They are not even trying to hide it anymore:
"US, Europe working on new finance aid for Ukraine; Protesters seek to weaken role of president" by Alison Smale and Steven Erlanger | New York Times, February 04, 2014
BERLIN — Working to salvage a failed effort to bring Ukraine closer to the European Union, and to counter Russian pressure, the United States and Europe are pushing to defuse the crisis there, trying to assemble a new financial package intended to ease the way for formation of a new government, US and European officials say.
The diplomatic push involves regular contact with government and opposition leaders in Ukraine....
Of course, the next day there is no Ukraine in my paper(?).
With the start of the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi on Friday, European and US officials say they may have a fresh window of opportunity and some breathing space through the end of February to play a defining role in Ukraine while President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia is engaged in ensuring the success of an event that will draw global attention.
We have known what this was all about from the start.
The Russian president’s suspension of his aid package to Ukraine on Wednesday — a signal of his displeasure at Yanukovych’s talks with his opponents — may also provide a chance for the United States and Europeans to take up an economic lever that Ukraine desperately needs as it faces default on its debts.
On Monday, José Manuel Barroso, president of the European Commission, the EU’s executive body, said the union was trying to help Ukraine, but denied there was any direct competition with Russia.
What a liar!
“We are not going to a bidding competition of who pays more for a signature from Ukraine because we believe that this is the path that most Ukrainians prefer,” Barroso said, speaking in Brussels. “They want to come closer to the European Union and certainly we are ready to support that.”
Speaking in Berlin and on the sidelines of the Munich Security Conference over the weekend, senior US and European officials said they would try to assemble a new financial package intended to help a new government, though one led by an opposition leader or a technocrat.
The diplomatic effort appears aimed to help the Ukrainian leader and his opponents reach an agreement in their negotiations that would give Ukraine a government of experts, possibly led by an opposition leader, Yatsenyuk, as well as a leadership that would be acceptable to protesters who have been on the streets for more than two months.
At the same time, the negotiations appear intended to allow Yanukovych to serve out his term, which ends in spring next year, albeit with reduced constitutional powers.
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And just where would that loan be coming from anyway?
"John Kerry, Chuck Hagel defend US action abroad" by Steven Erlanger and Thom Shanker | New York Times, February 02, 2014
MUNICH — The US secretaries of state and defense on Saturday presented an emotional defense of the Obama administration’s engagement in international crises in the face of widespread European and Middle Eastern criticism that the United States was retreating from a leadership role.
Speaking at the Munich Security Conference, the most important trans-Atlantic security gathering, Secretary of State John Kerry expressed some exasperation with the criticism, rejecting “this narrative which frankly has been pushed by some people who have an interest in trying to suggest that the US is somehow on a different track.”
Israel and Jews media!
He went through a litany of US involvement in places like Afghanistan, Libya, and the Middle East, saying, “I can’t think of a place in the world where we’re retreating.”
Me neither, even though I'm told by the Amerikan media the wars are ending!
But at the same time, Kerry did not mention the American “pivot to Asia” that has been the source of European concern for several years. Nor did he, in prepared remarks and a question-and-answer session, have much to say on turmoil in Ukraine, which Washington is viewed to have left in the hands of the European Union.
Yeah, sure they have.
Six Zionist Companies Own 96% of the World's Media
Declassified: Massive Israeli manipulation of US media exposed
Operation Mockingbird
Why Am I No Longer Reading the Newspaper?
Just wanted you to see who was giving us this s*** narrative.
Kerry spoke of Ukraine’s importance, saying, “Nowhere is the fight for a democratic, European future more important today than in Ukraine,” and he offered general support for the aspirations of Ukrainians to choose their future, saying “the United States and the EU stand with the people of Ukraine in that fight” against coercion.
Kerry and his top aides met separately Saturday with Ukrainian opposition figures Arseniy P. Yatsenyuk, Vitali Klitschko, and Petro Poroshenko.
But we left all that the Europeans. Pffft!
European officials who also met with the Ukrainians said Yatsenyuk, who had turned down an offer to become prime minister, said he might consider the job if he could be given real power. He is concerned that given the near bankruptcy of Ukraine, he would be blamed for the consequences.
The officials said European and US officials were beginning to discuss a possible financial package for Ukraine, to give any new government time to pass the difficult legislation required to qualify for a large, delayed loan from the International Monetary Fund.
OMG! That's where the loan is coming from?
Can't say no to them! Hussein, Khadafy, and Morsi did -- and you saw what happened to them! Better off to let the IMF enslave your country and get good pre$$ instead!
“These discussions are just at the beginning,’’ one European official said. As for President Viktor Yanukovych, “he’s still playing for time,’’ the official said. The president is focused on winning another term in 2015 and fears for his personal safety if he leaves office, the official said.
Kerry repeated Washington’s admonitions to Russia not to interfere in Ukraine, which Moscow has been doing from the start of the crisis.
OMG! What a SHIT MEDIA!
US and European officials, speaking privately, said they were concerned that after the Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia, this month, President Vladimir V. Putin might feel freer to act more openly in Ukraine to restore order there — using riot police officers working alongside Ukrainians, for instance, possibly in Ukrainian uniforms.
