Ukraine

orange revolution

  • Ukraine without Kuchma “mass protest campaign preceding the Orange Revolution that took place in Ukraine in 2000–2001 …”

Euromaidan

Dec 2013 / Jan 2014

Feb 2014

#Ukraine #EuroMaidan #ukraineprotest
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KennethLipp
EuromaidanGER

19th
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Berlin (dpa) – Die ARD hätte am Dienstagabend gern einen «Brennpunkt» zu den Straßenschlachten in Kiew gesendet – Probleme mit einem Personalwechsel machten ihr jedoch einen Strich durch die Rechnung. «Die Nachrichtenlage hätte ab spätestens 18 Uhr einen Brennpunkt gerechtfertigt», sagte ARD-Chefredakteur Thomas Baumann der Nachrichtenagentur dpa am Mittwoch auf Anfrage. «Im Zuge eines Personalwechsels in Kiew konnte unsere Korrespondentin Golineh Atai erst nach 20 Uhr dort ankommen.» In einigen sozialen Netzwerken waren die öffentlich-rechtlichen Sender kritisiert worden, keine Sondersendungen zu den Ausschreitungen in Kiew gebracht zu haben.
«Die angespannte Lage in Kiew selbst hat Frau Atais Ankunft im Stadtzentrum weiter verzögert», sagte Baumann weiter. «Aus diesem Grund haben wir auf einen “Brennpunkt” verzichten müssen. Wir meinen, dass es zwingend ist, für einen “Brennpunkt” einen eigenen Korrespondenten vor Ort zu haben.» Die «Tagesschau» um 20 Uhr sei aber um zwei Minuten verlängert worden, «Report München» habe nach einem Beitrag über die Rolle von Oppositionsführer Vitali Klitschko aktuell zu Atai geschaltet, die mittlerweile eingetroffen war. Auch die «Tagesthemen» hätten sich intensiver mit der Lage befasst.
Am Mittwoch plant die ARD nach der «Tagesschau» einen «Brennpunkt».

20th

bruce springnote

  • EU agrees to freeze the assets of Ukrainians responsible for unrest, says Italy’s Foreign Minister #euromaidan
  • Ukraine government says it may cut off mobile & internet services. Wouldn’t expect anything less. Yanik doesn’t understand ppl have had it

