Crisis Oekra�ne - Rusland #145 Op naar Kiev!

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Op zondag 7 september 2014 21:03 schreef Zienswijze het volgende:

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Maar ook geen verplichte solidariteit naar de rest van de wereld.

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An Iranian newspaper says authorities there have arrested a Ukrainian national suspected of sabotage at the country's Bushehr nuclear power plant.

The report, in the "Hamshahri" daily on September 7, said the "Ukrainian expert" was affiliated with a Russian contractor that works at Bushehr -- which went online in 2011 with Russian aid.

The report did not elaborate on the timing or nature of the alleged sabotage.

Iran has long accused the United States and Israel of working to sabotage its nuclear program, which Tehran insists is entirely devoted to peaceful purposes.

A powerful piece of malware discovered in 2010, a computer worm called Stuxnet, wreaked havoc at Iranian nuclear facilities and was subsequently blamed on the United States and Israel.

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Op zondag 7 september 2014 21:07 schreef deelnemer het volgende:

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Nee, maar jij legt altijd uit dat je anderen moet laten stikken als je er zelf geen voordeel bij hebt. Als een evidente waarheid.

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Op zondag 7 september 2014 21:11 schreef Zienswijze het volgende:

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Rusland is geen Afghanistan wat je even omver loopt. Je moet je kansen zorgvuldig afwegen. Het is ook de taak van Oekra�ne (wetende dat je veel zwakker dan Rusland bent) om hier diplomatiek mee om te gaan. Maar wat zij doen is hardhandig de rebellen onderdrukken en zo "geef" je Rusland eigenlijk een legitieme reden om voor "haar" mensen op te komen. Kiev pakt de situatie niet diplomatiek aan.

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BradCabana twitterde op zondag 07-09-2014 om 20:56:50 REPORTS: #Ukraine forces toward NAF forces from inside #Mariupol at aprox 2200 hours tonight #cdnpoli #ceasefire reageer retweet

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EuromaidanPR twitterde op zondag 07-09-2014 om 16:04:45 #Dutch translator Hans Boland refuses #Russia's #Pushkin Medal in protest against #Putin http://t.co/Ip4yNYzMfF |EMPR http://t.co/I0EgMR3PAD reageer retweet

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Als vertaler van bijna het volledige werk van Poesjkin, gedrenkt in zijn geest en mijzelf welhaast zijn schim wanend, kan ik niet anders dan oprecht zijn en nergens doekjes om winden; als vurige apostel – een beter woord vind ik niet – van Anna Achmatova, voor wie ik een grenzeloze eerbied koester, moet ik hard zijn wanneer de waarheid dat verlangt. Een dergelijk eerbetoon als u mij biedt zou ik in de grootst mogelijke dank ontvangen, ware daar niet uw president, wiens gedrag en denkwijze ik veracht en haat. Hij vormt een zeer groot gevaar voor de vrijheid en vrede op onze planeet. […] Iedere relatie tussen hem en mij, tussen zijn naam en die van Poesjkin, is walgelijk en onverdraaglijk.

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Op zondag 7 september 2014 21:14 schreef deelnemer het volgende:
De hoogste tijd voor een Euromaidan Public Relations Tweet

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EuromaidanPR twitterde op zondag 07-09-2014 om 16:04:45 #Dutch translator Hans Boland refuses #Russia's #Pushkin Medal in protest against #Putin http://t.co/Ip4yNYzMfF |EMPR http://t.co/I0EgMR3PAD reageer retweet

Nederlandse vertaler weigert hoogste onderscheiding om Poetin

De Nederlandse vertaler Hans Boland weigert de door Rusland aan hem toegekende Poesjkin-medaille uit protest tegen “gedrag en denkwijze” van Vladimir Poetin. Het gaat om de hoogste Russische onderscheiding op cultureel gebied, die de regering eens per jaar aan een aantal Russen en buitenlanders aanbiedt, schrijft NRC Weekend vandaag.

Boland (1951) zou de medaille krijgen vanwege zijn veelgeprezen vertalingen van een groot aantal klassieke Russische auteurs, onder wie Poesjkin, Dostojevski en Achmatova, en vanwege zijn verdiensten op onderwijskundig en cultureel gebied. De onderscheiding zou op 4 november door Poetin persoonlijk aan Boland worden uitgereikt, tijdens een receptie voor de Dag van de Eenheid, een belangrijke nationale Russische feestdag.

