So, the authorities of continental Russia and Crimea have confirmed that during the first—the most, so to speak, patriotism-saturated—week, Crimean authorities received only 20,000 applications for Russian passports.
In fact, it appears that this figure allows us to figure out the real number of voters in the referendum.
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Photo: Boris Bukhman
More than 10 thousand people have marched against war and for a unified and peaceful Ukraine in Odesa today. The activists have spread a kilometer-long flag of Ukraine on the famous Derybasivska street and Prymorskiy boulevard! “One, united, unified Ukraine!” was the main slogan of the march.
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Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk stated in his speech before the Parliament on March 28 that, following the revisions to the Tax Code, the number of taxes levied in Ukraine may be cut down to eight.
“We must adopt a new version of the Tax Code, which would provide for cutting down the number of taxes to eight and for expanding the tax base”, he said. According to Yatsenyuk, a draft law to this effect could be introduced in Parliament sometime next year.
“The more simple the tax system is, the fewer opportunities are there for officials to collect bribes”, noted the Prime Minister. As a reminder, Ukraine holds the first place globally in terms of the number of various taxes levied. The World Bank has calculated that Ukrainian businesses pay, in some form, a total of 135 different taxes.
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Information Resistance
03.28.2014
Translated and edited by Voices of Ukraine
It’s obvious that in the history of modern Ukraine, not one “political corpse” has crapped on their own country and people as actively as Yanukovych. We all understand who pulls the strings; it’s pretty obvious. But even his last name is already an annoyance.
By the way, it is without any doubt that even if VFY [Viktor Fedorovych Yanukovych], by a fateful turn of events becomes a “biological corpse,” he would still be sending “messages” from his grave, asking Ukrainians to fight “against the illegitimate government.” Russian agitprop would ensure reliable communication with the other world.
Closer to home. Up until today, we have observed Russia preparing “legal grounds” for its invasion on several fronts.
The first direction – calling Yanukovych the “legitimate President.” This is an excuse to invade Ukraine at any scale. The obvious purpose is the “return of the legitimate government” to Ukraine.
The second direction is to destabilize the situation in the Southeast by using separatists. The obvious purpose is to use those separatists mouths who are occupying the local public authorities to ask Russia for “help” in “protecting their compatriots.”
The further script is clear: Russian troops would arrive quickly because they could not help but respond to the request, and by a happy coincidence were already gathered at the Ukrainian border at this time. Next – a referendum under gunpoint, and – Good bye, Southeast.
But Putin is losing his initiative. Clearly separatist attempts are down, and their leaders are more likely to change the rostrum at the city council on comfortable stools in front of an attentive investigator with the SBU [Security Service of Ukraine].
And Putin makes a knight’s move [chess term] – he unites Yanukovuch with “the separatist card.” After his “address” today, VFY practically becomes the leader of a Ukrainian separatist counterrevolution.
There are two aspects to this – a bad one and a relatively good one.
The relatively good aspect is that in this case, it is finally clear: Putin will not encroach on the whole of Ukraine. Today’s goal for him includes the Southeast, the boundaries of which are essentially limited by the geography of Ukrainian separatism. Them he seems ready to confine.
There is nothing pleasant about this, but we are not going to expect “little green men” on Khreshchatyk [main street in Kyiv].
The bad point is that Putin does not abandon his plans to invade. And the more the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs simultaneously wails about the absence of such plans, the harder it is to believe them.
And therefore it’s too early to relax.
Quelle: https://www.facebook.com/charis.haska/posts/626565650743463?stream_ref=10
„Ich hab heute Besuch aus Russland gehabt.“ erzählt sie. „Ich bin mit ihnen am Maidan gewesen. Ganz lang wollten sie dort schauen. Sie sind total neidisch auf uns.“ – „Total neidisch? Wie ist denn das zu verstehen?“ möchte ich wissen. „Na, bei ihnen bedeutet doch die Teilnahme an jeglichem Aufstand, dass sie ins Gefängnis kommen. Ein Freund von mir hat in Russland neulich an der ersten Demonstration in Moskau teilgenommen. Er hatte sich bloß ein Schild umgehängt, auf dem stand: <Keinen Krieg!> Weiter hat er nichts gemacht. Aber er wurde sofort festgenommen. Später wurde er zum Glück wieder freigelassen. Ja, sie sind neidisch auf uns und wünschen uns, dass es wenigstens bei uns klappt.“
„Ich hab eine der Demonstrationen im Fernsehen gesehen.“ sagt die, die ihr gegenüber sitzt. „Jeden einzelnen von ihnen hätte ich umarmen können. Transparente haben sie getragen, auf denen stand <Ukraine, vergib uns!>“
Obwohl unsere Handpuppe Michi redlich versucht, ein paar Späßchen zu machen, bleibt die Stimmung im Kirchenflur gedämpft. Ich sehe, dass allen Anwesenden zum Weinen zumute ist. Ralf sagt, dass in der Nacht die Uhr umgestellt wird. Mit einer Entschuldigung, dann müsse sie jetzt schleunigst zu Bett gehen, verabschiedet sich die Erste hastig.
