Crisis Oekraïne - Rusland #210 met weinig nieuwe ontwikkelingen

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Op zaterdag 4 juli 2015 18:54 schreef ZOA het volgende:

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Behalve meerdere keren 'op de man spelen' ...
Nog steeds geen argumenten die duidelijk aantonen dat mijn stelling 'De laatste oorlog die de VS gewonnen heeft is hun eigen burgeroorlog' weerlegt.

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Op zaterdag 4 juli 2015 06:21 schreef J.B. het volgende:

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Ja mooi, maar in tegenstelling tot het Russisch beleid heeft het Canadese geen betrekking op geprinte en online media; en zover ik weet valt The Moscow Times onder die twee noemers.

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Op zaterdag 4 juli 2015 21:40 schreef ZOA het volgende:

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Nou ergens ben ik dat wel met je eens... maar als ik daar iets over zeg met alles wat ik daadwerkelijk meemaak wordt het ook als onzin afgedaan terwijl jullie allemaal echt de noobs zijn kwa Oekraine.. zowel de Fokkertjes als de VS en EU

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Op zaterdag 4 juli 2015 21:57 schreef ZOA het volgende:

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Ik heb mij daar idd een tijdje over verbaast hoe ver dat kan gaan.. eerst met van Baalen en later met Timmermans voor het oog van de wereld. Pure leugens die de politiek als waarheid neer kan zetten. Ondertussen maakt het me niet zoveel meer uit .. ik doe mijn zegje en verder is het goed

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Op zaterdag 4 juli 2015 22:00 schreef BarryOSeven het volgende:

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Ja maar helaas is dat ook precies hoe de propaganda machine is opgezet.

Jij bent hier een goed voorbeeld van. Je hebt zoiets van: joh het werkt toch niet, ik leef mijn leven wel en fuck de rest.

Maar dat is dus precies wat zo'n systeem voor ogen heeft. Het isoleren van het individu zodat het niet kan samenscholen om een revolutie te bewerkstelligen.

Het is echt heel erg vuil, vandaar dat ik je adviseer gewoon door te gaan ondanks dat het tegen de stroom inzwemmen is.

Doe het zelf ook, en krijg een hoop gezeik. Maar meegaan met de oogklep-massa lukt me ook niet meer.

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Op zaterdag 4 juli 2015 22:19 schreef BEFEM het volgende:

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En dan komt er een revolutie en dan grijpt Rusland in...

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Op zaterdag 4 juli 2015 21:40 schreef ZOA het volgende:

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Nou ergens ben ik dat wel met je eens... maar als ik daar iets over zeg met alles wat ik daadwerkelijk meemaak wordt het ook als onzin afgedaan terwijl jullie allemaal echt de noobs zijn kwa Oekraine.. zowel de Fokkertjes als de VS en EU

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Op zaterdag 4 juli 2015 22:21 schreef sp3c het volgende:

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ik heb geen flauw idee wat je probeert te vertellen tbh

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Op zaterdag 4 juli 2015 22:24 schreef crystal_meth het volgende:

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dat hij in Oekraine woont, terwijl de rest hier vanop afstand commentaar geeft...

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Op zaterdag 4 juli 2015 22:20 schreef BarryOSeven het volgende:

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Er komt geen revolutie...

Staan wij al op het malieveld om Rutte te leren wat democratie is?

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Op zaterdag 4 juli 2015 22:27 schreef BEFEM het volgende:

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Volgens mij heeft er in Oekraine wel een revolutie plaatsgevonden (alweer). Of doelde je niet op propaganda in het algemeen?

Verder niet heel boeiend dit allemaal maar het is komkommertijd voorlopig qua Oekraine

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Op zaterdag 4 juli 2015 22:40 schreef ZOA het volgende:

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Zelfs een Belg begrijpt het.. ( je bent toch een Belg?)

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Op zaterdag 4 juli 2015 22:38 schreef ZOA het volgende:

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Waarom stel jij dit zo?

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Op zaterdag 4 juli 2015 22:40 schreef ZOA het volgende:

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Zelfs een Belg begrijpt het.. ( je bent toch een Belg?)

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Former US President Jimmy Carter recently called Obama's foreign policy achievements "minimal" and stated that US influence is fading, and was well-received among key pundits in Washington; if he's right, the emerging balance of power could see Washington's allies, for instance Saudi Arabia, choose new partners.
In an interview with Aspen Institute CEO Walter Isaacson, America's 39th President Jimmy Carter offered a tough assessment of Obama's foreign policy record.

Carter referred to Obama's foreign policy achievements as "minimal," adding that US relations with individual countries, including Russia and China, hadn't improved during the Obama tenure.

"I think [Obama] has done some good things domestically like the health program and so forth, but … I can't think of many nations in the world where we have a better relationship now than we did when he took over," Carter said.

Carter also warned that "the United States influence and prestige and respect in the world is probably lower now than it was six or seven years ago."

Charles Lane, an editorial writer for The Washington Post, told Fox News that he was struck by Carter's remarks, calling the former president an expert, whose "words carry a lot of weight."

The American journalist told Fox News that "US achievements of the past are now at risk," citing the turmoil in the Middle East as an example.

"There's a great deal of disorder in the Middle East that no one has a clear handle on how to figure out — Iran, et cetera, et cetera. There's going to be a lot left unresolved of those issues as of the time Obama's legacy is beginning to be evaluated," Lane said.

