Posted on 03/27/2014 2:09:30 PM PDT by tcrlaf
A goon who stole from his own Treasury, tried to rewrite his Constitution, showered his friends with cash, and operated with blatant disregard for the law.
And I think most damningly he allowed the Ukrainian army to be striped down bare ass naked with the russian bear next door. There was a report a few days ago that the army could not mobilize because they lacked vehicle batteries!
~And I think most damningly he allowed the Ukrainian army to be striped down bare ass naked with the russian bear next door. There was a report a few days ago that the army could not mobilize because they lacked vehicle batteries!~
Yes, sure.... He was drinking baby blood too. Do you really want to blame their later president for all the troubles? Bottom line is EVERY Ukrainian administration since 1992 was corrupt to boot. You simply have no idea. Do some research who are a ‘gas princess’ Timoshenko, and pre-Yanukovich hero of ‘color revolution’ Yuschenko.
Timoshenko’s husband was running a video rental as she first entered office and he was one of the Europe’s richest people a few years later. Yuschenko’s son was infamous for hanging around with notorious gangsters in the open in Kiev, drugging himself to near-death and running over people in his sport cars at the time, throwing money around. Every policeman who ever tried to arrest him was fired or prosecuted.
They have stolen and sold their batteries decades ago.
That’s what I hear from friends in Ukraine also.
Where are you from?
There is another source for your reading pleasure. It quotes a Ukrainian newspaper, you can go even deeper if you read Ukrainian.
Does the same work for the BBC?
The BBC is a public service broadcaster[7] that operates under a Royal Charter[8] and a Licence and Agreement from the Home Secretary.[9] Within the United Kingdom its work is funded principally by an annual television licence fee,[10] which is charged to all British households, companies and organisations using any type of equipment to receive live television broadcasts;[11] the level of the fee is set annually by the British Government and agreed by Parliament.[12]
Disagree. Ukrainians are in general a hard working people who have struggled under corrupt governments seemingly forever
We whine about corruption here but theirs make ours look like stealing penny candy
Yes, the same applies to the BBC. But Russian thought patterns are different from those of the Brits and of ourselves (learned during Cold War 1).
I believe that governments should not be owning or controlling civilian broadcasting corporations, by the way. I disagree, for example, with government control and funding of some of our own civilian broadcasting stations.
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