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It’s a coup bid: Russia
As clashes in Ukraine claimed their first victims, Russia denounced the violence as a coup attempt and slammed the West.
Two men died from gunshot wounds in violent confrontation of protesters with police in the Ukrainian capital Kiev, health authorities said. Police denied they were using live ammunition, and it was not clear whether the fatal injuries had been caused by rubber bullets. The number of police officers wounded in the three days of clashes rose to 197, Ukraine’s Interior Ministry said. Opposition said hundreds of its activists had been injured. Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovich began talks with opposition leaders on Wednesday afternoon in an attempt to resolve the crisis. The Russian Parliament said Ukraine was sliding into “civil conflict.” A strong-worded statement unanimously passed by the State Duma, the Russian lower house, on Wednesday described the violent protests in Ukraine as an “attempt to forcefully overthrow the legitimate government institutions.” (or Ukrainian "transition", in ZOG speak...) Russian legislators blamed the violence on the Ukrainian opposition’s “extremist wing,” as well Western politicians, who “blatantly interfere” in Ukraine’s internal affairs. “The State Duma urges Western political circles to stop meddling in the internal affairs of sovereign Ukraine in violation of international law and stop contributing to further escalation of the conflict,” the statement said. Caitlin Hayden, a spokesman for U.S. National Security Council, blamed the Ukraine President for the violence and urged him to withdraw the riot police from downtown Kiev. Ukrainian analyst Mikhail Pogrebinsky said such Western reaction encouraged protesters to continue violence. http://www.thehindu.com/news/interna...cle5606677.ece |
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Rada Re-Criminalizes Public Denial Or Justification Of Crimes Of Fascism
The parliament has re-introduced criminal and administrative punishment for public denial or justification of the crimes of fascism. The relevant draft law (No. 4038) was approved by 257 votes; only 226 votes were required for its approval. This draft law was put to the vote without a debate as part of a package including the draft laws Nos. 4030, 4037, and 4039. The law adds Article 436-1 (public denial or justification of the crimes of fascism, promotion of neo-Nazi ideology, and production and (or) distribution of materials justifying fascist crimes and their supporters) to the Penal Code. The law introduces a fine of 500-1,000 minimum nontaxable incomes, restraint of liberty for up to two years, or imprisonment for the same period for public denial or justification of fascism's crimes against humanity during the Second World War, particularly the crimes of the Waffen SS organization, its subordinate structures, and people who fought against the anti-Hitler coalition and collaborated with Nazi occupiers, as well as promotion of neo-Nazi ideology, and manufacturing and/or dissemination of materials justifying the crimes of fascists and their supporters. The aim of the document is to protect the historical memory of the events that took place during the Great Patriotic War and prevent manifestations of neo-fascism in Ukraine. The authors of the draft law are parliamentary deputies Petro Symonenko and Ihor Alekseev (both members of the Communist Party faction). As Ukrainian News earlier reported, the Verkhovna Rada introduced criminal and administrative responsibility for public denial or justification of the crimes of fascism on January 16. In December 2011, Parliamentary Deputy Volodymyr Matveev of the Communist Party proposed that the parliament criminalize the importation, manufacture, and distribution of products promoting Nazism and fascism (the draft law No. 9559). The draft law No. 9559 has not yet been considered, but the Parliamentary Committee on Legislative Support for Law Enforcement has recommended that the parliament reject the draft law. Prime Minister Mykola Azarov opposes revision of the historical assessment of the Great Patriotic War. http://un.ua/eng/article/488397.html |
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I agree with those who think that this is a NATOs work. Ukranian NS are being used like Taliban, in my opinion. Its not a good tactic.
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West’s antiquated unipolar world collides with the East’s vision of a multipolar future.
