Ukraine

Washington’s Two-Bit Punk Ukrainian Puppet Prime Minister Resigns

Arseny Yatsenyuk, put into office by the neocon criminal Victoria Nuland has resigned.

What new puppet will the Washington criminals stick in ofice to enable the completion of the looting of Ukraine?

https://www.rt.com/news/339119-ukraine-pm-yatsenyuk-resigns/

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Did the Panama Papers just claim their second victim?

While much of the media has been focusing on the Panama Papers allegations surrounding "close friends" of Russian president Vladimir Putin, one person who has been directly named as implicated in offshore tax scandal is Ukraine's billionaire president, Petro Poroshenko.

This is what the ICIJ had to say about this specific involvement:

Via OrientalReview.org,

Earlier this month while delivering a public lecture in Kiev, “The Challenges of an Ever-Changing World,” former US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice made an inspiring remark for anyone who might have been thinking that life in Ukraine was bad:

“You should go to Liberia where the standard of living is much lower, and then you will be thankful.”

Friday was the second anniversary of Russia’s annexation of Crimea from Ukraine.

To mark the event, Vladimir Putin paid a visit to the island of Tuzla, where he checked in on a construction project aimed at bridging the Black Sea peninsula with the Russian mainland. The bridge, which is expected to cost somewhere in the neighborhood of €3 billion, will be the first direct link between Crimea and Russia and will span about 12 miles across the Kerch Strait.