern Ghouta also relatively close. Just a few kilometers. On the day when it was allegedly applied chemical weapon(and in quantities that killed and poisoned a total of about 5,000 people), the wind was blowing in our direction. At a speed of 20 meters per second... Now imagine what would happen if a poisonous cloud covered the city? After all, do we smell the burning smell coming from the battlefields? And the chemicals would have just as easily reached us. But there were no victims of poisoning. Moreover, they are absent not only in Damascus itself on territory completely controlled by the government, but also in territory temporarily controlled by illegal armed groups.

After all, judge for yourself: with the widespread love of photographing on mobile phones, which has unexpectedly emerged among Syrians over the past two years, the “evidence” of the death of 1,300 and the poisoning of 3,600 people is only a few video recordings made on the premises, which raise a bunch of questions among specialists in all kinds of poisonings . Where are the bodies? Where are the poisoned? Why weren't we shown all this? Moreover, in Syria itself they say that the murdered children shown in the video are the same ones who were kidnapped by bandits in villages near the coastal city of Latakia. Well, or the children of Kurds supporting the government, about whose extermination in northern Syria quite a lot was written in the Russian press. They killed it themselves, filmed it themselves, posted it on the Internet themselves, and sat down to wait for NATO bombers. Because without NATO bombers there is no way to bring the revolution to a victorious end against the will of the people.

Damascus and the vast majority of Syrian cities and towns live a completely familiar normal life. People go to work, to shops and markets. They walk, sit in a cafe. Children run around the streets until 2-3 am. Academic year will begin only in October, now in Syria there is the same rush for purchasing necessary things for the school as in Russia in August. Public transport is available. But the townspeople are prevented from living mortar attacks, numerous posts and concrete blocks on the roads, protecting objects potentially attractive to terrorists from exploding cars. And on the once popular among tourists observation deck Mount Qasyun towering above Damascus (on the very same one where the cave is located in which, according to legend, Cain killed Abel), the youth set up tents, forming a kind of “human shield” next to the location of the air defense...

Syrians have long been telling each other a joke, the essence of which is that Obama already knows the geography of Syria better than the geography of America.

Mr. Obama, there are problems in Daraa again.
- In the city itself, or near the railway station?

Ankhar Kochneva’s high-profile return to Ukraine raised a new wave of interest in this person, who, without irony, can be called a genius of extreme self-PR. One can only wonder why there are fools who believe in her fairy tales.

From the very beginning, Kochneva’s story looked strange, to say the least. Let's look at the entire set of facts that Kochneva herself told us and try to build a somewhat sane picture.

So, there is a certain journalist who was involved in the tourism business and found herself at the epicenter civil war in Syria. The journalist turns out to be very brave. She has clearly defined her position and also openly supports Assad. Every day on her LiveJournal she talks about raids with Syrian army and calls the rebels “rats.” At the same time, she does not particularly hide her location, regularly publishing photographs of the surrounding areas near her home. In addition, she regularly talks about how she goes with her friends to swim at the sea, describing the routes. She also does not hide the fact that she has connections with high-ranking officials from the Assad government. In general, she does everything so that the damned militants notice her. Of course, the militants noticed her and one day kidnapped her.

The militants get in touch and demand from Ukraine (it turned out that Ankhar has Ukrainian citizenship, which raised the self-esteem of some fellow citizens) no less than 50 million dollars, otherwise the unfortunate woman will be executed.

It's hard to understand where these idiots came up with this calculation. Moreover, they had the nerve to ask the Ukrainian government for it. Considering that in Ukraine it costs hundreds of times less to order the murder of an oligarch, the reaction of our Foreign Ministry and government was predictable - you created the problem, you will deal with it. It is worth recognizing that the line of behavior of the Ukrainian Ministry of Foreign Affairs in in this case justified itself, which saved our state from default.

Seeing such inexorable firmness of spirit of the Ukrainian government, Syrian militants began to suspect something was wrong. These animals, which, as it turned out later, put Ankhar in second place on the list of their enemies after Assad, began to rush about. First they postponed the execution, then they reduced the ransom amount. Then, ha-ha, we started negotiating with Ukrainian journalists via Skype. But Azarov and Grishchenko-Kozhara were relentless. You won’t scare a Ukrainian hedgehog with a naked Syrian ass.

Seeing such inflexibility of the Ukrainian government, the British government, the intelligence services of the United States, Israel and, possibly, Sudanese counterintelligence joined in saving Kochneva. They couldn't help. However, there was no need to worry.

As Kochneva herself admits, she could have escaped from the ragamuffins at any moment.

Below are direct quotes from the heroine in order to immerse yourself in the atmosphere of the terrible everyday life of the Syrian rebels.
“The kidnappers weren’t me - they hit me twice with a rubber hose, and then lightly, to scare me,” Kochneva said. - I wasn't afraid. When one day I realized that I was losing my memory, I began to remember poems and songs - I wrote them down in my laptop.”

