NationStates Jolt Archive

Voronej, Evenkia Okrug

The roads leading from the airport to the Dubovskie Palace were blocked off to civilian traffic on the Wednesday morning as snow was falling lightly on the sidewalks and the aging stone buildings in the center of the city filled with history. The Empire with its ancient tradition and monolithic principles, the Union of Communist Republics with its rivers of blood, with its change, with its never ending strive to better itself, and the Federation the stronghold of freedom, reason and most of all hope in this brand new world that new almost non of it; the walls of these buildings remember all of it, they will never forget. The Great Voronej, your people suffered much over the centuries but they have always prevailed in the end, for that is the most precious resource that the Russian has, his spirit, unbreakable and pure like a diamond. This city has been burned to the ground and rebuilt a new, its people were killed in wars, fighting to the last for their city but they have always won in the end. But this was a different time a different age, now with human kind on the brink of its own self annihilation the city learned reason it buried its ax, its shield and its spear and diplomacy became its greatest weapon. Today was a day for history books as leaders of three foreign nations were coming to the city for a conversation with the Pushkan people, even if the world forgets this day the city will remember it.

The chairman shifted in her seat, the plane ride had only begun and she had yet to adjust. She was not entirly use to flying, it was not a normal thing in her regular life, but now after taking fourty over the past two months all around the CSN she had at least gotten experiance. As the plane traveled over the border things seem to look grey, the weather seemed raining as to pretell events in the future. Once the plane was almost out of the storm the sun shone through brightly waking Tanya out of her trance.

Suddenly the pilot announced "Were coming near now Miss Chairman." and Tanya glanced out the window to the city below.

Once the plane landed she stood She almost looked military standing the way she usually does, strait up almost at attention, and with the formal's she wore she might had well been. On her was a black top that resembled that of a women marine's uniform and with that were black dress pants. Her shoulder strapes had a long golden line on it with arrows at both end, representing her status in the congressional council, and on her chest were three medals and a row of combat ribbons.

If she was going to talk formally with a nation that had recently threatened her she planned to look threatening back. Although lacking her 'big stick' and not being in the position to speak softly she planned to walk tall and make the federation as well as the two new nations see that Nerotika would no longer be the small weak state it had become over the years.

She stepped down the stairs and out into the airport, her expression resembled that of a stern look a mother would give to make her child stop screwing around. 'This should be a great start to the future of Nerotika.' she thought and proceeded out the building, her two guards protecting her, armed and unwilling to allow their weapons to be taken.

Jack was sitting in his seat, sleeping, the plane was about to touch down, *squeak*, the tires hitting the runway. Jack abruptly woke, "What the hell? Oh, we are there already. He grabbed his carry on luggage and disembarked from the plane.

OOC: Still having problems with my Russian keyboard so I'll just have Stepanov speak english, less work anyways since I won't have to type it all in Russian first and than translate.

IC:

Voronej, Evenkia Okrug

The guests have arrived at the Tretyakovsky Palace in downtown Voronej. The setting was fitting of the event, Vladimir Tretyakovsky was one of the founders of Pushkan diplomatic court some three hundred years ago. The snow was falling lightly on the white marble steps that led up to the gigantic front doors constructed of finely crafted red oak and decorated with numerous symbols of the once great Pushkan Empire.

The security was the best Russia had to offer, President Igor Stepanov's personal protection squad Otriad 1 was coordinating the large operation conducted by the Voronej city police and the FSB Internal Armed Forces, a fly could not come within 10 kilometers of the palace without the security detail knowing.

The reporters were held at bay by the police, a photo op was scheduled for later that day. The guests ascended up the steps and entered the large hall. Marble and gold was everywhere, on the walls, on the ceiling and even on the floor the Empire never allowed for any shortage of funds for the nobility. The guests walked down the hall and entered a large room with an enormous oval table crafted of greenstone, there they were greeted by Igor Stepanov who waited patiently as they took their seats. Once the guests felt comfortable he
stood up and began to speak.

