Posted on 12/12/2014 8:26:24 PM PST by wetphoenix
Russia’s “Red Monday” brings the abject failure of the Kremlin’s aggressive, destructive politics into focus.
A rundown of the day’s highlights (from the FT):
- Before the Russian Central Bank’s interest rate increase from 10.5% to 17%, the Rouble had fallen over 10% and passed the Hryvnia as the world’s worst-performing currency.
- The RCB had reportedly tried several interventions during the day, with no success (it has already torched $80 billion this year trying to defend the Rouble).
- The Russian economy may contract 4.5-4.7% next year if oil remains at $60/barrel, according to the RCB (some credible forecasts see it at $50).
- Some Russian shopkeepers quit following the Rouble collapse and began noting prices in “conditional units,” a reminder of the 1998 crisis.
- Russia is now paying a higher rate on its dollar-denominated bonds than Rwanda at 7.22%.
- The MICEX index is down 26% in dollar terms in December.
Yes, you act just as expected. I can argue all new point you are still bringing here but has little interest so far until you prove your initial ‘unfair gas price’ and ‘whore percentage of total population’.
Who needs facts and figures when you can just throw a few more crap into a topic and post some cozy picture.
Who needs liberals when there are phony ‘conservatives’ like you?
Google closes Russian office.
Google is shutting it’s Russian development facility, due to restrictive moves against internet firms starting in 2015.
http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0...tml?siteedition=intl
conservatives’ like you?
You have no idea how conservative this asshole is.....
That is me the maker of the 585HE cartridge that
can be used for big game, all game, and terrorists.
Like use in UKR PTRDs with chamber insert to shoot up
sighting systems on russian tanls as well as the vermin,
and can be reloaded in the field so they don’t
run out of loaded ammo.......................
Honestly all this discussion is useless. A question: what would you do if ruskies/russia never existed? Would you find time for some other enemy?! Sometimes you gotta have a plan C.
FROM FORBES NO LESS.......................
Farewell Putin
The scale and swiftness of economic deterioration indicates the wide gap between how Putin views Russia, through the rosy-pink lens of his cheerleading choir, and reality: The Russian stock market has collapsed, the ruble’s dramatic devaluation, massive capital flight (at least $120 billion this year alone), galloping inflation that is getting out of control, and a real economy that is dissolving, all may revert Russia to the bleak 1990’s images.
A major element explaining this reality-perception gap is Putin’s self-orchestrated personality cult. Recently, his close aide, Vyacheslav Volodin, made the Louis XIV like statement: “If there is no Putin there is no Russia.” Plain and simple. A contemporary exhibition in Moscow, celebrating his birthday, depicted Putin as Hercules, carrying earth on his back. The internal schisms in his circle are beginning to surface. Especially the one between the inner-circle Siloviki and the Oligarchs, compounded by the economic crisis and the increasing realization that Putin’s policies precipitated it. Both are beginning to realize that Putin, the asset that benefitted them so greatly, is becoming a liability that threatens them.
http://www.forbes.com/sites/na...2/08/farewell-putin/
Your link doesn’t work.
Did we really need that pic?
Dreadful.
.
They do that regardless. But that pic is in bad taste.
Yes it is bad taste— sorry.........but..
what russia has done is in the extreme bad taste area.
A lot of us are so pissed at them that we go
overboard sometimes...
A reminder that until 1933, the east of Ukraine
spoke Ukrainian. Then Stalin sent millions of
Russians to replace millions of UKrainians he
had starved to death in the Holodomor....
Ok then... russians must be watching & learning though!
One can only hope so..............
Former insurgent leader Girkin admits FSB links
Former insurgent commander Igor Girkin tells Russian media he is a colonel of Russia’s FSB
The former leader of insurgents in eastern Ukraine, Igor Girkin, also known as Strelkov, has told Russian media that he is a colonel of Russia’s security service, the FSB.
Speaking to “Rossiya Segodnya” translated as “Russia Today,” Girkin said he was a colonel of the FSB, in response to criticism that he was inexperienced in his leadership of militants in eastern Ukraine. The remark was edited out of later broadcasts of the interview in Russia.
Girkin has been more vocal about his role in the insurgency in recent days. In an interview published in the Russian right-wing newspaper Zavtra last week, Girkin was quoted as saying “It was me who pulled the trigger of war. If our squad had not crossed the border, everything would have come to an end, like in Kharkiv, like in Odesa.”
http://uatoday.tv/geopolitics/...sb-links-395186.html
Belarus is extremely unhappy with Russia’s new restrictions on many Belarusian products for their alleged failure to meet Russian health and safety standards. For Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko, similar complaints are laughable since the Russian Federation is “about half a century behind Belarus in terms of product safety.”
