yup... no worries, and i agree with you 100%
Posted on 02/23/2014 10:39:13 AM PST by 1rudeboy
KIEV, Ukraine — A day after President Viktor F. Yanukovych fled the Ukrainian capital and was removed from power by a unanimous vote in Parliament, lawmakers moved swiftly on Sunday to dismantle the remaining vestiges of his government by firing top cabinet members, including the foreign minister.
With Parliament, led by the speaker, Oleksandr V. Turchynov, firmly in control of the federal government — if not yet the country as a whole — lawmakers began an emergency session on Sunday by adopting a law restoring state ownership of Mr. Yanukovych’s opulent presidential palace, which he had privatized.
Parliament voted to grant Mr. Turchynov authority to carry out the duties of the president of Ukraine, adding to his authority to lead the government that lawmakers had approved on Saturday.
Beyond that, Parliament did not take any further action to appoint interim leaders, but speculation about an immediate major role for the freed former prime minister, Yulia V. Tymoshenko, was squashed on Saturday afternoon when she issued a statement asking not to be considered for the post again.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
yup... no worries, and i agree with you 100%
Indeed. Buuuuump!
Thank you for that link. It certainly sheds a lot of light on things. Makes me think John McCain is over there trying to jump in front of the parade and tell everyone he is leading it.
Great post, btw! :-)
Great to hear from someone who has been there!
“Obviously we don’t know where this is going to lead, but step one was getting rid of the corrupt government. “
I’m certain a lot of Frenchmen said the same thing in 1793, and so did a lot of Russians in 1917...I hope FREEDOM wins!
Thanks!
I actually saw the protesters from just across Khreshchatyk street when I returned to Kiev from Odessa the night before I returned to the US. What's really sobering is that I received an email Saturday night from my guide/translator with links to some pictures of the aftermath of the protests. In one of them were the bodies of 2 dead men with their faces covered with tarps. The photographer was standing within feet of where I was hassled by the Kiev police in early November.
He privatized the state owned mansion. Obama could privatize the white house and half the people in this country would approve and all but a few republicans would remain silent.
note also that despite the Russian claims of weapons in the hands of the opposition, there were next to none. The people used the power of right
Were you a fan of the “Arab Spring” too? Save me the rhetoric.
Tough people. They generally are good-natured, happy folk but don’t piss them off.
My dad’s side got here in the 1902/3 time frame.
Roger that, my brother.
They missed the Holodomor then. Good.
My Grandmother lost her entire family, supposedly. We don’t really know as there aren’t any surviving records. She would have been around 10 at the time...
According to my old man (way back when I was a kid, he passed away when I was 15) we had actual Cossack ancestors...
RE Holodomor: Yeah, Stalin was real good at killing... as all Socialists are. He made Hitler look like a rank amateur. He killed 25 million in Ukraine alone by starvation.
Too bad someone didn’t put a 12x power scope on his temple from a couple hundred yards and spare the world...
Here’s a good article on the Holodomor.
http://www.thenewamerican.com/culture/history/item/4656-holodomor-the-secret-holocaust-in-ukraine
All: “Holodomor” refers to Stalin and his communists’ intentional murder of Ukrainian citizens by forced starvation.
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