Valin Posted March 10, 2014 Author Share Posted March 10, 2014 AutoMaidan says two activists kidnapped in Crimea; journalist also sought Daryna Shevchenko March 10, 2014, 2:47 p.m. | Ukraine AutoMaidan, which organized automobile protests during the EuroMaidan Revolution, said on March 10 that two of its activists – Oleksandra Ryazhtseva and Kateryna Butko – were kidnapped by pro-Russian forces at the Perekopsk Checkpoint in Crimea on March 9. Tyzhden.ua journalist Olena Maksymenko also reportedly went missing after Butko and Ryazhtseva, but Tyzhden.ua officials could not be reached for comment immediately. An AutoMaidan representative said the group doesn’t know much about Maksymenko’s case. “We can only assume that she was captured after AutoMaidan activists and actually managed to pass the information about Butko and Ryazhtseva kidnapping to her editors, as Tyzhden.ua was one of the first publications to print the information as well,” AutoMaidan activist Illiya Dashivets said. (Snip) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Valin Posted March 10, 2014 Author Share Posted March 10, 2014 Halya Coynash: Putin's neo-Nazi helperMarch 10, 2014, 4:02 p.mPavel Gubarev, a self-proclaimed governor of Donetsk Oblast -- Ukraine's most populous region -- has been arrested for his attempts to declare his own government and hold a referendum on he oblast's secession from Ukraine.© Kostyantyn Chernichkin Russian TV has a new hero, “elected” by the people and persecuted for his beliefs by the new baddy regime in Kyiv. Pavel Gubarev is certainly pro-Russian and, as of March 6, in custody, but his neo-Nazi background, seemingly shared by some of his most vocal defenders, makes him a curious choice. The Kremlin, after all, claims to be fighting what it labels the fascist hordes, not supporting them. Read the story here Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Draggingtree Posted March 10, 2014 Share Posted March 10, 2014 John Yoo How Do We Respond to Russia?March 10, 2014 Russian's invasion of Crimea has caught the United States flat-footed and struggling to come up with a response. An unexplored option, however, could prove effective in the long run: downgrade Russia's status as a great power. As I laid out in National Review over the weekend, a series of changes to the broader strategic relationship between the United States and Russia would cost Washington little but hit Putin where it hurts the most: signaling to the world that Russia is no longer a nation on par with the United States and its NATO allies, or even a rising China and India. Here are my suggestions for how to do it: http://ricochet.com/content/view/full/524 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Valin Posted March 10, 2014 Author Share Posted March 10, 2014 Tatar Turbulence May Rock Putin’s Plane3/10/14 An historically persecuted Muslim minority, an increasingly feverish far-right movement, and an uncertain political future are all stoking the fires of ethnic tension in Crimea. As Crimea awaits a referendum to decide its future sovereignty, set for Sunday, some are warning that a Russian annexation could turn Crimea into another Chechnya. The FT has the story: Mustafa Jemilev, a member of the Ukrainian parliament, said a number of militant Tatars had approached him to say they would fight the Russians. “We have Islamists, Wahhabis, Salafis . . . groups who have fought [with the opposition] in Syria,” he said in an interview in Simferopol, the Crimean capital. “They say: ‘an enemy has entered our land and we are ready’. [...] (Snip) Crimea’s Tatars, who represent 12 percent of the population, staunchly oppose Russian annexation, for good reason. In 1944, nearly 200,000 Crimean Tatars were shipped away in trains to Central Asia within a matter of days, after Stalin accused them of aiding the Nazi occupation of Crimea. Around half of them died along the way, and Crimea’s Tatars haven’t forgotten. (Snip) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Valin Posted March 10, 2014 Author Share Posted March 10, 2014 John Yoo How Do We Respond to Russia?March 10, 2014 Russian's invasion of Crimea has caught the United States flat-footed and struggling to come up with a response. An unexplored option, however, could prove effective in the long run: downgrade Russia's status as a great power. As I laid out in National Review over the weekend, a series of changes to the broader strategic relationship between the United States and