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Sebastopol y Crimea independientes; ya e sun hecho.Ajora, el 16, referendum de anexión a Rusia, coincidiendo con el fin de sochi.A partir de ahí, comienza la fiesta.
The key question is: how is social power structured in Ukraine? And who are the primary power-holders? Following Michael Mann, we can classify the sources of social power into four categories: coercion/military, economic, administrative/political, and ideological/religion. Interestingly enough, ruling elites in different societies tend to specialize in different sources of power. Thus, Egypt is traditionally ruled by generals (from Nasser to Sadat and Mubarak, and now Al-Sisi), China and France are dominated by bureaucracies, the United States – by economic elites (see Bill Domhoff’s Who Rules America?), and Iran by ideological elites (the ayatollahs have the final say). And Ukraine? Without doubt, it’s the economic elites.Although protests in Kiev were triggered by the decision of Yanukovich government to turn away from the association agreement with the European Union in favor of closer integration with Russia, the motivations of protesters quickly shifted to a general rejection of the oligarch-dominated policies of Yanukovich’s Party of Regions. It is generally believed that the main financier and the real leader of Party of Regions is Rinat Akhmetov, the richest Ukrainian oligarch (with Forbes-estimated fortune of $12.5 billion).President Viktor Yanukovych (foreground, second from left) and Ukrainian billionaire Rinat Akhmetov (to Yanukovych’s left) gather with supporters at the Party of Regions convention in 2009. (Yaroslav Debelyi) Source It would be nice if we could point an accusing finger at the Party of Regions as the only corrupt, oligarch-dominated element in Ukrainian politics. Unfortunately, other parties are no better. All Ukrainian politics is thoroughly dominated by billionaire oligarchs. The second richest man in Ukraine, Victor Pinchuk, is married to Olena Pinchuk, the daughter of former President of Ukraine Leonid Kuchma.Viktor Pinchuk, Leonid Kuchma, Bill Clinton, and Olena Pinchuk (Source)The main party that was in opposition to Yanukovich, the Fatherland Party, is lead by the fiery Yulia Tymoshenko, sporting her customary braid. Tymoshenko herself is an oligarch, worth probably close to $1 billion. She is commonly known as the “Gas Princess,” because she made her fortune in the gas industry during the chaotic 1990s. Tymoshenko has been the Prime Minister until 2010, and she has a good shot at the Ukrainian presidency in the elections scheduled for May 2014.Tymoshenko and Turchynov (source)Another potential candidate, who has a good chance of winning presidential elections, is Petro Poroshenko, the number 7 in the Forbes’s list of Ukranian billionaires (estimated fortune: $1.3 billion).When the corrupt Yanukovych government fell, the Maidan protesters (Maidan is the central square of Kiev, which became the symbol of the Ukrainian revolution – actually, both of them – the Orange one in 2005 and the current one) declared that they don’t want to return to the old oligarch-dominated politics. But the protesters wishes were ignored by the new rulers of Ukraine. The acting president, Oleksander Turchynov, and the prime minister, Arseniy Yatsenyuk, are both long-standing members of Tymoshenko’s Fatherland party. Turchynov began his political life in close association with Serhiy Tihipko (number 9 on the Forbes list of Ukrainian billionaires) and with the same Leonid Kuchma, the Ukrainian president from 1994 to 2005. No wonder the Maidan protesters objected to Turchynov elevation – in vain.“This new bunch of leaders we’ve got are just the same as the last ones, and the ones before that. … We’re staying put till we get what we want,” said a Maidan protester.Perhaps the most striking evidence of the domination of the Ukrainian state by the wealthy oligarchs is the appointment by the newly installed government in Kiev of two billionaires, Ihor Kolomoysky and Serhiy Taruta, as governors in Dnepropetrovsk and Donetsk.An investigation into Ukrainian power structures leads one to a depressing conclusion: all power holders are either billionaire oligarchs themselves, or are merely oligarch stooges.
