Had je eerdere post al gezien, bedankt voor de tip. Maar zelf lijken me de boeken van 'Natan Dubovitskiy' (misschien is hij Vladislav Surkov?) ook heel interessant.quote:Op maandag 5 januari 2015 23:14 schreef Gabrunal_2013 het volgende:
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Nogmaals voor dit topic. Ik zou iedereen aanraden dit boek te lezen. het heeft voor mij in ieder geval wel tot nieuwe inzichten geleid. ondanks alle reserveringen en bedenkingen die ik heb bij Belkovski, die natuurlijk ook een eigen agenda heeft. Het geeft wel een zeer scherpe analyse van de persoon en inzichten in het hoe en waarom van het beleid van Poetin,
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Waar ik al berichtte als je dit door trekt om twee of meer nieuwe kerncentrales te bouwen in opdracht van Oekraïne en dit door westerse bedrijven dan gaat er zo'n 14 miljard euro in om. (En kunnen de ouwe Russische centrales gesloten en ontmanteld worden)quote:Op dinsdag 6 januari 2015 00:53 schreef Cherna het volgende:
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Die kernenergie hebben ze al. Goed nu ben je ipv Rusland afhankelijk van Australië om Uranium te mogen ontvangen. Dat is het verschil. Betalen en afhankelijk blijf je toch. Moet het nog verrijkt worden maar dan heb je ook wat.
Maar daar gaat het mij niet om. Het gaat mij om modificaties omdat schijnbaar alles wat Russisch is vermeden moet worden en vervangen moet worden door westers spul en dat in een Russisch ontwerp. Vreemd. Dan heb je een failliet land en ook nog eens onstabiel. Het is dan de vraag hoe veilig dit is. Het word nauwelijks benoemd en de media is stil. Er is niets aan de hand.
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quote:Ukraine preparing for war despite peace talks
In the face of ongoing ceasefire talks in Berlin and a summit next week in Kazakhstan, Ukraine is arming its military for war. European leaders are becoming less optimistic about the Kazakhstan plan.
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Voornamelijk "zakenvrienden" en mensen uit het vroegere entourage van Jeltsin.quote:Op dinsdag 6 januari 2015 00:28 schreef Ali_boo het volgende:
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Wie zijn de mensen achter putin/ the cremlin?
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quote:Terrorism in Odessa.
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For now Odessa’s terrorists do not target civilians. This week, a few days before Orthodox Christmas, the city’s parks and squares were full of families, and nobody seemed too concerned about safety. “The terrorists’ message is addressed to us activists but they should know that their bombs will not stop our work,” says Sergei Sarafanyuk, a member of the Odessa Euro-Maidan Coordination.
Het gaat mij steeds om het conflict. En dat dit conflict zo snel mogelijk dient te eindigen op welke manier dan ook. Kerncentrales in landen waar veel onrust is kunnen een probleem vormen. Dan gaat het mij om de mens. En of die nu pro-Russisch of Kiev steunt maakt dan niets meer uit.quote:Op dinsdag 6 januari 2015 10:39 schreef Konijntjuh het volgende:
Het zou jullie sieren als jullie kijken op plannen in jaren termijnen in plaats alleen jullie te fixeren op de dag prijzen/dag koerzen. Want Aken en Keulen zijn ook niet in één dag gebouwd daar gingen ook jaren en deccenia over heen.
Dit conflict gaat natuurlijk niet snel eindigen. Dat lijkt me wel duidelijk.quote:Op dinsdag 6 januari 2015 14:13 schreef Cherna het volgende:
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Het gaat mij steeds om het conflict. En dat dit conflict zo snel mogelijk dient te eindigen op welke manier dan ook.
Dat is mij ook duidelijk, Alleen hou je toch nog altijd hoop dat het verstand wint bij elke partijquote:Op dinsdag 6 januari 2015 14:16 schreef Happel het volgende:
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Dit conflict gaat natuurlijk niet snel eindigen. Dat lijkt me wel duidelijk.
Die kerel heeft veel te weinig steun in het veiligheidsapparaat. Allemaal leuk en aardig dat hij de held kan spelen voor Westerse geïnteresseerden, maar dat heeft in Rusland weinig politieke waarde. Als de Russen Poetin al zat worden is er sowieso weinig kans dat ze zich scharen achter iemand die de laatste tijd in Europa heeft geleefd.quote:
khodorkovski is een goede kandidaat om poetin op te volgen tzt. Hij had in zijn tijd bij yukos al vergevorderde plannen om de politiek in te gaan. Zijn politieke aspiraties is 1 van de redenen waarom hij in het gevang is gezet destijds. De plannen die hij had heeft hij nog steeds en hij wil dolgraag terug naar Rusland. hetbis voor hem zaak hiervoor het juiste moment te kiezen. poetin is een pragmatisch man en is ver voorbij zijn beste tijd, dus als de tijd rijp is kan hij veilig terug. khodorkovski heeft echter wel een probleem, omdat hij een aantal invloedrijke vijanden heeft, hij zal hier een hoop massagewerk moeten verrichten, of zorgen dat die op een zijspoor raken.quote:
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quote:Germany and France cast doubt on Jan. 15 Ukraine summit
(Reuters) - Germany cast doubt on whether a four-way summit on the Ukraine crisis in Kazakhstan's capital Astana on Jan. 15 would take place on Monday and France's president said the meeting would depend on the likelihood of "new progress" being made.