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Op zondag 7 september 2014 21:14 schreef deelnemer het volgende:
De Nederlandse vertaler Hans Boland weigert de door Rusland aan hem toegekende Poesjkin-medaille uit protest tegen “gedrag en denkwijze” van Vladimir Poetin.

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Op zondag 7 september 2014 21:11 schreef Zienswijze het volgende:

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Rusland is geen Afghanistan wat je even omver loopt. Je moet je kansen zorgvuldig afwegen. Het is ook de taak van Oekra�ne (wetende dat je veel zwakker dan Rusland bent) om hier diplomatiek mee om te gaan. Maar wat zij doen is hardhandig de rebellen onderdrukken en zo "geef" je Rusland eigenlijk een legitieme reden om voor "haar" mensen op te komen. Totdat Rusland inderdaad binnentrekt. Kiev pakt de situatie niet diplomatiek aan.

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Op zondag 7 september 2014 21:18 schreef michaelmoore het volgende:

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bravo

Ik hoop dat er veel meer van die brave slimme mensen met een eigen geluid komen, om deze idioot te stoppen

Deze zelfingenomen wereldheerscher, deze nieuwe Hitler of Stalin

Het opsluiten van Kasparov en andere intelligentsia , net als het doodschieten van journalisten met een tegengeluid doet heel erg aan Stalin denken

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Op zondag 7 september 2014 21:26 schreef SadPanda het volgende:
Obama is een stuk linkser dan Poetin dus eigenlijk is Obama Stalin en niet Poetin.

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Op zondag 7 september 2014 21:33 schreef SadPanda het volgende:

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Ja, en Hitler was extreemlinks...
Communisme/socialisme is op geen enkel manier rechts.

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BBCWorld twitterde op zondag 07-09-2014 om 16:45:30 More shelling in #Mariupol & #Donetsk but European observers say #Ukraine truce still holds http://t.co/uOmeQ1Vl2v http://t.co/7uAPRLNrI6 reageer retweet

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Dramatically worsened the situation on the outskirts of Donetsk
07.09.2014 - 19:10

"In the tri-border region of the mining capital with Yasinovataya and Makeyevka side of the Town, broke through a group of punishers", - informs the Agency Voenkor.info noting the sharp aggravation of the situation on the outskirts of Donetsk.

"MLRS mod DND took a few shots towards the location of the enemy. The battle continues," the statement said. Also reported attempts punishers unlock surrounded division, attacking from the side NP Avdiivka-Spartacus: "OU MO defensive, reflecting the impact of the APU is used MLRS "Grad" enemy positions".

The political scientist Paul Kanishchev made this assessment, as of the commencement of the assault Donetsk: "some troops broke into the city. There are fights. Message: "I received a Call from the village of Pervomayskaya, speak Donetsk is the Horde"...

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Op zondag 7 september 2014 21:39 schreef SadPanda het volgende:

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Nee, maar ook geen rechts idee of ideaal.

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Op zondag 7 september 2014 19:38 schreef Tukker87 het volgende:

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Ja daarom werden de Oekra�nse burgers in het oosten van dat land ook ge�ntimideerd en in elkaar geslagen door pro Russische mensen.

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Op zondag 7 september 2014 22:29 schreef meth1745 het volgende:
Regelmatig knallen te horen in Donetsk nu. Vrij ver van de luchthaven, artillerievuur, inkomend of uitgaand, dunno..

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Op zondag 7 september 2014 22:30 schreef Shokirbek85 het volgende:

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Остановите эту войну !

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BradCabana twitterde op zondag 07-09-2014 om 22:21:39 Reports about loud explosions in northern part of #Mariupol via @JuMistress http://t.co/2WcC8n7vQv … #cdnpoli reageer retweet

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Op zondag 7 september 2014 21:02 schreef betyar het volgende:

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shaunwalker7 twitterde op zondag 07-09-2014 om 21:28:42 A pretty extraordinary tale RT @julianborger: Russia parades detained Estonian police officer before TV cameras http://t.co/wi7N60eIkN reageer retweet

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But that era of post-cold war calm may have come to an end on Friday morning, when, according to several Estonian accounts, smoke grenades detonated at an Estonian customs post, and all radio and telephone signals were jammed as armed Russian men suddenly materialised and dragged away a local official.

His name is Eston Kohver, a counter-intelligence officer in the Estonian security agency, Kapo, whose job over the past few years has been to keep tabs on the smuggling cartels trying to sneak merchandise through the Luhamaa crossing.

