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[Rick]

 

 

 

*Russian Market ‏@russian_market

*Russian Market ha ritwittato Петро Порошенко

Poroshenko confirms that he is going to sell Roshen by moving the shares to Rotschild Trust. -

I just died laughing

 

 

Петро ПорошенкоAccount verificato ‏@poroshenko

Найближчим часом я передам в траст Ротшильду пакет акцій "Рошен"

 

 

Edited by Rick, 05 June 2015 - 12:47.

[Rick]

Tsipras & Putin

[Rick]

Che Minks 2 fosse indigesto a molti a Kiev è cosa nota ed adirittura dichiarata apertamente

ora

che hanno fatto di tutto per ucciderlo

cercano di prendere la palla al balzo per liberarsene

ed avere poi le mani libere per i loro piani crimanali

 

 

Edited by Rick, 05 June 2015 - 13:22.

[Rick]

The New York Times

High Inflation Makes Ukraine’s Troubled Situation Worse

While the rest of Europe tries to shrug off low inflation, Ukraine is dealing with sharply rising prices. The costs of many goods have doubled or tripled.

 

 

http://t.co/yry6yYUOv6

 

 

[Rick]

UN MESSAGGIO DI PACE DI PORKOSHENKO

 

"every day and every moment, we will do everything to return Crimea to Ukraine."

 

Direi ....

 

bellicoso almeno tanto quanto Zakharchenko

 

quando dice che i ribelli si riprenderanno Mariupol

Edited by Rick, 05 June 2015 - 13:33.

[Rick]

Gli USA nascondono  consapevolmente le violazioni del cessate il fuoco da parte di Kiev

 

US knowingly conceals E. Ukrainian ceasefire violations by Kiev – leak

 

http://rt.com/news/2...ceasefire-leak/

 

The US and its Western allies are well aware of all the ceasefire violations in eastern Ukraine but, deliberately turn a blind eye to Kiev’s actions, hackers said after obtaining the emails of top Ukrainian official overseeing the truce.

The anti-Kiev hacktivist group, CyberBerkut, claims to have hacked the emails of Major-General Andrey Taran, Chief of the Joint Centre for Ceasefire Control and Coordination in Ukraine.

The correspondence contained satellite images proving multiple violations of the Minsk peace agreements between Kiev and the rebels by the Ukrainian military, they said.

 

Image from cyber-berkut.org

The pictures, dating March, April and May 2015, showed Kiev’s heavy artillery stationed in the immediate vicinity of the borders of the Donetsk and Lugansk People’s Republics.

Ukrainian 100-millimeter field artillery guns, 122-millimeter D-30 and 2S1 Gvozdika howitzers, 152-millimeter Hyacinth-S howitzers and Grad multiple rocket launchers were placed less than 20 kilometers away from the contact line, CyberBerkut said.

 

Image from cyber-berkut.org

According to the Minsk ceasefire agreement signed in February, both sides were to pull-out of all heavy weapons and create a security zone from 50 to 140 kilometers, depending on the range of the guns.

READ MORE: ‘Self-appointed advocate of new Ukraine’: Soros emails leaked by anti-Kiev hackers

The hacktivists stressed that Washington knew of the violations by Kiev as the hacked emails came from a staff member of the US Embassy in Ukraine, Tetyana Podobinska-Shtyk.

“[I am] sending you pictures which can become a serious problem for you! Think about how you can explain them, if the [OSCE] monitoring mission obtains them. Consult the team leader and think about a possible action plan, how you can justify them or present them as fake,” Podobinska-Shtyk wrote in a hacked email.

 

The Minsk peace deal, which was brokered by the leaders of Russia, Germany and France, led to a significant decrease in fighting in eastern Ukraine, which saw over 6,000 killed since April 2014.

But large-scale fighting resumed in the Donetsk People’s Republic (DNR) on Wednesday, with Kiev and the rebels putting blame on each other for violating the ceasefire.

READ MORE: At least 5 civilians, 14 militiamen killed in Donetsk shelling by Kiev – local officials

According DNR officials, the shelling by Kiev forces on June 3 saw 19 people, both civilians and militiamen, killed and over a hundred injured.

