Sooo....no talk on Kiev's gradual descent into Mad Max beyond Thunderdome status??
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Has it been brought up yet...........????
Where do people that are ethnically Russian and Ukrainian fit in this debate??? I know damn well they ain't just been procreating distinctly in their own language or ethnic group ...
in other news..................................
Joe Biden's son Hunter to head legal unit at Ukraine's largest private gas company - Washington Times
Joe Biden’s son Hunter to head legal unit at Ukraine’s largest private gas company
By Jessica Chasmar
The Washington Times
Updated: 1:24 p.m. on Tuesday, May 13, 2014
Vice President Joseph R. Biden’s youngest son, Hunter, has been appointed head of legal affairs at Ukraine’s largest private gas producer.
Burisma Holdings said in a statement that Hunter Biden will be in charge of the company’s legal unit and will provide support for the company among international organizations.
“Burisma’s track record of innovations and industry leadership
in the field of natural gas means that it can be a strong driver of a strong economy in Ukraine,” Mr. Biden said.
“As a new member of the Board, I believe that my assistance in consulting the Company on matters of transparency, corporate governance and responsibility, international expansion and other priorities will contribute to the economy and benefit
the people of Ukraine,” he said.
White House press secretary Jay Carney said Tuesday that Mr. Biden’s new position “does not reflect an endorsement by the administration,” Time magazine’s Zeke Miller reported.
The announcement comes just one day after Russia’s state energy giant Gazprom threatened to halt natural gas shipments to Ukraine unless the country pays in advance for supplies.
The vice president has condemned Russia for its intervention in Ukraine and has pledged to support efforts to reduce its dependency on Russian energy, The Moscow Times reported.
Just coincidence
Where do people that are ethnically Russian and Ukrainian fit in this debate??? I know damn well they ain't just been procreating distinctly in their own language or ethnic group ...
in other news..................................
Joe Biden's son Hunter to head legal unit at Ukraine's largest private gas company - Washington Times
Joe Biden’s son Hunter to head legal unit at Ukraine’s largest private gas company
By Jessica Chasmar
The Washington Times
Updated: 1:24 p.m. on Tuesday, May 13, 2014
Vice President Joseph R. Biden’s youngest son, Hunter, has been appointed head of legal affairs at Ukraine’s largest private gas producer.
Burisma Holdings said in a statement that Hunter Biden will be in charge of the company’s legal unit and will provide support for the company among international organizations.
“Burisma’s track record of innovations and industry leadership
in the field of natural gas means that it can be a strong driver of a strong economy in Ukraine,” Mr. Biden said.“As a new member of the Board, I believe that my assistance in consulting the Company on matters of transparency, corporate governance and responsibility, international expansion and other priorities will contribute to the economy and benefit
the people of Ukraine,” he said.White House press secretary Jay Carney said Tuesday that Mr. Biden’s new position “does not reflect an endorsement by the administration,” Time magazine’s Zeke Miller reported.
The announcement comes just one day after Russia’s state energy giant Gazprom threatened to halt natural gas shipments to Ukraine unless the country pays in advance for supplies.
The vice president has condemned Russia for its intervention in Ukraine and has pledged to support efforts to reduce its dependency on Russian energy, The Moscow Times reported.
Just coincidence
Looks like we have another space race gentlemen 
Russia will cut off US access to the International Space Station over Ukraine sanctions
By Adrianne Jeffries on May 13, 2014 03:57 pm Email @adrjeffries300COMMENTS
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Russia will reject a US request to use the International Space Station after 2020 in retaliation for trade sanctions imposed over Russia's aggressive annexation of Crimea, its deputy prime minister announced today.
The space station is maintained by both American and Russian crews. But because NASA's shuttle program was decommissioned in 2011, the only way to get there is on board Russian spacecraft. The US currently pays Russia $60 million per person to ferry its astronauts to the space station, and had planned to continue working on it until 2024.
"The Russian segment can exist independently from the American one. The US one cannot," Russian deputy prime minister Dmitry Rogozin said today.
THE US PAYS RUSSIA $60 MILLION PER ASTRONAUT TO GET TO THE ISS
The move comes after NASA announced it was cutting off contact with Russia because of the Ukraine crisis, with the exception of the space station. At the time, critics said the move was a ploy by NASA to get more funding from the US government. Russia's announcement, however, seems genuinely motivated by the Ukraine fallout.
