Putin statement to an FSB gathering today:
“Russia’s laws today give us the conditions we need for non-governmental and public organisations to work freely and transparently.
But we will never accept for them to be used for destructive purposes. We will not accept a situation such as happened in Ukraine, when in many cases it was through non-governmental organisations that the nationalist and neo-Nazi groups and militants, who became the shock troops in the anti-constitutional coup d’état, received funding from abroad.
I ask you to pay attention too, to setting up the FSB’s branches in the new Russian Federation constituent entities of Crimea and Sevastopol.
Their tasks will include making sure that people with a criminal past and advocates of various radical and extremist movements – people who want to prevent the region’s normal development, in other words – do not burrow their way into government bodies there.
Colleagues, counterintelligence has always been one of the FSB’s main areas of work. This is indeed an important part of your responsibilities. Last year alone, the security services put an end to the activities of 46 employees of foreign intelligence services and 258 of their agents.”
This is not just reiterating previous statements.
The Russian government appears to be saying now that the entire leadership in Kiev is illegitimate, that it is supported by non-government organizations and foreign backers who destabilized the country, and that it represents, or at least mirrors, the kinds of existential threats that the FSB is tasked with defeating.
Is Russia now making the next stage of a rhetorical argument for invading eastern Ukraine?
(Interpreter Mag)http://www.interpretermag.com/ukraine-liveblog-day-49-separatists-call-for-moscows-protection/
Yes, you are correct. Ukraines once the 3rd largest nuclear power disarmed have been promised protection by U.S., Great Britain, Russia... continued orchestrated infiltration by Russia. PUTIN LIES!
1. Main historical ethnicity in Crimea is Krim Tatars who were being killed massively during WW2 by Soviets and resettled from Crimea by force after 1944 (ethnical cleaning). After that Russians populated Crimea changing ethnical picture of the peninsula. Krim Tatars started coming back after 1991 and now they support the sovereignty.
of Ukraine and consider themselves Ukrainian citizens. However, they are NOT BEING ALLOWED TO VOTE!
2. By invading Crimea Russia broke sovereignty of Ukraine and international agreements on the integrity of Ukraine that it signed in 1994 in Budapest along with the USA and UK. If international agreements mean nothing to Putin which agreement he will break next?
3. Ethnic Russians in Ukraine were never persecuted for their origin or language – that is the biggest lie you will find no evidence of.
4. By invading Crimea Russia created local separatists movement and prevented ANY peaceful resolution of the political crisis in Ukraine.
5. Russia continues to is hide criminal Yanukovich who is being wanted by Hague for mass economical crimes and homicides in Ukraine.
Please see: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uNDJb2_4nu0