In Reuters’ 2007 article, “Putin says Russia threatened by ‘Unipolar World’,” Russian President Vladimir Putin stated:
“Some people are constantly insisting on the necessity to divide up our country and are trying to spread this theory.” Reuters would also quote President Putin as saying: “There are those who would like to build a unipolar world, who would themselves like to rule all of humanity.” While Reuters then attempted to spin the comments as Russian paranoia, in the wake of recent events in Ukraine, the timelessness and accuracy of President Putin’s assessment years ago are apparent. Setting the Board For years the West has been cultivating a proxy political machine inside of Ukraine for the purpose of peeling the nation away from its historical and socioeconomic ties to Russia. The deep relationship between Western corporate-financier interests on Wall Street and in London and the opposition in Ukraine are best summarized in PR Weeks “Analysis: PR gets trodden underfoot as sands shift in Ukraine.” In the article, the involvement of some of the most notorious corporate lobbying firms on Earth, including Bell Pottinger and the Podesta Group, are revealed to have been involved in Ukraine’s internal affairs since the so-called “Orange Revolution” in 2004 – a coup admittedly orchestrated by the West and in particular the US government. The article chronicles (and defends) the continuing, unabated meddling of the West up to and including the most recent turmoil consuming Ukraine. PR Week’s article revealed that heavily funded networks propping up the proxy regime in Kiev are sponsored by “individuals and private companies who support stronger EU-Ukraine relations.” It is these Western corporate-financier interests, not Ukrainian aspirations for “democracy” and “freedom,” that kicked off the “Euromaidan” mobs in the first place – and will be the driving force that misshapes and deforms the regions of western Ukraine now overrun by the West’s proxies. To the east in Ukraine, people are prominently pro-Russian, sharing closer cultural, linguistic, and socioeconomic ties to Russia as well as long historical parallels. They have welcomed moves by Russia to counter the coup in Kiev and protect eastern Ukraine from the corrosive influence that will grow as the West further entrenches itself. A democratic referendum held on the Crimea peninsula overwhelmingly chose independence from the fascist regime in Kiev, separating from the now dysfunctional and downward spiraling western region and beginning the process of formally joining the Russia Federation. This resulting lay of Ukraine will be a proving ground where in the West, Wall Street and London’s unipolar order, will face off against the East and Russia’s vision of a multipolar order. The predictable outcome of financial and social ruination in the West, versus a stable status quo in the East will vindicate the growing perceptions held regarding both. The Predictable Fate of Western Ukraine Already Unfolding With the vacant chair of deposed Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych still warm, the tentacles of Western corporate-financier interests have already wound themselves around Kiev and have begun to squeeze. Chevron, which had signed a multi-billion dollar deal with Ukraine in November, 2013, was operating in the west of Ukraine, and alongside other Western energy giants such as ExxonMobil and Shell. The deals were part of President Yanukovych’s apparent gravitation toward the West and impending integration with the EU which was then suddenly overturned in favor with re-cementing ties with Russia. Western oil giants clearly saw the benefit of backing a putsch that would leave the western half firmly in the orbit of the US, UK, and EU. They can not only continue their business on the western edge of Ukraine, but expand their interests unabated across the country now that a capitulating, puppet regime sits in Kiev. While Western big-oil plans to move in and siphon billions, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) is already planning deep cuts in social benefits as part of a staggering austerity regime to restructure financially the seized western region of Ukraine, and if possible, all of Ukraine proper. RT reported in its article, “Pensions in Ukraine to be halved – sequestration draft,” that: The self-proclaimed government in Kiev is reportedly planning to cut pensions by 50 percent as part of unprecedented austerity measures to save Ukraine from default. With an “empty treasury”, reduction of payments might take place in March. According to the draft document obtained by Kommersant-Ukraine, social payments will be the first to be reduced. The proxy regime set up in Kiev has already indicated its eager acceptance to all IMF conditions. The fate of western Ukraine will be no different than other members of the European Union preyed upon by the corporate-financier