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Posted on 02/24/2014 8:12:05 AM PST by goldstategop
Mr Medvedev, quoted by Russian news agencies, suggested that Western countries that accepted Ukraine's new authorities were mistaken.
"Strictly speaking, there is no-one for us to communicate with there today," he said.
"The legitimacy of a whole number of organs of power that function there raises great doubts.
"Some of our foreign, Western partners think otherwise. This is some kind of aberration of perception when people call legitimate what is essentially the result of an armed mutiny."
He added: "We do not understand what is going on there. There is a real threat to our interests and to the lives of our citizens."
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However, Russia's foreign ministry also issued a strongly worded statement saying a "forced change of power" was taking place in Ukraine and that interim authorities were using "terrorist methods" to pressure dissenters in regions including Crimea and eastern Ukraine.
(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.co.uk ...
He can’t afford to get nothing out of it. I think Ukraine ceding the Crimea back to Russia is fair...considering the dubious reason it even became part of Ukraine in the first place.
Russia lost Crimea when they lost thair whole country to ravaging raping Bolshevik hordes (whom Putin still admires and considers the Founding Fathers of Russia.)
Their Parliament did this by the book, sure they were under a lot of pressure from the people... then again isn’t that a good thing?
>>>Maybe they should consult with the Czechs and Slovaks.<<<
It won’t happen. Every major population center in Western Ukraine is practically insolvent, with the exception of Lviv, which is barely solvent. It is a norm for a Western city to leech Kiev for as much as 5 times the sum it actually made in taxes, just to maintain infrastructure.
Remember, today Ukraine doing about half as good as Mexico economically. If they are going to lose the Southeast it will turn them into Somalia. It is certainly not a plan for the West as far as they love free money.
Stop whining, your guy lost, get over it
Russian-speaking people of Ukraine like in Kyiv who kicked Putins's stooge out?
The faster that Russians deal with reality, the less it's going to hurt later - nobody wants you or your Putin. Less Zhirinovskiy, more news was from Ukrainian new sites
If only it was Western Ukraine that was the problem. KIEV and central Ukraine don’t want Russia either. And losing Kiev - ouch - that hurts.
Western Ukrainians are natives so them have no land to move back. And it looks nobody is happy with them
Biggest and more real danger to Ukrainians is state their economy. They have no money to pay pensions, to support state activity. Ukrainians must be ready to marauding gangs for they destroyed police. Nobody sane enough will give money to this fault state.
>>Stop whining, your guy lost, get over it<<
‘My guy’? LOL. Yanukovitz is a perfect product of a Ukrainian political establishment.
Every leader in your modern history is someone’s else stooge, be that someone Clinton, Putin or Merkel.
Maybe the problem is with a society, which needs a revolution every time your government fails to meet expectations? It is third or fourth revolt since 1990 if memory serves me well.
Ukrainians are circling the bowl the way known substance does, between East and West for all that time waiting for both sides to provide maximum free money. Every time their expectations fails they are rioting to get opposed fraction to office, with ties to another foreign country believed to deliver more goodies at the time. Yanukovitz is just another in a series of Ukrainian leaders stuffing his pockets while redistributing other people’s money. His affiliation to one or another foreign power is secondary.
2004 Orange Revolution is #1, this one is second. (Unless you're counting collapse of USSR as one? There have been mass demonstrations at the time, but you're being too generous to credit Ukrainians for collapse of USSR)
There will be another and another and another revolt, as long as they're selecting politicians that keep failing them. The alternative is to give up on life, shut up and suffer in silence. It might be suitable for Russians, but Ukrainians have Cossack blood in them :)
Agree with Yanek being a Ukrainian creation. Foreign affiliation is what I meant by "your guy". RF placed a bet on him, he lost; RF is to admit they supported a pathetic tyrant and move on. Getting involved in an internal Ukrainian problem, like issuing threats to invade Crimea, that's not good.
>>There will be another and another and another revolt, as long as they’re selecting politicians that keep failing them.<<
Who ‘they’re’? ‘Da Joooose’?:-)
Do you have a link? I was in Odessa in November when protests in Kiev were just starting.
Debka says Russia is warming up the tanks
>>Debka says Russia is warming up the tanks<<
GDR Uprising 1953
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=CzLI7WenYho
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