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Crimea

Tigerace117 said:
I don't really know what else they could have done...... War between Moscow and Kiev wouldn't have ended in Kiev's favor.
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All things in consideration, the Ukraine was not doing too bad.

All things turned sour when NATO turned up with sandwiches.

I think that the cost of these little treats (trinkets) from Nuland and McCain was pretty high.

Calm
 
Tigerace117 said:
True. The US and Euros aren't going to go to war to get it back, so it's looks like Putin has pulled a fair acompli.
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I agree. During the past two years of occupation, Moscow has militarized Crimea.

However, no one should confuse Russia's nuclear arsenal with her legal and ethical failings. Might does not make right.

What Moscow has wrought vis-a-vis Ukraine (Crimea/Donbas) is thoroughly illegal and a violation of all modern international conventions.
 
Simpleχity;1065909320 said:
I agree. During the past two years of occupation, Moscow has militarized Crimea.

However, no one should confuse Russia's nuclear arsenal with her legal and ethical failings. Might does not make right.

What Moscow has wrought vis-a-vis Ukraine (Crimea/Donbas) is thoroughly illegal and a violation of all modern international conventions.
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Oh, I wouldn't worry about people calling the Kremlin a bastion of moralism anytime soon. Outside of the 21st century's version of Tankies, amyway
 
Medvedev Tells Crimean Pensioners 'No Money' for Pension Increase

May. 24 2016

During his visit to Crimea, Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev was confronted by frustrated pensioners, the Meduza news website reported on Tuesday.

“What is 8,000 rubles ($120)! It's misery!” said one woman.

“There's just no money. When we find the money — we'll do it.” replied the prime minister before advising the crowd to stay strong and hold on.

Russian pensions were indexed in February. Pensions are usually indexed twice a year to account for inflation, but the government has refused to index pensions a second time this year.
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No additional rubles for struggling pensioners in Crimea, but plenty of funding for the military on the peninsula.

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20 Years for Pro-Ukrainian Views in Russian-occupied Crimea

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Andriy Kolomiyets and his lawyer Mikhail Kushel







Medvedev Tells Crimean Pensioners 'No Money' for Pension Increase

No additional rubles for struggling pensioners in Occupied Crimea, but plenty of money for new Kremlin weapons...


Russia To Spend More Than $16 Billion On Arms Industry







Putin says Crimea's status as part of Russia not up for discussion


Crimea is not a closed subject, Putin. It’s an open wound.

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When I steal territory...
it is not to be even mentioned
 
A new monument to the Soviet Union's KGB borderguards troops was opened in the town of Lenino in Russia occupied Crimea...

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Crackdown on Tatars in Crimea continues ... 1 more detained
 
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On 23 May, PM Medvedev told Crimea pensioners Moscow had "no money" for a pension increase.
160km away on the Black Sea coast of Crimea, Putin's lavish retirement palace








Another Ukrainian charged with ‘terrorism’ in Russian-occupied Crimea







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Russia occupies it - Ukraine owns it








Putin makes it easier to brand any group in Russia or occupied Crimea a ‘foreign agent’







From the lips of Russian Federation Council Speaker Valentina Matviyenko on Friday...

Russia does not want any longer to “sit quietly by and watch” as ethnic Russians and Russian speakers “in certain former republics of the USSR” are subject to become objects of “oppression and persecution” regarding their education and language rights. “Russian compatriots beyond the borders of Russia wherever they live must have the opportunity to preserve their ties with their historical motherland, to study Russian language and culture, and to feel themselves to be Russian [‘russkiye’] people.”
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And she spewed this garbage from Occupied Crimea.







Belarussian Authorities Withdraw Globes Showing Crimea as Russian

Even Belarus agrees with the rest of the world ... Crimea belongs to Ukraine.

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100,000 flee 'worsening oppression' as Russia tightens grip on Crimea

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Russian military thugs at the Crimean Tater parliament hall






Russian State Duma Strips Opposition Deputy Ponomarev of His Powers


The only Russian lawmaker to vote against the annexation of Crimea was just booted out of parliament

According to the Novaya Gazeta newspaper, the vote was 413 in favor of removing Ponomarev's mandate and 3 opposed. However, the Duma was two-thirds empty and only 123 out of the 450 deputies were present. Evidently, proxy votes were counted as valid.

Ponomarev fled Russia last year after authorities began accusing him of financial crimes. Of his 45 aides in parliament, 9 had been forced to leave Russia since law-enforcers had opened a total of 20 criminal cases. Ponomarev said he had been an MP for nine years, a period he characterized "a time of hopes and the ridding of many illusions."

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Former Russian State Duma deputy Ilya Ponomarev - booted for not accepting Putin's Crimea lies
 
A new documentary film on the Russian occupation of Crimea was viewed at an initial screening yesterday...






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Crimean Tatar singer Jamala (winner of the Eurovision Song Contest 2016) watching the documentary with tears






Crimea: The Resistance. A documentary by US historian James Austin Charon and the Ministry of Information of Ukraine

James A. Charon said:
"What happened on the peninsula is not only a Ukrainian problem. The disaster is at our [Western countries] doorstep."
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Ukraine President Petro Poroshenko and Mustafa Dzhemilev ... former Chairman of the Mejlis (Parliament) of the Crimean Tatar People





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Armed Russian soldiers with no insignia invading Ukraine's Crimea peninsula in 2014. The "Little Green Men" invaders.


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According to Aleksandr Borodai, a former so-called “Prime Minister” of the separatist “Donetsk People’s Republic”, over 50,000 Russians have fought in eastern Ukraine.





Putin’s shell game with Crimea intended to cut importance and costs of the anschluss

Along with replacing governors with FSB/KGB Generals last week, Putin also disbanded the Crimean Federal District and incorporated Crimea into Russia's Southern Federal District. Crimea will now be an unwanted financial albatross to the Southern Federal District bosses in Krasnodar.





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Russia loving French MPs in Occupied Crimea -- 29 July 2016


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Terror on a Conveyor Belt in Russian-occupied Crimea





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Deposit box for Russian athletic doping-medals in front of the Russian embassy in London





53 Russian ceasefire violations yesterday in eastern Ukraine - 1 Ukrainian soldier KIA / 1 Ukrainian soldier WIA

Slava Heroyam -- Glory To The Heroes
 
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Russian occupation authorities have imprisoned Crimean Tatar activist Ilmi Umerov in a psychiatric facility







Analyst: Putin had to openly occupy Crimea, because there was no hope of local separatists

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Russia's Crimea Bridge Project Beset By Engineering Worries And Labor Woes

Former Manager of Crimea Energy Bridge Project Arrested by Russia’s FSB

Corruption permeates Putin's mafioso petro-state.

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91 Russian ceasefire violations yesterday in eastern Ukraine - 2 Ukrainian soldiers KIA / 9 Ukrainian soldiers WIA

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Russian military capacities in Crimea







61 Russian ceasefire violations yesterday in eastern Ukraine – 1 Ukrainian soldier KIA – 7 Ukrainian soldiers WIA

107 Ukrainians are kept in militant captivity – 177 Ukrainian troops killed in Donbas in 2016

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Hero of Ukraine
 
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