Posted on 02/23/2014 5:45:15 AM PST by 1rudeboy
“The royal scale of the residence played, however, a bad joke on the president last winter, when its heating system could not cope with the coldest weather for six years. The president was left freezing in his drawing room, where the temperature refused to rise above 16 degrees Centigrade. “
He couldn't handle 61F? What kinda pansy Putin lover was this guy? LOL!
Unlike my fam, he likely doesn’t pay the gas bill and runs his thermostat above the 62F setting we use here in our compound.
The president was elected by MASSIVE fraud. No one had the courage to do anything about it until things came to a breaking point last fall.
No, the 2010 election was run according to the Ukrainian constitution and Yanukovich emerged the winner. Lots of people/organizations certified the result. Maybe you're thinking of the 2004 election which the opposition claimed was fraudulent and was subsequently over turned by the so-called Orange Revolution.
My argument about the legitimacy of the interim government will play itself out if eastern Ukraine decides to secede from the west, because it provides them with the casus belli for the break. Then it becomes a question of whether divorce will be amicable or not, and whether the nationalists in the west decide to break away themselves.
I think it would make a good bordello.
He had “privatized” the place.
I did come across the convoluted history of ownership of the p(a)lace.
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