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Showing posts with label oligarchs. Show all posts

Sunday, June 16, 2013

Lutsenko: Tymoshenko 'Had to Borrow From Oligarchs Yet She Would Hear Voters Only’


Whoever wrote that speech has a great sense of humor and balance.




Lutsenko: Dear friends, a major goal of the new leadership of United Fatherland is to learn to hear people, party members and independents. The invincible power of Yulia Volodymyrivna Tymoshenko was that she, like all the other politicians, had to borrow money from the oligarchs yet she would hear the voters only, and not her campaign contributors. We have to learn from this and bring that spirit back to Fatherland and to the opposition as a whole. [round of applause]
6:36-7:06

If Tymoshenko heard her voters so well, why didn’t they vote for her? And does the All-Hearing Crowdsourcer know you raid his closet?

Here comes the harsh part. Take your time to observe the VIP body language and that of the audience at large.



Lutsenko: Dear friends, I have friends among Fatherland’s leadership, it is you address: In order to be honest and talk about moral revolution and, by extension, political revolution, get rid of the turncoat generator within the party. [round of applause] Dear friends, we all, including yours truly, need to get rid of, discard, the practice of masquerade politics whereby it seems that it’s enough just to say “I’m not Yanukovych!” and, conceivably, support will be guaranteed. We should stop harboring Potemkin designs in politics. People see the falsehood and fiction behind these things and that’s why millions won’t take to the streets. Let’s be honest about it and start acting in new ways, like Tymoshenko did when Ukraine was winning. 
7:10-8:01  

When was the last time Tymoshenko acted in new ways?






















Sources:
http://censor.net.ua/video_news/244715/lutsenko_volshebnik_ne_priletit_osvobojdat_yulyu_vertolet_davno_ukraden_i_stoit_v_mejigore_volshebnikov
http://tvi.ua

Thursday, March 07, 2013

Is This US/EU Ukraine Policy in Motion?

Earth to Washington! Earth to Brussels!




No matter how much they oppose each other, no matter how much they pay their lobbyists, the truth is out there. Over-reliance on oligarchs and elites that lack grassroots support only takes you so far.

 

















Happy Women's Day!

Sources:
http://censor.net.ua/video_news/235204/damba_nevezeniya_v_rossii_est_naglyadnoe_posobie_po_unichtojeniyu_spetstehniki_video

Friday, January 11, 2013

Ukraine’s Officials, Opposition Flock to Luxury Ski Resort

Librt€, €galit€, frat€rnit€!



Bienvenue à Courchevel! €4K champagne, €10K skis, €25M chalets. Step aside Eurotrash! Here come the guys with cash!
 

Klitschko, Berezhna, Kilchytska, Firtash... Some of these guys might be "opposing" each other back home. But here? Here it’s nothing but e pluribus unum! And they keep coming back for more. It’s just like Davos. Except you can save all the lofty rhetoric for your kids.
 

Now how about the ultimate down-to-earth opposition skiing experience?


 

Sources:
http://censor.net.ua/video_news/229527/40_otdyhayuschih_vipov_v_kurshevele_ukraintsy_berejnaya_i_kilchitskaya_sbegayuschie_ot_jurnalistov_i
http://tsn.ua

Thursday, April 05, 2012

Dominique Strauss-Kahn in Kyiv

How could FEMEN go AWOL on this guy?




Left: Viktor Pinchuk (net worth: $4.2B), one of Ukraine's top oligarchs.

DSK may be a bit left of center politically, but...who knows? So here we go: left, right, left... Liberté, égalité, fraternité
?




Now how about sexualité? Here's FEMEN's "Les Belles d'Ukraine" photo shoot.

Sources:
http://femen.livejournal.com/203741.html

Friday, March 16, 2012

Rallies Against ‘Killer Kids’ as Raped/Burned Girl Struggles for Life

FEMEN went on top of the Prosecutor General’s Office.

Смерть ублюдкам! from FEMEN Video on Vimeo.


Death to the sadists! Oksana, you have to pull through! Castrate the bastards! Murderers to jail!

