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Monday 18 May 2015

Putin's Angela Merkel and Walter Steinmeier have forgotten that their German "economic powerhouse" is built on "Marshall Aid".

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“The biggest problem in the country is we do not have a real system of justice, we do not have judges, most of them are people from Yanukovych’s time, very corrupted,” he said. “The same situation with prosecutors.” (New York Times :




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Bill promoting the Marshall Plan (Photo: German Federal Archives - Registration code: Plak 005-002-008/ N.N.)







$40 billion [has been] pledged [to Ukraine] by the International Monetary Fund and allies, including the United States and the European Union"


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Ukraine's President Petro Poroshenko gestures during a news conference in Kiev, in this Dec. 29, 2014 photo.

Pro-Russian rebels near Donetsk, eastern Ukraine. Photo: April 2015



Sheren Khalel and Matthew Vickery,

"DONETSK, Ukraine — This once-booming industrial city of 1 million is now largely a lawless and lifeless center of eastern Ukraine's separatist movement, where residents live under constant threat from marauding militias.
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Most stores have shut down, and only a few restaurants remain open, filled mainly with young separatist militia fighters in dark green fatigues (above) who rampage through the city as if it were their own playground, civilian residents say. " (USA Today : May 17, 2015) (my emphasis)

And whilst those citizens in Donetsk have to live under Putin's proxies who, "are able to carry out criminal acts with impunity",

" .... the St Petersburg Cossack Society ... [unveiled] an astonishing bust of the president as an all-conquering Roman Caesar. Wearing plate armour and dressed in a flowing toga, the sycophantic statue has been created in the mould of those seen in ancient Rome and once reserved for powerful leaders." (Corey Charlton : MailOnline:




Unsurprisingly, Putin put in a star performance for his team, scoring eight goals in an 18 - 6 win




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