Sooo....no talk on Kiev's gradual descent into Mad Max beyond Thunderdome status??
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The head of the Crimean referendum’s organizing committee, Mikhail Malyshev, has told Russian news agency RIA Novosti that the official turnout amounts to 82.71% of voters.
13m ago
The day progressed from uneventful voting to tense ballot collection and, finally, revelry for supporters of the movement to join Russia.
Crimeans at the polls. Photograph: Anadolu Agency/Getty Images
Election staff begin the count at a polling station in Bachchisaray. Photograph: Dan Kitwood/Getty Images
A woman holds a portrait of Russia's President Vladimir Putin amid Russian flags as the preliminary results of today's referendum are announced in Sevastopol. Photograph: BAZ RATNER/REUTERS
39m ago
Ukraine has nearly sealed the border with Russia by tightening security and boosting its military presence, the Wall Street Journal reports. Arsen Avakov said earlier today that guards were detaining “hundreds” of people with “dubious intentions” along the eastern border, and dashcam footage – showing Ukrainian military vehicles on the roads east – seems to corroborate stories of a rapidly mobilizing military.
A Ukrainian military tank seen during an exercise in Chernigov, Ukraine. Photograph: UPI/Landov/Barcroft Media
53m ago
Sergei Aksyonov, Crimea’s de facto leader, has tweeted the announcement that “Tomorrow, a Crimean parliament delegation will fly to Russia.” He added that the regional parliament will meet on 17 March to “submit an official request to join the Russian Federation!”
Update: Aksyonov has added: “On 1 April we will transition to the ruble.”
A pro-Russia demonstrator with a tabard bearing a depiction of Russian President Vladimir Putin and the words, ‘Fatherland! Freedom!’ in Donetsk. Photograph: Andrey Basevich/AP
Updated 31m ago
58m ago
France has joined the chorus condemning Crimea’s referendum, Reuters reports, accusing Russia of exacerbating “pointless and dangerous escalation”. Foreign minister Laurent Fabius also said his country would consider the referendum illegal.
Updated 57m ago
1h 24m ago
The referendum’s turnout, according to a Crimean news agency, closes out at 79% participation across the peninsula; the outlet reports that turnout exceeded 80% in both Simferopol and Sevastopol, and also that there were no complaints.
Katherine Haddon of AFP relays that at a “free, boozy celebration concert”, several thousand people are chanting “Sevastopol” and “Russia”. In Simferopol, flags of Russia’s right-wing nationalist party, LDPR, have appeared in the crowds.
Oh look, LDPR has joined the victory party in Simferopol.pic.twitter.com/UBJfxcDj3y
— Dan Peleschuk (@dpeleschuk) March 16, 2014
Updated 1h 6m ago
1h 53m ago
White House: 'Russia's actions are dangerous and destabilizing'
The White House has released its statement, which condemns the referendum, calls Russia’s actions “dangerous and destabilizing”, and insists that Russia will face “increasing costs”. It reads, in part:
The head of the Crimean referendum’s organizing committee, Mikhail Malyshev, has told Russian news agency RIA Novosti that the official turnout amounts to 82.71% of voters.
13m ago
The day progressed from uneventful voting to tense ballot collection and, finally, revelry for supporters of the movement to join Russia.
Crimeans at the polls. Photograph: Anadolu Agency/Getty Images
Election staff begin the count at a polling station in Bachchisaray. Photograph: Dan Kitwood/Getty Images
A woman holds a portrait of Russia's President Vladimir Putin amid Russian flags as the preliminary results of today's referendum are announced in Sevastopol. Photograph: BAZ RATNER/REUTERS
39m ago
Ukraine has nearly sealed the border with Russia by tightening security and boosting its military presence, the Wall Street Journal reports. Arsen Avakov said earlier today that guards were detaining “hundreds” of people with “dubious intentions” along the eastern border, and dashcam footage – showing Ukrainian military vehicles on the roads east – seems to corroborate stories of a rapidly mobilizing military.
A Ukrainian military tank seen during an exercise in Chernigov, Ukraine. Photograph: UPI/Landov/Barcroft Media
53m ago
Sergei Aksyonov, Crimea’s de facto leader, has tweeted the announcement that “Tomorrow, a Crimean parliament delegation will fly to Russia.” He added that the regional parliament will meet on 17 March to “submit an official request to join the Russian Federation!”
Update: Aksyonov has added: “On 1 April we will transition to the ruble.”
