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Ukraine crisis. News in Brief. Friday 11 December. [Ukrainian sources] Empty Ukraine crisis. News in Brief. Friday 11 December. [Ukrainian sources]

Fri Dec 11, 2015 1:07 am
FRIDAY

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News -
Putin's terror hit Ukraine 40 times yesterday. He is not stopping the war.
Update - yesterday no dead and no injured.

Weather -
Near zero today. Cloudy but no snow. So good really. Vehicles free to move about on the road.
It all helps the economy.

Footie -
Dnepr won, but go out of the Europa League.
Draw for next rounds on Monday 1300 hrs.


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Ukraine crisis. News in Brief. Friday 11 December. [Ukrainian sources] Empty Headquarters: Terrorists continue attacks using banned weapons (UP)

Fri Dec 11, 2015 1:10 am
http://www.pravda.com.ua/news/2015/12/11/7092139/
The situation in the area of ​​ATU remains tense but completely controlled Ukrainian military...
Last night by the militants were about 40 cases of violation of ceasefire conditions.
Gangsters actively continued to bombard positions ATU forces in the area currently occupied Donetsk.
"In particular, with small arms, machine guns and grenade launchers of various systems they beat on the Opitnoe, Pisky, Novgorod, Krasnohorivtsi. On the outskirts Krasnogorovka also fell and several dozen unexploded 120-mm and 82 min enemy" - said in a statement.
Ukrainian shelling positions of the 120-mm mortar rounds also was recorded near Zaitsev that Artemovsk direction. There last night for militants used heavy machine guns, grenade launchers and sniper worked invaders.
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Ukraine crisis. News in Brief. Friday 11 December. [Ukrainian sources] Empty Unknown helicopter violates Finnish airspace

Fri Dec 11, 2015 1:38 am
http://www.raja.fi/tietoa/tiedotteet/1/0/epailty_helikopterin_luvaton_rajanylitys_itaisella_suomenlahdella_64307
Epäilty helikopterin luvaton rajanylitys Itäisellä Suomenlahdella
Suomen alueella noin 9 km.
My Finnish is limited, but I know Suomen is Finland - I think. And 9km is 9km.
Has to be Russian helicopter. Another one got lost. Putin has no respect for International borders. Terrorist.
They should have shot it down.
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Ukraine crisis. News in Brief. Friday 11 December. [Ukrainian sources] Empty Over 2 Million More Russians Fall Below Poverty Line [Engl]

Fri Dec 11, 2015 1:46 am
http://www.themoscowtimes.com/business/article/over-2-million-more-russians-fall-below-poverty-line/552514.html
In the first nine months of the year, 2.3 million more Russians fell into poverty, as Russia continues to experience economic recession, according to data released by the Rosstat state statistics service on Thursday.
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20.3 million now with an income below 140 dollars a month.
That is sure to make Putin even more popular. Expect his popularity to be in the 90s for the next "survey".
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Ukraine crisis. News in Brief. Friday 11 December. [Ukrainian sources] Empty How to Ignore a Corruption Scandal, Kremlin Style [Engl]

Fri Dec 11, 2015 1:51 am
http://www.themoscowtimes.com/news/article/how-to-ignore-a-corruption-scandal-kremlin-style/552429.html
...It also linked Chaika's son, Artyom, to the expropriation of a shipping company in the Far East whose director was allegedly strangled, and documented the apparent rigging of auctions for lucrative state contracts by Artyom's brother, Igor. ....The reaction is a familiar one in Russia, where almost every member of elite that emerged from the 1990s had dealings with organized crime. News that officials are corrupt surprised few — particularly in the Kremlin.
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Some good stuff in the Moscow Times today. Personally I expect Putin to slowly shut it down.
See also
No End in Sight for Russia's Syria Escapade
http://www.themoscowtimes.com/business/article/no-end-in-sight-for-russias-syria-escapade/552351.html
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Ukraine crisis. News in Brief. Friday 11 December. [Ukrainian sources] Empty Brent oil falls below 40 dollars a barrel