Wow, these idiots didn’t even take the laptop. I'm willing to bet that they conducted negotiations via Skype from her own laptop. Yes mobile internet They probably used it from her phone. Or maybe satellite. Judging by her descriptions below, the damned terrorists were poorly educated, so all negotiations probably went through Ankhar herself. Swedish syndrome, yopt.

« In order not to lose shape, I did a little exercise. She also got herself “pets” - mice. I fed them with bread.”

Here I remembered a picture from the movie “The Green Mile”. I am sure that those Syrian mice, due to their difficult financial situation, danced for joy just like their colleague on death row in the film.

“There was a moment, however, when I thought about suicide. But not out of despair, but so that the bandits could no longer demand money for me, which would then be used for weapons and murders.” .

So let's drink to humanism!

“- I could escape from captivity at any time - the door to my room was not locked, the guards slept until lunchtime”

How careless about a potential $50 million.

“But outside the house where I was kept, I was afraid to meet other bandits. They could have beaten me or even killed me. In addition, my strength was running out - sometimes I was kept on bread and water. The bandits themselves were often on starvation rations. ».

Clearly, she just hoped that they would starve to death sooner. By the way, apparently this type of bandit knows the Russian language well, surfs Russian blogs, not to mention knowing the language, in order to become interested in “enemy No. 2 of the Syrian people.”

Anhar retells the story of her escape with ease and in detail: “I left the house at dawn, prudently lubricating the creaky doors with oil, then walked past the guards peacefully drinking tea, and then went north - to where the Syrian army was shooting from.”

Cameron, Skorzeny and Trier nervously smoke on the sidelines of this mise-en-scène. The Irony of Fate…. Terrorists even in nightmare They couldn’t figure out how their prisoner would use the butter they had taken from starving children. And Bruce Willis and Arnold Schwarzenegger can only envy their ability to penetrate battle formations.

Important! Remember, if you are kidnapped by Syrian rebels, then go to the thunder of the cannonade. Sure thing!

However, in another interview Ankhar says the exact opposite:

« They're bastards! I remember one of the guards shooting over my head just because I was warming myself near the stove. But, in order not to escalate the situation, I even went so far as to sew buttons on the guards’ clothes. However, I had no chance of being released thanks to negotiations... I began to prepare to escape and waited - I walked a meter from the sleeping armed guard.

Who drank tea then?

“I disguised myself - I took a large milk can with a red lid. I grabbed it so that if something happened on the street they would think of me as going to get milk, because it was in the morning and there was a farm nearby.”

Cool service.

Hey, Anhar, where are you going?

Yes, I’m getting some milk, you only feed people bread and water, and I’ve already used all the butter on the door.

- I hid the laptop on my stomach, under the elastic band of my pants, so that it wouldn’t be found when checking my bag. She took a milk can with her to look like a peaceful refugee woman. There are many of them there. The road took me in the other direction, but in the end I was saved.

But the main thing is that I didn’t forget the laptop with the poems. When you escape from captivity, do not forget to take your laptop. And also a telephone... Although no, they took her phone...

“In Ukraine, I will restore my passport, which was stolen from me by militants, I will buy a new camera and phone, my old ones were also taken away from me, apparently, for the benefit of the so-called revolution.”

We will believe it, but with difficulty. Because the speed with which Kochneva began to distribute comments immediately after her escape makes me wonder - how did the journalists reach her? Or is it still old? mobile phone, or she returned to a stationary home, or via Skype, having previously informed everyone: Guys, urgently take comments, I’m already free! However, more on this later.

So, Ankhar goes to his goal, we take another interview:

“It was clear that there was only one attempt, that if I had been caught, everything would have been completely bad, but the person who was supposed to help, he apparently didn’t find my house - we didn’t meet him - and I did everything myself »

Oh la la! It turns out there were still accomplices there. Apparently, Ankhar was simply disintegrating the friendly team of militants and calmly negotiating her escape. Probably via Skype. J Weaved intrigues. It is not surprising that the militants decided to reduce the price. The instinct of self-preservation kicked in too late...

« That is, I just left the house and walked past their checkpoint, which was three meters from my door. There was an iron gate between me and them, about a meter between us. I walked 15 kilometers in about an hour and forty.” .

Again “they”, and there was “he”. But okay, let’s skip the nuances, fortunately there is a new interesting twist here. Ankhar, it turns out, is still a marathon runner. 15 km in 1 hour 40 minutes. Bravo! Moreover, according to the former captive, before that she had not walked at all for five months. Is it just to go to the farm for milk?

Wherein….

“I lost 30 kilograms. That is, I have terrible anemia. I was basically going to go the other way »

Honestly, my hat's off. An exhausted woman who has lost 30 kg travels 15 km in about forty hours with a laptop and the elastic band of her pants. As is known, on average man walking 4 km per hour. But Ankhar is an extraordinary woman. Now we will make sure of this. By the way, if you want to see what an emaciated woman looks like a week after her release, you will be surprised, because she looks the same as before captivity. Don't believe me? Watch the video of her press conference

Am I the only one who noticed the very fast recovery?