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"Welcome my dear friends, we have much to discuss so let us get to business. Our nations have something in common, we all share the slavic culture and in its many variates, we all hold the same things dear to us. Recognizing the fact that we are related by both blood and history I would like to propose a diplomatic mechanism with which we may aid each other. This world of ours is cruel and no one can afford to have a shortage of friends. We are rejoiced that the Fourth Reich has collapsed and its yoke on the world has become non existent which in turn provided for independence of some of our Slavic brethren present here today. We congratulate you on your sovereignty and wish you many years of stability and economic growth.

But I digress, before I proceed with revealing my proposal let me remind all of those present here that Russian Federation holds its own sovereignty as a matter of highest importance and will not participate in any binding agreements that limit it. That means that no matter what your first reaction is to my proposal remember that we made sure that it will not limit your sovereignty if you agree to it since bilateral agreements propose equal terms for both parties and we would most certainly not accept a limiting of our own sovereignty."

The President took a sip of water from the glass standing on the table infront of him and continued.

"We propose a beginning of an initiative of friendship between our nations. Russian Federation is a very powerful nation both economically and militarily, we have the funds to ensure that your newly formed governments enjoy the stability that undoubtedly seek, in return we of course will get markets for our products and so on and so forth. This is a quick summary of the economic part of my proposal I will continue on it after you had a chance to ask some questions.

There is another portion to this proposal however and at this moment it concerns the nation of Nerotika the most. A very horrendous criminal act has been committed against the Nerotikan soldiers who surrendered to the Commonwealth of Hirgizstan after their defeat in the Kazahstanie campaign. I would personally would like you to know that the Pushkan people grieve for every Nerotikan life lost that day, we are with you in spirit and we see it fit to aid you in this difficult time. For the past several months there was a government sponsored donations program that was aimed at providing for the Nerotikan families who lost their sons and fathers due to that injustice. Then we stopped taking donations from private persons through out the Federation we had a total of 340 million rubles, with an approval of the State Duma we doubled that amount to 680 million rubles and are now ready to transfer those funds to you. We ask you to please accept them on behalf of the true victims of this war and distribute them accordingly to those families who suffered.

This gesture is in fact the second part of my proposal, as part of this initiative we should strive to better understand each other and aid each other then ever possible. We are more than willing to set the example in this case, there is much all of us can gain from such cooperation.

I will now accept questions."

"Well, your offer is very generous and I believe the CSN is in no position to decline such a gift. We will make sure the families are given the compensation, although we request permission, so as not to offend, to use some to construct the memorial statue going up infront of the Voldagrad palace.

But before you answer that I must say a few words directly to you Mr. Stepanov. Time can heal wounds, and ours are very small ones but the fact that you were willing to eliminate our nation is one I must bring up. I understand the circumstances and the pressure you must have felt but the virtue of an ally is not to turn on one who would concider you its greatest asset against the greater evil.

Not only this but even in the days of the soviet regime you have not shown much attempt at aiding my state other then condenming the actions taken upon us. We lost three territories to cottish invaders, then horrifically lost a venture to take back those states which resulted in the revolution. Our assault in Kazakhstan was one that I can say you and I both disaggreed with but turning weapons against us was not the only way to solve this problem. Now before I ramble on, I must get to my point.

Can I, as the representative for the people of the CSN, fully trust in you for a different future?"

Ooc: I don't mean to sound negative toward you push...just taking into account the past I hope you understand my position.

OOC: Yeah, yeah, no problem

IC:

"It was very unfortunate that your sovereignty was compromised so many times, however there were different reasons for each of those cases there we could not help you. You lost your territories to Cotland before GSO and it was not favorable for the alliance to start a war before we even began forming up our correlating infrastructure. All of this came down to the invasion of Kazahstan which we did not approve of from the start, however we did attempt to aid you, our plans included removing the government that you have now penalized for their crimes and giving your people a special status within the Federation thus protecting them from any TOA counterattack and further annexation of your territories by them, two events that we were sure would take place. After some time once things smoothed over we would hold a referendum within your nation and your people would decide if they wanted to be a member of the Federation or if they wanted their greater sovereignty back. Such was our plan but the situation was resolved without any movements from our end. We have always wanted to aid your people, however we were not always in agreement with your government.

As for your original question, yes of course you may use the funds for that. Is there any other questions?"

