Posted on 07/27/2014 7:41:57 AM PDT by elhombrelibre
Vladimir Putin is facing a multi-million-pound legal action for his alleged role in the shooting down of a Malaysia Airlines passenger jet over eastern Ukraine, The Sunday Telegraph can disclose.
British lawyers are preparing a class action against the Russian president through the American courts. Senior Russian military commanders and politicians close to Mr Putin are also likely to become embroiled in the legal claim.
The case would further damage relations between Mr Putin and the West, but politicians would be powerless to prevent it.
Last week, lawyers from McCue & Partners, the London law firm, flew to Ukraine for discussions about how to bring the case and where it should be filed. Victims families will be invited to join the action. The case will inevitably highlight the role allegedly played by Russia in stoking conflict in eastern Ukraine.
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
Speaking if anti-semites defaming Israel, remember how you told me "You're only as good as your source"? Your source on Netanyahu and "genocidal" Israel:
"Netanyahu and Rahm Emmanuel Agree: Never Let a Crisis Go To Waste"
http://www.activistpost.com/2014/07/netanyahu-and-rahm-emmanuel-agree-never.html#!bn5dFK
Putin has leveraged his power to acquire a 4.5% ownership stake in natural gas producer Gazprom, a 37% stake in oil company Surgutneftegas and 50% stake in Swiss oil-trader Gunvor. Gazprom alone does over $150 billion in revenue annually, Guvnor does $80 billion and Surgutneftegas over $20 billion. Using their most recent market capitalizations, Putin's combined ownership stakes would give him a personal net worth of $70 billion!
Here is Putin on a Harley Trike at the 14th International Biker Rally in Sevastopol, Crimea, July 24, 2010....note the Ukraine flag in addition the Russian flag on his trike back when he owned both countries.
Another angle ... Sanctions Revive Search for Secret Putin Fortune
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/27/world/sanctions-revive-search-for-secret-putin-fortune.html
After graduating from college with a law degree, Putin spent the next 16 years working as a KGB agent. In 1988, the official White House photographer inadvertently photographed Putin spying on President Ronald Reagan while disguised as a regular Russian tourist in Moscow:
“Putin is an evil man, yet how does a plane crash in the Ukraine involving either Ukrainian and/or Russian militaries wind up in the US courts?”
Apparently they think an American judge is arrogant enough to think he/she has jurisdiction over the foreign policy of foreign counties.
“If you want an international court of justice, I think there is one in the Hague.”
Just like in theses united States you won’t find justice among men who think their power, ideas, and views not only constitute law but law that extends everywhere.
Such a concept of man made universal law defies the very notion of justice. The Russian nation like all other nations it is a sovereign entity accountable only to itself.
Does not look like this from this picture. IMHO, that's not Putin.
He committed an act of war and the response is a lawsuit. That’s how he will see it.
“This is Vald Putin’s savagery.Nobody but him deserves blame.”
You are right...this is Putin’s problem and I hope it will finally lead to his downfall. Won’t happen in Russia...where public opinion is for Putin (who knows what sort of propaganda the public’s been fed). But I believe if financial pressure is put on Russia’s oligarchy...Putin might feel some pressure to back off.
Or just freeze the assets of these jackasses if they have $$ anywhere in Europe or USA.
Can’t remember where I read it...but something to the effect of taking away Russian women’s access to Channel and other fancy dancy French labels...and the wives and mistresses would apply some, um, ‘pressure’ on the Russian politico’s...forcing Putin to quite his insane attacks.
Or freeze any assets these goobers have in Europe and the USA until restitution is made to the families and the AIRLINE.
As to the last sentence of your reply, I am not certain Putin answers to his own countrymen, much less the rest of the world.
He is Stalin minus the mustache in viewpoint.
As Mr. Edd I believe it was said yesterday, when Putin is gone they will replace him with someone just like him.
Soviet doctrine hasn’t changed since the days of Stalin. They only have one line of clones for leader, they all are just like Putin. Russians tried a little democracy for a couple of years, it was snuffed out by the Russian Thugacracy and that isn’t likely to change. Anyone who gets Russians talking of democracy these days is soon counting magic fairies in an asylum.
Putin is not going to die of old age, like all thug kings he will at some point piss the other thugs in the Thugacracy off bad enough and he will have a sudden heart attack and be forgotten. The other thugs in the halls of power will divide his plunder and move on with Stalin/Putin ver.10.2.01
Any loyalty Russians have is to each their own best interests. Putin’s quarterly payola payments must take hours to read through.
Looks like the little weasel to me and the height looks right too.
Soros was then recruited by the KGB, for whom he still works for...
If the Russian government is sending planes and drones over the war zone then the Ukrainian forces both regular army and the oligarch financed mercenaries are doing a pitiful job of targeting. Are they really that bad? Any explanation for this poor performance?
Good question.
The Putinistas try to take a complex combination of factors and simplify it in a way that absolves their great “Christian” warrior, Putin. It is shameful, absolutely shameful that Orthodox Russian congregations are stumping for this KGB thug. The likely reality is for some reason, we never know, the flight turned off course. Then we have the Russian backed rebels shooting at everything they can, likely did not realize they just fired on a commercial aircraft. But Putin can’t apologize for their actions, because if he does so, he has to admit his advisers are on the ground with them, and that this coup is backed by him.
Time to hit the Russian people hard. Have them subsisting on furniture and glue for some time. That will teach them for supporting Putin’s actions.
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