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko said on Dec. 29 he had invited the leaders of Russia, France and Germany to talks in an attempt to restore peace to Kiev's eastern territories.
But, asked about the planned summit, German Chancellor Angela Merkel's spokesman, Steffen Seibert, said, "I can't say yet if and when such a meeting will take place. Such a meeting only makes sense if we can make real progress."
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Poetin is gewoon een klein kind. Meer kan ik er niet van maken.quote:
quote:Russia faces 'perfect storm' as reserves vanish and derivatives flash default warnings
BNP Paribas says Russia no longer has enough reserves to cover external debt and enters this crisis 'twice as levered' as it was before the Lehman crash
Russia’s foreign reserves have dropped to the lowest level since the Lehman crisis and are vanishing at an unsustainable rate as the country struggles to defends the rouble against capital flight.
Central bank data show that a blitz of currency intervention depleted reserves by $26bn in the two weeks to December 26, the fastest pace of erosion since the crisis in Ukraine erupted early last year.
Credit defaults swaps (CDS) measuring bankruptcy risk for Russia spiked violently on Tuesday, surging by 100 basis points to 630, before falling back slightly.
Markit says this implies a 32pc expectation of a sovereign default over the next five years, the highest since Western sanctions and crumbling oil prices combined to cripple the Russian economy.
Total reserves have fallen from $511bn to $388bn in a year. The Kremlin has already committed a third of what remains to bolster the domestic economy in 2015, greatly reducing the amount that can be used to defend the rouble.
The Institute for International Finance (IIF) says the danger line is $330bn, given the dollar liabilities of Russian companies and chronic capital flight.
Currency intervention did stabilise the exchange rate in late December after a spectacular crash threatened to spin out of control, but relief is proving short-lived.
The rouble weakened sharply to 64 against the dollar on Tuesday. It has slumped moe than 20pc since Christmas, with increasing contagion to Belarus, Georgia and other closely-linked economies.
There are signs that Russia’s crisis may undermine President Vladimir’s Putin’s Eurasian Economic Union before it has got off the ground. Belarus’s Alexander Lukashenko is already insisting that trade be carried out in US dollars, while Kazakhstan’s Nursultan Nazarbayev warned that the Russian crash poses a “major risk” to the new venture.
The rouble is trading in lockstep with Brent crude, which has continued its relentless slide this week, falling to a five-year low of $51.50 a barrel. “If oil drops to $45 or lower and stays there, Russia is going to face a big problem,” said Mikhail Liluashvili, from Oxford Economics. “The central bank will try to smooth volatility but they will have to let the rouble fall and this could push inflation to 20pc.”
Under the Russian central bank’s “emergency scenario”, GDP may contract by as much as 4.7pc this year if oil settles at $60. The damage could be worse following the bank’s contentious decision to raise rates from 9.5pc to 17pc in December. BNP Paribas says that each 1pc rise in rates cuts 0.8pc off GDP a year later.
BNP’s Tatiana Tchembarova said the situation is more serious than in 2008, when Russia had to spend $170bn to rescue its banks. This time it no longer has enough reserves to cover external debt, and it enters the crisis “twice as levered”.
Mr Putin has imposed partial capital controls by forcing companies to repatriate foreign currency. This has bought time and shored up the rouble for a few days, but it is a disguised form of reserve depletion since many of these companies will need dollars to repay debt.
Many of these companies are pillars of the Russian economy or energy champions. Their dollar debts are implicitly liabilities of the Russian state since these firms cannot be left to default. The oil giant Rosneft has requested $46bn in state aid to help meet repayments and cover investment.
Igor Sechin, Rosneft’s chairman, expects oil to recover in the second half of 2015 and fluctuate between $70 and $75 but warned that the group would have to retrench. “Some high-cost projects will be postponed,” he said. Analysts at Sberbank said the group faces a “very difficult year”.
The total foreign debt of Russian companies and state entities is $654bn. They have to repay roughly $10bn a month since they are shut out of international capital markets and cannot roll over loans.
