Poll: Nearly 70% Of Ukrainians Fear Threat Of Civil War
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Feb 6, 2014
1) State Department’s Nuland meets with Svoboda chief, other opposition leaders in Kiev
2) European Union’s Ashton meets with the same
3) Polish prime minister holds video conference with them as well
4) As U.S. vice president sticks his nose in
5) Ukrainian Foreign Ministry urges West to desist from spreading disinformation
6) Poll: 60% of Ukrainians oppose violent seizure of government buildings, 69% fear civil war
7) Man seriously injured by bomb at trade union headquarters
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Interfax-Ukraine
February 6, 2014
U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Nuland, Ukrainian opposition leaders discusses situation in Ukraine
U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Victoria Nuland and Ukrainian opposition leaders Arseniy Yatseniuk of the Batkivschyna faction, Vitaliy Klitschko of the UDAR party and Oleh Tiahnybok of the Freedom party have discussed resolving the social and political crisis in Ukraine.
The parties have discussed the situation in Ukraine during a meeting held in Kyiv on Thursday and have said that it was necessary to resolve the social and political crisis in the country peacefully, the Batkivschyna press office said in a statement.
“The participants of the meeting have discussed the prospects of amending the Ukrainian Constitution as well,” the document said.
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UNIAN
February 5, 2014
Opposition leaders hold meeting with Ashton
Chairman of the Political Council of the Batkivshchyna All-Ukrainian Union and the Batkivshchyna faction Arseniy Yatsenyuk together with opposition partners – leader of the UDAR faction Vitaliy Klitschko and leader of the Svoboda All-Ukrainian Union Oleh Tyagnybok held a meeting with High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Catherine Ashton late in the evening yesterday.
The press service of the Batkivshchyna disclosed this to UNIAN.
“Before the meeting of Catherine Ashton with President Yanukovych opposition leaders informed the High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy about the situation in Ukraine, in particular, about the negotiation process concerning settlement of the social-political crisis”, – it is said in the report.
The parties agreed to continue communication with Ashton after her meeting with President Victor Yanukovych.
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UNIAN
February 5, 2014
Prime Minister of Poland to hold video-conference with leaders of Ukrainian opposition
Head of the Polish government Donald Tusk will hold a video-conference with three leaders of the Ukrainian opposition in the evening today. He plans to share opinion concerning overcoming of the political crisis in Ukraine with them.
Prime Minister of Poland to hold video-conference with leaders of Ukrainian opposition / ReutersAccording to an UNIAN correspondent in Poland, Tusk said this at press conference in Warsaw.
Tusk noted that he is about to inform leader of the Batkivshchyna faction Arseniy Yatsenyuk, leader of the UDAR party Vitaliy Klitschko and leader of the Svoboda Oleh Tyagnybok about the results of his negotiations with the leaders of the European Union, with whom his spoke concerning the situation in Ukraine last week.
The Prime Minister said that the settlement of the political crisis in Ukraine is the most important task today, because the further confrontation will complicate rendering an assistance to this country.
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UNIAN
February 5, 2014
Biden calls Yanukovych to accept international aid for overcoming of political crisis
Vice President of the United States Joe Biden called President of Ukraine Victor Yanukovych to accept international aid for overcoming of political crisis.
Biden calls Yanukovych to accept international aid for overcoming of political crisis/REUTERSBiden said this in a telephone talk with Yanukovych on Tuesday, Radio Svoboda reports.
Such dialogues have taken place several times during the political crisis.
According to the White House, the Vice President of the United States also called Yanukovych to withdraw special squad soldiers from the streets, to release detained people and to bring to book all the people guilty in attacks on journalists and protesters.
At the same time High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Catherine Ashton will visit Kyiv today and she is about to meet with Yanukovych and leaders of the opposition.
Source: http://www.radiosvoboda.org/content/article/25253468.html
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National Radio Company of Ukraine
February 5, 2014
Kozhara urges Western politicians not to spread unverified information
Ukraine’s Foreign Ministry has called on foreign politicians not to make irresponsible statements and not to spread inaccurate information so as not to complicate the political situation in Ukraine.
Foreign Minister Leonid Kozhara said that allegations by Member of the European Parliament Rebecca Harms that a number of high-ranking Ukrainian officials have foreign passports are untrue. “The Ukrainian politicians, who were mentioned in the statement, have no passports other than Ukrainian,” Kozhara said. He described Harms’s allegations as unacceptable and based on unfounded presumptions.
