Tag: Crimea

• Wednesday, May 7th 2014 - 23:07 UTC

  Falkland Islands and Crimea the new cold war

  

  In an article for Penguin News, distinguished political and scientific Bulgarian author Dr Lyubomir Ivanov (*) discusses the Crimean conflict and its parallel with the Falklands.The Argentine President Cristina Kirchner praised the recent Crimean status referendum as, “one of the famous referendums of self-determination.”

• Wednesday, April 16th 2014 - 10:01 UTC

  Ukraine falling to economic warfare and its own missteps

  

  As protests in Ukraine's eastern region turned violent on Sunday leading to the death of a Ukrainian security officer in a shootout with pro-Russian militia, Kiev threatens military action while Moscow flexes its geo-economic warfare muscles.

• Friday, March 28th 2014 - 08:21 UTC

  Latam divided on UN Crimea vote; Mercosur, except for Venezuela abstains

  

  The UN resolution condemning the annexation of Crimea by Russia which was voted on Thursday at the general assembly showed Latin America (and Mercosur) divided on the issue. The non binding resolution sponsored by Costa Rica and the western powers received 100 votes, with 11 against and 58 abstentions.

• Wednesday, March 26th 2014 - 07:49 UTC

  Putin rings Cristina Fernandez to praise her Falklands/Crimea double-standard argument

  

  Russia’s Vladimir Putin called President Cristina Fernández and praised Argentina’s position against the “double standard” of world powers in the resolution of international conflicts. The Argentine leader appealed to the examples of Crimea and the Falkland Islands' referendum in her statements last week in France.

• Saturday, March 22nd 2014 - 12:12 UTC

  Putin formalizes Russia's takeover of Crimea despite US and EU sanctions

  

  With a display of fireworks in Moscow and Crimea, President Vladimir Putin has signed a law formalizing Russia's takeover of Crimea from Ukraine, despite fresh sanctions from the EU and the US. The European Union's latest measures target twelve people involved in Russia's annexation of the peninsula.

• Thursday, March 20th 2014 - 07:02 UTC

  Argentina blasts double-standard in addressing Crimea and Malvinas

  

  The Ukraine question must be settled through political negotiations and peace, President Cristina Fernández said at a press conference in Paris where she arrived this week to meet with her French counterpart Francois Hollande.

• Tuesday, March 18th 2014 - 06:34 UTC

  Russia eyes Crimea’s oil and gas reserves

  

  According to Reuters, Crimea may nationalize oil and gas assets within its borders belonging to Ukraine, and sell them off to Russia. Crimea’s Deputy Prime Minister hinted at the possibility that it would take control of Chornomorneftegaz, a Ukrainian state-owned enterprise, and then “privatize” it by selling it to Gazprom.

• Saturday, March 15th 2014 - 04:37 UTC

  The Crimean oblast at the heart of a dispute that goes deep into Russian history

  

  On February 27, 1954 Pravda published a short announcement on its front page that the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR had decreed on February 19 the transfer of the Crimean oblast' from the RSFSR to the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic.

• Saturday, March 15th 2014 - 04:12 UTC

  “Crimea means more to Russia than the Falklands to Britain”

  

  Crimea means more to Russia than the Falklands mean to Britain, Russia's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Friday after holding last-ditch talks on the region with his U.S. counterpart John Kerry.