Der Konzern hält Lizenzen zur Ausbeutung von Vorkommen an Öl- und Gasfeldern in den rohstoffreichen Bezirken der Ukraine in den Regionen der Karpaten, dem Krim-Becken und dem Dnieper-Donezk-Bezirk. Nicht zufällig sind dort die blutigen Separationsbestrebungen zu finden, die seit Wochen die Welt überraschten.

Syriza leader Alexis Tsipras has begun a two-day visit to Moscow, where he is scheduled to meet with senior political leaders.

Tsipras, who is the European Left‘s candidate for European Commission president, is due to meet Valentina Matviyenko, the chairperson of the upper house or Federation Council of the Russian Federation, a firm ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin and was ambassador to Greece in 1997–1998.

„Die Bürger der Ukraine sollten sich darüber klar werden, dass jene, die sich Erretter nennen, in Wirklichkeit eher Henker und Mörder sind… Das Volk der Ukraine muss wissen, was in den letzten vier Jahren Griechenland ergangen war: Der IWF, die EU-Kommission und die Europäische Zentralbank haben das griechische Volk sozial geplündert.“

The title of the journalist Glenn Greenwald’s impassioned new book, “No Place to Hide,” comes from a chilling observation made in 1975 by Senator Frank Church, then chairman of a select committee on intelligence. The United States government, he said, had perfected “a technological capability that enables us to monitor the messages that go through the air.” That capability, he added, could at any time “be turned around on the American people, and no American would have any privacy left, such is the capability to monitor everything: telephone conversations, telegrams, it doesn’t matter. There would be no place to hide.”

That was nearly 40 years ago..

„Ab dem 1. Juni setzen wir den Betrieb der GPS-Stationen aus“, teilte Rogosin am Dienstag mit. Der Grund sei, dass die USA sich geweigert hatten, eine Station des russischen Navigationssystems GLONASS auf ihr Territorium zu lassen. Wenn Amerika die Vereinbarungen über die Stationierung von GLONASS nicht erfüllen sollte, würden die GPS-Stationen in Russland ab dem 1. September endgültig außer Betrieb gesetzt, so der Vizepremier weiter.

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(18.04.) In preliminary hearings last week, Mr Pinchuk‘s QC, Lord Grabiner, highlighted the unorthodox attitude of Messrs Bogolyubov and Kolomoisky towards keeping documents relating to their business activities. Citing testimony from Mr Kolomoisky‘s own lawyers, Freshfields, the billionaire‘s „standard working practice“ had been to dispose of all hard- copy documents immediately. He was also, Freshfields said, in the habit of disposing of all manuscript notes taken during business meetings.

Heinrich von Sybel, Geschichtsschreiber des preußisch-deutschen Reiches, behauptet in einer ausführlichen Darstellung der polnischen Teilungen: „Es trat ein, was geschehen mußte, nachdem ein großes und begabtes Volk den politischen Selbstmord durch zwei Jahrhunderte hindurch an sich selbst vollzogen hatte.“ (…)

Unter dem angeblichen Selbstmord Polens verstand Sybel das Wahlkönigtum Polens und den großen Einfluß des Adels auf die Politik. Anders als in anderen Ländern Europas, wurde Polen nicht absolutistisch regiert. Sybel deutete dies als Schwäche und entschuldigte die dreisten Diebe mit der Gelegenheit, die man ihnen bot.

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Das ukrainische Außenministerium ist über Forderungen des ungarischen Premiers Viktor Orban nach Autonomie und doppelter Staatsbürgerschaft für ethnische Ungarn in der Ukraine besorgt. Das teilte der ukrainische Außenamtssprecher Jewgeni Perebijnis am Dienstag in Kiew mit.

Ethnic Hungarians living in western Ukraine, who Orban says number about 200,000, “must be granted dual citizenship, must enjoy all of the community rights and must be granted the opportunity for autonomy,” the Hungarian premier said in a speech in parliament.

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lm Juni 2013 veröffentlichte Glenn Greenwald die ersten NSA-Dokumente aus dem Archiv des Whistleblowers ­Edward Snowden. Seitdem werden immer bedrohlichere Details des globalen Spionagesystems der amerikanischen Geheimdienste aufgedeckt.
Nun bringt Greenwald anhand einer Fülle von exklusiven, nie zuvor publizierten Geheimdokumenten das ganze Ausmaß der Massenüberwachung ans Licht. Alles und jeder wird ausgespäht, die Bevölkerung steht unter Kollektivverdacht. Meinungsfreiheit wird im Namen der Sicherheit unterdrückt, und es gibt keine Privatsphäre mehr – nirgends.

Going beyond NSA specifics, Greenwald also takes on the establishment media, excoriating their habitual avoidance of adversarial reporting on the government and their failure to serve the interests of the people. Finally, he asks what it means both for individuals and for a nation’s political health when a government pries so invasively into the private lives of its citizens—and considers what safeguards and forms of oversight are necessary to protect democracy in the digital age.

In one remarkable slide presented at a 2011 meeting of five nations’ intelligence agencies and revealed here for the first time, the NSA described its “collection posture” as “Collect it All,” “Process it All,” “Exploit it All,” “Partner it All,” “Sniff it All” and, ultimately, “Know it All.”

while Glenn Greenwald has spent the past year publishing revelations from arguably the largest cache of breached secrets in American-intelligence history, he promises the biggest bombs are still to come.

Glenn Greenwald is trying to lose fifteen pounds. „Um, it‘s been a little crazy these past nine months,“ he says.

(12.05.) A fellow billionaire and governor of Dnepropetrovsk, Igor Kolomoisky, praised Akhmetov for his efforts to keep Kiev’s armed forces at bay and preserve the unity of Ukraine as a country.

“He fights with all his resources, trying to keep Donbass with Ukraine,” Kolomoysky said, Vesti-24 reported.

The coup-imposed government in Kiev said that they were “surprised” by Metinvest’s statement.

The Russian president’s spokesman Dmitry Peskov has told Kommersant newspaper Russia does not yet have a response to the plea.

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(12.05.) The European Union is firmly committed to Ukraine‘s unity, sovereignty, independence and territorial integrity. We will not recognise the annexation of Crimea a nd Sevastopol.
Likewise, we do not recognise the so-called „referenda“ of yesterday. They are illegal, illegitimate and not credible. They are a way to stir up division among Ukraine‘s communities.
Violence must stop. The rule of law must be ensured. Human rights must be respected. And political demands must be pursued by political and not armed means. The only elections we will recognise are the presidential elections on the 25th of May.
What Ukraine needs is a genuine national dialogue on how the different components of the Ukrainian society see their destiny and organisation in a democratic, peaceful and prosperous state. Therefore, I commend the Prime Minister for his call f
or an inclusive national dialogue through round-table talks. I call on all democratic forces and civil society to participate. And I call on all the signatories of the Geneva Joint Stat
ement of 17 April to actively contribute to its success.