The Ukraine investigative board has found Yanukovych ordered police to kill the protesters in the Maidan.
I hear Yanukovych election slogan is, "As President I will demand President Putin to return the Crimea." Odd. The Ukraine doesn't recognize the annexation now, why would they expect anyone to return it?
Airmen board a NATO AWACS (Airborne Warning and Control Systems) aircraf during a joint NATO military exercise in Siauliai April 1, 2014. The NATO alliance said it will start reconnaissance flights with AWACS planes from their home base in Geilenkirchen and Waddington in Britain over Poland and Romania to monitor the situation in neighbouring Ukraine where Russian forces have taken control of Crimea.
I hear Yanukovych election slogan is, "As President I will demand President Putin to return the Crimea." Odd. The Ukraine doesn't recognize the annexation now, why would they expect anyone to return it?
Airmen board a NATO AWACS (Airborne Warning and Control Systems) aircraf during a joint NATO military exercise in Siauliai April 1, 2014. The NATO alliance said it will start reconnaissance flights with AWACS planes from their home base in Geilenkirchen and Waddington in Britain over Poland and Romania to monitor the situation in neighbouring Ukraine where Russian forces have taken control of Crimea.
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(Reuters) - Russia (click here) said on Thursday it wanted answers from NATO on its activities in eastern Europe after the Western military alliance promised to beef up defences for its eastern members.
Russia's annexation of Ukraine's Crimea region last month has caused the deepest crisis in East-West relations since the Cold War, leading the West to impose sanctions and sparking fear President Vladimir Putin has territorial designs beyond the Black Sea peninsula with its Russian-majority population.
NATO has ordered military planners to draft measures to reassure nervous Eastern European countries - which were under Moscow's domination until the 1989 end of the Cold War - but stopped short of calls by Poland to base more forces there.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said any increase in NATO's permanent presence in eastern Europe would violate a 1997 treaty on NATO-Russian cooperation....0
NATO is carrying it's promise to nations concerned about their sovereignty. NATO is not breaking any treaty, it is living up to it's obligations to it's members. If Russia will recall, it has a troop build up along the Ukraine border that has already annexed land from a sovereign nation with no capacity to attack Russia. The Crimea was litigated a long time ago in a soviet court and the land belongs with the Ukraine. It is Russia that is creating the problem of instability in the region including with members of NATO.
There is no treaty violated by NATO that hasn't FIRST been violated by Russia. The fly overs are within the borders of member states that have every right to be concerned. Worries at this level with a threat of military invasion causes it's own level of instability. A small contingency of Russian troop withdrawal is not enough to return stability to the region and will continue to effect the Ukraine elections this May. It requires a complete withdrawal of Russia troops currently along the Ukraine border to remove that instability and threat. This is not an imagined threat, it is real and has already acted hostilely in removing land and assets from the Ukraine that was also covered by a treaty. Perhaps Russia has lost it's memory of what occurred in recent months, but, it violated a treaty with NATO then. Why should NATO expect anything less now.?
27 May. 1997
Founding Act (click here)
on Mutual Relations, Cooperation and Security between NATO and the Russian Federation signed in Paris, France
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization and its member States, on the one hand, and the Russian Federation, on the other hand, hereinafter referred to as NATO and Russia, based on an enduring political commitment undertaken at the highest political level, will build together a lasting and inclusive peace in the Euro-Atlantic area on the principles of democracy and cooperative security.
NATO and Russia do not consider each other as adversaries. They share the goal of overcoming the vestiges of earlier confrontation and competition and of strengthening mutual trust and cooperation. The present Act reaffirms the determination of NATO and Russia to give concrete substance to their shared commitment to build a stable, peaceful and undivided Europe, whole and free, to the benefit of all its peoples. Making this commitment at the highest political level marks the beginning of a fundamentally new relationship between NATO and Russia. They intend to develop, on the basis of common interest, reciprocity and transparency a strong, stable and enduring partnership....
It was Russia that cancelled the treaty, not the Ukraine. Russia automatically relinquished it's right to any claim on the monies it paid the Ukraine. The Crimea did not come with a refund policy.
MOSCOW, April 03. /ITAR-TASS/. Termination (click here) of the effect of the Russian-Ukrainian treaties on the Black Sea Fleet does not relieve Ukraine of financial commitments to Russia, the Russian Foreign Ministry stated on Thursday regarding its note sent to Ukrainian Embassy in the Russian capital of Moscow over the federal law on denouncement of the treaties related to deployment of the Russian Black Sea Fleet in Ukraine that was enacted on April 2, 2014....
It was Russia that cancelled the treaty, not the Ukraine. Russia automatically relinquished it's right to any claim on the monies it paid the Ukraine. The Crimea did not come with a refund policy.
MOSCOW, April 03. /ITAR-TASS/. Termination (click here) of the effect of the Russian-Ukrainian treaties on the Black Sea Fleet does not relieve Ukraine of financial commitments to Russia, the Russian Foreign Ministry stated on Thursday regarding its note sent to Ukrainian Embassy in the Russian capital of Moscow over the federal law on denouncement of the treaties related to deployment of the Russian Black Sea Fleet in Ukraine that was enacted on April 2, 2014....
