Crisis Oekraïne - Rusland #211 met weinig nieuwe ontwikkelingen

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Op woensdag 22 juli 2015 18:25 schreef 99.999 het volgende:

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Dus omdat de VS het ook doet is het allemaal wel prima?

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Is enkele keren gebeurd, wat vooral te maken heeft met het grillig verloop van de grenzen in dat gebied.

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Is enkele keren gebeurd, wat vooral te maken heeft met het grillig verloop van de grenzen in dat gebied.

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Is enkele keren gebeurd, wat vooral te maken heeft met het grillig verloop van de grenzen in dat gebied.

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Is enkele keren gebeurd, wat vooral te maken heeft met het grillig verloop van de grenzen in dat gebied.

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Op woensdag 22 juli 2015 18:42 schreef 99.999 het volgende:

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Je schrijft "Bovendien doet de VS het net zo vaak.". Zoals gebruikelijk is dat weer je voornaamste argument om de wandaden van de Russen goed te praten.

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Gérard Depardieu reportedly blacklisted by Ukraine as threat to national security

Film star is put on list of 500 foreign cultural figures who allegedly speak out ‘in support of violating the territorial integrity of Ukraine’

French actor Gérard Depardieu has reportedly been blacklisted by Ukraine as a “threat to [the country’s] national security” after making comments in support of his adopted homeland, Russia.

The 66-year-old film star and amateur vintner was included in a list of 500 foreign cultural figures who “speak out in support of violating the territorial integrity and sovereignty of Ukraine” that the culture ministry has submitted to the national security council for approval, the country’s culture minister, Vyacheslav Kirilenko, told Ukrainska Pravda newspaper on Wednesday.

Depardieu apparently earned Kiev’s animosity with a comment at a film festival in Latvia in 2014, where he said: “I love Russia and Ukraine, which is part of Russia.” Tensions between the countries skyrocketed that year after a pro-western government came to power in Kiev and Moscow annexed Crimea and backed pro-Russia rebels in eastern Ukraine.

American actor Steven Seagal was also on the Ukrainian blacklist, along with Serbian singer Goran Bregović and numerous Russian movie stars, according to Russian state news agency Tass. Over the past year, Ukraine has blacklisted more than 100 Russian films and television shows and banned all productions made since 2014, a far-reaching measure in a country that has long enjoyed Russian pop culture.

As recently as 2013, Depardieu went to a French circus show in Kiev and sampled wine at a vineyard in Crimea, which was then controlled by Ukraine, but such visits will no longer be possible if the security council adopts sanctions against him.

It was previously reported that Ukrainian media would not be able to name the actor or publish images of him, and his films would be restricted in the country. But Kirilenko said the sanctions would not affect Depardieu’s movies.

Since the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, granted him Russian citizenship in 2013, the actor, who was nominated for an Academy Award for 1990’s Cyrano de Bergerac, has received greater attention for eccentric statements and hobnobbing with autocrats. He left France in protest against a proposed new top tax rate of 75%.

Depardieu has praised his friend Putin as a “strong leader” and danced at a birthday party for Ramzan Kadyrov, who has been accused of human rights abuses as head of Russia’s Chechen Republic.

He has appeared in Russian films and a television series, and in December, he teamed up with luxury watchmaker Cvstos to produce a “Proud to be Russian” line.

Even as he was being blacklisted from Ukraine, Depardieu’s love for the former Soviet Union was only expanding as he visited Belarus on Wednesday.

Besides trying the national cuisine and steaming up in a traditional sauna, the actor was pleasantly surprised by what he saw at agricultural settlement and “really liked Belarusian woman”, according to Belarus’s ambassador to France, Pavel Latushko.

In May, pro-Russia separatists in eastern Ukraine invited Depardieu to visit rebel-controlled Donetsk to see a “bubbling spring of life”. The invitation was in response to a Vanity Fair interview in which Depardieu said he sometimes wants “to fall asleep forever” and was “ready to die for Russia because the people there are strong”.

The actor’s spokesman said he would be willing to go if the visit didn’t have political overtones, adding that Depardieu intended to visit Crimea.

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Ukraine agrees to 30-kilometer buffer zone

Ukrainan President Petro Poroshenko has announced plans to introduce a 30-kilometer demilitarized zone in Luhansk. The president has also instated a well-known volunteer as Kyiv's governor of the war-torn region.

The buffer zone, which was agreed between Ukraine's warring factions under mediation of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) and Russia, requires all tanks and artillery to be withdrawn from the region. The move aims to bring an end to the "permanent shelling."

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Ukraine: Thousands of far-right supporters rally in Kiev calling for impeachment of President Poroshenko

Thousands of Ukrainian far-right supporters have rallied in the Kiev's Independence Square calling for a referendum that would impeach the country's president Petro Poroshenko.

The peaceful rally held by the Right Sector movement saw thousands of people converge in the centre of Kiev on 21 July, waving Right Sector and Ukrainian flags and chanting "Glory to Ukraine".

The demonstration comes after a fatal gun battle in the town of Mukacheve in western Ukraine on 11 July, where armed men who claimed to be members of Right Sector faced off with police forces, leading to the killing of at least two people.

The group has frequently locked horns with Ukrainian authorities over government policy and is now calling for the resignation of ministers and for a referendum impeaching President Poroshenko.

Right Sector leader Dmytro Yarosh said at the rally that the group was calling for a vote of no confidence to go through in the Ukrainian parliament.

"Right Sector is initiating a nationwide Ukrainian referendum to answer several questions. First, a motion of no-confidence in government; second, we demand for the Russian war against Ukraine to finally be recognised as a war, and not as an antiterrorist operation. Our Ukrainian people must have their word here," he said.

