BBC Feb 27 WEST WARNS RUSSIA AMID RISING TENSIONS IN
CRIMEA.
Let’s start with the
BBC “ANALYSIS”
By Bridget Kendall
Diplomatic correspondent, BBC News, Moscow
Source: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-26366700
[Come on!: can you call this
analysis?. This is an ugly collage of info that concludes in a nasty lie: Russia is preparing a confrontation with
the West. Ms Nuland may laugh on it;
she estimated the total sum of American investment
in “democracy building” is five billion dollars on
Ukraine after the fall of the USSR. I would recommend this lady to read “The
Outline of the Rev in Ukraine” contained in the article “The Brown Rev of
Ukraine” by Israel Shamir. His site is his site www.israelshamir.net.
]
It feels as though President Putin
has thrown down a gauntlet to the new government in Kiev.
Perhaps scrambling Russian fighter
jets, granting asylum to Viktor Yanukovych or tacitly backing the takeover by
local Russians of Crimean government buildings do not appear to be
connected.
But taken together, these events seem to add up to a message that Russia
has the power to make life difficult for the victors in Kiev and is not
prepared to be taken for granted.
What Russia says it
wants, however, seems quite unrealistic.
Its foreign ministry argued that the best way out of
Ukraine's crisis and the Crimean stand-off would be to go back to the
compromise agreement signed last week. But that would seem to mean President
Yanukovych returning to power.
Russia also wants
reforms to suit all regions of the country, including - presumably - that referendum
on Crimean autonomy.
Russia says it wants
to keep Ukraine united, is prepared to collaborate and won't intervene
militarily. But how far is it prepared to ratchet up the confrontation
if the new government in Kiev, or the West, object to
its proposals?
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THE ARTICLE:
WEST WARNS RUSSIA AMID RISING TENSIONS IN
CRIMEA
[Please avoid the word WARNS
because = threat & nuclear blackmail. Just a miscalculated word]
Western nations
have called on Russia to ease tensions in Ukraine's
Crimea region after armed men seized the local parliament and raised the Russian flag. Russia also scrambled fighter jets along its borders as part of military exercises it
announced a day earlier.
Moscow said it
was willing to work with the West on averting a crisis, but warned foreign
powers against taking decisions on behalf of Ukrainians. Meanwhile, the ousted Ukrainian president is reported to be in Russia.
Viktor Yanukovych plans to hold a news conference
in the southern Russian city of Rostov-on-Don on Friday, Russia's Ria news
agency reports. Earlier, in his
first statement since being voted out of office by MPs last week, Mr Yanukovych
said he had been "compelled to ask the Russian Federation to ensure my
personal security from the actions of extremists" and that he still
considered himself the legitimate president of Ukraine.
Also on Thursday, Ukraine's
new interim government - including Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk - was approved by parliament.
'MISCALCULATION'
Unidentified armed
men entered the Crimean parliament in the
regional capital Simferopol by force on Thursday morning, and hoisted a Russian flag on the roof. They were
cheered by a handful of pro-Russian demonstrators who gathered round the
building, despite a police cordon.
"We've been waiting for this moment for 20 years,"
the protest leader said. "We want a united Russia." They did put up a sign reading "Crimea is Russia" and threw a flash grenade in
response to questions from a journalist, AP news agency reported.
NATO Secretary
General Anders Fogh Rasmussen said he
was "concerned about developments in Crimea"
and urged Russia "not to take any action that can escalate tension".
US Defence Secretary Chuck Hagel told Russia "not to take any steps that could be misinterpreted, or lead
to miscalculation, during a very delicate time". Later US Secretary of State John Kerry said Russia had reaffirmed
it would respect Ukraine's territorial integrity - but the US would look for
action to back up the statements.
Earlier, Ukrainian interim President Olexander Turchynov warned Russia that any
movement of its Black Sea Fleet beyond its base in Crimea would be seen as
"military aggression". The warnings came as Russia performed a
second day of military exercises, saying its fighter jets were on "combat
alert". "Constant air patrols are being carried out by fighter jets
in the border regions," Russia's defence ministry told Interfax news
agency.
Russian President Vladimir
Putin ordered a snap drill on Wednesday to test the
combat readiness of troops in central and western Russia, near the border with
Ukraine. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei
Lavrov has stressed the need to implement an EU-brokered
peace deal agreed between Mr Yanukovych and opposition parties before his
departure from office last week. But
John Kerry said later Mr Yanukovych had left the
post of president - the US vice-president had tried for about 10-12
hours to get in touch with him after he fled Kiev with no success.
Amid the rising tensions, the Crimean parliament announced it would hold
a referendum on expanding the region's autonomy on 25 May.
The uncertainty in Ukraine has sent its currency, the hryvnia, tumbling to a record low. New PM Arseniy Yatsenyuk accused Mr Yanukovych
and his government of stripping the state coffers bare, telling parliament
billions of dollars had been transferred to offshore accounts in the past three
years. The IMF International
Monetary Fund said it had received a request for
assistance from the new government and would be sending a team to Kiev in the
coming days.
SEPARATISM FEARS
Tensions have been rising in Crimea since Mr Yanukovych was
ousted. On Wednesday the city saw clashes erupt between Ukrainians who support
the change of government and pro-Russians.
CRIMEA - where ethnic Russians are in a majority - was transferred
from Russia to Ukraine in 1954.
- Autonomous republic within Ukraine
- Transferred from Russia in 1954
- Ethnic Russians - 58.5%*
- Ethnic Ukrainians - 24.4%*
- Crimean Tatars - 12.1%*
- Source: Ukraine census 2001
Ethnic Ukrainians loyal to Kiev and Muslim Tatars - whose animus towards Russia stretches back to
Stalin's deportations during World War Two - have
formed an alliance to oppose any move back towards Moscow.
Russia, along with
the US, UK and France, pledged to uphold the
territorial integrity of Ukraine in a memorandum signed in 1994.
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KEY PLAYERS in kiev:
Oleksander Turchynov, interim Presdt, right-hand man of Yulia Tymoshenko, lack
charisma.
Arseniy Yatsenyuk, interim prime minister, leader of Ms
Tymoshenko's Fatherland party
Arsen Avakov, interim interior minister, Fatherland party, and
former businessman
Andriy Parubiy, acting chair of Nat-Sec- Council, commander
of the self-defense forces at maidan
Dmytro Yarosh, radical organizer, leads paramilitary movt
known as Right Sector
Tetyana Chornovol, acting head of the anti-corruption
committee
Oleh Makhnitskyy, acting chief prosecutor, member of the
far-right Svoboda
party
Yulia Tymoshenko, former prime minister, now candidate
[jailed on corruption charges]
Vitali Klitschko, candidate, leads UDAR, 3rd
biggest party in Parliament
Mykhaylo Dobkin, candidate, may have a strong power base in
eastern Ukraine
Oleh Tyahnybok, far right Svoboda leader, close ties with Mr
Klitschko and Mr Yatsenyuk
SOURCE: BBC http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-25910834
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THIS POST FROM BBC ENDS WITH A CALL TO RECRUIT MERCENARIES:
In the current context and considering the side that Britts are taking on
this issue, this should be read so:
“Are you in the Crimea region of Ukraine? What is your reaction to the
recent events? Email us at haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk adding 'Ukraine' in the
subject heading and including your contact details”.
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