“I am calling on all foreign policymakers to avoid hasty statements and carefully verify information before making it public,” Kozhara said. As reported, Harms said that a number of Ukrainian officials, including head of President’s administration Andriy Kliuyev, ex-premier Mykola Azarov and acting premier Arbuzov, have Austrian citizenship. All of them have already denied these allegations. Harms later explained that her words had been misinterpreted, when she in fact said these Ukrainian politicians may have Austrian passports. The Austrian Embassy in Ukraine has also officially denied the rumours. Under the Austrian law, foreign investors have the right to obtain a residence permit, which can later be exchanged for Austrian citizenship, if they invest five million euros in the country.
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ForUm
February 6, 2014
Poll: Majority of Ukrainians against seizure of administrative buildings
About 60% of Ukrainian citizens are against the seizure of administrative buildings, founder of the group of companies «R&B Group» Yevhen Kopatko told ForUm correspondent.
“60% of Ukrainians do not support seizure of the government buildings, 82% of them do not support it in the east and 25% in the west of Ukraine,” he said.
Kopatko released a poll data concerning the mood of Ukrainians in all regional centers of the country. “48 % of Ukrainians are experiencing anxiety, among them 47% in the east, 46% in the west; 35 % of Ukrainians feel hope; 19% – confusion, 16% – enthusiasm, 16% – fear, 10% – hopelessness,” the sociologist noted.
He stressed that out of six categories, 92% are negative characteristics and 52% are positive ones.
In addition, according to the sociologist, only 20% of Ukrainians are not afraid of the threat of civil war. 38% say that such a threat exists. 31% believe that the probability is high.
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ForUm
February 6, 2014
Explosion in House of Trade Unions, one injured
A man was wounded in the House of Trade Unions in the center of Kyiv, Kyiv Interior Ministry Department informs.
At 12.20, a doctor called the police and informed that a man in serious condition had been delivered to the clinical hospital № 17.
“The victim was diagnosed eye damage and hand injury. The wounded man is unconscious. Age and place of residence of the man has not been established,” statement says.
According to the doctor, the victim was in the House of Trade Unions on the fifth floor, opened a box, and then there was an explosion, which resulted in injuries.
The investigative team of the Shevchenkyvskyi district police department is now in the House of Trade Unions. Activists do not allow law enforcement officers to the scene.
The second group of Shevchenkyvskyi district police department was sent to the hospital.
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IMF Sponsored “Democracy” in The Ukraine
by Michel Chossudovsky
Global Research
Jan 31, 2014
There is an ongoing and deliberate attempt by foreign powers to spearhead the destabilization of Ukraine including its state structure.
There is a long history of colored revolutions in Ukraine going back to the 1990s.
The protest movement in Kiev bears a marked resemblance to the “Orange Revolution” of 2004 which was supported covertly by Washington. The 2004 “Orange Revolution” led to the ousting of the pro-Russian Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovich, spearheading into power the Western proxy government of President Viktor Yushchenko and Prime Minister Julia Tymoshenko.
Once more Viktor Yanukovitch is the target of a carefully staged “pro-EU protest movement”. The latter was launched following president Yanukovitch’s decision to cancel the “association agreement” with the EU.
The mechanisms of interference are in some regards different to those of 2004. The protests are supported directly by Brussels and Berlin (with EU officials actively involved) rather than by Washington:
“The right-wing parties leading the protests in coordination with EU officials and politicians had called for a “million man march.” Ultimately, some 250,000 to 300,000 people gathered on Maïdan (Independence) Square. It was the largest protest in Kiev since the 2004 “color revolution” organized by US and European imperialism—the so-called Orange Revolution that ousted the pro-Russian Yanukovich and brought the pro-Western tandem of President Viktor Yushchenko and Prime Minister Julia Tymoshenko to power.
Evgenia Tymoshenko, the daughter of former prime minister and billionaire natural gas magnate Julia Tymoshenko, whom Yanukovich has jailed, read a message from her mother calling for Yanukovich’s “immediate” ouster. (See Alex Lantier, December 8, 2013)
The following article first published in November 2004, focuses on the October-November 2004 “Orange Revolution” directed against then prime minister Viktor Yanukovich, while also providing details on the insidious role of the IMF and the World Bank in imposing the neoliberal economic policy agenda on behalf of the “Washington Consensus”.