I'm sorry, readers, but I don't want to reread shit I have already read.
“Russia and other countries should not view the European integration of their neighbors as a zero-sum game,” Kerry said. “The lesson of the last half-century is that we can accomplish much more when the United States, Russia, and Europe work together.”
Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel, sitting alongside Kerry, sought to reassure Europeans that the United States was not abandoning the Continent as it rebalances its interests — diplomatic, military, and economic — to Asia after more than a decade of conflict in Iraq and Afghanistan. But his words were careful.
With the United States “moving off a 13-year war footing, it is clear to us, as well as President Obama, that our future requires a renewed and enhanced era of partnership with our friends and allies, especially here in Europe,” Hagel said.
Are we?
“Since the end of the Cold War, the United States has continuously adjusted its defense posture to new strategic realities around the world,” and that will be true as the Afghan war winds down, Hagel said.
Oh, I see. We are not moving off war footing; we are repositioning our feet. Been on war footing since WWII.
He cited his recent visit to Poland, where land-based interceptors for a European missile-defense system will be placed in future years. In addition, four US missile-defense warships will be based in Spain for service in the Mediterranean.
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"Fire lights sky as Kiev protests continue" by Yuras Karmanau and Maria Danilova | Associated Press, January 25, 2014
KIEV — As riots spread from Ukraine’s embattled capital to nearly half of the country, President Viktor Yanukovych promised Friday to reshuffle his government and make other concessions — but a top opposition leader said nothing short of his resignation would do.
Hours after the president’s comments, huge fireballs lit up the night sky in central Kiev and plumes of thick black smoke rose from burning tires at giant barricades erected by protesters.
Clashes resumed at the barricades, which are just yards from lines of riot police and also made up of bags of ice and scraps of furniture.
Angry demonstrators hurled firebombs, rocks, and fireworks at officers. Riot police responded with tear gas, and several dozen protesters were rushed to a makeshift medical triage area to be treated. Several arrests were made.
‘‘We will force the authorities to respect us,’’ 27-year-old protester Artur Kapelan said. ‘‘Not they, but we will dictate the conditions of a truce.’’
The fighting had stopped earlier this week as opposition leaders entered into face-to-face talks with Yanukovych.
But hundreds of demonstrators in ski masks and helmets were still armed with sticks, stones, and firebombs at those Kiev barricades, just yards away from police lines.
After nearly two months of ignoring mass demonstrations calling for his ouster, Yanukovych offered to meet some of their demands, after crowds angered by the deaths of at least two protesters and allegations of abuse by authorities besieged government buildings in scores of cities in western Ukraine.
At a meeting with religious leaders, Yanukovych vowed that, at a special parliamentary meeting on Tuesday, he would push through changes to his Cabinet, grant amnesty to dozens of jailed activists, and amend harsh antiprotest legislation.
But Vitali Klitschko, an opposition leader who is a former world heavyweight boxing champion, declared the only way to end the street protests — known as the Maidan after the central Kiev square occupied by demonstrators — is for Yanukovych to resign.
‘‘Just a month ago, the Maidan would have gone home,’’ Klitschko told reporters Friday night, according to the Interfax news agency. ‘‘Today, people are demanding the president’s resignation.’’
The protest law enacted last week appeared to have backfired on Yanukovych, sparking confrontations in which demonstrators threw stones and firebombs at police, who responded with tear gas and rubber bullets. The violence since Sunday was a harsh contrast to the determined peacefulness of the antigovernment protests that have gripped the country for the last two months.
The rallies broke out after Yanukovych scrapped a key treaty with the European Union in order to secure a bailout loan from Russia. President Vladimir Putin had pressed hard to keep Ukraine in his nation’s political and economic orbit, but more Ukrainians favor closer ties with the 28-nation EU than an new alliance with Russia.
At least two demonstrators were killed this week in clashes with police and protesters have seized government offices in cities in western Ukraine, where support for Yanukovych is thin.
Separately, a protester was found dead outside Kiev this week after going missing from a hospital together with a prominent activist who was beaten but survived.
Meanwhile, protester anger boiled over as one activist recounted Friday how he was stripped naked, beaten, and humiliated by police after being detained this week at a barricade in Kiev….
His plight shocked the country when a video of the abuse was posted online, showing him standing naked in the snow, covered in bruises and taunted by policemen.
I no longer trust videos or anything else the propaganda pre$$ cites. More than likely a staged and scripted hoax.
On Friday, protesters continued occupying government buildings in a number of cities in western Ukraine, having forced two governors to resign and chasing another out of his office. Government buildings in many other cities were besieged by angry crowds.
Swedish Foreign Minister Carl Bildt, who spent several years backing the scrapped EU agreement with Ukraine, suggested that Yanukovych was losing control over the country. He posted a map of Ukraine on his Twitter account, where many regions were shown engulfed by protests.
‘‘If Kiev regime tries a military solution to this situation, it will be very bloody and it will fail,’’ Bildt tweeted.
EU enlargement commissioner Stefan Fuele flew to Kiev on Friday to meet with Yanukovych and the opposition and try to broker a solution. The West has been urging Yanukovych to compromise with the protesters as well as threatening sanctions against his government.