Russia will also bar the US from buying Russian rocket engines that would be used to launch military satellites, Rogozin said.
The country is following through on its threats from last month. At the time, Rogozin joked that the US would have to explore using trampolines to send its astronauts to space.
Update, 4:18PM: NASA sent an official statement saying it is not aware of any changes.
Space cooperation has been a hallmark of US-Russia relations, including during the height of the Cold War, and most notably, in the past 13 consecutive years of continuous human presence on board the International Space Station. Ongoing operations on the ISS continue on a normal basis with a planned return of crew today and expected launch of a new crew in the next few weeks. We have not received any official notification from the Government of Russia on any changes in our space cooperation at this point.
Forget Sanctions Over Ukraine: Russia Scores Massive Gas Pipeline Deal With China
Sergei Karpukhin/Reuters
Russia's President Vladimir Putin shakes hands with Chinese President Xi Jinping in Moscow.
China and Russia are set to cement their energy alliance next week with an expected agreement to build a natural gas pipeline between the two nations that would secure a huge new market for the world's largest energy producer and provide a guaranteed energy supply for China's growing economy as both nations face confrontations with the West.
The deal, which the two countries negotiated over the last decade, is expected to be signed when Russian President Vladimir Putin visits Beijing next week.
The deal between Russia's Gazprom and China's state-owned energy giant CNPC was confirmed by sources in the Russian energy sector, according to a note from the Eurasia Group, a consultancy.
Current geopolitical conditions resulting from Russia’s ongoing crisis in Ukraine appear to have aligned the two super powers in such a manner favorable to finally concluding the deal.
“As the Ukraine crisis threatens Russian access to Western credit in the short term, while likely eroding Russia’s European gas market share over the next decade, Moscow is keen to secure a major new gas export market in Asia, as well as to demonstrate to the West that it has energy consumer options,” the Eurasia note said.
Escalating tensions in Ukraine have led developed nations, including the U.S., Canada, the European Union and Japan, to impose sanctions on a number of high-profile Russian companies close to the Putin.
Experts expect the agreement to include a 30-year delivery contract between Gazprom and CNPC for 38 billion cubic meters of natural gas per year, with the potential to expand the annual capacity to 61 billion cubic meters. If the deal can be inked next week, construction for the pipeline will likely begin by the end of the year, and with operations beginning in 2018.
The price tag for the deal has not been announced, but Russia is expected to offer some concessions in lieu of prepayment from CNPC to help fund construction.
Unlike Western nations, China has steadily deepened economic ties with Russia in recent months. Chinese companies have been involved in building a bridge from Russia to Crimea and invested in a $27 billion liquid natural gas project with Russia’s second-largest natural gas producer, Novatek.
The latest deal, if successfully concluded, "would mark a crucial advancement in the growing Russia-China bilateral energy relationship, advance China's environmental agenda and perpetuate the push to erode Gazprom's gas pipeline export monopoly," the Eurasia Group said.
Read more: China-Russia Energy Alliance Deepens: Massive Pipeline Agreement Expected When Putin Visits Beijing Next Week
So thats why these fools are flexin huh @Napoleon
chess not checkers #damn
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Sergei Karpukhin/Reuters
Russia's President Vladimir Putin shakes hands with Chinese President Xi Jinping in Moscow.
China and Russia are set to cement their energy alliance next week with an expected agreement to build a natural gas pipeline between the two nations that would secure a huge new market for the world's largest energy producer and provide a guaranteed energy supply for China's growing economy as both nations face confrontations with the West.
The deal, which the two countries negotiated over the last decade, is expected to be signed when Russian President Vladimir Putin visits Beijing next week.
The deal between Russia's Gazprom and China's state-owned energy giant CNPC was confirmed by sources in the Russian energy sector, according to a note from the Eurasia Group, a consultancy.
Current geopolitical conditions resulting from Russia’s ongoing crisis in Ukraine appear to have aligned the two super powers in such a manner favorable to finally concluding the deal.
“As the Ukraine crisis threatens Russian access to Western credit in the short term, while likely eroding Russia’s European gas market share over the next decade, Moscow is keen to secure a major new gas export market in Asia, as well as to demonstrate to the West that it has energy consumer options,” the Eurasia note said.
