Crisis Oekraïne - Rusland #201 een dak voor Chernobyl

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Miliband, whose Labour Party is neck and neck with Prime Minister David Cameron's Conservatives ahead of the May 7 election, said the European Union had been too slow to impose sanctions on Russia.

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The solidarity of the EU in the Ukrainian crisis could soon collapse, as a growing number of Member States criticise the sanctions against Russia. The consensus is more difficult to maintain, which presents the risk of lower EU engagement in conflict solution. Therefore Brussels should enhance its diplomacy in order to maintain EU unity in this respect.

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Op donderdag 30 april 2015 15:43 schreef 99.999 het volgende:

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Tja, heb het niet zo op Miliband maar hij heeft hier wel gelijk. En aan de reactie van de Russen kan je ook zien dat hij gelijk heeft.

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Op donderdag 30 april 2015 15:48 schreef 99.999 het volgende:

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Neuh, eerder Zuidoost-Europeanen de Grieken, Cyprioten, Hongaren en Tsjechen.

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Op donderdag 30 april 2015 16:16 schreef 99.999 het volgende:

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Het lijkt er op dat niemand die verkiezingen echt gaat winnen. Dan moet er op een of andere wijze een coalitie gevormd gaan worden. Daarin kunnen zowel Labour als de Tories uiteindelijk aan het langste eind trekken. Polls zijn er overigens ook erg onbetrouwbaar.

Maar goed, dit gaat off-topic. De Russen hebben weer laten zien dat streven naar verbetering van de humanitaire situatie er bij hen niet in zit.

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Ukraine investigates Firtash's businesses as he fights extradition to US

Interior Minister Arsen Avakov was personally overseeing the investigation, Yatsenyuk said. "Deoligarchisation, Messrs Firtash and [Serhiy] Lyovochkin!" Avakov wrote on Facebook on April 30, referring to member of parliament and Firtash's business partner Serhiy Lyovochkin.The minister added that his team were delving deeper in the "schemes" of the pair, "which caused billions in losses to the country".

While Ukraine's prosecutor general had issued a statement on April 29 refuting that Firtash was officially a suspect in any case, newswires quoted Avakov as saying the investigation was being conducted independently by his ministry.

The discrepancy between the interior ministry and the prosecutor general's office may point to party politics behind the anti-Firtash moves, since these were initiated under Yatsenyuk and Avakov, who along with security council head Oleksandr Turchinov co-founded the People's Front party.

People's Front, founded only weeks before parliamentary elections last October, unexpectedly took the largest share of the national vote, pushing President Petro Poroshenko's eponymous party into second place. This success allowed Yatsenyuk, Avakov and Turchinov to keep their jobs, despite tensions with Poroshenko.

Prosecutor General Viktor Schokin is an ally of Poroshenko, who has also enlisted political support from the influential Firtash-owned TV channel Inter. Analysts point to the contrasting relations with the businessman as a possible reason for the confusing state of the claimed case around him.

Poroshenko was reported in Austrian media to have personally met with Firtash in Vienna in March 2014 to secure his support for his campaign in the presidential elections held in May 2014, which Poroshenko won.

Yatsenyuk is seen as having closer ties to Poroshenko's rival Ihor Kolomoisky, the billionaire owner of Ukraine's largest bank Privat, and until recently governor of Dnipropetrovsk. Poroshenko fired Kolomoisky from the governor's post on March 25 and initiated moves to weaken Kolomoisky's hold on state energy assets.