Crisis Oekraïne - Rusland #151 De kwetsbare oligarchie

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Op zaterdag 13 september 2014 13:53 schreef SadPanda het volgende:

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Vanwege dezelfde reden dat Rusland meer grond wil/grond wil behouden.

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Op zaterdag 13 september 2014 13:49 schreef KoosVogels het volgende:

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En dat is een probleem, omdat?

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Op zaterdag 13 september 2014 13:54 schreef Libertarisch het volgende:

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En dat is volgens jou welke reden?

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Op zaterdag 13 september 2014 13:56 schreef betyar het volgende:

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Landen die afhankelijk worden van de EU, je hebt ze dan in een economische houdgreep. Wat een prettige gedachte moet dat zijn in Brussel. Volledige macht over zijn lidstaten.

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Op zaterdag 13 september 2014 13:56 schreef betyar het volgende:

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Schaliegas en landbouw.

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Op zaterdag 13 september 2014 13:30 schreef waht het volgende:
Je neemt een land met militaire middelen in en schrijft dan een referendum uit.

Democratie. Irak is er niets bij.

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Iraqis Were Set to Vote, but U.S. Wielded a Veto

NAJAF, Iraq, June 18 — American marines had built makeshift wooden ballot boxes. An Army reserve unit from Green Bay, Wis., had conducted a voter registration drive. And Iraqi political candidates had blanketed the city with colorful fliers outlining their election platforms — restore electricity, rehabilitate the old quarter, repave roads.

But last week, L. Paul Bremer III, the head of the American military occupation in Iraq, unilaterally canceled what American officials here said would have been the first such election in Iraq since the fall of Saddam Hussein. Overruling the local American military commander, Mr. Bremer decreed that conditions in Najaf were not appropriate for an election.

Several days later, American marines stormed the offices of an obscure local political party here, arrested four members and jailed them for four days. The offense, the Americans said, was a violation of a new edict by Mr. Bremer that makes it illegal to incite violence against forces occupying Iraq.

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Elections for the National Assembly of Iraq were held on January 30, 2005 in Iraq.

Low Arab Sunni turnout threatened the legitimacy of the election, which was as low as 2% in Anbar province. More than 100 armed attacks on polling places took place, killing at least 44 people (including nine suicide bombers) across Iraq, including at least 20 in Baghdad.

One challenge to the legitimacy of the election was the low Arab Sunni turnout, which was as low as 2% in Anbar province. Areas with mixed populations saw the vast majority of voters back Shi'ite or Kurdish parties. The largest Arab Sunni party, The Iraqis, won only 1.78% of the vote (for comparison, Arab Sunnis are thought to be 15-20% of the population).

The boycott was largely a product of the threatened violence.

Opponents of the occupation, such as the various insurgent groups, claimed the elections were not free and fair, citing flaws in the process. The UN adviser to Iraq's election commission Craig Jenness said the complaints were not significant; "I don't see anything that would necessitate a rerun...There were nearly 7,000 candidates standing in this election and only 275 seats, so you're always going to have winners and losers and it's normal that the losers won't always be happy about it."[

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Op zaterdag 13 september 2014 13:32 schreef betyar het volgende:
..dat het westen graag Oekraïne wil inlijven vanwege schaliegas en landbouw maakt het westen fout en niet Rusland.
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Zwaar artillerievuur bij luchthaven Donetsk

In het noorden van Donetsk, de grootste stad van Oost-Oekraïne, was zaterdag zwaar artillerievuur te horen. Boven de luchthaven hangt zwarte rook.

Volgens een verslaggever van persbureau Reuters lijkt het op de zwaarste schending de afgelopen dagen van het breekbare staakt-het-vuren in het Oost-Europese land.

De stad Donetsk, die voor de oorlog circa 1 miljoen inwoners had, is in handen van pro-Russische separatisten. De luchthaven is nog steeds in handen van de regering in Kiev.

_{Door: ANP}

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Op zaterdag 13 september 2014 14:42 schreef Slava het volgende:
"Humanitair konvooi"
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Herken de bruinhemd.
Iedereen wist het maar dit bewijst het.
En nog gaan hier nog mensen zijn die dit een karretje met rijst noemen.

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Op zaterdag 13 september 2014 14:52 schreef meth1745 het volgende:

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Ik kan niet zien wat er precies in die kar zit, jij wel?

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Op zaterdag 13 september 2014 14:42 schreef Slava het volgende:
"Humanitair konvooi"
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Herken de bruinhemd.
Iedereen wist het maar dit bewijst het.
En nog gaan hier nog mensen zijn die dit een karretje met rijst noemen.

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Op zaterdag 13 september 2014 15:01 schreef michaelmoore het volgende:

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nee er zit water en brood en medicijnen in die karren, geen munitie en snelvuurwapens, maar de russen hebben wel flink terrein gewonnen na dit humanitair konvooi

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GrahamWP_UK twitterde op zaterdag 13-09-2014 om 14:31:02 Brought by Rus aid trucks today, a warehouse full of generators, equipment, to help restore Lugansk infrastructure. http://t.co/dNCb8Kw9iw reageer retweet

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Op zaterdag 13 september 2014 15:06 schreef michaelmoore het volgende:
http://www.telegraaf.nl/d(...)_voor_Rusland__.html

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Ukraine might not be able to secure its gas supplies through reverse flow from Europe as Gazprom’s contracts prohibit its clients from reversing flow in the pipelines.