Michel Chossudovsky, December 2013
IMF Sponsored “Democracy” in The Ukraine
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Michel Chossudovsky
November 2004
Opposition candidate Viktor Yushchenko in the Ukrainian presidential elections is firmly backed by the Washington Consensus.
He is not only supported by the IMF and the international financial community, he also has the endorsement of The National Endowment for Democracy (NED) , Freedom House and the Open Society Institute , which played a behind the scenes role last year in helping “topple Georgia’s president Eduard Shevardnadze by putting financial muscle and organizational metal behind his opponents.” (New Statesman, 29 November 2004).
The NED has four affiliate institutes: The International Republican Institute (IRI) , the National Democratic Institute for International Affairs (NDI), the Center for International Private Enterprise (CIPE) , and the American Center for International Labor Solidarity (ACILS). These organizations are said to be “uniquely qualified to provide technical assistance to aspiring democrats worldwide.” See IRI, http://www.iri.org/history.asp )
In the Ukraine, the NED and its constituent organizations fund Yushchenko’s party Nasha Ukraina (Our Ukraine), it also finances the Kiev Press Club. In turn, Freedom House, together with The Independent Republican Institute (IRI) are involved in assessing the “fairness of elections and their results”. IRI has staff present in “poll watching” in 9 oblasts (districts), and local staff in all 25 oblasts:
“There are professional outside election monitors from bodies such as the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe, but the Ukrainian poll, like its predecessors, also featured thousands of local election monitors trained and paid by western groups. … They also organised exit polls. On Sunday night those polls gave Mr Yushchenko an 11-point lead and set the agenda for much of what has followed.” (Ian Traynor 26 November 2004, the Guardian, http://globalresearch.ca/articles/TRA411A.html )
Needless to say these various foundations are committed to “Freedom of the Press”. Their activities consist not only in organizing exit polls and feeding disinformation into the Western news chain, they are also involved in the creation and funding of “pro-Western”, “pro-reform” student groups, capable of organizing mass displays of civil disobedience. (For details, see Traynor, op cit) In the Ukraine, the Pora Youth movement (“Its Time”) funded by the Soros Open Society Institute is part of that process with more than 10,000 activists. Supported by the Freedom of Choice Coalition of Ukrainian NGOs , Pora is modeled on Serbia’s Otpor and Georgia’s Kmara.
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Thailand: Thaksin Regime Turns on its Own Supporters
by Tony Cartalucci
Alt Thai News Network ATNN
Jan 29, 2014
Regime sends “red shirt” enforcers to threaten farmers and their families for protesting 6 months of unpaid subsidies – smashing the myth of “rural support.”
January 30, 2014 (ATN) – While the US, UK, and others across the West attempt to sell upcoming sham elections in Thailand as upholding “democratic values,” the regime overseeing the one-party self-mandate in a climate of regime-sanctioned terrorism, political intimidation, and a “state of emergency,” has begun turning on its own supporters – mainly farmers.
Farmers began blocking roads across the country in response to unpaid rice subsidies that are now half a year late. Thaksin Shinawatra promised 40% + over-market prices for rice as part of vote-buying populist policies that propelled his nepotist appointed sister into power in 2011. Since then, the rice-buying scheme has collapsed in scandal, corruption, and bankruptcy with government warehouses literally collapsing from the weight of rotting rice left unsold for months.
Unable to sell the rice to nations that have turned to other rice-producers over concerns of downward spiraling quality, the regime attempted to sell bonds. The sale failed to raise even half the cash necessary to pay farmers who already had promised rates slashed and delayed.
As protests began to spread across the north and northeast of Thailand, considered Thaksin Shinawatra and his regime’s stronghold, and with other farmers headed to Bangkok to join the “Occupy Bangkok” campaign, the regime has begun turning its notoriously violent “red shirt” enforcers on the farmers – most of whom, according to the BBC, AFP, Reuters, and others constituted the regime’s support base.
Image: Rice farmers in Phitsanulok province were threatened by regime “red shirts” to end their protest. Often cited by the Western media in their “class divide” narrative, it is now clear the nation’s farmers were simply used to get Thaksin Shinawtra back into power, and that the violence and intimidation usually reserved for his political opponents is now being turned on them in the wake of being cheated by his vote-buying rice subsidy scam. Rice farmers have already turned in their rice, but have not been paid for it for half a year – in other words – they were robbed. (Photo by Chinnawat Singha)
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