Sunday, February 23, 2014

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Estate of Viktor Yanukovych

 The parks are dotted with statues, ponds with fountains, wild ducks, a tennis court and a colonnaded pavilion.

 The stony-stunned and angry god Plutos is looking for his missing protege 
ex-president-plutocrat Victor Yanukovich: "Where are you, Vitya-boy?! Why did you abandon your "ріг достатку" - your cornucopia?! И чо жэ ты менэ так пидманула - пидвела?!" 

 "Рог изоби́лия (лат. cornu copiae, устар. рог благосостояния) — символ изобилия и богатства, восходящий к древнегреческой мифологии. Изображается большей частью изогнутым, наполненным цветами, плодами и тому подобным, т.е. повёрнутым вверх... Рог изобилия принадлежал богу богатства Плутосу." 

 Кремль, видимо, считает, что полностью контролирует ситуацию, и в случае, если на Украине все начнет развиваться не так, как планируют в Москве, можно будет все переиграть. Но это иллюзия. Продать украинские госбумаги без существенных потерь в обозримом будущем не получится. Да и цену на газ Газпрому вернуть уже не удастся ни при каких обстоятельствах. 

 ...Рог изобилия - миф, а вот "сыр в мышеловке" - больше похоже на правду. 
NEWS ANALYSIS

Ukraine Looks Toward a Murky Future - NYTimes

By ANDREW HIGGINS
Gone along with President Viktor F. Yanukovych was any trace of a Friday peace deal that had sought to freeze the country’s tumult.

Пiдем разом на роботу
Я прийшов, тебе нема,
Пiдманула, пiдвела. 

 You said on Saturday (2.22.14)
We'll go to work together
I came, you weren't there
You tricked me and let me down

[Ukraine] You tricked me (English Subtitle)


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[Ukraine]
Ти казала в понедiлок
Пiдем разом по барвiнок
Я прийшов, тебе нема,
Пiдманула, пiдвела.

Chorus:
Ти ж мене пiдманула,
Ти ж мене пiдвела,
Ти ж мене молодого,
З ума-розуму звела.

Ти казала у вiвторок
Поцiлуєш разiв сорок
Я прийшов, тебе нема,
Пiдманула, пiдвела.

(chorus)

Ти казала у середу
Пiдем разом по череду
Я прийшов, тебе нема,
Пiдманула, пiдвела.

(chorus)

Ти казала у четвер
Пiдем разом на концерт
Я прийшов, тебе нема,
Пiдманула, пiдвела.

(chorus)

Ти казала у пятницю
Пiдем разом по суниці
Я прийшов, тебе нема,
Пiдманула, пiдвела.

(chorus)

Ти казала у суботу
Пiдем разом на роботу
Я прийшов, тебе нема,
Пiдманула, пiдвела.

(chorus)

Ти казала у недiлю
Пiдем разом на весiлля
Я прийшов, тебе нема,
Пiдманула, пiдвела.

(chorus)

[English]
You said that on Monday,
We'll go together to pick flowers,
I came, you weren't there,
You tricked me and let me down.

(Chorus):
You tricked me,
You let me down
You're making me,
A young lad, go crazy.

You said on Tuesday
You will kiss me 40 times.
I came, you weren't there
You tricked me and let me down.

(Chorus)

You said on Wednesday
We'll go herding together
I came, you weren't there
You tricked me and let me down.

(Chorus)

You said on Thursday
We'll go together to a concert
I came, you weren't there
You tricked me and let me down

(Chorus)

You said on Friday
We'll go together to a party,
I came, you weren't there
You tricked me and let me down

(Chorus)

You said on Saturday
We'll go to work together
I came, you weren't there
You tricked me and let me down

(Chorus)

You said on Sunday
We'll getting marry.
I came, you weren't there
You tricked me and let me down

(Chorus)


  1. Рогатый гетман и конституция Украины - Альтернатива

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    Jan 20, 2013 - Таким образом, Гимн Украины провозглашает диктатуру «козацкого рода» ... gens hircosa centurionum Pers ) Перевод из «Латинско-русского ....вскормлен маленький Зевс." "Рог изобилия - это сломанный рог козы ...

