Crisis Oekra�ne - Rusland #160 Waar Kerry verdere sancties wil

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Op dinsdag 2 december 2014 13:44 schreef meth1745 het volgende:
Ik lees 9% op Al Jazeera en RT, maar volgens betrouwbaardere bronnen was de laagste stand bijna -6%, en 's avonds laat (11 pm) was het -2%.
RT spreekt trouwens over ruim 40% sinds begin 2014, google finance geeft 34% (al kan die 9% het verschil verklaren). Al Jazeera doet er nog een schepje bij en zegt "The ruble has depreciated by nearly 60 percent against the dollar since the start of this year." (bedoelen ze depreciated to 60%?)

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A fresh plunge in Brent prices to a five-year low of $67.50 a barrel on Monday caused the dam to break, triggering a 9pc slide in the rouble in a matter of hours.

Analysts said it took huge intervention by the Russian central bank to stop the rout and stablize the rouble at 52.07 to the dollar. “They must have spent billions,” said Tim Ash, at Standard Bank.

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Op dinsdag 2 december 2014 14:01 schreef Pharmacist het volgende:

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Dan heb je denk ik mijn bron niet goed gelezen. De Roebel tankte 9%, waarna er een rally plaatsvond. Men denkt dat de Russische centrale bank intervenieerde en dat dat de reden is geweest voor die rally. De Roebel sloot de dag dus niet op -9%.

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Russia's currency fell as much as 6% Monday before recovering to around 52 rubles per ...

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(Reuters) - Ukraine's military and separatist forces have agreed "in principle" on a new ceasefire from Dec. 5 in the rebel-held Luhansk region in the east of the country, the OSCE security group said.

The deal reported by the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe is the latest attempt to reinforce a much violated ceasefire agreed on Sept. 5.

Shelling by from both sides has continued despite the three-month-old ceasefire deal signed by Ukraine, Russia and the pro-Russian separatists' leaders. Subsequent attempts to forge a stronger truce have failed to halt the artillery fire.

The OSCE said representatives from both sides had "agreed in principle to a total ceasefire along the entire line of contact" in the Luhansk region, but that differences remained on certain details.

The sides "continued to dispute aspects of the disengagement phase," the OSCE said in a report released late on Monday.

More than 4,300 people have been killed in eastern Ukraine since separatist rebellions began in April. September's ceasefire deal has come under particular strain from fighting over the airport of the rebel stronghold of Donetsk.

Ukraine said military representatives of Ukraine and Russia would hold talks with rebels on Tuesday in Donetsk, the other rebellious region, on Tuesday on establishing a new ceasefire as soon as possible and on the withdrawal of heavy weapons.

"Particular attention will be paid to the question of Donetsk airport as it is a strategic site," the press service for the Ukrainian military operation in the east said in a post on Facebook.

The sides held similar talks in November and did not reach an agreement.

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Op dinsdag 2 december 2014 15:44 schreef crashbangboom het volgende:
Kennelijk kon er nu wel rechtstreeks onderhandeld worden, laten we hopen dat het standhoudt.

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representatives of Ukraine and Russia would hold talks with rebels on Tuesday in Donetsk, the other rebellious region, on Tuesday on establishing a new ceasefire as soon as possible and on the withdrawal of heavy weapons.

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The OSCE said representatives from both sides had "agreed in principle to a total ceasefire along the entire line of contact" in the Luhansk region, but that differences remained on certain details.

The sides "continued to dispute aspects of the disengagement phase," the OSCE said in a report released late on Monday.

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Op dinsdag 2 december 2014 18:38 schreef deelnemer het volgende:

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De russen zaten ook aan de onderhandelingstafel. UIt je eigen bron:

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Verder zijn ze er niet echt uitgekomen:

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De Donetsk region (en dus ook het vliegveld) valt er sowieso buiten.

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Op dinsdag 2 december 2014 22:37 schreef crashbangboom het volgende:

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Dan herhaal ik nog maar een keer dat "laten we hopen dat het wat oplevert/standhoudt"

Het lijkt wel of je teleurgesteld bent dat er toenadering is om iets op te lossen.

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Fighting has continued despite a ceasefire agreed on Sept. 5. In the rebel stronghold of Donetsk a senior separatist figure said rival sides agreed a new local truce from 10.00 a.m. ET around the city airport.

"But this is 65th time we agree about this. I don't rule out that there is going to be 66th time," Andrei Purgin said. Sounds of fighting abated but did not stop. Kiev said rebels renewed attacks on the airport in the evening.

http://www.reuters.com/ar(...)dUSKCN0JG0UU20141202

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Op dinsdag 2 december 2014 22:35 schreef deelnemer het volgende:
Sinking of Kremlin gas project leaves south-east Europe high and dry

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E Europe in shock over axing of South Stream

Eastern European nations reacted with shock and anger to Russia’s decision to abandon South Stream, its $50bn gas pipeline across the Black Sea into Europe, as shares in some of the companies involved in the project dived.

Bulgaria, Serbia and Hungary said they had received no advance warning that Moscow was scrapping South Stream, even though they all have substantial financial and political capital invested. Russia said it would export its gas to a trade hub in Turkey instead.

South Stream is so far the biggest casualty of the stand-off between Russia and Europe over Moscow’s military involvement in Ukraine.

The much-vaunted project, backed by Russia’s state-controlled gas group Gazprom, was designed to bring Russian gas into Europe by bypassing Ukraine. It gained momentum after a series of price disputes between Moscow and Kiev over the past decade led to supply cuts for some of Gazprom’s European customers.

But there were fears in Brussels that the pipeline would cement Gazprom’s domination of the European gas market. The European Commission insisted that other gas suppliers be given access to South Stream, arguing that the idea of Gazprom both providing the gas and owning the pipeline violated EU competition rules.

However, the project was backed by several countries in southeastern Europe, which saw it as a way to improve their energy security. They also looked forward to earning money from transit fees for South Stream’s gas as it crossed their territory.
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At a meeting in Brussels of EU ambassadors on Tuesday, the Hungarian representative asked Federica Mogherini, the new EU foreign policy chief: “First Nabucco, now South Stream. What are we supposed to do now?”

Peter Szijjarto, Hungary’s foreign minister, said alternative sources of energy would now have to be explored, including gas from Azerbaijan.

Aleksandar Vučić, Serbia’s prime minister, told the country’s RTS channel that the decision was bad news for Belgrade and said he would urgently seek to speak with Mr Putin. “Serbia has been investing in this project for seven years, but now it has to pay the price of a clash between the great [powers],” he said.

Italy and Austria have also been vocal supporters of the venture, pitting themselves against the commission.

Shares in companies with contracts for South Stream also suffered. Stocks in Italian oil services group Saipem closed down 10.8 per cent, while Germany’s Salzgitter, whose joint venture is making pipes for the project, was down 7.4 per cent. Other businesses involved in South Stream include Italy’s Eni and Austria’s OMV.

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Op dinsdag 2 december 2014 21:57 schreef michaelmoore het volgende:
een amerikaan in de regering van oekraine

dat zal raar vallen in rusland

http://www.telegraaf.nl/b(...)ring_Oekraine__.html

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President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko has said that he signed a decree to grant Ukrainian citizenship to Natalie Jaresko, Alexander Kvitashvili and Aivaras Abromavicius, who were nominated for the future Cabinet of Ministers.

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RWB opposes creation of information ministry

Reporters Without Borders firmly opposes the planned creation of a Ukrainian information ministry, announced today. Without civil society being consulted, parliament is expected to ratify its creation when it votes on the new government later today.

An information ministry has been included in the proposed new government. Its creation, against the backdrop of an information war with Russia, has surprised journalists and media freedom organizations, which were not consulted.

“Putting the government in charge of ‘information policy’ would be major retrograde step that would open the way to grave excesses,” Reporters Without Borders secretary-general Christophe Deloire said.

“In a democratic society, the media should not be regulated by the government. The creation of an information ministry is the worst of all possible responses to the serious challenges that the government is facing.”

Media independence and media freedom are the best weapons against propaganda. Enlisting journalists in a government-managed information war would just undermine the public’s confidence in the national media. Reporters Without Borders urges Ukraine’s parliamentarians to oppose this proposal.