The shifting balance of power could see Washington's allies choose new partners.
Charles Krauthammer, a Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist, called the notion of Washington’s key Middle East ally Saudi Arabia developing closer ties with Russia "a shock."
"We've been allied with the Saudis since [Franklin D. Roosevelt] concluded an agreement with them in the mid-1930s. They feel so abandoned by the United States, they feel the US is in such decline and is so cozying up with Iran in ascendency that they are actually reaching out to the Russians. That tells you a lot about where we are," he told Fox News.
Krauthammer believes Carter's assessment of the US foreign policy under President Obama is accurate.
"The fact that the administration, Obama actually thinks that he's become a Reagan-esque because of the opening to Cuba and to Iran is simply delusional," the journalist said, referring to a thaw in the US relations with Havana and the final stage of talks on Tehran's nuclear program.

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Op zondag 5 juli 2015 10:36 schreef haags_kwartiertje het volgende:
Is het nu echt zo rustig daar al een paar weken, of zijn er gewoon gevechten nog die het nieuws niet weten te halen?

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The situation at and around the destroyed “Donetsk People’s Republic” (“DPR”)-controlled Donetsk airport (12km north-west of Donetsk) remained volatile. The SMM – positioned at “DPR”-controlled Donetsk railway station (8km north-west of Donetsk) – heard during the day 152 explosions in the area.

The SMM – positioned at observation points near Shyrokyne (20km east of Mariupol) – noted no violence in the village. It did, however, hear nine mortar rounds and several bursts of heavy-machine-gun fire emanating from government-controlled Berdianske (2km south-west of Shyrokyne), and later, eight explosions in the far distance.

In “DPR”-controlled Snizhne (69km east of Donetsk), the SMM met the director of a factory producing equipment for the oil and gas industry. He said that the factory, despite being shelled last August, when one worker had been killed, was still operational. The factory, however, now employed only 400 people, compared to 1,000 before the conflict. Salaries, he added, had not been paid for three months.

The SMM noted 12 anti-tank mines on a road in an area controlled by the “Lugansk People’s Republic” (“LPR”) close to government-controlled Shchastia bridge (20km north of Luhansk).

The SMM noted two new Ukrainian Armed Forces checkpoints along the contact line, close to two government-controlled towns, Bakhmutivka and Muratove (40km and 50km north-west of Luhansk, respectively).

In government-controlled Stanytsia Luhanska (16km north-east of Luhansk), the SMM noted a house whose roof was damaged and windows shattered, caused by shelling. The owner claimed that Ukrainian Armed Forces routinely position tanks near the house and fire, which attracts fire upon the area.

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Spurned by the West, Georgians look to Russia despite past quarrels

TBILISI, Georgia — In this fiercely pro-Western nation that fought a brief war with Russia in 2008, few thought the Kremlin could ever regain a toehold. But with the West backing away from Georgia’s path to E.U. and NATO membership after a year of conflict in Ukraine, pro-Russian sentiments are on the rise.

The former Soviet nation’s leaders are warning that Russia may yet prevail if Georgia is shut out from Western clubs. Wary of further provoking Russia, Western politicians have quashed talk of NATO and the European Union expanding eastward anytime soon. Russia has stepped into the vacuum, increasing its presence by opening Georgian-language outlets of its state-owned news network and deepening investments in the energy industry and other key sectors.

Similar movements are happening in other former Eastern bloc nations trapped between Russia and the West, in a tug of war that has deep Cold War resonance.

“Stability and security cannot be maintained with this paradigm, with Russia’s paradigm of having special rights towards other countries,” said Georgian President Giorgi Margvelashvili, in an interview in the presidential palace on a bluff overlooking the old city of Tbilisi. The blue-and-gold E.U. flag flies outside of the building, as it does at most Georgian governmental buildings, as an emblem of the nation’s aspirations.

“Russia is working pretty actively, not only in Georgia, but all around the world” to expand its influence, he said. Despite the growing Russian presence, Georgia remains unshakably committed to eventual membership in NATO and the E.U., he said. As a token of its devotion, Georgia has sent more soldiers to Afghanistan to fight alongside U.S. troops in recent years than many nations already in NATO.

The germ of the present conflict between Russia and the West lies in an E.U. offer of closer ties to Ukraine and Russian President Vladimir Putin’s infuriated reaction. E.U. membership for Ukraine was always a long shot — but it has become even less likely after fighting that has killed more than 6,400 people, according to U.N. estimates.

E.U. leaders squabbled at a summit in May about whether to offer even the faintest prospects for membership to Georgia, Ukraine and Moldova, which have said they want to join. The E.U. leaders decided against it, and they also delayed plans to ease visa rules for Georgian travelers, a bitter disappointment for Georgia’s leaders. The E.U. caution stemmed from a desire not to inspire backlash from Russia, diplomats involved in the discussions say.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel, who has taken the role of the lead European interlocutor with Putin, has played down expansion prospects. So has President Obama.

“Neither Ukraine or Georgia are currently on a path to NATO membership. And there has not been any immediate plans for expansion of NATO’s membership,” Obama said last year.

Now support for pro-Russian politicians in Moldova and Georgia is growing, while Ukraine is so consumed by conflict that it has made little progress in instituting overhauls necessary for westward integration. Armenia, a fourth post-Soviet country that had been in talks with E.U. leaders about a trade deal, last year abandoned the discussions altogether, allying itself with the Russian camp.

Many here say that Russia has skillfully outmaneuvered the West.

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Germany and Russia Back to Business as Usual

Is the cold war between the West and Russia over Ukraine finished? For the United States certainly not. But Germany, and therefore much of the European Union, are returning to business as usual.

On June 22, the EU voted to extend sanctions against Russia. Yet in other areas, the relations between Germany and Russia are improving.