Fri Dec 11, 2015 2:02 am
www.bloomberg.com/energy/

Crude Oil & Natural Gas
INDEX UNITS PRICE CHANGE %CHANGE CONTRACT TIME ET 2 DAY
WTI Crude Oil (Nymex)
USD/bbl. 36.55 -0.21 -0.57% JAN 16 01:26:39
Brent Crude (ICE)
USD/bbl. 39.50 -0.23 -0.58% JAN 16 01:25:57
Natural Gas (Nymex)
USD/MMBtu 1.99 -0.02 -1.09% JAN 16 01:26:43
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Amazing falls in the price now.
Natural Gas - I remember when it was priced at 3.98... And now... 1.99 - below 2!
Problems mount for Putin and the funding for his war machine.
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Ukraine crisis. News in Brief. Friday 11 December. [Ukrainian sources] Empty SBU officer dies defending terrorist’s 7-year old son

Fri Dec 11, 2015 2:11 am
http://zik.ua/en/news/2015/12/10/sbu_officer_dies_defending_terrorists_7year_old_son_652945
see also
SBU nets terrorist group in Kyiv
http://zik.ua/en/news/2015/12/10/sbu_nets_terrorist_group_in_kyiv_652893
4 kilos of TNT.
Putin is trying to set up terrorist cells throughout Ukraine.
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Ukraine crisis. News in Brief. Friday 11 December. [Ukrainian sources] Empty In the Rada today will hold an hour of questions to the Government (RBC-Ukraine)

Fri Dec 11, 2015 2:33 am
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http://www.rbc.ua/rus/news/rade-segodnya-sostoitsya-chas-voprosov-pravitelstvu-1449815155.html
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Understand Rada meets at 10 am. But the Rada is no ordinary work place. Expect them to start maybe at 1130. Given a bit of luck.
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Ukraine crisis. News in Brief. Friday 11 December. [Ukrainian sources] Empty Rada started today - Friday 11 Dec

Fri Dec 11, 2015 3:38 am
Yatseniuk taking questions right now. 1030. I can't believe they haven't started an hour late. Or two!
Live on Rada tv. Presume other channels also.
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Ukraine crisis. News in Brief. Friday 11 December. [Ukrainian sources] Empty Yatseniuk presents to the Rada an annual report on the work of the government - the online broadcast (Tyzhden.ua)

Fri Dec 11, 2015 3:40 am
http://tyzhden.ua/News/153703
Has an internet link. Also live now on tv
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Ukraine crisis. News in Brief. Friday 11 December. [Ukrainian sources] Empty The worst thing you can do - remove Yatsenyuk and not put anybody in his place - Lutsenko (Hvilya)

Fri Dec 11, 2015 3:50 am
http://hvylya.net/news/exclusive/hudshee-chto-mozhno-sdelat-eto-snyat-yatsenyuka-i-ne-dat-nikogo-drugogo-lutsenko.html
Lutsenko said that the deputies of the need to accept the changes to the Tax Code, the budget of 2016 and only after that (but in December) - to discuss the fate of the government in the framework of the current coalition.

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100%.
Who wants to be PM when there is no money, and there is a war against Russia?
Impossible job. I think Yats has done very well, personally. Of course, mistakes. Everybody makes mistakes.
But he has been strong. And has not gone in for the populist games - like Liashko, Tymoshenko and the rest of the gang.
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Ukraine crisis. News in Brief. Friday 11 December. [Ukrainian sources] Empty RE: Unknown helicopter violates Finnish airspace

Fri Dec 11, 2015 5:31 am
Nelson wrote:http://www.raja.fi/tietoa/tiedotteet/1/0/epailty_helikopterin_luvaton_rajanylitys_itaisella_suomenlahdella_64307
Epäilty helikopterin luvaton rajanylitys Itäisellä Suomenlahdella
Suomen alueella noin 9 km.
My Finnish is limited, but I know Suomen is Finland - I think. And 9km is 9km.
Has to be Russian helicopter. Another one got lost. Putin has no respect for International borders. Terrorist.
They should have shot it down.

Thanks to google.

Suspect helicopter unauthorized border crossing in the eastern Gulf of Finland

The Border Guard suspects the unknown helicopter illegally crossing the border with Finland 10.12.2015 at 10.11 maritime border between Finland and Russia Haapasaaren the sea area east of the eastern Gulf of Finland. The aircraft was pointed out over the air, crossing situation by the Air Force two times, which resulted in the aircraft turned and left the territory of Finland. The aircraft did not respond to radio calls, and it was the deepest in Finnish territory for about 9 km. The suspect unauthorized border crossings took a total of about six minutes.