One of the three "killer kids" in the Mykolayiv rape-and-burn case happens to be the son of a former prosecutor. (Not according to the local prosecutor’s office, of course.) Another one is the son of the city’s former top official. Well, at least no denials here. Both had been initially released but taken back into custody later on as public pressure built up. In this video, the third suspect apparently takes the fall for his buddies.


In Ukraine, you can beat, rape, strangle, mangle, hunt, kill and even burn people and get away with it. If you have cash or connections, of course. If you don’t, you better get together to defend yourself like these ordinary people do.



Rich "killer kids," or mazhory as we call them in Ukraine, have created a cultural phenomenon far more prevalent than student rampages in the US. Maybe it's because here in Ukraine violent crime of this nature goes unpunished far more often than in the US?

By virtue of the almighty dollar, not probable cause or Miranda, the perpetrators either receive ridiculous sentences or avoid any jail time whatsoever. The list goes on and on.

Some US and EU tourists love Ukrainian oligarchs. But...not the way of life that oligarchy enforces on its aborigines, as opposed to its aficionados. If you know any such aficionados personally, show them this girl.





Now imagine she's your daughter.

Actions speak louder than words. As of today, Ukrainians remain largely lethargic, with just a few small protests here and there. Still, even in the most lethargic part of Ukraine, people already mince no words.




Man: It might be a bit rude, but let him drop dead!

Woman: Let him live like I do. No jobs. My son just came back from the army and there are no jobs.

She’s talking about the guy who’s got a job — the job. The guy who doesn’t show up for work until 11:00 a.m. and calls it a day at 4:15 p.m.


If only he could dig up some more of that magic enriched uranium at his marvelous Mezhyhirya ranch.

Wouldn’t that be a great way to enrich Ukraine’s democracy at the upcoming Nuclear Servility Summit in Seoul?



R.I.P. Oksana (died March 29).

Sources:
http://femen.livejournal.com/
http://censor.net.ua/video_news/200330/jiteli_nikolaeva_trebuyut_pojiznennogo_majoram_ya_hochu_spravedlivosti_i_suda_nad_etimi_podonkami_video
http://censor.net.ua/video_news/200311/harkovskie_selyane_o_yanukoviche_tse_vrod_grubo_nu_shob_vn_zdoh_video
http://censor.net.ua/video_news/200244/u_yanukovicha_korotkiyi_rabochiyi_den_uehal_s_bankovoyi_v_1615_video

Thursday, August 04, 2011

'Expendable' Coal Miner Speaks Out After Accident

“They used people as expendables, you understand?



No safety, no shower, no heating. 2 accidents, 38 dead, millions in profits.

Welcome (back) to Ukraine!


Bazhanova mine, Makiyivka, Donetsk oblast: 11 dead
Sukhodolska-Skhidna mine, Luhansk oblast: 27 dead

The latter belongs to Ukraine's richest man/MP Rinat Akhmetov, a supporter of Yanukovych and a neighbor of Tymoshenko.

Fighting back tears, the miner who works at Akhmetov's mine identifies himself as Smetanin Ihor Volodymyrovych. He says he makes $162/month, cried all night helping recover the bodies and will most likely quit after 3 years on the job.

Sources:
http://censor.net.ua/ru/video_news/view/177169/v_razmen_lyudeyi_kak_rashodny
yi_material_my_tut_kak_skoty__gornyak_shahty_ahmetova_video

http://censor.net.ua/ru/video_news/view/176802/mat_propavshego_shahtera_on_gdeto_tam__pod_zavalom_vse_net_ego_video

Tuesday, July 26, 2011

Welcome to Tymoshenko, Akhmetov, Tabachnyk Beaches!

“Do you know where you are? Rich folks live here. So don't sail any closer!”



Can beaches be private property? No, says environmental law. Yes, says the law of the jungle.


That’s the law that trumps the law that guarantees free riverfront passage and bans home construction within 100 meters of any water body.


In a country where government is private property, nothing is impossible!


OK, here we go. Tymoshenko beach (4:17). Feels nice, but nobody’s home.
Oh, she's so busy these days! Not only does she frequently appear in Yanukovych’s court...


...but she also lives next door to Ukraine’s richest man Rinat Akhmetov!

