Monday, May 19, 2014,19:29
Oleksandr Klymenko, the candidate for president from the Ukrainian People’s Party, has ended his campaign. The UPP will now support front-runner Petro Poroshenko.
Klymenko made the announcement on May 17 in Poltava, during the conference of a regional UNP organization. This was reported via Facebook by Olena Zadorozhna, press-secretary of Petro Poroshenko’s election headquarters in Poltava and national deputy Taras Kutovyi.
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Monday, May 19, 2014,19:10
The Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) found and shut down a financial source that would be used for organizing massive unrest and terrorist actions. The announcement comes from the SBU.
“Through the bank accounts of Odesa citizen Z, there was an attempt to transfer 3.93 million hryvnyas to a commercial structure in Kyiv, as one-way financial assistance,” the SBU stated.
According to the SBU, the money was to be used for organizing massive unrest and terrorist actions. “The person’s bank accounts are blocked, and the Service is currently doing its best to find other people involved in these illegal actions. Criminal cases are open, according to p. 3 art. 258-5 “financing terrorism”, and a pre-trial investigation is underway”, SSU stated.
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Monday, May 19, 2014,19:16
Ukraine’s Acting President Oleksandr Turchynov has instructed the Ministry of Justice to probe actions made by the Communist Party of Ukraine. Turchynov announced the measure during remembrance events in “Bykivnyanski Mohyly” reserve in Kyiv on May 18, Interfax-Ukraine reports.
“Today I have signed an official letter to the Ministry of Justice of Ukraine, in which I urge the Minister taking into consideration all the materials given by the Security Service of Ukraine and General Prosecutor’s Office on the illegal anti-constitutional activity of the Communist Party,” Turchynov reported.
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By Information Resistance
05.19.2014
Translated by Voices of Ukraine
Edited by Alex Howard for Voices of Ukraine
According to operational data from Information Resistance, the court is ready to release from detention the Major-general and Deputy Chairman of the State Service of Emergency Situations, [who was] detained earlier for taking a bribe.
What’s interesting is the fact that the court has already determined the bail in the amount of 160,000 Hryvnias [USD $13,389]. According to information obtained by the IR from a source in the judiciary, by strange coincidence the bail amount fully coincides to the amount of the bribe received by the General.
Moreover, according to our data, this amount corresponds to the “first tranche” of the bribe for which the military bureaucrat has been detained. The full sum agreed on with the “client” would amount to 1 million Hryvnias [USD $ 83,682].
According to our information, this General, who came to the State Service of Emergency Situations under Pavlo Lebedyev as the Defense Minister (at the time [Dec 2012-Feb 2014], the State Service was part of the Ministry of Defense), comes from Crimea. He has “family businesses” in Crimea–a café, car parking lots, etc. After his release from the detention center, nothing is preventing him from crossing the administrative order with the ARC [Autonomous Republic of Crimea] and hiding in the occupied territory.
Source: sprotyv.info
By Jon Barrow
Putin is often believed to be playing a clever game, outfoxing the dithering West at every move. But it’s worth looking at this assumption more closely; I would suggest a Cost-Benefit analysis.
First, a few benefits:
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