Lest we forget,
"A court in southwestern Russia has adjourned a preliminary hearing
against captured Ukrainian pilot Nadezhda Savchenko to decide on her
lawyers' request to move the trial to Moscow." (Daniel Schearf : VOA : July 31, 2015)
"Savchenko’s lawyers and critics say Russian authorities are staging a political trial against the pilot, who became a symbol of Ukrainian unity and resistance to the Russia-backed rebels.
The pilot says she was abducted inside Ukraine in June of last year by pro-Russia rebels and forcibly taken to Russia. She denies any involvement in the journalists' deaths, and her lawyers say they have telephone records proving Savchenko was already in custody at the time the two journalists were killed." (ibid Daniel Schearf) (my emphasis)
And whilst Putin's cruel saga over the fate of Savchenko continues, James Dunn informs us that,
"The French have reportedly struck a compensation deal with Russia after refusing to give them two warships because of their aggressive role in the Ukraine.
.......
"Russia's business daily Kommersant reported that the compensation could amount to as much as 1.16 billion euros (£820million) and a deal definitively inked in the first ten days of August. (Daily Mail :
With Putin's Russian soldiers and proxies in eastern Ukraine attempting to construct a 'dirty nuclear bomb' on his mind, Poroshenko (right) is also having to deal with President Obama and some EU leaders, especially Angela Merkel and Francois Hollande, who are forcing him to cave in to the demands of Putin that the area controlled by his Russian soldiers and proxy rebels in eastern Ukraine be given special status.
Consequently, just recently,
The changes are part of a peace deal aimed at ending fighting between Ukrainian forces and pro-Russia rebels." (BBC News :31 July 2015) (my emphasis)
These developments have precipitated Dmytro Yarosh (right), Right Sector’s leader, to rally those behind him to try and confront Poroshenko.
As
August 02 2015) (my emphasis)
More disconcerting, however, is the fact that, in a joint telephone briefing in which ERR News participated in, the top US and EU diplomats in Ukraine emphasized that the Western aim is to help Ukraine overcome the systemic weaknesses from its past and give a boost to reforms while,
“Russian drones are operating over Ukrainian territory every single day.
Russian cruise surface-to-air missile systems are operating on
Ukrainian territory.
And as we were reminded by the capture of a Russian soldier and Russian origin ammunition last weekend, Russia continues to fuel the conflict here with the military equipment that it is sending across Ukraine’s sovereign international border,” [US Ambassador to Ukraine] Pyatt (right) said, adding that Kremlin and its proxies are maintaining the capability to continue seeking to grab territory at a time and place of the Kremlin’s choosing." (Estonian Public Broadcasting : 31/7/2015)
As a consequence,
"Ukraine's Ministry of Foreign Affairs (left: Ukraine Foreign Minister Klimkin) says in its statement on the
occasion of the 40th anniversary of the Helsinki Final Act that Russian aggression against Ukraine has violated most of the fundamental
principles and obligations of the Organization for Security and
Co-operation in Europe (OSCE)." (UNIAN : 01.08.2015)
It is therefore no wonder that,
"Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko on Monday (3 August, 2015) accused his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin of wanting to take over the "whole of Europe" and potentially aiming his sights next at Finland and the Baltics.
"Putin wants to go as far as we allow him -- not only Ukraine, but the whole of Europe," Poroshenko said in an interview with French radio station RFI." ([Agence France Press] AhramOnline : Monday 3 Aug 2015)
And marching alongside Putin we have none other than Partiarch Kirill. (right), the former 'tobacco oligarch' of the mid 1990's.
"On the eve of the 1000th anniversary of death of Vladimir the Great, Patriarch Kirill (of the Russian Orthodox Church) sent “letters of similar content” to the presidents of Russia and Ukraine urging them to “use all efforts to stop the bloodshed in east Ukraine. Drawing attention to the plight of civilians in the conflict, the patriarch urges: “a full cessation of hostilities, the strict observance of the Minsk accords, and the establishment of direct dialogue between all parties to the conflict…”
On the one hand, the language used in this letter places Kirill in the “moderate” pro-Russian position, that direct talks between the “rebels” (read, Russian stooges) and the Ukrainian government are necessary to terminate the conflict..." (Alex L. Leonor : EuroMaidan Press : 29/7/2015)
And as if to underline that Putin and Kirill are walking together in lockstep, Roland Oliphant informs us that,
"An obscure row between supporters of the Russian Orthodox Church and Russian archaeologists reached the Kremlin on Saturday when President Vladimir Putin declared Unesco-listed ruins in Crimea a national heritage site.
Is it any wonder that Patriarch Kirill is on record as saying in 2012 that,
"...the 12 years of Vladimir Putin's rule [was] a "miracle of God" and criticised his opponents, at a gathering where religious leaders heaped praise on the prime minister." (Gleb Bryanski : Reuters :
"A court in southwestern Russia has adjourned a preliminary hearing
against captured Ukrainian pilot Nadezhda Savchenko to decide on her
lawyers' request to move the trial to Moscow." (Daniel Schearf : VOA : July 31, 2015)"Savchenko’s lawyers and critics say Russian authorities are staging a political trial against the pilot, who became a symbol of Ukrainian unity and resistance to the Russia-backed rebels.