"Not at this moment, although not exactly the answer I was looking for it still suffices. You may continue unless the BHR would like to ask questions now."

"Not at this moment, although not exactly the answer I was looking for it still suffices. You may continue unless the BHR would like to ask questions now."

"You may continue."

"On the economic side let us set planks for product circulation between our nations and sign a Free Trade Agreement. Is anyone opposed?"

"I wouldn't believe so."

"On the economic side let us set planks for product circulation between our nations and sign a Free Trade Agreement. Is anyone opposed?"

"Not at all."

"That is good, let us start with 10 billion dollars per year monetary exchange and an open-market policy. I assure you, your economies will benefit greatly and our trade with grow by a great margin in a relatively short time.

Another topic I would like to discuss is defense, but before I go on I would like to give a word to each one of you, please take a minute to consider what you are going to say I want you to tell me what you have come here for. What level of relations with the Federation and others present here are you seeking?"

"Our army is not quite as modern as we would like, but new equipment could change that."

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"Im quite sure by now you know why the C.S.N. has seen in her best interest to come to the russian federation. With a line of trust rebuilt between our nations Russia will finally be for the people of the land, we have enemies all around us Stepanov and a show of union between our nations would back them off and give them competion for owning this world.

Of cource the BHR is a great help in this, a former fourth reich state he has broken out from a very important TOA member. I trust the BHR''s friendship and stabilization would help direct defiance against TOA nations. But, Jack (I don't know your leaders full name BHR) as for weaponry and equipment the federation has a powerful industry in that. However, free of charge the CSN would like to offer up 150,000 Stg. 8 rifles if need be."

"Im quite sure by now you know why the C.S.N. has seen in her best interest to come to the russian federation. With a line of trust rebuilt between our nations Russia will finally be for the people of the land, we have enemies all around us Stepanov and a show of union between our nations would back them off and give them competion for owning this world.

Of cource the BHR is a great help in this, a former fourth reich state he has broken out from a very important TOA member. I trust the BHR''s friendship and stabilization would help direct defiance against TOA nations. But, Jack (I don't know your leaders full name BHR) as for weaponry and equipment the federation has a powerful industry in that. However, free of charge the CSN would like to offer up 150,000 Stg. 8 rifles if need be."

OOC: I don't want my leader killed... yet. That is why I don't send him to every meeting. Lemme guess, you want the stg. 8 to be used. Hehe... that won't be long.

IC: "Your offer is almost too good to be true. We accept."

OOC: its an urban warfare weapon but has not been field tested. I was going to utilize it when I started that Chechen revolution thing but this would just be alot easier ^.^.

Though the relations between the Russian Federation and the Realm had thawed significantly since just last year, Cotland still considered Russia the most likely future Enemy of the State, although Nerotika was quickly makings its way up that list. Taking this into consideration, the Cottish like any other nation-state with functioning braincells had to monitor and keep tabs on the enemy's moves. This could be done in several ways. One could for intercept for instance the radio transmissions, phone conversations, electronic signals, hence the term SIGINT (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SIGINT), or Signals Intelligence; One could take pictures from orbiting spy satellites and reconnaissance aircraft, an intelligence gathering discipline which went under the catchy abbreviation IMINT (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IMINT); Or one could use human sources, something which was achieved through the network of what was popularly but wrongfully described in media and popular fiction as 'spies' but in reality referred to as intelligence officers, who in turn obtained their information from local sources within their assigned area of operations that they (or their colleagues) had recruited, or from information-gathering trips the intelligence officers had conducted very discreetly. This last discipline was refered to in the intelligence communities as HUMINT (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HUMINT), and was what most people thought of when they heard about that mysterious and fascinating art form called espionage.

Cotland had obtained the information from all these intelligence gathering disciplines and several other about the Slavic Summit that was being held in Voronej, and since it involved the Russians and the Nerotikans, the interest in the Cottish embassy and in the Cottish intelligence community's headquarters somewhere outside Oslo had peaked. Discreetly, Voronej Station had been directed to find out more about the summit while a spy satellite in geosynchronous orbit well above Cottish Siberia but at such an angle that it could get good coverage of the Russian Federation's heartland - the Russians believed it was a communications satellite (technically it was, as it's cover was that of a commercial communications satellite and it even received and relayed civilian TV and satellite phone signals.