[Rick]

*Russian Market ‏@russian_market 57 min57 minuti fa

 

Inflation in Ukraine hits 58.4%

[Rick]

 

United in Homophobic Bigotry: Right Sector echoes Russian anti-LGBT line

 

http://khpg.org/inde...p?id=1433457163

 

 

 

 

 

Right Sector threatens Kyiv gay pride parade

 

http://www.kyivpost....ade-390397.html

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[Rick]

Marcia di "Settore destro" a Lviv contro Poroshenko
Gli estremisti hanno annunciato una marcia di protesta, programmata per l'anniversario della elezione del presidente dell'Ucraina Petro Poroshenko.

 

 

«Правый сектор» промарширует по Львову против Порошенко Экстремисты анонсировали марш протеста, приуроченный к годовщине избрания Петра Порошенко президентом Украины.

http://lifenews.ru/news/155177

 

[Rick]

Assolutamente rappresentativo del disastro ucraino di questi ultimi 23 anni

 

http://www.globalpos...epal-earthquake

 

 

Ukraine tried to score a PR victory in Nepal after the quake. It didn’t turn out well

 

 

 

 

KYIV, Ukraine — When several dozen Ukrainians in earthquake-stricken Nepal appealed for help late last month, it was the perfect opportunity for Ukrainian officials to score some points by swinging to the rescue.

Thanks to war, economic turmoil, lingering corruption, and a Russian state media machine that’s made the most of it all, Ukraine’s been short on good PR lately.

But the government's attempts to pull its citizens out of Nepal didn't exactly go smoothly.

What began as a two-day, quick-fire extraction descended into a weeklong folly featuring broken airplanes, a gaggle of stir-crazy journalists and one dogged senior bureaucrat who captured the media’s imagination.

“It was like a marathon for an untrained sprinter,” Bohdan Kutiepov, a video journalist who meticulously documented the journey, told GlobalPost after returning to Kyiv on Thursday.

Led by Zoryan Shkiryak, the charismatic acting head of the State Emergency Service, the expedition set off on a Defense Ministry airplane late last week with a small team of rescuers and around 14 journalists to cover the mission.

But the problems began right on the runway, according to Kutiepov, when their flight was delayed thanks to a faulty refueling system at Kyiv’s main airport.

The next day, after stopping over in Delhi's sweltering heat, the team learned from a local Ukrainian diplomat that their flight didn’t have clearance to land in Kathmandu for another three days.

Oh, and that their plane was broken. Even as they’d flown into India.

Here’s Shkiryak photographing the team’s broken airplane before heading to Nepal:

“We would hear the same thing twice a day for the rest of the journey: ‘There’s bad news, but everything is under control,’” Kutiepov said.

Determined, emergency chief Shkiryak took part of the team on a commercial flight to Nepal — some of them on his own dime — to get cracking on the relief effort. Meanwhile, Ukrainian officials shipped a replacement part for the stranded plane to India.

Had it been the correct part, the mission might’ve chugged right along.

But it wasn’t, and it didn’t.

Instead, the rescue team hunkered down in local hotels and, later, a bizarrely opulent villa in Kathmandu owned by a Ukrainian diplomat. They were joined by around 40 evacuees.

It was right around then the irony became obvious: “I propose to send a rescue mission to rescue the rescue mission,” Kutiepov wrote on his Facebook page Monday from Kathmandu.

Before the rescue flight finally landed in Nepal, the journalists had basically been booted from their villa, long since drained of cash and clean clothes. They were forced to write appeals asking to be counted among the evacuees in need of material assistance.

That got them an extra $20 and another night in a local hotel.

Here’s just a small taste of that adventure, as filmed by Kutiepov:

Meanwhile, Ukrainian media back home were wondering why Shkiryak had brought his girlfriend, a yoga instructor in Kyiv, along for the ride. 

Not to worry, he insisted: Kateryna Khramova was well-trained in the ways of the east and therefore qualified to join the expedition, Shkiryak told local media. Plus, he added, she paid out of pocket.

The expedition, including some 75 evacuees in total, finally began their long journey home on Tuesday.

But not before one last hiccup: While on the return stopover in Delhi, the plane busted a wheel.

The team, Shkiryak included, spent the night roughing it on the runway. The images quickly spread over social media and became the visual symbol of the ill-fated trip.

On Thursday, the beleaguered team finally found their way back to Kyiv (through Azerbaijan). Meanwhile, officials traded blame over the broken airplane provided by the Defense Ministry.

