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Poroshenko Signs Law on the Status of NATO's Office in Ukraine
http://www.fort-russ.com/2016/02/poroshenko-signs-law-on-status-of-natos.html
President of Ukraine, Petro Poroshenko, has signed a law that sets the status of the representative office of NATO in Ukraine. It will be responsible for the development of cooperation between official Kiev and the Alliance.
The agreement between the government of Ukraine and NATO on the status of the NATO mission in the country was signed on September 22nd 2015 during the visit of the Secretary General of the organization Jens Stoltenberg. Structurally, the new office will consist of the NATO liaison Office and the Center for information and documentation of NATO. It will be fully exempt from taxes and duties in conducting its activities.
"The mission of NATO will contribute to the strengthening and expansion of Ukraine's participation in all forms of cooperation agreed between Ukraine and NATO, including the provision of consulting assistance", — said a post on the official website of the President of Ukraine, explaining the function of representation.
Previously, the document was ratified by the Verkhovna Rada.
3 Ukrainian captives swapped for 6 militiamen in Lugansk region
http://rbth.com/news/2016/02/26/3-ukrainian-captives-swapped-for-6-militiamen-in-lugansk-region_571199
The militiamen of the self-proclaimed Lugansk People's Republic (LNR) have swapped several captives with the Ukrainian side in the 3-by-6 format on the bridge in the area of the town of Schastya on Feb. 26, an Interfax correspondent reported.
The exchange has been conducted in the presence of monitors of the Special Monitoring Mission of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (SMM OSCE), representatives of the International Committee of the Red Cross and journalists.
LNR representatives handed over three captives to the Ukrainian side, the Ukrainian side - six captives.
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko called this swapping good news.
"Good news from the head of the Security Service of Ukraine, Vasyl Hrytsak. Three more of our fellow citizens have just been released from captivity, they will return home soon. We are waiting for more good news in the next few days," Poroshenko on his page on Facebook on Feb. 26.
Euro-integration Devastated Ukraine Worse Than WWII
http://russia-insider.com/en/politics/eurointegration-devastated-ukraine-worse-wwii/ri13069
Originally appeared at Polit Russia. Translated by Julia Rakhmetova and Rhod Mackenzie. The author is a popular Ukrainian blogger who also has a big following in Russia.
If you experience it every day, you quickly get used to it; you no longer overreact. Figures turn into statistics and then into history. This history has become so familiar that it no longer surprises anyone, hardly affecting most people. But two years have passed since Ukraine’s Euromaidan. In retrospect you start to realize how low the country has fallen during this period.
What is the ‘European’ present, now?
Territory and population - The Ukraine lost 47,000 sq. km. or 7.2% of its territory.
The population officially amounts to 42.7 million people, about 35-36 million without the Lugansk and Donetsk People’s Republics and citizens who emigrated to Russia. Taking into account whose who left for Europe, we get 33-34 million people.
About 35.2 million people lived in the territory of the modern Ukraine in 1913. In 1944, after liberation, there were 33.5 million.
More than twenty years of looking for ways to join the West cost the country 7 million people and about 3-4 million ‘temporary’ emigrants. The past two years cost the country 3 more million people and an extra 7 million emigrants and ‘separatists’. The country suffered such devastation only once, after the events of 1914-1920 and the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945.
Economy - Macroeconomic indicators of 2014-15 (excluding territories which Kiev today does not control):
•GDP: -16.49%;
•Industry: -22.15%;
•Agriculture: - 2.7%;
•Goods transported: -19.63%, of
•Passengers transported: -16.95%;
•Construction: -32.26%;
•Wholesale trade: - 25.37%
•Retail; -27.52%;
•Exports: -38.84%
•Services: -34.34%;
Today’s hole is worse than the one in 2008. During the first year of the world economic crisis, Ukraine’s economy declined a little, but then it rebounded. Now, at a time of relative stability in the world economy, due to Maidan and the decisions taken by Ukraine’s current government in favor of its people, it has declined again, and there may not be another rebound since the world is in recession again.
Entire industries are destroyed, often on purpose. Metallurgy, a strategic industry of Ukraine, declined in 1995-1996: in 2015 a total of 22.9 million tons of steel were smelted, in 1995-1996 it was 22.3 million tons. Now, even a small drop will roll back this vital sector of Ukrainian industry of fro 1960, when the Ukraine was just straightening its industrial shoulders, as a star of the USSR, the one the Ukrainian nationalists fight hard for, for 25 years without success. The economy has virtually collapsed.