The biggest sign of this is the Nord Stream gas pipeline between Russia and Germany. That’s an important story in its own right—read Robert Morley’s article “Gazprom’s Dangerous New Nord Stream Gas Pipeline to Germany” if you’ve not done so already. The two countries have teamed up on a project that allows Russia to cut off gas to any Central or Eastern European country it wants to, while keeping its lucrative contracts with Western European customers intact.

This is far more than merely a business deal. Anything of this magnitude would have been discussed, and almost certainly approved, by the German government. In fact, it appears European governments may have done some serious behind-the-scenes maneuverings to make this happen.

Austria’s omv energy conglomerate has an important part in this deal. On June 3, it announced that Rainer Seele would be the new ceo. He officially started July 1. omv was once a key player in one of the pipelines designed to bypass Russia. But Seele is known to be pro-Russia. He is president of the German-Russian Chamber of Commerce and has “good and close contacts with Russia and Gazprom” as Austria’s Die Presse newspaper puts it. On the same day that his position in omv was announced, he was visiting Gazprom’s headquarters. The Nord Stream pipeline is just one of several important deals with Russia that he is considering.

The Austrian state owns almost a third of omv. It wouldn’t have been hard for it to get together with a few more stakeholders to put in place the new ceo. More likely than not, the Austrian government just pushed its most important oil company in a new, pro-Russian direction. The new pipeline, therefore, is a clear sign that several European governments are open to business with Russia.
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Ukraine says five of its soldiers were killed and three wounded when a land mine exploded in the east of the country, where government troops are fighting Russia-backed separatists.

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Op zondag 5 juli 2015 00:07 schreef ZOA het volgende:

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Het is aan jezelf en jou verstand en niet aan mij om mijn uitspraken te beoordelen..
blijkbaar heb je daar wat moeite mee evenals het weerleggen ervan

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Op maandag 6 juli 2015 20:42 schreef BEFEM het volgende:
Wat ik zo een beetje voorbij zie komen is dat ze in Oekraine nu wel wat aan de corruptie proberen te doen. Hopelijk heeft het ook effect, de weg is lang in ieder geval.

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Op maandag 6 juli 2015 20:43 schreef Slaro het volgende:

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Wij van de FIFA onderzoeken de misstanden binnen de FIFA.

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Op maandag 6 juli 2015 20:45 schreef BEFEM het volgende:

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Ja vast wel maar het is in ieder geval beter dan niks doen hé. Ik zeg niet voor niks dat er een lange weg te gaan is, als ze uberhaupt wel iets effectiefs aanpakken. Ik heb zelf ervaren hoe ver de corruptie gaat daar, dat heb je niet binnen 3 jaar eruit gehaald.

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Op maandag 6 juli 2015 20:44 schreef BEFEM het volgende:
Overigens staat de Roebel nu weer op het laagste niveau sinds Marinka en zo'n 15% lager dan het laagste niveau sinds december.

Verder is de olieprijs ook flink aan het zakken.

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Op maandag 6 juli 2015 20:50 schreef crystal_meth het volgende:

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Is de roebel vandaag minstens 15% gezakt?

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Op maandag 6 juli 2015 20:47 schreef Slaro het volgende:

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Het probleem is dat het dezelfde politici betreft die jarenlang hiervoor verantwoordelijk zijn geweest, overigens aan beide kanten van het politieke spectrum in dit land, er zou echt iemand van onderaf moeten komen maar oligarchen kopen in dit land gewoon stemmen dus dat blijft lastig.

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Op maandag 6 juli 2015 20:54 schreef BEFEM het volgende:

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Nee. 15% lager dan op z'n hoogste punt sinds december. Was 1/49 nu 1/57.5 Ten opzichte van de dollar tenminste.

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Op maandag 6 juli 2015 20:59 schreef crystal_meth het volgende:

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dacht al dat je hoogste ipv laagste bedoelde..
wilde de centrale bank geen koers van rond 56? Waren eerder dit jaar vreemde valuta beginnen inkopen omdat de roebel te sterk werd (in verhouding tot de olieprijs).

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Op maandag 6 juli 2015 21:01 schreef BEFEM het volgende:

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Ja volgens mij haal ik wat door de war, snap het zelf ook ff niet meer Maar je snapt wat ik bedoel.

En dat weet ik niet, zou best kunnen. Heb je daar een bron van? Ik weet ook niet wat de huidige inflatiecijfers zijn in Rusland.

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While the Bank of Russia said its purchases of dollars last week were aimed at replenishing foreign-currency reserves, Goldman Sachs Group Inc. and Morgan Stanley see curtailing the world’s biggest currency rally as the real motive. Options show traders pared the probability of the ruble strengthening beyond 49 per dollar to 41 percent from 44 percent by the end of June after the central bank began buying dollars Wednesday.

“This move from Russia’s central bank effectively indicates the ruble has returned to the dirty-float regime,” Yury Tulinov, the Moscow-based head of research at PAO Rosbank, Societe Generale SA’s Russian unit, said by e-mail on Friday. “The central bank’s real aim behind this move was to prevent the ruble strengthening beyond its fair value.”
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“It’s yet another sign that the Bank of Russia doesn’t like the ruble below 50 per dollar and is intent to use all tools available to prevent it,” Osakovskiy said by e-mail Friday.

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After strengthening to less than 49 per dollar in mid-May, the ruble has lost over 7 percent since the Central Bank announced last month it would start buying up to $200 million a day to replenish its foreign exchange reserves.

It is currently trading at around 55 per dollar, around 40 percent weaker than a year ago after plunging in tandem with oil prices in late 2014. That is in line with forecasts for 2015 by major companies such as LUKoil and Norilsk Nickel.
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"The Central Bank's forex purchases sent an important signal to the market that the ruble's strengthening speed at the time was too high," Sberbank CIB analyst Iskander Abdullaev said. "Of course, a weaker ruble is more of benefit for companies and the economy now and next year."

