Posted on 03/01/2014 7:59:17 AM PST by No One Special
On Friday afternoon, the regular flight from Moscow touched down in the Crimean capital of Simferopol, in the south of Ukraine, carrying the leader of a Russian motorcycle gang known as the Night Wolves. Alexander Zaldostanov, an old friend of Russian President Vladimir Putin, was wearing his usual get-up – a flaming wolf’s head stenciled onto his black leather vest – but for once he was not the most intimidating figure on the scene. Since the morning, dozens of masked troops had been sauntering around Crimea’s main airport, armed to the teeth but refusing to identify themselves. In some ways, they seemed to have the same goal as Zaldostanov, who goes by the nickname The Surgeon. They were sending a signal to the revolutionary government in Ukraine that it was no longer in charge on this peninsula.
Who exactly was in charge remained a mystery throughout the day, and a source of international alarm, as the United Nations Security Council prepared to convene an emergency meeting to discuss the tensions in Crimea. That morning, the new Crimean Parliament convened, still occupied by the masked and heavily armed men who had seized the building before dawn the previous day. Those men, also brandishing assault rifles, had at least identified themselves: They said they were the self-defense forces of the ethnic Russian majority in the Crimea. Under their watch on Friday, the parliament voted in a new Crimean government, one that was stacked to the hilt with pro-Russian hardliners intent on breaking their region away from Ukraine. But they, too, were not in charge.
The troops in green uniforms were in charge, whoever they were. By Friday evening, they had set up patrols around the Crimean capital. They put up checkpoints on the roads leading to the Russian military base, the home...
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Airlifting in known violent criminals who revel in the lifestyle. Interesting tactic.
How do you say “Dirty Dozen” in Po Russki?
Putin and Obama, both tyrants.
Oh yeah you better not cross that line, and that one and that one, oh never mind.
chaos in overdrive
Where did you see that? Or did you just make it up, as always?
Where did you me post about Lenin statues? Or did you just make it up, as always?
"More people are killed by Black Widows than by Rattlesnakes, every year!"
Almost everything you post on this subject comes from the mouths of Russian state-owned media (as opposed to my opinions coming from the Obama Administration). So I figured you’d be crying in your borscht over the statues.
Oh, and just in case English really is your second language, nothing I say comes from the Obama Administration.
Considering all of us have managed to stay on FR for 10-15 years, I don’t think any of us are commie-symps.
Speaking for only myself, I’m having a difficult time reconciling the fact I respect Putin as a man far more than I respect Obastard. Both are evil. Doesn’t make me a commie-symp.
All of us have been around long enough to see who is who, and whom they favor. If you favor Obama, you won’t last long here. If you favor to toe the Russian party line, you’re ok. It’s not that big of a deal, really . . . you are either a dupe or an agent. And I’ll point it out every time.
And almost everything you post on this subject comes from the mouths of the Obama Progressive DemoRat American Main Stream Media.
as opposed to my opinions coming from the Obama Administration
Want to try again?
Most pathetic biker gang until...
The Black Widows.
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