Standard of living - Did the population begin to live better?
Maybe some people did. But this absolute minority of the Ukrainian population are the ones who made business out of the blood of their citizens. Most people have been living less well, and most has fallen into poverty.
Aside from those who lost everything due to the war.
The hryvna declined against the dollar from 7.993 hryvna as of January 1, 2014 to 24.00 at the beginning of 2016. Today a dollar is equal to 27.23 UAH.
The hryvna declined against the dropping ruble from 0.25 hryvna per ruble as of January 1, 2014 to 0.33 hryvna as of January 1, 2016; today one hryvna is equal to 0.36 RUR.
But man shall not live by dollar alone. He draws a salary in hryvna and buys products in hryvna. What are the achievements of the pro-European government?
The average monthly wage per employee in 2013 was 3, 265 hryvnia. In 2014, it was 3, 480, in 2015, 4, 207. In two years, the average monthly wage increased by 28.85%. During the same period, the official price level increased by 78.98%. The population has officially become poorer by a third, but in fact – by much more.
The population became poorer twice as fast as the rate of GDP decline. This alone shows who the new Ukrainian ‘people’s’ power works for. That is why over the past two years, the government’s credibility has rapidly fallen...
Credibility
The citizens of the Ukraine do not trust the government. A poll conducted in December 2015 put the President’s credibility at 25%. At the same time, only 4% supported him unconditionally. The rest supported him partially, apparently out of hopelessness since they trust no one.
The credibility to the Cabinet of Ministers and Parliament is much lower - about 10%. The personal rating of the Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk is 1%. There’s not much room left for him to get to zero. But maybe he’s already there, with sociologists having decided to factor in a small error.
One should keep in mind that former Ukrainian citizens do not take part in the polls, such as those living in areas not controlled by Kiev, who have extremely negative attitudes towards all the above mentioned.
The day before the collapse of the Yanukovich government, his rating was almost one and a half times higher than Poroshenko’s today. And it’s twice as high taking into account the opinion of all former residents of Ukraine. Yet the West is in no hurry to provide support for the population of the Ukraine by overthrowing the anti-people’s regime, as it did in 2013-2014. Apparently, the situation suits it, notwithstanding the opinions and the future of Ukraine's population.
EU. Currently, it does not make any sense to conduct polls about the Ukraine entering the EU. The question is not about the desire of Ukrainians to get out of the hell it was pushed into by the European Union itself. The point is that Europe does not want to consider the Ukraine part of it.
One could sum up the relationship between the Ukraine and the EU: used, abused and refused.
NATO. Fewer Ukrainians want to join the alliance. Desire to hide under the North Atlantic umbrella peaked at the end of 2014 when, according to polls, 51% of Ukrainian citizens under the control of Kiev, voted ‘for’ NATO, 25% voted ‘against’ it. Naturally, this did not take into account the opinion of the residents of most of the Donbas and Crimea. By the end of 2015, only 46% of Ukrainians were ‘for’ joining NATO, with 31% against .
Actually, before the war, 10% of the population lived in the part of the Donbass that is not independent of Kiev. And another 1.5 million people have been forced to flee to Russia over the past two years. All of them have expressed their attitude both to NATO and the EU. But to do that they didn’t need to speak to pollster: some expressed their opinions with weapons in their hands, others, using their feet.
It’s not just about the citizens of the Ukraine, yet the US and Europe do not believe their stooges. For the third time, Western colonialists are trying to seize the Ukraine, but they always face the same problem. Those they choose as the best turn out to be thieves and scum - even murderers.
Everybody in the West believes that the current leaders of the Ukraine are capable of building something sustainable, but not everybody works is helping. It’s clear that without constant infusions from the IMF, ‘pro-European’ Ukraine will collapse and ‘fall’ under the tutelage of Moscow. In the West, everyone understands this and tries to do something. But a significant part of the Ukrainian government consists of citizens of the USA and the EU, but this doesn’t work too well. They say that external financial flows should be placed under the control of the IMF and European institutions.
