Demonstraties in Oekra�ne #13 Onrust op de Krim

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do 27 feb 2014, 21:01
Geld Janoekovitsj niet veilig in Zwitserland
BERN - De Zwitserse regering laat banken alle eventuele tegoeden bevriezen van de verdreven Oekra�ense president Viktor Janoekovitsj. Dat zei een woordvoerder van het Zwitserse ministerie van Buitenlandse Zaken donderdag.

Viktor Janoekovitsj Foto: AFP

Het is onduidelijk of de familie Janoekovitsj geld heeft ondergebracht in het Alpenland. Toch hebben banken de instructie gekregen extra oplettend te zijn bij het verwerken van geld uit Oekra�ne. De regering in Bern zegt de maatregel op eigen initiatief te nemen. Er zou geen verzoek liggen van de Oekra�ense autoriteiten.

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StratRisks twitterde op donderdag 27-02-2014 om 20:58:56 StratRisks�: Kyiv is ready to enter in the Crimea and use troops to quell separatism http://t.co/8zVssdzm1O reageer retweet

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Op donderdag 27 februari 2014 22:38 schreef RVer het volgende:

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StratRisks twitterde op donderdag 27-02-2014 om 20:58:56 StratRisks�: Kyiv is ready to enter in the Crimea and use troops to quell separatism http://t.co/8zVssdzm1O reageer retweet

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Op donderdag 27 februari 2014 22:39 schreef Nielsch het volgende:

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Owja, wat waren al die andere keren dan?

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Op donderdag 27 februari 2014 22:38 schreef RVer het volgende:

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StratRisks twitterde op donderdag 27-02-2014 om 20:58:56 StratRisks�: Kyiv is ready to enter in the Crimea and use troops to quell separatism http://t.co/8zVssdzm1O reageer retweet

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Op donderdag 27 februari 2014 22:39 schreef Nielsch het volgende:

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Owja, wat waren al die andere keren dan?

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Op donderdag 27 februari 2014 16:25 schreef theunderdog het volgende:

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Ik denk het ook niet, maar aan de andere kant is het alles behalve onmogelijk.

Als de VS niets doet, is het wel de zoveelste keer dat Rusland ermee wegkomt.

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Op donderdag 27 februari 2014 22:50 schreef IkStampOpTacos het volgende:

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De VS is eigenlijk helemaal geen partij in dezen. De EU daarentegen wel.

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Op donderdag 27 februari 2014 22:50 schreef theunderdog het volgende:

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Want?

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Op donderdag 27 februari 2014 22:51 schreef IkStampOpTacos het volgende:

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Omdat het mij primair een conflict lijkt tussen Pro-EU en Pro-Rusland aanhangers.

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Op donderdag 27 februari 2014 21:30 schreef michaelmoore het volgende:
De boef gaat zijn miljarden kwijt raken
http://www.telegraaf.nl/b(...)d_niet_veilig__.html

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Op donderdag 27 februari 2014 22:51 schreef IkStampOpTacos het volgende:

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Omdat het mij primair een conflict lijkt tussen Pro-EU en Pro-Rusland aanhangers.

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Nuland: OK. He's now gotten both Serry and [UN Secretary General] Ban Ki-moon to agree that Serry could come in Monday or Tuesday. So that would be great, I think, to help glue this thing and to have the UN help glue it and, you know, Fuck the EU.

Pyatt: No, exactly. And I think we've got to do something to make it stick together because you can be pretty sure that if it does start to gain altitude, that the Russians will be working behind the scenes to try to torpedo it. And again the fact that this is out there right now, I'm still trying to figure out in my mind why Yanukovych (garbled) that. In the meantime there's a Party of Regions faction meeting going on right now and I'm sure there's a lively argument going on in that group at this point. But anyway we could land jelly side up on this one if we move fast. So let me work on Klitschko and if you can just keep... we want to try to get somebody with an international personality to come out here and help to midwife this thing. The other issue is some kind of outreach to Yanukovych but we probably regroup on that tomorrow as we see how things start to fall into place.

Nuland: So on that piece Geoff, when I wrote the note [US vice-president's national security adviser Jake] Sullivan's come back to me VFR [direct to me], saying you need [US Vice-President Joe] Biden and I said probably tomorrow for an atta-boy and to get the deets [details] to stick. So Biden's willing.
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Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu has stated that Turkey attaches great importance to the territorial integrity and stability of Ukraine as the eastern European country faces the risk of separation due to ongoing political turmoil, adding that the Autonomous Republic of Crimea is part of Ukraine.

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Op donderdag 27 februari 2014 23:35 schreef Aloulou het volgende:
In hoeverre speelt dit in Turkije? Gezien men zich verwant voelt aan de Tataren? Probleem is dat ook de Turken weinig kunnen doen, de Krim wordt toch als de Russische achtertuin beschouwd.

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SIMFEROPOL, Ukraine — Masked gunmen on Thursday seized government buildings in the capital of the Crimea region of Ukraine, barricaded themselves inside and raised the Russian flag, raising the specter of a separatist rebellion that could tear the country apart.