Red: Tymoshenko (former MP/PM/now opposition leader)
White: Akhmetov (oligarch/MP/Yanukovych backer)




Pretty cool, huh? How about an Overboard remake? Best filming location ever!
Link
The final *swim-union* scene (2:04)















Donbas Arena opening ceremony (August 2009)


Anyway, other beaches turned out not so romantic.

Tabachnyk beach guard: “Are you gonna teach law to me? I have my own laws. You understand?”


Sources:

http://censor.net.ua/ru/video_news/view/174946/jurnalisty_popytalis_pozagorat_na_lichnyh_plyajah_timoshenko_ahmetova_i_tabachnika_ty_tolko_za_zabor_vylezesh_ya_tebya_iz_pistoleta_vylezu_video http://tsn.ua
http://www.pravda.com.ua/photo-video/2011/07/14/6386726/
http://www.pravda.com.ua/rus/articles/2009/08/30/4501048/

Monday, May 02, 2011

Soviet Show on Maidan

krainian colors, Soviet choreogra☭hy.



Not that I'm new to ligarch Entertainmen, but this one caught me by surprise as I was walking downtown last Saturday.

And you know what they call it? “Майданc” (“Maidan’s”) It’s a carnival-like dance contest that brings together the cities of Ukraine. Last Saturday’s contestants: Odesa, Kirovohrad and Kharkiv.



Looking at all that Soviet memorabilia in motion, I had a couple of flashbacks.

April 1989. I’m one of the top three students to be promoted to the rank of pioneer (Soviet boy scout). In second grade, a whole grade ahead of the curve. We’re rock stars!

The “rite of passage” took place in the Lenin Museum, just a few blocks from here. In just a few years the USSR would be history.

And what about these kids? How old are they? What the hell are they doing?

If you're an oligarch and you want this for your kids, check out these tutorials.


Thursday, February 10, 2011

Naked Peeing Oligarchlets in ‘Bad Romance’ (Lady Gaga) Parody

We, we, we are epicureans,
Jew-eans, that is, that is!



That’s what they’re singing (1:20-1:23). And boy can they sing!

Wait... “We're not the ones singing this song, but rather it's singing us.” So they say (1:36-1:41).

Anyway, how’s that for a 50th anniversary song for a fellow oligarchlet? Another smash hit, huh?

Hey Bill Clinton, where you at? Don’t you like these guys? I know you like ‘em bigger, but you can still drop by and play sax for them, can’t you?

If they were comedians, they could pass for followers of Borat. Remember that Antisemitism sting of his?



But these guys are no comedians. They’re real oligarchlets. In Europe’s 2nd poorest country, right? Go figure.

Not an apple-to-apple comparison (America’s hardly a poor country), but...

Can you imagine GM, Ford and Chrysler execs in a parody like this?

Or better yet, Toyota, HP, 3M (fill in the blanks) execs having fun in states where they shut down plants and/or ship jobs overseas?

Sources:
http://tabloid.pravda.com.ua/focus/4d5299b02252c/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vb3IMTJjzfo

Sunday, January 30, 2011

‘Uvikny...Uvim...Uvikn...Uvikny...Viknit’ (Yanukovych’s At It Again)

Dear Davos, will you please let him switch on Ukraine?

Spelling tips: Uvimkny [oo-veem-knyh] Ukrayinu.



Yanukovych: This slogan, “Uvikny...Uvim...Uvikn...Uvikny...Viknit Ukrayinu,” this is the promo campaign slogan of our state for Euro 2012! To uviknuty [wrong again]...Ukraine, I...want to say it’s enough to look at her and see for yourself once the chestnut trees start to blossom...in Kyiv...and when...it starts getting warm and in Ukrainian cities women start undressing.




Hey FEMEN, are you listening?

Back to Davos. How about we ask Pinchuk to sponsor that diamond-encrusted baby skull as our Euro 2012 mascot?

Wouldn't it symbolize Ukraine’s success and give the oligarchs full credit for it?

The 2011 Census would supply the crossbones.