A pro-Russia demonstrator with a tabard bearing a depiction of Russian President Vladimir Putin and the words, ‘Fatherland! Freedom!’ in Donetsk. Photograph: Andrey Basevich/AP
Updated 31m ago
58m ago
France has joined the chorus condemning Crimea’s referendum, Reuters reports, accusing Russia of exacerbating “pointless and dangerous escalation”. Foreign minister Laurent Fabius also said his country would consider the referendum illegal.
Updated 57m ago
1h 24m ago
The referendum’s turnout, according to a Crimean news agency, closes out at 79% participation across the peninsula; the outlet reports that turnout exceeded 80% in both Simferopol and Sevastopol, and also that there were no complaints.
Katherine Haddon of AFP relays that at a “free, boozy celebration concert”, several thousand people are chanting “Sevastopol” and “Russia”. In Simferopol, flags of Russia’s right-wing nationalist party, LDPR, have appeared in the crowds.
Oh look, LDPR has joined the victory party in Simferopol.pic.twitter.com/UBJfxcDj3y
— Dan Peleschuk (@dpeleschuk) March 16, 2014
Updated 1h 6m ago
1h 53m ago
White House: 'Russia's actions are dangerous and destabilizing'
The White House has released its statement, which condemns the referendum, calls Russia’s actions “dangerous and destabilizing”, and insists that Russia will face “increasing costs”. It reads, in part:
We reject the “referendum” that took place today … [It] is contrary to Ukraine’s constitution, and the international community will not recognize the results of a poll administered under threats of violence and intimidation from a Russian military intervention that violates international law.
Ukraine, the United States, the EU, the OSCE, the UN, and others have called for Russia to allow international monitors … Russia has spurned those calls … and instead has escalated its military intervention.
Russia’s actions are dangerous and destabilizing. … Military intervention and violation of international law will bring increasing costs for Russia – not only due to measures imposed by the United States and our allies but also as a direct result of Russia’s own destabilizing actions.
In this century, we are long past the days when the international community will stand quietly by while one country forcibly seizes the territory of another.
Updated 1h 51m ago
Ukraine, the United States, the EU, the OSCE, the UN, and others have called for Russia to allow international monitors … Russia has spurned those calls … and instead has escalated its military intervention.
Russia’s actions are dangerous and destabilizing. … Military intervention and violation of international law will bring increasing costs for Russia – not only due to measures imposed by the United States and our allies but also as a direct result of Russia’s own destabilizing actions.
In this century, we are long past the days when the international community will stand quietly by while one country forcibly seizes the territory of another.
Updated 1h 51m ago
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Yeah.
Dude is roofless.Puddin
Gunmen Stormed A Crimea Hotel Full of Reporters On Saturday [PHOTOS]
MICHAEL KELLEY
MAR. 16, 2014, 11:21 AM 1,400 2
REUTERS/Thomas Peter
An armed man leaves the Moscow hotel in Simferopol, March 15, 2014.
On Saturday, the day before Crimea's referendum under armed guard, about two dozen commandos took over a hotel in the Crimean capital of Simferpol where numerous journalists were staying.
TIME's Simon Shuster was one of those journalists, and he reports that the men appeared to be trained professionals who were "armed to the hilt" with silencer-equipped Kalashnikov assault rifles and sidearms.
“We’re looking for an armed criminal,” one of the masked commandos told TIME. “This is a special operation."
Crimea’s police force said it was a training operation. The office of the peninsula's leader said it was a search for a cache of weapons that was never found. Whatever it was, and whoever these armed men were, it looked intense.
REUTERS/Thomas Peter
An armed man leaves the Moscow hotel in Simferopol, March 15, 2014.
Here's ABC's Andrew Marquardt, who is also reporting from Crimea, responding to one of Shuster's tweets:
Will stop complaining about our hotel and its internet. MT @shustry Gunmen have released me from 6th floor after patting me down for guns.
— Alexander Marquardt (@MarquardtA) March 15, 2014
And one more look at one of the masked men:
REUTERS/Thomas Peter
An armed man leaves the Moscow hotel in Simferopol, March 15, 2014.
Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/gunm...rters-on-saturday-photos-2014-3#ixzz2wABVBM85
MICHAEL KELLEY
MAR. 16, 2014, 11:21 AM 1,400 2
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REUTERS/Thomas Peter
An armed man leaves the Moscow hotel in Simferopol, March 15, 2014.
On Saturday, the day before Crimea's referendum under armed guard, about two dozen commandos took over a hotel in the Crimean capital of Simferpol where numerous journalists were staying.
TIME's Simon Shuster was one of those journalists, and he reports that the men appeared to be trained professionals who were "armed to the hilt" with silencer-equipped Kalashnikov assault rifles and sidearms.