  2. ЕЖ: Янукович получил щедрые и ни к чему не обязывающие ...

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    Dec 18, 2013 - То, что президент Украины Виктор Янукович едет в Москву за ...Рог изобилия миф, а вот сыр в мышеловке больше похоже на правду. 
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ПЕРВЫЙ ДЕНЬ ПОСЛЕ ПОБЕДЫ РЕВОЛЮЦИИ. УКРАИНА, 23 ФЕВРАЛЯ
11:06 | 23.02.2014
Число погибших в центре Киева за последние пять дней, по данным Минздрава Украины, возросло до 82 человек. Число пострадавших составило 645 человек, 423 из них госпитализированы. За сутки с 6 утра субботы до 6 утра воскресенья по местному времени за медицинской помощью обратились 42 человека, из которых 33 попали в больницы.
Медслужба Майдана, однако, еще в ночь на 21 февраля заявляла, что число погибших перевалило за сотню.

Между тем в интернете опубликовано еще одно видео стрельбы в безоружных демонстрантов не Институтской улице 20 февраля.

Видео стрельбы непосредственно с места событий

Published on Feb 22, 2014
На сайте газеты Elmundo (ежедневная газета на испанском языке, одна из самых читаемых и авторитетных газет Испании. Разовый тираж газеты составляет 330 000 экземпляров, и по этому показателю она занимает второе место в Испании после El Pais) появилось такое видео, видео стрельбы непосредственно с места событий.
12:20 | 23.02.2014


Александр Скобов, историк, публицист
Сегодня украинская революция не связана необходимостью идти на компромисс с воровской правящей элитой, не связана никакими обязательствами перед ней. Поэтому у украинцев есть шанс вырвать криминальную олигархию с корнем. Никакого снисхождения коррумпированным чиновникам, криминальным олигархам, запятнавшим себя насилием и кровью силовикам! Осиновый кол им! Вокруг него мы станцуем и споем Ça ira. И пусть российская правящая воровская элита видит, что бывает с теми, кто сначала избивает свой народ дубинками, потом стреляет в него, а потом опаздывает на свой воровской пароход.
http://grani.ru/users/skobov/entries/225221.html

From Ukraine News




Vladimir Putin

'A key question now is whether Putin will decide to back Yanukovych in his desperate attempt to hang on to power'. Photograph: Alexander Zemlianichenko/AP
What will Vladimir Putin do now? The Russian president has kept quiet onUkraine since an hour-long telephone conversation with Barack Obama on Friday when the two men expressed a shared interest in backing the EU-negotiated settlement in Kiev.
But the Russian president's restraint is unlikely to last much longer as Moscow angrily contemplates Saturday's dramatic collapse of the EU deal and the apparent ruination of Russia's high-profile drive to lock its strategically vital southern neighbour in ever closer political and economic union.
With some justice, Russia views the parliamentary opposition's actions in toppling President Viktor Yanukovych, releasing his arch rival Yulia Tymoshenko from prison, arresting ministers and effectively sacking the government as a cynical betrayal of the settlement mediated by EU foreign ministers, which envisaged a more gradual, less divisive transition.
To a significant degree, the future security, political cohesion and territorial integrity of Ukraine depend on how Putin reacts in the next few days. If he does not act firmly, Putin may fear that Russia's much repressed opposition will be encouraged to emulate the Kiev street revolution. As it stands, what Moscow views as a western-backed "coup" is a personal humiliation for Russia's pugnacious leader. He will not take it lightly.
A furious Sergei Lavrov, the Russian foreign minister, reflected these worries when he voiced "most serious concern" over Ukraine in a flurry of calls to the French, German and Polish foreign ministers who brokered Friday's short-lived deal.
"The opposition not only has failed to fulfil a single one of its obligations but is already presenting new demands all the time, following the lead of armed extremists and pogromists whose actions pose a direct threat to Ukraine's sovereignty and constitutional order,'' Lavrov said. EU leaders should restrain these "rampaging hooligans".
Lavrov said much the same in a call to John Kerry, the US secretary of state, reminding him that Putin had told Obama that it was essential that the US use "every opportunity" to halt illegal actions. The Maidan demonstrators did not speak for all Ukraine, particularly not its mostly Russian-speaking eastern and Crimean regions.