But Kohver's fate has now become entangled in a much bigger issue: the question of just how far Vladimir Putin's Russia is prepared to go to goad the Nato allies on its doorstep.

The arrest has been seen as particularly provocative because it came just two days after the US president, Barack Obama, visited Estonia, a trip aimed at reassuring the Baltic states of the US commitment to the security of its Nato allies in the face of Russia's role in the Ukraine crisis. It followed the announcement of the creation of "spearhead force" – a Nato unit of 4,000 soldiers to be tasked with defending Baltic countries including Estonia.

But the immediate reaction of the government in Tallinn was to play down Friday's incident in the hope that it was the work of local Russian commanders who have a record of involvement in the smuggling trade.

The Kapo chief, Arnold Sinisalu, issued a statement saying there appeared to be no political motivation behind the incident. Estonia's president, Toomas Hendrik Ilves, tweeted that: "Kapo, like FBI in US, deals both with counterintelligence *and* organized crime. Just in some places they turn out to be same."

The hope that the affair would turn out to be low-key was initially strengthened when Estonian and Russian border guards performed a joint inspection, which seemed to verify the evidence of an incursion from Russia into Estonia, including multiple footprints in a band of raked sand in that runs through no-man's land.

By Sunday, however, it became increasingly clear that Russia had other ideas. The Estonian was taken to Moscow where he was paraded before television cameras. The Russian Federal Security Service, the FSB, successor to the Soviet KGB, claimed Kohver had been caught on Russian soil.

The FSB said in a statement: "A Taurus handgun with ammunition, �5,000 in cash, special equipment for concealed audio recording and documents that bear evidence of an intelligence mission were seized from the intruder."

The statement appeared ominous for Kohver, whom the FSB had identified as a Kapo officer as far back as 2011, saying he was one of several agents trying to recruit agents as they crossed the border. The decision to bring him to Moscow and put him on television made it clear that Moscow was not interested in finding a quick and quiet means of resolving the incident.

Kadri Liik, a policy fellow at the European Council on Foreign Relations, said: "My first guess was that this was to do with cross-border smuggling which happened to be sponsored by the Russian security services, which wouldn't be that unusual. The lines are pretty blended. It could be that Kohver got in the way of a business deal, but if it is business, it's clearly a business with Moscow connections."

The question of Kohver's future now looks likely to become a lever for a resurgent Russia to work on its small Baltic neighbour, which at last week's Nato summit declared itself in favour of hosting a new Nato base.

"This is not something cooked up the day before yesterday," said Eerik-Niiles Kross, a former Estonian intelligence chief and national security advisor. "I don't know if it was an FSB shady deal that went wrong, but whatever it was, you have to put it in the general context. The timing is either an odd coincidence, or it is a signal."

There is nothing new about Estonia and Russia conducting spy operations against each other. President Ilves recently claimed Estonia had unmasked four Russian moles in the past five years. In 2008, it was discovered that the top security official in the Estonian defence ministry, Herman Simm, was a Russian agent. In the past two years, Kapo found two more double agents in its own ranks.

In 2007, Estonian government institutions came under a series of crippling cyber-attacks which Tallinn blamed on Russia, but which Moscow denied. In 2008, an ethnic Russian living in Estonia was fined for his part in the attacks.

But the Kohver incident points towards a new gloves-off approach by the FSB.

"I don't know of any other incident of a foreign national being taken on foreign soil. To kidnap a Nato country's intelligence official on foreign territory is unprecedented," Kross said. Nevertheless, he added, raising the stakes would be unlikely to help Kohver. "No one is interested in bringing Nato in on a practical level. The aim will be to try to deal with this on a local, bilateral level."

Marko Mikhelson, the chairman of the foreign affairs committee in the Estonian parliament, agreed that it did not serve the country's interests to escalate the issue into an international crisis. said: "It seems the Russians are trying to paint this event into a bigger story. I don't want to speculate on their aims, but remember they have done these kinds of acts that affect the sovereignty of other countries," Mikhelson said. "But we have been dealing with difficult issues with Russia for years. I don't see the need now for a bigger action. But we'll strengthen the border and keep our eyes open."