“We’re looking for an armed criminal,” one of the masked commandos told TIME. “This is a special operation."
Crimea’s police force said it was a training operation. The office of the peninsula's leader said it was a search for a cache of weapons that was never found. Whatever it was, and whoever these armed men were, it looked intense.
REUTERS/Thomas Peter
An armed man leaves the Moscow hotel in Simferopol, March 15, 2014.
Here's ABC's Andrew Marquardt, who is also reporting from Crimea, responding to one of Shuster's tweets:
Will stop complaining about our hotel and its internet. MT @shustry Gunmen have released me from 6th floor after patting me down for guns.
— Alexander Marquardt (@MarquardtA) March 15, 2014
And one more look at one of the masked men:
REUTERS/Thomas Peter
An armed man leaves the Moscow hotel in Simferopol, March 15, 2014.
Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/gunm...rters-on-saturday-photos-2014-3#ixzz2wABVBM85
USSR is one step closer.
CHART: Here's Where Russian Gas Goes
STEVEN PERLBERG
MAR. 3, 2014, 10:38 AM 6,039 7
Tensions between Russia and Ukraine have have capture the attention of the world, with global markets jittery after Russian troops entered the Crimea region of Ukraine.
As the conflict intensifies, investors are wondering what further reverberations it might have.
And, because Russia is a major energy exporter to Europe, an armed conflict may jolt the EU, according to Citi economists.
"Should a trade embargo (or worse) occur, the volatility of oil and gas prices, and of energy prices in general, will increase markedly," they write. From the note:
The global oil market continues to be more integrated than the global gas market, which remains regionally segmented because of the limited reach of pipelines and limited gas liquefaction, shipping and de-liquefaction capacity. Finding alternative sources of supply and alternative markets will be harder for gas than for oil, so gas price volatility ought therefore to be greater than oil price volatility. Because a trade embargo would likely reduce the effective supply for oil and gas more than the effective demand in the short run, this increased volatility should be around a significantly higher level of oil, gas and electricity prices.
Sky News' Ed Conway tweeted this chart putting Russian gas exports in perspective. Other than Ukraine of course, Germany and Turkey may get hurt if the conflict continues.
Check out the chart:
Twitter.com/Ed Conway
Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/chart-heres-where-russian-gas-goes-2014-3#ixzz2wABukSyn
STEVEN PERLBERG
MAR. 3, 2014, 10:38 AM 6,039 7
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Tensions between Russia and Ukraine have have capture the attention of the world, with global markets jittery after Russian troops entered the Crimea region of Ukraine.
As the conflict intensifies, investors are wondering what further reverberations it might have.
And, because Russia is a major energy exporter to Europe, an armed conflict may jolt the EU, according to Citi economists.
"Should a trade embargo (or worse) occur, the volatility of oil and gas prices, and of energy prices in general, will increase markedly," they write. From the note:
The global oil market continues to be more integrated than the global gas market, which remains regionally segmented because of the limited reach of pipelines and limited gas liquefaction, shipping and de-liquefaction capacity. Finding alternative sources of supply and alternative markets will be harder for gas than for oil, so gas price volatility ought therefore to be greater than oil price volatility. Because a trade embargo would likely reduce the effective supply for oil and gas more than the effective demand in the short run, this increased volatility should be around a significantly higher level of oil, gas and electricity prices.
Sky News' Ed Conway tweeted this chart putting Russian gas exports in perspective. Other than Ukraine of course, Germany and Turkey may get hurt if the conflict continues.
Check out the chart:
Twitter.com/Ed Conway
Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/chart-heres-where-russian-gas-goes-2014-3#ixzz2wABukSyn
Hulk Hogan
THE HULKSTER BROTHER
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/03/16/the-crimea-exodus-has-begun.html
I'VE SEEN PEOPLE ON HERE MINDLESSLY PARROTING RUSSIAN PROPAGANDA, BROTHER!
I'VE SEEN PEOPLE ON HERE MINDLESSLY PARROTING RUSSIAN PROPAGANDA, BROTHER!
Why believe the source you posted as opposed to one that says the opposite?
Hulk Hogan
THE HULKSTER BROTHER
DO YOU BELIEVE RUSSIA DOESN'T USE PROPAGANDA, BROTHER? I HAVEN'T SEEN THE DAILY BEAST PROMOTE ANY AMERICAN JINGOISM AND WE'VE SEEN PLENTY OF "PUTIN YOUTH" STYLE STUFF FROM RT.COM, DUDE!
Why don't you just answer the question?
You Win Perfect
bow down
im sure he understands, he is just stating something. you sounding a little upset here.