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Op dinsdag 2 december 2014 23:37 schreef J.B. het volgende:
Putin's Gas Deal With Turkey Is a Defeat
http://www.bloombergview.(...)h-turkey-is-a-defeat

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Analysis of Ukrainian Air Force Losses in eastern Ukraine clashes

It’s hard to say how many aircraft the Ukrainian Air Force has lost.

Some reports, especially those on the pro-separatists side seem to be a bit exaggerated but, as Ainonline website reported, on the basis of Ukrainian and British sources, the Ukrainian Air Force has lost 22 aircraft throughout the crisis.

Ukrainian military aviation had not been in a very good shape before the hybrid-conflict with the separatists started, and any losses may be considered to be severe.

The total loss count includes 9 combat planes, 3 cargo planes and 10 helicopters, most of which have been shot down with MANPADS (Man Portable Air Defense Systems) and, in case of some of the lost helicopters, with rocket propelled grenades.

In total, the UAF conducted 740 sorties during the operation, which is dubbed by the Kiev government to have an “anti-terrorist” character.

Starting from losses within the group of combat planes, one Su-24 Fencer, six Su-25 Frogfoots and two MiG-29 Fulcrums have been lost, where one of the Fulcrums was reportedly shot down by a Russian MiG-29.

The cargo planes which have been lost include single examples of An-26 Curl, An-30 Clank and Il-76 Candid. The Curl was reportedly hit by a Buk missile system; the same type of anti-aircraft system behind the downing of MH17 flight (according to most analysts). The Il-76 mentioned above was shot down in Luhansk, and it was a Candid in a flight of three such planes landing at Luhansk at the time. The first Candid made a safe landing, while the crew of the last one aborted landing.

The British sources state that lack of proper flight experience and intelligence data was the main reason for the incurred losses. The ECM systems on the Ukrainian jets have been made in Russia, which means that they were easy to overcome. According to the Polish outlet altair.com.pl, the Western countries were asked to supply new electronic countermeasures, however in fear of these being intercepted by the Russians, they were never delivered.

In the light of the analysis of the potential of the Ukrainian Air Force conducted by Dr Sean Wilson, which has been published in the Polish “Lotnictwo” magazine last year, the above losses may be considered to be significant.

According to Wilson, Ukraine, back in 1992, inherited 3,600 aircraft, including 850 helicopters, out of which 285 assault choppers and 2,750 aircraft, out of which 1,650 were combat planes. Back in 2013 the estimated data suggested that out of these numbers only 200 combat aircraft were in active service and about 70 were combat capable.

At that time, the fleet consisted of 15-20 MiG-29 Fulcrums, 10-12 Su-24M/MR Fencers, 14-18 Su-25 Frogfoots and 16 Su-27 Flankers. 16 MiG-29’s, 4 Su-24’s and 15 Su-25 were to be withdrawn by 2015.

Reports claim that 80 Frogfoots remain in active service and at least 14 are combat-capable. Which may be a significant notion, as the number is almost as high as the number of Frogfoots which were to be withdrawn.

Ukraine also had 66 examples of Su-27 Flankers, respectively 40 Su-27S Flanker-B’s (which are capable of conducting air-to-ground sorties), and 26 Su-27P Flanker-B’s (interceptor variant) and Su-27UB Flanker-C’s (two-seater). 36 of these were to remain in active service, while 16 were to be fully operational.

All of the Flankers are being currently used as interceptors. Modernization of these has been planned, and some examples have been updated before the conflict started.

When it comes to cargo planes, Ukrainians inherited 180 Candid-B transport aircraft, however, not many of these remained active. Two examples of An-30 Clanks were said to be still flying within the Open Skies program. About 20 Il-78 air tankers have been also a part of the post-Soviet inheritance; nonetheless the refueling equipment on these has been removed and maximally 8 of them remained active back in 2013 in a cargo role.

When it comes to the qualitative side of the analysis, the Ukrainian AF undertook several modernization programs for both fighters and attack aircraft. The modernizations included new avionics and navigational systems based on both GPS, as well as on its Russian counterpart – GLONASS.

Still, the Ukrainian Air Force suffered considerable losses during such a limited conflict a sign that the weapons in the hands of the separatists have been extremely effective against Kiev’s combat planes and helicopters so far.

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Crumbling oil makes Putin more dangerous: Expert

Russian President Vladimir Putin is being pushed "further into a corner" by falling oil prices, leaving him little option but to continue his aggression toward Ukraine and confrontation with the West, Eurasia Group President Ian Bremmer told CNBC on Tuesday.

Putin has "gone all-in on an anti-U.S., must-keep-Ukraine nationalist engagement," Bremmer said on "Squawk Box." He said it's "completely inconceivable" for Putin to back down.

"This is what is behind all his approval ratings. It's behind who he now is as a leader," Bremmer said, adding that capitulation would "erode a lot of his power."

Russia's currency and economy are crumbling along with oil prices, the country's main export and revenue source. On Monday, the ruble suffered its worst one-day decline since 1998, and it looks like Russia's economy will tip into recession next year.

"I think that lower oil prices simply squeeze him harder, pushes him further into a corner. He feels he has to fight as a consequence," said Bremmer, whose Eurasia conducts research and advises clients on political risks around the world.

Because of Putin's aggression in Ukraine, Russia has been forced to scrap a pipeline to supply natural gas to Europe. The $40 billion South Stream project had proposed to enter the EU via Bulgaria. He said Monday the pipeline instead would be diverted to Turkey.

Meanwhile, Bremmer predicted the real problems for Putin and Russia are still a couple years off. "When Putin really takes economic pain that has the potential to destabilize the country, I'm thinking about 2017, in the runup to the 2018 election."

But he said he doesn't see oil prices staying quite this low over time because of the conflict gripping Libya three years after the overthrow of Moammar Gadhafi and the possibility of sanctions against Iran.
Could the US and Iran be friends?

Regarding Iran, Bremmer believes relations with the U.S. will improve in the long term, even if a deal is not reached with over Tehran's nuclear ambitions.

On "Squawk Box" Tuesday, he said: "Iran is a country that has a large population. It's quite globalized in terms of the orientation of the citizenry towards the world. Women play a big role in it. It's urbanized. It's diversified a economy."

"You ask me long-term who the United States is likely to work with, especially as the efficacy of American sanctions start eroding globally, it's going to be Iran," he continued, but acknowledged that no thawing with Washington can happen with Iran's current leadership.

"I don't see this leadership in place in Iran in 10 years," Bremmer said.

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Ongeluk in Oekra�ense kerncentrale

Bij een kerncentrale in het zuidoosten van Oekra�ne is een ongeluk gebeurd. Dat zegt premier Arseni Jatsenjoek woensdag.
Dat meldt Reuters. Jatsenjoek heeft zijn minister van Energie opgeroepen een persconferentie te geven.

Meer informatie volgt.

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Op woensdag 3 december 2014 11:56 schreef Frutsel het volgende:

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BreakingDotUK twitterde op woensdag 03-12-2014 om 12:03:09 Ukraine Energy Minister says ‘no threat to reactor’ in nuclear power plant accident, referring to unspecified ‘insignificant damage’. reageer retweet

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Reuters twitterde op woensdag 03-12-2014 om 12:04:16 #Ukraine PM reports accident at nuclear power plant - Full story, more follows: http://t.co/Hezbl2IG2N reageer retweet

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(Reuters) - Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseny Yatseniuk said on Wednesday an accident had occurred at the Zaporizhye nuclear power plant (NPP) in south-east Ukraine and called on the energy minister to hold a news conference.

"I know that an accident has occurred at the Zaporizhye NPP," Yatseniuk said, asking new energy minister Volodymyr Demchyshyn to make clear when the problem would be resolved and what steps would be taken to restore normal power supply across Ukraine.

News agency Interfax Ukraine said the problem had occurred at bloc No 3 - a 1,000-megawatt reactor - and the resulting lack of output had worsened the power crisis in the country. Interfax added that the bloc was expected to come back on stream on Dec. 5.

