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.

A new crime is added to the reprehensible track record of the military coup against Egypt and its people. Evidently, there are two issues that haunt mass murderer Abdel-Fattah Al-Sisi, and which he would like to get rid of in any way. The first is lack of legitimacy. He only seized power through deceit, betrayal and brute force. The second is the blood he spilled in the brutal massacres he masterminded, which heavily stains his hands, and will remain a curse on him until Judgment Day. Therefore, he resorts to all subjugated institutions to exonerate himself, including the National Council for Human Rights (NCHR) that issued a most ridiculous report Thursday on the Rabaa sit-in massacre in a blatant attempt to dilute the ugliness of the crime, blaming it on the police rather than the army, and thus exonerating the traitorous assassin Abdel-Fattah Al-Sisi.

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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(03.03.) To be clear, we commend the work done by France, Germany, and Poland to mediate and to negotiate that agreement with Russia very much in observance, and we would have been prepared to support the completion of that agreement.

Under its terms, President Yanukovych had 24 hours to sign the first piece of action pursued in the Rada – the changing of the constitution pursuant to the February 21 agreement. Not only did President Yanukovych not sign it, but as my Russian colleague reminds us, he left the city. Indeed, he fled the city;

A convoy will leave Volgograd on March 9 to carry humanitarian aid cargoes to twin city Sevastopol, the chief of the Volgograd administration’s Department for Entrepreneurship and Consumer Markets, Dmitry Semenenko, told Itar-Tass.

„Als Teil Russlands werden wir uns natürlich unter den russischen Wirtschaftsbedingungen und entsprechend in der Rubelzone befinden. Bei einer positiven Entscheidung der überwiegenden Mehrheit der Krim-Einwohner und bei Zustimmung der bevollmächtigten Strukturen Russlands bereiten wir uns auf die Einführung der Rubelzone auf der Krim vor“, sagte der Vizepremier laut der Krimer Nachrichtenagentur.

(04.03.) The mood on the markets was calmer after panic selling on Monday when escalating tensions between Ukraine and Russia sent Moscow‘s main stock indexes plummeting and forced the central bank to unexpectedly raise interest rates – by a hefty 150 basis points – and burn its way through as much as $12 billion of reserves to prop up the ruble.

Die ersten zwei Milliarden US-Dollar (1,6 Milliarden Euro) Stabilisierungshilfe sollen demnächst überwiesen werden.

Weitere acht Milliarden Dollar sollen von der Europäischen Bank für Wiederaufbau und Entwicklung kommen

EUROPE’S LARGEST POLITICAL party is gathering in Dublin today for its annual congress with German chancellor Angela Merkel among a dozen EU heads of State who will be in the country today.