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It amounts to increased occupation by US/EU/NATO in Europe .....thorbiorn said:
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I would imagine, that proposed "increased occupation" calls for an "Israeli Citizen" as the next Ukraine President?
Israeli Citizen announces bid for Ukrainian Presidency
_http://www.redressonline.com/2014/03/israeli-citizen-announces-bid-for-ukrainian-presidency/
The Israeli news website Ynet reports that Vadim Rabinovich, a Ukrainian Jewish oligarch who holds an Israeli passport and has lived in the apartheid state of Israel, has announced that he will run for Ukrainian president.
He is one of four people to announce their presidential bid for the elections scheduled for 25 May.
Rabinovich heads the All-Ukrainian Jewish Congress and is the founder of the European Jewish Parliament.
Announcing his bid on 25 March, Rabinovich said he is motivated by the need to prove that Ukraine is not anti-Semitic.
“I want to destroy the myth of anti-Semitic Ukraine that is replicated today throughout the world,” he said, adding: “I think I’m the perfect candidate, especially in these difficult times.”
It’s hard to predict how Rabinovich will fare in the presidential poll. But there’s a reasonable chance that if he performs badly, then he’ll do an about face and blame his failure on anti-Semitism and maybe go even further by joining the ongoing Israeli campaign to import Ukrainian Jews into the occupied Palestinian territories.
If, on the other hand, he succeeds, then Ukraine will join the club of Israel lickspittle states, such as the Czech Republic, Micronesia and Fiji.
And to futher dominate and control Ukraine citizens:
Ukraine to hike domestic gas prices by 50 percent to meet IMF demands
_http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/03/26/us-ukraine-crisis-gas-idUSBREA2P17I20140326
(Reuters) - Ukraine is raising the price of gas for domestic consumers by more than 50 per cent from May 1 and will implement further rises under a fixed timetable until 2018, an official of state energy company Naftogaz said on Wednesday.
The step, which will be widely unpopular with ordinary Ukrainians who have grown used to subsidised gas prices from the Soviet era, were taken in response to demands by the International Monetary Fund.
The interim government of Arseny Yatseniuk is in the final stages of talks with the Fund to secure $15-20 billion in a new aid package.
How To Cripple the European Economy (along with Ukraine)
_http://rinf.com/alt-news/breaking-news/cripple-european-economy/
The EU sanctions against Russia would cripple the European economy instead, Euro MP Pino Arlacchi. “The position of the European Union should be different from the US position. Europe should not insist on the extension of sanctions. These sanctions are unwise. In fact, they are directed against us,” he said.
Arlacchi believes that the European Union would not be pushing the sanctions further. “Europe has every reason to cooperate with the Russian Federation, there is no obstacle for this,” he said, adding that the US has a completely different position.
“The US wants to become a global government, and any country that does not agree with this, becomes their enemy. The relations between Russia and the US are likely to stay tensed,” the Euro MP said.
The Ukrainian crisis was provoked by the EU interference with the internal affairs of the country, Euro MP Pino Arlacchi said.
“The EU supported the rebellion in Ukraine, without taking into account that Ukraine is a complicated country,” he said. Most of Ukraine is pro-Russian and even speaks Russian language, Arlacchi noted.
“We have supported a mild revolution… But we did not take into account the presence of the fascist elements in the new government. Five ministers have ties with the neo-Nazi ideology in their biographies. Bashfully we avert our eyes from seeing what is happening,” the politician confessed.
The US President Barak Obama has decided to visit Amsterdam, Haag, Brussels, Vatican, Rome and the Saudi Arabia. During his visits, Obama is to discuss Ukrainian issue with the countries’ officials. The US has to fulfill its plan, aimed at separation of Ukraine from Russia. After the Crimea decided to integrate with Russia, the plan took a different option from what the US had primarily expected. Some experts think that Obama will “accidentally” come to Kiev in order to support the legitimacy of the current Ukrainian government.
There would be no Obama’s visits, if the US hadn’t failed to fulfill its “Ukrainian scenario”, European media says. There have been no EU-US conferences under the rule of President Obama. European countries became enraged after they found out that the US National Security Agency had used wiretapping against the EU officials. Obama refused to sign an agreement that would guarantee the disuse of such tools. If there was no conflict in Ukraine, Obama would face a numerous accusations from the part of the EU. The White House hopes that Ukrainian crisis, provoked with the help of the US, will help to overshadow Europeans’ discontent.
“If the Ukrainian crisis hadn’t occurred, President Obama would have held another type of conference with the EU,” Heather Conley, Head of European projects at the Washington Center for strategic and internationals studies, says. Ukrainian issue discussions are to “smooth things over in the EU-US relations, but they won’t help to abandon the problems”.
The fact that Russia doesn’t impose reciprocal sanctions means that Russian government acts wisely as this step couldn’t ameliorate the international relations. It might also show that Russia regards sanctions seriously.”
Without considering Russian interests and concerns, there would be no Ukrainian crisis settlement, Vilen Ivanov says. The US is better to listen to Brenton’s opinion, because the US rarely listens to such statements from the country’s most devoted partner in Europe.
Swiss decide against Russian sanctions
_http://www.thelocal.ch/20140326/swiss-decide-against-imposing-russian-sanctions
The Swiss federal government on Wednesday decided not to impose sanctions against Russia for its seizure of Crimea, claiming it wanted to find a "balance" between international law and Switzerland's interests.
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"The position of our country is independent of the UN," Swiss president Didier Burkhalter told a press conference in Bern, saying Switzerland can only use sanctions when they are based upon "international law and the interests of the Swiss".