Sources:
http://censor.net.ua/ru/video_news/view/153592/yanukovich_v_davose_ne_smog_pravilno_proiznesti_slovo_uvmkni_video_obnovleno
http://5.ua
http://durdom.in.ua/uk/main/photo/photo_id/22158.phtml
http://durdom.in.ua/uk/main/photo/photo_id/22241.phtml

Monday, January 17, 2011

Regionalist Compares Yanukovych to Skoropadsky

True friends stab you in the front.



MP Volodymyr Vecherko (Party of Regions): Viktor Fedorovych Yanukovych, much like Hetman Skoropadsky, has said it and keeps saying it everywhere, that Ukraine is a nation...and it has the right to determine, on its own, which way Ukraine should go. Is that clear or not?

MP Andriy Parubiy (NUNS): Don’t you equate Hetman Skoropadsky and your chief. I’m begging you.

Host: Gentlemen...

Vecherko: Let me, let me, let me once again...today he’s the president and takes responsibility for the entire nation of the country.


Yanukovych=Skoropadsky? Hope you have a self-fulfilling prophecy there!

(Remember that WW I autocrat whose puppet regime facilitated the German occupation of Ukraine and went the way of the Germans?)

So how do the two compare to each other?

Yanukovych clearly lacks Skoropadsky’s redeeming feature: anti-Bolshevism. Unlike Yanukovych, Skoropadsky siphoned food (not iron) from Ukraine, and thus didn’t need gas from Russia.


Put that issue aside, and Yanukovych becomes a faithful follower of Skoropadsky. He’s the man for the job! As long as Hetman Yanukovych remains in charge, Ukraine will remain oligarch/IMF-occupied territory.

Isn’t it great to have a commodity colony right outside the EU’s door? One with the population of California+Virginia, and the GDP of Utah?

Who wants to lose a steady supply of live-in maids, sex slaves and €5M Courchevel bday parties?




Sources:

http://censor.net.ua/ru/video_news/view/151329/partiya_regionov_viktor_fedorovich_yanukovich__kak_getman_skoropadskiyi_video
http://5.ua
http://durdom.in.ua/uk/main/photo/photo_id/21597/person_id/1.phtml
http://durdom.in.ua/uk/main/photo/photo_id/21850/person_id/1.phtml

Tuesday, October 05, 2010

Yanukovych Recites ‘Ukrainian’ Proverb (In Russian, Of Course!)

Ever seen a comedy starring presidents and oligarchs? Try YES.

The 7th annual oligarchfest has attracted the greatest number of VIPs so far.

Javier Solana and Aleksander Kwaśniewski (permanent fixtures, to name just a few).

Moving on: Bill Clinton...


How much this time, Bill?


That much?

Bruce Jackson reportedly showed up too. (Mr. McCain, as you support Ukraine, who do your associates support?)

And, YES, there was no shortage of comedy: premoderated questions, canned answers, misspelled names and communication gaps.




Solana: Would you go to Brussels again if you were elected president today?

Yanukovych [in Ukrainian]: Yes, there’s...there’s this really old proverb, a Ukrainian one, I guess [switches from Ukrainian to Russian]: “Sapogi dorogu znayut.” [“The boots know the road.”] That’s why...

Moderator: Let’s hope, then, you have good sapogi!


It turns out to be a Soviet Army joke, thanks to the interpretation supplied by Ukrayinska Pravda’s Serhiy Leshchenko.

Q: How do you get home drunk like that?
A: How? The boots know the road!

I wonder if Yanukovych actually went off the script with that one. What if he didn’t?

That sapogi thing sounds so true-to-life!




Sources:

http://www.pravda.com.ua/articles/2010/10/3/5440739/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Aouv7r_VcI
http://durdom.in.ua/uk/main/photo/photo_id/19265.phtml
http://durdom.in.ua/uk/main/photo/photo_id/19322.phtml

Thursday, July 15, 2010

Tymoshenko: ‘Very Big Business’ > 1/2 My Life

She’s not a church mouse anymore. She’s richer, smarter and holier.

Holier than Yanukovych.



Yulia Tymoshenko: Uh...I...uh...spent more than half of my life doing very big business — very big business. That’s a business that had billions of...uh...revenue...