There's little doubt that Russia feels double-crossed. 

Lavrov's terminology appeared to provide grounds for potential direct intervention. Lawful external contributions to resolving Ukraine's problems, including economic assistance, were welcome, he said, but persistent, politically inspired western "intrusiveness" was dangerous. "We don't want to inflict ourselves on Ukraine as the western partners do. We don't advise anyone. This only does harm."
This has been the consistent Russian view, put forward in numerous discussions with the EU since last November when Yanukovych's decision to accept Russian aid and cheap gas led him to reject closer ties with Brussels. Moscow argues that expanded Ukraine-EU economic ties would be beneficial, but should not extend to drawing Ukraine into the EU's "sphere of influence".
A key question now is whether Putin will decide to back Yanukovych in his desperate attempt to hang on to power, by rallying supporters in eastern Ukraine. Even if he dumps his discredited ally, Putin could still opt to encourage eastern regional leaders to reject Kiev's authority and pursue forms of greater autonomy.
Down this road lies the dread prospect of partition, peacefully achieved or not. Right now, at least, a Georgia-style Russian military intervention does not seem likely.
Putin will also have to decide whether his $15bn (£9bn) aid package and cheap gas deals can survive the change of leadership in Kiev. He has already threatened to cancel them. But if he does so, his hopes of a brotherly Ukraine as part of a mooted Russian-led Eurasian union will recede even further from view.
There is also the position of Russia's Black Sea fleet, based in the Crimea, to be considered.
An ideal outcome would be a broad settlement involving Ukraine's new leadership (whose authority will in theory be established in May elections), Russia and the EU, arranged under the auspices of the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe, to which all the parties belong.
The aim would be acceptance, in principle and in practice, that Ukraine cannot and must not be forced to choose between east and west, and that its future peace and prosperity depends on balanced and respectful economic and other relationships with Europe and Moscow.
To achieve this outcome, the EU will be required to show greater imagination and generosity, in financial terms, towards Ukraine, as Ian Kearns of the European Leadership Network has argued. Support for an IMF bailout, as urged by foreign secretary William Hague, will be part of this. But EU capitals will have to cough up cash, too.
As yet this is a fond hope. For Putin to support such a collaborative solution would require a degree magnanimity, political maturity and vision that he has signally failed to show in the past.

Russia feels double-crossed over Ukraine – but what will Putin do?

Ukraine's future security, political cohesion and territorial integrity depend on how Vladimir Putin reacts to the collapse of the EU deal
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Віктор Янукович про ситуацію в Україні

Рыбак опровергает слова Януковича об избиении: видеообращение
Sunday February 23rd, 2014 at 11:02 AM

Новости Украины 24 Часа В Сутки : ЛІГАБізнесІнформ
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Владимир Рыбак опровергает слова Виктора Януковича, экс-спикер Верховной Рады говорит, что его никто не избивал, на него никто не покушался, и вскоре он вернется на работу в парламент в качестве рядового депутата. Об этом политик сказал в видеообращении. 
Напомним, вчера было обнародовано видеоинтервью Януковича, в котором он, в том числе, вспомнил и о Рыбаке. По словам Януковича, экс-спикер подал в отставку после того, как был избит.
Сегодня лидер парламентской фракции Партии регионов Александр Ефремов выступил с заявлением однопартийцев, 
жестко осуждающим
 действия Януковича.
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Віктор Янукович про ситуацію в Україні

Published on Feb 22, 2014
Президент Украины Виктор Янукович называет события, происходящие в последнее время в Украине, государственным переворотом. "События, которые увидела наша страна и весь мир, - пример государственного переворота", - сказал он в интервью телеканалу UBR в субботу.

Президент заверил, что до последнего делал все для того, чтобы остановить кровопролитие. "Мы приняли два закона об амнистии, мы делали все шаги, которые бы стабилизировали политическую ситуацию в стране. Но произошло так, как произошло", - подчеркнул он.