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rConflictNews twitterde op woensdag 03-12-2014 om 12:11:57 Footage of separatists in eastern #Ukraine with a KSVK 12.7 rifle, a weapon only in service in the Russian army. http://t.co/gqMMlldYwt reageer retweet

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Op woensdag 3 december 2014 12:16 schreef UpsideDown het volgende:

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rConflictNews twitterde op woensdag 03-12-2014 om 12:11:57 Footage of separatists in eastern #Ukraine with a KSVK 12.7 rifle, a weapon only in service in the Russian army. http://t.co/gqMMlldYwt reageer retweet

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Op woensdag 26 november 2014 22:47 schreef Nibb-it het volgende:
ARES Research Report No.3 “Raising Red Flags: An Examination of Arms & Munitions in the Ongoing Conflict in Ukraine, 2014″
ARES is excited to announce the release of our latest Research Report, “Raising Red Flags: An Examination of Arms & Munitions in the Ongoing Conflict in Ukraine, 2014“. The report represents the culmination of months of research, identifying and examining over 100 different weapons systems, more than 60 different munitions, and more than 70 different armoured vehicles documented in the conflict. The report details a number of so-called ‘flag weapons’ which have likely been supplied by foreign states, including materiel produced after the fall of the Soviet Union, and up to present day. It also examines the use of cluster munitions, incendiary weapons, white phosphorus, land mines, and tactical ballistic missiles. (ARES)

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Op woensdag 3 december 2014 12:20 schreef Nibb-it het volgende:

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Mocht het je interesseren. Dat wapen dook laatst ook in Syri� op.

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Op woensdag 3 december 2014 22:42 schreef JCats het volgende:
http://swrmediathek.de/pl(...)e4-a78e-0026b975f2e6

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Op woensdag 3 december 2014 12:41 schreef J.B. het volgende:
Er schijnt in die centrale een probleem opgetreden te zijn met een generator en vanaf vrijdag 5 december wordt de reactor weer in gebruik genomen. Lijkt dus niks ernstigs, maar het is natuurlijk prima dat ze openheid van zaken geven. Tsjernobyl ligt ook in Oekra�ne, dus het is wel handig de minste vorm van twijfel te voorkomen.

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"The prepayment will take place today or tomorrow, I hope today ... We've started drawing on reserves more aggressively," Demchyshyn said at a briefing.

Since the start of the heating season in late October, reserves have fallen 17 percent to 13.9 billion cubic meters as of Dec. 1, according to data from Ukrtransgaz, the state-run gas transport monopoly.

State energy firm Naftogaz declined to comment when it planned to send the payment.

According to an October deal, Russia must restart flows to Ukraine within 48 hours of receiving prepayment.

Mired in a power crisis due to a separatist conflict in industrial eastern regions that has shut down mines and rail links for transporting coal, Ukraine has also said it may depend on Russia for thermal coal and electricity to make it through the winter.

"Coal needs to be brought in from wherever possible," Demchyshyn said, adding that he would ask heavy industry to voluntarily cut electricity consumption to avoid blackouts.

Agreeing on supplies from Russia's electrical grid is now "the simplest and quickest way to balance the power system. These talks have happened and are continuing," Demchyshyn said. "This is necessary, however politically difficult."

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How can the West solve its Ukraine problem?
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-30278606

In their zeal to denounce Russia for putting pressure on Ukraine over gas supplies, Western commentators usually neglected to mention that, through cheap gas and lenient payment terms, Russia was in fact subsidising the Ukrainian economy to the tune of several billion dollars each year - many times the total of Western aid during this period.

This allowed the same commentators not to address the obvious question of whether Western states would be willing to pay these billions in order to take Ukraine out of Russia's sphere of influence and into that of the West.
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It is not just that Russia remains Ukraine's largest partner, with trade in 2013 exceeding that with the whole of the EU; it is also a question of what is being traded. Ukraine exports manufactured goods to Russia, thereby supporting what is left of Ukrainian industry.

To the European Union, Ukraine mostly sends raw materials and agricultural products - with the latter in particular heavily restricted by EU quotas and tariffs.

Ignoring this enabled Western commentators to ignore the question of how - in order to move towards the EU - Ukraine could restrict its trading relationship with Russia without ruining its economy in the process; or, on the other hand, whether the EU would be willing to change its own rules so as to admit Ukrainian imports.
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As a result of Russia's much more successful economy, more than three million Ukrainians are now working in Russia, and sending remittances to their families in Ukraine - a vital contribution to the economies of several Ukrainian regions.

This is at least three times the number of Ukrainians working legally in the whole of the European Union.

In order to bring Ukraine into the West, would EU members be willing to allow free movement of Ukrainian labour?

And - as is necessary if the EU is to turn Ukraine into a strong anti-Russian ally - to do so not in some almost impossible future of Ukrainian EU membership, but tomorrow?

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Op donderdag 4 december 2014 08:09 schreef J.B. het volgende:
In Tsjetsjeni� begint het blijkbaar ook weer te rommelen. Er is tenminste op meerdere nieuwsbronnen te vinden dat er vannacht gevochten is in Grozny.

Грозный. Обстрел Дома печати.

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Doden bij gevechten in Tsjetsjeense hoofdstad Grozny

BUITENLAND Bij gevechten in de Tsjetsjeense hoofdstad Grozny tussen militanten en de politie zijn tien doden gevallen. 21 mensen zijn gewond. Het is voor eerst in jaren dat Tsjetsjeense rebellen een grootscheepse aanval hebben uitgevoerd in de stad.

Tientallen separatistische en bewapende strijders bestormden vannacht een uitgeverij in Grozny en verschansten zich in een school in de stad. Volgens de lokale autoriteiten zijn drie verkeerspolitieagenten en zes militanten gedood. Nog onbevestigde bronnen spreken over ten minste tien dode agenten. De Tsjetsjeense autoriteiten zouden onderweg zijn om de resterende rebellen “te liquideren”.

STABILITEIT
Met de aanslag lijkt een einde gekomen aan de door leider Ramzan Kadyrov hardhandig afgedwongen ‘stabiliteit’ in de hoofdstad van de Russische deelrepubliek. Onze correspondent Steven Derix:

"De afgelopen jaren is het relatief rustig geweest in Tsjetsjeni�, dat met harde hand wordt geregeerd door president en dictator Ramzan Kadyrov. Dat strijders kunnen doordringen tot de hoofdstad, is opmerkelijk. Er is gevochten rond een prominent gebouw midden de stad waar de Tsjetsjeense pers gevestigd is. Het ‘Dom Petsjtati’ (Huis van de gedrukte media) staat nu in brand. De gevechten in het centrum zijn bovendien nog niet afgelopen. Voor Kadyrov betekent dit gezichtsverlies: hij heeft de situatie in zijn hoofdstad niet onder controle."

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Gun battle breaks out in Chechen capital, 9 dead

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Op donderdag 4 december 2014 11:21 schreef deelnemer het volgende:
Binnenkort zal er wel een referendum gehouden worden in Tjetjenie over afscheiding. Dat Rusland het leger inzet tegen de burgerbevolking is natuurlijk uitgesloten. Islamitische burgers voelen zich niet vertegenwoordigd door het Kremlin en niet thuis in orthodox christelijke Russische cultuur. Rusland is eigenlijk niet 1 land.

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Op donderdag 4 december 2014 11:21 schreef deelnemer het volgende:
Binnenkort zal er wel een referendum gehouden worden in Tjetjenie over afscheiding. Dat Rusland het leger inzet tegen de burgerbevolking is natuurlijk uitgesloten. Islamitische burgers voelen zich niet vertegenwoordigd door het Kremlin en niet thuis in orthodox christelijke Russische cultuur. Rusland is eigenlijk niet 1 land.

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Op donderdag 4 december 2014 12:39 schreef meth1745 het volgende:

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In Tatarstan hebben ze niet te klagen, ��n van de rijkste republieken.

Hoofdstad Kazan lijkt een bezoek waard
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Op donderdag 4 december 2014 11:21 schreef deelnemer het volgende:
Binnenkort zal er wel een referendum gehouden worden in Tjetjenie over afscheiding. Dat Rusland het leger inzet tegen de burgerbevolking is natuurlijk uitgesloten. Islamitische burgers voelen zich niet vertegenwoordigd door het Kremlin en niet thuis in orthodox christelijke Russische cultuur. Rusland is eigenlijk niet 1 land.

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Op donderdag 4 december 2014 11:21 schreef deelnemer het volgende:
Binnenkort zal er wel een referendum gehouden worden in Tjetjenie over afscheiding. Dat Rusland het leger inzet tegen de burgerbevolking is natuurlijk uitgesloten. Islamitische burgers voelen zich niet vertegenwoordigd door het Kremlin en niet thuis in orthodox christelijke Russische cultuur. Rusland is eigenlijk niet 1 land.

