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Russia warns Ukraine over 'lawlessness' in east
AP ^ | 3/10/2014 | MARIA DANILOVA and JIM HEINTZ

Posted on 03/10/2014 8:20:07 AM PDT by McGruff

Russia's Foreign Ministry on Monday denounced alleged lawlessness by far-right activists in eastern Ukraine, a statement likely to trigger alarms in Ukraine about possible Russian intervention there.

Ukraine's foreign minister said Monday his country already feels like it's almost in a state of war after Russian forces took effective control of Ukraine's Crimean Peninsula. A referendum has been called there for Sunday on whether the region should split off and seek to become part of Russia.

Pro-Russia sentiment is also high in Ukraine's east and there are fears Russia could seek to incorporate that area as well.

The Kremlin statement also claimed Russian citizens trying to enter Ukraine have been turned back at the border by Ukrainian officials.

On Sunday, a pro-Russian crowd in the eastern city of Luhansk occupied the regional government headquarters, raised the Russian tricolor and demanded the right to hold a referendum on joining Russia, like in Crimea.

In its Monday statement, the Russian Foreign Ministry said lawlessness "now rules in eastern regions of Ukraine as a result of the actions of fighters of the so-called 'Right Sector' with the full connivance" of Ukraine's new authorities.

Right Sector is a grouping of several far-right and nationalist factions. Its activists were among the most radical and confrontational of the demonstrators in the Ukrainian capital, Kiev, and organized "self-defense" brigades for the protest camp

On Monday in Kiev, Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andrii Deshchytsya received his counterparts from Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg, who had come to show support for Ukraine in what has turned into Europe's greatest geopolitical crisis since the end of the Cold War.

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: crimea; putin; russia; ukraine
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To: goldstategop

‘A bad peace is still preferable to a good war.’

Hey Neville, thanks for posting here.


41 posted on 03/11/2014 9:00:47 AM PDT by Delta Dawn (Fluent in two languages: English and cursive.)
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To: Marguerite
"Right sector wears armbands with the Wolfsangel symbol. Happens to be the exact symbol for the 2nd SS division “Das Reich”."

Wrong again. More lying propaganda from an FSB-promoting troll

2nd SS Panzer Division Das Reich insignia:

Ukrainian Right Sector Insignia:


42 posted on 03/11/2014 9:39:06 AM PDT by Justa
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To: Justa
Big difference indeed. Is an up-down nazi still a nazi?

Oleh Tyahnybok, leader of the Ukraine national-socialist parti (renamed svoboda, who got 5 ministers in the putschists' gubmint), who has claimed that a "Moscow-Jewish mafia" rule Ukraine and that "Germans, Kikes and other scum" want to "take away our Ukrainian state." Is that a nazi salute or not?

The same with McStain


43 posted on 03/11/2014 10:45:21 AM PDT by Marguerite (When I'm good, I'm very good, but when I'm bad, I'm even better)
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To: hummingbird
"I get a little upset when protesters are covering their faces."

It's the habit in the mob to hide their faces from police ans surveillance cameras. Especially when they are acting in a violent manner.

The "peaceful demonstrators for democracy " on Maidan Place, Kiev.


44 posted on 03/11/2014 11:51:45 AM PDT by Marguerite (When I'm good, I'm very good, but when I'm bad, I'm even better)
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To: kronos77

Who would take this comment seriously?

3 million Jews killed in Poland, 1 million in USSR. Both cases mostly by the Germans, and assisted by local collaborators. Leaving up to you to do the rest of the research


45 posted on 03/11/2014 12:53:42 PM PDT by Ivan Mazepa
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To: Eric in the Ozarks
A WSJ columnist wrote last week that Putin had “Carterized” Obamma...

I thought before his first election this would be Jimmy Carter's second term. Since Carter actually learned something while in office, I guess that's therefore not accurate. They both show the same naiveté on foreign affairs while stocking their government with radicals.

46 posted on 03/12/2014 9:00:49 AM PDT by gogeo (If you are Tea Party, the Republican Party does not want you.)
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To: goldstategop
Intervene?

Tell us more...

47 posted on 03/12/2014 9:02:44 AM PDT by gogeo (If you are Tea Party, the Republican Party does not want you.)
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