Ditmar Stuedemann, ex-Ambassador of Germany to the Ukraine:
“The Ukraine is trying to become a modern democratic state for the third time, but so far all the money that came to Kiev from the Wes, disappeared into a black hole. The Marshall Plan for reformation and development of the country will only be worth-while if all the financial assistance that Kiev has received is controlled by the IMF and European institutions. If we leave it entirely in the hands of the Ukraine, it will never work, as experience shows. Over 25 years of its (Ukrainian) independence, we have observed an uncontrolled struggle for power, serving private interests. If this repeats again, the current financial stabilization will never reach its goal”.
After two years of independence, there is no credibility in Kiev. The United States and Europe consider the Ukraine as a colony under direct foreign control. They do not see any other way to develop Ukrainian independence, because any real independence of Ukraine’s elites equals the destruction of the state. The end of the history that the West dedicated the last twenty-five years to building on the ruins of the Soviet Union, has been ‘the Ukraine, not Russia’.
Unfortunately this is not the end of our history. Only two ‘happy’ years have passed, becoming a frightful present for its people. Considering the determination of ‘Eurointegrators’, the experiment is likely to continue.
USA has acquired permission to build a military base in Poland (English translate)
http://www.hlavnespravy.sk/usa-ziskali-stavebne-povolenie-na-vybudovanie-vojenskej-zakladne-v-polsku/749424
US Department of Defense signed the first contract in the amount of $182 million in the framework of military bases and air defense complex near the village of Redzikowo in northern Poland. Americans are beginning to build new base in Poland.
On this base in Redzikowo village (5 km from the town of Slupsk) Americans will deploy several air defense systems: Aegis Ashore missile defense system, radar and launching system SM-3 and others.
Delivery of this specific "goods" ensure AMEC Programs Inc. based in the USA state of Georgia.
Polish daily Dziennik Bałtycki notes that construction work on the former military airport of the Polish Air Force, where they start to build the New American base, intending to be completed in April 2018.
Furthermore, US Army Master corpus preparing a separate tender in the amount of 25 to 100 million dollars to build the relevant infrastructure project in Redzikowo.
Americans are Planing construct office buildings, residential buildings, hangars, garages and other buildings.
On this base would be deployed at the beginning of some 300 members of the US Marine Corps.
http://www.fort-russ.com/2016/02/poroshenko-signs-law-on-status-of-natos.html
President of Ukraine, Petro Poroshenko, has signed a law that sets the status of the representative office of NATO in Ukraine. It will be responsible for the development of cooperation between official Kiev and the Alliance.
The agreement between the government of Ukraine and NATO on the status of the NATO mission in the country was signed on September 22nd 2015 during the visit of the Secretary General of the organization Jens Stoltenberg. Structurally, the new office will consist of the NATO liaison Office and the Center for information and documentation of NATO. It will be fully exempt from taxes and duties in conducting its activities.
"The mission of NATO will contribute to the strengthening and expansion of Ukraine's participation in all forms of cooperation agreed between Ukraine and NATO, including the provision of consulting assistance", — said a post on the official website of the President of Ukraine, explaining the function of representation.
Previously, the document was ratified by the Verkhovna Rada.
3 Ukrainian captives swapped for 6 militiamen in Lugansk region
http://rbth.com/news/2016/02/26/3-ukrainian-captives-swapped-for-6-militiamen-in-lugansk-region_571199
The militiamen of the self-proclaimed Lugansk People's Republic (LNR) have swapped several captives with the Ukrainian side in the 3-by-6 format on the bridge in the area of the town of Schastya on Feb. 26, an Interfax correspondent reported.
The exchange has been conducted in the presence of monitors of the Special Monitoring Mission of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (SMM OSCE), representatives of the International Committee of the Red Cross and journalists.
LNR representatives handed over three captives to the Ukrainian side, the Ukrainian side - six captives.
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko called this swapping good news.
"Good news from the head of the Security Service of Ukraine, Vasyl Hrytsak. Three more of our fellow citizens have just been released from captivity, they will return home soon. We are waiting for more good news in the next few days," Poroshenko on his page on Facebook on Feb. 26.
Euro-integration Devastated Ukraine Worse Than WWII
http://russia-insider.com/en/politics/eurointegration-devastated-ukraine-worse-wwii/ri13069
Originally appeared at Polit Russia. Translated by Julia Rakhmetova and Rhod Mackenzie. The author is a popular Ukrainian blogger who also has a big following in Russia.