Further inflaming an increasingly volatile situation, Viktor F. Yanukovych released a statement Thursday saying that he remained the lawful president of Ukraine and appealed to Russia to protect “my personal safety.” While his precise whereabouts remained a mystery, Russian news agencies reported subsequently that Mr. Yanukovych would hold a news conference on Friday in Rostov-on-Don, a city in southern Russia, six days after he was driven from power by mass protests and fled from Kiev, the Ukrainian capital.

In a calming note, Secretary of State John Kerry said on Thursday that he been assured by Russia’s foreign minister, Sergey V. Lavrov, that Russia would respect the “territorial integrity” of Ukraine. Mr. Kerry said that he had spoken with Mr. Lavrov, who assured him that a surprise military exercise in western Russia had been previously scheduled and was not related to the political upheaval in Ukraine.

“Everyone now needs to step back and avoid any kind of provocations over Ukraine,” said Mr. Kerry, who said that he had proposed that the United States and Russia try to cooperate on easing tensions there.

In the Crimean regional capital, Simferopol, local police officers sealed off access to the government buildings, including the regional Parliament, which were seized in mysterious overnight raids by people who appeared to be militant ethnic Russians. A spokeswoman for the speaker, Vladimir Konstantinov, said that Parliament had voted to hold a referendum on greater autonomy on May 25, the scheduled date of a presidential election.

Crimea has been a source of tension between Ukraine and Russia for decades: the territory was transferred to Ukraine by the Russian Federation when they were both components of the Soviet Union in 1954, and Ukraine retained it when the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991, though Russia still maintains important military bases there, including the home port of the Black Sea Fleet.

Oleksandr V. Turchynov, the speaker of Parliament and acting president of Ukraine, urged Russian military forces early on Thursday not to stray out of the designated Russian military zones.

“I am addressing the Russian Black Sea Fleet command with a demand: all military servicemen should stay within the boundaries of of the territories stipulated by agreement,” Mr. Turchynov said as he presided over the Parliament. “Any movement of military servicemen with weapons outside this territory will be viewed as military aggression.”

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Op donderdag 27 februari 2014 19:15 schreef Richestorags het volgende:
Mensen worden door problemen altijd nostalgischer. Dat wil niet zeggen dat het vroeger ook daadwerkelijk beter was. Vaak zijn die problemen zelfs veroorzaakt door "vroeger".

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Op donderdag 27 februari 2014 23:35 schreef Aloulou het volgende:
In hoeverre speelt dit in Turkije? Gezien men zich verwant voelt aan de Tataren? Probleem is dat ook de Turken weinig kunnen doen, de Krim wordt toch als de Russische achtertuin beschouwd.

Turania.Com & Turania.Net

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Washington's Man Yatsenyuk Setting Ukraine Up For Ruin

“Recall the phone exchange between the Ukraine ambassador and Victoria Nuland (Assistant Secretary of State for European Affairs) that got leaked out, where she basically said ‘we want Yats in there.’ They like him because he’s pro Western,” says Vladimir Signorelli, president of boutique investment research firm Bretton Woods Research LLC in New Jersey. “Yatsenyuk is the the kind of technocrat you want if you want austerity, with the veneer of professionalism,” Signorelli said. “He’s the type of guy who can hobnob with the European elite. A Mario Monti type: unelected and willing to do the IMFs bidding,” he said.

Mario Monti was a centrist Italian technocrat who passed an austerity package that called for increased taxes, pension reform and measures to fight tax evasion.
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Ukraine’s new 450-seat parliament approved the appointment of the former Central Banker Yatsenyuk on Thursday by a vote of 371 to 1. Oddly enough, earlier this month, the pro-Western Yats trailed behind popular opposition leaders such as former heavyweight boxer Viltali Klitschko and the leader of the nationalist, Svoboda Party, Oleh Tyahnybok. But Yats had friends in high places and while he does not have strong support of the electorate, and would have no chance of winning an election, he is pro-IMF austerity and apparently the bulk of parliament is as well.

“Yatsenyuk was saying that what the Greeks did to themselves we are going to do ourselves,” said Signorelli. “He wants to follow the Greek economic model. Who the hell wants to follow that?”

Also today, Yatsenyuk promised to implement “very unpopular measures” to stabilize the country’s finances. The government said it needs $35 billion to support the country over the next two years. His language in a news report broadcast by Bloomberg today indicates he is heading toward a potentially destabilizing austerity campaign:

“The treasury is empty. We will do everything not to default. If we get the financial support from the IMF, the U.S., we will do it. I’m going to be the most unpopular prime minister in the history of my country,” he said. “But this is the only solution. I would never promise any kind of huge achievements. First and the most important issue is to stabilize the situation.”
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It is unclear the kind of measures Yatsenyuk will tolerate, but it appears austerity is the path forward. That includes a regimen of tax increases, interest rate hikes and further currency devaluation.

Yanukovych resisted the International Monetary Fund’s demand to raise taxes and devalue the currency. Yatsenyuk doesn’t mind. For economists who think austerity is a disaster, Ukraine is on a path to ruin.

“We saw this in the 90s and what the IMF did to Russia with Yeltsin. They’ll do that to Ukraine,” said Signorelli. Remember Slobodan Milo�ević in Yugoslavia? After the IMF finished with Yugoslavia it was only a matter of time before the separatist movements gained traction,” he said. “I think things in Ukraine can get really really bad.”