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Russian report: 'Factual information shows the grossest violations of the fundamental international principles and norms in Ukraine'


RIA Novosti
Tue, 06 May 2014 13:20 UTC
Dmitry Peskov
© RIA Novosti / Aleksey Nikolskyi
Dmitry Peskov
Russia has compiled a "White Book" listing some of the most atrocious attacks on human rights in Ukraine to raise awareness of the situation in this stricken country, the Kremlin said Monday.

"The report is aimed at drawing the attention of the world community and international legislators to registered human rights violations in Ukraine," President Putin's spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Monday in an interview with the Russian News Service.

The "White Book" was unveiled on the Kremlin's official webpage. Peskov said there would be no further action on the report.

"It is founded on informational material from Russian, Ukrainian and other Western media, as well as from statements from the leaders of 'the new authorities' in Ukraine and their supporters, from witnesses, as well as observances and interviews from the place of events collected by Russian NGOs," the Russian Foreign Ministry said.

The ministry noted that "factual information in the report shows the grossest violations of the fundamental international principles and norms in the area of human rights committed by the monopolizing protesters of Euro-Maidan and its radical nationalists, and sometimes with the direct promotion of the United States and the European Union, which confirms that these occurrences had a massive character."

On Monday, the Russian Presidential Human Rights Council also called on the United Nations and the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe to pressure Ukraine into providing foreign humanitarian missions access to the regions affected by violence in order to provide medical and psychological assistance to victims.

The OSCE has echoed Moscow's concerns over the human rights situation in Ukraine, criticizing the country's authorities for banning journalists from crossing the border and other widespread infringements on press freedom.
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China to take part in Crimea transport corridor via Black Sea


Ria Novosti
Mon, 05 May 2014 11:50 UTC
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© © RIA Novosti. Andrey Stenin
Young men on the Kerch Strait shore.
Chinese companies may participate in the construction of a transportation corridor to Crimea via the Black Sea's Kerch Strait, the Russian Kommersant newspaper reported Monday.

According to the report, state contractor China Railway Construction Corporation (CRCC) and the private investment fund China International Fund Ltd. (CIF) are planning to take part in the $3 million project.

The Russian Ministry of Transportation is currently preparing a memorandum on the construction, and an agreement could be signed during Russian President Vladimir Putin's visit to China later this month.

An engineering model of the project has not yet been approved. Plans call for either a bridge to carry rail and road traffic, or for part of the route to pass through a subterranean tunnel.

Plans are expected to be finalized by the end of the month, while the financial and construction models are due in July. According to sources cited by Kommersant, cooperation with Chinese companies does not mean that Russian contractors will not be involved in the project - all leading infrastructure construction companies have expressed their interest in the transport corridor. Different outsourcing processes are being considered - from a tender to handing off the project directly to a group of companies.
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Agents provocateur: Crucial investigation into the role of the junta in the Odessa massacre (MUST READ!)

The Saker
The Vineyard of the Saker
Tue, 06 May 2014 11:23 UTC
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Please find below the translation to the video I have posted before and which I am re-posting here below.

A huge THANK YOU to "sparling5" for making this translation in such a short time. If I get a subtitled video I will also post it here. This information is important enough to deserve several re-posts.

The Saker

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War Whore

Is the Obama administration playing Russian Roulette?

Bill Van Auken
World Socialist Web Site
Thu, 24 Apr 2014 11:18 UTC
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Does Washington want a war with Russia? A review of recent US actions surrounding the crisis in Ukraine clearly poses what would have once seemed an unthinkable question. The Obama administration is playing a very dangerous game of Russian Roulette.

In the last 48 hours, the Pentagon has announced the deployment of US paratrooper units to Poland and the three former Baltic republics of the Soviet Union - Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania - bringing US troops to Russia's very border. Another American warship has been dispatched to the Black Sea and more US forces are slated to deploy to Ukraine itself this summer under an exercise known as Operation Rapid Trident.

These military moves by Washington are unfolding in the context of an acute crisis within Ukraine that, thanks to the machinations of Washington and its puppets, threatens to erupt into full-blown civil war.
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Putin not taking Obama's calls

Josh Rogin
The Daily Beast
Fri, 25 Apr 2014 11:08 UTC
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As new U.S. sanctions against Russia loom, the Kremlin has shut down - at least for now - intensive high level communications between top U.S. and Russian officials.

Since the invasion of Crimea, President Vladimir Putin and President Barack Obama have had regular phone calls in an often half-hearted attempt to deescalate the ongoing crisis inside Ukraine. But as the U.S. and EU prepare to unveil new sanctions against Russia, Putin has decided the interactions should stop. The Kremlin has ended high-level contact with the Obama administration, according to diplomatic officials and sources close to the Russian leadership. The move signals an end to the diplomacy, for now.

"Putin will not talk to Obama under pressure," said Igor Yurgens, Chairman of the Institute for Contemporary Development, a prominent Moscow think tank, and a close associate of Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev. "It does not mean forever."
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The German media and the massacre in Odessa

Peter Schwarz
World Socialist Web Site
Tue, 06 May 2014 09:53 UTC
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Here is a good example. The caption for this Reuters photo reads, "A protester throws a petrol bomb at the trade union building in Odessa May 2, 2014," when it should read, "Fascist thug hired by Kiev Junta throws a petrol bomb..."
A politically conformist media has long been considered a characteristic of dictatorships. Not any more. One can also speak of such a conformist press in the coverage of Ukraine in the German media.