Upon their return, Shkiryak — by now the the man of the week — came out swinging and painted the expedition as an against-all-odds success story.

“No one will make a scapegoat out of me,” he wrote on Facebook, “keep dreaming!”

That didn’t stop someone from making a hilarious video mash-up of the country’s newest celebrity bureaucrat.

[Rick]

Il ruolo della Polonia nella crisi ucraina come avvocato degli USA  

 

Ukraine and the West

 

http://intersectionp...kraine-and-west

 

Author: Bronisław Geremek

On the 15th May 2004, Warsaw University hosted a meeting of Professor Bronisław Geremek with students of the elite scientific society “Collegium Invisibile”. It was organized - as a part of the seminar cycle “student-tutor”  - by one of the “Intersection Project” Editorial Board’s members, Lukasz Adamski, Professor Geremek’s student at that time. During the seminar, Professor Geremek commented on Mr Adamski’s presentation about  the German-Ukrainian relations. He also answered some of the questions from the audience. Several topics were discussed: EU Eastern Policy, questions of relations between history and politics, as well as Polish eastern policy after 1989, which had been conducted by Polish governments, with Mr Geremek’s active participation.

Later, Bronisław Geremek authorized the transcript, and transferred the rights of its use for possible publication to Mr Adamski.

We are presenting the transcript of this conversation, which is being published for the first time, to the readers of the “Intersection”. Prof. Geremek’s influence on Polish and European politics, as well as his significant position in European intellectual circles, makes the text an important historical source that complements our knowledge of the backstage of the Polish-Soviet relations 1989-1991. At the same time, the conversation provokes reflections on the relevance of the comments uttered eleven years ago.

The editors have not made any editorial amendments to the content and style of Professor Geremek’s statement. We  limited our intervention only to a division of the transcript into three separate articles, being thematically related one to another. We also added titles. In addition, we changed the order of some paragraphs, as compared to the original transcript, wishing to preserve the integrity of the discussed issues.

Part 2

At present, there is a tendency in Ukrainian policy towards lowered expectations from the West and stronger ties with Russia. The West has reneged on its promises to Ukraine, while Russia does buy Ukrainian sugar.  Whenever Ukraine’s finances are in trouble, then all of a sudden sugar purchase quotas get increased, Chubais arrives in the country and makes changes with a single stroke – which only has the effect of weakening Brussels assistance. Ukraine’s disappointment with the West also reflects the circumstance that the Ukrainians have failed to do their homework, that is to stick to their reform pledges, whether in the economic or political field. It is true that the condition of democratic institutions is incomparably better than in Belarus, but the Ukrainian homework has yet to be done. President Bush has the impression that his Ukrainian counterpart has cheated him on arms sale. If you think about prospects for Ukraine’s future, just look at two signals which the country received over the past two weeks. One was Washington’s refusal to invite the Ukrainian president to attend the NATO summit in Istanbul. The other was the message that came from Verheugen: We are going to do this or that for Ukraine, but have no illusions whatever about membership.

In these circumstances, in addition to a nostalgia for the times where resources were meagre but evenly spread — and some degree of such nostalgia can be found elsewhere, too —  we also have in Ukraine a disenchantment with the West. Fortunately, this is not a disenchantment with Poland. Our country plays an important role, sincerely seeking to act as Ukraine’s advocate. Interest in Ukrainian affairs can be detected whenever a Polish representative takes the floor.

Can it be said that Germany treats Poland in the same way as it treats Ukraine? I am not certain of that. It seems to me that Germany appreciates the importance of Poland, and does not appreciate the importance of Ukraine. If you ask a German a simple question of how many Ukrainians there are, you will never hear that Ukraine is the most populous country of Europe’s East. This is something no-one seems to know. What is known is that it was one of the vassal states. Germans actually know more about  Estonia or Latvia, but they know very little about Ukraine. Germany sees no political role for Ukraine, and no place for the country in Europe.

Is there a place for Ukraine in the European Union? There is certainly a place for Croatia – maybe because Croatia is better at public relations than Ukraine is, and maybe because Croatia is more attractive as a tourist destination. Or perhaps because during World War II Croatia was so close to Germany?  In fact, certain national sensitivities are influenced by history – a history which is either remembered or not, and which is either invoked or not. Why was it that Germany recognised Croatia so quickly? I do not know. There were no interests at play, except that Dubrovnik is truly eye-catching and breathtaking. And then that historical precedent. Well, history comes back to us, once again.      