The pilot says she was abducted inside Ukraine in June of last year by pro-Russia rebels and forcibly taken to Russia. She denies any involvement in the journalists' deaths, and her lawyers say they have telephone records proving Savchenko was already in custody at the time the two journalists were killed." (ibid Daniel Schearf) (my emphasis)
And whilst Putin's cruel saga over the fate of Savchenko continues, James Dunn informs us that,
"The French have reportedly struck a compensation deal with Russia after refusing to give them two warships because of their aggressive role in the Ukraine........
"Russia's business daily Kommersant reported that the compensation could amount to as much as 1.16 billion euros (£820million) and a deal definitively inked in the first ten days of August. (Daily Mail :
With Putin's Russian soldiers and proxies in eastern Ukraine attempting to construct a 'dirty nuclear bomb' on his mind, Poroshenko (right) is also having to deal with President Obama and some EU leaders, especially Angela Merkel and Francois Hollande, who are forcing him to cave in to the demands of Putin that the area controlled by his Russian soldiers and proxy rebels in eastern Ukraine be given special status.
Consequently, just recently,
"Ukraine's highest court has approved
constitutional changes that would allow limited self-rule to the
rebel-held eastern areas of Donetsk and Luhansk.
These developments have precipitated Dmytro Yarosh (right), Right Sector’s leader, to rally those behind him to try and confront Poroshenko.
As August 02 2015) (my emphasis)
More disconcerting, however, is the fact that, in a joint telephone briefing in which ERR News participated in, the top US and EU diplomats in Ukraine emphasized that the Western aim is to help Ukraine overcome the systemic weaknesses from its past and give a boost to reforms while,
“Russian drones are operating over Ukrainian territory every single day.
Russian cruise surface-to-air missile systems are operating on
Ukrainian territory.And as we were reminded by the capture of a Russian soldier and Russian origin ammunition last weekend, Russia continues to fuel the conflict here with the military equipment that it is sending across Ukraine’s sovereign international border,” [US Ambassador to Ukraine] Pyatt (right) said, adding that Kremlin and its proxies are maintaining the capability to continue seeking to grab territory at a time and place of the Kremlin’s choosing." (Estonian Public Broadcasting : 31/7/2015)
As a consequence,
It is therefore no wonder that,
"Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko on Monday (3 August, 2015) accused his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin of wanting to take over the "whole of Europe" and potentially aiming his sights next at Finland and the Baltics.
"Putin wants to go as far as we allow him -- not only Ukraine, but the whole of Europe," Poroshenko said in an interview with French radio station RFI." ([Agence France Press] AhramOnline : Monday 3 Aug 2015)
And marching alongside Putin we have none other than Partiarch Kirill. (right), the former 'tobacco oligarch' of the mid 1990's."On the eve of the 1000th anniversary of death of Vladimir the Great, Patriarch Kirill (of the Russian Orthodox Church) sent “letters of similar content” to the presidents of Russia and Ukraine urging them to “use all efforts to stop the bloodshed in east Ukraine. Drawing attention to the plight of civilians in the conflict, the patriarch urges: “a full cessation of hostilities, the strict observance of the Minsk accords, and the establishment of direct dialogue between all parties to the conflict…”
On the one hand, the language used in this letter places Kirill in the “moderate” pro-Russian position, that direct talks between the “rebels” (read, Russian stooges) and the Ukrainian government are necessary to terminate the conflict..." (Alex L. Leonor : EuroMaidan Press : 29/7/2015)
And as if to underline that Putin and Kirill are walking together in lockstep, Roland Oliphant informs us that,
"An obscure row between supporters of the Russian Orthodox Church and Russian archaeologists reached the Kremlin on Saturday when President Vladimir Putin declared Unesco-listed ruins in Crimea a national heritage site.
The governor of Sevastopol last week appointed a priest as the director
of a historical area that contains Chersonesus, an ancient Greek city on
the Crimean coast.
.....
Sergei Menyailo, the governor of Sevastopol, appointed Father Sergei Khalyuta, the archpriest of the city’s diocese, to run the site, saying it should be “a place of pilgrimage, not just tourism.” (The Telegraph : 02 Aug 2015)
.....
Sergei Menyailo, the governor of Sevastopol, appointed Father Sergei Khalyuta, the archpriest of the city’s diocese, to run the site, saying it should be “a place of pilgrimage, not just tourism.” (The Telegraph : 02 Aug 2015)
Is it any wonder that Patriarch Kirill is on record as saying in 2012 that,
"...the 12 years of Vladimir Putin's rule [was] a "miracle of God" and criticised his opponents, at a gathering where religious leaders heaped praise on the prime minister." (Gleb Bryanski : Reuters :
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