interests that created the supranational consolidation in the first place. The reduction of a multipolar Europe into a unipolar, supranational consolidation which can be easily and collectively looted is a microcosm of what the West’s Fortune 500 plan as part of their global unipolar order. The natural resources, human capital, and geopolitical advantages found within the borders of Ukraine, will now become the natural resources, human capital, and geopolitical advantages of Chevron, BP, Monsanto, a myriad of defense contractors, telecom corporations, and other familiar brands seen marauding across the planet leaving in its wake destitution, socioeconomic disparity, and perpetual division they intentionally sow in order to protect their holdings from any form of unified or organized opposition. No matter how obvious the West’s game may be to some, had Ukraine fallen entirely under the control of Western interests, a multitude of excuses could and would have been peddled to explain the unraveling of Ukrainian society in terms that would exonerate the corporate-financier interests truly driving the crisis. But Ukraine has not entirely fallen to the West, and because of that, the planned decimation of western Ukraine, its economy, and its sovereignty will stand out in stark contrast to the eastern region that has remained beyond the West’s reach and within the orbit of Russia’s multipolar vision of the future. The East’s Chance to Showcase a Multipolar Future The West has made an entire industry out of “democracy promoting,” or in other words, the facade and insidious geopolitical mechanics behind it, it spreads its hegemony across the globe with. It has ingrained its superficial and ultimately disingenuous definitions of “elections,” “democracy,” and “freedom” into the minds of millions through political movements, mass media, and entertainment. However, this facade in recent years has suffered many setbacks as its opponents poke holes through it and reveals what lies beneath more clearly. What must be done next is the introduction of a new set of principles by which the global population can embrace – that of a multipolar world order where power is balanced, national sovereignty reigns, and international institutions mediate, not dictate, the interactions and conduct between nation-states. Unlike the West’s unipolar order which depends on the massive and perpetual manipulation of public perception to maintain itself, a multipolar world must be promoted through transparent, demonstrated examples. Russia’s evolving relationship with Ukraine, particularly in the midst of the recent turmoil in Kiev, will help demonstrate both the folly of dealing with the West and its global supranational consolidation and the benefits of maintaining traditional, sovereign bi-lateral relations with other states. Already, Russia has exhibited crucial differences in its foreign policy – its stationing of troops in Ukraine already covered under long-standing treaties and their mission clearly provoked by documented extremists admitted even across the Western press as being armed and promoting universally unacceptable and dangerous ideologies rooted in racism, bigotry, and genocide. While the West eagerly traverses the globe thousands of miles from its borders, under patently false, fabricated pretenses (such as in Iraq) to execute military force against nations that posed it no conceivable threat and in hindsight its motives being clearly self-serving, Russia has waited perhaps too long to act directly along its own borders against clear and present dangers being fomented overtly by foreign interests openly seeking to encircle and overrun Russia itself. This difference in foreign policy and indeed in the vision the West and East hold for the future – one of unipolar global domination and the other of multipolar coexistence – will be tested in Ukraine in front of the world. While the West has little choice but to continue along its long-established trajectory toward confrontation and exploitation, Russia and its growing list of allies has an opportunity to offer an alternative, not only to solve its own problems along its border – but for other nations as well chaffing under the growing disparity created by the West’s antiquated paradigm. http://journal-neo.org/2014/03/21/we...ipolar-future/ |