The Central Bank says it wants to boost reserves to around $500 billion over the next few years from $361.6 billion now. It is also expected to cut interest rates by 100 basis points next week, which would weaken the currency further.

"A strong ruble is not beneficial for anyone," noted Alexander Kornilov, an analyst with Alfa Bank.

Gazprom Neft, Russia's fourth-biggest oil producer, expects the ruble to trade at 50-65 per dollar this year but is changing its forecast by the month, chief financial officer Alexei Yankevich said last week.

LUKoil, Russia's No. 2 oil producer, has calculated its 2015 investment program based on a ruble rate of 55 per dollar, according to a presentation on its website.
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Economic Development Minister Alexei Ulyukayev, who has said Russia's budget balances at an oil price of 3,600 rubles per barrel, said this week that ruble weakness was a long-term benefit for the economy.

"For a short period of time it created a lot of difficulties but for the long story it [a weak ruble] creates better conditions in terms of cost-to-income ratio," Ulyukayev told the BBC in an interview.

His ministry last month revised its FX forecast to an average of 60 rubles per dollar for 2015 and 56.8 for 2016.

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Op maandag 6 juli 2015 20:55 schreef BEFEM het volgende:

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Klopt. Dat maakt het er niet makkelijker op natuurlijk. Het is alleen niet mogelijk om iemand te vinden die het land kan leiden die níet corrupt is. Maar het lijkt er in ieder geval op dat ze het probleem erkennen, dat is stap 1.

Een lange weg te gaan...

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Op maandag 6 juli 2015 21:34 schreef Slaro het volgende:

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Dat deden ze toch al, bovendien kunnen ze het lastig ontkennen, elke keer beloven ze corruptie aan te pakken dat deed onze blonde vriendin ook die daarna zelf behoorlijk corrupt bleek of in ieder geval tegenwoordig de schijn dus tegen heeft, corruptie aanpakken betekent in dit soort landen vaak ook de vrienden van politieke opponenten buitenspel zetten, vul zelf maar in ten voordele van wie dus.

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Op maandag 6 juli 2015 21:12 schreef crystal_meth het volgende:
“This move from Russia’s central bank effectively indicates the ruble has returned to the dirty-float regime,” Yury Tulinov, the Moscow-based head of research at PAO Rosbank, Societe Generale SA’s Russian unit, said by e-mail on Friday. “The central bank’s real aim behind this move was to prevent the ruble strengthening beyond its fair value.”

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“This move from Russia’s central bank effectively indicates the ruble has returned to the dirty-float regime,” Yury Tulinov, the Moscow-based head of research at PAO Rosbank, Societe Generale SA’s Russian unit, said by e-mail on Friday. “The central bank’s real aim behind this move was to prevent the ruble strengthening beyond its fair value.”

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Op maandag 6 juli 2015 21:48 schreef BEFEM het volgende:

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Ja zoiets staat me ook bij de geest maar het is toch maar een raar verhaal zoals dit bijvoorbeeld:

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De Roebel heeft jaren tussen de 1/25 tot 1/35 gestaan. Nu zou opeens 1/55 een goede waarde zijn

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Overigens weet ik niet wat hun reserves momenteel zijn, de sancties en eerdere verdedigen van de Roebel heeft ze gigantisch veel geld gekost.

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US to pay salary for Saakashvili team in Odessa

Mikhail Saakashvili, the current Governor of Odessa in Ukraine has met with the American Ambassador Geoffrey Pyatt.

Currently the Ukrainian politician and citizen agreed with the American Ambassador, that namely the US will fund his team.

Saakashvili will be provided with the American salary as well.

Further training of the Odessa police officers has also been discussed. Californian representatives should come to upgrade their skills.

Saakashvili wrote on his Facebook page, that the American government agreed to allocate money for the salaries of his new team in the framework of Odessa anti-corruption pressure.

Pravda.Ru has already reported, that Geoffrey Pyatt explained importance of the port city of Odessa, as "a laboratory for the American support of fundamental anti-corruption reforms".

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Rubiconski twitterde op zaterdag 30-05-2015 om 22:45:32 Natalia Poklonskaya, Prosecutor General of #Crimea by Sombra222 @ http://t.co/y5BywKpzRI http://t.co/voNWPFuw04 reageer retweet

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US Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter has announced that Bulgaria has agreed to host some of the military equipment that the US will be dislocating to Eastern and central Europe. He explained that Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Bulgaria, Poland and Romania have pledged their participation.

In response, Bulgarian Defense Minister Nenchev said that no such request has been received.
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Op dinsdag 7 juli 2015 00:58 schreef Odaiba het volgende:
Wordt er nog gevochten daar?

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At the JCCC headquarters in Soledar (government-controlled, 75km north of Donetsk), the SMM was presented with two logbooks, compiled independently by the Ukrainian Armed Forces and the Russian Federation Armed Forces representatives at the JCCC. For 3 July, 53 ceasefire violations were indicated in the Ukrainian Armed Forces logbook, out of which 15 were attributed to the Ukrainian Armed Forces, and 38 to the “DPR” and the “Lugansk People’s Republic” (“LPR”). According to Russian Federation Armed Forces logbook, there had been 63 violations over the same time period, out of which 27 were attributed to the Ukrainian Armed Forces and 36 to the “DPR” and the “LPR”.

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Ukraine: Is the Retreat of Russian-Backed Rebels for Real?
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A July 3 post on the Ukrainian National Guard Azov Battalion Facebook page, which was attributed to the unit’s leader and Ukrainian MP Andriy Biletskiy, stated: “The enemy has left Shyrokyne. Shyrokyne is Ukraine!!!”

