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what is described in the west as a russian invasion of crimea is a fact the presence of russian soldiers in crimea can you clarify that. gaga would have believed according to quote but the most of the most go floor the could and. as long ago as eighteen zero four sevastopol the naval base became the main military port of the russian empire on the black sea. during the second world war the heroic defense of sevastopol lasted almost a year and took hundreds of thousands of lives. therefore the naval base in crimea has a legacy of historical pride for the russian black sea fleet as well as being of huge strategic importance.
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those of us alive back then remember when there were soviet missiles put into cuba how frightened americans were and how angry and how we almost went to a nuclear confrontation over having weapons of that kind of destruction placed that close to the united states. just so if the united states considers cuba to be in its backyard. then crimea plays at russia's doorstep. the consequences of a u.s. seizure of the face or a nato base which in general. but almost some of us india. is a natural. i taught me to. put you on with that. post today and you know unless. you know it's not this book with practical. opinion it's. so it's not just enough to use ocean to win the support that we. know in a system that was sold me on the leader on the. if you will or. it was
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a piece of wood. just i'm a part of what i. just live. on the phone fixed amongst the windows and it would seem easy if it's to make. a national system. unless i'm. supposed to in the beginning. we would soak in the response. to me because you knew seemed up and you know look at clint you just know in the us those. years that you play in the in the lead you disappear you know the same so send them. up in the back of the and. get a little illusion when you pay for a bison you get on the net and you're. concerned about the expansion of nato nato has expanded into thirteen countries up to the borders of russia thirteen
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countries at the. shia way not. in early spring of two thousand and fourteen eastern ukraine was also buzzing with protests against the new authorities in kiev this region with the population close to russia geographically and culturally feared that the ultra right leanings of the newly formed government would bring meal nationalism to their lands. and they have their reasons. the status of the russian language in ukraine has been a stumbling block for many years implementing russian nasa second state language was one of the main campaign promises of president bush in a full day in two thousand and twelve the government passed a law making it the second official language in the southern and eastern parts of
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ukraine the areas where the russian speaking. elation makes up a majority ukrainian nationalist groups initiated massive protests opposing the law and observing viewer might see some familiar faces there on a five month. part of our last. on february twenty third two thousand and fourteen the very next day after the regime change the new government voted for an a no meant of the official status of the russian language and even though later this decision was vetoed by the acting president alexander turchynov it still sent a message and a powerful one this alarmed the russian speaking cities of eastern ukraine and people took to the streets to show their disagreement was in response on its conducted their own demonstrations when the two parties would meet it was always tense and eventually it led to tragedy. one person died and
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over fifty people were wounded in clashes during a pro russian march protesting the new government in kiev. on april sixth the crimean scenario began repeating eastern ukraine where protesters seized government buildings. and the next day april seventh the day proclaimed don't yet see people's republic kiev replied by announcing the beginning of an anti-terrorist operation in eastern ukraine. a russian invasion in ukraine russia could now be on the verge of invading ukraine but strong words state only in the media the ukrainian authorities never announced a war like situation why i.m.f. cannot give money to countries engaged in ongoing war that's rope. when you go to your show will go to geneva too much money was already invested in ukraine to stop halfway had invested over five billion dollars to assist. ukraine
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in these and other goals that will ensure a secure and prosperous and democratic train. starts in a city in the world it will slowly new democracy just. some of them but obviously the funds had to keep coming and the conflict had to keep going. and more bloody and deadly was all you've shown me. as parties from both sides were using more sophisticated and lethal weapons. that's why you know. through a new deal. you know it's really kind of. the
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world seemed too busy welcoming this new democracy in kiev. to notice what was being done as it spread its wings over the country. many in southern ukraine had been viewing the revolution with concern. and an anti mind on movement formed in the city of odessa in early january two thousand and fourteen the protesters set up their camp in front of the trade union house a building which would soon become a monument to a massacre of its own it's difficult to overestimate the importance of odessa it is strategically located on the black sea and it's ukraine's largest seaport it's not surprising that ukraine's new authorities were watching the situation unfolding there with growing alarm. more and more of odessa as people were joining the anti
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my don movement at the same time as events in eastern ukraine were heating up. the new ukrainian government didn't have the power to wage war on too many fronts if odessa were to join the growing uprising in the eastern regions it would seriously complicate the situation. this rebellion had to be extinguished immediately and at any cost and that soccer fans flocked to the center of odessa city for the ukrainian championship match surprisingly a great number of these fans who descended into odessa just the night before also turned out to be fighters from the my don self-defense units along with members of radical organizations from all parts of ukraine that these. books a lot of. these families asked armed and shouting nationalist mottos began disturbances in the center of the city as they marched to the end time i don tent encampment where they attacked. the anti might on protesters sought shelter in the