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VIDEO. Ukrainian deposed president "can not accept" the loss of Crimea Ukraine's ousted president said Wednesday no " to accept " the annexation of Crimea to Russia , blaming this loss on the new authorities in Kiev. " What, as president , should I take when the country collapses ? " Has he said , responding to a question about his position on the annexation of Crimea to Russia , considered by Westerners as an outright annexation. " If this had happened when I was in power, I would have tried to prevent it ," said he added during the interview, broadcast on cable television channel and satellite dojd . Taking care not to condemn Moscow, Bakiyev made the new pro-European Kiev authorities responsible for the loss of the peninsula. "This is their radical position on the Russian language, covering territories where Russian-speaking people live " , which caused discontent among Russian-speaking Crimea continued Viktor Yanukovych. "Attempts to dictate to the people how they should live have resulted in what they are protesting ," he has said. tensions "This is a striking example , when the population of an important region holds a referendum on the bottom of protest and separates fact from Ukraine. Personally, I can not accept this," he renchéri . Since the end of February overthrow President Viktor Yanukovych and the arrival of a pro-European power in Kiev , serious tensions have emerged in Russian-speaking regions in the east and southeast of the country. After a referendum in less than two weeks in Crimea , Moscow proceeded to attachment of this territory to Russia last month. WATCH the interview with Viktor Yanukovych: http://www.lepoint.fr/monde/video-le...1808439_24.php http://translate.google.com/?hl=fr |
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"French" Foreign Minister: Ukraine not welcome either at EU or NATO
(Cue the owners of Jewkraine rewriting the Constitution, even more IMF "loans" and so on)
Jewish Foreign Minister of France, Laurent Fabius told reporters that most European countries are not yet ready to see Ukraine as a member of the European Union, despite pro-European aspirations of President Poroshenko. "When I talk to my European colleagues, I come to conclusion that the idea of Ukraine's accession to the EU does not find support with most of them. It's obvious," the minister said, ITAR-TASS reports. According to the minister, Poroshneko's inaugural speech was "clearly pro-European" in nature. Perhaps, it was even more pro-European "than the EU would like it to be," he said. According to Fabius, none of his "Western colleagues wants Ukraine to join NATO either." "Even the Americans do not want that," he believes. Fabius also confirmed that France did not intend to violate the contract for the delivery of two Mistral ships to Russia. "The deal was signed back in 2011; the first ship is ready," said the French minister. Interestingly, the so-called "revolution of dignity" in Ukraine, which, in fact, turned out to be the triumph of oligarchy and fascism, had European integration as one of its main tasks. http://english.pravda.ru/news/world/.../#.U5iV1nJdWuI |
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Why both the left and right have got it wrong on Ukraine – Žižek
There's a historical irony in watching Ukrainians tearing down Lenin’s statues as a sign of their will to break with Soviet domination http://www.theguardian.com/world/201...oj-zizek-lenin
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The decision was supported by 233 deputies out of 329 registered in the session hall, according to an UNIAN correspondent.
The vote was highly important for the financially crippled state, as it could unlock further much-needed funding from the country’s international creditors. The vote came at 0424 in the morning after hours of debates and delays. Some MPs were pictured dozing at their desks. When the vote finally came, the breakdown was: the Bloc of Petro Poroshenko 120 votes, the Popular Front 81 votes, the Samopomich Party 10 votes, the Radical Party 17 votes, independent MPs 5 votes, and the Opposition Bloc, the Batkivshyna Party, Volia and Economic Development factions zero votes each. The budget for 2015 is calculated from the forecast of the economic decline of 4.3% with an inflation rate of 13%. Budget revenues are reckoned at UAH 475.240 billion, the expenses amount to UAH 527.194 billion and the budget deficit amounts to UAH 63.670 billion. On Sunday night, at the beginning of the lengthy Rada sitting, the Verkhovna Rada also adopted a package of bills needed to prop up the revenues side of the budget. Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatseniuk, while presenting the budget said, that the document would be revised - depending on agreements reached later with creditors. The first such review will take place no later than February 15, 2015, he said. "The Ukrainian budget has allocated UAH 90 billion for security and defense, about UAH 6 billion of which will be state guarantees for the state concern Ukroboronprom for the purchase and production of weapons," Yatseniuk said. http://russia-insider.com/en/2015/12/30/2175 |
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Jewkraine - a ’Banana Republic’ without bananas
While the world’s focus is on Greece, Ukraine is being ignored. However, the devastated nation makes Greece look like an economic success story. It’s now a ‘Banana Republic,’ without bananas.