I think it is very good that Poland – including our academic community — has been so active towards Ukraine and Belarus. This means invoking a certain set of values, and it also means that there is a certain level of public awareness. But will we convince the European Union to that? I do not know. This will be the first question asked towards the end of this year, when the European Union takes a decision on Turkish entry. This is a civilisational dilemma. Europe, after all, has no boundaries. How would you draw such boundaries? Can you say that 3% of Turkey is European and the rest are Asian steppes? In actual fact, every generation draw their own frontiers of Europe. But one boundary must stay unequivocal – the axiological boundary, the boundary of values and of principles applied in political practice, as defined by the Copenhagen  criteria.  One question is about democracy, the rule of law, freedom and respect for minority rights, and another question is about capacity to function within the European Union.  These are questions to which Ukraine will have to find its answers.

I think that Ukraine’s accession to the North Atlantic Alliance is a fairly short-term prospect, assuming that the Alliance will still exist.  The NATO entry is possible, the Alliance’s survival is not certain. What about forecasting an entry in the European Union? It is important, I believe, that neither Poland nor Germany give a negative answer. There should not be any definite “no” answer. In such case any  worse-case scenario could only unveil, most notably one involving a full dependence on Russia,

Western countries face the question: why Ukraine and Belarus, but not Russia? To me, it is important not to give an answer which would say that Russia is behind the horizon of European integration. This is a delicate matter. We cannot tell the Russian zapadniks – Westernizers – that when they strove to tie Russia with the West, they were unwisely pursuing a stupid and misplaced cause. We cannot tell the contemporary Decabrists that their dreams cannot come true. It would be a dramatic situation indeed, if help did not come from Putin, who said that Russia has no intention of joining European integration. Where questions are not asked, there is no use answering them.

But Ukraine does want to join the European Union, and it made pronouncements to this effect – unlike President Putin who said that Russia, while being a European country, will not seek EU membership. Incidentally, if it did sought such membership, we would have problem finding out who joins whom.

A continuation of Russia’s imperial idea requires that Ukraine remains a part of Russia. But with an independent Ukraine, the Russia idea stands very poor chances indeed. Thus if we want to persuade the Germans into engaging with, and learning more about Ukraine, we have to make them find their own interest in that.  And this is the task for all of us.

I think it is crucial that Poland treat the matter in a consistent manner – by fostering the Ukraine cause and opposing statements about no entry for Ukraine, such as the one made by Verheugen.

It is important to watch the relations between Ukraine and Germany, as these are important for Ukraine, for Europe as a whole, and obviously for Poland, too.

Edited by Rick, 05 June 2015 - 21:33.

[Rick]

Maxim Tucker @MaxRTucker

 

Ruthless move:

#Luhansk governor shuts down water supplies to rebel territory

after they shut down electricity supply to #Ukrainian areas

[Rick]

questa mattina
si tiene a Kiev uno di quegli eventi
che la nomenclatura europea di questi ultimi decenni
considera paradigmatico dell'espansione dei valori europei . . .

il gay pride !

Come ampiamente preannunciato
la manifestazione è stata tutt'altro che tranquilla

con scontri violenti tra la polizia a protezione del corteo
ed esponenti facinorosi di estrema destra
i soliti noti di Svoboda e settore destro

chissà se anche adesso che hanno toccato i loro adorati gay

i paludati intellettualoidi europei
si ostineranno a sostenere per l'ennesima volta
che a kiev
non esiste una deriva nazifascista !

http://t.co/9KD9fZPc2T

Edited by Rick, 06 June 2015 - 11:13.

[Rick]

 

WFInsider ‏@WFlnsider 5 giu

@AmbassadorPower Only 2 terrorist groups today are blocking water supply to people -

it's Ukrainian terrorist regime and ISIS.