The limit authorized southeastern Finland has been following a suspected connection with the event rajavaltuutettuun Russian Vyborg area. Border Guard under the Gulf of Finland Coast Guard investigates unauthorized border crossing and inform the progress of the investigation.
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Ukraine crisis. News in Brief. Friday 11 December. [Ukrainian sources] Empty Re: In the Rada today will hold an hour of questions to the Government

Fri Dec 11, 2015 5:37 am
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http://www.rbc.ua/rus/news/rade-segodnya-sostoitsya-chas-voprosov-pravitelstvu-1449815155.html
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Understand Rada meets at 10 am. But the Rada is no ordinary work place. Expect them to start maybe at 1130. Given a bit of luck.

Work?

Cell phones, tablet computers, newspapers and chattering FIRST and then, with some luck, a few minutes work before the lunch break of several hours. During that few minutes work, the majority can be seen on their phones, playing games on tablets and, as ever, chattering with anyone who will listen.

Cell phones, tablet computers, laptops, newspapers SHOULD BE BANNED from the Rada and then perhaps this bunch of sorry cretins can focus on the needs of the people who voted them in, fairly or unfairly, and get Ukraine moving in the right direction.
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Ukraine crisis. News in Brief. Friday 11 December. [Ukrainian sources] Empty Re : Over 2 Million More Russians Fall Below Poverty Line

Fri Dec 11, 2015 5:48 am
Nelson wrote:http://www.themoscowtimes.com/business/article/over-2-million-more-russians-fall-below-poverty-line/552514.html
In the first nine months of the year, 2.3 million more Russians fell into poverty, as Russia continues to experience economic recession, according to data released by the Rosstat state statistics service on Thursday.
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20.3 million now with an income below 140 dollars a month.
That is sure to make Putin even more popular. Expect his popularity to be in the 90s for the next "survey".

What about Ukraine?

17 September 2015 Ukrainian Rada approved a raise in the official minimum of the costs of living from 1176 to 1330 hryvnia/month, and the minimum salary from 1218 to 1378 hryvnia/month. The changes will be implemented from 1 December 2015.

UAH 1,378? That is USD 57!

The people still have to suffer the constant looting, stealing, corruption of a stinking 3rd world cesspit. It could and should be so much better.

Thanks to Ukraine Media

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Ukraine crisis. News in Brief. Friday 11 December. [Ukrainian sources] Empty Yesterday in the zone ATO passed without loss - Staff

Fri Dec 11, 2015 6:40 am
http://www.pravda.com.ua/news/2015/12/11/7092180/
"For the past day because of fighting no Ukrainian soldier was killed and was not injured. However, the situation in the east of Ukraine is troubled," - said the colonel.
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Slava Bogo. Slava Ukraini.
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Ukraine crisis. News in Brief. Friday 11 December. [Ukrainian sources] Empty Finland Accuses Russia of Violating Airspace [Engl]

Fri Dec 11, 2015 6:55 am
http://www.themoscowtimes.com/news/article/finland-accuses-russia-of-violating-airspace/552559.html
The helicopter was spotted by the border service in the eastern part of the Finnish Gulf on Thursday morning, having flown 9 kilometers into Finland's airspace.
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Posted in the original Finnish above! What a language! Amazing.
If you go into a Macdonald's in Finland just say as it sounds in English - "Zheezburger, fries, coke"... It works ok )
The problem is when they tell you the price. But - I discovered - they also speak excellent English. Better than the English, I would say. Seriously! Very Happy
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Ukraine crisis. News in Brief. Friday 11 December. [Ukrainian sources] Empty Detski Sad - Kindergarten. Ukrainian Rada today

Fri Dec 11, 2015 7:00 am


Барна vs Яценюк - детальное видео драки в Верховной Раде
I need to look up who this idiot Barna is.
If this is the parliament, what hope for the people?
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Олег Барна на руках виносив Яценюка з-за трибуни
Yatseniuk endures Oleg Barna's hands at the podium
http://podrobnosti.ua/2078873-oleg-barna-na-rukah-vinosiv-jatsenjuka-z-za-tribuni.html

Barna - barmy - apparently from the Poroshenko Block.
If they are infighting now what hope for next year? Playing right into Putin's hands.