In the era of instant news, we are now in Athens overkill. There hasn’t been five minutes this past week when some news channel hasn’t managed to produce a starving pensioner or despairing youth to illustrate how miserable Greek life is. However, there’s another European country where existence is even grimmer - Ukraine. Despite this, much of the same media presents the war torn country as a positive example of Western intervention. Nevertheless, the fact remains that Ukraine’s economy atrophied by 28 percent in 2014. From a nominal GDP of $182 billion (1.566 trillion hryvnia at 8.1 to $1) to one of $62 billion (1.465 trillion hryvnia), when adjusted for the collapse of the hryvnia currency. In 2013, the average wage was already a pitiful $410 a month under the democratically elected - but horrid - Viktor Yanukovich government. Now, after the Washington and Brussels-backed Maidan coup, it sits at $184 monthly. This makes me very sad and angry. For the simple reason that I like Ukraine, very much. Here are a few more catastrophic and depressing economic figures to further dampen the mood. Since the coup, new car purchases have decreased by 76 percent and vehicle production by a whopping 93 percent. Steel production has recoiled by a third. Meanwhile, gasoline sales are down by 40 percent. Additionally, inflation (officially) has increased by 61percent, year on year (April 2014-April 2015). For far too long, those of us with a genuine affection for Ukraine have allowed anti-Russia activists and Western media chancers to hijack debate about the country. Many actual Ukraine experts understood clearly that the Maidan movement was going to end in disaster and took this unpopular - in the West - view from the very start. Instead of being listened to, these sensible voices were branded as “Putin stooges” and “Ukraine haters” by people with hardly any credentials to comment on the situation at all. Indeed, quite a few hacks that landed in Kiev early last year, pushing a pro-NATO/EU line, are now in Greece playing the exact same trick. Actually, some previously pulled the same stunt in Syria and Iran. Ukraine - truths and distortions What actually happened at ‘Euromaidan’ is rather different from how the Western media has reported the story. The collective line is that a ‘revolution of dignity’ overthrew a horrible regime and immediately began transforming the country into a modern progressive democracy. This agenda is served by countless compositions extolling the virtues of the post-coup leaders. These read more like puff PR than serious news analysis. Here’s a really good example from The Financial Times this week. Read it and ask yourself how much a local advert rag would charge for such a loving write-up? Yet the FT is held up as a paragon of journalistic virtue by Western think-tanks and educational institutions. All this reportage is total codswallop, and usually written to order by eager-to-please stringers desperate to either revive flagging careers or kick start nascent paths in journalism. Sometimes they don’t even need the template actually spelled out to them because the rules are obvious. We all know that anybody remotely seen as being sympathetic to the Russian point of view simply cannot get published in almost all Western mainstream media these days. Hence, for a young hack eager to prosper, the obvious path is being as anti-Russian as possible. Anyway, what really happened in Kiev is that the “Euromaidan” episode didn’t herald a new dawn for principled democracy in Ukraine. It merely replaced one corrupt gang of oligarchic leeches with another. Now Ukraine has the richest head of state in Europe, the billionaire Petro Poroshenko, while paying its pensioners £5 a week. Ukraine makes Greece look like Narnia. What you will never read in the Western press, by the way, is that the same Poroshenko served as Minister for Trade in Yanukovich’s government until December 2012. The same ‘regime’ that delivered average salaries over double what Poroshenko’s ‘modernizing government’ currently manages. Last year, he sponsored a ‘lustration’ law, aimed at purging members of Yanukovich’s administration from state governance. People just like himself. |
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Poroshenko's mendacity