If you experience it every day, you quickly get used to it; you no longer overreact. Figures turn into statistics and then into history. This history has become so familiar that it no longer surprises anyone, hardly affecting most people. But two years have passed since Ukraine’s Euromaidan. In retrospect you start to realize how low the country has fallen during this period.
What is the ‘European’ present, now?
Territory and population - The Ukraine lost 47,000 sq. km. or 7.2% of its territory.
The population officially amounts to 42.7 million people, about 35-36 million without the Lugansk and Donetsk People’s Republics and citizens who emigrated to Russia. Taking into account whose who left for Europe, we get 33-34 million people.
About 35.2 million people lived in the territory of the modern Ukraine in 1913. In 1944, after liberation, there were 33.5 million.
More than twenty years of looking for ways to join the West cost the country 7 million people and about 3-4 million ‘temporary’ emigrants. The past two years cost the country 3 more million people and an extra 7 million emigrants and ‘separatists’. The country suffered such devastation only once, after the events of 1914-1920 and the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945.
Economy - Macroeconomic indicators of 2014-15 (excluding territories which Kiev today does not control):
•GDP: -16.49%;
•Industry: -22.15%;
•Agriculture: - 2.7%;
•Goods transported: -19.63%, of
•Passengers transported: -16.95%;
•Construction: -32.26%;
•Wholesale trade: - 25.37%
•Retail; -27.52%;
•Exports: -38.84%
•Services: -34.34%;
Today’s hole is worse than the one in 2008. During the first year of the world economic crisis, Ukraine’s economy declined a little, but then it rebounded. Now, at a time of relative stability in the world economy, due to Maidan and the decisions taken by Ukraine’s current government in favor of its people, it has declined again, and there may not be another rebound since the world is in recession again.
Entire industries are destroyed, often on purpose. Metallurgy, a strategic industry of Ukraine, declined in 1995-1996: in 2015 a total of 22.9 million tons of steel were smelted, in 1995-1996 it was 22.3 million tons. Now, even a small drop will roll back this vital sector of Ukrainian industry of fro 1960, when the Ukraine was just straightening its industrial shoulders, as a star of the USSR, the one the Ukrainian nationalists fight hard for, for 25 years without success. The economy has virtually collapsed.
Standard of living - Did the population begin to live better?
Maybe some people did. But this absolute minority of the Ukrainian population are the ones who made business out of the blood of their citizens. Most people have been living less well, and most has fallen into poverty.
Aside from those who lost everything due to the war.
The hryvna declined against the dollar from 7.993 hryvna as of January 1, 2014 to 24.00 at the beginning of 2016. Today a dollar is equal to 27.23 UAH.
The hryvna declined against the dropping ruble from 0.25 hryvna per ruble as of January 1, 2014 to 0.33 hryvna as of January 1, 2016; today one hryvna is equal to 0.36 RUR.
But man shall not live by dollar alone. He draws a salary in hryvna and buys products in hryvna. What are the achievements of the pro-European government?
The average monthly wage per employee in 2013 was 3, 265 hryvnia. In 2014, it was 3, 480, in 2015, 4, 207. In two years, the average monthly wage increased by 28.85%. During the same period, the official price level increased by 78.98%. The population has officially become poorer by a third, but in fact – by much more.
The population became poorer twice as fast as the rate of GDP decline. This alone shows who the new Ukrainian ‘people’s’ power works for. That is why over the past two years, the government’s credibility has rapidly fallen...
Credibility
The citizens of the Ukraine do not trust the government. A poll conducted in December 2015 put the President’s credibility at 25%. At the same time, only 4% supported him unconditionally. The rest supported him partially, apparently out of hopelessness since they trust no one.
The credibility to the Cabinet of Ministers and Parliament is much lower - about 10%. The personal rating of the Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk is 1%. There’s not much room left for him to get to zero. But maybe he’s already there, with sociologists having decided to factor in a small error.
One should keep in mind that former Ukrainian citizens do not take part in the polls, such as those living in areas not controlled by Kiev, who have extremely negative attitudes towards all the above mentioned.