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Op donderdag 4 december 2014 14:04 schreef Sjors. het volgende:

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Alle Tsjetsjenen zullen kadyrov blind volgen, en zijn niet anti-russisch..
Dat ze islamitisch zijn staat daar ook los van, in tsjetjenie geldt een sharia, wel binnen de russische wetten natuurlijk.

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Op donderdag 4 december 2014 14:05 schreef xpompompomx het volgende:

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Is Tsjetjeni� niet gewoon een ranzige dictatuur geleidt door een Russische marionet?

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Op donderdag 4 december 2014 14:35 schreef Sjors. het volgende:

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Ja zo zou je het kunnen noemen, de gemiddelde tsjetjeen heeft er geen problemen mee.
Je moet je ook voorstellen dat dit een enorme macho cultuur is, letterlijk iedere jongen wordt van jongs af aan op vechtsport gezet of gewichtheffen. Volgens kadyrov bestaat homoseksualiteit ook niet in tsjetjenie

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Putin delivers keynote speech on economy, Ukraine

(Reuters) - Here are quotes from Russian President Vladimir Putin's annual state of the union speech to members of parliament and other top officials in the Kremlin on Thursday.

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Kiev (AFP) - Ukraine's army will halt fire across the separatist east on December 9 under the terms of a Russian-brokered peace deal signed in September, President Petro Poroshenko said on Thursday.

A source in Poroshenko's office told AFP that the president's statement, published on his official website, meant that Ukraine would begin withdrawing heavy weapons from the eastern frontline on December 10 -- as long as the separatists also observe the truce.

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ChristopherJM twitterde op donderdag 04-12-2014 om 17:18:55 New parliament, same old ways. Again it looks more like a fight club than a lawmaking body. #Ukraine http://t.co/o90hMNZCdH reageer retweet

Драка в � аде. Потасовка Парасюка в В� У 4 декабря 2014

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OSCE calls on world to prevent new division of Europe into hostile camps

Events in Ukraine have sparked a global security crisis, and now the international community needs to prevent a new division of Europe into hostile camps, Swiss President and OSCE Chairperson-in-Office Didier Burkhalter has said.

While opening an OSCE Ministerial Council meeting in Basel on Thursday, he said that this year was not the most common year to the OSCE and that the security situation in Europe had worsened.

Burkhalter noted that the Ukrainian crisis had sparked a more global crisis in global security.

He called on politicians in this situation to prevent a new division of Europe into camps.

Burkhalter said that the situation in eastern Ukraine remained difficult.

He said that the ceasefire agreement had not been consolidated and that the process of political settlement was not going on.

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Slouching towards Europe

THE election in Moldova on November 30th was as dirty as could be. Pro-European parties accused the Russian intelligence services of illegally funding their opponents. Just before the poll, the courts banned one pro-Russian party for receiving money from abroad, a move its supporters called abusing the judiciary for political ends. In all probability both claims are true. Many voters would agree with Igor Botan, a political analyst, that the choice was between “pro-Europe crooks and pro-Russia crooks”

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Op donderdag 4 december 2014 15:01 schreef xpompompomx het volgende:

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Heeft er geen problemen mee of durft er geen problemen mee te hebben?

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Op donderdag 4 december 2014 17:40 schreef deelnemer het volgende:

Chechnya terror attack: Heavy fighting in Grozny, fierce shootout (EXCLUSIVE)

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Op donderdag 4 december 2014 20:21 schreef Nintex het volgende:

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Tja, Tsjetsjeni�. Dat schieten de Russen zo aan gort als het moet. Ik las recent dat er een halve crimineel daar aan de macht is die al zijn (politieke) vijanden (en dus die van Putin) opruimt.

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Op donderdag 4 december 2014 20:34 schreef crashbangboom het volgende:

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Hoe suggestief dat perspectief hier.

Maar goed dat Tsjetsjenie niet in Irak ligt

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Op donderdag 4 december 2014 21:14 schreef Nintex het volgende:

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Je kan het woord Tsjetsjeni� ruilen voor Irak/Afghanistan en Rusland voor de VS in beide gevallen is het verre van suggestief.

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Op donderdag 4 december 2014 21:15 schreef crashbangboom het volgende:

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Dat is toch triest?

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Op donderdag 4 december 2014 21:19 schreef Nintex het volgende:

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Moslim terorristen zijn niet zo slim en met hun acties zijn ook vaak duizenden onschuldigen de 'lul'.

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Op donderdag 4 december 2014 20:34 schreef crashbangboom het volgende:

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Hoe suggestief dat perspectief hier.

Maar goed dat Tsjetsjenie niet in Irak ligt

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Op donderdag 4 december 2014 21:42 schreef Sjors. het volgende:

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Genoeg tsjetjenen in irak te vinden

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Op donderdag 4 december 2014 20:21 schreef Nintex het volgende:

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Tja, Tsjetsjeni�. Dat schieten de Russen zo aan gort als het moet. Ik las recent dat er een halve crimineel daar aan de macht is die al zijn (politieke) vijanden (en dus die van Putin) opruimt.

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Op donderdag 4 december 2014 23:35 schreef Woestijnvos het volgende:

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Daar weten ze wel raad met terroristen idd.

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Op donderdag 4 december 2014 23:45 schreef 99.999 het volgende:

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Wel knap dat je nu zelfs het handelen in Tsjetsjeni� door de Russen aangrijpt om hun gedrag in de casus Oekraine goed te praten...

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Op donderdag 4 december 2014 17:40 schreef deelnemer het volgende:

Chechnya terror attack: Heavy fighting in Grozny, fierce shootout (EXCLUSIVE)

twitter:

StateOfUkraine twitterde op vrijdag 05-12-2014 om 16:57:09 It becomes hot in Russian Caucasus: after rebels in #Chechnya, now there's fire in Federal Security Service #Dagestan http://t.co/E7QOj4WZ6d reageer retweet

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Op donderdag 4 december 2014 17:29 schreef deelnemer het volgende:
EU's Juncker says South Stream pipeline can still be built

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Juncker rebutted Russia's statement that EU competition rules had killed it.

He told reporters issues relating to the pipeline were not insurmountable and he was working with Bulgaria to address them.

Russia said on Monday it had abandoned the pipeline, which would have bypassed Ukraine, Gazprom's traditional transit route for Russian gas, citing EU competition requirements for a pipeline's ownership to be divorced from its cargo. It said it was working on an alternative route via Turkey.

Juncker accused Moscow of blackmailing Bulgaria, which retains strong political and economic ties with Moscow and is almost entirely dependent on Russia for its gas.

"I am not accepting the simple easy idea that Bulgaria can be blackmailed as far as these energy relations are concerned," Juncker said.

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South Stream halt shows 'good example of unity'

Russian President Vladimir Putin announced earlier this week that the proposed South Stream gas pipeline will not go ahead.

The project had raised concerns in Europe that it would concentrate yet more power in the hands of Russia's state energy firm, which would control both the gas supply and the pipeline.

Speaking to the BBC's Vishala Sri Pathma, Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaite said that the decision was proof that Europe's tough stance is working.

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Op vrijdag 5 december 2014 20:28 schreef Nintex het volgende:
Het lijkt erop dat Putin toch weer competitie krijgt. Khodorkovsky heeft gezegd dat hij Rusland 'uit de crisis kan helpen'. Hij wil een nieuw TV station, think tank en oppositie opzetten. Laatst mocht hij al een zegje doen bij het Europees parlement. Misschien is Putin zo gek nog niet dat hij bang is voor een revolutie in eigen land, hoewel hij het er zelf naar gemaakt heeft natuurlijk.

twitter:

StateOfUkraine twitterde op vrijdag 05-12-2014 om 22:17:20 Powerful dispatch (w/ English subtitles) from #Ukraine's front lines https://t.co/9tzoyQ0Y6b reageer retweet

Одна ночь в АТО - � ЕАЛЬНОСТЬ.Новости

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Russia's Gazprom receives prepayment from Ukraine for gas supplies

(Reuters) - Russian natural gas producer Gazprom said on Saturday it had received a prepayment of $378.22 million from Ukraine for natural gas supplies, paving the way for the first shipments to Kiev since Moscow cut supplies in June.

Ukraine's state energy firm, Naftogaz, said on Friday it had transferred the sum to Gazprom for December. A Gazprom spokesman confirmed the money had been received.

In line with a deal signed by Naftogaz and Gazprom in October, flows to Ukraine from Russia, which were severed in a dispute over prices and debts, will resume within 48 hours from when the Russian firm receives the transfer.