В.Янукович также рассказал, что прилетел в Харьков поздно вечером для того, чтобы принять участие в съезде депутатов юго-восточных областей Украины и Крыма. "Но получилось так, что я не мог поехать, терять время, потому что я должен был быть постоянно на связи, все время шли сигналы о преследовании людей", - подчеркнул он. "Мы видим повтор нацистский, когда в 30-е годы в Германии, Австрии нацисты приходили ко власти", - отметил В.Янукович.
Также Президент Украины Виктор Янукович заявил, что намерен продолжать переговоры с представителями Европейского Союза о ситуации в Украине. "Я надеюсь, что все эти дни буду вести эти переговоры", - сказал он в интервью телеканалу UBR в субботу, отвечая на вопрос о том, ведет ли он диалог с представителями ЕС.

Президент Виктор Янукович в своем интервью заявил, что Владимира Рыбака, уволенного с должности председателя Верховной Рады, избили, и он находится в Донецке на лечении. Об этом Янукович заявил в видеокомментарии журналистам, выложенном в сети Интернет. "Его избили. Он приехал ко мне. По пути стреляли. Он попросил, чтобы я его забрал. Я его забрал и отправил его в Донецк на лечение", - сказал Янукович.
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With President’s Departure, Ukraine Looks Toward a Murky Future - NYTimes News Analysis

With President’s Departure, Ukraine Looks Toward a Murky Future
Sunday February 23rd, 2014 at 9:47 AM