“We all have paid a price—more than 60 KIA’s and 200 WIA’s,” the post continued. “And there is less speculation about (a possible) invasion of Mariupol.”

On July 2, a separatist representative to the Joint Centre for Control and Co-ordination announced the Shyrokyne withdraw. The Joint Centre for Control and Co-ordination, which comprises representatives from Ukraine, Russia, separatist forces and the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, was created to administer the September 2014 cease-fire and remained in place after the Feb. 12 truce.

The Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine visited Shyrokyne on July 2 and confirmed the separatist withdrawal. In an earlier report, released on June 27, the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe announced that no civilians were left living in Shyrokyne, which had a pre-war population of 1,347, and that 80 percent of its structures had been destroyed by the fighting.

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Russia cuts off power supplies to Ukraine rebels: Kiev

Kiev (AFP) - Kiev said Tuesday that Russia had cut off electricity to Ukraine's rebel-run regions in what appears to be another sign that Moscow is losing interest in plans to splinter its neighbour.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has gone through an extended spell without peppering his speeches with mentions of a "New Russia" (Novorossiya) made up of Ukrainian lands that were once under tsarist control.

The veteran Kremlin leader had fervently promoted the project while the separatists were gaining ground along Ukraine's eastern industrial heartland toward the end of last year.

But Ukrainian insurgents who claimed to be in charge of re-creating a part of the old Russian empire have in recent weeks complained of a sudden lack of interest from the Kremlin and a dire shortage of funds.

Ukraine's Energy Minister Volodymyr Demchyshyn said Tuesday that energy-rich Russia had recently also stopped supplying electricity to the militia-run regions of Lugansk and Donetsk because bills were not being paid.

"We held fairly productive negotiations with the Russians," Interfax-Ukraine quoted Demchyshyn as telling an energy ministry meeting.

"We have been able to switch off four lines that ran from Russia to territories outside our control."

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Op woensdag 8 juli 2015 04:42 schreef Linkse_Boomknuffelaar het volgende:
http://www.themoscowtimes(...)net-meme/499834.html

Separatist Cats Become Russian Internet Meme

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Op woensdag 8 juli 2015 04:42 schreef Linkse_Boomknuffelaar het volgende:
http://www.themoscowtimes(...)net-meme/499834.html

Separatist Cats Become Russian Internet Meme

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Op woensdag 8 juli 2015 01:07 schreef crystal_meth het volgende:

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Op woensdag 8 juli 2015 04:42 schreef Linkse_Boomknuffelaar het volgende:
http://www.themoscowtimes(...)net-meme/499834.html

Separatist Cats Become Russian Internet Meme

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Op woensdag 8 juli 2015 16:55 schreef Zith het volgende:

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Goede zaak. Zal Rusland het wat rustiger aan doen?

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Members of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE PA) adopted on Wednesday in Helsinki, a resolution condemning the Russian "aggression" against Ukraine, thus isolating Russia within an organization created to ensure peace and security on the European continent, runs Agerpres with reference to AFP.
The Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) is holding an annual parliamentary assembly session in Helsinki on July 5-9.

The last-minute addition to the OSCE meeting’s agenda, initiated by Canada and Ukraine, was passed by 96 to 7 votes, with 32 abstentions. It was tabled at the parliamentary session despite initially failing to secure two thirds of votes.

The paper denounces Russia’s "clear, gross and uncorrected violations of OSCE commitments and international norms" following the February 2014 coup in Ukraine.

On Wednesday, Russia announced that it will not send any delegation to the OSCE PA session in protest against the refusal of Finland to grant entry visa for six members of the Russian delegation, including State Duma Chairman Sergei Naryshkin. This decision of the Helsinki authorities is part of the sanctions imposed in 2014 by the European Union against Moscow for its role in the conflict in eastern Ukraine, where Russia backs separatist rebels.

Some countries, including France and Switzerland abstained from voting in OSCE PA plenary, arguing that by the absence of its delegation, Russia could not defend its position.

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Islamic Battalions, Stocked With Chechens, Aid Ukraine in War With Rebels

MARIUPOL, Ukraine — Wearing camouflage, with a bushy salt-and-pepper beard flowing over his chest and a bowie knife sheathed prominently in his belt, the man cut a fearsome figure in the nearly empty restaurant. Waiters hovered apprehensively near the kitchen, and try as he might, the man who calls himself “Muslim,” a former Chechen warlord, could not wave them over for more tea.

Even for Ukrainians hardened by more than a year of war here against Russian-backed separatists, the appearance of Islamic combatants, mostly Chechens, in towns near the front lines comes as something of a surprise — and for many of the Ukrainians, a welcome one.

“We like to fight the Russians,” said the Chechen, who refused to give his real name. “We always fight the Russians.”

He commands one of three volunteer Islamic battalions out of about 30 volunteer units in total fighting now in eastern Ukraine. The Islamic battalions are deployed to the hottest zones, which is why the Chechen was here.

Fighting is intensifying around Mariupol, a strategic seaport and industrial hub that the separatists have long coveted. Monitors for the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe say they have seen steady nighttime shipments of Russian military equipment on a rail line north of here.

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Op woensdag 8 juli 2015 21:46 schreef Linkse_Boomknuffelaar het volgende:

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Nou ja zeg, niet erg loyaal van Rusland.

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Op donderdag 9 juli 2015 21:50 schreef crystal_meth het volgende:

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http://www.nytimes.com/20(...)war-with-rebels.html

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Op vrijdag 10 juli 2015 08:25 schreef Gerolsteiner het volgende:

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Puik. Maar het is beter dat ze Rusland van binnenuit bestrijden. Een derde Tsjetsjeense oorlog is altijd welkom.