The IIF’s Lubomir Mitov said the oil crash could leave Russia with a current account deficit of 3.5pc of GDP. Each $10 fall in crude cuts export revenue by 2pc of GDP. This comes on top chronic capital flight and the collapse of inward flows due to sanctions. The overall “financing gap” could soon reach 10pc of GDP, putting enormous strain on the rouble. “It’s a perfect storm,” he said.
The interest costs on hard-currency debt have suddenly doubled in rouble terms. While commodity exporters earn matching dollars, Russian property developers and domestic companies with dollar-debt have no such buffer.
Russia’s RTS index of stocks has fallen by 62pc since early 2011 but smaller companies have been hit far harder. Kingsmill Bond, Sberbank’s chief strategist, said Russian equities are among the cheapest in the world and are trading on fear, ignoring the country’s strategic depth. “People have been selling indiscriminately. Once the oil price stabilises, it will be a perfect time to buy illiquid domestic stocks, like the homebuilder ISR,” he said.
Mr Bond said brave investors who bought Russian stocks at the nadir of the crisis in 2008-2009 were rewarded with gains of up 1,000pc. “First we have to wait for oil to hit bottom,” he said.
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quote:De strijd binnen de verschillende rebellenfracties neemt toe. Niet alleen staan de rebellen van de Volksrepubliek Loehansk en de Volksrepubliek Donetsk elkaar naar het leven, ook binnen die groepen zijn er allerlei ruziënde fracties die zich concentreren rondom kleinere steden en verschillende leiders. 'Wij hebben een boodschap voor de wereld, en voor Vladimir Poetin', zegt kozakkenleider Pavel Dremov in een videobericht eind december. 'We hebben allemaal voor hetzelfde gevochten, we schreeuwden allemaal 'Lang leve Rusland!' Hoe lang blijft die Plotniksky, die vreemde Jood, ons beroven? Waarom zijn we dan allemaal wezen vechten? Ons leiderschap is nog erger dan die fascisten in Oekraïne!'
quote:Three soldiers killed as Ukraine marks Orthodox Christmas
One soldier was shot dead by a sniper, while two others died in mortar and small arms attacks near the international airport in the industrial city of Donetsk, military spokesman Andriy Lysenko told journalists.
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quote:IMF talks resume in Ukraine as Soros urges bigger aid package
(Reuters) - An IMF team resumed talks in Kiev on Thursday that Ukraine's government hopes will lead to a bigger aid program, as billionaire financier George Soros urged the West to step up funding to the country.
quote:EU offers 1.8 billion euros for Ukraine as Germany seeks reform
(Reuters) - The European Union proposed on Thursday offering an additional 1.8 billion euros ($2.1 billion) to help save Ukraine from bankruptcy as Kiev assured Germany it had credible plans to modernize.
With an International Monetary Fund team resuming talks in Kiev, the European Commission offered the medium-term loans to add to the 1.4 billion euros it handed over last year, subject to approval by EU governments and EU lawmakers.
"Europe stands united behind Ukraine," Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker told a news conference in the Latvian capital Riga, where he announced the aid.
The EU's offer came on the day German Chancellor Angela Merkel met Ukraine Prime Minister Arseny Yatseniuk in Berlin. The German leader said later she had heard a convincing case for reform.
But beyond the show of Europe's political support for Ukraine, investors see a growing risk of default with the country's economy pushed close to collapse by a pro-Russian separatist war in the east,
Ukraine's 2017 dollar bond trades around 60 cents in the dollar, down some 40 cents over the past year while the 2023 and 2022 issues are even lower around 55 cents -- an indication of how much investors believe they will recover on every dollar invested.
quote:More than one million flee, Ukraine close to 'humanitarian catastrophe'
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"While it may be too early to call this a humanitarian catastrophe, it's clearly progressing in that direction," Krivosheev told the Thomson Reuters Foundation by email.
The provision of humanitarian aid was being hampered by pro-Kiev volunteer battalions that were increasingly preventing food and medicine from reaching those in need in eastern Ukraine, he said.
"Attempting to create unbearable conditions of life is a whole new ballgame... using starvation of civilians as a method of warfare is a war crime."
The battalions often act like "renegade gangs" and urgently need to be brought under control, Krivosheev added.
Social benefits, including pensions, have also become a major concern for those in eastern Ukraine following Kiev's decision to transfer the payments to government-controlled areas, the U.N. refugee agency (UNHCR) said.
UNHCR spokesman William Spindler said those unable to leave their homes, such as the elderly and the sick, and people living in institutions were not receiving the help they needed.
The problem was made worse by the fact that humanitarian organizations had limited access to the areas controlled by armed groups fighting the government, he added.
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