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Angry families of MH17 crash victims seek U.N. investigation

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The Netherlands "has completely botched" the fact-finding investigation and the legal framework of the case, said the letter, sent on behalf of 20 relatives from Belgium, Germany, the Netherlands and the United States.

Dutch prosecutors have been unable to access the crash site, in a war zone disputed by Ukrainian troops and Russian-backed rebels, or not met international requirements to secure evidence, the letter said.

"Nobody knows who is doing what," said Bob van der Goen, a spokesman for the law firm. "There is no coordination, there is no leadership whatsoever (by) Holland."

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Chechen leader: militants' families to be deported

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Renewed fighting in Ukraine before next week's 'Day of Silence'

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ChristopherJM twitterde op zaterdag 06-12-2014 om 14:25:28 They're gonna give it another try. #Ukraine RT @AFP: #BREAKING: Poroshenko says new talks with pro-Russia rebels in Minsk on Tuesday reageer retweet

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Op vrijdag 5 december 2014 20:28 schreef Nintex het volgende:
Het lijkt erop dat Putin toch weer competitie krijgt. Khodorkovsky heeft gezegd dat hij Rusland 'uit de crisis kan helpen'. Hij wil een nieuw TV station, think tank en oppositie opzetten. Laatst mocht hij al een zegje doen bij het Europees parlement. Misschien is Putin zo gek nog niet dat hij bang is voor een revolutie in eigen land, hoewel hij het er zelf naar gemaakt heeft natuurlijk.

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Op zaterdag 6 december 2014 12:48 schreef deelnemer het volgende:

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maxseddon twitterde op zaterdag 06-12-2014 om 00:05:53 Russia is demanding that BuzzFeed delete an article I wrote, or they'll ban the entire site throughout the country. http://t.co/3INLBl6XcN reageer retweet

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Russia Threatens To Ban BuzzFeed

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maxseddon twitterde op zaterdag 06-12-2014 om 11:08:21 Kadyrov says far-right Ukrainian MPs were behind the Grozny attack, orders them to be "delivered" to Chechnya. http://t.co/j9OBd2Fehr reageer retweet

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ChristopherJM twitterde op zaterdag 06-12-2014 om 00:20:41 Kadyrov orders criminal case be opened in Chechnya against Ukrainian nationalists over 'role in the events in Grozny' http://t.co/6TIvRiN14Q reageer retweet

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myroslavapetsa twitterde op zaterdag 06-12-2014 om 12:29:05 After #Chechnya's #Kadyrov orders arrest of 3 #Ukraine's MPs, UA Secret Service(SBU) opens a criminal case against him for terrorism threats reageer retweet

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ChristopherJM twitterde op zaterdag 06-12-2014 om 18:00:27 Harrowing new footage from Feb. 20 shows how events on Institutska St. played out. Graphic. Intense. heartbreaking. https://t.co/P7UnG1F48z reageer retweet

Інститутська 20 лютого. Вбивство майданівців.

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Op zaterdag 6 december 2014 23:14 schreef deelnemer het volgende:

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maxseddon twitterde op zaterdag 06-12-2014 om 00:05:53 Russia is demanding that BuzzFeed delete an article I wrote, or they'll ban the entire site throughout the country. http://t.co/3INLBl6XcN reageer retweet

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maxseddon twitterde op zaterdag 06-12-2014 om 11:08:21 Kadyrov says far-right Ukrainian MPs were behind the Grozny attack, orders them to be "delivered" to Chechnya. http://t.co/j9OBd2Fehr reageer retweet

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ChristopherJM twitterde op zaterdag 06-12-2014 om 00:20:41 Kadyrov orders criminal case be opened in Chechnya against Ukrainian nationalists over 'role in the events in Grozny' http://t.co/6TIvRiN14Q reageer retweet

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myroslavapetsa twitterde op zaterdag 06-12-2014 om 12:29:05 After #Chechnya's #Kadyrov orders arrest of 3 #Ukraine's MPs, UA Secret Service(SBU) opens a criminal case against him for terrorism threats reageer retweet

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Op zondag 7 december 2014 00:18 schreef Nintex het volgende:

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Lijkt me sterk dat de nationalisten in Oekraine nu al connecties hebben met het verzet in Grozny. Kadyrov heeft een vreemd onsamenhangend verhaal. Lijkt me eerder een soort van waarschuwing naar andere seperatisten, vijanden van het Kremlin dat ze iedere vorm van tegenstand hard aanpakken. Kadyrov is wat dat betreft een mooie spreekbuis.

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Kadyrov's Envoy Says 'Ready to Testify' by Phone After Evading Arrest in Moscow

A botched attempt by Moscow police to detain Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov's envoy to Ukraine last week has triggered a flurry of corruption accusations and the alleged dismissal of a legendary Moscow detective, but the fugitive envoy seemed unruffled on Monday as he said "his phone was on" if investigators wanted to talk.

Ramzan Tsitsulayev, who detectives reportedly wanted to speak to in connection with a fraud case, managed to evade police after his bodyguards knocked them onto the floor during a special operation at a Moscow hotel last Wednesday. Tsitsulayev then left the country and his bodyguards were taken into custody for attacking police officers, Kommersant reported.

Despite his dramatic exit, Tsitsulayev told journalists after the incident that he had not been aware the men who tried to detain him were undercover police officers.

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Op zondag 7 december 2014 01:14 schreef meth1745 het volgende:

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Misschien denkt hij het Kremlin hiermee een plezier te doen, dat hij deze aanslag niet heeft kunnen verijdelen zal hem kwalijk genomen worden. Hoe de relatie tussen hem en Moskou is weet ik niet, het is een rebellenleider die met z'n clan van kamp wisselde kort nadat de tweede Chechen war uitbrak. Geen lid van Putin's vriendenkring neem ik aan...

Hij zou de populairste leider van een republiek zijn, of dit populariteit in z'n eigen republiek of in heel de Russische federatie betrof weet ik niet. Hij is allicht de bekendste.
E�n van z'n gezanten zou twee weken geleden in Moskou gearresteerd worden, maar hij ontsnapte toen z'n bodyguards de agenten aanvielen.

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http://www.themoscowtimes(...)n-moscow/511753.html
Ruslands wilde westen...

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In the past decade Kadyrov has often been criticized for his authoritarian rule, human rights violations, and even for ordering the murder of a prominent journalist and human right defender, Natalya Estemirova. But Chechens praise Kadyrov for reducing the number of terrorist attacks, rebuilding ruins, and bringing billions of rubles subsidized by the Russian state to Chechnya. Many in the neighboring North Caucasus republics say they envy Chechnya its strong leader. Kadyrov told me, “As long as Putin backs me up, I can do everything—Allahu akbar!”

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Merkel says Russia punishing countries for leaning towards EU

(Reuters) - German Chancellor Angela Merkel accused Russia on Sunday of interfering in the domestic affairs of numerous countries that are seeking closer ties to the European Union.

"Moldova, Georgia and Ukraine are three countries in our eastern neighborhood that have taken sovereign decisions to sign an association agreement with the EU," Merkel told German daily Die Welt in an interview.

"Russia is creating problems for all three of these countries," she said, pointing to "frozen conflicts" in breakaway regions like Transdniestria, Abkhazia and South Ossetia, as well as Russian interference in eastern Ukraine.

Moscow has shown its displeasure with Moldova's pro-European course, confirmed in an election last week in which a pro-Russian candidate was prevented from participating, by banning imports of Moldovan wines, vegetables and meat.

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Op zondag 7 december 2014 01:22 schreef Nintex het volgende:

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Putin en Kadyrov zijn wel close, hoewel het niet echt een zwart wit situatie is.
http://www.thedailybeast.(...)-putin-and-isis.html

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Vergeleken met 10 jaar terug is de boel redelijk stabiel en opgebouwd. Er is nog niet echt een betere optie voor handen in dit soort 'wild west' gebieden.

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Op maandag 8 december 2014 00:55 schreef deelnemer het volgende:
U.S. ready to help Hungary build energy independence: diplomat

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Russia Says France Should Pay Up or Deliver Mistral to Solve Conflict

Russia would accept either money or the delivery of two Mistral helicopter carriers to resolve a dispute with France, a Kremlin official said Monday.

France has suspended indefinitely the delivery of the first of the two warships, citing the conflict in eastern Ukraine.

