Posted on 09/05/2008 6:25:32 PM PDT by GOPGuide
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Informed sources in both Moscow and Kiev have told TIME that Tymoshenko has reached a deal with the Kremlin, under which she would be more considerate of Russia's needs — particularly for long-term rights to its Black Sea naval base at Sevastopol — and would tone down her traditional anti-Moscow diatribes, and in return she may find Russia more flexible when it comes to negotiating next year's prices for the natural gas on which Ukraine depends. However, Tymoshenko firmly denies rumors of any accommodation with foreign powers, insisting that she abides only by the interests of Ukraine.
Rumors of a Tymoshenko deal with Moscow and the rift over Georgia among the Ukraine's political elite ignited the latest firestorm in the long-running power struggle. On Wednesday, Tymoshenko's party sided with =Yanukovych's and the Communists in several parliamentary votes that transferred a number of executive powers from the presidency to the office of prime minister. The powers lost by Yuschenko include the right to dismiss the Defense, Interior and Foreign Ministers, as well as control over the counter-intelligence service. The Tymoshenko-Yanukovych alliance, which created a veto-proof marriage of convenience, also simplified legislation on presidential impeachment.
"Today, a political and constitutional coup began in the parliament," Yuschchenko fumed on Wednesday, warning that he would use his right to disband the legislature unless a new coalition is formed within 30 days.
(Excerpt) Read more at time.com ...
Putin threatened to tell the world that her braid wasn’t her real hair.
Shes a babe!
“russians are only 17% of the ukraine.”
Yes, but the majority of the Ukrainians are ethnically the same as the majority of Russians. Which is why you will find the Eastern half so Pro-Russian. This just shows the likely that a civil war could be brewing. Russia sent their cream of the crop to Georgia. If they were going to invade the Ukraine they would have to ship that back to the West. Stoking civil war is easier and cheaper.
Ha! Looking at other pictures of her with the hair down, she does enough hair to braid and loop up and over. But funny non the less.
Cheney flew to Kiev from Georgia, where he denounced Russia's "illegitimate, unilateral attempt" to redraw the U.S. ally's borders by force.
"Georgia will be in our alliance," Cheney told reporters while standing alongside Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili, whose pro-Western government has sought to join NATO despite Russian opposition.
So what is softer about that ?
If he threatened in public then he already did tell the world. If he threatened in private we wouldn't know about it. According to this article Tymoshenko proved it was her real hair, at least at one point. Braid or no braid, she is an attractive woman, but from what I have read about her the attractiveness is only external.
please read what i said.
i’m quoting the print edition of the wsj, sept 5th, p.8.
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