Quite an activist, I read. From Ternopol. Was a teacher, but always politically active. Against Kuchma, etc. This from wiki -
Active participant in euromaidan Chortkiv district and in Kiev. Got shot in the head and stamped his right shoulder as a result of confrontations February 18, 2014 at the Mariinsky park.
Volunteers went to the Armed Forces in the zone of ATO, fighter 128 individual mountain infantry brigade, commander of the mortar (pseudo "Uncle Oleg").
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Ukraine crisis. News in Brief. Friday 11 December. [Ukrainian sources] Empty Oleg Barna: Probably not a European act, but if Yatseniuk won't go happily the people will remove him

Fri Dec 11, 2015 7:24 am
http://gordonua.com/news/politics/Oleg-Barna-Vozmozhno-postupok-ne-evropeyskiy-no-esli-YAcenyuk-po-horoshemu-ne-uydet-ego-vynesut-lyudi-110407.html
Oleg Barna: Probably not a European act, but if Yatsenyuk in the good will not go away, it will make people
MP from the Bloc Poroshenko Oleg Barna commented brawl in parliament, which began with the fact that he tried to take out from the podium premiere Arseniy Yatsenyuk.


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Found this on youtube. Earlier fight by Barna. obviously likes the "hands-on" approach. This fight with a Radical party deputy.

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Ukraine crisis. News in Brief. Friday 11 December. [Ukrainian sources] Empty Moscow is trying to avoid responsibility for the annexation of the Crimea and Donbas war

Fri Dec 11, 2015 11:20 am
Annexation of the Crimea was the culmination of forming bandit neofeodalizmu in. He exhausted the internal resources for their own legitimization.

Russian State Duma voted for the abolition of the priority of international law. Constitutional Court of the country plan to grant the right to carry out verdicts not allow international courts. Parliamentarians and government officials say that the adoption of this law will not affect the investment climate and political situation, but such words cause only irony. No one would invest in a country that in no way protected private property. Moscow is trying to avoid responsibility for the annexation of Ukrainian territory, the war in Donbas, persecution of Ukrainian activists, adventure in Syria. On account of the Kremlin's huge list of crimes committed within the country and abroad.


Recently we wrote that "Krymnash" initiated the rolling of the level of North Korea - a country that has dissociated ourselves from the world and ignores the civilized rules of the game. N "legislators" are ahead of schedule. The said bill still pass through the Council and get Federation President Vladimir Putin's signature. Too many facts indicate that the head neighboring state will approve the document. The reason is simple: it is extremely beneficial to him personally. Putin and his entourage are struggling to avoid responsibility for their actions.

The effects of geopolitical adventurism in Ukraine and Syria aggravated criminal cases, investigating European police. British and Spanish investigators gathered information about the involvement of Russian top management to criminal gangs, drug trafficking and contract killings. In the US Congress have demanded from the management intelligence to report on the financing of the Kremlin political killings outside.

Phasing out of international law dictated all "postkrymskoyu" logic of Russian politics. Capturing the Ukrainian territory, the Kremlin has not only violated its own laws and constitution, but also a number of international norms and agreements. Annexation of the Crimea was the culmination of forming bandit neo-federalism in. He exhausted the internal resources for their own legitimacy............................

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Ukraine crisis. News in Brief. Friday 11 December. [Ukrainian sources] Empty Brawl breaks out in Ukraine Parliament [Engl]

Fri Dec 11, 2015 11:31 am
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/ukraine-parliament-brawl-lawmaker-drag-arseniy-yatsenyuk-podium/
Barna's party said later Friday they have expelled him from the parliamentary faction over the incident.
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see also
Fighting breaks out in Ukrainian parliament
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-35069016
[very short - but with video, as above]

Longer write up here, in The Telegraph
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/ukraine/12045941/Brawl-erupts-in-Ukrainian-parliament-as-MP-attempts-to-carry-out-prime-minister.html
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Ukraine crisis. News in Brief. Friday 11 December. [Ukrainian sources] Empty MP Barna expelled from BPP faction [engl]

Fri Dec 11, 2015 11:38 am
http://www.unian.info/politics/1209767-mp-barna-expelled-from-bpp-faction.html
The Bloc of Petro Poroshenko faction has expelled People's Deputy Oleh Barna from its ranks following today's incident in the session hall, said Taras Pastushenko, the press secretary of the faction.
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Ukraine crisis. News in Brief. Friday 11 December. [Ukrainian sources] Empty Ukraine meets all criteria for visa-free regime with EU – Yatsenyuk [Engl]