As the Canadian writer Halyna Mokrushnyna pointed out in an essential piece last week, there is also the issue of Poroshenko’s serial fibbing. “Lies about a promised visa-free regime to Europe that has "acquired a fixed place in the calendar for the first time,” Poroshenko says in his speech, in spite of public statements of European officials saying that they cannot name a date for the introduction of visa-free entry to Europe for Ukrainians. Lies about plans to hold a referendum on Ukraine's joining NATO, which "we would have easily won,” but will not held because "this issue will shake the country" and its unity. "So is Ukraine united in this issue or no, Mr. President?” Mokrushnyna asked. The Russian domestic press often features must-read analysis of Ukraine, but obvious issues with language prevent it being widely read in the West. Thus, I feel obliged to select some points from this marvelous Korrespondent article from Yuri Lukashin. Lukashin asserts that Ukraine is now "a banana republic without bananas." Furthermore, he insists that the nation is committing suicide. There is plenty of logic in his reasoning. Ukraine’s income levels were already pathetic by European standards under the previous set of ‘kleptocratic’ leaders. Under the new gang of (Washington-approved) thieves, salaries are now pretty horrendous even by African measures. Yet, Western hacks continue to peddle the complete nonsense that Ukraine is changing for the better. Kiev’s tightly-controlled media bangs the same drum. Meanwhile, anybody capable of rational thought must surely be starting to realize that Ukraine is behaving, more and more, like the world’s largest, open-air, lunatic’s asylum. Lukashin writes: “In the year following the great "revolution of dignity,” Ukraine has been successful in building towards a specific type of economy, mostly similar to that of a "banana republic.” In fact, there is only one difference between Ukraine’s current path and its banana brethren in faraway Africa, Latin America, and Asia. That is complete lack of bananas. “There are numerous reasons why the EU - and the West in general - do not need Ukraine in its current form. It simply doesn't fit the EU's political, economic, or cultural framework. If it did, Ukraine would have successfully integrated already in the previous 24 years it has tried to. If it did, the EU wouldn't allow Ukrainian standards of living drop to African levels after the "pro-European" violent takeover. Ukraine would enjoy the open borders, economic benefits, and other hallmarks of European acceptance it thought it would receive shortly after "choosing Europe,” he adds. |
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Of course, there is a question never asked by Western supporters of Ukraine’s “European choice.” What exact role would Ukraine fulfill in the EU, if it ever were allowed to join? While I accept that the very thought is ludicrous, many frequently embellish and claim that Kiev will eventually accede to the EU. Brussels is incapable of saving Greece, so how would it finance a decrepit state which makes Greece look like Switzerland? Also, how would the British people react to 45 million (extremely poor) Ukrainians gaining access to the UK labor market - and, more importantly, its welfare system? “Ukraine was built for a different economic model, with different markets and economic partners in mind. Specifically, the giant Russian market, which supported Ukraine through mutually beneficial trade, huge fossil fuel discounts, and Soviet-era economic connections. Cooperation with Russia kept Ukraine afloat until now and even provided an economic base which, as it turned out, allowed the country to grow a sizable population of hipsters and office workers that forgot why they needed all this unfashionable and smelly industry,” argues Lukashin. Amid all this, the next economic ‘challenge’ facing Ukraine’s embattled citizens is new ‘European-style’ utility bills due to land in the coming weeks. Charges will be doubled, with a further 40 percent increase slated for the autumn. These new prices create the very real possibility that utility charges could exceed pensions. A potential humanitarian disaster is possible in winter. Lukashin concludes with these pertinent words, “The social and economic catastrophe that the country keeps sliding towards is, to large extent, the consequence of our citizens’ support of the governments that got them there, the political ideals they worshipped, as well as Ukrainians believing that everybody else owes them something. The USA owes them because Ukraine is supposedly fighting Russia. Europe, because Ukraine supposedly protects it from Russia's supposed aggression and Russia, simply because Ukrainians are so wise and great that Russians should naturally admire and serve them.” During the initial Euromaidan protests and subsequent coup, many Ukrainians changed their social media profile pictures to an English language graphic, titled “Pray for Ukraine.” While things were far from perfect then, the real suffering had yet to start. http://rt.com/op-edge/272986-ukraine...nflict-maidan/ |
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