‘‘The country is sliding towards dictatorship and we must stop that,’’ said Denis Nakhmanovich, a 33-year-old protester. ‘‘Molotov cocktails are louder than any empty words from politicians.’’
I'm already in one.
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"Ukrainian president offers concessions" by David M. Herszenhorn | New York Times, January 26, 2014
KIEV — In a striking concession aimed at defusing the civil uprising that has gripped Ukraine, President Viktor Yanukovych on Saturday offered to install opposition leaders in top posts in a reshaped government.
Yanukovych proposed making one of them, Arseniy P. Yatsenyuk, prime minister and another, the former boxing champion Vitali Klitschko, vice prime minister for humanitarian affairs.
Yatsenyuk, who seemed confident that the opposition had pushed the president to the brink of defeat, rebuffed his offer. “No deal,” Yatsenyuk wrote on his Twitter account, addressing Yanukovych. “We’re finishing what we started. The people decide our leaders, not you.”
Minutes later, onstage at the occupied Independence Square, Yatsenyuk sounded a more flexible note and suggested that a leadership change was possible, but that negotiations would have to continue.
Many protesters on the streets of Kiev, the capital, including some involved in violent clashes with the police, have been demanding Yanukovych’s resignation, which he did not offer.
In addition, some of the most aggressive demonstrators are supporters of the nationalist Svoboda Party and its leader, Oleg Tyagnibok, who was apparently not offered a position.
Related: 15,000 nationalists march in Kiev
In a move that suggested that the offers were more than theatrics aimed at dividing the opposition, Yanukovych also said he would be willing to roll back constitutional changes made at his direction that had expanded the powers of the presidency.
Which is better than what western leaders offer.
He also agreed to make changes to a package of new laws that broadly suppress political dissent, including freedoms of speech and assembly, which Yanukovych’s backers rammed through Parliament on Jan. 16.
The concessions were announced in a statement on the presidential website Saturday after a negotiation session lasting more than three hours that was attended by all three of the opposition leaders. They came as protests continued to spread across the country, with efforts to occupy or blockade government buildings underway in at least a dozen cities besides Kiev….
Then it really isn't about all those complaints, is it?
The minister of justice, Olena Lukash, who took part in the talks. Lukash said that Yanukovych had also agreed to engage in a public debate with Klitschko, who has said he plans to challenge Yanukovych in the presidential election next year.
Leading the protest to grab power, huh?
The deal would apparently also allow for the release of detained protesters who have not been charged with serious crimes, and calls for reshaping the Central Election Commission to give opposition parties more influence — a step that is seen as important to preventing election fraud, which has been a persistent problem in Ukrainian balloting.
Even before the three opposition leaders could return to Independence Square in Kiev, where they were expected to address the demonstrators and react to Yanukovych’s proposal, violence flared in the main conflict zone, near the Dynamo soccer stadium. Protesters clashed with special police units, and tires were once again set ablaze on the street.
Yanukovych’s willingness to remove Prime Minister Mykola Azarov, who has been his staunch ally through the more than two-month-long civic uprising, underscored just how much pressure he is facing to contain the crisis.
As mass protests have spread in recent days, it has become increasingly clear that the elite Berkut riot police and other Interior Ministry troops are outnumbered and would face enormous challenges if asked to enforce a state of emergency.
And on Saturday, Yanukovych came under further pressure from two of the nation’s wealthiest men, the so-called oligarchs who control Ukraine’s industry and economy and also wield influence in Parliament. Both men warned, in separate statements, that Ukraine was in danger of splintering.
That would make the EU and US happy!
System Capital Management, a conglomerate owned by Ukraine’s richest man, Rinat Akhmetov, regarded as a close ally of Yanukovych, issued a statement lamenting the loss of life and offering condolences.
“Business cannot keep silent when people are killed; a real danger of breakup of the country emerges; when a political crisis can lead to a deep economic recession and thus inevitably result in lower standards of living,” the statement said. “It is only by peaceful action that the political crisis can be resolved.’’
Another billionaire, Petro Poroshenko, a member of Parliament who is viewed as a potential future president, issued a statement calling on lawmakers loyal to Yanukovych to join with opposition leaders to reach a compromise.
They said no deal.
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"Protester’s body carried through Kiev; Antigovernment rallies spreading to other regions" by Maria Danilova | Associated Press, January 27, 2014
KIEV — Thousands of Ukrainians chanted ‘‘Hero!’’ and sang the national anthem on Sunday, as a coffin carrying a protester killed in last week’s clashes with police was carried through the streets of the capital, while antigovernment protests began to spread to eastern and central areas of the country.
Mikhail Zhiznevsky, 25, was one of three protesters who died in clashes Wednesday.
‘‘He could have been my fiancé, but he died defending my future so that I will live in a different Ukraine,’’ said Nina Uvarov, a 25-year-old student from Kiev who wept as Zhiznevsky’s body was carried out of St. Michael’s Cathedral.
The opposition contends that Zhiznevsky and another activist were shot by police in an area where demonstrators had been throwing rocks and firebombs at riot police for several days. The government claims the two demonstrators were killed with hunting rifles, which they say police do not carry. Authorities would not say how the third protester died.