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Op vrijdag 10 juli 2015 11:24 schreef crystal_meth het volgende:

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fan van islam-extremisten. verbaast me niet.

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Op vrijdag 10 juli 2015 13:11 schreef ZOA het volgende:

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Je moet vooral willen dat Rusland zich door een derde Tjetjeense oorlog daadwerkelijk tegen de 'War on terror' aan gaat bemoeien op een zelfde manier als NATO en VS

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KIEV (Reuters) - President Petro Poroshenko said on Friday the threat of terrorism had "significantly risen" in Ukraine, describing the country as awash with weapons trafficked from the east where a shaky ceasefire has eased fighting against pro-Russian rebels.

At a meeting with Prime Minister Arseny Yatseniuk and Interior Minister Arsen Avakov, Poroshenko said: "The level of guerrilla and terrorist threats in the regions outside the zone (of conflict) has significantly risen."

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Ukraine offers huge state firms to foreign investors

Ukraine said Thursday it would offer nearly 350 state firms for sale to foreign investors at an upcoming U.S. conference aimed at saving the war-shattered country’s imploding economy.

The huge privatization effort — due to kick off in October — hopes to raise billions of dollars that could be used to plug a leaking budget and deal with the consequences of neighboring Russia’s effective economic blockade.

But foreigners have been wary of plowing cash into a country still torn by a pro-Moscow separatist crisis that has claimed the lives of more than 6,500 people and brought swaths of Ukraine’s devastated industrial heartland under rebel control.

The privatization plan has also been hurt by some ministers’ refusal to hand over companies under their jurisdiction into private — and possibly foreign — hands.

Ukrainian Economy Minister Aivaras Abromavicius said a total of 345 government-run properties would be presented to major U.S. and European investors Monday.

“These properties will be included in the first wave of privatizations,” Abromavicius told reporters.

Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk said 150 chief executives had promised to visit the Washington roadshow.

Yatsenyuk is expected to promote the potential returns of acquiring chunks of struggling electricity companies and an outdated port-side plant in Odessa — the Black Sea region now governed by former Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili.

But economists and some of Yatsenyuk’s own allies warn that this may be a terrible time for Ukraine to part with some of its largest holdings.

The economy shrank by 17.2 percent in the first three months of the year compared to the same period in 2014. Property values are collapsing and the unpredictability of the ongoing war turns standard economic forecasting into an very imprecise science.

Kiev’s SigmaBleyzer venture capital firm reported a private investment decline in this year’s first quarter of 25.1 percent.

The Ukrainian government seems undeterred by the data and intends to see $500 million (¤450 million) raised by the sale of the Odessa port plant alone.

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Op vrijdag 10 juli 2015 14:49 schreef crystal_meth het volgende:

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http://www.japantimes.co.(...)estors/#.VZ--rLz7fWM

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Op vrijdag 10 juli 2015 15:33 schreef Linkse_Boomknuffelaar het volgende:

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Lekker privatiseren, opdat burgers in grote ellende geraken. Goed bezig, Oekraïne.
Sakaashvili krijgt al in wc-papier (dollars) betaald uit Washington, de oorlogshitser die nu in Odessa zetelt en voornemens is Moldavische kinderen, vrouwen, mannen kapot te schieten (want Oekraïne ies vrede namelijk ), in Kiev lopen agenten rond in Muricaanse schietgrage uniformen (of ze ook net zo snel niet-blanken afschieten als in Murica is nog de vraag) en Guy is bezig met schaliegascontracten in Oekraïne, terwijl de gemiddelde Oekraïner spierpijn heeft in de armen van het voortdurend met de armen gestrekt vooruit te lopen.

De EU en Washington willen alles voor een appel en een ei opkopen, het lukte niet meer in Rusland nadat zuipschuit Jeltsin het veld ruimde en plaats maakte voor Vladimir, de schrik van het westen, want ineens kunnen we Rusland niet meer legaal leegroven.

Dan maar Oekraïne.

Lekker privatiseren, het hele land naar de klote helpen. Peperduur geprivatiseerd en nauwelijks drinkbaar water, elektriciteit alleen nog voor de elite met veel uitval, spoorwegnet naar de klote, waardoor alleen wat basislijnen tegen woekerprijzen overblijven, hoge telefoontarieven en ontmanteling van telefooncellen, waardoor de gewone Oekrainer die geen mobiele telefoon heeft (dat zijn er veel daar) niet meer onderweg kan bellen. Kortom wantoestanden.

RIV Oekraine.

Rust in vrede, Oekraine.

Покойся с миром, Украина

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Op donderdag 9 juli 2015 21:50 schreef crystal_meth het volgende:

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http://www.nytimes.com/20(...)war-with-rebels.html

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An unidentified gunman shot and killed three postal workers Friday as they were transporting money in eastern Ukraine, escaping with the equivalent of $115,000, police said.

Police said a manhunt was on for the gunman who attacked the workers in the government-held city of Kharkiv, stealing nearly 2.5 million hryvnas.

The police statement did not say why the workers were transporting the money, but postal workers regularly deliver pension payments.

Both the government of Ukraine and its people have been under severe economic stress recently. Ukraine's economy is shrinking, with the IMF projecting a 9 percent contraction this year, and inflation topping 46 percent.

Kharkiv is a little more than 150 miles (250 kilometers) from the front line where Russian-backed separatists and Ukrainian government troops have been fighting since April 2014 in a conflict that has left 6,500 dead.

