Posted by seumasach on March 2, 2014
1st March, 2014
The efforts of radical forces and the self-imposed government in Kiev to forcefully overthrow local authorities in the East are unacceptable and endanger the lives of Ukrainians and Russians, Russia’s UN envoy Vitaly Churkin told the Security Council.
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Posted by seumasach on March 1, 2014
German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier, who met with the head of the IMF in Washington on Friday, echoed Lagarde’s sentiment.
There was currently little evidence to support “the numbers which are being circulated [in the media],” Steinmeier said.
Steinmeier further called on Russia to help the Ukrainian economy, which recently decided to freeze the multi-billion dollar loans package to Kyiv.
“The stabilization of Ukraine can only succeed if we bring as many partners as possible to the table,” the German foreign minister said.
After having dug a deep hole for themselves the Germans are engaging in the task of getting out of it. Russia hold all the cards and they have no choice but to recognize this reality.
While IMF urges calm over Ukraine economy, three countries freeze suspicious Ukrainian assets
28th February
IMF chief Christine Lagarde has dismissed panic over Ukraine’s economy as premature. Her call for calm came as Switzerland, Austria and Liechtenstein said they were freezing assets held by roughly 20 Ukrainians.
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Posted by seumasach on March 1, 2014
“This is a world where we need to work with the Russians,” a senior State Department official said Tuesday. “This is not about the United States versus Russia.”
Senior State Department officials said there was no “point in making hollow threats” toward Moscow. In the wake of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the American public has no interest in getting into a direct — or indirect — military confrontation with Russia in the Ukraine, Syria or virtually any other nation.
Notwithstanding the presence in the State Department of the likes of Clintonites like Samantha Power, Susan Rice and Victoria Nuland, these briefings do not indicate New Cold War perspectives
28th February, 2014
Days after his ally Viktor Yanukovych was ousted as Ukraine’s leader, Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered a 150,000-troop Russian military exercise on Ukraine’s border. The fall of Yanukovych — and Putin’s potential response to it — has reignited a debate in Washington on how to respond to the assertive Russian leader.
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Posted by seumasach on March 1, 2014
Fort much of the left and libertarian movement Obama is a fascist tyrant. For the neo-cons, however, he is nothing but a wimp. Krauthammer certainly has a point in regarding Obama’s intervention as very low-key.
Krauthammer on Ukraine: ‘Everybody is shocked by the weakness of Obama’s statement’
28th February, 2014
Charles Krauthammer told viewers Friday on “Special Report with Bret Baier” that President Obama’s statement on the latest Ukraine developments showed “weakness,” and implied that “we’re not really going to do anything” about the political upheaval in Ukraine.
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Posted by seumasach on March 1, 2014
1st March, 2014
MOSCOW (Reuters) – The pro-Russia authorities in Ukraine’s Crimea region and Russia’s Black Sea fleet have agreed to guard buildings on the Black Sea peninsula together, Russia’s RIA news agency quoted the fleet’s press service as saying.
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Posted by seumasach on March 1, 2014
Russia’s Council member: Referendum in Crimea won’t lead to its secession from Ukraine
1st March, 2014
A referendum on Crimea’s status will not mean the peninsula’s secession from Ukraine, says Igor Morozov, a member of the Russian Federation Council international affairs committee and head of a working group.
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Posted by seumasach on March 1, 2014
Ukraine: Don’t blame us says Russian Ambassador to EU
1st March, 2014
Russia has nothing to do with what is happening in Crimea, according to the Head of the Russian mission to the EU, Ambassador Vladimir Chizhov, who noted that there is “a deliberate attempt to shift attention to Crimea” while what is happening there is “a natural result of events unfolding in Kiev”.
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Posted by seumasach on February 28, 2014
28th February, 2014
Moscow has urged NATO to refrain from provocative statements on Ukraine and respect its non-bloc status after a chorus of Western politicians said Russia should be “transparent” about its military drills and avoid any steps that could be “misunderstood.”
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Posted by seumasach on February 27, 2014
Ukraine to Compensate China for Violating Food Agreement
26th February, 2014
BEIJING, Feb 26, 2014 (SinoCast Daily Business Beat via COMTEX) — Russian media said that China has made complaint to the London Court of International Arbitration (LCIA), demanding economic losses of USD 3 billion from Ukraine.
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Posted by seumasach on February 27, 2014
John Batchelor
25th February, 2014
President Viktor Yanukovich’s sudden, surprise departure from Kiev is the beginning of a long ordeal for Ukrainians. It’s also the start of a major threat to the several hundred thousand Ukrainian Jews.
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Posted by seumasach on February 27, 2014
People also chanted “Yarosh! Yarosh!”, demanding that the leader of the Right Sector, Dmytro Yarosh, be given a post.
Ukraine crisis: , Yatsenyuk is PM-designateKiev Maidan told [In fact, it was the Maidan who told the parliament that Yatsenyuk is PM-designate-Ed.]
26th February, 2014
Ukraine’s new interim government has been presented at Kiev’s main protest camp, the Maidan, following last week’s ousting of President Viktor Yanukovych.
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In These New Times 