Although a technical solution to send gas European countries have purchased from Russia back to Ukraine might be available within months, Ukraine might not be able to secure its gas needs by re-purchasing Russian gas from its EU neighbours as Gazprom considers such an action illegal.

A spokesman of Eustream, a pipeline operator of Slovakia which is in the most suitable position to help Ukraine out, confirmed reversing flow in any of the four pipelines transporting Russian gas to Slovakia from Ukraine would be a direct breach of contract.

"For a reverse flow, you would have to stop the East-West flow in one of the (four) pipelines and reverse the flow. But you would have to have approval from Gazprom," the spokesman said.

"Gazprom does not agree with this (reverse flows), and thus it's not an option," he added.

Although reversing flow is legal in the EU, it would be impossible to conceal such an action from Gazprom as Slovakia would have to build a metering station before starting the operation.

An industry source earlier told Reuters that the cost of building the metering station in Slovakia and making some minor technical adjustments was about ¤20m (£16.5m) and would take nine months to complete.

As the pipeline connecting Russia with Europe was designed to transport gas only in the East-West direction, further technical modifications would be needed. Slovakia has already built a compressor station to push gas in the opposite direction from that originally designed. In some cases, a pressure reduction station needs to be installed at the other end in order to draw gas back.

Europe's typical pipeline pressure is around 80 bar, and in order to reverse flows, the pressure at one end is raised to over 120 bar, creating a pressure gradient as an operator will decrease the pressure at the other end.

A filter facility would have to be built on the originally receiving side to filter gas before sending it back.

Slovakia said it was considering the option of pumping around 10 billion cubic metres of gas per year to Ukraine, covering about 18 per cent of Ukrainian demand. Russian gas currently covers about 40 per cent of Ukraine’s needs.

Eustream said it was working with Ukrainian pipeline operator Ukrtransgas to ensure that reverse flows could start by the winter, when demand for gas peaks.

In the EU, reverse flow between member states has been common for more than a decade and the European gas transmission network is now closely integrated.

Gas disputes between Russia and Ukraine led to Gazprom cutting off supplies in 2006 and 2009.

Officials from Norway and the Netherlands, other large gas suppliers, have already said they would be unable to supply Ukraine and other European countries with substantial amounts of gas in the event of a Russian supply cut.

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Reverse flows of Russian gas from some of the European countries like Slovakia and Poland are neither legal nor viable, experts tell RT. The comments follow Ukraines claims its going to use reverse schemes, after Gazprom cut its supplies.

On Monday, Russia switched Ukraine to a prepayment system for gas supplies, saying it wouldnt send gas directly unless it paid its $4.5 billion debt in full.

Ukraine has responded by saying it could receive up to 20 billion cubic meters in reverse flow from neighboring Slovakia, Poland and Hungary, a practice Gazprom and RT experts doubt is legal.

It depends on the contracts between Gazprom and the European recipient. As far as we know, there is a non re-export clause that means gas received in Europe should actually be utilized in Europe for downstream purposes, it shouldnt be re-exported, there is strong legal question there, Marat Terterov, Executive Director of the Brussels Energy Club, told RT.

One of the main, and most simple stumbling blocks, is the contract itself, which doesnt allow the importing countries to redistribute the supplies as they please.

A lot of this gas is Gazprom gas being delivered to the EU and it may be outside of the legal abilities of EU customers to de facto export that back to Ukraine, Terterov said.

The next big hurdle is Ukraines position as a non-EU member state, and the European Commissions jurisdiction over it. At present, neither body has any official precedent in how to deal with the situation.

Oriented towards mitigating the energy security concerns of the East EU members, they are not intended to mitigate the concerns at the energy security level of a non-EU member such as Ukraine, Terterov said.

Brussels will therefore have no choice but to leave discussions between Gazprom and Naftogaz.

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Polen, Duitsland en Slowakije krijgen minder gas
Posted by Kraven on 11 september 2014 in Overheden | 80 Views | Leave a response

Rusland schroeft de gasleveranties aan Polen, Duitsland en Slowakije terug om duidelijk te maken dat deze landen op moeten houden met het terugleveren van aardgas aan Oekraïne. Polen kreeg maandag 24 procent minder gas, gisteren 20 procent. Slowakije meldt een teruggang van 10 procent en ook het Duitse energiebedrijf E.ON zegt minder gas van Rusland te krijgen, maar noemt geen details.

Het Russische bedrijf Gazprom zegt te doen wat het kan om alle Europese klanten van aardgas te voorzien afhankelijk van het volume dat beschikbaar komt voor de export. Tegelijkertijd bevestigde Gazprom dat er de afgelopen dagen minder gas naar Polen is gepompt. Alleen via de pijpleiding Yamal-Europa komt minder gas naar Europa, de overige aanvoerlijnen functioneren als normaal.

Dit is een waarschuwing aan de Europese Unie om Rusland geen nieuwe sancties op te leggen, meent Pawel Poprawa van het Instituut voor Energieonderzoek in Warschau. Het Poolse Gaz-Systeem meldt dat het door de verminderde aanvoer noodgedwongen de levering van aardgas aan Oekraïne stil heeft moeten leggen.

Een woordvoerder van het Duitse E.ON laat weten dat er voldoende gas is opgeslagen om niet meteen in problemen te komen. Dat wordt anders als deze situatie wekenlang voortduurt en het kouder gaat worden. Ook de Slowaakse gasimporteur SPP zegt voorlopig over voldoende voorraad te beschikken.

Bron: Reuters