Last Friday, over 40 opponents of the Kiev regime fell victim to a fascist massacre. Although German television stations and newspapers have many correspondents on the ground, you will not find a serious report concerning the background to this terrible crime. Instead, the events are falsified, downplayed or simply ignored.

From the outset it was clear that the victims who lost their lives, burning to death in the Odessa trade union hall, suffocating or jumping out the window, were opponents of the government in Kiev. Despite this, the media has deliberately left the origins of the victims and the culprits in the dark.

On the day of the events, Spiegel Online reported untruthfully that dozens of people had "died in clashes between Ukrainian nationalists and pro-Russian activists."

Two days following the massacre, the Frankfurter Rundschau reported: "Violence escalated in the port city on Friday between hundreds of supporters of the government in Kiev and Moscow. In street battles, both sides threw Molotov cocktails, a trade union building was set alight. Four people died in the fighting, a further 38 lost their lives in the probably deliberate fire."

Comment: Ah, the passive voice. The best way to avoid assigning responsibility: "...a trade union building was set alight."

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Occupy Wall Street protester Cecily McMillan faces 7 years imprisonment for 'assaulting a cop'


RT
Tue, 06 May 2014 05:03 UTC
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Cecily McMillan
An Occupy Wall Street demonstrator was found guilty of second-degree assault Monday in Manhattan following a months-long trial concerning a 2012 altercation she had with the New York Police Department.

Cecily McMillan, 25, now stands to face as much as seven years in prison behind bars as a result of Monday afternoon's conviction.

As RT reported earlier this year, McMillan was participating in an OWS demonstration in New York City during the spring of 2012 when she was manhandled by the NYPD while being detained, and received multiples cuts and bruised ribs as a result. While handcuffed, McMillan - then 23 - suffered from a seizure for upwards of seven minutes before reportedly fainting.

According to police, moments earlier McMillan elbowed an officer in the face. She was soon hauled off in an ambulance, and eventually charged with a felony for allegedly injuring NYPD Officer Grantley Bovell. She insisted, however, that Bovell had grabbed her breast from behind, and the elbow she threw was not an attempt to assault a cop, but rather a reflexive response to the unwanted grope. Documents were shown in court of Bovell sporting a black eye after the incident.
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Kevin Barrett: Ukraine another CIA coup victim


Press TV
Tue, 06 May 2014 04:30 UTC
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Press TV has conducted an interview with Dr. Kevin Barrett, editor of Veterans Today from Madison, about a report saying the US Central Intelligence Agency and Federal Bureau of Investigation are helping the interim authorities in Kiev to end the crisis in eastern Ukraine.

What follows is an approximate transcription of the interview.
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America's neo-Nazi government in Kiev: Towards a scenario of military escalation?

Michel Chossudovsky
Global Research
Sun, 04 May 2014 12:45 UTC
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Flowers left on the staircase of the trade union building in the Ukrainian city of Odessa in memory of those died on Friday.
The US-NATO-sponsored Kiev coalition government is responsible for the killings perpetrated by neo-Nazi Right Sector mobs and security forces in Odessa in which at least 43 people were killed.

In Odessa, Right Sector thugs set fire the city's Trade Union building leading to countless deaths of innocent civilians who were burnt alive within the building which had been set ablaze.

"Such actions are reminiscent of the crimes of the Nazis," said Russia's Ambassador to the UN Vitaly Churkin.

The "international community" has turned a blind eye, the Western media has described the neo-Nazi Brown shirts as "freedom fighters". In the words of Eric Sommers:
"May 2, 2014 -- the date that fascist forces supported by the US government attacked and murdered helpless civilians in the Ukraine -- is a day which will live in infamy".
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US puppet regime in Kiev escalates violence after fascist massacre in Odessa

Alex Lantier
World Socialist Web Site
Mon, 05 May 2014 23:48 UTC
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© Reuters / Yevgeny Volokin
A protester wrapped in a Ukrainian flag walks past a burning tent camp and a fire in the trade union building in Odessa May 2, 2014

Fighting escalated across eastern Ukraine over the weekend after Friday's massacre in Odessa, carried out by far-right supporters of the Western puppet regime in Kiev. Reports of the atrocity confirmed that it was an act of terror aimed at pro-Russian protesters and intended to inflame tensions throughout Ukraine and with Russia.

Some 1,000 well-armed football hooligans from Kharkiv and fascist thugs from the Right Sector militia attacked pro-Russian protesters, forced them into the city's trade union hall, then besieged the building, shooting at it with small arms and torching it with Molotov cocktails. In all, 42 people died and 170 were wounded, making it Kiev's single bloodiest act of repression against the protests. Odessa police allowed the assault to proceed, then jailed pro-Russian protesters who managed to survive both the flames and Right Sector thugs who attacked anyone they saw jumping from the building.

On Sunday, over 1,000 protesters in Odessa stormed police headquarters to force the release of the 67 detainees, shouting slogans such as "Odessa is a Russian city" and "One for all and all for one." Once inside the building, they took down the Ukrainian flag and negotiated with police to free the detainees.
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