Russia would cost Washington little but hit Putin where it hurts the most: signaling to the world that Russia is no longer a nation on par with the United States and its NATO allies, or even a rising China and India. Here are my suggestions for how to do it: http://ricochet.com/content/view/full/524 #2 — Redeploy missile defense systems in Poland and the Czech Republic. Assuming they will go for it, whit this President.....? #3 — End the agreement to destroy Syria's chemical weapons This should be done regardless, as it is a very bad joke. 6foot2inhighheels Hack into their communications systems and broadcast Obama speeches till they give up? It worked for me. Cruel and Unusual Punishment! 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SrWoodchuck Posted March 11, 2014 Share Posted March 11, 2014 Russia's oligarchs throw their weight behind Kiev's revolutionary rulers Billionaire businessmen accept positions from Ukraine's new pro-West government in a slight against Russian president http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/ukraine/10686211/Russias-oligarchs-throw-their-weight-behind-Kievs-revolutionary-rulers.html Vladimir Putin’s gambit that Russia could change the course of the Ukraine revolution at gunpoint has failed a crucial test as the country’s billionaire oligarchs line up behind Kiev. Billionaire businessmen have accepted appointments from the pro-Western government in Kiev to act as regional governors in three Russia-leaning areas of the country. The fledgling government has also secured the important endorsement of the country’s richest man. Sergei Taruta, a sharp-suited industrialist who was last week named governor of the Russian-speaking Donbass region, bluntly accuses Mr Putin of sending provocateurs to create chaos on the streets to provide a pretext for Russia intervention. A slight, bespectacled figure, Mr Taruta has for decades personnified the close links that tie the Ukrainian and Russian economies. He has run one of biggest steel operations in Europe, the Industrial Union of Donbass, in partnership with substantial Russian shareholders. Like many businessmen pitched into national politics in a crisis, Mr Taruta takes a no-nonsense approach to the task of government. “I think of myself as the anti-crisis manager,” he told The Telegraph. People in this region have gone through difficult days as they have watched trouble develop. In politics I am a dilettante, I am not a professional. I will only do it for six months or a year. In that time I want strong people to come into government and then I will leave them to it.” Mr Putin has criticised Mr Tartura’s appointment and that of Igor Kolomoisky, who has been become governor of Dnipropetrovsk. Along with Gennady Kernes - the new head of government in Kharkiv, an eastern city that is the second largest in the country with 1.2 million people - they are filling a vacuum created when President Viktor Yanukovych fled. Via TheoSpark Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Valin Posted March 11, 2014 Author Share Posted March 11, 2014 John Yoo How Do We Respond to Russia? March 10, 2014 Russian's invasion of Crimea has caught the United States flat-footed and struggling to come up with a response. An unexplored option, however, could prove effective in the long run: downgrade Russia's status as a great power. As I laid out in National Review over the weekend, a series of changes to the broader strategic relationship between the United States and Russia would cost Washington little but hit Putin where it hurts the most: signaling to the world that Russia is no longer a nation on par with the United States and its NATO allies, or even a rising China and India. Here are my suggestions for how to do it: http://ricochet.com/content/view/full/524 Russia Threatens to Suspend Inspections Under New START: What’s Next for the U.S. Michaela Dodge March 10, 2014 The Obama Administration’s mismanagement of relations with Russia failed to prevent Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Now, in response to the Administration’s plans to sanction the Russians responsible for the invasion, Moscow is threatening to suspend inspections of its nuclear forces—inspections that are mandated by the New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (New START). For once, however, Moscow’s belligerence might actually advance America’s national interests. (Snip) ______________________________________________________________________ @Draggingtree I've forgotten...is it your turn or mine to be shocked surprised and concerned? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Valin Posted March 11, 2014 Author Share Posted March 11, 2014 The Backlash of Moral Equivalency on UkraineThe pushback on those exposing Putin's myths about Ukraine.Catherine A. FitzpatrickMarch 11, 2014 With strong statements from the US State Department countering Kremlin propaganda like “President Putin’s Fiction: 10 False Claims About Ukraine” and “Setting the Record Straight on Ukraine” coming from the US Embassy in Kiev, it didn’t take long for some commentators to appear with a “plague on both their houses.” The Israeli newspaper Haaretz published an article 6 March by Ariel Danieli headlined “From Washington to Moscow, Everyone is Lying about What’s Happening in Ukraine.” Danieli rejected the State Department’s simple counterfactual to Putin’s persistent claim that “the opposition did not implement the February 21 agreement with former President Viktor Yanukovych” — that Yanukovych fled the country. (Snip) And on 6 March, Pfeffer reported “so far the net sum of anti-Semitic attacks in Crimea has been one incident of graffiti sprayed on a synagogue here in Simferopol.” As the rabbis of the synagogues in both Zaporozhe and Simferopol reported themselves, damage to their buildings was slight, no one was injured, and they believed the attacks were deliberate provocations. While many share concerns about the Ukrainian group Right Sector, which is known for its ultra-nationalist views and provocative statements, no attacks by this group on Jews or any other minority have been confirmed since the new government took power in Ukraine; indeed, to build confidence, Right Sector Dmytro Jarosz met with the Israeli ambassador to Ukraine. (Snip) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Valin Posted March 11, 2014 Author Share Posted March 11, 2014 Ukraine forms new defense force, seeks Western help Alastair Macdonald and Andrew Osborn KIEV/SEVASTOPOL Tue Mar 11, 2014 10:22am EDT (Reuters) - Ukraine's interim leaders established a new National Guard on Tuesday and appealed to the United States and Britain for assistance against what they called Russian aggression in Crimea under a post-Cold War treaty. Blaming their ousted predecessors for the weakness of their own armed forces, acting ministers told parliament Ukraine had as few as 6,000 combat-ready infantry and that the air force was outnumbered nearly 100 to 1 by Moscow's superpower forces. (Snip) Acting president Oleksander Turchinov said the National Security and Defence council had decided to raise a new National Guard among veterans. He accused Yanukovich of leaving the military in such a poor state that it had to be built "effectively from scratch". The acting defence minister said Ukraine had not been prepared for military confrontation with Russia. Having mobilized its forces, he said the country had only 6,000 combat-ready infantry out of a nominal infantry force of 41,000 -compared to over 200,000 Russian troops on its eastern borders. Turchinov warned against provoking Russian action, saying that would play into Moscow's hands. The National Guard, based on existing Interior Ministry forces, would "defend citizens from criminals and from internal or external aggression". A partial mobilization would begin of volunteers drawn from those with previous military experience, he said. Yatseniuk said the government was doing all it could to finance pay and equipment for the armed forces, but that Kiev needed help from Western guarantors of its security. (Snip) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Valin Posted March 11, 2014 Author Share Posted March 11, 2014 Meanwhile it appears that Crimea is becoming the vacation spot for our Russian friends Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Valin Posted March 11, 2014 Author Share Posted March 11, 2014 Threat Watch @ThreatWatch1 22h @mackeycold link/site? I'll take a look. MLopez @mackeycold 22h @ThreatWatch1 http://m.us.