Kateryna_Kruk

  • Letter from Tymoshenko was read in parliament. She appeals to opposition not to negotiate with bloody Yanuk
  • @EU Embassy in Kiev, about to start a meeting with the opposition so as to test proposed agreement. Rumours of shocking nos of casualties.
  • Tyahnybok n parliament announced 70 ppl were killed today
  • @KyivPost’s @kgorchinskaya from Rada: Poroshenko – 28 EU countries consensus decision to intro immigration, financial, economic sanctions
  • @EspresoTV confirmed that girl-medical volunteer shot by sniper, has died.she was wearing white T-shirt with"medical service"on it.
  • Dr. Olga Bogomolets confirms 20 dead and dozens wounded in #Kyiv. Dead be as high as 37.
  • Deputies are in Parliament, building is surrounded by police – Via @tyzhdenUA police didn’t allow journalists to come inside Parliament
  • 5 more MPs quit #Yanukovych’s not-so-ruling Party of Regions. Like rats abandoning a sinking ship Ukranian Updates
  • @Kateryna_Kruk not just @ demonstrators MT @mattmcgarry sniper shot out my hotel room window #Kiev,aiming @ camera on tripod. #hotelukraine Tarnatiger
  • In #kyiv military base is blocked by people.they ask not to fight
  • No panic and please stop writing “this is the end”. It’s not,we’re building barricades,giving treatment for wounded.no emotions,just actions
  • Police mask badges so their units can’t be IDed MT @TukvaSociopat @euroukraine pic.twitter.com/5FTJM9IaIM #Ukraine #Ukraineprotests #Euromaidan
  • Kiev orders gas stations to shut down. Anything to keep people from voicing their opinions on #euromaidan BSpringnote
  • Snipers are shooting from from hotel ukraina and instytutsjka, more dead around
  • People pay respect to dead people lying on the street. Women and eldery people cry. Blood everywhere #Ruptly #Kiev pic.twitter.com/SkRl4T5ugY Katica Durovic
  • Self-defense and right sector issued a statement-they guarantee safety of officials if they will stop killing,imm. impeachment of Yanuk
  • 50 killed protesters after today’s fight on Independence Sq, mostly victims of snipers – medics at the site via @5channel Maxim Eristavi
  • Protesters catch fire as they stand behind barricades during new clashes today, by @Kilicbil pic.twitter.com/EvsmM8GTb7 #euromaidan AFP
  • MT"@bbcrussian: negotiations with internal forces left behind our line of barricades: bbc.in/1gjPPwB pic.twitter.com/8jgwHHF13s"
  • Via @tyzhdenUA :40 trains with army are heading to Kyiv
  • Many riot policemen and soldiers of internal forces were left behind our line of barricades.no one harms them.
  • Some say instead of berkut and internal forces real special forces are comming
  • So, snipers shooting ppl in the crowd (not on the frontline even) from the roofs during the truce – it’s Hague. And shame on EU
  • 11 killed by sniper this morning
  • #Ukraine police storm #euromaidan this morning despite truce. Protesters push them back, capture 20 Berkut in the process. Clashes continue. MaxRTucker
  • Many shot ppl,berkut was firing at protesters.
  • Via @tyzhdenUA :number of killed ppl raised to 28,morning update.
  • #ukraine @sosmaydan is calling for people to take fire extinguishers, goggles, water and milk to #maidan – so tear gas is being used I guess Gulliver Cragg
  • And yes,burned house of trade unions is not enough,berkut is trying to set conservatories on fire(on the right side of #euromaidan)
  • #ukraine cloud of black smoke going up over #maidan, regular stun grenade explosions, molotov cocktails flying, water cannon firing #truce
  • It’s not just Kiev. Western provinces also exploding. This is the governor of Volyn Oblast
    *#Ukraine: fired Army commander disagreed with #Yanukovych abt state of emergency www.kyivpost.com/content/kyiv/euromaida... … #euromaidan pic.twitter.com/fF0HNCiRjt
  • Obama says world will hold Ukrainian government “primarily responsible” for violence in Kiev. peterbakernyt
  • Bloodbath #Ukraine. A must-have for every oligarch that supports #Yanukovych while living in #London #Ukraineprotests pic.twitter.com/JheSZ0Z9hp
  • A drone’s eye view of the protests in #Kiev, #Ukraine – video trib.al/vtmApV6 #kyiv pic.twitter.com/cMmhBW3Eue
  • Ukraine: High Commissioner for #HumanRights calls for restraint & dialogue; condemns violent clashes sm.ohchr.org/1c2EIpa @UNRightsWire
  • been trying to tweet this all day.. saw more Molotov cocktails today on #EuroMaidan than there are stars in the sky pic.twitter.com/El7IDiyhGl kgorchinskaya
  • @kgorchinskaya argh, stay safe. You’re all war correspondents now.
  • In meeting w President Pena Nieto of Mexico, Obama says US “condemns in strongest terms the violence” in Ukraine. pic.twitter.com/mPdhFThkl4 Stephen Crowlay
  • Ukraine military should not step into a situation that should be resolved by civilians: President Obama ReutersWorld
  • treaded like dogs,they become dogs, via @rianru , pic.twitter.com/vKZRFB5eL1
  • in #Zhytomyr ppl have occupied regional administration
  • One can’t put it better TT @KESH0705 “Yanukovych has announced the Mourning Day tomorrow for those whom he killed yesterday and today”vorobyov
  • oh God:“UA ARMY MIGHT TAKE PART IN AN-T.ACTIONS-USE WEAPONS ON UKRAINIANS & DETAIN PEOPLE,CHECK CIVILIAN VEHICLES”http://www.mil.gov.ua
  • This is one of the most apocalyptic photos I’ve ever seen in the news. From Kiev. goo.gl/Q6Vh3R pic.twitter.com/ZQeMO2yyYe Steve Silberman
  • “People have only 1 demand; regime has to go,” says #Ukraine opposition leader. Live updates bbc.in/1jQHwO6 & pic.twitter.com/wWsSsZvwRA BBCBreaking
  • MP Sobolev informes 40-50ppl were burned alive at house of trade unions this night,they were injured&couldn’t walk tvi.ua/new/2014/02/19/sobolyev_u_budynk... …
  • Entrence to #euromaidan is almost blocked by ppl carrying food,warm clothes,tires,medicines.amazing solidarity of Kyiv citizens!
    Anne Applebaum
    Andy Carling @quarsan Chief Happiness Officer to the EU Institutions and lifestyle coach, Brussels, Belgium · neurope.eu/article/frite-…
    Marine Ejuryan @MEjuryan Working for @GNRD_NGO (own opinions). Previously: conflict resolution/peacebuilding. News interests: peace, human rights, EU, S.Caucasus, Middle East., Brussels
  • Rybak (speaker of the parliament) has left #Ukraine. via @euromaidan