« But the road took me far - I walked 15 kilometers through fields, through vegetable gardens, and in the end the first person who asked me: “What are you doing here?” There was, of course, a risk that it was a bandit, but I said it. Well, I realized that if it’s a bandit, I’ll say that we’ll give you money, just hide me, maybe a hundred »

Here it turns out that she also had money.....This is captivity, oh yes, terrorists. People were right to say that the Syrian suckers would still pay her extra just to wash themselves away from the shame.

« And I said, as it were - guys, my life is in your hands, I ran away from the bandits. And they said, don’t be afraid, there are no bandits here. We are against neither X. I went to the village, which, in fact, is against the bandits. And they transported me to the other side - to where people who had been searching for me for three months were already waiting for me.” .

Bravo! She was going to no one knows where, but she came out where they were waiting. necessary people, although she ran away unexpectedly... even for bandits. However, we do not forget that Ankhar is an extraordinary woman, therefore we really believe that there are miracles in the world!

But they don't end there. After returning to Damascus, the woman, who has lost 30 kg, develops vigorous activity, gives out a lot of interviews (answer the question where many journalists got her contacts), threatens terrorists and boldly declares that she will remain in Syria further to engage in blogging. Bravo, bravo, bravo!

At the same time, the unfortunate militants:

“In order not to completely lose face, they are now telling everyone that they received a ransom in the amount of $5 million. The second tale is that they themselves let me go. In fact, they are looking for me now. I think that now my guards are sitting where I am." .

Here's an interesting story... Believe it or not.

Now allow me a little interpretation of all this nonsense.

There are three versions of what happened.

First that this whole scam was organized for one purpose - to hack at easy money. One of the experts on the Middle East, himself an Arab by birth, told me interesting thing that Kochneva’s Arabic accent is exactly the same as that of her captors, who spoke in the video. That is, she had long-term contact with people from this area (Homs).

Second, the legend with Kochneva was nothing more than a cover for transferring her Russian intelligence services to the rebel camp. Maybe in order to establish contacts with them, I don’t know, there can be many options. But the very noise that arose around this incident created unnecessary problems, because all the intelligence services of the world, including Assad, rushed to look for her, which would prevent the establishment of serious contact with the rebel camp. And, for sure, there are other ways to do this.

However, if this was a real special operation of the special services, it is difficult to call it anything other than horror.

Third, it was a well-organized attempt to achieve world fame. In this case, it should be considered very successful.

In any case, the epic with Kochneva is undoubtedly one of the most striking and funniest examples of adventurism in our time.

Yesterday good news came from the LiveJournal Conflict Commission,
studying the complaints-squabbles-slanders-insults-threats-inflaming bloggers of our LJ, (below).
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(Letter)
Dear user 7freiheit.

You have received a complaint from Kochnevoy Ankhar (contact details: email: [email protected] ) to your entry at the address as containing false information that discredits the honor, dignity and business reputation of the applicant.
The administration sees no reason for interference on its part.
If necessary, you can discuss controversial issues directly with the complainant.

The text of the complaint is attached after the signature.

Sincerely,
LiveJournal Conflict Commission

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On my own behalf
Full name Kochneva Ankhar
Link to LiveJournal page with controversial information (URL)
Quote what information about the applicant on the page is, in your opinion, defamatory: This lady from the Baltic states has been stalking me for a long time. But somehow I didn’t keep track of her activities in this field.
Today they posted a link to another of her slanderous opuses and insults against me.
Please delete this user's log , because he is engaged in openly slanderous activities against me and some other users.
I am a famous journalist, in addition, I have minor daughter, which this individual touches with her post, reporting false information such as that I “abandoned certain children,” as well as slander about my personal life - I am a married man, so to speak, and nothing that this lady attributed to me is characteristic of me, a child they may start to harass me by referring to this post, just as they are already harassing me - today this nonsense was posted on Facebook as an “argument” in a dispute.

A complaint about my post from 3 years ago with 70 comments, although they were disabled, was filed by Ukrainian journalist Anhar Kochneva.
For the sake of forgetting and not returning to that disgusting organized by the heroine A.K. on her blog?
By the way, just for a minute, I invited you to visit for her own rescue from the Middle East.
All the media talked about the danger of her life in 2015. Even the film was in Russian. TV.

But I don’t write to the Watermelon team at all, I’m always lazy.
I save their time for real things, and not for womanism and squabbles. I deal with aggressors on LiveJournal myself.

And who can save your-us personal authority and reputation for you?!
Neither the UN, NATO, V. Putin, or P. Poroshenko, nor the FSB or the Armed Forces of Ukraine..))))
Nobody. Look for a cause-and-effect relationship and you will understand and resolve everything yourself.

Heartfelt thanks for the letter from the watermelon team,
patamushta since 2015 NEVER REMEMBERED THIS HEROINE ANYWHERE, a lot of honor!
But, perhaps, I’ll turn on the commentary on that post again, because she asked for it.

My dear friends, friends and associates, connect,
I will never be like Ankhar Kochneva and make up funny and empty slander about you! I promise!

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