Olexandr Ryabchenko is charged with corrupt activities that resulted in budget losses of over USD 7 billion 

 

Capt Zasukha and five other officers - all unarmed - were heading home at night when they got lost and stumbled upon a rebel checkpoint, manned by the so-called "Russian Orthodox Army".

 

Prospective vegetable and fruit suppliers include Azerbaijan, Uzbekistan, Armenia, Tajikistan, partially Kyrgyzstan. Turkey, Iran, Serbia are close by.

 

 

Personal data includes names, addresses, and landline & mobile phones numbers of the terrorists. I have shared all this information with the Security Service of Ukraine so the ‘guests’ are on their way.

 Steven Seagal was subject to a hailstorm of criticism after supporting the annexation of Crimea in March, and for this reason he was kicked off the Estonian blues festival set list this summer.

 

Russia has repeatedly accused members of this council of politicizing a humanitarian situation. But Russia has it backwards,” Power said. “In fact, it is Russia that is trying to disguise a political crisis — one manufactured and exported by Moscow — as a humanitarian one. The very humanitarian problems that Russia is decrying in eastern Ukraine, and turning a blind eye to in Crimea, are directly traceable to violence it has facilitated or supported.”

 

I’m pretty sure it was unintended but the unintended consequences of this unintended act could have been fairly dramatic and yet all that really happened in stock markets was that the price of gold went up. We didn’t see equity markets collapsing.”

 

“…Galina Zaporozhtseva, a former police colonel and member of the Committee of Soldiers’ Mothers…is quite a star on Russian TV, and her appearances from different hot spots warrant separate scrutiny.  Her assertions about the events in Odessa do not withstand even a cursory comparison with the UN report and video footage. Some were grotesquely absurd, such as the claim that the Right Sector ‘radicals’ had been guilty of cannibalism in the Trade Union building.

To date, Moscow shows no signs of moderating its stance towards Ukraine, indeed the contrary. Putin still has time to de-escalate the crisis he has created, he is the sole person who can do that, and all reasonable people will hope he does. Yet we do not know how Vladimir Putin thinks about this. It’s apparent that he has become increasingly isolated in his decision-making, and may be surrounded by sycophants and yes-men who will not risk careers to say the necessary about foolhardy plans in the Kremlin. History eventually will tell us.

Russia has now loosed one of its most vile poison delivery systems, i.e. the mouth of Vladimir Zhirinovsky, who made two statements typical of his reasoning on a Rossiya 24 talk show: (1) “What will remain of the Baltics? Nothing will remain…in Poland, the Baltics, they are doomed. They’ll be wiped out.” – (2) “Let the leaders of these dwarf states reconsider this. Eastern European states will place themselves under the threat of total annihilation, and only they will be to blame.”

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