Posted on 03/19/2014 2:33:34 PM PDT by tcrlaf
The interim government in Kiev says Ukraine will leave the commonwealth of post-Soviet states and force Russians to apply for entry visas, and plans to ask the United Nations to make Crimea a demilitarized zone.
The raft of measures – a response to Russia’s incorporation of Crimea into its territory following Sunday’s referendum – was announced by National Security and Defense Council chief Andrey Parubiy during a press briefing in Kiev.
The Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) was founded to maintain economic and security links between former Soviet republics when they became independent states in 1991. It initially included the 12 non-Baltic countries, though Georgia quit after the Ossetian conflict in 2008.
This year, Ukraine was assigned the rotating leadership of the CIS – which is more akin to the formal British Commonwealth than the fully-fledged economic partnership of the EU – but now says it will not carry out its duties.
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If Ukraine withdraws from the CIS, does this means that the Russian energy subsidies stop, as well?
Ask the UN? Bahwahaha. Snort. As if Russia or China will agree to that!
Frankly, I’m surprised the CIS still even existed.
Lets see what the fascist puppets have to say when Ukraine’s high court declares their regime illegal.
Ukraine and Georgia have both left the CIS.
The damage Russia has done to relations with them is going to last for a very long time.
Since President Putin couldn’t get Ukraine on board his Customs Union, annexing Crimea is a very high price to pay to give up on his geopolitical dream of a future Eurasian Union.
Ukraine’s future lies now with the West.
The courts will authorize what they are instructed to authorize.
They are of less significance in this transnational stew than Roman augurs.
Crimea a demilitarized zone? Does that mean they want the Russian fleet there demilitarized? Ha ha ha. Turn Sevastopol into a cruise ship terminal. Ho-di-ho.
But the price of using the Ukrainian pipelines is going up.
Its a face saving way out for them from a defeat.
They don’t have the means to fight Russia and even if they did, shedding the blood of fellow Slav compatriots is unthinkable.
The view in Kiev is lets complete our divorce from Russia so we have no quarrels. I think common sense had taken hold of Ukrainians.
They can’t have a future holding other people in their country through force and a free society is one that lives and lets others live, too. This is exactly what Ukraine should be doing.
Brussels won’t like it.
Rip your arm off and throw it to the tiger in hopes that his hunger is satiated.
That’s what the folks in Prague thought in 1938....A few months later, Heydrich was moving into his new office in downtown Prague.
Somehow Putin has to be painted as a monster.
This fight to change the internal politics of Russia has been going on for a long time to no avail.
Especially when you have a brain dead society dancing to the tune of a inspired media that believes in fairy tales..and pixie dust.
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