But! But! We were told Ukraine is governed by a fascist junta after a nazi coup?
Ukraine Elects First Jewish Speaker In New Parliament
November 27, 2014 11:41 AM by Jacob Kornbluh Leave a comment (0) Go to
Ukraine’s 450-seat parliament elected on Thursday its first Jewish Speaker, as it convened for the first time since the embattled country’s elections in October.
Volodymyr Groysman was elected Speaker of the parliament, considered the third-most important post in the country after the Prime minister and President, and, like in Israel, is the first to stand in for the president if the head of state is unable to fulfill his duties.
Mr. Groysman was previously mayor of the central city of Vinnytsia and joined the government in February, 2014, as deputy prime minister for regional policy. The 36-year-old pol was appointed acting prime minister of Ukraine following the resignation of Arseniy Yatsenyuk in July.
“I will do everything possible to make the government monolithic and united so that we could adopt decisions that millions of Ukrainians are waiting for. As a citizen of Ukraine, I want it to be an independent, sovereign, united, and successful European country”, Groysman said in a statement.
http://jpupdates.com/2014/11/2...aker-new-parliament/
One more “humanitarian” convoy.
Watch the video. Please note the trucks with howitzers between the white trucks.
http://vdv-ua.com/item/1884-gu...i-gumanitarnym-video
...”It’s very obvious that the National Front is now the instrument of Vladimir Putin’s politics in France,” says Bernard Grua, a French activist who has actively campaigned against the Mistral sale. “This collusion between the National Front and the Kremlin is extremely detrimental to the values French society is based upon.”...
http://www.rferl.org/content/r...le-pen/26707339.html
Persecution of activist probing soldiers’ deaths in Ukraine effectively confirmed
http://khpg.org/index.php?id=1416882578
73-year-old Ludmila Bogatenkova was remanded in custody on spurious fraud charges after active and public efforts to find out how Russian conscripts and other soldiers are being sent to fight in Ukraine, and about their deaths
ANOTHER REASON THEY CANNED THE ASSHOLE........................................
On November 22, Ukraine commemorated Holodomor, during which 10 million Ukrainians were starved to death by Stalin. The date was widely observed throughout all of Ukraine free from Russian occupation. During the rule of pro-Russian president Yanukovych, there were attempts to hide the topic of Holodomor just like in USSR. Volodymyr Viatrovych, director of the Ukrainian Institute of National Memory, writes:
After Yanukovych became President in 2010, the government’s official position on the Holodomor fundamentally changed. During one of his first international appearances at the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, he publically denied the genocidal character of this tragedy. Official government websites removed their information pages on the topic. Not once in four years did Yanukovych ever attend the Memorial of remembrance, at which event there is a national moment of silence and all in attendance light candles in memory of the victims. He refused to be with his people even in the most sorrowful of moments.
bump
Nov 24—Alexandr Novak, minister of Energy of Russia really complains Ukraine not buying gas.
It just made a payment on the old bill...
Ukraine needs 18 to 20 billions cubic meters for winter season. Its underground reserves contain
15 billions cubic meters as of today Nov 24. That fill is better than what we have in the Midwest USA.
They don’t need russia.............................
Moscow feels bad because usually they charge Ukraine for a fixed volume each year, used or not, and at double the average rate, plus the fact that Russia used Ukraine’s pipelines for the transit and underground storage as buffer without paying for these services. There were not even meters to check for volume supplied.
After stealing Ukraine like they did for years with their accomplices, they can’t find any market the size of Ukraine.
Russia finally restricted some flow towards European Union in order to avoid EU countries to stock more
and reverse flow to Ukraine at a much better price than the extortion price Russia imposed to
Ukraine with the help of the thieves it supported for years.
China has strangled them a little and they will lose money for every cubic meter delivered to
China plus they have to bear the cost of the infrastructures to be built.
And Putler just declared he will run in 2018 in order to remain Emperor until 2024.
Well, 2017 is at the corner.. Does 100 years
ago ring a bell, huylo putler.................
“Moscow feels bad because usually they charge Ukraine for a fixed volume each year, used or not, and at double the average rate, plus the fact that Russia used Ukraine’s pipelines for the transit and underground storage as buffer without paying for these services. There were not even meters to check for volume supplied.”
and the Putinistas tell us that Ukraine was the problem
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