Fri Dec 11, 2015 11:41 am
http://www.unian.info/politics/1209415-ukraine-meets-all-criteria-for-introducing-a-visa-free-regime-with-eu-yatsenyuk.html
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I have read elsewhere that the process will take at least another half-year; probably more.
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Ukraine crisis. News in Brief. Friday 11 December. [Ukrainian sources] Empty Making Joe Biden mad as hell [Engl]

Fri Dec 11, 2015 11:51 am
http://www.economist.com/news/europe/21679858-ukraine-not-punishing-its-criminals-west-getting-tired-nagging-it-making-joe-biden
Ukraine is not punishing its criminals. The West is getting tired of nagging it....
As justice fails to materialise, many in Kiev have come to blame not just Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk, whose authority eroded earlier this year, but Mr Poroshenko as well. “The guys who came to power weren’t the ones who should have,” says Volodymyr Bondarchuk, whose father Sergiy, a high-school physics teacher, was also killed last year. “Their goals are far from the ideals of the Maidan.”

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American journalist Noah Sneider gives his personal view. [Not named in article, but I understand it is by him.]
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Ukraine crisis. News in Brief. Friday 11 December. [Ukrainian sources] Empty Russia operates several terrorist groups in Ukraine, SBU official says

Fri Dec 11, 2015 11:57 am
Dec. 9, the Security Service of Ukraine netted a group of seven terrorists in Kyiv, three of them Russian citizens and suspected FSB agents, capturing 40 grenades, 4 kilos of TNT and thousands of rounds of ammunition.

Two SBU agents were wounded in the raid, one dying in a hospital later.

Now, SBU chief deputy Yury Tandit, admitted on television Dec. 10 there are several similar terrorist and spy groups operated in Ukraine by Russia FSB secret service.

One of the tasks of enemy groups is to destabilize the situation in Ukraine, he said.

Yu. Tandit called on Ukrainians to be vigilant and report any suspicious facts to the authorities.

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Ukraine crisis. News in Brief. Friday 11 December. [Ukrainian sources] Empty Putin addresses the Russian defence ministry - who is sat in the front row?

Fri Dec 11, 2015 12:02 pm
Putin gives a speech to the defence ministry.
Source - the kremlin website.
http://www.kremlin.ru/events/president/news/50913
Now - who is sat in the front row?!
Patriarch Kirill. Could you even imagine this from a churchman in any other country in the world?

Ukraine crisis. News in Brief. Friday 11 December. [Ukrainian sources] Kiril_kill

Link to photos here - obviously also the kremlin website -
http://www.kremlin.ru/events/president/news/50913/photos

One other aside - spot the woman?! Apparently there was one - yes - one - in the whole room!
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Ukraine crisis. News in Brief. Friday 11 December. [Ukrainian sources] Empty Putin’s nuclear blackmail indicates his bankruptcy – Russian expert

Fri Dec 11, 2015 12:12 pm
Recent declarations by Pres Putin and his insiders about the likely use of nuclear weapons to resolve local conflicts are indications of Kremlin’s bankruptcy, Russia-based journalist Andrei Piontkovski said in The Apostrof Dec. 10.

Such declarations are in glaring discrepancy with Russia’s official military doctrine which stipulates that Russia can use its nuclear weapons only if attacked by nuclear weapons or if under massive attack of enemy conventional forces posing a threat to the country’s existence, the expert says.

“For instance, if China’s 5-million strong army is advancing on the Urals. However, the nuclear weapons cannot be used in a local or regional conflict, like the one involving Turkey,” Piontkovski argues.

Kremlin’s nuclear blackmail counters all international agreements on the non-proliferation of nuclear weapons signed by Russia, he says.

Russia’s threat to blow up the Bosporus with a nuke and wash Istanbul away from the surface of the earth is a clear violation of the non-proliferation agreement, the expert stresses.

Such role fully discredits Putin’s flirtations with the West aimed at becoming a coalition member in exchange for concessions, Andrei Piontkovski says.

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Ukraine crisis. News in Brief. Friday 11 December. [Ukrainian sources] Empty Brent currently down 4% on the day.