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052702304020104579429332129542004?mg=reno64-wsj … Thank you. Threat Watch @ThreatWatch1 22h @mackeycold Then from "possible" to "probable"..then to "doable"..then to "national security imperative" ..as we have seen in Crimea. MLopez @mackeycold 7h @ThreatWatch1 So you see the groundwork being laid for an upcoming invasion of Latvia potentially? Threat Watch @ThreatWatch1 5h @mackeycold Baltics have legitimate reasons of concern re: Russia. However, Crimea-style act into any of the Balts is direct act of war/NATO Threat Watch @ThreatWatch1 5h @mackeycold ..and that is an exponential step that now directly threatens Russian military security. NATO is existential threat to RF; Nucs 2:37 AM - 11 Mar 2014 · Details Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Draggingtree Posted March 11, 2014 Share Posted March 11, 2014 John Yoo How Do We Respond to Russia? March 10, 2014 Russian's invasion of Crimea has caught the United States flat-footed and struggling to come up with a response. An unexplored option, however, could prove effective in the long run: downgrade Russia's status as a great power. As I laid out in National Review over the weekend, a series of changes to the broader strategic relationship between the United States and Russia would cost Washington little but hit Putin where it hurts the most: signaling to the world that Russia is no longer a nation on par with the United States and its NATO allies, or even a rising China and India. Here are my suggestions for how to do it: http://ricochet.com/content/view/full/524 Russia Threatens to Suspend Inspections Under New START: What’s Next for the U.S. Michaela Dodge March 10, 2014 The Obama Administration’s mismanagement of relations with Russia failed to prevent Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Now, in response to the Administration’s plans to sanction the Russians responsible for the invasion, Moscow is threatening to suspend inspections of its nuclear forces—inspections that are mandated by the New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (New START). For once, however, Moscow’s belligerence might actually advance America’s national interests. (Snip) ______________________________________________________________________ @Draggingtree I've forgotten...is it your turn or mine to be shocked surprised and concerned? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Valin Posted March 11, 2014 Author Share Posted March 11, 2014 @Draggingtree This might get Obama's attention. The problem is I fear he would take it as a opportunity to retreat . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Valin Posted March 11, 2014 Author Share Posted March 11, 2014 SBU detains a Russian saboteur in Donetsk March 11, 2014, 5:51 p.m. | Ukraine by Kyiv Post Ukraine's Security Service detained a Russian saboteur in Donetsk Oblast on March 10, said SBU Chief Valentyn Nalyvaichenko. The suspect is accused of preparing explosions and orchestrating other acts of diversion, said Nalyvaichenko in a statement on March 11. His activity is suspected of serving as a pretext for a wider Russian military invasion of Ukraine beyond Crimea. The 37-year-old man, who was not identified, carried a Russian passport and was detained jointly by the police and the SBU. The Russian Embassy in Kyiv did not immediately comment on the detention. (Snip) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Valin Posted March 11, 2014 Author Share Posted March 11, 2014 Jeremy Pigott @jhpigott 14m @gerrydogma @Galrahn @ThreatWatch1 Have you guys seen this new vid of alleged RU .mil column toward URK? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Valin Posted March 11, 2014 Author Share Posted March 11, 2014 Ukraine Liveblog Day 22: Kiev Establishes a New National Guard March 11 2014 1805 GMT: The leader of the Crimean Tatars has once again reiterated his call to boycott the March 16th referendum, a vote on whether Crimea should join Russia: The result has already been decided by Moscow, Refat Chubarov told Reuters in an interview on Monday in the Crimean capital Simferopol, where he heads the Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar People, a Ukrainian public body that represents some 12 percent of the Black Sea peninsulas two million people. There are troops in the streets. There are 30,000 armed men, armored vehicles, planes landing with foreign troops, and the administrative buildings have all been seized, he said of last weeks takeover of Crimea by Russian forces following the overthrow of the pro-Moscow Ukrainian president in Kiev. Its a fake referendum, an attempt to provide cover for this aggression, Chubarov said, arguing that voting would mean betraying a Ukrainian state whose interim government says local leaders had no right to call the referendum. The whole of Crimea is being asked to become