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3Feb

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Kerry: We Stand With Ukraine’s People

NOVANEWS By Sam Frizell @Sam_Frizell Secretary of State John Kerry met with Ukrainian government officials and opposition leaders Saturday, voicing the United States’ support for the opposition’s goals even as protests raged in Kiev and across the country. On the sidelines of the Munich Security Conference, Kerry told Ukrainian opposition leaders Vitali Klychko, Arseniy Yatsenyuk, and Petro Poroschenko that they have the backing of the United States. The United States supports the “democratic, European aspirations” of Ukrainians, Kerry said, according to a senior State Department official, and endorses the opposition leaders’ efforts “to defend democracy and choice for the people of Ukraine.” In his speech to the Munich conference, Kerry said the U.S. and European Union “stand with t...

3Feb

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Ukrainian opposition buoyed by wave of Western support

NOVANEWS By Stephen Brown and Alexandra Hudson MUNICH (Reuters) - The opposing sides of Ukraine's political crisis put their cases to world powers on Saturday, with the opposition buoyed by pledges of support from the West while Ukraine's foreign minister accused Europe of forcing Kiev into a strategic choice. Meanwhile the United States and Europe, which held private meetings with the opposition, exchanged angry words with Russia, accusing it of exactly the same thing - strong-arming Kiev into an unpopular alliance. "Nowhere is the fight for a democratic, European future more important today than in Ukraine," U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said. "The United States and EU stand with the people of Ukraine in that fight." He added that protesters believed their futures "...

2Feb

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West’s interpretation of freedom for Ukraine ‘strange’

NOVANEWS Western politicians who advocate freedom of choice for Ukraine, but say this must be a pro-European choice, have a strange interpretation of freedom, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov told a security conference in Munich. Lavrov was responding to numerous statements, including from the European Council President Hermann van Rompuy and NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen, which were voiced just minutes before at the conference. He also criticized Western support for Ukrainian anti-government protests, which he said ignored the darker side of the movements behind the violence there. “What does the inciting of street protests, which are growing increasingly violent, have to do with promoting democratic principles?” Lavrov said. “Why do we not hear statements of condemn...

31Jan

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Agent Provocateurs Common Practice in Ukraine

NOVANEWS Police and military agents in Ukraine are notorious for dressing as protesters and assaulting the media By John Vibes UKRAINE (INTELLIHUB) — Agent Provocateurs in the Ukraine are known to be especially aggressive, starting fights among protesters and attacking the media. Agent provocateurs are used to instigate physical altercations between activists and authorities. Agent Provocateurs are people that work for the the government but pretend to be a part of a mob. While under cover these agents commit acts of violence and vandalism to give the police a pretense to use force against the demonstrators. According to Wikipedia: Titushky (Ukrainian: тітушки; sometimes titushkos, titushkas) is a widely-used term in Ukrainian mass media and by the general public for street hooligans w...

31Jan

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In Ukraine, fascists, oligarchs and western expansion are at the heart of the crisis

NOVANEWS The story we're told about the protests gripping Kiev bears only the sketchiest relationship with reality. Seumas Milne The Guardian, Wednesday 29 January 2014 ‘The Ukrainian faultine has the potential to draw in outside powers and lead to a strategic clash.' Illustration by Matt Kenyon We've been here before. For the past couple of months street protests in Ukraine have been played out through the western media according to a well-rehearsed script. Pro-democracy campaigners are battling an authoritarian government. The demonstrators are demanding the right to be part of the European Union. But Russia's president Vladimir Putin has vetoed their chance of freedom and prosperity. It's a story we've heard in one form or another again and again – not least in Ukraine's weste...

27Jan

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Russian Troops Arriving in Ukraine to Battle Protesters

NOVANEWS 1400 Russian troops to handle social unrest in Ukraine By John Vibes UKRAINE (INTELLIHUB) — As the protests and uprisings in Ukraine continue to grow, the government is outsourcing troops from Russia to help put down protesters. “There is information that at 1400 Russian Spetznaz troops were disembarking at [Kyiv local airports] Boryspil and Zhulyany dressed in civilian clothing and that they were going to dress in [Ukrainian riot plice] Berkut uniforms and proceed to the Madan” Rada deputy Andriy Parybiy, of the Batkivshchyna Party said at a recent press conference.[1] Government agents in Ukraine have had trouble contending with the the large numbers of protesters and have been resorting to the most brutal tactics in some cases. As we reported earlier this week protesters ha...

17Dec

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Is NATO's Trojan Horse Riding Toward the 'Ukraine Spring'?

NOVANEWS Ukrainian citizens have rallied in the bitter cold at Independence Square in Kiev to demand a better economic future and to protest President Viktor Yanukovych's failure to sign an economic agreement with the EU. But while the draft of the EU "Association Agreement" is being sold as an economic boon for Ukrainian citizens, in reality it appears to be NATO's Trojan Horse: a massive expansion of NATO's military position in the region. What's more, the Agreement occurs under the cover of nebulous economic promises for a beset population hungering for better wages. In a country where the average monthly minimum wage stands at about $150 USD, it's not hard to understand why Ukrainians are in the streets. They do not want to be in Russia's orbit, nor do they want to be pawns...

17Dec

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Sen. McCain, interventionism's ‘Energizer Bunny’

NOVANEWS Daniel McAdams is Executive Director of the Ron Paul Institute for Peace and Prosperity. He served as foreign affairs advisor to US Congressman Ron Paul (R-Texas) for 12 years. U.S. Senator John McCain (C) waves to pro-European integration protesters during a mass rally at Independence Square in Kiev December 15, 2013. (Reuters/Gleb Garanich). If there are US-backed groups anywhere seeking the overthrow of their government, you will find John McCain in their midst. He is the Energizer Bunny of interventionism. Fresh off his trip to Libya, where he was granted an award by the military on the same day the Libyan parliament declared Sharia law, McCain was this weekend on the streets of Kiev. McCain walked among the protestors, giving encouragement to those who have occupied and...

16Dec

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McCain meets with Ukrainian opposition, backs pro-EU protests

NOVANEWS U.S. Senator John McCain (R) speaks with Ukrainian opposition leaders Vitaly Klitschko (L), Arseny Yatsenyuk (2nd L) and Oleg Tyagnibok (3rd L) during their meeting in Kiev December 14, 2013. (Reuters / Andrii Skakodub / Pool). US Senator John McCain said that Ukraine’s future is with Europe and voiced his support for pro-EU protesters after meeting with Ukrainian opposition leaders in the country’s capital of Kiev on Saturday. “We believe that the future of Ukraine lies in Europe. We’ve met with government officials and with members of the opposition,” McCain told reporters. “I look forward to visiting the square tomorrow and I am proud of what the people of Ukraine are doing, so they can restore democracy to their country.” During the meeting with opposition leaders - fo...

13Dec

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Russia slams West over Ukraine political crisis

NOVANEWS Ukrainian protesters clash with police on Independence Square in Kiev, November 30, 2013. Russia has criticized Western nations for interfering in Ukraine, saying protests against Kiev’s decision to back away from an EU deal were destabilizing the former Soviet state. The Russian parliament, the State Duma, in a non-binding statement on Tuesday urged the West to “stop mounting external pressure on the politics of a country that is brotherly to us.” The lower house of parliament also called on Ukrainian opposition forces to “stop illegal actions” over the political crisis, which began when Ukraine decided not to sign a European Union Association Agreement. Hundreds of thousands of people have taken to the streets of Kiev in the largest protests since the 2004-2005 Western-spo...