Mustafa Nayem: You have some savings left?
Tymoshenko: Definitely! Definitely! And these savings...they...uh...at that time, I...didn’t have to disclose them...

Nayem: They’re in Ukraine?
Tymoshenko: ...because I was not an official. Uh...all these savings...they do exist, and we as a family are using them.
Nayem: Aha!

Tymoshenko: So the difference is, I was in business, and Yanukovych hasn’t been a single day in business.
Nayem: Aha!

Tymoshenko: Difference number two, you’re now being present at my home. This home is being rented. This home has never in its whole life belonged to the state.
Nayem: How? By who?

Tymoshenko: It’s being rented by my family. Directly. My husband has a rental agreement.
Nayem: Aha!

Tymoshenko: And I want all officials to rent homes like I do — private homes — or let them rent apartments, and not take them away from the state.


So she says she spent more than half of her life doing very big business? Let's do the math here.

Small business became legal in the USSR in 1986-1988.

In 1988, Tymoshenko (b. 1960) and her husband started a chain of small VCR-powered movie theaters, immensely popular amid perestroika’s passion for Western culture.

In 1997, Tymoshenko assumed her first public office, a seat in Ukraine’s parliament.

All of which suggests that:

A. Tymoshenko misspoke.
B. Tymoshenko is a teenager.
C. Tymoshenko (aka Gas Princess) stayed in business after being elected.
D. Both B and C are correct.



What do you think?

Video uploaded from: http://censor.net.ua/go/offer/ResourceID/164193.html
Original source: http://tvi.ua
Image: http://tabloid.pravda.com.ua/photos/471dff6b3c7df/

Sunday, July 11, 2010

Yanukovych Goes Dirty Dancing at His 60th Anniversary Party

Still got that spark, huh?



Music: Philipp Kirkorov, People’s Artist of Ukraine (Yushchenko’s 2008 choice).

Dance partners spotted:


Yanukovych+Lyudmyla Kuchma (Kuchma’s wife)

Yanukovych+Akimova

Bohatyryova+Kuchma

Bohatyryova+Klyuev

Kuchma+Olena Franchuk (Kuchma’s daughter)

Franchuk+Klyuev

Akhmetov+Pinchuk (free hugs oligarchfest)
Zvyahilsky (Hava Nagila, solo)


Anybody seen First Lady Lyudmyla Yanukovych?




And where the hell is Lady HaHa?




Video embedded from: http://censor.net.ua/go/offer/ResourceID/164838.html Original source: http://lifenews.ru
Images:
http://img.tabloid.pravda.com.ua/images/doc/0/4/04cda-dr5.jpg
http://durdom.in.ua/uk/main/photo/photo_id/17252/person_id/2.phtml

‘Vuzeli’ (Yanukovych Misspells Vuvuzela on His 60th B-Day)

If you want something misspelled or misplaced, ask Yanukovych.

He’s already done this to countries, continents, names, guests and job titles.
The list goes on.



The next time “Esteemed Madam Secretary General” Clinton drops by, she’ll probably discover more of his God-given potential.


In the meantime, Herman Van Rompuy, the president of the European Council, came to claim his fair share.

As he congratulated Yanukovych on his 60th anniversary, a spelling bee invaded Ukraine's airspace.
And, presto, Yanukovych found himself declining the noun vuvuzela as vuzeli instead of vuvuzeli!



I pity the smartass who put the V-word on his talking points.


He or she better grab that bike (a useless gift from democracy-starved reporters) and get the hell out of the country.



Anyway, I hope the lavish birthday party, attended by throngs of officials, oligarchs and celebs (including Lara Fabian), more than compensated for the faux pas.




Que Dieu Aide Les *Oligarques*




God Help the *Oligarchs*





Happy Birthday, Your Holine$$!

Sources:
http://tsn.ua/ukrayina/yanukovich-pripustivsya-konfuzu-schodo-gillari-klinton.html
http://www.pravda.com.ua/photo-video/2010/07/9/5211925/ http://www.pravda.com.ua/photo-video/2010/07/9/5212649/ http://www.pravda.com.ua/photo-video/2010/07/9/5210985/
http://infocorn.org.ua/2010/07/06/svyat_pomnyalysya_teper_na_kon__yanukovych_z_nmbom

Friday, May 07, 2010

Censorship Makes Comeback As Stalin Monument Opens

Reform #5: Comrade Obama $talin will take care of press freedom.