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Merkel, Hollande urge Ukraine leader to give rebels self-rule

German Chancellor Angel Merkel and French President Francois Hollande took the rare step Friday of pressing Ukraine's Western-backed leader to ensure partial self-rule for the pro-Russian separatist east.

The blunt message from two of Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko's most important allies marked another sign of European impatience with fighting that still engulfs the ex-Soviet nation five months after the signing of a broad truce.

The 13-point agreement reached in the Belarussian capital Minsk controversially guarantees three years of autonomy to militia-run districts of Ukraine's industrial provinces of Lugansk and Donetsk.

The mostly Russian-speaking regions -- dotted with war-shattered steel mills and coal mines that once fuelled Ukraine's economy -- want their special status spelled out in constitutional amendments that would be enormously difficult to overturn.

But Poroshenko's draft changes so far only make passing reference to an existing piece of legislation that gives insurgency leaders temporary self-administration rights.

The rebels fear the law could be easily watered-down or even revoked -- a decision that would cheer Ukraine's nationalist forces and outrage Russian President Vladimir Putin.

The European Union's dire state of relations with Russia have been of particular concern to Merkel as she tries to return calm to the continent's jittery markets and bring more stability to the 28-nation bloc's eastern front.

Poroshenko said Merkel and Hollande -- both present at the Minsk agreement's signing in February -- had "recommended that the president of Ukraine continue with (his) constitutional reforms".

The two "especially stressed that the draft constitution of Ukraine reflects special self-rule for certain districts of the Donetsk and Lugansk regions".

Hollande's office confirmed that the French leader and Merkel placed "particular emphasis on the special status of certain areas in the regions of Donetsk and Lugansk in the draft constitution".

The German statement carried a similar message. None of the sides mentioned who had initiated the conference call.
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Op maandag 13 juli 2015 11:21 schreef crystal_meth het volgende:
Canadian embassy used as safe haven during Ukraine uprising, investigation finds

Some allies say incident means Canada was an active participant in regime change

http://www.cbc.ca/news/po(...)tion-finds-1.3148719

How Canada's embassy in Ukraine was used as pawn in 2014 uprising
http://www.macleans.ca/ne(...)wn-in-2014-uprising/

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Far right group challenges Ukraine government after shootout

A Ukrainian far right group demanded the resignation of the interior minister and said it would block roads around Kiev on Sunday in a standoff over a fatal gun battle that challenges the authority of the government.

Kiev has called on Right Sector, which played a prominent role in protests that toppled Moscow-backed President Viktor Yanukovich a year ago, to lay down their weapons after a shootout on Saturday in the town of Mukacheve killed at least two people.

The cause of the violence is not clear. The sides have different versions of events but Right Sector's response underlines the problems Kiev has keeping order while trying to carry out reforms and crush a rebellion in its east.

Close to bankruptcy and fearful of renewed conflict with pro-Russian separatists in the east, Kiev has been criticized for being slow to reform the country's legal system, which is still described as favoring the rich and powerful.

Right Sector presented its battle in Mukacheve as one to root out corruption, saying they had been lured to a sports club in Mukacheve on Saturday by a local politician they had accused of smuggling. It said their members were set upon by local police, who killed two of their members.

Dozens of supporters of Right Sector, which is in turn hailed or blamed for injecting violence into last year's Maidan protests, also protested in Kiev and other major cities to demand Interior Minister Arsen Avakov be sacked.

In Kiev, the Interior Ministry said Right Sector opened fire first, killing one civilian, and Avakov said on his Facebook page three police officers and four civilians had been wounded in grenade attacks.

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Poroshenko: Ukraine is sovereign state, neither east nor west can make Constitution demands

Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has said that any attempts to pressure Ukraine over its political structure and amendments to its Constitution on decentralization and the status of certain areas in Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts will be fruitless.

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The first deputy of the pro-Kiev Donetsk regional department of justice head has resigned and switched to the self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR). This is not the first time Ukrainian officials come over Donetsk opposition forces lately.
“I’ve decided to quit Ukraine’s justice bodies as I do not support actions of the government stirring up the war hysteria. I have a peaceful profession, and it bars both war propaganda and participation in warfare,” former Ukrainian official Sergei Kucheruk, said today at a press conference in Donetsk.

The official, whose relatives live in Donetsk, said he was waiting for “the government to adequately start to deal with the ongoing conflict,” but he never saw this happen.

“People keep dying, it’s awful, it’s unacceptable,” he added.

Sergei Kucheruk also confirmed he is ready to work for DPR.

Earlier this year, there was a wave of Ukraine officials who had jumped ship.
Major-general of the Ukrainian Armed Forces and ex-adviser of the minister of defense Alexander Kolomiyets joined the Donetsk People’s Republic on June 22.
Earlier the former head of Ukraine’s Lugansk customs, Oleh Chernousov, switched sides to join the Lugansk People’s Republic.

Brothers Alexei and Yuri Miroshnichenko, the first serving with the Ukrainian foreign intelligence service (SZRU) and the latter at the Ukrainian embassy in France, also moved to Lugansk in June, owing their transition to them being “unable to tolerate the strangle of traitors, foreign security service agents, fascists and nationalists in the government,” according to Rossiyskaya Gazeta.

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Op dinsdag 14 juli 2015 15:12 schreef Linkse_Boomknuffelaar het volgende:

Transnistria - Another Civil War Front? | ENG DE SUBS

Ultra-fascisten en nationalisten uit Moldavië, proberen Moldavië in Roemenië (waar ook fascisten aan de macht zijn) op te laten gaan.
Gagaoezie is radicaal tegen ver-roemenisering van het land en Transdnistria, Pidnestrovija is de facto Russisch grondgebied en de inwoners daar zijn bereid te vechten tot de dood erop volgt om hun land, PMR, te verdedigen.

