The ATO [Anti-Terrorist Operation] forces freed a number of settlements. The biggest gift of the day–Debaltseve–is a very convincing step toward a full decoupling of the LNR [Luhansk People’s Republic] and DNR.

 

< Photo: Ukrainian troops in the field, pic courtesy Ukraine MoD

 

 

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Russia’s state-owned banks and development banks, which often raise money in Western financial markets, are a principal target. The sanctions bar European banks or individual investors from buying or trading in new bonds or securities issued by those banks with a maturity longer than 90 days. 

 

Sych stated that 80 percent of the books on the Ukrainian market are currently being imported, and a big part of the imported books come from Russia. The Vice Prime minister thinks that in such conditions the Ukrainian book market requires state protection. 

 

Russian commentators “have not focused on the facts that the population there [in eastern Ukraine] overwhelmingly now identify as Ukrainians and has no interest in becoming part of the Russian Federation, but what they are saying says a lot about how Moscow is trying to explain away its own miscalculation about the support it would receive.”

There are widespread rumors that a new round of stronger sanctions on Russia over Ukraine is only hours away – and rumors from Moscow of related countermeasures.

 

The Hague court already ordered to pay the YUKOS shareholder $50 billion. Yes, Russia will appeal, make responsive plaints, but the decision of the Netherlands High Court is obligatory for execution (the payment has to happen before January 1, 2015). And then they can sue all they want. If there is no payment, Russian property will be seized.”  

 

Bleich: “Jews cannot be considered separate from Ukrainians, because together we are fighting for a sovereign and integral Ukraine.”

The evidence suggests that Borodai left to Moscow with a one-way ticket, while Vladimir Antyufeyev and Igor Strelkov (Girkin) appear involved in a power struggle.

 

< Photo: a sullen and disheveled Strelkov holds private press conference today for Russian journalists

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