The tenuous “truce” brokered yesterday between the government of Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukoyvch and the Euromaidan opposition appears to be fallen apart already. Paramilitary titushki thugs still roams the streets armed with guns, snipers have again been spotted, dozens of activists have been reported killed, and scores injured protesters are being treated in makeshift field hospitals. There is now another allegation that a Russian Spetsnaz (special forces) officer has been “captured” by Euromaidan protestors and hauled onto stage, with his martial insignia as evidence that the Kremlin has already sent military forces in to quash the months-long rebellion. Ukraine Liveblog: Day 3 — the Crisis Explodes

  • Ukraine protesters take 67 policemen hostage, says ministry, Published on Feb 20, 2014, 10:54 PM “KIEV (REUTERS) – Ukrainian anti-government protesters are holding 67 policemen hostage in the capital, the country’s interior ministry said on Thursday. Earlier the ministry said “Berkut” riot policemen had been armed with combat weapons, an attempt to regain control of violent protests in which at least 50 people have died since Tuesday. “To free the hostages police have the right to use their weapons,” the ministry said in a statement posted to its website. A further three policemen were unaccounted for, it said."
  • guardian: clashes-rioters-police
  • cnn: ukraine-protests-explaine

ukranian protests explained

21:30 Parliament urged Janukowitsch to agree reelections
21:47 Janukowitsch agreed reelections in 2015 german
22:00 EU imposes sanctions
end of the protests?

20.2.2014 Im Geiste von Stepan Bandera - Hannes Hofbauer über die Rolle der Rechtsradikalen in Kiew
03.03.2014 Konflikt mit Russland: Die fatalen Fehler der Regierung in Kiew
20.03.2014 Der Obama-Putin-Fakten-Check
20.03.2014 Die Krim-Krise und die Versäumnisse des Westens “Die Nicht-Anerkennung des Wahlergebnisses in Bezug auf die Krim und die Reaktionen der neuen Regierung in Kiew, der EU und der NATO sind umso erstaunlicher, da der Internationale Gerichtshof der Vereinten Nationen 2010 in Bezug auf den Kosovo festgestellt hat, dass eine einseitige Unabhängigkeitserklärung eines Landesteils das allgemeine internationale Recht nicht verletzt. Soll das Völkerrecht nur dann zum Tragen kommen, wenn es die geostrategischen Interessen des Westens vertritt?” – “Die Frage stellt sich, in welchen westlichen Amtsstuben wurden und werden diese Strategien eigentlich ausgebrütet? “Ohne die Ukraine ist Russland kein eurasisches Reich mehr. Es kann trotzdem nach einem imperialen Status streben, würde aber dann ein vorwiegend asiatisches Reich werden», an diese Aussage von Zbigniew Brzezinski, dem ehemaligen US-Sicherheitsberater, aus seinem Buch «The Grand Chessboard» , fühlt man sich erinnert, wenn man die NATO-Strategie gegenüber Russland in jüngster Zeit betrachtet.” [via russland.ru