Voronej Station was a particularly well equipped station in terms of manpower. Over twenty intelligence officers were assigned to the station, of which eighteen were field officers, meaning that it was they who went out into the field to gather information. Of these, only three were "legal" officers, meaning that their stated tasks at the embassy were related to the Cottish intelligence community and that their diplomatic passports stated that too. This also meant that the Russians knew that they were intelligence officers, hence the need for the other field officers. All of them were officially assigned to the embassy as junior aides or deputy attachés or secretaries, and they functioned as such too, but their side-jobs at the embassy included intelligence gathering. The Russians did possibly know that there were more officers assigned to the embassy, and they might also suspect one or three, but the chances of them knowing about the true jobs of most of the "illegal" field officers was about as good as a snowball's chance of making it for ten minutes in Hell. Still, if caught by the Russians the intelligence officers would have been comprimised and most likely evicted from Russia as persona non grata, thus causing the Realm to be embarrased diplomatically. Fortunately, all the field officers had diplomatic passports, which meant that they were spared the fate of those poor devils caught spying on Russia without diplomatic protection. Little was known about what happened to these, but if they didn't receive a bullet in the head for their 'henious crimes', they'd probably spend the rest of their lives in a Siberian labor camp. At least that was what Cotland did after the trial to the spies it caught without diplomatic protection.

Several of the field officers were out gathering information in the cold Voronej afternoon, checking in with their local sources - those were few and far between, as the Russians had conducted a very successful anti-Cotland propaganda campaign over the past three decades creating an almost burning hatred towards Cotland, but there were a few (and Cotland's rewards for usable information was great) - while the field officers the Cottish knew the Russians knew the identity of were also out, but leading their tails on a wild goose chase. Counter-intelligence worked both ways, and the Cottish field officers were very well trained in detecting and shaking their FSB shadows, often very discreetly. They had to be well trained, because the opposition was well trained.

As the field officers gathered information, the spy satellites spied on Russia, intercepting radio, television and other electronic signals - in some cases, the spy satellites had managed to pick up data from a wireless internet network, albeit with the help from assets on the ground - and the technicians and analysts back in Cotland reviewed the data the satellites and officers picked up and translated the raw data into understandable information, other technicians contacted their colleagues in the October Alliance and sought information from their allies' and other joint assets.

If something happened in Voronej, especially something concerning the Nerotikans and Russians, the Cottish would probably find out about it very fast.

[OOC: This is also known as a glorified TAG, as I was somewhat bored.]

OOC: This is also known as a glorified TAG, as I was somewhat bored.]

You call that a tag? Psyche ward is that way.

You call that a tag? Psyche ward is that way.

OOC: ...or roleplaying. The more detailed you can make your posts, the better the story gets (and the less the chance of the guys you're playing with wanking their way out of tricky situations in conflict RPs). Anyway, I'll stop posting here now unless something relevant for me that I can respond to shows up. Sorry for cluttering the thread with OOCposts Pushka. Dasvidanya.

Though the relations between the Russian Federation and the Realm had thawed significantly since just last year, Cotland still considered Russia the most likely future Enemy of the State, although Nerotika was quickly makings its way up that list. Taking this into consideration, the Cottish like any other nation-state with functioning braincells had to monitor and keep tabs on the enemy's moves. This could be done in several ways. One could for intercept for instance the radio transmissions, phone conversations, electronic signals, hence the term SIGINT (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SIGINT), or Signals Intelligence; One could take pictures from orbiting spy satellites and reconnaissance aircraft, an intelligence gathering discipline which went under the catchy abbreviation IMINT (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IMINT); Or one could use human sources, something which was achieved through the network of what was popularly but wrongfully described in media and popular fiction as 'spies' but in reality referred to as intelligence officers, who in turn obtained their information from local sources within their assigned area of operations that they (or their colleagues) had recruited, or from information-gathering trips the intelligence officers had conducted very discreetly. This last discipline was refered to in the intelligence communities as HUMINT (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HUMINT), and was what most people thought of when they heard about that mysterious and fascinating art form called espionage.