"And in this case the rights and the interests play a role... we need to find a balance," he added, as well as noting that Russian interests in Switzerland were "very large".
"The federal council has noted the sanctions imposed by the European Union and the United States," he added.
Burkhalter said some sanctions imposed by the EU would apply to Switzerland, including a ban on the freedom of movement of some Russian nationals as Switzerland is a member of the Schengen group of European countries, which allow passport-free movement between them.
Despite the decision not to impose sanctions, Burkhalter, who is also the country's foreign minister, said Switzerland would not allow itself to be used by those trying to get round the restrictions already imposed on Russia by the West.
However, this year marks the 200th anniversary of relations between Switzerland and Russia and as part of the celebrations Burkhalter is supposed to visit Russia.
The majority of Russian gas and petrol is traded in Geneva, and Switzerland is an increasingly popular destination for Russia's wealthy.
German chancellor Merkel against imposition of economic sanctions on Russia
_http://voiceofrussia.com/news/2014_03_27/German-chancellor-Merkel-against-imposition-of-economic-sanctions-on-Russia-6195/
Merkel said in Berlin on Wednesday after talks with South Korean President Park Geun-hye that the West “has not reached a stage that implies the imposition of economic sanctions” on Moscow.
Meet the Americans Who Put Together the Coup in Kiev
_http://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/277-75/22758-meet-the-americans-who-put-together-the-coup-in-kiev
(Comment - article connects the dots on activities started back in 2010 to foster problems in Ukraine towards a Coup and take-over.)
f the US State Department's Victoria Nuland had not said "-flick- the EU," few outsiders at the time would have heard of Ambassador Geoffrey Pyatt, the man on the other end of her famously bugged telephone call. But now Washington's man in Kiev is gaining fame as the face of the CIA-style "destabilization campaign" that brought down Ukraine's monumentally corrupt but legitimately elected President Viktor Yanukovych.
Russian ruble goes into official circulation in Crimea as of Monday
_http://en.itar-tass.com/russia/724972
Parallel circulation of the hryvnia is permitted through January 1, 2016
MOSCOW, March 24. /ITAR-TASS/. Russian ruble begins official circulation in Crimea as of Monday. Its introduction embraces all the financial transactions and all types of payments if at least one of the parties to them is a resident of Russia.
Russia to create national payment system to rival Visa, Mastercard
_http://voiceofrussia.com/2014_03_26/Russia-to-create-national-payment-system-to-rival-Visa-Mastercard-4555/
While at the moment Visa and Mastercard effectively dominate the markets in Russia (over 85 percent of all card transactions are being carried out via them), the services they provide are hardly unique. Twelve years ago, several Chinese banks, backed by the People’s Bank of China, launched their own payment system called UniPAY. And the cards from the Japanese Credit Bureau (JCB) are being issued in 20 countries, numbering almost 9 million in total. In fact, the current situation in Russia did not escape JCB’s notice, as company considers expanding into this previously untouched market. The Russian banking system establishing closer ties with either of these two companies would probably not sit well with Visa and Mastercard, not to mention the fact that a potential alliance of any nature between Russia and China is something of a nightmare for many US politicians and interest groups.
Back in 2010 Sberbank deployed its own payment system, named PRO100, as part of Russia’s Universal Electronic Card (UEC) program. While PRO100 is based on international banking standards and can be deployed on the same infrastructure, all payments made through it are processed in centers located in Russia. And even though very few Russian banks have been connected to PRO100, their number may increase soon thanks to these latest political developments. “I believe that we need to create a national payment system, the kind that exists in many other countries,” Sberbank CEO German Gref said. “As for national processing and hosting, the PRO100 system based on the Universal Electronic Card is one of the options being considered.” He also added that after a few legislation changes, it would only take about six months to implement the system.
Putin brings in Steven Seagal to sell revival of nationwide Stalin-era fitness program
_http://news.nationalpost.com/2013/03/13/putin-brings-in-steven-seagal-to-sell-revival-of-nationwide-stalin-era-fitness-program/
MOSCOW — Russian President Vladimir Putin called Wednesday for the revival of a Soviet-era physical evaluation program that required all schoolchildren to pass fitness tests. To do so, he made an appearance with American action movie star Steven Seagal.
Putin, a judo enthusiast and a regular swimmer, said that the restoration of GTO, the Russian acronym for Ready for Labor and Defense, would teach children “to stand up for themselves, their family and, in the final run, the Fatherland.”
Russian Sports Minister Vitaly Mutko told a government meeting chaired by Putin that his agency would work to introduce the physical training standards nationwide by 2016.
Putin said that Russia needs to pay more attention to physical training because it lags behind other countries. He said that Russian children now are in “significantly worse” physical shape compared to a few decades ago.
Steven Seagal is Face of New Putin-Backed Fitness Program in Russia
_http://www.newsmax.com/TheWire/steven-seagal-vladimir-putin/2014/03/27/id/562085/
Russian President and judo enthusiast Vladimir Putin is relaunching a Soviet-era fitness regimen in order to make his citizens more fit and fierce like Steven Seagal, the U.S. action star who's the unofficial spokesman and supporter of the program.
Putin first announced the program last year and framed it as a way to "pay homage to our national and historical traditions." He also invited Seagal to Moscow to tour a newly built sports complex and help promote the program to the country's youth.
The original plan was to have the program up and running by 2016, but it appears that deadline has been bumped up, thanks to leftover funds from the Olympic Winter Games in Sochi last month.
"The Olympics and Paralympics have demonstrated that we are again becoming one of the leaders in global sports," Putin said after his country's first-place finish with 33 gold medals. "We’re discussing what is necessary to . . . attract the vast majority of our citizens to take part in regular physical training."