After decades of damnation, the Steel Man who had murdered millions of innocent people won himself a magic resurrection.







His resurrection sent two of his elderly fans to the hospital and one to the graveyard.
“She died a decent death, in front of Stalin,” as one fan put it at the opening ceremony in Zaporizhia.

On a hot sunny day, hundreds of Stalinists, anti-Stalinists and police attended the ceremony on the premises of the local Communist Party chapter.


Because the monument sits on private property, those who oppose it should stay away from it, MP Oleksiy Baburin (CPU-Zaporizhia) argues.



One fan donated Hr. 50K ($6K) to the Hr. 80K ($10K) monument cause. Petro “$13K Watch” Symonenko? No. Commie-friendly oligarch Grigorishin? Wrong again.

Meet Ivan Shekhovtsev, a WW II vet from Kharkiv dubbed the “lead investor” for his contribution. (IMHO, the term “lead investor” would raise a lot of questions from Stalin.)

One sign reads: “Arise, Stalin! Put some order!” It’s a deal! Let’s have some order. Let’s start with the commies in this oligarcommunist govt. Lead #1: Customs chief Ihor Kaletnyk. Let the NKVD ask him a few a questions, OK?


In the meantime, some Ukrainian reporters claim to have already experienced strokes of censorship. A report that criticized the government went down the drain, say the news people at Channel 1+1 in a public statement released Thursday.

After a closed-door beer summit with the reporters, Deputy Chief of Staff Hanna Herman said she found to signs of censorship.

And guess what? On Friday, eight STB reporters went public with censorship claims of their own.

The oligarchs run both channels.

Channel 1+1: owned by Ihor Kolomoisky, Ukraine’s third-richest man, of Israeli citizenship, who lives in Switzerland.

STB: owned by Viktor Pinchuk, Ukraine’s second-richest man, Kuchma’s son-in-law, a ‘Thinker’ according to Time magazine.

So how long before reporter killings become the norm again?

Video uploaded from: http://censor.net.ua/go/offer/ResourceID/158112.html
Original source: http://tvi.ua

Thursday, April 22, 2010

$100/30% Gas Discount Means Russia’s Fleet Stays Until 2042



Reform #3: America wins, Russia wins, oligarchy wins, Ukraine loses.

Ever since Tymoshenko signed that whorrible gas deal with Putin in 2009, Yanukovych couldn’t control himself.

In fact, he raced so fast to meet with Medvedev that his motorcade ambulance killed this man.




In Kharkiv, where the two presidents met, most Ukrainian reporters got booted from the joint press conference. The Russian ones stayed on and didn’t misbehave, which made it easy for both presidents.

Yanukovych finds it easy to give away what doesn’t belong to him.

Just nine days after he promised to rid Ukraine of a few bombs’ worth of enriched uranium — worth over $1B — the same story happens again.

No prior public discussions. No questions asked. No cost-benefit analyses. Except this one:




Medvedev: Our Ukrainian partners will receive a gas discount in the amount of...uh...$100 if the price of gas is higher than $330 per 1,000 cubic meters, and, if the price is lower, 30% off the contract price. [takes a deep breath] This discount, accordingly, is a real resource that will be at our Ukrainian partners’ disposal.

Yanukovych (ProFFessor of Economics): In the following 10 years, Ukraine…will receive a real investment resource that, our experts estimate, it...will be...provided by Russia to Ukraine in the form of this...uh...resource aid, specifically gas, worth…this sum totals approximately about $40B. The Black Sea Fleet will be one of the security guarantors...among the Black Sea basin countries. And we support President Medvedev’s initiative...uh...to review the issue of...to review the concept of European collective security.

Medvedev (waxes Putinesque): A real partnership step. Both on the part of Russia and on the part of Ukraine. It is the step we’ve been expecting for a long time. It is these actions that provide a test of true intentions of neighbors, friends, relatives...countries dear to us. [takes a deep breath] And Ukraine took that step today, as did the Russian Federation.