"Both options will suit us — either the ships or the money. The money spent must be recovered," Kremlin foreign policy aide Yuri Ushakov told reporters two days after President Vladimir Putin had talks with French President Francois Hollande.

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U.N. declares 2014 a devastating year for millions of children

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Russian liberal TV channel forced to quit premises

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Op maandag 8 december 2014 16:07 schreef J.B. het volgende:

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Er ligt geen LNG terminal in Letland. Er ligt wel een (varende) terminal in Litouwen, maar die heeft bij lange na geen half miljard gekost, laat staan dat er een zodanig hoog bedrag aan subsidie is heen gegaan.

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Op maandag 8 december 2014 14:01 schreef meth1745 het volgende:

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http://www.themoscowtimes(...)conflict/512717.html

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Op maandag 8 december 2014 16:21 schreef 99.999 het volgende:

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128 miljoen dollar volgens wikipedia

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klaip%C4%97da_LNG_FSRU

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Op zaterdag 6 december 2014 13:51 schreef deelnemer het volgende:

Chechen leader: militants' families to be deported

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Op maandag 8 december 2014 16:33 schreef 99.999 het volgende:

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En dat was allemaal EU-subsidie?

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Poroshenko urges deputies to urgently consider bill on Ukraine’s non-bloc status
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Sergey Pashinsky (the Popular Front), a member of the national security and defense committee, suggested that the Ukrainian parliament should ask the United States to grant the status of a military ally to Ukraine.

“It is a political question, which is in the competence of Verkhovnaya Rada," he said.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, meanwhile, said late in November that Kiev’s abandonment of the current non-bloc status meant a course towards solving the conflict in south-eastern Ukraine by force and struggle against Russia.

If the events start unfolding according to this scenario, all the peace agreements reached since the time of the 1945 conference in Yalta (on the postwar world set-up) will be scored out, Franz Klintsevich, a member of the Russian State Duma Defense Committee, said on Monday.

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What Comes After Putin Could Be Worse

Vladimir Putin may not be too concerned about the economic repercussions of his standoff with the West, but the rest of the world should be: The Russian president is taking his country straight down a path that could lead to a regime much worse than his.

Western sanctions and falling oil prices have sharply worsened the prognosis for an economy that was already struggling before Russia sent troops into neighboring Ukraine. The ruble is plummeting, the government is spending billions of dollars to shore up banks, and crucial projects -- such as the planned South Stream natural-gas pipeline to Europe -- are being scrapped or put on hold. This week, a senior official said the country may enter a full-blown recession in the first quarter of next year.

Meanwhile, Putin is encouraging a dangerous strand of nationalism that he may not be able to control. Moscow's meddling in Ukraine has helped make heroes out of some very unsavory figures -- such as Igor Girkin (aka Igor Strelkov), a leader of the pro-Russian rebellion who fancies himself a fighter in a greater war against a morally corrupt West. Some extreme nationalists now view Girkin as a potential challenger to Putin.

The longer Russia's economic malaise lasts, the greater the chances that the opposition to Putin will turn into something more virulent. At that point, unless some faction of Russia's elite managed to remove Putin and hold free and fair elections, revolution would be the most likely route to regime change. The middle-class Muscovites who led the rebellion of 2011 and 2012 failed because too few of them were desperate enough to risk their lives. Next time around, the outcome could be different -- and much worse.

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Op maandag 8 december 2014 10:25 schreef J.B. het volgende:
Khodorkovsky Speech Aired in St. Pete Hotel Despite Chaos
http://www.themoscowtimes(...)b-threat/512682.html

Zo gaan ze in Rusland dus om met politieke tegenstanders Zelfs voor een videolink doet de politie een inval.

twitter:

StateOfUkraine twitterde op maandag 08-12-2014 om 18:01:08 Russia's isolation is growing even among friends: Belarus reintroduces customs on the border with Russia http://t.co/hhOkavwaNh reageer retweet

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StateOfUkraine twitterde op maandag 08-12-2014 om 18:20:41 Russian Railways stops service to Ukraine/Kazakhstan. A Russian military convoy may now be the cheapest way to travel http://t.co/reUFMdOuhx reageer retweet

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Experts say France gives Russia 'last chance' to negotiate with West

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Kremlin-backed separatists delay new peace talks

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Op dinsdag 9 december 2014 00:15 schreef deelnemer het volgende:

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Ukraine says Russia has resumed gas flow

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Ukraine crisis: Shaky ceasefire holds as talks expected

The Ukrainian military said on Tuesday a ceasefire had begun in "all the positions of the anti-terrorist operation forces", Interfax Ukraine news agency reported.

The pro-Russian separatists had also laid down their arms at 09:00 (07:00 GMT) across eastern Ukraine, Russia's Ria Novosti agency said.

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Op dinsdag 9 december 2014 17:57 schreef Pharmacist het volgende:
Olie vandaag meer dan 4% down. Had niet verwacht dat olie nog verder kon crashen.

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Op dinsdag 9 december 2014 18:54 schreef meth1745 het volgende:

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Morgan Stanley predicts oil prices could drop to $43 US a barrel next year
http://www.cbc.ca/news/bu(...)iyear-lows-1.2864101
("predicts" is misleidend, 43$ was hun worst-case scenario)

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Op maandag 8 december 2014 20:15 schreef Nintex het volgende:

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Khodorkovsky is niet zozeer een buitenstaander, maar een inside man die ooit deel uitmaakte van het clubje oligarchen dat Putin aan de macht heeft geholpen. Hij zet zich neer als redelijk alternatief voor Putin, eigenlijk de rol/tactiek die Putin speelde toen hij de macht van Jeltsjin overnam. Geen enge communist die de USSR terugbrengt, maar een groot staatsman. Khodorkovsky heeft een grote troef in handen en dat zijn de sancties die kan hij gemakkelijk van tafel vegen zonder een stap in Oekraine terug te zetten, want die sancties zijn niet zozeer gericht tegen Rusland, maar persoonlijk tegen Putin.

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Afghan opium inflames US-Russia tensions after failed drug war

Another record poppy crop in Afghanistan, already the source of 90 percent of the world's heroin, threatens to exacerbate the drug problem in Russia and stoke tensions between President Vladimir Putin and the United States.

As the biggest market for illicit opiates, Russia is in the front line as the U.S. withdraws its troops from Afghanistan after spending an estimated $7.6 billion in a failed attempt to curb narcotics production.

Russia now faces a public health crisis and a rise in crime stoked by the flow of Afghan heroin, Yuri Fedotov, executive secretary of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, said Nov. 12 at a briefing in Vienna. The U.S. special inspector general for Afghanistan reconstruction, John Sopko, visited Fedotov this week to give his assessment of the lost drug war.

"This failure in Afghanistan affects what I call the new Cold War with Russia," said Robert Legvold, who led an effort by the American Academy of Arts and Sciences to reformulate U.S. policy on Russia. "It supports the views expressed by Putin and his circle that U.S. foreign policy has been intentionally destructive."

As the United States grapples with Russia's encroachment in Ukraine, government officials and advisers say the failure of the Afghan drugs effort helps explain Russian sensitivities. While U.S. forces withdraw from a 13-year Afghan war that cost 2,350 American lives, more than 7,000 Russians die annually from heroin overdoses.
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Underlining the U.S. counter narcotics failure, opium production rose faster in the areas where the U.S. and Britain targeted $56 million of aid to help farmers switch from growing poppies to pomegranates than it did in areas that received no money, the UN said.

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ChristopherJM twitterde op woensdag 10-12-2014 om 10:24:17 Last night, explosion rocked office where volunteers gathered supplies for #Ukraine's army in #Odessa. No injuries. https://t.co/3UUBQCua9B reageer retweet

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ChristopherJM twitterde op woensdag 10-12-2014 om 10:37:57 Another solid, albeit worrying story by @lauraphylmills about the disappearances of Crimean Tatars after annexation http://t.co/NkgYKx3vnI reageer retweet

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Russia scraps plan for Eye of Sauron art installation

Eye of Sauron will not now gaze over Moscow after opposition from the Russian Orthodox Church thwarted project

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Op donderdag 4 december 2014 10:59 schreef deelnemer het volgende:

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Ukraine needs expanded IMF program

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Ukraine envoy rules out new round of peace talks soon

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MH17: Kiev defied warning on airspace

UKRAINE was urged to close the east of the country to civil aviation days before the downing of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 in July but ignored the warning, The Sunday Times has learnt.

