Ukraine and Russia related materials for March 13 2014

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I have to deal with other matters for a few hours.

Please feel free to post videos and reasonably respectable news articles to the comments of this post for all things Ukrainian and Russian and please everyone check the comments. We have some really excellent news-hunters here who regularly post updated materials from multiple sources on an event which may be too serious to just wait till I can triage the materials I have.

Later I will certainly create posts with what materials I can, and have time to determine their veracity. But meanwhile consider this post’s content to actually be in the comments.

Thank you all, readers and contributors.

Eeyore for Vlad.

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58 Replies to “Ukraine and Russia related materials for March 13 2014”

  1. I don’t have the references unfortunately, but I did hear that it is forecasted that the Russian army (which recruits a lot of Russian Muslims) will (in a couple of years time) become over 50% Muslim.
    Whoever controls the military can eventually control the nation!
    Now Putin, so far, as taken a tough stance on Islam so far, so why is he interested in incorporating Crimea into Russia?
    Crimea contains a large population of Muslim Tatars.

  8. Crimea’s Tatars fear the worst as it prepares for referendum

    Attacks on Muslim minority have increased, bringing memories of Stalin-era deportation in which half died

    The Tatars’ existence in Ukraine has long been precarious. In 1944 Stalin ordered that the Sunni Muslim group be deported en masse on the pretext that they had collaborated with the Nazis. Crammed into cattle-wagons, nearly half of them died before they had even reached their destination in the wastelands of central Asia.

    After the fall of the iron curtain in 1989 the Tatars flocked back to their ancestral homelands in Crimea – only to find their old houses occupied by Russian families.

    […]Since their return to Ukraine the Tatars have been a prominent force in the country’s political struggles, and Tatar activists were on the frontlines of the 2004 Orange Revolution and the recent protests in Kiev that ousted Viktor Yanukovych’s corrupt regime. But with Russian troops camped out in their backyards, their position in Crimea looks weaker than ever.

    ……… :

    http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/mar/13/crimea-tatars-fear-worst-prepares-referendum

  16. DAILY MAIL – Violent clashes in Donetsk between Ukrainians and pro-Russian groups as Moscow moves thousands of troops to border

    – Fighting broke out at rallies staged by opposing demonstrators. One person was killed and at least 10 were hurt
    – It comes as Russia confirmed today it has massed thousands of troops on its border with Ukraine
    – Meanwhile John Kerry warned of ‘serious consequences’ if Moscow tried to annex Crimea
    – And Obama declares U.S. will ‘completely reject’ Sunday’s referendum to be held in Crimea on peninsula’s status

    20 pics on the page :

    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2580148/Russia-confirms-moved-thousands-troops-Ukrainian-borders-Putin-warned-sanctions-ugly-fast-John-Kerry.html

    video ( 26 min )

  17. Looks like none wins The Ukraine in a state of anarchy and total chaos, torn between Russia and the EU,the IMF, The World Bank and all of the dark forces using provacatours fueling the flames It sure as all hell is not about democracy and a representative government, it’s all about oil,pipelines,minerals,resources, and prime farmland it always is. The Ukraine is just another country to loot. The Ukraine is bankrupt and no matter the outcome there will be a decade or more of poverty and instability .

  21. Big Frank the only disagreement I have with your analysis is where you say no one won. Putin is winning in his bit to rebuild the Russian Empire, we don’t know if he will succeed in the long term but in the short term he is winning.

  29. “International law is a Potemkin village. A hollow facade upheld by the might of the United States. A post-American world means the end of international law.”

    Both excellent articles, Robert.

    NATO became part of the problem. WE were NATO and our “Allies” hated US for it.

    I was treated to abusive discourses: the evil U.S. “has its own miltiary bases” on sovereign Spanish ground. There was an incident in which tainted cooking oil sickened and killed a number of Spanish babies. What blasts of outrage! NATO doing experiments, dumping waste, on and on. Even after the source was found in the French manufacturer, few accepted that explanation. The hate was so close to the surface.

    That was NATO.

  47. March 14 2014 – Russia Says It Intercepted A US Drone Over Crimea

    A United States surveillance drone has been intercepted above the Ukranian region of Crimea, a Russian state arms and technology group said Friday.

    “The drone was flying at about 4,000 metres (12,000 feet) and was virtually invisible from the ground. It was possible to break the link with US operators with complex radio-electronic” technology, said Rostec in a statement.

    The drone fell “almost intact into the hands of self-defence forces” added Rostec, which said it had manufactured the equipment used to down the aircraft, but did not specify who was operating it.

    “Judging by its identification number, UAV MQ-5B belonged to the 66th American Reconnaissance Brigade, based in Bavaria,” Rostec said on its website, which also carried a picture of what it said was the captured drone.

    http://www.businessinsider.com/russia-intercepted-us-drone-over-crimea-2014-3

  48. Pentagon: Russian Reports Of US Drone Intercepted Over Crimea Are False

    “There is zero truth” to the reports, said a Department of Defense spokesperson reached by phone in Washington.

    The MQ-5B Hunter is a variant of the RQ-5, originally an Israeli design. Its maker, Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE:NOC), describes it as a “long endurance, medium altitude, multimission, tactical Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS) optimized to provide Army division and corps commanders with a dedicated Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (ISR) platform.”

    According to data from the manufacturer, the MQ-5B is seven meters (23 ft) long, with a maximum takeoff weight of about 900 kilograms (2,000 lbs). It can fly for as many as 21 hours at an altitude up to 5,500 m (18,000 ft) and carriers several sensors and communications devices, but is unarmed.

    http://www.ibtimes.com/pentagon-russian-reports-us-drone-intercepted-over-crimea-are-false-1561578

  50. March 15 2014 – Moscow the centre for pro and anti rallies on eve of Crimea vote