So here’s the deal: The oligarchs get the “resource aid” they need, and the slaves get the stabilnist they deserve.

Last, but definitely not least: The deal violates the Constitution of Ukraine.

Article 17 bars foreign military bases from operating on Ukrainian territory. There’s only one exception: “the existing military bases on the territory of Ukraine,” as stipulated in the transitional provisions.


Target ratification date: April 27. If the fleet-for-gas deal overwrites the 1997-2017 lease agreement, then Yanukovych should **** the Constitution and Parliament one more time.

Which probably means that the deal will be effective as long as Yanukovych remains omnipotent.

Meanwhile, the opposition has set out to impeach Yanukovych.

Tymoshenko calls for an emergency session to be held Saturday and welcomes everyone to an opposition rally.


Videos uploaded/embedded from:
http://www.pravda.com.ua/articles/2010/04/21/4951559
http://censor.net.ua/go/offer/ResourceID/156717.html
http://ictv.ua

Wednesday, April 14, 2010

Citizen Diplomacy: A Ukrainian Citizen’s Look at U.S.-Ukrainian Relations








Dear Uncle Sam,


You care about your country. You care about denuclearizing everyone but yourself and your allies. You made it happen in Ukraine.

When my country gave up its nukes — the world’s third-largest arsenal — it didn’t happen in a referendum. It didn’t happen in a classroom. It happened in Kuchma’s bedroom.

You treasured my country’s ability to trade its national interests for nothing but IMF loans and some aid.

As you know, the loans did us no good and the aid fell short of delivering the results it did in Eastern Europe. After all, from your Moscowcentric point of view, Ukraine’s “fledgling democracy” didn’t belong in Europe. The State Department pigeonholed us into “Eurasia” (Non-West/Little Russia), a class from which we never really graduated.

Bottom line, you took advantage of Ukraine at a tender age.


Any idea what this map depicts?

In an ideal world, you should have kept your IMF loans/aid, and we should have kept some of our nukes. We should have developed in a different way politically, economically and militarily.

Hindsight is always 20/20. Now what about foresight?

By continuing to take advantage of Ukraine whenever you can, you’re turning friends of America into a scarce commodity here.

The more Ukraine gets raped at home and abroad, the more we Ukrainians will remember it. The more you support our corrupt leaders, the more we’ll resist it. And once the pendulum swings in our favor — in the Ukraine-first favor — we’ll try to do it right. We’ll try not to repeat the mistakes of the Orange era.

And you guys will try
to defuse a stockpile of enriched anti-Western sentiment.

Photos:
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Friday, April 02, 2010

Govt OKs Stalin Monument, Flirts With USSR 2

As Washington cautiously OKs our new government, that government OKs things that make some in Washington feel all the more cautious.

In Zaporizhia, local communists plan to erect a monument to Stalin.



That’s the same Stalin who killed millions of Ukrainians (and Russians, for that matter).

Vice PM Volodymyr Semynozhenko doesn’t object.
After all, he supports a union of Russia, Ukraine and Belarus.




That’s an old idea championed by the Kremlin and shared by millions of elderly and Russified Ukrainians in and outside of our government.


Those who oppose the idea (such as the Belarusian ambassador to Russia, who supports a customs union only) can go where the sun don’t shine. The Kremlin doesn't mince words.



What's in it for Ukraine? No more silly borders issues. No more borders. No more Ukraine.




Meanwhile, Strobe Talbott tells Ukraine that non-alignment (read: alignment with Russia) doesn’t work.
WTF? Has the Russia-first desk run out of vodka? Have you guys been playing a sobering version of the domino theory?

Maybe you could use Obama’s “reset button” and Clinton’s “sweet harvest” to keep the dominoes from falling?


Or maybe Bill Clinton could replace Stephen Byers as Yalta European Strategy chairman of the board?


Viktor Pinchuk and Damien Hirst could turn it into some art form that resembles Ukraine’s rule of law, European integration and prosperity.



And, of course, the Prostitutional Court would then adopt it as a mascot, upon issuing a clean bill of health to the Coalition of Carcasses.


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