Sources at Eurocontrol, the organisation that manages Europe’s air traffic, said its experts spoke privately to their Ukrainian counterparts about the potential threat after more than 20 Ukrainian military aircraft were destroyed by Russian-backed rebels.

The Ukrainians continued to let planes fly over the affected area, however. The sources said Eurocontrol did not have the power to interfere with countries’ decisions.

The revelation looks certain to fuel the anger of the families of the 298 passengers and crew — 10 of them Britons — who died when the plane was shot down on July 17.

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Op donderdag 11 december 2014 19:37 schreef J.B. het volgende:
69 roebel voor een euro inmiddels. Toen ik in de lente van 2013 in Rusland was kreeg ik voor 1 euro 40 roebel, het kan snel gaan. De Russische centrale bank heeft de rente vandaag verhoogd naar 10,5% om de roebel te ondersteunen, de economische "groei" zal daardoor echter nog verder gefnuikt worden.

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Ukraine reports three troops killed - first since 'Day of Silence'

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Sanctions-hit Putin seals energy deals in India

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EU faces dropping Ukraine sanctions after legal problems arise

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241 Ukrainian troops, volunteers killed in battle of Ilovaisk

Ukraine's prosecutor general has said 241 Ukrainian troops and volunteers were killed in the battle of Ilovaisk, which took place in late August and has been one of the bloodiest battles of the eastern Ukrainian conflict.

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Russia bans live poultry, egg imports from two Netherlands provinces

MOSCOW - Russian agricultural watchdog Rosselkhoznadzor is banning the importation of live poultry and incubator eggs from the Netherlands provinces of Overijssel and South Holland effective from Dec. 12.

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ChristopherJM twitterde op donderdag 11-12-2014 om 11:08:48 Rebels in east #Ukraine have begun withdrawing artillery with caliber larger than 100mm, DNR's Denis Pushilin tells Interfax. reageer retweet

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myroslavapetsa twitterde op donderdag 11-12-2014 om 18:01:26 New faces make a change in #Ukraine's parliament. Those MPs who had voted for Jan 16 Dictatorship bills - sacked from the committee boards. reageer retweet

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Op donderdag 11 december 2014 19:24 schreef meth1745 het volgende:

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Op vrijdag 12 december 2014 07:26 schreef firefly3 het volgende:

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Probeer je hiermee alsnog de schuld bij oekraine te leggen?

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Op vrijdag 12 december 2014 10:30 schreef J.B. het volgende:
71 roebel voor een euro inmiddels, het blijft maar gaan

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Op vrijdag 12 december 2014 12:50 schreef Nintex het volgende:
Putin fanboys over het hele internet worden leip. Met name op sites als ZeroHedge is het feest. Het zijn niet de Amerikanen, maar de Saudi's die Rusland uitknijpen. De grote vraag is nu wanneer Putin zich actief gaat bemoeien met de Saudi's. Rusland zit in een moeilijke situatie gezien de banden met Syrie en Iran, de vijanden van de Saudi's. Beste manier zou zijn om aan de Saudi's ook wapens te verkopen (die willen ze maar wat graag en Amerika levert niet bijster veel).

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NatVasilyevaAP twitterde op vrijdag 12-12-2014 om 08:21:22 To put things into a perspective, in January, your 33,000 rubles was worth $1,000, it's now $579. reageer retweet

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howardamos twitterde op vrijdag 12-12-2014 om 14:30:21 First protest caused by the ruble? People with mortgages in foreign currency are picketing the Central Bank today: http://t.co/JCxQ54RbUc reageer retweet

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ChristopherJM twitterde op vrijdag 12-12-2014 om 08:32:02 Poroshenko hasn't sold any of his assets. @Reuters: #Ukraine’s Chocolate King president finds promise tough to keep http://t.co/FDAr1r1n6s reageer retweet

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ChristopherJM twitterde op vrijdag 12-12-2014 om 12:07:54 Google said to transfer engineering ops out of #Russia b/c new govt rules requiring more data to be stored in country http://t.co/bgZh13Ow5v reageer retweet

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ChristopherJM twitterde op vrijdag 12-12-2014 om 12:40:40 Poroshenko says ‘real cease-fire’ in place after 24 hours without casualty. Even Lavrov agrees http://t.co/U4WIkra5gk http://t.co/iyyyxjpNkc reageer retweet

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Op vrijdag 12 december 2014 10:30 schreef J.B. het volgende:
71 roebel voor een euro inmiddels, het blijft maar gaan

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Op dinsdag 2 december 2014 12:10 schreef meth1745 het volgende:

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Wie verstandig is gaat nu short, $$$

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Op vrijdag 12 december 2014 12:50 schreef Nintex het volgende:
Putin fanboys over het hele internet worden leip. Met name op sites als ZeroHedge is het feest. Het zijn niet de Amerikanen, maar de Saudi's die Rusland uitknijpen. De grote vraag is nu wanneer Putin zich actief gaat bemoeien met de Saudi's. Rusland zit in een moeilijke situatie gezien de banden met Syrie en Iran, de vijanden van de Saudi's. Beste manier zou zijn om aan de Saudi's ook wapens te verkopen (die willen ze maar wat graag en Amerika levert niet bijster veel).

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Op vrijdag 12 december 2014 12:50 schreef Nintex het volgende:
Putin fanboys over het hele internet worden leip. Met name op sites als ZeroHedge is het feest. Het zijn niet de Amerikanen, maar de Saudi's die Rusland uitknijpen. De grote vraag is nu wanneer Putin zich actief gaat bemoeien met de Saudi's. Rusland zit in een moeilijke situatie gezien de banden met Syrie en Iran, de vijanden van de Saudi's. Beste manier zou zijn om aan de Saudi's ook wapens te verkopen (die willen ze maar wat graag en Amerika levert niet bijster veel).

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Pause in Ukraine conflict raises hopes for talks between Kiev, pro-Moscow rebels

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Ukraine underplays role of far right in conflict

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EuromaidanPR twitterde op zaterdag 13-12-2014 om 18:35:42 Dear @BBCNews, EMPR team is deeply concerned with the following article: http://t.co/eTE8j6WxmF http://t.co/nz0ZA8pE9P reageer retweet

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At least 4,634 killed in Ukraine since start of internal conflict - UN

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myroslavapetsa twitterde op zaterdag 13-12-2014 om 13:13:22 #Ukraine Air Traffic Service shuts down airports in neighboring to #Donbass #Kharkiv, #Dnipropetrovsk, Zaporizhzhya "for security reasons" reageer retweet

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SimonOstrovsky twitterde op zaterdag 13-12-2014 om 16:37:29 Baffled how the #Ukraine authorities can indefinitely close airports in three major cities and provide next to no explanation reageer retweet

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Op maandag 15 december 2014 16:22 schreef Zith het volgende:
USD-RUB 61,5

https://www.google.com/finance?q=USDRUB&ei=3viOVMHwGaGnwAPdy4GoDA

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Op maandag 15 december 2014 18:06 schreef 99.999 het volgende:

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De Russische economie blijkt zo wel bijzonder kwetsbaar inderdaad.

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Op maandag 15 december 2014 18:11 schreef 99.999 het volgende:

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De staat van de Europese economie staat grotendeels los van de Russische.

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Op maandag 15 december 2014 18:17 schreef 99.999 het volgende:

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Bij dat eigenbelang dienen hoort ook Rusland niet straffeloos als agressor in haar achtertuin tekeer laten gaan.

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Op maandag 15 december 2014 18:11 schreef 99.999 het volgende:

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De staat van de Europese economie staat grotendeels los van de Russische.

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Op maandag 15 december 2014 18:24 schreef 99.999 het volgende:

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Tja, ingrijpen wanneer een agressor in je achtertuin bezig is een land te destabiliseren is niet leuk maar soms wel noodzakelijk.

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Op maandag 15 december 2014 18:28 schreef 99.999 het volgende:

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Goh, heeft Europa dan een Oekra�ens schiereiland geannexeerd? Of rebellen voorzien van wapens en troepen?

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Op maandag 15 december 2014 18:28 schreef 99.999 het volgende:

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Goh, heeft Europa dan een Oekra�ens schiereiland geannexeerd? Of rebellen voorzien van wapens en troepen?

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Op maandag 15 december 2014 18:24 schreef 99.999 het volgende:

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Tja, die banken hadden ook beter moeten weten. De Russen hebben nu niet bepaald een goede reputatie.

