Posted by seumasach on April 18, 2014
Turkish PM Erdoğan and Putin discuss Ukraine crisis, Crimean Tatars and energy
18th April, 2014
Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday discussed the turmoil in Ukraine and the situation in Crimea, including the Crimean Tatars, as well as energy ties.
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Posted by seumasach on April 16, 2014
16th April, 2014
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov revealed that CIA director John Brennan was in Kiev last weekend. One of his advisors told the newspaperVzgliad that Brennan had not come to oversee the “anti-terrorist” operations conducted by the Ukrainian authorities, but to seek information and rescue twenty Greystone Ltd mercenaries of whom there has been no news.
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Posted by seumasach on April 16, 2014
Raniah Salloum, the foreign affairs editor of Spiegel Online, reports that he “just saw tanks that switched side[s] in #kramatorsk. Now anti Kiev.”Raniah Salloum, the foreign affairs editor of Spiegel Online, reports that he “just saw tanks that switched side[s] in #kramatorsk. Now anti Kiev.”
16th April, 2014
Journalists on the ground in the city of Kramatorsk in northern Donetsk Oblast are reporting that armored personnel carriers are driving around flying the Russian flag.
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Posted by seumasach on April 14, 2014
Hot-head Hague here scuppers any hopes that the Brits have learnt anything from the debacle in Syria and continues to dig himself into a very deep hole.
14th April, 2014
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Posted by seumasach on April 14, 2014
14th April, 2014
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russian Foreign Ministry Sergei Lavrov said on Monday Ukraine’s Russian-speaking eastern regions should be involved in drafting the constitution that should be put to a referendum, mooted by Kiev, on the type of state Ukraine should be.
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Posted by seumasach on April 14, 2014
Ukraine Acting President: Not Opposed to Referendum on Regional Autonomy
14th April, 2014
A day after threatening a full-scale military operation to drive pro-Russian militants out of a string of eastern Ukrainian cities seized over the weekend, the country’s acting president offered an apparent olive branch Monday, saying he wasn’t opposed to a countrywide referendum on possibly granting regions greater autonomy.
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Posted by seumasach on April 14, 2014
“The western sponsors of the Maidan government, especially those who witnessed the Agreement [of 21 February] and are backed by the US, have to curb their out of control wards, they have to make them break away from the neo-Nazis and other extremists…”
Moscow slams Kiev’s military op order as ‘criminal’, calls for UNSC meeting
13th April, 2014
Russia has called on the UNSC and OSCE to urgently consider the crisis in Ukraine, saying that the announcement made by the Kiev authorities on Sunday to mobilize military forces to put down protests in the south-east of the country is a ‘criminal order.’
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Posted by seumasach on April 14, 2014
Source: Oriental Review
12th April, 2014
The situation of human rights in Ukraine has deteriorated markedly since the pro-NATO coup. While the Western media turn a blind eye to this every day reality,Oriental Review highlights thirty particularly significant incidents, revealing that the street is in the hands of Nazi thugs who beat up and kill people with complete impunity.
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Posted by seumasach on April 9, 2014
The Atlanticist Spiegel magazine laments widespread German support for Russia over the Ukraine crisis and puzzles over why they wouldn’t wish to support a neo-nazi coup in Kiev.
Is Germany a Country of Russia Apologists?
31st March, 2014
Should the West chart a course of confrontation with Russia following Moscow’s annexation of Crimea? Many prominent Germans aren’t so sure. Sympathy for Russia is alive and well in the country.
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Posted by seumasach on April 6, 2014
5th April, 2014
U.S. officials have distanced themselves from the Budapest Memorandum in light of Russia’s takeover of Crimea, calling promises made in Budapest “nonbinding.”
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Posted by seumasach on April 5, 2014
“But, it’s not waving, it’s not even the ‘sieg heil‘ beloved of many of their members, all the signs are that Svoboda are drowning.”
4th April, 2014
They seemed, at one point back there, the most likely party to benefit from the post-Euromaidan fallout. Charismatic leader Oleg Tyagnibok broke bread with US Senator John McCain in December as their banners hung in Kiev’s occupied City Hall, their flags and activists by far the most visible down on Maidan. Svoboda were central in keynote moments of Euromaidan – the December 8th toppling of Kiev’s Lenin was powered by Svoboda, then with the fall of Yanukovych on February 22nd, the toppling of Lenins all over the country was fuelled by them, with boyish Svoboda senior member, and social media spokesman Oleksandr Aronets having championed the mobilising of Svoboda activists, who went from town to town organising, assisting in the demolitions.
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