I wish my AmeriKan media would show the same level of concern for those protesters and citizens killed by AmeriKa's security forces.
Meanwhile, protests against President Viktor Yanukovych continued to engulf the country, now beginning to spread to central and eastern Ukraine, the leader’s support base.
In Dnipropetrovsk, 240 miles southeast of Kiev on the Dnipro River, several hundred demonstrators tried to storm a local administration building, but police drove them back with water sprayed from a firetruck in subfreezing temperatures, the Interfax news agency reported.
In Zaporozhets, about 45 miles down river, demonstrators gathered outside the city administration building.
The protests began in late November after Yanukovych shelved a long-awaited agreement to deepen ties with the European Union, but they have been increasingly gripped by people seeking more radical action, even as moderate opposition leaders have pleaded for the violence to end.
Zhiznevsky’s body was carried to Independence Square in central Kiev, where protesters have established a large tent camp and held demonstrations around the clock since early December.
Crowds shouted ‘‘Yanukovych is a murderer!’’ and ‘‘Down with the criminal,’’ a reference to Yanukovych’s run-ins with the law during his youth. The coffin was then carried to the site of Zhiznevsky’s death at barricades near the Ukrainian Parliament.
A crowd late Saturday had besieged a building, throwing fireworks, firebombs and rocks, near the protest tent camp where about 200 police were sheltering.
By early Sunday morning, a corridor was created, allowing police to leave.
The overnight outburst came soon after opposition leaders issued a defiant response to Yanukovych’s offer to make Arseniy Yatsenyuk, one of their top figures, the country’s prime minister.
While not rejecting the offer outright, Yatsenyuk said more of the opposition’s demands must be met, including Yanukovych’s resignation.
He vowed protests will continue.
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So much for making concessions.
"Ukraine president agrees to eliminate anti protest law; Move would be big concession to opposition" by Jim Heintz | Associated Press, January 28, 2014
KIEV — Ukraine’s beleaguered president on Monday agreed to scrap harsh antiprotest laws that set off clashes between protesters and police over the past week.
In a statement on the presidential website, Justice Minister Elena Lukash said that in a meeting with top opposition figures and President Viktor Yanukovych on Monday night, “a political decision was made on scrapping the laws of Jan. 16.’’
Yanukovych pushed those laws through Parliament. Three days later, clashes with police broke out, an escalation of tensions after weeks of mostly peaceful protests.
Eliminating the laws, which is likely to be done in a special Parliament session Tuesday, would be a substantial concession to the opposition. But it does not meet all their demands, which include Yanukovych’s resignation.
One of the opposition figures, Arseniy Yatsenyuk, turned down the prime minister’s job, which Yanukovych offered him on Saturday.
At that time, he said protests would continue. In the Monday meeting, Yanukovych said a proposed amnesty for arrested protesters would not be offered unless demonstrators stopped occupying buildings and ended their round-the-clock protests and tent camp at Kiev’s central square.
Protesters have been afraid that authorities were preparing to end the spreading demonstrations by force, but the foreign ministry said the government has no immediate plans to declare a state of emergency.
Earlier, Lukash said she would ask for a state of emergency to be declared if protesters did not leave the ministry building they seized overnight in Kiev. Protesters left the building but continued to picket outside.
Although the building’s seizure ended, it underlined protesters’ growing inclination to take radical action after two months of largely peaceful demonstrations.
Three protesters died in the clashes last week, two of whom were shot by hunting rifles, which police say they do not use. With protesters now willing to risk injury, a state of emergency could spark substantial fighting on the streets of the capital....
They are so brave, those protesters!
So unlike the scum of Occupy Wall Street, remember?
EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton said in a statement she was alarmed by reports about the government considering a state of emergency and warned such a move “would trigger a further downward spiral for Ukraine which would benefit no one.”
Allies do it and the U.S. doesn't raise a peep.
The protesters still occupy three sizable buildings in downtown Kiev, including City Hall.
One of the buildings was seized in an assault early Sunday, when hundreds of protesters threw rocks and firebombs into the building where about 200 police were sheltering. The crowd eventually formed a corridor through which the police left.
Where is the AmeriKan media and propaganda pre$$ condemnation of terrorists?
Lukash, in a televised statement, noted that protesters seized the building as justice employees were working on measures to grant amnesty to protesters and to make changes in the constitution to restore more power to the prime minister.
In other words, kill any deal!
The fears of a state of emergency come after other official statements suggested the government is considering forceful moves against the protesters.
Interior Minister Vitali Zakharchenko, an official despised by the protesters, on Saturday warned that demonstrators occupying buildings would be considered extremists and that force would be used against them if necessary.
He also said demonstrators had seized two policemen and tortured them before letting them go, which the opposition denied.
It’s not clear if constitutional changes will be on the agenda for Tuesday’s parliamentary session, but granting more power to the prime minister could sweeten the offer and allow Yanukovych to portray himself as offering genuine compromise.
The protests began in late November when Yanukovych shelved a long-awaited agreement to deepen ties with the 28-nation European Union and instead sought a bailout loan from Russia. The demonstrations grew in size and intensity after police violently dispersed two gatherings. Demonstrators then set up a large tent camp on Kiev’s main square.