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Mr. Putin might eventually see the virtue of defaulting on the external debt of Russia's state-owned companies, said Mujtaba Rahman, an analyst at Eurasia Group in London.

"The Russian response could then be to engineer external default as a way to hurt European markets and the U.S.," Mr. Rahman said.

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Op maandag 15 december 2014 18:36 schreef 99.999 het volgende:

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Leuk maar hoe praat dat het gedrag van de Russen goed?

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Op maandag 15 december 2014 18:37 schreef 99.999 het volgende:

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Praktisch handelen zoals het afnemen van een belangrijk stuk van een buurland?
Sorry maar ik blijf het absurd vinden hoe je dat tegen beter weten in goed blijft praten...

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Op maandag 15 december 2014 18:39 schreef 99.999 het volgende:

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Tja, ook zonder de sancties had Rusland nu zware klappen gekregen door het instorten van de olieprijs. Dan hadden die banken ook problemen gehad. Ze zijn bewust in het risico Rusland gestapt.

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Op maandag 15 december 2014 18:42 schreef 99.999 het volgende:

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Gezien de afhankelijkheid van Rusland van allerlei import zijn die klappen er wel degelijk.

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Op maandag 15 december 2014 18:40 schreef 99.999 het volgende:

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Volgens mijngas dit topic over de casus Oekraine. Hoe jij blijft proberen er andere zaken bij te trekken om het gedrag van Rusland als agressor goed te praten is leuk maar niet erg on topic lijkt me...

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Op maandag 15 december 2014 18:41 schreef 99.999 het volgende:

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Je hebt het over praktisch handelen. En het gaat o.a. om het annexeren van de Krim. Moet iedereen dat soort zaken dan maar klakkeloos accepteren omdat het zo lekker praktisch is?

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Op maandag 15 december 2014 18:45 schreef J.B. het volgende:
De economische problemen in de EU hebben nauwelijks iets met Rusland te maken. De problemen in Rusland hebben meer met Europa te maken dan omgekeerd, maar ook in Rusland is het met name de dalende olieprijs en het tamelijk desastreuze economische beleid wat ten grondslag liggen aan de huidige economische problemen. Dat Europa zich dankzij z'n houding tegenover Rusland in een dergelijke situatie gemanoeuvreerd zou hebben is gewoon kul. Met name de hoge (overheids)schulden, gebrek aan hervormingen en slechte concurrentiepositie van veel landen (met als belangrijkste uitzondering Duitsland) veroorzaken de meeste problemen in Europa, en dat is toch echt "binnenlandse" problematiek.

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Op maandag 15 december 2014 18:47 schreef crashbangboom het volgende:
Dan vermag je niet in te zien hoe Europa zich laat ringeloren

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Op maandag 15 december 2014 18:49 schreef Zith het volgende:

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Misschien is een tam Rusland wel beter voor de EU dan die paar miljard in de economie te proppen?

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Op maandag 15 december 2014 18:49 schreef Zith het volgende:

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Misschien is een tam Rusland wel beter voor de EU dan die paar miljard in de economie te proppen?

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Op maandag 15 december 2014 18:52 schreef meth1745 het volgende:

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een tam Rusland? Is dat het resultaat van de sancties tot nu toe?

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Op maandag 15 december 2014 19:02 schreef 99.999 het volgende:

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Daar had het gebeuren op De Krim natuurlijk niets mee te maken.

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Welke oorlog heeft Europa dan precies verloren?

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Op maandag 15 december 2014 19:01 schreef 99.999 het volgende:

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Nee, ik vraag me echter gezien je antwoord wel af hoe je nu precies die Russische agressie goed wilt praten met het gedrag van anderen.
Maakt de invasie van Irak het annexeren van De Krim minder erg of zo?

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Op maandag 15 december 2014 19:10 schreef Zith het volgende:
Als je buurman je garage aan het mollen is kan je beter de woonkamer schilderen ja.

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Op maandag 15 december 2014 19:10 schreef Zith het volgende:
We gaan al richting de 67 RUB USD trouwens. RIP mensen die hun geld niet in EUR/USD hebben kunnen omzetten.

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Op maandag 15 december 2014 19:11 schreef 99.999 het volgende:

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Aan het democratische karakter van het referendum aldaar wordt eigenlijk overal buiten Rusland flink getwijfeld. Sowieso wat dubieus, eerst de boel bezetten en dan een halfslachtig referendum opzetten.

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Op maandag 15 december 2014 19:15 schreef 99.999 het volgende:

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Tja, het referendum voldeed aan geen enkele standaard en ging in tegen de geldende grondwet.
Dat referendum als argument gebruiken voor annexatie is eerder een waard

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Op maandag 15 december 2014 19:04 schreef 99.999 het volgende:

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Wat heeft Europa te winnen met een agressor haar gang laten gaan in haar achtertuin?

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Op maandag 15 december 2014 19:13 schreef crashbangboom het volgende:
Vergeet de Yuan niet

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Op maandag 15 december 2014 19:23 schreef Zith het volgende:

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Wat bedoel je precies?

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(Blauw is USD-CNY)

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Op maandag 15 december 2014 19:27 schreef crashbangboom het volgende:

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Dat de oude wereld valuta niet hun perspectief is. Rijke russen investeren ook niet in Europa of Amerika, maar in Asiapacific. Daar zijn ze overigens bepaald geen uitzondering in.

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Op maandag 15 december 2014 19:20 schreef 99.999 het volgende:

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Is het nu zo lastig om het gewoon bij deze casus te houden?
Of is voor jou het wangedrag van de een reden om het wangedrag van een ander goed te praten?

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Op maandag 15 december 2014 19:21 schreef 99.999 het volgende:

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Welke agressie van de EU heeft de Russische agressie dan precies uitgelokt?

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Op maandag 15 december 2014 19:28 schreef Zith het volgende:

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Ah zo

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Op maandag 15 december 2014 19:36 schreef crashbangboom het volgende:

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Geen oud nieuws toch, waarom zou je investeren in jurisdicties waar de wet zo flexibel is als kauwgum? Waar morgen de politiek je om opportunistische redenen koud kan stellen?

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Op maandag 15 december 2014 19:40 schreef Zith het volgende:
2014:

http://www.russia-direct.(...)st-western-sanctions

"...Russian capital primarily is fleeing abroad, particularly to Europe, pointing out that some people invest in property and “buy a flat in Berlin by sharing the cost, not because they need it, but because they want to save money,” while others are selling their assets and equities to invest in Europe."

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Russia says it wants east Ukraine to stay with Kiev under reformed constitution

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Op maandag 15 december 2014 19:51 schreef crashbangboom het volgende:

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Moet je wel de hele quote quoten

Niet alleen geen Rus die er geen heil in ziet in Europa te investeren, dat geldt vrij algemeen.

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Of dacht je dat de euro voor niks in het dal zakt ondanks het inmense handelsoverschot. Het verschil is de negatieve investeringsquote vanuit het buitenland.

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Op maandag 15 december 2014 19:56 schreef Zith het volgende:

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Mja, het is nu jouw woord tegen een profesor economie in Moscow...

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Verder is de EURUSD -7% in 6 maanden, de USDRUB -85%. Dit komt vooral door een sterke USD want EURGBP en EURCAD bijv scheelt niet meer dan 2%.

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Meanwhile, the collapse of the rouble continued, with the Russian currency falling by an unprecedented 9% following news the US Senate passed a bill to intervene directly in the situation in Ukraine.

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Op maandag 15 december 2014 19:58 schreef crashbangboom het volgende:

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mij maakt het niet uit, maar ik denk inderdaad dat ik beter weet wat daar op de zuidas overgemaakt wordt dan de weledelgeleerde.

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Hiernieuwd, waarom is de investeringsbalans in Europa sterk negatief, denk je? Want we hebben een primair handelsoverschot wat enkel door China overtroffen wordt.

Ik begrijp dat het cool is om de Russische beer op de knieeen te dwingen - qua beeldvorming.
Maar wat gaat hier mis?

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Op maandag 15 december 2014 20:50 schreef J.B. het volgende:
Inmiddels is de Roebel verder gedaald naar 82 roebel/euro

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Op maandag 15 december 2014 20:50 schreef J.B. het volgende:
Inmiddels is de Roebel verder gedaald naar 82 roebel/euro