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shaunwalker7 twitterde op zondag 07-09-2014 om 13:45:32 May be 2 different incidents of course but possible a "friendly fire" or other odd incident might be being passed off as shelling casualty reageer retweet

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harryjfawcett twitterde op zondag 07-09-2014 om 13:56:48 @shaunwalker7 saw a pair of women's shoes nr that shooting site this am. Fm posn of cars, poss one forced to stop by others, then shot up reageer retweet

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Thousands at memorial for Russian photographer killed in Ukraine

MOSCOW: Thousands of mourners on Friday filed past the coffin of Russian photographer Andrei Stenin, who was killed while covering fierce fighting between government troops and pro-Russian rebels in east Ukraine.

Grieving relatives stood in front of wreaths at a remembrance ceremony at the Moscow headquarters of the state-owned Rossiya Segodnya (Russia Today) media group that the 33-year-old journalist was working for.

A high-ranking Kremlin official read out messages of condolence, including a decree from President Vladimir Putin awarding Stenin a posthumous honour ahead of his burial.

Russia has demanded a complete and impartial investigation into the “barbaric killing” of Stenin who was confirmed dead Wednesday after going missing in early August.

Moscow’s Investigative Committee says that it believes Stenin was killed on the evening of August 6 when a convoy of refugees he was travelling with came under fire from Ukrainian tanks.

“I hope that those who committed this grievous crime will be punished,” Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev wrote in a condolence telegram quoted by RIA-Novosti news agency.

“Andrei had been in a lot of hotspots around the world. His profound and enlightening pictures always portrayed the suffering of people on all sides of the frontlines,” the telegram said.

Stenin had been on assignment in Ukraine since May 14 for Rossiya Segodnya, a state holding company which includes RIA-Novosti wire service and TV news channels including the English language station RT.

Stenin is the fourth Russian journalist to have been killed while working in eastern Ukraine.

His disappearance sparked a major campaign by Russian media to find and liberate him, with news broadcasts on all national channels and many websites prominently displaying “Free Andrei” banners.
An Italian photographer and his Russian assistant were also killed in late May.

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MOSCOW, September 8 (RIA Novosti) - New Sanctions against Russia in energy or finance sectors could trigger an assymetric response from Moscow, such as closing its airspace, Russia’s Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev told the Vedomosti newspaper in an interview released Monday.

“It is they [the West], who should be asked whether there will be new sanctions. But if there are sanctions, linked with energy, [or] further restrictions on our finance sector, we will have to respond asymmetrically. For instance, [with] restrictions in transport area. We act on the premise of friendly relations with our partners, and this is why the sky above Russia is open for flights. But if we are restricted, we will have to answer,” Medvedev added.

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OS1954 twitterde op zondag 07-09-2014 om 23:16:36 #Russia PM @MedvedevRussia threatens overflight ban if Western sanctions are brought in. Says it will bankrupt many airlines. reageer retweet

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minotauruk twitterde op zondag 07-09-2014 om 23:47:41 @2111015 Western airlines managed to fly around Russia for decades, I'm sure they'll manage it again :-) reageer retweet

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Op maandag 8 september 2014 00:11 schreef meth1745 het volgende:

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die laatste vergeet dat de regels toen voor iedereen golden, ik denk niet dat Rusland de Aziatische maatschappijen zal bannen...

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Op zondag 7 september 2014 22:41 schreef hmmmmmmm het volgende:

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Democrazy?

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Op maandag 8 september 2014 00:14 schreef Nintex het volgende:

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Als Rusland zo door gaat wil straks geen enkele Europeaan meer naar het land reizen dus ze snijden zichzelf alleen maar in de vingers.

Iedere tegenmaatregel die Rusland kan verzinnen is op de korte termijn (1 - 3 jaar) nadeliger voor hen dan voor de EU.

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Op zondag 7 september 2014 22:29 schreef Shokirbek85 het volgende:

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We moeten vechten tegen Kiev nazi junta

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Op maandag 8 september 2014 00:15 schreef theunderdog het volgende:

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Waar is dat?

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Op maandag 8 september 2014 00:18 schreef theunderdog het volgende:

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Hoezo dat nu weer??

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Op maandag 8 september 2014 00:21 schreef Scrummie het volgende:

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ga dan

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Op maandag 8 september 2014 00:21 schreef Nintex het volgende:

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Rusland heeft een Estlander gevangen genomen (eigenlijk ontvoerd) op verdenking van het spioneren voor de NAVO. Als je dat boven het hoofd hangt denk je wel 3 keer na voor je naar Rusland afreist.

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Op maandag 8 september 2014 00:20 schreef BaajGuardian het volgende:

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Dit.