 

 

*Russian Market ha ritwittato

the Lemniscat ‏@theLemniscat 3 dic

 

#Surprise! Ukraine's new American Finance Minister, Natalia Yaresko, is head of Horizon Capital, created by USAID http://www.horizoncapital.com.ua/sites/default/files/ubi_apr-may2012_issue6_strategic_approach_to_investing_in_ukraine_natalie_jaresko_original.pdf …

 

 

 

 

#German Foreign Ministry urges #Russia's return to #G8 http://tass.ru/en/world/798833
 

 

 

 

#Austrian court rejects #ukraine’s claims to #Russia’s property in #Vienna http://tass.ru/en/world/799131

 

 

 

 

Kremlin took note of US statement about targeting missiles at Russia

According to Thursday’s reports by Associated Press quoting unclassified extracts from a report by the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Martin Dempsey the deployment in Europe or Asia of ground-based missiles targeted at Russia’s nuclear potential was one of the likely responses to Russia’s alleged failure to fully comply with the INF treaty of 1987.

 

http://tass.ru/en/russia/799045

 

 

 

#Visa, #MasterCard fully switch to #Russian processing

http://t.co/LHs3M5s4t2

 

 

 

 

#RonPaul Stunned That #GeorgeSoros Seeks To "Expand War In #ukraine"

http://www.zerohedge...and-war-ukraine

 

 

 

 

Marcel Sardo ‏@marcelsardo 21 h21 ore fa

Captured Ukr. Recon. Operative: Ukraine Army was the first to open fire on #Marinka via @voxpopulievo ENG SUBS

 

https://youtu.be/8nOolfbYcWo

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Turkey Waits on Moscow to Begin Turkish Stream Construction

Once Moscow has provided Turkey with precise details on where the pipeline is to be built, Turkey is ready to begin construction right away, officials have said.

 

http://russia-inside...truction/ri7765

 

 

Edited by Rick, 06 June 2015 - 17:41.

[Rick]

 

 

 

Peter Leonard ‏@pete_leonard

This Twitter survey presents pro-Novorossiya crowd with terrible dilemma: Support Right Sector or support LGBT

 

 

 

Edited by Rick, 06 June 2015 - 18:03.

[Rick]

The All-Girl Soldier Club: Child Warriors of Donetsk

 

https://news.vice.co...iors-of-donetsk

[VincentHanna]

 

rapporti italia-russia 

 

oltre 400 imprese italiane in russia 

 

900 mila turisti russi in italia che fanno incassare più di 1 miliardo 

 

varie azioni inter-culturali, collaborazioni inter regionali 

 

boh.. perché compromettere tutto ciò ?

 

 

come spesso domanda Pozner ai suoi ospiti nell'omonimo programma sull'estraniazione della russia dall'europa 

 

russia è un paese europeo ?

 

sebbene il paese si estenda fino al giappone attraversando tutta l'asia, culturalmente o geneticamente appartiene all'europa 

 

allora perché compromettere questi legami (?)

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Putin: Solo una persona non sana di mente può immaginare che la Russia possa attaccare la Nato

 

 

 

[VincentHanna]

Putin al Corriere della Sera: 

«Non sono un aggressore, patto 

con l’Europa e parità con gli Usa»

 

http://www.corriere....6be76a029.shtml

 

 

da leggere i commenti per sentire anche l'opinione italiana al riguardo

[VincentHanna]

intanto il boy scout americano si beve una pinta di birra bavarese

 

 

bacchettando la Russia della sua aggressione in Ucraina, per la milionesima volta 

 

altroché КЛУБ веселых и находчивых

 

questo G7 sa più di panna smontata che di un vero forum economico e di sviluppo 

[VincentHanna]

In Ucraina purtropo e rimasto tanto ancora dal Unione Sovetica. 

 

e meno male 

 

perché in Moldova cos'è rimasto ? 

 

non fosse per l'urss con tutti i suoi pregi e difetti, tu come me saresti nei campi a trascinare i buoi 

 

un po' come fanno dalle parti di vaslui (ex moldova storica) che è la regione più povera della romania 

 

 

tornando all'ucraina, 

 

c'è un certo satanovskij (ebreo ucraino) che dice 

 

se nell'immediato dopo urss la russia e l'ucraina sarebbero entrate in un conflitto armato

 

beh... lui dice che ucraina era alla pari o se non meglio dotata dal punto di vista militare della russia 

 

ricordandoci anche dell'arsenale nucleare che ucraina aveva sino al '96

 

e senza parlare di "cosa era ucraina prima" perché il paese venuto fuori nel '91 era un misto di territori russofoni e ucrainofoni