Fri Dec 11, 2015 12:14 pm
www.bloomberg.com/energy/

NDEX UNITS PRICE CHANGE %CHANGE CONTRACT TIME ET 2 DAY
WTI Crude Oil (Nymex)
USD/bbl. 35.77 -0.99 -2.69% JAN 16 11:38:40
Brent Crude (ICE)
USD/bbl. 38.10 -1.63 -4.10%

Putin will be having problems balancing the books sooner than he thought.
Bring forward Presidential elections? maybe an idea for him. There is simply no opposition - at the moment.
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Ukraine crisis. News in Brief. Friday 11 December. [Ukrainian sources] Empty Kerry to discuss Ukraine and Syria with Russia's Putin and Lavrov in Moscow Dec. 15

Fri Dec 11, 2015 3:38 pm
The US State Department confirmed that the meeting of foreign ministers of Russia and the United States John Kerry and Sergei Lavrov held on December 15 in Moscow.

It is reported Tsenzor.NET with reference to the BBC Russian Service. Kerry also plans to meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin. According to State Department spokesman Mark Toner, at negotiations in Moscow will discuss the situation in Syria, the fight against extremist group "Islamic State ", as well as resolving the conflict in Ukraine. Read on" Tsenzor.NET ": Kerry to Russia and Iran threatens tough measures if the political process in Syria falls through the Russian Foreign Ministry said that the second of this year's visit to Moscow Kerry will contribute to the normalization of Russian- American relations, which remain difficult. At the same time, as stated by the Russian dipvedomstva, Moscow continues to "work together with Washington in the areas where such cooperation responds to Russian interests and objectives of maintaining international security."

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Ukraine crisis. News in Brief. Friday 11 December. [Ukrainian sources] Empty Ukrainian army captured seven Ukrainian villages, Russia’s representative Churkin CLAIMS at UN SC meeting

Fri Dec 11, 2015 3:46 pm
Russia claims that the Armed Forces of Ukraine took control over seven villages at the demarcation line.

This was stated by Russia's permanent representative to the United Nations Vitaly Churkin at a meeting of the UN Security Council, Censor.NET reports citing Ukrainski Novyny.

"Dec. 4, the Ukrainian side without authorization, violating the existing agreements, captured seven villages, which were in the buffer zone beyond control of both parties at the time of signing (of agreements) in Minsk," he said.

At the same time Russia's permanent representative did not specify which villages exactly were occupied by the Ukrainian troops. According to him, the Ukrainian soldiers must leave these villages.

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Ukraine crisis. News in Brief. Friday 11 December. [Ukrainian sources] Empty Ukraine insists on introduction of UN peacekeeping mission in Donbas, Foreign Minister says

Fri Dec 11, 2015 8:33 pm

Ukraine insists on the introduction of the United Nations peacekeeping mission in Ukraine.

Foreign Minister Pavlo Klimkin said during a meeting of the UN Security Council in New York, Censor.NET reports citing Ukrainski Novyny.

"I urge the Security Council once again to take the lead in creation of such a mission," Klimkin said.

He recalled that in March, Ukraine has officially requested the United Nations to deploy a peacekeeping operation to ensure the implementation of the Minsk agreements. Klimkin said that comprehensive international action is required to ensure sustainable de-escalation of the situation in Ukraine.

According to the minister, the UN peacekeeping mission or the extension of the Special Monitoring Mission of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE SMM) will ensure the implementation of such provisions of the Minsk agreements as the disarmament of illegal armed groups, monitoring and verification of the withdrawal of the Russian troops and weapons, delivery and distribution of humanitarian aid, and will provide necessary conditions for local elections in accordance with OSCE standards.

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Ukraine crisis. News in Brief. Friday 11 December. [Ukrainian sources] Empty Saakashvili Predicts 'Defeat' For Putin's Russia (VIDEO w/English subtitles)

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Ukraine crisis. News in Brief. Friday 11 December. [Ukrainian sources] Empty Charity performance raised nearly 100 thousand UAH for the Kharkiv orphanage

Fri Dec 11, 2015 9:21 pm
According to the head physician of the Kharkiv regional specialized orphanage №1 Roman Marabyan, all the funds will be spent on the purchase of medical and rehabilitation equipment for young palliative patients.