After Yanukovych approved the new antiprotest laws, demonstrations spread into other parts of the country, including to some cities in the Russian-speaking east, the base of Yanukovych’s support.
"Ukraine prime minister quits, antiprotest laws repealed" by Maria Danilova and Jim Heintz | Associated Press, January 29, 2014
KIEV — In back-to-back moves aimed at defusing Ukraine’s political crisis, the prime minister resigned Tuesday and Parliament repealed antiprotest laws that had set off violent clashes between protesters and police.
The two developments were significant concessions to the antigovernment protesters who have fought sporadically with police for the last 10 days after two months of peaceful around-the-clock demonstrations.
The protests erupted after President Viktor Yanukovych turned toward Russia for a bailout loan instead of signing a deal with the European Union and have since morphed into a general plea for more human rights, less corruption, and more democracy in this nation of 45 million.
The departure of Prime Minister Mykola Azarov removes one of the officials most disliked by the opposition forces whose protests have turned parts of Kiev, the Ukrainian capital, into a barricaded maze.
Azarov’s spokesman, however, told the Interfax news agency that another staunch Yanukovych ally, deputy Prime Minister Serhiy Arbuzov, will assume temporary leadership of the Cabinet, a move that is unlikely to please the opposition.
Other key issues remain unresolved in Ukraine’s political crisis, including the opposition’s repeated demand that Yanukovych resign and a new election be held....
Parliament will consider an amnesty measure Wednesday for scores of arrested protesters. But Yanukovych has said the amnesty is only possible if demonstrators clear the streets and vacate the buildings they occupy — a condition that is probably unacceptable to many.
The prime minister’s departure brought encouragement to those at Kiev’s protest encampment but no inclination to end their demonstrations.
‘‘The authorities are afraid and making concessions. We should use this moment and continue our fight to achieve a change of power in Ukraine,’’ said 23-year-old demonstrator Oleg Rudakov.
"Ukraine lawmakers offer protester amnesty" by Yuras Karmanau and Jim Heintz | Associated Press, January 30, 2014
KIEV, Ukraine — Ukraine’s Parliament passed a measure on Wednesday offering amnesty to those arrested in two months of protests, but only if demonstrators vacate most of the buildings they occupy. The move was quickly greeted with contempt by the opposition.
The measure was put forth by a lawmaker from the party of President Viktor Yanukovych, who is casting for a way to end the protests, which call for his resignation. The measure was a softer version of an earlier proposal to only offer amnesty if all protests dispersed.
But the opposition regards the arrests during the protests — 328 by a lawmaker’s count — as fundamentally illegitimate.
‘‘Parliament has just passed a law on hostages. The authorities have themselves recognized that they are taking hostages, as terrorists so they can trade the hostages,’’ said Oleh Tyahnybok, leader of the Svoboda party and one of the protests’ top figures.
That disdain was echoed in Kiev’s central Independence Square, where protesters have set up a tent camp and conducted round-the-clock demonstrations since early December....
Protesters demand Yanukovych’s resignation, early elections, and the firing of authorities responsible for violent police dispersals of demonstrators. The protests started after Yanukovych backed out of a long-awaited agreement to deepen ties with the European Union, but came to encompass a wide array of discontent over corruption, heavy-handed police, and dubious courts.
Three demonstrators died in clashes with police last week as anger boiled over harsh antiprotest laws that Yanukovych pushed through this month. Parliament voted Tuesday to repeal those laws, but Yanukovych did not sign the measure.
The bill would not apply to several city buildings in the center of Kiev that the protesters use as dormitories and operation centers and that are key support facilities for the extensive protest tent camp on the main square. With temperatures dropping as low as minus-4 Fahrenheit during the night, continuing the protests without places to shelter would be virtually impossible....
Glad to see the AmeriKan media is so worried about them.
Given how the violent dispersal of demonstrators in December only swelled the Kiev protests and how the new laws spread discontent outside the capital, Yanukovych might have recognized that using force would set off severe new trouble and appears to be fishing around for measures to mollify the opposition without giving serious ground....
Meanwhile, there are growing concerns about dissension between radicals and moderates within the broad-based protest movement.
Earlier Wednesday, one group of protesters clashed with another....
(Blog editor smiled there; eat and kill yourselves, you f***s)
The protests erupted after Yanukovych turned down a deal in November with the European Union in favor of getting a $15 billion bailout from Russia, but they have since shifted to demanding more human rights, less corruption, and more democracy in this nation of 45 million.
Yeah, yeah, I we know the what and the why behind it all, shit media.
"Ukraine president’s sick leave raises questions; Speculation he may step down — or crack down" by Jim Heintz and Maria Danilova | Associated Press, January 31, 2014
KIEV, Ukraine — Amid the deepest turmoil since the Orange Revolution, President Viktor Yanukovych’s announcement Thursday that he was taking indefinite sick leave prompted a guessing game among Ukrainians about what was happening to their country.
Whenever the CIA media names something you know it is an agenda-pushing attempt at a coup!
Debate raged on whether he was just sick or whether he was leaving the limelight in preparation for something, possibly either cracking down or stepping down....