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trade union house but it was a track down supporters started throwing molotov cocktails into the building until it was engulfed in flames. people burn to death inside for trying to escape jumped from. a little fire station was less than a mile away it took almost half an hour for firefighters to arrive when they finally did the damage had been done. but here's an intriguing fact just a few days before those dreadful events a messenger from my don on pair o. b. made a visit to odessa it's an interesting coincidence that some of the people he met with in odessa were seen at the scene that fateful day. but not everyone was mourning on the popular political talk show schuster live the
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news about the people burned alive in odessa was welcomed with a long round of applause where he. just said just put it. on its facebook page the right sector announced the events of may second a proud moment in national history an official investigation into this sad event has been going on now for nearly two years and it's yet to reach a conclusion but it seems the experts and all the information they needed from the very beginning. to just get really cute. it looks like a desa really is a very important piece of real estate as it was on earth with a very special new governor appointed on may thirtieth of two thousand and fifteen
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. mikhail saakashvili old friend of the united states and born and raised in ukraine's neighboring country georgia. there in georgia a quick look at his by. gives one an understanding that he's been groomed for a special mission to be decided on his i don't know let me go to mr saakashvili received a u.s. state department scholarship and he worked for a new york law firm which represented the organization commodity a group that appeared earlier when we learned about the color revolutions and we're dealing with democratic bloodless revolution this is the revolution of roses and this is mikail saakashvili with camara busy overthrowing the legitimately elected president eduard shevardnadze. but. was. soon after the rose revolution blossom fully georgia announced its intentions to
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join nato and plant fresh nato military bases in the fertile soil right on russia's border never ever will give our freedom and independence never ever will give any piece of our territory saakashvili is mission was accomplished at least with his friends and nato the georgian populace wasn't quite as happy though in two thousand and seven they took to the streets to voice discontent and mr saakashvili responded with force. the people's discontent. saakashvili party lost parliamentary elections and the opposition took control he said this means that the parliamentary majority should set up a new government as the president according to our constitution decided not to wait for the results of the president's election and fled the country in october two thousand and thirteen.
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wrong. all all. well yet to stamp out the. it comes to cancer. and it gains from it equals betrayal. when so many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground. though this time. i'm just not up to sit down. with. him. so there was a build up. in the him around mission but then. look
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. for the little guy. the moment the modern i don't want to go about. something. mr. home. on to a full stomach with. a little warmth and you know what. shall i do. this i go. forward to say something quite remarkable in the night twenty nineteen we're watching a country testbed in the nineteenth century bubble brayley four. hundred years they're going to crash into the twenty first century as if they're just being
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teleported into the twenty first century. in two thousand and fourteen saakashvili refused summons to appear in court as a witness in several criminal cases later that same year he was accused of misuse of power and embezzle meant. a new assignment. mikail actively supported my down and very soon was rewarded with a high position in the new ukrainian government first as the president's counselor and then as the governor of odessa the day before taking this position he renounced his citizenship to georgia the country of the birth and became a ukrainian citizen. then the suggest others gordon could have done in the way explored that road in the cecil. gordon could have done in the way explored that road in. as they say the battle is worth the blood both literally and
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figuratively. crassness now do i not somebody affordable by the us out reading your paper to class now toss thought. on no crying i'm a salmon dealer to chester but i have. on the my seal of geoffrey pyatt the u.s. ambassador to ukraine paid a visit to saakashvili just a month after he took office in odessa it is law and the old last administration is delivering results. you're going to see a steady flow of embassy in washington visitors coming here the meeting was fruitful and geoffrey generous. no matter how well saakashvili is job goes it looks like he shouldn't be worried about his own finances on his facebook page he posted an official document showing dollars and dollars a year for comparison the governor of maine gets seventy thousand dollars
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a year so if odessa became a new u.s. state it would be at the top of the list mr saakashvili should feel right at home in his newly adopted country he is best of friends with fellow color revolutionary leader viktor yuschenko who is the godfather of his son. and then other mothers called us in the election of president saakashvili at the post the bully walk as kind of being it's just sad to see them leave. even though there's a lot of. it when you're still there but they still do stretches it hated it with you but i just ended up. this boy did business do what they should get enough of this almost just in your body edition of c.n.n. in the us will be. it does they were able to contain such. a war once launched doesn't choose its victims we are just learning at this hour
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that malaysian airlines has now confirmed that it has lost contact with one of its planes plane was indeed shot down by a missile while flying at a high altitude over eastern ukraine near the russian border two hundred ninety eight revised number of souls on board all feared dead it was a murder it was a crime there's been this odd nonchalance about pursuing the answers there was a report a very limited report put out a few months after the event but since then they said the next report will be on the first anniversary of the event but you deal with a criminal investigation before becomes a cold case so there's been this curious element of why is there not greater pressure from both the media and the the western governments to answer these questions but even without any answers the fingers were pointed immediately that's
