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Biden Assails Russian Intervention in Ukraine as ‘Unacceptable’
The New York Times ^ | Nov. 21, 2014 | Andrew Roth

Posted on 11/22/2014 6:28:59 PM PST by Bettyprob

MOSCOW — Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. in Kiev on Friday condemned Russia for its “unacceptable” military intervention in Ukraine, while exhorting Ukraine’s newly elected government to complete its democratic and anticorruption reforms.

During a joint news conference, Mr. Biden urged Ukraine’s president, Petro O. Poroshenko, to form a new government “in days, not weeks,” and to champion economic reforms, promote further economic integration with the West and root out what Mr. Biden called “the cancer of corruption.”

“Even if the guns in the east fell silent tomorrow, Ukraine would still face a struggle for its democratic and economic future here in Kiev,” Mr. Biden said on the first anniversary of the beginning of public protests that led to the former government’s ouster in February. “There is a lot of work to do in Kiev.”

One year after the Maidan, as the popular revolution is called in the country, Ukraine is mired in economic and military crises. Amid soaring inflation and capital flight, the $17 billion in loans promised to Ukraine by the International Monetary Fund “appears insufficient to close the external financing gap,” Timothy Ash, head of emerging-market research at Standard Bank, said in an investor’s note on Thursday.

(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Government; Russia
KEYWORDS: biden; joebiden; petroporoshenko; poroshenko; russia; ukraine
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To: Deathtomarxists

~Biden is correct on all points. If he were president we wouldn’t be in this mess. Obama has likely ignored all of his advice. The sooner biden moves up the safer we will be.~

ROLFMAO! Post of the week. I haven’t laught as much for long:)


21 posted on 11/22/2014 8:43:35 PM PST by wetphoenix
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To: Enterprise

That reminds me, I’m skipping the potato sausage at my wife’s Swedish relatives this year.


22 posted on 11/22/2014 9:58:58 PM PST by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives.)
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To: Bettyprob

We might as put on a comedy duet, and have Bozo the Clown complain about it. Maybe Russia would be more inclined to take us seriously.


23 posted on 11/22/2014 10:14:28 PM PST by pallis
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To: tumblindice

Oh man - you owe me - etc etc. LMAO!!!!


24 posted on 11/22/2014 10:37:10 PM PST by Enterprise ("Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities." Voltaire)
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To: Bettyprob

Go have another drink Joe, ya drunk.


25 posted on 11/23/2014 4:26:56 AM PST by Joe Boucher (The F.B.I. Is a division of holders Justice Dept. (Nuff said))
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To: Bettyprob

HEY jOE... TELL US ABOUT THE politica payoff DEAL YOUR SON HAS WITH THE GAS COMPANY IN THE UKRAINE....


26 posted on 11/23/2014 5:31:45 AM PST by zzwhale
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