collective collaborators. (Snip) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Valin Posted March 11, 2014 Author Share Posted March 11, 2014 The Russian Media and Ukraine | Interpreter Podcast March 11 2014 Last week several RT.com anchors, Abby Martin and Liz Wahl, criticized Russia’s intervention into Ukraine. Liz went further, quitting the Russian state-owned news/propaganda outlet and slamming both RT and the Russian government in the press. This week, Boston College Professor Matt Sienkiewicz and Interpreter Magazine’s managing editor James Miller examine the media coverage of the crisis in Ukraine, especially at developments in the Russian media outlets, many of which are widely seen as promoting the Kremlin’s propaganda. (Click On Link for Podcast) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Valin Posted March 11, 2014 Author Share Posted March 11, 2014 Nikolaus von Twickel @niktwick Follow Russia massed 220, 000 troops, 1,800 tanks on border w Ukraine, #Crimea, def. minister Ihor Tenyukh told the Rada: http://www.mil.gov.ua/index.php?lang=en∂=news⊂=read&id=32912 … 1:42 PM - 11 Mar 2014 Stuart Webb ✔ @Worldwidewebb1 Follow Russian troops blockade #Ukraine army base in #Crimea It looks less like a build up to referendum & more annexation 2:06 PM - 11 Mar 2014 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Valin Posted March 12, 2014 Author Share Posted March 12, 2014 'Russians on Maidan' attempts to set record straight about Ukraine's revolution (VIDEO) Brian Bonner March 11, 2014, 7:47 p.m. Kyiv photojournalist/videographer Zoya Shu made a seven-minute film on Independence Square that features Russians talking about Ukraine's EuroMaidan Revolution and how Kremlin propaganda has distorted the public's perception of events that led to the overthrow of Viktor Yanukovych as president on Feb. 21. "I think it is important to show that there is no hostility against the Russian people here, even at Maidan," Shu said. She first uploaded the video on YouTube without English-language subtitles because her primary target audience was Russians. She added English-language subtitles on March 11, only after it had gained 35,000 views. She said the delay was her attempt to prove to "brainwashed Russians" that the work was her own and "not the plot of the CIA or something." (Snip) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Valin Posted March 12, 2014 Author Share Posted March 12, 2014 Situation in the Ukraine/Crimea *Photos - Videos* ONLY H/T ThreatWatch1 someone has not missed too many meals. (Note: slow loading) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Valin Posted March 12, 2014 Author Share Posted March 12, 2014 gandalf greybeard @gerrydogma 2h Russian military train in Belgorod today (<20 miles from border) @Galrahn @ThreatWatch1 @20committee @jimsciutto ___________________________________________________________________________ Threat Watch @ThreatWatch1 1h Unian- Mulitple reports and video show RF forces amassing along the UKR-RF borders to the north and east. http://www.unian.net/politics/895850-rossiya-otkryito-styagivaet-voennuyu-tehniku-k-severnyim-granitsam-ukrainyi.html … Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Valin Posted March 12, 2014 Author Share Posted March 12, 2014 Mar 11, 2014 Subscribe to VICE News here: http://bit.ly/Subscribe-to-VICE-NewsIn dispatch six, VICE News correspondent Simon Ostrovsky travels to the Kherson region of mainland Ukraine to both the Ukrainian and Russian checkpoints. At the Ukrainian checkpoint, Simon goes inside one of their tanks, and speaks to the commander, who says that despite his Russian blood he will defend all invaders. But at the Russian checkpoint, the exchange isn't quite as cordial.Start from the beginning and watch dispatch one here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TNKsL... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Valin Posted March 13, 2014 Author Share Posted March 13, 2014 Threat Watch @ThreatWatch1 5h UKR PM On C-SPAN- at 29:16, PM speaks specifically on threat of Jihadist apirations and support to Crimean Tatars. http://www.c-span.org/video/?318265-1/ukrainian-pm-russian-intervention … Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WestVirginiaRebel Posted March 13, 2014 Share Posted March 13, 2014 SHOWDOWN: KERRY GIVES RUSSIA MONDAY DEADLINE A little bit late, I think... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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