The day before the collapse of the Yanukovich government, his rating was almost one and a half times higher than Poroshenko’s today. And it’s twice as high taking into account the opinion of all former residents of Ukraine. Yet the West is in no hurry to provide support for the population of the Ukraine by overthrowing the anti-people’s regime, as it did in 2013-2014. Apparently, the situation suits it, notwithstanding the opinions and the future of Ukraine's population.
EU. Currently, it does not make any sense to conduct polls about the Ukraine entering the EU. The question is not about the desire of Ukrainians to get out of the hell it was pushed into by the European Union itself. The point is that Europe does not want to consider the Ukraine part of it.
One could sum up the relationship between the Ukraine and the EU: used, abused and refused.
NATO. Fewer Ukrainians want to join the alliance. Desire to hide under the North Atlantic umbrella peaked at the end of 2014 when, according to polls, 51% of Ukrainian citizens under the control of Kiev, voted ‘for’ NATO, 25% voted ‘against’ it. Naturally, this did not take into account the opinion of the residents of most of the Donbas and Crimea. By the end of 2015, only 46% of Ukrainians were ‘for’ joining NATO, with 31% against .
Actually, before the war, 10% of the population lived in the part of the Donbass that is not independent of Kiev. And another 1.5 million people have been forced to flee to Russia over the past two years. All of them have expressed their attitude both to NATO and the EU. But to do that they didn’t need to speak to pollster: some expressed their opinions with weapons in their hands, others, using their feet.
It’s not just about the citizens of the Ukraine, yet the US and Europe do not believe their stooges. For the third time, Western colonialists are trying to seize the Ukraine, but they always face the same problem. Those they choose as the best turn out to be thieves and scum - even murderers.
Everybody in the West believes that the current leaders of the Ukraine are capable of building something sustainable, but not everybody works is helping. It’s clear that without constant infusions from the IMF, ‘pro-European’ Ukraine will collapse and ‘fall’ under the tutelage of Moscow. In the West, everyone understands this and tries to do something. But a significant part of the Ukrainian government consists of citizens of the USA and the EU, but this doesn’t work too well. They say that external financial flows should be placed under the control of the IMF and European institutions.
Ditmar Stuedemann, ex-Ambassador of Germany to the Ukraine:
“The Ukraine is trying to become a modern democratic state for the third time, but so far all the money that came to Kiev from the Wes, disappeared into a black hole. The Marshall Plan for reformation and development of the country will only be worth-while if all the financial assistance that Kiev has received is controlled by the IMF and European institutions. If we leave it entirely in the hands of the Ukraine, it will never work, as experience shows. Over 25 years of its (Ukrainian) independence, we have observed an uncontrolled struggle for power, serving private interests. If this repeats again, the current financial stabilization will never reach its goal”.
After two years of independence, there is no credibility in Kiev. The United States and Europe consider the Ukraine as a colony under direct foreign control. They do not see any other way to develop Ukrainian independence, because any real independence of Ukraine’s elites equals the destruction of the state. The end of the history that the West dedicated the last twenty-five years to building on the ruins of the Soviet Union, has been ‘the Ukraine, not Russia’.
Unfortunately this is not the end of our history. Only two ‘happy’ years have passed, becoming a frightful present for its people. Considering the determination of ‘Eurointegrators’, the experiment is likely to continue.
USA has acquired permission to build a military base in Poland (English translate)
http://www.hlavnespravy.sk/usa-ziskali-stavebne-povolenie-na-vybudovanie-vojenskej-zakladne-v-polsku/749424
US Department of Defense signed the first contract in the amount of $182 million in the framework of military bases and air defense complex near the village of Redzikowo in northern Poland. Americans are beginning to build new base in Poland.
On this base in Redzikowo village (5 km from the town of Slupsk) Americans will deploy several air defense systems: Aegis Ashore missile defense system, radar and launching system SM-3 and others.
Delivery of this specific "goods" ensure AMEC Programs Inc. based in the USA state of Georgia.
Polish daily Dziennik Bałtycki notes that construction work on the former military airport of the Polish Air Force, where they start to build the New American base, intending to be completed in April 2018.
Furthermore, US Army Master corpus preparing a separate tender in the amount of 25 to 100 million dollars to build the relevant infrastructure project in Redzikowo.
Americans are Planing construct office buildings, residential buildings, hangars, garages and other buildings.
On this base would be deployed at the beginning of some 300 members of the US Marine Corps.
