Die Pfeife im Weißen Haus hat wiederholt irrtümlicherweise und töricht erklärt, dass es „gegen Internationales Recht“ ist, wenn die Krim Selbstbestimmung ausübt.

Die EU werde die Beziehungen zu Russland aus ökonomischen Erwägungen heraus nicht abbrechen. Er denke, dass die 28 EU-Länder ökonomische Prioritäten hätten. „Das Volumen des Handels mit Russland ist immens. Ich kann mir (die Interessen) der Industrielobby vorstellen, insbesondere in Deutschland. Großes Geld ist von großer Bedeutung“, sagte der belgische Politiker.

Das bemerkenswerteste Beispiel in jüngerer Vergangenheit war die Volksabstimmung über die Unabhängigkeit 1991 in Kroatien.

Naive Demonstranten, die die Propaganda glaubten, dass die EU-Mitgliedschaft eine Verbesserung der Lebensbedingungen bringt, werden ab April die Hälfte ihrer Pension verlieren. Das ist nur der Anfang.

At an EU summit in Brussels, Ukraine‘s interim Prime Minister has claimed that there are Russian tanks on the ground in the country. That‘s despite Ukraine‘s own border patrol maintaining that no forces had crossed the frontier. Well in her regular report – Gayane Chichakyan has put together the many other claims around events in Ukraine that simply don‘t add up.

Coming under sniper fire while covering the uprising in Kiev – RT correspondents have been recalling their experiences of what the West has hailed as „Ukraine‘s democratic transition“. Those snipers were taking orders from figures within the opposition, who targetted both activists and police according to a leaked conversation between the EU‘s foreign policy chief, and Estonia‘s top diplomat.RT‘s Alexey Yaroshevsky tells his story.

Ukraine is on the verge of bankruptcy because of economic mismanagement, high energy costs and currency turmoil amplified by its conflict with Russia. Kiev‘s new rulers have said they need $35 billion over the next two years.

When protest leaders in Ukraine helped oust a president widely seen as corrupt, they became heroes of the barricades. But as they take places in the country‘s new government, some are facing uncomfortable questions about their own values and associations, not least alleged links to neo-fascist extremists.

Russia’s veteran rights campaigner, the head of the Moscow Helsinki Group Lyudmila Alekseyeva attacked the idea in comments to the Interfax news agency. “If such initiatives are passed as acts this would confirm that we are in a police state. Such suggestions are unconstitutional,” Alekseyeva said.

The head of the unregistered political group The Other Russia, writer Eduard Limonov, also called the suggestion unconstitutional.

Die EU plädiert für die Ermittlung der Morde in Kiew seitens der Scharfschützen, erklärte die Pressesekretärin der Hohen Vertreterin der EU für Außen- und Sicherheitspolitik Catherine Ashton, Maya Kosyanchich.

According to Russian presidential spokesperson, the events in eastern Ukraine and Crimea are triggered not by Russia’s actions, but by Ukrainian domestic political processes

Senior lawmakers contend that C.I.A. officers conducted unauthorized searches of the computers used by committee staff members in an effort to learn how the committee gained access to the agency’s own 2009 internal review of the interrogation program. A chorus of Democratic senators on Wednesday said the C.I.A. had thwarted Congress’ constitutional role as overseer, suggested that federal laws may have been broken, and demanded answers from the Obama administration.

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