Posted on 03/06/2014 2:47:48 AM PST by Zajko
Edited on 03/06/2014 5:26:38 AM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]
MPs in Crimea have asked Moscow to allow the southern Ukrainian region to become part of the Russian Federation.
Parliament said if its request was granted, Crimean citizens could give their view in a referendum on 16 March.
A government minister in Kiev said it would be unconstitutional for Crimea to join Russia.
Crimea, a region whose population is mostly ethnic Russian, has been at the centre of tensions following the fall of Ukraine's pro-Moscow president.
Pro-Russian and Russian forces have been in de facto control of the peninsula, which already enjoys a degree of autonomy from Kiev, for several days.
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It looks like Putin upstaged Obama and Kerry again and made a fool out of Serry - the UN official chased off in humiliation from Crimea.
True, Putin said Moscow would not annex Crimea but he did not say Crimea could not accede to Russia at its own request. He left himself plenty of wiggle room.
So much for the Tatars sparking a new Afghanistan for the Rooskis, as some were hoping and wishing for yesterday.
Public approval and annexation via guns and artillery? A true outpouring of populist support. /s
Just like Czechoslovakia.
Lol!
As in the apocryphal "playing chess with a pigeon" analogy, said "certain others" knocks the chess pieces over, craps on the board and has a sycophantic domestic media claim a win for him.
Mr. niteowl77
Quip of the Day Award. Congratulations.
Great question...especially since their democratically elected government in Kiev was overthrown.
However you are correct about the media.
That’s right, we have no reason to say anything about anyone else’s election!
That’s probably one of the things the majority ethnic Russians in the Crimea are worried about; one of the Muslim loony warlords in the ‘Stans already offered his “help.”
I don’t think Ukrainians could do much about to resist, but Russia is certainly not going to let the Tatars and their allies take over the place where it bases its fleet.
That is not really correct.
While Vlad might be playing chess, in the instance of Ukraine, Obama and lurch are not really players. They are observers, perhaps Ukraine cheerleaders.
Yes and with these guys replacing Mayors the vote is like a union vote with the mob standing next to the ballot box checking off names.
I found the article where this group helped replace the mayor days before the invasion. This happened on 2-25 in Sevastopol.
My question is is this biker gang going to keep going and creating unrest so Putin can save the day along his boarder.
“We will not submit to the regime in Kiev,” Dmitry Sinichkin, president of the local branch of motorcycle club the Night Wolves told the crowd in Sevastopol.
The Night Wolves are closely linked to Russia’s political elite. Putin has visited the group in the city several times, on one occasion in 2010 riding a three-wheeled Harley Davidson alongside the bikers.
After his speech, Sinichkin told RIA Novosti that fresh bloodshed in Ukraine’s ongoing political crisis was inevitable.
Rally-goers waved the Russian red, white and blue tricolor and yelled the football fan-style chant of “Ros-si-ya, Ros-si-ya, Ros-si-ya,” as they endorsed calls to create self-defense squads with police cooperation and withhold taxes from Kiev.
I love headlines with initials like MPs, it is so much fun trying to guess what it means. Being a former Navy man I first wondered for a split second why the military police are involved in this. Then I thought, maybe it means member of parliament. Of course MPs would actally mean member parliaments rather than members of parliament and that doesn’t seem to make sense so I went to the link to find out what it is all about.
NATO invaded Serbia under false pretexts and then had the people living in its Kosovo province vote to leave Serbia.
The precedent is set, by NATO & US.
Yanukovych was elected by the vote of the people. An uprising in Kiev managed to throw him out of office for choosing to not join the EU.
Those in Crimea are being given a vote to say we don’t agree with the ousting of an elected official and we think the rest of you are nuts.
I see no harm in letting them vote.
As I stated from the first, Russia isn’t seizing the Crimea, the Crimea is BEGGING Russia to take it!
And this vote will kill that lie.
The Crimea wants NOTHING to do with the rioters and thugs that have taken over the capital of Kiev
In my day, the presence of foreign troops on another country's soil without the permission of that other country was known as an invasion. BBC's wording makes it seem so benign.
The current ruler of Crimea, installed by the Russian invading army, is an organized crime figure whose nickname is the Goblin. I think that says it all.
In a few years California “voters” will pass a referendum to leave the USA and join Mexico. Book it.
and his army is in post 32
“It is enough that the people know there was an election. The people who cast the votes decide nothing. The people who count the votes decide everything” Joe Stalin
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