Cotland had obtained the information from all these intelligence gathering disciplines and several other about the Slavic Summit that was being held in Voronej, and since it involved the Russians and the Nerotikans, the interest in the Cottish embassy and in the Cottish intelligence community's headquarters somewhere outside Oslo had peaked. Discreetly, Voronej Station had been directed to find out more about the summit while a spy satellite in geosynchronous orbit well above Cottish Siberia but at such an angle that it could get good coverage of the Russian Federation's heartland - the Russians believed it was a communications satellite (technically it was, as it's cover was that of a commercial communications satellite and it even received and relayed civilian TV and satellite phone signals.

Voronej Station was a particularly well equipped station in terms of manpower. Over twenty intelligence officers were assigned to the station, of which eighteen were field officers, meaning that it was they who went out into the field to gather information. Of these, only three were "legal" officers, meaning that their stated tasks at the embassy were related to the Cottish intelligence community and that their diplomatic passports stated that too. This also meant that the Russians knew that they were intelligence officers, hence the need for the other field officers. All of them were officially assigned to the embassy as junior aides or deputy attachés or secretaries, and they functioned as such too, but their side-jobs at the embassy included intelligence gathering. The Russians did possibly know that there were more officers assigned to the embassy, and they might also suspect one or three, but the chances of them knowing about the true jobs of most of the "illegal" field officers was about as good as a snowball's chance of making it for ten minutes in Hell. Still, if caught by the Russians the intelligence officers would have been comprimised and most likely evicted from Russia as persona non grata, thus causing the Realm to be embarrased diplomatically. Fortunately, all the field officers had diplomatic passports, which meant that they were spared the fate of those poor devils caught spying on Russia without diplomatic protection. Little was known about what happened to these, but if they didn't receive a bullet in the head for their 'henious crimes', they'd probably spend the rest of their lives in a Siberian labor camp. At least that was what Cotland did after the trial to the spies it caught without diplomatic protection.

Several of the field officers were out gathering information in the cold Voronej afternoon, checking in with their local sources - those were few and far between, as the Russians had conducted a very successful anti-Cotland propaganda campaign over the past three decades creating an almost burning hatred towards Cotland, but there were a few (and Cotland's rewards for usable information was great) - while the field officers the Cottish knew the Russians knew the identity of were also out, but leading their tails on a wild goose chase. Counter-intelligence worked both ways, and the Cottish field officers were very well trained in detecting and shaking their FSB shadows, often very discreetly. They had to be well trained, because the opposition was well trained.

As the field officers gathered information, the spy satellites spied on Russia, intercepting radio, television and other electronic signals - in some cases, the spy satellites had managed to pick up data from a wireless internet network, albeit with the help from assets on the ground - and the technicians and analysts back in Cotland reviewed the data the satellites and officers picked up and translated the raw data into understandable information, other technicians contacted their colleagues in the October Alliance and sought information from their allies' and other joint assets.

If something happened in Voronej, especially something concerning the Nerotikans and Russians, the Cottish would probably find out about it very fast.

[OOC: This is also known as a glorified TAG, as I was somewhat bored.]

OOC: Firstly, Slavic Relations Summit is public knowledge, secondly the propaganda campaign as you call it is Russian people not liking the fact that you locked a bunch of them up in Ust-Orda, my government is moving past that but as you may know we have actually free media in the Federation and the public has its own set of priorities. Thirdly, if I know that your guys were agents, why would I grant them diplomatic status and let them into the Federation? You must assume that my intelligence services aren't worse then yours and thus I would be able to make a sufficient background check on everyone your embassy employs. Third of all, as I have stated security is top notch, thus all sensitive information is transmitted through uninterceptable means, aka using lasers to beam it up to the satellite that uses another laser to beam it down to whereever. Im not trying to be a dick just pointing a few things out. One more thing though, no camps in Siberia and there never were, it is my most developed region, if I had such camps, and Im not saying I do, they'd probably be in Near Eastern Autonomous Republic (Yemen) or Latin American Autonomous Republic (Mexico). Probably NEAR, thats God's blindspot. Thx for the TAG.

And sorry nero and everyone else for the delay I'll post something tomorrow then I have the time.