De junta in Kiev heeft samen met crimineel Sakaashvili, die nu in Odessa de lakens uitdeelt, terwijl hij niet eens de Oekrainse nationaliteit heeft en openlijk nazi is, een plan bedacht om de inwoners van Pidnestrovija (Transdnistria) te vernietigen.

Hopelijk accepteert Moskou dit niet en het is nu tijd voor het Kremlin om militair Odessa te bevrijden, Pidnestrovija te bevrijden en Donbas. De VS, EU en nazimannetje Guy Verhofstad willen perse oorlog met de Russische beer.

Laat de Russische beer dan maar los.

Vorige keren met Adolf en Napoleon liep het slecht af, een ieder die de Russische beer tart, zal de strijd verliezen.

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Op dinsdag 14 juli 2015 23:11 schreef Polacco het volgende:

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Die Russische beer heeft ook zijn oorlogen verloren hoor.

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Op dinsdag 14 juli 2015 15:12 schreef Linkse_Boomknuffelaar het volgende:

Transnistria - Another Civil War Front? | ENG DE SUBS

Ultra-fascisten en nationalisten uit Moldavië, proberen Moldavië in Roemenië (waar ook fascisten aan de macht zijn) op te laten gaan.
Gagaoezie is radicaal tegen ver-roemenisering van het land en Transdnistria, Pidnestrovija is de facto Russisch grondgebied en de inwoners daar zijn bereid te vechten tot de dood erop volgt om hun land, PMR, te verdedigen.

De junta in Kiev heeft samen met crimineel Sakaashvili, die nu in Odessa de lakens uitdeelt, terwijl hij niet eens de Oekrainse nationaliteit heeft en openlijk nazi is, een plan bedacht om de inwoners van Pidnestrovija (Transdnistria) te vernietigen.

Hopelijk accepteert Moskou dit niet en het is nu tijd voor het Kremlin om militair Odessa te bevrijden, Pidnestrovija te bevrijden en Donbas. De VS, EU en nazimannetje Guy Verhofstad willen perse oorlog met de Russische beer.

Laat de Russische beer dan maar los.

Vorige keren met Adolf en Napoleon liep het slecht af, een ieder die de Russische beer tart, zal de strijd verliezen.

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Op woensdag 15 juli 2015 00:27 schreef reza1 het volgende:

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Rusland zal ze beschermen tegen de fascisten, net als Rusland Oost-Oekraine beschermt.

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Op woensdag 15 juli 2015 00:37 schreef UpsideDown het volgende:
Moldavië hoort dan ook gewoon bij Roemenië, half Moldavië ligt nog in Roemenië. Boedzjak ook trouwens.

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Op woensdag 15 juli 2015 01:06 schreef Linkse_Boomknuffelaar het volgende:

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Heel veel Moldaviers willen echt niet bij dat maffe Roemenie horen. Voor Gagaoezie en Pidnestrovija niet.
Een deel van Moldavie behoorde voorheen tot Groot-Roemenie, echter Roemenie is gestraft vanwege collaboratie met de Duitse nazi's en heeft een deel van haar territorium verloren.
Het huidige Pidnestrovija was echter nooit deel van Roemenie. De mensen die daar wonen zijn overwegend Russisch en velen hebben een Russisch paspoort, zij weten hoe zeer Russen worden gediscrimineerd in de EU en willen ook geen genetisch gemodificeerd voedsel consumeren of leven in het ultra-kapitalistische EU, waar elk sociaal beleid de kop wordt ingedrukt (zie het Griekse drama).

Het huidige Moldavie is teveel gerussificeerd om tot het maffe Roemenie te kunnen behoren. Russisch is trouwens een wereldtaal en Roemeens is totaal onbelangrijk, logisch dat velen weigeren dit spraakgebrek (Roemeens) te leren.
Zelfs het Roemeens dat door sommigen in Moldavie wordt gesproken is anders dan het Roemeens van Bucharest.

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Op woensdag 15 juli 2015 12:18 schreef UpsideDown het volgende:
Bij de laatste verkiezingen stemden ze ook pro-Europees en niet pro-Russisch, het is dus een hoax dat Moldaviërs merendeels pro-Russisch zouden zijn. Veel zien Russen als een bedreiging, ze bezetten immers Transnistrië wat op papier nog altijd onderdeel van hun land is.

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Op woensdag 15 juli 2015 12:21 schreef al-qahira het volgende:

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Ongeveer 45% stemde op pro-Russische partijen, en dan werd er net voor de verkiezingen ook nog net een pro-Russische partij verboden.
https://en.wikipedia.org/(...)ntary_election,_2014

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Op woensdag 15 juli 2015 12:21 schreef al-qahira het volgende:

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Ongeveer 45% stemde op pro-Russische partijen, en dan werd er net voor de verkiezingen ook nog net een pro-Russische partij verboden.
https://en.wikipedia.org/(...)ntary_election,_2014

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Op woensdag 15 juli 2015 12:24 schreef UpsideDown het volgende:

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Precies, niet eens de helft.

Daarbij zoeken ze de laatste jaren meer toenadering tot Roemenië, economisch gezien veel beter.

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Op woensdag 15 juli 2015 12:59 schreef Linkse_Boomknuffelaar het volgende:

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Roemenië, dat land waar de film 'Borat' is opgenomen.
Borat werd niet opgenomen in Kazakhstan, maar in Roemenië. Dus als je wilt weten hoe goed het met Roemenië gaat, moet je de film Borat bekijken.

It is a very nice, I like.

Zelfs Burundi ziet er nog beter uit.