NATO & international politics

March 2014
March 17, 2014 Foxnews: Is it enough? Obama imposes sanctions on Russian officials over Crimea

  • something interesting about Aricept (global DPI supplyer): look where the board of directors come from: Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co., L.P. (“KKR”). Chairman of KKR is David Howell Petraeus Ph.D. – “He served as the Head and Chief at the Central Intelligence Agency until November 2012. He served as a Director of Central Intelligence Agency from September 2011 to November 2012. Dr. Petraeus’ final assignment in the military was as commander of the NATO International Security Assistance Force …”

=> top-secret-america/companies

conspiracies
*Snipers, funded by George #Soros and the #CIA, took pot-shots into the crowd last night ensuring that the truce did not hold. (2011 leading-party-soros-prepares / trilateral-commission-patsies-tries-to-occupy-kiev) 1 / 2

outcome

  • 01/28/2014 The EU has agreed to consult with Russia and association agreement (google translation) original
    Vladimir Putin at an EU summit in Brussels. In the background Barroso (L) and Herman van Rompuy, photo: PAP / EPA / OLIVIER HOSLET
    In Brussels summit ended European Union – Russia. It was decided, among other things, that the EU will thereafter consult with Russia ws. association agreements for the countries of the so-called. Eastern Partnership.
    Union gives way to Russia? From Brussels correspondence Płomeckiej Beaty (IAR) Add to playlist
    Joint Conference of the Presidents of the European Council and the European Commission with the Russian president at the end of the meeting was full declaration of willingness to cooperate. Contrary to previous announcements, Moscow has not been openly criticized for exerting pressure on Ukraine, that this has not signed an association agreement.
    A joint EU-Russia consultations at expert level regarding the EU association agreements with countries behind its eastern border, said the head of the European Council Herman Van Rompuy. – The idea is to explain the different interpretations and misunderstandings in this case – it keeps Rompuy.
    That Russia disputed contract, believed that the signing of the document by Ukraine will to the detriment of its economic relations with the country. Now Vladimir Putin accepted the offer of consultations. – We need to carefully set the watches that showed the same time, we understand the issues as well – said the Russian president.
    But it raises questions and doubts whether this means subservience to Russia, will it affect the negotiated agreement and that time will not intentionally delay the talks. For example, Moldova and Georgia want to sign an association agreement with the EU later this year . Details of the consultation was not disclosed.
    The EU will consult with Russia on the Eastern Partnership. CNN Newsource / x-news
    During the press conference, President Vladimir Putin was also asked about the loan for Ukraine in the amount of $ 15 billion. – We will talk with any government, no change in loan terms or gas agreements. These decisions were not for government assistance, but for the people of Ukraine – said the Russian president. Vladimir Putin also said that Russia respects, respects and will respect the sovereign rights of all countries, including those that arose after the collapse of the Soviet Union.
    Russian President refuted allegations of interference in the internal affairs of neighboring countries answering journalists’ questions. EU leaders, who officially recounted the course of the meeting, I did not take this subject. They emphasized that the talks were only sincere and open.
    In Brussels, you can hear that it is difficult to expect that criticisms European leaders have changed the conduct of Russia’s foreign policy. You should not be expected and decisive steps, for example, by the freezing of relations with Russia. For now, the contacts are limited and the worst in recent years. And the hot topics of the past as energy, trade and visa can now go into the background.
    author/source: IAR B. Płomecka / mc