The official line is that Yanukovych, 63, has an acute respiratory illness and a high fever.
But the opposition isn’t buying it. Some say he is looking for an excuse to avoid further discussions with opposition leaders....
First of all, I never say someone is faking injury or illness. If not, that person or group looks like real assholes (the hallmarks of a CIA-sponsored controlled opposition protest).
Vitali Klitschko, a leading opposition figure, has a more ominous theory — the president could be pretending to take himself out of action in preparation for imposing a state of emergency. That has been a persistent worry of the opposition since violent clashes two weeks ago killed three protesters.
Gee, Klitschko sounds like a CRAZY CONSPIRACY THEORIST!
‘‘I remember from the Soviet Union it’s a bad sign — a bad sign because always if some Soviet Union leaders have to make an unpopular decision, they go to the hospital,’’ Klitschko said....
One political commentator suggested the announcement could be a ruse to take him out of power, as in the attempted coup against Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev in 1991....
Still, others took the announcement at face value....
And I, for one, couldn't give a shit about the propaganda pre$$ and its guessing games.
F*** THIS S***, folks!
Hours after the government announced his sick leave, an exhausted Yanukovych issued a statement to upbraid his political foes, saying ‘‘the opposition continues to escalate the situation and urges people to stand in the frost for the sake of the political ambitions of several of its leaders.’’
Despite offering several concessions, authorities have so far failed to mollify the protesters....
Nothing could mollify them except for regime change.
On Thursday, Interior Minister Vitali Zakharchenko said a 30-year-old police officer manning the front lines of the Kiev protests had died of a heart attack overnight....
Policeman’s death no big deal?
After stepping back from the long-awaited agreement with the EU, Yanukovych got a $15 billion aid package from Russia that also gives Ukraine lower prices for the Russian gas upon which the country depends.
That aid from Russian President Vladimir Putin is key to propping up Yanukovych and keeping the struggling Ukrainian economy from falling into bankruptcy.
Yeah, he is key to the Jew World Order. He is a person who happens to be blocking it at the moment.
Related:
"The bloody images of Ukrainian opposition supporter Dmytro Bulatov, who says he was abducted and tortured for more than a week, have fueled fears among antigovernment activists that extrajudicial squads are being deployed to intimidate the protest movement. Some opposition leaders believe the government will do anything to save itself, including sending brutal squads of torturers to quash the demonstrations."
He is in Lithuania now. Doesn't even look real! It looks like a bad make-up job!
Also looks like the Ukraine government is just like any other, only interested in its own survival.
Also see: Police seek driver who dropped mattress in fatal crash
She won't be going back to the Ukraine.
So much for making concessions.
"Ukraine president agrees to eliminate anti protest law; Move would be big concession to opposition" by Jim Heintz | Associated Press, January 28, 2014
KIEV — Ukraine’s beleaguered president on Monday agreed to scrap harsh antiprotest laws that set off clashes between protesters and police over the past week.
In a statement on the presidential website, Justice Minister Elena Lukash said that in a meeting with top opposition figures and President Viktor Yanukovych on Monday night, “a political decision was made on scrapping the laws of Jan. 16.’’
Yanukovych pushed those laws through Parliament. Three days later, clashes with police broke out, an escalation of tensions after weeks of mostly peaceful protests.
Eliminating the laws, which is likely to be done in a special Parliament session Tuesday, would be a substantial concession to the opposition. But it does not meet all their demands, which include Yanukovych’s resignation.
One of the opposition figures, Arseniy Yatsenyuk, turned down the prime minister’s job, which Yanukovych offered him on Saturday.
At that time, he said protests would continue. In the Monday meeting, Yanukovych said a proposed amnesty for arrested protesters would not be offered unless demonstrators stopped occupying buildings and ended their round-the-clock protests and tent camp at Kiev’s central square.
Protesters have been afraid that authorities were preparing to end the spreading demonstrations by force, but the foreign ministry said the government has no immediate plans to declare a state of emergency.
Earlier, Lukash said she would ask for a state of emergency to be declared if protesters did not leave the ministry building they seized overnight in Kiev. Protesters left the building but continued to picket outside.
Although the building’s seizure ended, it underlined protesters’ growing inclination to take radical action after two months of largely peaceful demonstrations.
Three protesters died in the clashes last week, two of whom were shot by hunting rifles, which police say they do not use. With protesters now willing to risk injury, a state of emergency could spark substantial fighting on the streets of the capital....
They are so brave, those protesters!
So unlike the scum of Occupy Wall Street, remember?
EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton said in a statement she was alarmed by reports about the government considering a state of emergency and warned such a move “would trigger a further downward spiral for Ukraine which would benefit no one.”
Allies do it and the U.S. doesn't raise a peep.
The protesters still occupy three sizable buildings in downtown Kiev, including City Hall.
One of the buildings was seized in an assault early Sunday, when hundreds of protesters threw rocks and firebombs into the building where about 200 police were sheltering. The crowd eventually formed a corridor through which the police left.
Where is the AmeriKan media and propaganda pre$$ condemnation of terrorists?
