Posted by seumasach on March 11, 2014
German ex-chancellor Schroder calls EU’s Ukraine policy “mistake”
10th March, 2014
BERLIN, March 9 (Xinhua) — Former German Chancellor Gerhard Schroder called the Ukraine policy of the European Union (EU) “a mistake” while attending an event hosted by German media on Sunday, reports said.
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Posted by seumasach on March 10, 2014
Asked again about the Russian claims that the present government in Ukraine is illegal, Dempsey reiterated, “Of course they are. And they’re trying to roll back to the February 21 agreement, and we’re trying to suggest that, really, the clock started on February 24.
9th March, 2014
General Martin Dempsey, US Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, gave a lengthy interview to Judy Woodruff on Friday night’s PBS News Hour and delivered a carefully balanced picture of how the U.S. military is managing the unfolding Ukraine crisis, both reassuring European NATO allies that treaty obligations will be honored, while maintaining constant communications with Russian counterparts, to assure there are no miscalculations leading to conflict. Gen. Dempsey, clearly aware of the boundaries between military advice and political decision-making, did not attempt to under-play the danger of conflict, particularly given the occupant of the White House.
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Posted by seumasach on March 10, 2014
Arab states withdraw ambassadors from Qatar in protest at ‘interference’
5th March, 2014
In a rare public spat that has highlighted deep political divisions in the Gulf, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates have all withdrawn their ambassadors from Qatar in protest at Doha’s “interference in their internal affairs”.
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Posted by seumasach on March 9, 2014
6th March, 2014
KIEV, March 6. /ITAR-TASS/. The appointed by Verkhovna Rada Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk has signed an order to dismiss three deputies of Ukraine’s defense minister as they opposed to giving the Right Sector militants the status of regular military units. A source in the Ukrainian government said this to Itar-Tass. “Yatsenyuk dismissed first deputy defense minister Alexander Oleynik,” the source specified. “Deputies defense minister Vladimir Mozharovskiy and Arturo Francisco Babenko were also dismissed.”
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Posted by seumasach on March 5, 2014
M.K.Bhadrakumar
4th March, 2014
Russian President Vladimir Putin said at a press conference earlier today in Moscow that anyone who thinks of imposing sanctions against his country should think about their consequences. He said, “I think in today’s world, where everything is interconnected and everyone is dependent on one another in this way or another, we can, of course, inflict damage on one another, but his damage will be mutual. They should think about that, too.” Putin was addressing US president Barack Obama without saying so.
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Posted by seumasach on March 5, 2014
Thierry Meyssan
3rd March, 2014
The Ukrainian government installed by the coup has been recognized by the Western powers. It includes several members of explicitly Nazi organizations, including two leaders who have distinguished themselves by fabricating false images of violence and torture aimed to convince Western public opinion of the cruelty of the democratically elected president, Viktor Yanukovych. The Deputy Secretary of the National Security and Defence Council of Ukraine openly acknowledges his ties with Al-Qaeda.
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Posted by seumasach on March 5, 2014
4th March, 2014
The Prosecutor General of Russia has opened an investigation into public calls for terrorism inside Russia posted by Dmytro Yarosh on his website.
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Posted by seumasach on March 3, 2014
M.K.Bhadrakumar
3rd March, 2014
How far the blunt and threatening posture US secretary of state John Kerry took in his interview with the CBS News toward Moscow — and President Vladimir Putin in person — over the Ukraine situation was genuine and how far it was intended to meet the domestic criticism of the Barack Obama administration being ‘weak’ in its foreign policies doesn’t really matter. What matters is that Kerry demanded virtual capitulation by Russia under the shadow of US retribution and that’s being plain dishonest and unrealistic.
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Posted by seumasach on March 3, 2014
27th February, 2014
La cinquième élection présidentielle ukrainienne de 2010 s’est déroulée en janvier 2010 selon un scrutin uninominal majoritaire à deux tours. Elle permet, comme en France, d’élire un président de la République pour un mandat de cinq ans.
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Posted by seumasach on March 3, 2014
3rd March, 2014
The British Broadcasting Corporation – BBC – said the radical association The Right Sector was the organizer of the most vehement protest rallies in Ukraine. On Saturday, March 1st, it posted a video report from the center of Kiev, where the streets are being patrolled by the militants in the military uniform with the SS symbols, on its website.
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Posted by seumasach on March 3, 2014
Predictably the EU is pulling back from destroying its relationship with Russia. Whilst Kerry’s rhetoric costs him nothing the Europeans have everything to lose by alienating the only power which can get them out of this mess.
EU pushes mediation rather than sanctions against Russia over Ukraine crisis
3rd Fenruary, 2014
The European Union is unlikely to match the United States in threatening sanctions against Russia when its foreign ministers meet to discuss Ukraine on Monday, instead pushing for mediation between Moscow and Kiev, officials say.
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