As Russia wields its gas weapon against Ukraine, it has cut its price to Lithuania. How did that happen? [see a clue below]

 

Lithuania's energy weapon: The Baltic state will lease the Independence, a "floating storage and re-gasification unit" built by South Korea's Hyundai Heavy Industries, and owned by Norway's Hoegh LNG. It will anchor in the port of Klaipeda and process gas from arriving LNG carriers. (www.hoeghlng.com) 

 

“According to experts, during the first quarter more than $50 billion fled Russia, while during the first half a year more than 100 billion dollars will flee.”

After the events on Maidan and the Russian aggression against Ukraine, cases of the emigration of the clergy of the UOC-MP to the Russian Federation have become more frequent.

 

Analyst: “The shift to a smaller power unit indicates Donbasenergo’s management does not expect any de-escalation of the conflict in the vicinity of Sloviansk in the near term that would enable the restoration of a railway connection to coal sources. We estimate that at current rates of coal use, the Sloviansk TPP can work on its stored coal for about 100 days.”

 

Famous Russian political technologist and gallery owner Marat Gelman thinks that the level of Russia’s isolation from the rest of the world now depends on the President of Ukraine.

 

Nizhny Novgorod announces that it has made ready to provide “more than a thousand rooms prepared to receive refugees from Ukraine in Nizhny Novgorod.” However, the city also notes at end of its public statement that requests for such accommodation totals about 60 persons.

Basilashvili: “For our soldiers the war [Great Patriotic War] was the most holy thing. And thanks to everyone who then fought! But then in the countries liberated from fascism, the so-called eastern democracies - Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Yugoslavia, Poland, Romania, and Bulgaria - our army adopted the new socialist order. These countries felt occupied by the Soviet Union. We planted there our own rules and arrested opponents of the regime ... So they do not like us; we were like a second occupation.”

 

According to [Ukraine’s UN Rep.] Serheyev, there is no chance that international representatives would take part in negotiations with representatives of terrorist organizations.

 

“The Ukrainian government shall never ever shoot the people of Ukraine. We must create the first precedent. Nothing will stop us. We overcame Yanukovych. We will overcome bandits. We will build a new state for which the people went to Maidan,” Poroshenko emphasized.

 

Photo: At the end of the meeting, activists handed Poroshenko the Presidential Standard confiscated in the Ukrainian House in last winter. “I am happy that we are together,” the President said.

 

Kyiv author and public relations executive J. Michael Willard will present the Ukrainian-language edition of his novel, Urainia: A Fable, at Chitay-Gorod bookstore (3b, Khmelnitscogo St., Kyiv) on Tuesday, June 24 at 7 p.m.

 

 

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