Lukash, in a televised statement, noted that protesters seized the building as justice employees were working on measures to grant amnesty to protesters and to make changes in the constitution to restore more power to the prime minister.
In other words, kill any deal!
The fears of a state of emergency come after other official statements suggested the government is considering forceful moves against the protesters.
Interior Minister Vitali Zakharchenko, an official despised by the protesters, on Saturday warned that demonstrators occupying buildings would be considered extremists and that force would be used against them if necessary.
He also said demonstrators had seized two policemen and tortured them before letting them go, which the opposition denied.
It’s not clear if constitutional changes will be on the agenda for Tuesday’s parliamentary session, but granting more power to the prime minister could sweeten the offer and allow Yanukovych to portray himself as offering genuine compromise.
The protests began in late November when Yanukovych shelved a long-awaited agreement to deepen ties with the 28-nation European Union and instead sought a bailout loan from Russia. The demonstrations grew in size and intensity after police violently dispersed two gatherings. Demonstrators then set up a large tent camp on Kiev’s main square.
After Yanukovych approved the new antiprotest laws, demonstrations spread into other parts of the country, including to some cities in the Russian-speaking east, the base of Yanukovych’s support.
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"Ukraine prime minister quits, antiprotest laws repealed" by Maria Danilova and Jim Heintz | Associated Press, January 29, 2014
KIEV — In back-to-back moves aimed at defusing Ukraine’s political crisis, the prime minister resigned Tuesday and Parliament repealed antiprotest laws that had set off violent clashes between protesters and police.
The two developments were significant concessions to the antigovernment protesters who have fought sporadically with police for the last 10 days after two months of peaceful around-the-clock demonstrations.
The protests erupted after President Viktor Yanukovych turned toward Russia for a bailout loan instead of signing a deal with the European Union and have since morphed into a general plea for more human rights, less corruption, and more democracy in this nation of 45 million.
The departure of Prime Minister Mykola Azarov removes one of the officials most disliked by the opposition forces whose protests have turned parts of Kiev, the Ukrainian capital, into a barricaded maze.
Azarov’s spokesman, however, told the Interfax news agency that another staunch Yanukovych ally, deputy Prime Minister Serhiy Arbuzov, will assume temporary leadership of the Cabinet, a move that is unlikely to please the opposition.
Other key issues remain unresolved in Ukraine’s political crisis, including the opposition’s repeated demand that Yanukovych resign and a new election be held....
Parliament will consider an amnesty measure Wednesday for scores of arrested protesters. But Yanukovych has said the amnesty is only possible if demonstrators clear the streets and vacate the buildings they occupy — a condition that is probably unacceptable to many.
The prime minister’s departure brought encouragement to those at Kiev’s protest encampment but no inclination to end their demonstrations.
‘‘The authorities are afraid and making concessions. We should use this moment and continue our fight to achieve a change of power in Ukraine,’’ said 23-year-old demonstrator Oleg Rudakov.
"Ukraine lawmakers offer protester amnesty" by Yuras Karmanau and Jim Heintz | Associated Press, January 30, 2014
KIEV, Ukraine — Ukraine’s Parliament passed a measure on Wednesday offering amnesty to those arrested in two months of protests, but only if demonstrators vacate most of the buildings they occupy. The move was quickly greeted with contempt by the opposition.
The measure was put forth by a lawmaker from the party of President Viktor Yanukovych, who is casting for a way to end the protests, which call for his resignation. The measure was a softer version of an earlier proposal to only offer amnesty if all protests dispersed.
But the opposition regards the arrests during the protests — 328 by a lawmaker’s count — as fundamentally illegitimate.
‘‘Parliament has just passed a law on hostages. The authorities have themselves recognized that they are taking hostages, as terrorists so they can trade the hostages,’’ said Oleh Tyahnybok, leader of the Svoboda party and one of the protests’ top figures.
That disdain was echoed in Kiev’s central Independence Square, where protesters have set up a tent camp and conducted round-the-clock demonstrations since early December....
Protesters demand Yanukovych’s resignation, early elections, and the firing of authorities responsible for violent police dispersals of demonstrators. The protests started after Yanukovych backed out of a long-awaited agreement to deepen ties with the European Union, but came to encompass a wide array of discontent over corruption, heavy-handed police, and dubious courts.
Three demonstrators died in clashes with police last week as anger boiled over harsh antiprotest laws that Yanukovych pushed through this month. Parliament voted Tuesday to repeal those laws, but Yanukovych did not sign the measure.
The bill would not apply to several city buildings in the center of Kiev that the protesters use as dormitories and operation centers and that are key support facilities for the extensive protest tent camp on the main square. With temperatures dropping as low as minus-4 Fahrenheit during the night, continuing the protests without places to shelter would be virtually impossible....
Glad to see the AmeriKan media is so worried about them.
Given how the violent dispersal of demonstrators in December only swelled the Kiev protests and how the new laws spread discontent outside the capital, Yanukovych might have recognized that using force would set off severe new trouble and appears to be fishing around for measures to mollify the opposition without giving serious ground....
Meanwhile, there are growing concerns about dissension between radicals and moderates within the broad-based protest movement.
Earlier Wednesday, one group of protesters clashed with another....