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KIEV, Ukraine — As ranks of riot police officers, Interior Ministry troops and even the president vanished Saturday from the capital, Ukraine slipped, with often-eerie calm after months of tumultuous protests and a week of bloody mayhem, into the hands of revolution.
Gone along with President Viktor F. Yanukovych, who had fled to eastern Ukraine, was any trace of a Friday peace deal that had sought to freeze the country’s tumult by trimming the powers of the president while allowing him to stay in office until the end of the year.
At the president’s mist-shrouded residential compound just outside the capital in Mezhgorye, Sergey Belaus, a major in Ukraine’s State Protection service, said he had handed over control of Mr. Yanukovych’s living quarters and his tennis court to the head of a small band of antigovernment militants at 9 a.m.
“He came. We talked, and we agreed that he would now be in charge,” said Mr. Belaus, recounting that helicopters and cars had fled the compound, on a bluff overlooking the Dnieper River, overnight. He said he did not know where Mr. Yanukovych had gone.
Piero Quaranta/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images
Also unknown is what now fills the vacuum left by Mr. Yanukovych’s departure: perhaps an orderly new leadership headed by established opposition parties, perhaps a chaotic cacophony of voices driven by the passions of the street or, most ominously of all, perhaps the establishment of two or more rival power centers pushing the fractured nation into a Yugoslav-style disintegration.
Fear of the establishment of rival power centers gained ground on Saturday when Mr. Yanukovych, having left the capital, popped up on television from Kharkiv, a Russian-speaking and strongly pro-Russian city in the east of the country near the Russian border. He said he had not resigned, had no plans to do so and was consulting with supporters in the east about what to do next.
“I am a legitimately elected president,” he said defiantly. “What is happening today, mostly, it is vandalism, banditism, and a coup d’état.”Kharkiv has strong ties to Russia. Early Soviet leaders — doubtful of Kiev’s loyalty, fearful of Ukrainian-speaking regions farther west but determined to anchor Ukraine under Moscow’s control — chose Kharkiv as the capital of their newly established Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, a nominally autonomous entity but entirely controlled by Moscow.
Southern Ukraine, especially the region of Crimea, also has strong ties to Russia. Pro-Russian politicians in Crimea have been demanding autonomy from Kiev and even “protection” for their aspirations from Moscow, which has a large military presence in the Black Sea region, notably in Sevastopol, a port city with a huge Russian naval base.
If Mr. Yanukovych sought to rally the east of Ukraine to his side, the west of the country, long a bastion of fierce Ukrainian nationalism, would almost certainly respond by mobilizing its own forces to protect the idea of a single nation.
All this presents an unwelcome distraction for President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia, who has been busy at the Winter Olympic Games in Sochi trying to present a softer, friendlier image of his country to a suspicious world. But, with the Olympics set to end on Sunday, Mr. Putin will no doubt turn all his attention to a drama that has driven a key Russian ally from Kiev and now threatens to install a new government dominated by people Moscow has characterized as extremists, terrorists and even Nazis.
The east-west divide has bedeviled Ukraine since it first emerged as an independent state after the 1991 collapse of the Soviet Union. In each election since, voters have split along a line running roughly through the middle of the country.
But these divisions have grown into a gaping chasm in recent months as the Ukrainian-speaking west has rallied unambiguously behind protesters in Kiev’s Independence Square while many in the east, their views shaped in part by doom-laden reports on widely watched Russian television, have recoiled in horror at what they saw as an attempt to oust a legitimate, democratically elected leader viewed as one of their own.
Mr. Yanukovych built his political career in Donetsk, an eastern coal-mining and industrial center whose bleak Soviet-era urban landscape is a world away from the elegant and proudly European splendor of western cities like Lviv.
These stark divisions, rooted in history, language and culture, have put Ukraine on a fault line that has shaped not only the country’s domestic politics but also a geopolitical struggle between Russia and the West at the heart of Ukraine’s current tumult. The protests in Independence Square began in November after Mr. Yanukovych rejected a sweeping trade and political deal with the European Union and turned to Moscow for help.
Ukraine’s political split reflects a deeper cultural divide in the country. In the 2010 presidential election, the opposition won in all of Ukraine’s western provinces, where most people speak Ukrainian rather than Russian and many call for deeper economic and political ties with Europe.
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Looming over this struggle, and over the prospects of survival for whatever government emerges in Kiev, is a stark question: Who will help fill the depleted coffers of a country on the brink of bankruptcy and crippled by arguably one of the most troubled economies in the world?
Russia was willing back in December, offering $15 billion and cheap natural gas. But the price Moscow exacted in return, a future in the Russian orbit, only inflamed the protests. A rejection of Russian aid seems to have been one of the conditions set by European diplomats who helped mediate the now-moribund political deal on Friday between Mr. Yanukovych and three opposition leaders.
Russia’s envoy at the talks, unlike the Europeans, refused to sign the final agreement. And while Washington and European capitals cheered the accord as a breakthrough that could end a lethal spiral of violence, Moscow raised niggling legal points about constitutional changes.
Europe’s determination to force a deal was captured by a television camera that filmed Radoslaw Sikorski, the Polish foreign minister, giving a blunt warning to opposition leaders. “If you don’t support this, you will have martial law, the army,” Mr. Sikorski said as he hurried out of a room at the presidential administration. “You’ll all be dead.”
With protesters now in control of the presidential compound in Mezhgorye and the government district of Kiev, the deal lies in ruins. It is now Mr. Yanukovych who risks being killed if he shows his face in Kiev. But the economic mess that drove much of the anger against him remains, only now it is Europe and America that must help Ukraine.
The agreement signed Friday did not explicitly reject money from Russia, but Europe and the United States have been leaning heavily on Kiev to accept that only a Western aid package led by the International Monetary Fund can rescue Ukraine’s economy.
“The United States view — and I believe this view is shared by our European allies and partners — is that the only viable route back to sustainable economic health for Ukraine goes through the I.M.F.,” said a senior state department official speaking on the condition of anonymity on Friday.
To this point, however, neither Washington nor Brussels has figured out how exactly to come to the aid of one of the most corrupt and inefficient economies in the world without being dragged into the sinkhole with it.
“Nobody wants to end up owning all the problems that Ukraine faces,” said Mark Leonard, director of the European Council on Foreign Relations. “The country is bankrupt, it has a terrible, broken system of government and insane levels of corruption.”
With this in mind, Europe and the United States have largely subcontracted the job to the I.M.F., which has been negotiating with Kiev for months over an aid package that, unlike the money offered by Moscow, has numerous strings attached, notably requirements that Ukraine scythe a thicket of bureaucratic regulations and cut subsidies that keep domestic energy prices low — and cripple the government’s finances.
American and European officials have indicated that the I.M.F. might be ready to relax conditions that, if imposed on Ukraine’s new government, would only stoke public anger and jeopardize the survival of what is likely to be a very fragile and fractious leadership.
After three months of chanting “bandits out,” Ukraine’s protesters appear to have finally achieved their goal. But whoever now comes in will inherit a country bereft of money, political consensus, a unifying culture and even rudimentary agreement among citizens on what their nation is.
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