Moscow orders Kiev to withdraw troops from Ukraine's Donbass region

Globe and Mail ^ | 4-23-2014 | MARK MacKINNON

[caww]

Thank you, and yes I’m aware of that time though I didn’t follow it closely. Not surprising to me that Russia was blamed for this ....it’s how Russian politics work. It could be said Russian Politics operate more like a Mafia Organization. But then so do many nations today. Corruption in all of them is pretty “standard”...as is taking out those who oppose them. We just don’t hear of most as our media is pretty much controlled as most now.

Heck...We do it here , by character assassination....and backdoor threats. Sarah Palin comes to mind where even her family members were threatened.....then there’s “the price tag” to turn votes and our pay off politicians.

So you see Our nation likes to hammer Putin when in fact we, and other nations, do the same things.......our wars are now being fought economically and politically....money exchanged and moved across the world stage to affect whatever nation our government might choose...and likewise other nations do so.

[caww]

Ex-Ukraines Energy Ministers "Stash" ='d..... 42 kg of gold, $4.8 million in cash, bags of diamonds… etc. And this just one member of Ukraine's Parliment..... I tend to think we could find many politicians worldwide doing likewise...they just "hide" it other ways

[Sawdring]

A piker, compared to Putin I’ll bet.

[caww]

That was taken just from his home...imagine what these guys had sent out of country!

Putin’s known to be the richest man in the world...but assumed... since nobody really knows. Like the many oligarchs throughout the world, they all take a cut from everything.

I read a door, in the renovations of the Kremlin, was billed at $12,000 but actual cost is $1000. This was under Yeltzen I believe, or Gorbo? Can’t remember now, but all take their cut.