(Blog editor smiled there; eat and kill yourselves, you f***s)
The protests erupted after Yanukovych turned down a deal in November with the European Union in favor of getting a $15 billion bailout from Russia, but they have since shifted to demanding more human rights, less corruption, and more democracy in this nation of 45 million.
Yeah, yeah, I we know the what and the why behind it all, shit media.
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"Ukraine president’s sick leave raises questions; Speculation he may step down — or crack down" by Jim Heintz and Maria Danilova | Associated Press, January 31, 2014
KIEV, Ukraine — Amid the deepest turmoil since the Orange Revolution, President Viktor Yanukovych’s announcement Thursday that he was taking indefinite sick leave prompted a guessing game among Ukrainians about what was happening to their country.
Whenever the CIA media names something you know it is an agenda-pushing attempt at a coup!
Debate raged on whether he was just sick or whether he was leaving the limelight in preparation for something, possibly either cracking down or stepping down....
The official line is that Yanukovych, 63, has an acute respiratory illness and a high fever.
But the opposition isn’t buying it. Some say he is looking for an excuse to avoid further discussions with opposition leaders....
First of all, I never say someone is faking injury or illness. If not, that person or group looks like real assholes (the hallmarks of a CIA-sponsored controlled opposition protest).
Vitali Klitschko, a leading opposition figure, has a more ominous theory — the president could be pretending to take himself out of action in preparation for imposing a state of emergency. That has been a persistent worry of the opposition since violent clashes two weeks ago killed three protesters.
Gee, Klitschko sounds like a CRAZY CONSPIRACY THEORIST!
‘‘I remember from the Soviet Union it’s a bad sign — a bad sign because always if some Soviet Union leaders have to make an unpopular decision, they go to the hospital,’’ Klitschko said....
One political commentator suggested the announcement could be a ruse to take him out of power, as in the attempted coup against Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev in 1991....
Still, others took the announcement at face value....
And I, for one, couldn't give a shit about the propaganda pre$$ and its guessing games.
F*** THIS S***, folks!
Hours after the government announced his sick leave, an exhausted Yanukovych issued a statement to upbraid his political foes, saying ‘‘the opposition continues to escalate the situation and urges people to stand in the frost for the sake of the political ambitions of several of its leaders.’’
Despite offering several concessions, authorities have so far failed to mollify the protesters....
Nothing could mollify them except for regime change.
On Thursday, Interior Minister Vitali Zakharchenko said a 30-year-old police officer manning the front lines of the Kiev protests had died of a heart attack overnight....
Policeman’s death no big deal?
After stepping back from the long-awaited agreement with the EU, Yanukovych got a $15 billion aid package from Russia that also gives Ukraine lower prices for the Russian gas upon which the country depends.
That aid from Russian President Vladimir Putin is key to propping up Yanukovych and keeping the struggling Ukrainian economy from falling into bankruptcy.
Yeah, he is key to the Jew World Order. He is a person who happens to be blocking it at the moment.
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And things must be looking good:
"Ukraine ruler to end his sick leave; Timing of illness raised questions" by Jim Heintz | Associated Press, February 03, 2014
KIEV — Ukraine’s president will return Monday from a short sick leave that had sparked a guessing game that he was taking himself out of action in preparation to step down or for a crackdown on widespread antigovernment protests....
Not here.
Protesters seeking his resignation held one of their largest gatherings in recent weeks amid the deepest turmoil in Ukraine since the Orange Revolution in 2004-2005.
The protests are heading into a third month....
Protest leader [and] former heavyweight boxing champion Vitali Klitschko, showed that opposition hopes for cooperation from abroad are high.
‘‘The crisis will end at last when under the auspices of the international community we will hold new elections that will stop the regime of Yanukovych,’’ he said....
Seems like a good place to end this.
And things must be looking good:
"Ukraine ruler to end his sick leave; Timing of illness raised questions" by Jim Heintz | Associated Press, February 03, 2014
KIEV — Ukraine’s president will return Monday from a short sick leave that had sparked a guessing game that he was taking himself out of action in preparation to step down or for a crackdown on widespread antigovernment protests....
Not here.
Protesters seeking his resignation held one of their largest gatherings in recent weeks amid the deepest turmoil in Ukraine since the Orange Revolution in 2004-2005.
The protests are heading into a third month....
Protest leader [and] former heavyweight boxing champion Vitali Klitschko, showed that opposition hopes for cooperation from abroad are high.
‘‘The crisis will end at last when under the auspices of the international community we will hold new elections that will stop the regime of Yanukovych,’’ he said....
Seems like a good place to end this.
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Related:
"The bloody images of Ukrainian opposition supporter Dmytro Bulatov, who says he was abducted and tortured for more than a week, have fueled fears among antigovernment activists that extrajudicial squads are being deployed to intimidate the protest movement. Some opposition leaders believe the government will do anything to save itself, including sending brutal squads of torturers to quash the demonstrations."
He is in Lithuania now. Doesn't even look real! It looks like a bad make-up job!
Also looks like the Ukraine government is just like any other, only interested in its own survival.
Also see: Police seek driver who dropped mattress in fatal crash
She won't be going back to the Ukraine.
