COUP IN KYIV?

Many Western European elders might want a nice obsequious Eastern European home health aid to make them tea, and do their laundry?

I wonder if there are newish countries that joined the EU, for the benefits of younger people going to the more economically prosperous EU countries for jobs, that are secretly smiling about the situation in the Ukraine. Let's be honest, if the Ukraine joined the EU, how many Ukrainian younger people would pack their suitcases tonight to go to western Europe for a job? And, that job would have previously been held possibly by another EU member? The losers might be the western European countries that would have had a new demographic of cheap labor, eager to do all sorts of work, if the Ukraine became an EU member.

In effect, I would posit that everyone sees the situation from their own self-serving standpoint - international law is just a smokescreen, in my opinion?

Source: Reuters - Wed, 19 Mar 2014 04:57 PM
GENEVA, March 19 (Reuters) - Russia signalled concern on Wednesday at Estonia's treatment of its large ethnic Russian minority, comparing language policy in the Baltic state with what it said was a call in Ukraine to prevent the use of Russian.

Russia has defended its annexation of Ukraine's Crimea peninsula by arguing it has the right to protect Russian-speakers outside its borders, so the reference to linguistic tensions in another former Soviet republic comes at a highly sensitive moment.

Russia fully supported the protection of the rights of linguistic minorities, a Moscow diplomat told the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva, according to a summary of the session issued by the U.N.'s information department.

"Language should not be used to segregate and isolate groups," the diplomat was reported as saying. Russia was "concerned by steps taken in this regard in Estonia as well as in Ukraine," the Moscow envoy was said to have added.

The text of the Russian remarks, echoing long-standing complaints over Estonia's insistence that the large Russian minority in the east of the country should be able to speak Estonian, was not immediately available.

But amid the growing Crimea crisis, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania - which like Ukraine were all parts of the old Soviet Union - have expressed growing apprehension over Moscow's intentions.

U.S. Vice President Joe Biden is currently in the Lithuanian capital Vilnius as part of a trip to reassure the three countries, all European Union and NATO members, of Washington's support.

Ukraine told the rights council that U.N. experts had found no credible evidence of mistreatment of its Russian minority as alleged by Moscow -- one of whose pro-Kremlin newspapers said this week there was "bloodshed almost like in Syria" in the east of the country.

The new government in Kiev, a Ukrainian envoy declared, was reinvigorating its promotion and protection of the rights of minorities "to the highest international standards".

The envoy asked what measures could be taken to protect Ukrainian, Crimean Tatar and other minority groups in Crimea "whose rights are being violated under the Russian occupation."

Responding, the Russian delegate said there were no violations of minority rights in Crimea and minorities were not being persecuted. The new Russian-backed government there had guaranteed protection of the Tatars. (Reporting by Robert Evans; Editing by Mark Trevelyan)

Ukrainians have donated over one million dollars to the country's impoverished armed forces, after the Ministry of Defence set up a telephone appeal for funds, it seems.

The ministry's official Facebook page says: "Support the Army of Ukraine! Citizens' campaign to help the Armed Forces of Ukraine with material, technical and medical supplies." People donated some 9.9m hryvnyas ($1m; £611,000), a proportion of which coming from their mobile phones in less than three days, the ministry says.

The appeal asked people to text 565 to automatically transfer 5 hryvnyas to the fund. According to ministry figures, more than half of the money was pledged by individuals, but Ukrainian businesses also sent significant amounts.

Acting President Oleksandr Turchynov recently said only 6,000 troops are combat-ready due to a lack of funding.

The campaign has also been hijacked by internet mischief-makers trying to trick Russians into messaging the same number.

Hoax campaigns urge ethnic Russians to "help the liberators of Crimea" from the so-called brown plague - Ukraine - by texting 565 from a Ukrainian-network mobile. They claim the money would buy "food, socks, mobile shower units" for the pro-Russian forces in the region. It's not known how many people - if any - have fallen for the joke.

After reaching out to Crimea to join Russia, no one's sure what Putin will do next to make his 'divided' country whole. NATO sees a wider regional strategy at play. DW looks at the key areas that could be affected.



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Let's hope it all stops there, and Putin goes back to his topless fishing.

Foofie wrote:

Many Western European elders might want a nice obsequious Eastern European home health aid to make them tea, and do their laundry?

Indeed that happens here quite often. But they get paid here as any other would get paid for the job - we got EU-laws, national labour laws and tariffs.

Foofie wrote:

In effect, I would posit that everyone sees the situation from their own self-serving standpoint - international law is just a smokescreen, in my opinion?

How can countries trade if not regulated by some international laws? Tourism without international laws? ... ... ...

Well, that might be so. And at least, it's done legally.

Even Hitler was claimed to be doing good, by "cleaning up Europe." Get it?