"Three, we demand a complete blockade of the occupied territories. Four, we ask our people to support the legalisation of the Ukrainian volunteers corps and other volunteer units according to the law," Yarosh added.

Right Sector played a prominent role in protests that toppled Moscow-backed President Viktor Yanukovich a year ago. Members of the group's volunteer corps have been battling alongside Ukrainian forces in the east of the country against pro-Russian separatists.

But the recent moves by Right Sector against President Poroshenko and his government could threaten to open up a new front in Kiev's battle to bring order to Ukraine. Close to bankruptcy and fearful of renewed conflict with pro-Russian separatists in the east, the government has been criticised for being slow to reform the country's legal system, which is still described as favouring the rich and powerful.

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Op woensdag 22 juli 2015 18:55 schreef crystal_meth het volgende:

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http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/(...)t-poroshenko-1512047

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Op woensdag 22 juli 2015 18:45 schreef 99.999 het volgende:

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Ohja, pakweg het annexeren van de Krim is doodnormaal en geaccepteerd.

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Op woensdag 22 juli 2015 18:55 schreef crystal_meth het volgende:

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http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/(...)t-poroshenko-1512047

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Op woensdag 22 juli 2015 21:09 schreef J.B. het volgende:
Gazprom begint de huidige situatie inmiddels behoorlijk te voelen, de hoeveelheid verkochte kubieke meters gas is in juni 19% gedaald in vergelijking met juni 2014. Dat is nogal wat, zeker aangezien Gazprom ongeveer 10% van het Russisch BBP voor zijn rekening neemt. Totale omzet zou dit jaar zelfs dalen met 27% ten opzichte van 2014.

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Op woensdag 22 juli 2015 21:19 schreef crystal_meth het volgende:

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Is 106 miljard 10% van 1860 miljard?

Oh, Moscow Times bron...
http://www.themoscowtimes(...)d-slumps/526029.html

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Op woensdag 22 juli 2015 21:27 schreef J.B. het volgende:

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1860 miljard? Dat zouden de Russen wel willen ja, volgens IMF $1175:
http://www.imf.org/extern(...)PD%2CPPPGDP&grp=0&a=
Kleine 10% dus.

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Op woensdag 22 juli 2015 17:41 schreef crystal_meth het volgende:

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nee, die cijfers heb ik niet, maar de VS heeft toegegeven dat ze meer vluchten boven de Zwarte Zee en de Zuid Chinese Zee uitvoeren. Die laatste is op 10000 km van NAVO grondgebied...

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Op woensdag 22 juli 2015 21:32 schreef crystal_meth het volgende:

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Is dat een voorspelling voor 2015? In 2014 was het $1860
http://www.tradingeconomics.com/russia/gdp

al kan het wel, met de devaluatie van de roebel...

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Harper Government Establishes Market Access for Beef to Ukraine

OTTAWA, ONTARIO, Jul 22, 2015 (Marketwired via COMTEX) -- Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada

Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz and International Trade Minister Ed Fast, announced today that the Government of Canada has opened the Ukrainian market for beef (from cattle under 30 months) and ready-to-eat meat. This new market access marks a significant milestone for Canada following the lifting of Ukraine's ban on Canadian beef products in 2014. Ukraine's global imports of beef products in 2014 were $17.1 million.

Canadian beef and ready-to-eat meat establishments eligible for export to the European Union are immediately granted access to the Ukrainian market. The Government of Canada is working closely with Ukraine to expand the number of establishments that are eligible to export, pending inspections from Ukrainian authorities.

Last week, Prime Minister Stephen Harper, alongside Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk, announced the successful conclusion of negotiations toward a Canada-Ukraine Free Trade Agreement. The Agreement will result in the elimination of the vast majority of Ukraine's agricultural tariffs, including Canada's beef, pork, pulses, grains, canola oil, processed foods, and animal feed

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Ukraine's Constitutional Court to decide if decentralization amendments comply with basic law

Ukraine's Constitutional Court (CC) ruled on Wednesday to launch proceedings at the request of the Verkhovna Rada to decide if the bill on amendments to the basic law concerning the decentralization of power adheres to the Constitution of Ukraine.

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Rusland ontkent bestaan van twee soldaten in Kiev

Rusland ontkent dat twee mannen die in de Oekraïense hoofdstad Kiev verblijven Russische soldaten zijn.

Alexander Alexandrov en Jevgeni Jerofejev werden in mei door Oekraïense soldaten opgepakt in de buurt van de oostelijke plaats Lugansk en claimen zelf tot het Russische leger te behoren. Dat meldt de Russische krant The Moscow Times donderdag.

Het tweetal beweert dat het regulier soldaat was toen het werd opgepakt. Rusland zegt echter dat Alexandrov en Jerofejev het leger formeel al hadden verlaten en dat hun missie in Oekraïne niets met de officiële gewapende macht van Moskou te maken had.

De twee mannen in Kiev proberen via een mensenrechtenadvocaat gedaan te krijgen dat hun bestaan als Russisch soldaat wordt erkend.

Het tweetal was gewond bij aanhouding in mei en is daarvoor in een Oekraïens ziekenhuis behandeld. De mannen zijn later vastgezet en worden naar eigen zeggen goed behandeld.

De Russische federatie heeft al herhaaldelijk beschuldigingen van Oekraïne en westerse landen weersproken dat het door het leveren van manschappen en wapens de seperatisten in Oost-Oekraïne actief steunt.

Bron: Nu.nl