Posted by seumasach on March 15, 2014
M.K.Bhadrakumar
15th March, 2014
The British Foreign Secretary William Hague was prescient that the talks between the US Secretary of State John Kerry and his Russian counterpart Sergey Lavrov regarding Ukraine in London on Friday would be “formidably difficult.”
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Posted by seumasach on March 15, 2014
German Exporters Fire Warning Shot About Russia “Sanction-Spiral,” Banks At Risk
13th March, 2014
It took a while. But it had to come, the public warning shot – after what must have been a ferocious lobbying campaign behind closed doors. No one in Germany is allowed to get in the way of the sacrosanct exporters. The German economic model, to the chagrin of neighboring countries, is based on them.
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Posted by seumasach on March 15, 2014
“Arresting neo-fascists in Kharkov should mark the beginning of large-scale activities to neutralize and punish the extremists who are getting out of hand,” Dolgov said
15th March, 2014
Russia on Saturday urged Ukraine to outlaw ultra-nationalist groups after two people were killed in fresh clashes in the Russian-speaking east of the country.
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Posted by seumasach on March 15, 2014
Ukraine mayor detained for ‘attacking’ Right Sector thugs who raided city council meeting
15th March, 2014
A major of a central Ukrainian city has been taken to the police station after a being assaulted by the Right Sector thugs who interrupted the city council meeting, demanding his resignation.A major of a central Ukrainian city has been taken to the police station after a being assaulted by the Right Sector thugs who interrupted the city council meeting, demanding his resignation.
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Posted by seumasach on March 14, 2014
When is someone going to tell Yatsenyuk that, in fact, Ukraine isn’t going to be a member of the EU?
12th March, 2014
(WASHINGTON) – Ukraine’s new leaders will likely sign a long-awaited political accord with the European Union next week, interim Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk said Wednesday after talks at the White House.
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Posted by seumasach on March 14, 2014
“The European Parliament in 2012 condemned Svoboda’s racism, anti-Semitism and xenophobia as “against the EU’s fundamental values and principles.” The U.S. should not hesitate to do likewise now. It is not only the right thing to do, it would also open a door to compromise with Russia over this dangerous crisis. To remain silent sends exactly the wrong message to extremists on both sides.”
The position of the West’s New Cold War faction is being undermined rapidly
McClatchyDC(source: LA Times)
14th March, 2014
It’s become popular to dismiss Russian President Vladimir Putin as paranoid and out of touch with reality. But his denunciation of “neofascist extremists” within the movement that toppled the old Ukrainian government, and in the ranks of the new one, is worth heeding. The empowerment of extreme Ukrainian nationalists is no less a menace to the country’s future than Putin’s maneuvers in Crimea. These are odious people with a repugnant ideology.
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Posted by seumasach on March 14, 2014
13th March, 2014
While the Crimean Tatars had denounced the holding of a referendum on self-determination as unconstitutional and had called for the creation of self-defense militias, their chief leader, Mustafa Dzhamilev, going back on his previous statements, expressed his satisfaction with the way things are evolving.
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Posted by seumasach on March 13, 2014
13th March, 2014
Former chief of Ukraine’s Security Service has confirmed allegations that snipers who killed dozens of people during the violent unrest in Kiev operated from a building controlled by the opposition on Maidan square.
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Posted by seumasach on March 13, 2014
“We need to increase trade volume conducted in national currencies. Why, in relation to China, India, Turkey and other countries, should we be negotiating in dollars? Why should we do that? We should sign deals in national currencies- this applies to energy, oil, gas, and everything else,” Aleksey Ulyukaev, the Minister of Economic Development said in an interview with the Vesti 24 TV channel.Moscow won’t exclude sanctions to counter US and EU – Ministry
13th March, 2014
Russia is ready to retaliate with counter sanctions against the EU and US if they go ahead with economic measures against Russia over tension in Crimea, the Russian Economic Ministry has said.
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Posted by seumasach on March 13, 2014
M.K.Bhadrakumar
13th March, 2014
When a Russia scholar of great repute, Stephen Cohen of New York University, says that the United States is two steps from the Cuban Missile Crisis and three steps from a war with Russia for the first time, things appear grim. Cohen insists, “We need to get a negotiation going on…” (Excerpts)
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Posted by seumasach on March 13, 2014
Significant opposition is beginning to emerge to the madness of the European leadership over Ukraine. This can only increase as the reality of what has happened there becomes clearer.
12th March, 2014
The deputy leader of Germany’s left-wing Die Linke party has called on Western powers to accept the results of an “illegal” referendum due to take place in Crimea on Sunday.
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