Escalating tensions in Ukraine have led developed nations, including the U.S., Canada, the European Union and Japan, to impose sanctions on a number of high-profile Russian companies close to the Putin.
Experts expect the agreement to include a 30-year delivery contract between Gazprom and CNPC for 38 billion cubic meters of natural gas per year, with the potential to expand the annual capacity to 61 billion cubic meters. If the deal can be inked next week, construction for the pipeline will likely begin by the end of the year, and with operations beginning in 2018.
The price tag for the deal has not been announced, but Russia is expected to offer some concessions in lieu of prepayment from CNPC to help fund construction.
Unlike Western nations, China has steadily deepened economic ties with Russia in recent months. Chinese companies have been involved in building a bridge from Russia to Crimea and invested in a $27 billion liquid natural gas project with Russia’s second-largest natural gas producer, Novatek.
The latest deal, if successfully concluded, "would mark a crucial advancement in the growing Russia-China bilateral energy relationship, advance China's environmental agenda and perpetuate the push to erode Gazprom's gas pipeline export monopoly," the Eurasia Group said.
Read more: China-Russia Energy Alliance Deepens: Massive Pipeline Agreement Expected When Putin Visits Beijing Next Week
So thats why these fools are flexin huh @Napoleon
chess not checkers #damn
Told you.
China already in central asia making pipelines as is so it makes sense for them to link up with Russia and that energy sector.
this thread has documented the unexpectedTold you.
China already in central asia making pipelines as is so it makes sense for them to link up with Russia and that energy sector.
We thought it could happen but...
NASA gotta get working now
this thread has documented the unexpected
We thought it could happen but...
NASA gotta get working now
the reason I keep posting in here is cuz these are literally events that could shape the coming alliances of the future.. shyt could make BRICS and The Shanghai Cooperation Organization into legit global players against the West... you got the modernization of South America and Africa coupled with that and its a race to the top once again... We prolly wont see WW3 but our children just might and thats fukking scary
Dude...this is setting the stage LITERALLY for a new world order.
Literally.
LIT-TER-ALLY.
NASA basically has 5 years (clearly less time than that) to come up with a launch vehicle worth a damn.
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Workers Take to Streets to Calm Tense Ukrainian City
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The People
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The People
so Joe Biden's son got a top job at Ukrainian company just like that?
Money talks, even scumbags money.
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Looks like we have another space race gentlemen
Russia will cut off US access to the International Space Station over Ukraine sanctions
By Adrianne Jeffries on May 13, 2014 03:57 pm Email @adrjeffries300COMMENTS
DON'T MISS STORIES FOLLOW THE VERGE
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(NASA)
Russia will reject a US request to use the International Space Station after 2020 in retaliation for trade sanctions imposed over Russia's aggressive annexation of Crimea, its deputy prime minister announced today.
The space station is maintained by both American and Russian crews. But because NASA's shuttle program was decommissioned in 2011, the only way to get there is on board Russian spacecraft. The US currently pays Russia $60 million per person to ferry its astronauts to the space station, and had planned to continue working on it until 2024.
"The Russian segment can exist independently from the American one. The US one cannot," Russian deputy prime minister Dmitry Rogozin said today.
THE US PAYS RUSSIA $60 MILLION PER ASTRONAUT TO GET TO THE ISS
The move comes after NASA announced it was cutting off contact with Russia because of the Ukraine crisis, with the exception of the space station. At the time, critics said the move was a ploy by NASA to get more funding from the US government. Russia's announcement, however, seems genuinely motivated by the Ukraine fallout.
Russia will also bar the US from buying Russian rocket engines that would be used to launch military satellites, Rogozin said.
The country is following through on its threats from last month. At the time, Rogozin joked that the US would have to explore using trampolines to send its astronauts to space.
Update, 4:18PM: NASA sent an official statement saying it is not aware of any changes.
Space cooperation has been a hallmark of US-Russia relations, including during the height of the Cold War, and most notably, in the past 13 consecutive years of continuous human presence on board the International Space Station. Ongoing operations on the ISS continue on a normal basis with a planned return of crew today and expected launch of a new crew in the next few weeks. We have not received any official notification from the Government of Russia on any changes in our space cooperation at this point.
I did a dialogue on
about this during the Beijing Olympics..... I ain't think that shiit would really come to fruition.. ...does this mean they going have to reopen Cape Caneveral and Johnson Space Center?? But basically Russia said ......
