Well, maybe that’s at least one place where there might not be pro-Russian violence.
My friend shared this: “Just next door to our House she showed me 10 “bulletins” [ballots] Donetsk “rèferènduma.” Says “polling station” gave them a whole bunch that voted “for self and for the fella” also for all the family he also brought home.
Berlinfreeper: what knocks my socks off is the folks that DID go vote REJECTED referendum: separatists do NOT have support of the people! Putin KNEW & told them to call off the referendum. But, Separatists felt powerful drunk with Russian money & weapons!
When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation...
UKRAINE: Donbass refused to participate in “pseudo-referendum” BOYCOTTED; Luhansk did NOT PASS
McGruff ACTUALLY, what is CLEAR is that Ukraine want to continue to REMAIN one united nation!!!
Putin lost this one BIG time!
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Ukraine Seizes 100,000 Ballots Already Marked ‘Yes’ For Eastern City To Break Away [Report]
Paul Szoldra
May 10, 2014, 5:37 PM
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Ukrainian military forces stopped and seized a vehicle carrying three armed men transporting guns, ammunition, and an estimated 100,000 ballots for a May 11 referendum already marked “yes” for the eastern city of Donetsk to break away and form an independent state, Kyiv Post reports.
The men — which Ukrainian media have described as “armed terrorists” — were found with ballots in the trunk of their car on the outskirts of the city, a police source told the Ukraine Observer.
Many cities in eastern Ukraine have been under siege for about a month, including Donetsk, where the city’s main government building and a number of schools have been seized by pro-Russian separatists believed to be backed by Moscow.
The new reports of fraudulent ballots brings to mind a similar incident in Crimea, the region recently annexed to Russia following a March 16 vote. A senior White House official told Reuters there was “concrete evidence” some of those ballots arrived to Crimean cities pre-marked.
The Russian government claimed the Crimea referendum resulted in a 96.7% vote in favor of annexation, although a Russian government agency later wrote on its website that turnout was only 30%, with only half voting in favor of annexation.
While the May 11 referendum seems to be moving forward as planned, even Russian President Vladimir Putin issued a surprising call to postpone the vote “in order to create the necessary conditions” for a dialogue between local representatives and authorities in Kiev, The Daily Beast reported.
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“We are also very concerned about the efforts of pro-Russian separatists in Donetsk and Luhansk to organize a frankly contrived and bogus independence referendum on May 11,” U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said recently. “We flatly reject this illegal effort to further divide Ukraine.”
Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/yes-ballots-ukraine-2014-5#ixzz31RZ2bZAT
Did anyone else read that as "Dumbass"? -- I have no idea who or what 'Donbass' is. Guess I will read the article to find out (maybe).
The terrorists are the socalled government of the country!
Does anybody know who represented the pro Ukrainian voters when the votes were counted?
Being that anybody in Donetsk who showed any pro Ukrainian sentiments was attacked, jailed, tortured, beaten or killed over the last few weeks, who would want to represent the pro Ukrainian voters when the vote was counted?
In short anybody who thinks that the vote is legitimate has their head up their rear end.