Ucrania envía sus reservas de oro a Estados Unidos en pleno conflicto con Rusia(OroyFinanzas.com) –Según el diario en lengua rusa Iskra-News, las autoridades de Ucrania ordenaron en la tarde del sábado la salida de las reservas de oro del país embarcándolas en un avión con destino a Estados Unidos. La salida se habría hecho desde el aeropuerto internacional de Borispol en la capital Kiev a las dos de la madrugada del sábado en un vuelo no registrado de forma oficial.El traslado al aeropuerto, según este medio, se hizo con varios vehículos en los que se transportaron las onzas de oro guardadas en cajas de gran tamaño. Testigos oculares observaron un amplio dispositivo de seguridad en torno al traslado de, al menos, cuarenta cajas selladas.El destino, a pesar de darse por sentado que es a Estados Unidos, también podría ser Suiza. Sobre la élite política ucraniana pesa enormemente la sombra de la corrupción y Suiza es uno de los lugares donde las autoridades occidentales tienen localizadas varias cuentas relacionadas con magnates y políticos ucranianos.En los últimos dos años, Ucrania ha aumentado considerablemente sus reservas de oro. Si ha salido del país el total de reservas, la salida sería de 42,3 toneladas de oro según el registro de reservas oficiales de oro que consta en el Consejo Mundial del Oro (World Gold Council, WGC). En proporción al total de reservas de divisas internacionales, el oro pesa el 8%.Seguiremos muy pendientes de esta cuestión, pero los últimos datos con que este medio cuenta son ciertamente preocupantes en un conflicto que se recrudece cada día más. Con la península de Crimea al borde de la anexión a Rusia y las presiones diplomáticas de Occidente, Ucrania está sumida en un futuro terriblemente incierto.Fuente: Iskra-Newshttp://iskra-news.info/news/segodnja_nochju_iz_borispolja_v_ssha_strartoval_samoljot_s_zolotym_zapasom_ukrainy/2014-03-07-9122
EEUU da largas a la repatriación del oro alemán de tiempos de la Guerra Fría"Hemos presionado mucho al Bundesbank, le hemos enviado un montón de preguntas, así como a otras entidades. Tenemos que saber por qué no se está haciendo la auditoría apropiada, por qué no presionan al banco central de su socio, especialmente a la Reserva Federal, para que haga una auditoría adecuada. ¿Por qué no es posible repatriar ese oro? Así que hay un montón de razones y preguntas sin respuesta"http://www.elmundo.es/elmundo/2013/08/18/economia/1376833448.html
Si uno lee a los analistas (anglófonos), o a su legión de seguidores, llegará al convencimiento de que Europa está acorralada. Otra vez.En esta ocasión, por el "omnipotente" Vladimir Putin. Pero podría ser por cualquier otro. A ojos de esos analistas da igual Rusia, Suiza o la isla más diminuta del Pacífico. No hay enemigo pequeño para la Unión Europea, siempre maniatada ante unos rivales con infinita capacidad de maniobra. ...
El G7 amenaza a Rusia con represalias si anexiona a Crimea
Pues si Sidartah, el emoticono viene al pelo en casi todas las noticias sobre el tema: Chairman Of Joint Chiefs: US Ready For "Military Response" In UkraineCitarWith diplomacy having failed miserably to resolve the Russian annexation of Crimea, and soon East Ukraine (and with John Kerry in charge of it, was there ever any doubt), the US is moving to the heavy artillery. First, moments ago, the US DOE announced in a shocking announcement that it would proceed with the first draw down and sale of crude from the US strategic petroleum reserve, the first since June 2011, in what it said was a "test sale to check the operational capabilities of system infrastructure", but is really just a shot across the bow at Putin for whom high commodity prices are orders of magnitude more important than how the Russian stock market performs. And now, as Bloomberg just reported, the US has escalated even further, citing the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Martin Dempsey, who "has claimed that in the case of an escalation of unrest in Crimea, the U.S. Army is ready to back up Ukraine and its allies in Europe with military actions."...More seriously, the real question is how Putin will react to this quantum escalation in verbal hostilities: wild guess here, but somehow we doubt he will pick up and leave.http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-03-12/chairman-joint-chiefs-staff-us-ready-military-response-ukraine
With diplomacy having failed miserably to resolve the Russian annexation of Crimea, and soon East Ukraine (and with John Kerry in charge of it, was there ever any doubt), the US is moving to the heavy artillery. First, moments ago, the US DOE announced in a shocking announcement that it would proceed with the first draw down and sale of crude from the US strategic petroleum reserve, the first since June 2011, in what it said was a "test sale to check the operational capabilities of system infrastructure", but is really just a shot across the bow at Putin for whom high commodity prices are orders of magnitude more important than how the Russian stock market performs. And now, as Bloomberg just reported, the US has escalated even further, citing the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Martin Dempsey, who "has claimed that in the case of an escalation of unrest in Crimea, the U.S. Army is ready to back up Ukraine and its allies in Europe with military actions."...More seriously, the real question is how Putin will react to this quantum escalation in verbal hostilities: wild guess here, but somehow we doubt he will pick up and leave.
Dempsey: Russia’s ethnic Crimea claim poses ‘significant risk’ to Eastern Europehttp://www.pbs.org/newshour/updates/dempsey-ukraine/