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not an accident that is happening because a russian support evidence indicates that the plane was shot down by a surface to air missile that was launched from an area that is controlled by russian backed separatists inside of ukraine into these little souls are thought to put up a national show that just as it's a question to keep. the malaysian boeing wasn't the first plane to play a significant part in american russian relationships on september first one nine hundred eighty three korean airlines flight double zero seven from new york to seoul via anchorage was shot down by a soviet interceptor aircraft over the territory of the u.s.s.r. in the sea of japan there was absolutely no justification either legal or moral for what the soviets did the tragedy of the. bowing was considered a perfect occasion to demonstrate the nato military power within dangerous proximity to the soviets on november second one thousand nine hundred eighty three
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nato launched able archer attend a command post exercise simulating a conflict escalation culminating in a nuclear attack it was followed by placing pershing two nuclear missiles in europe . what reagan didn't take into consideration was the paranoid overreaction of the soviets. a recently declassified us intelligence report shows that for the first time since the cuban missile crisis the world was that close to nuclear war. just like in one nine hundred eighty three the malaysian boeing crash was leveraged against the enemy. a new wave of sanctions hit russia mediately after the tragedy. the united states is imposing new sanctions in key sectors of the russian economy almost a year and three months later the dutch safety board published a report that is jeff toobin flats m h seventy crashed because often the end of
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three well for. the today it's our side of the arrow playing the best the left side of the car fits the report didn't blame any specific group or person and estimated a very wide area of three hundred twenty kilometers as a zone from which the missiles fired at the same time the russian producer of missiles day conducted its own independent investigation. that they speeded me up then during the experiment they blew up a retired airliner with a bouquet missile and came to the conclusion that the malaysian plane was brought down by the older type of missiles not used by russia anymore but still in the possession of ukraine the company claims that the missile was launched from the territory controlled by the ukrainian military. ari. one would expect that these controversial results would again stir up public interest in the investigation but the tragedy of malaysian flight m h seventeen at already played
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its role in the big geo political game therefore it was soon forgotten the goal was achieved after the third wave of sanctions hit russia the tensions between the two countries skyrocketed so the question presents itself are we truly witnessing the beginning of cold war two point zero and if so what are chances to survive at this time. in one thousand nine hundred seven the bulletin of atomic scientists introduce the doomsday clock. it represents a countdown to global nuclear annihilation. in one nine hundred fifty three during the height of the cold war it came its closest to midnight as the
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superpowers were creating massive nuclear arsenal this story of america's ever expanding atomic weapons program as the world began to grasp the insane danger of nuclear warfare and took measures to control the arms race the situation steadily improved. in one nine hundred ninety one the doomsday clock was at its furthest from midnight seventeen minutes. the time of hope was short lived though as the world has become more and more unstable. but in two thousand and fifteen the bulletin of atomic scientists moved the clock to just three minutes to midnight stay on check to climate change in a nuclear arms race resulting from the modernization of huge ourselves. pose extraordinary and undeniable threats to the continued existence of. the united states and russia have embarked on massive programs to modernize their nuclear
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arsenals. undermining the existing nuclear weapons treaty so. the clock ticks now at just three minutes to midnight because international leaders are failing to perform their most important duty ensuring and preserving the health and vitality of human civilization.
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what holds his hands do something to. put themselves on the line. to get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president or injury. or something or want to. have to go right to the press this is what the local three in the morning can't be good. i'm interested always in the waters in the house. should. we came here where did you work before you came here when you live well. in many us states capital punishment is still practiced convicted prisoners can spend years waiting for execution but most of the time the victims' families they are very much in favor the death penalty there are some people because of what they did have given up their rights as live among us somebody's been proven innocent of to years on death row and how many more exonerations is it going to take before we as
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a society realize that this is not working and we actually do something about. it one. kid. but it got me though a lot. of . the aussie link on line media company caught up in a facebook crackdown muffet media agrees to update its information on the plot unfolded and is now waiting for the social media giant to lift it says that.
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facebook's decision to suspend the accounts has been lambasted as an octave censorship by the head of the international federation of journalists. plus fueling discourse the german chancellor of course is outraged by suggesting outside influences behind a wave of student launches protesting climate change also ahead. of a search for every official who is helping to keep produce or plants they are risking their future. their risk.

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