“On the account of our charity fund “Hippocrates 88″ from the sale of tickets we received 73 467 UAH, and volunteers of the orphanage gathered from audience donations in the amount of 25 015 UAH. It means that our children’s home received in total 98.5 thousand UAH thanks to this action,” said Roman.

The production of “Oscar and the Lady in Pink” with Irma Vitkovskaya and 9-year-old Mark Kirilchuk in the lead roles Kharkiv viewers saw for the first time.

According to the actress, the idea of ​​this project was born back in 2013 when was held Rusya Aseyeva’s photo exhibition “Dіti, yakih ne іsnue/Children that are not exist”. With the help of performance Irma Vitkovskaya and likeminded people want to reach out society and pay attention of Ukrainians to the problem of palliative care.

“We couldn’t find better work than Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt‘s “Oscar and the Lady in Pink”. Moreover, we first in Ukraine combined two genres on the stage – animation and theater that looks very organic. Our project was supported by Svyatoslav Vakarchuk and the group “Okean Elzy”, painter Andriy Yarmolenko … In our team there is also Kharkiven – Nikita Titov. He is one of the authors of the artistic group,” explained Vitkovskaya....................

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Ukraine crisis. News in Brief. Friday 11 December. [Ukrainian sources] Empty Ash – Updated thoughts on Ukraine - December 11, 2015

Fri Dec 11, 2015 9:54 pm
Ash: “…there is perhaps no other way to read the assault on the prime minister than a now concerted effort to undermine his credibility (further in some peoples’ minds), and this indeed does appear to be part of a campaign.”

LONDON, Dec 11, 2015 (UBO) – Responding to today’s chaotic events at heart of Ukraine’s government structures, Nomura International economist Timothy Ash offered the following comments at 17:51 today:

I guess reflecting on the pretty disturbing scenes in parliament today – in what democracy do we see legislators manhandle each other in such a way and remember the recipient of this particular assault was the prime minister? – a few conclusions can be drawn:

First, the fact that the individual manhandling the prime minister today came from the Block Petro Poroshenko (BPP) just underscores that President Poroshenko has pretty loose control over his own party – which is pretty much a loose association of individuals/business interests who opted to attach themselves to the Poroshenko brand, after the latter’s victory in the May 2014 presidential election. This loose party discipline was also perhaps evident in the way that the BPP earlier tabled those IMF-programme busting tax proposals which, while subsequently being rolled back after the intervention of the president himself in the National Reform Council (NRC), I think did much to undermine morale amongst the reform team in government. It is indeed a pretty strange way to show support for your person (Jaresko) in the ministry of finance by even allowing senior figures in your own party to undermine her in such a way. Perhaps it can be sold as all part of the democratic process – and there needs to be a thorough debate about key issues such as tax/spend, but surely the earlier IMF friendly version was already discussed within the administration, and hence should surely already have had support in the presidency and the BPP. Perhaps all this was about undermining Yatsenyuk’s authority over the economic reform agenda in the end, and allowing the president to show that he in fact controls that same agenda?

Second, the above raises concern whether BPP deputies can be trusted to rally in behind the tax, budget code and also any confidence motion called in the government.

Third, there is perhaps no other way to read the assault on the prime minister than a now concerted effort to undermine his credibility (further in some peoples’ minds), and this indeed does appear to be part of a campaign. Other ministers, even the NBU governor, have also been subjected to fairly disrespectful (hostile) treatment in the VR. More specifically with respect to Yatsenyuk we would highlight allegations of corruption made against some of those seen as being close to the prime minister, seemingly partially by the rival reform team in Odessa headed by former Georgian president, Mikheil Saakashvili. Saakashvili himself has been named as a potential replacement for Yatsenyuk. Note also that Rinat Akhmetov’s SCM buildings have been subject to demonstrations recently – Yatsenyuk has historically been seen as having strong ties into the Akhmetov camp – albeit Ukrainian oligarchs tend to spread their patronage wide amongst Ukraine’s political elites.

But it does appear evident that there is now a fairly concerted campaign to oust Yatsenyuk – who still appears to be being resolutely backed by the US administration, and this appeared to be affirmed this week during the visit of US president Joe Biden to Kyiv. The message therein was don’t rock the boat at this stage by changing the government – aside that is from some likely cabinet changes..........................

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