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Les Néo-cons à Paris

Posted by seumasach on March 20, 2014

Jean Paul Baquiast

Europe Solidaire

17th March, 2014

Ce terme désigne, non les c…proprement dits, qui ont toujours été très présents à Paris, sous quelle que forme que ce soit, mais les conservateurs les plus à droite du parti conservateur américain. Au pouvoir depuis des années, ils sont responsables des véritables catastrophes qui ont plongé l’Amérique dans des déficits et des pauvretés en chaine.

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Bulgaria opposes immediate EU sanctions on Russia

Posted by seumasach on March 20, 2014

“Bulgarian socialists appear to be supportive of Russia’s intervention in Crimea. Alexander Simov, a journalist from the Socialist daily Duma who was sent to Crimea as an observer, said yesterday he believed that the referendum vote was legitimate.

“I am going to watch the whole process. To see … that it is a legal referendum,” he said. “So I think it is going to be very legal,” Simov said, as quoted by the Voice of America. Simov’s name appears on the list of the BSP candidates for the European elections.”

Euractiv

17th March, 2014

The Bulgarian foreign minister, Kristian Vigenin, has been instructed by his ruling Socialist party “not to haste with harsh measures” against Russia following the Crimea referendum, as EU ministers gather in Brussels in an attempt to impose sanctions on Moscow.

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India won’t support Western sanctions against Russia

Posted by seumasach on March 19, 2014

NDTV

19th March, 2014

New Delhi India will not support Western sanctions against Russia over the annexation of Crimea from Ukraine, government sources have told NDTV.

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Russia calls on Ukraine to become a federal state

Posted by seumasach on March 17, 2014

Star

17th March, 2014

MOSCOW—Russia’s foreign ministry is calling on Ukraine to become a federal state and call fresh elections.

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Russia ready to cooperate with partners for resolving crisis in Ukraine

Posted by seumasach on March 17, 2014

FNA

17th March, 2014

TEHRAN (FNA)- Moscow urges contact group to ensure Ukraine’s non-bloc status fixed in the UN Security Council resolution, Russian Foreign Ministry said in a statement.

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US, Russia kick Ukraine can down the road

Posted by seumasach on March 16, 2014

“The MFA statement also gave the impression that Washington is receptive to the deep anxiety felt in Moscow regarding the ascendancy of ultranationalist Ukrainian groups.” 
 
“Lavrov sought Washington’s intervention with the authorities in Kiev to curb these radical groups and Kerry apparently responded that the US was acting and its efforts would yield results. Lavrov and Kerry agreed to maintain further “working contacts” on Ukraine.”

M.K.Bhadrakumar

Indian Punchline

15th March, 2014

As I wrote in my blog earlier, contrary to the media reports to the effect that the five-hour meeting between the foreign ministers of Russia and the United States in London on Thursday regarding the Ukraine crisis had floundered, the two diplomats have opened a track of serious negotiations.

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Et tu, Jackass

Posted by seumasach on March 16, 2014

Events in Ukraine and behind scenes, immediate threats from Ukraine, strategic threats from Ukraine

Golden Jackass

14th March, 2014

Interview with Jim Willie

Part 1

Part 2

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Yarosh: sabotage Russian pipelines!

Posted by seumasach on March 16, 2014

Right Sector leader: Kiev should be ready to sabotage Russian pipelines in Ukraine

RT

16th March, 2014

The leader of ultranationalist group Right Sector, Dmitry Yarosh, has threatened to destroy Russian pipelines on Ukrainian territory if a diplomatic solution is not reached with Moscow.

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Is anyone really in control in Ukraine?

Posted by seumasach on March 16, 2014

Club Orlov

16th March, 2014

While everyone is concentrating on the referendum in Crimea, let’s not lose sight of what’s happening in the rest of (formerly independent) Ukraine. As we already know, the government in Kiev is dead broke; the aid that is forthcoming from the US is barely enough to cover its debt to Russia’s Gazprom, for natural gas. Ukraine’s bond yield has spiked to 50% while $15 billion of these bonds mature and have to be rolled over this year.

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Germany’s EON warns against hurting Russia ties

Posted by seumasach on March 16, 2014

AFP

16th March, 2014

The head of EON, Germany’s leading power supplier, warned Berlin Sunday against “recklessly” damaging ties with Russia over the crisis in Ukraine.

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Kerry urges Ukraine reforms, Russia pullback: official

Posted by seumasach on March 16, 2014

The protection of minority rights in Ukraine implies reigning in the Right Sector and other extremist tendencies

Daily Star

16th March, 2014

WASHINGTON: US Secretary of State John Kerry urged Moscow Sunday to pull back Russian forces to their bases in Crimea in return for constitutional reforms in Ukraine to protect minority rights, a US official said.

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