Signaturen ”M” bidrar mycket till bloggen genom kommentarer,inte sällan med intressanta citat och länkar. Jag omvandlar nu tre kommentarer från henne om besöket av Ukrainas premiärminister Poroshenko hos Sveriges statsminister Löfvén till ett blogginlägg.

Titeln jag satt kan tyckas fräck och brysk. Jag associerar till Olof Palmes beteckning ”diktaturens kreatur” för de ledare för Tjeckoslovakien som lättvindigt kom att acceptera Sovjetunionens inmarsch 1968, och demonstrerade själv mot detta i Uppsala i augusti 1968. Jag tror att M, Stefan Lindgren och jag menar att ”imperialismens kreatur” nu är ungefär detsamma som ”diktaturens kreatur”

I. Egen ingress: Sveriges stöd till USA-marionetten Poroshenko vars ställning vilar på en väststödd statskupp är en skandal, ett slag i ansiktet på anhängare av demokrati och frihet. Och Poroshenko är välvillig till framväxten av ren nazism i landet. Att Sverige dessutom hårt angriper Ryssland och Syrien för att de bekämpar terrorismen i Syrien, på basis av beslut i FN-ledda förhandlingar är hemskt.
Löfvén, Wallström och Hultqvist framstår inte bara som inkompetenta och okunniga utan visar i praktiken att de inte är anhängare av demokrati eller kamp mot terrorismen – trots deras ordsvall i motsats riktning.

Kommentaren från ”M”.
”Att Löfven nu smickrar och krusar detta diktaturens kreatur är en skam för Sverige och för Olof Palmes arvtagare.

Samma dag som Porosjenko besökte Stockholm gick det statsfinansierade Utrikespolitiska institutet ut med en sällsynt amper bulletin riktat mot Donald Trump med anledning av att skaparen av den ”rasistsiska och sexistiska” nyhetssajten breitbart.com utsetts att sitta med i kommande regering i USA. Läsarna kan döma själva…
Åtta dagar

Alldeles nyss var Ukrainas president Petro Porosjenko på besök hos Stefan Löfvén.

När Porosjenko kom hem till Kiev utsåg han en ny chef för landets poliskår. En tvättäkta nazist.

Nazisten heter Vadim Trojan och var tidigare verksam i Azov-bataljonen där nazistiska symboler var vanliga. 2014-2015 var han ställföreträdande befälhavare för denna privatfinansierade bataljon vars ”antiterroristiska” verksamhet välsignades av staten. Föremålen för deras ”antiterrorism” återfinns i massgravar runt om i ingenmansland kring de självutnämnda folkrepublikerna DNR och LNR

Trojan belönades senare med posten som chef för rikspolisdirektoratet i Kievregionen och senare ställföreträdande chef för Ukraina Natspolitsii från 4 mars 2016.Åtta dagar II

II Stefan Löfven/Sverige är orolig över:
”Sverige följer med djup oro den förvärrade människorätts-situationen på den olagligen annekterade Krimhalvön.”
Regeringen

Men har inga problem med Poroshenko/Ukraina omfattande och bevisade brott av människorätts-situationen i rebellområden. I juni 2015 Ukrainas regering informerade berörda institutioner att det skulle avvika från vissa statliga skyldigheter enligt ICCPR och Europakonventionen.

Kiev’s limitations on human rights in Donbass ‘not a carte blanche’
”Ukraine’s derogation from certain human rights obligations in east Ukraine does not give it carte blanche; all restrictions must be proportionate or necessary, and monitored by international bodies, Rachel Denber of Human Rights Watch, told RT.

Donbass residents have also been affected by an economic blockade, imposed by Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko in November 2014. It’s not a carte blanche, it means that any restrictions that the government of Ukraine introduces in Lugansk and Donetsk Oblast have to be necessary, they have to be proportionate, they have to be non-discriminatory.
You can’t derogate from the ban on torture.” RUssia Today

”The report is sharply critical of Ukrainian government actions, including the cessation of social payments to the residents of the people’s republics of Donetsk and Lugansk, restrictions of freedom of movement and many other measures it has taken.

Altogether, the Commissioner makes 89 recommendations for the improvement of human rights in eastern Ukraine. The bulk of those recommendations are directed at the Ukrainian government.”
EU-kritik mot Ukraina

Den ”gode” Stefan Löfven borde läsa Minsk2 avtalet innan han uttalar sig

”…it was obliged six weeks ago to accept a ceasefire protocol beginning on September 1, 2015. Acceptance of the ceasefire protocol came about due to EU pressuring and the impossibility of Kyiv continuing to ignore its internal political and economic crisis

Kyiv’s foreign minister proclaims there will be no amnesty for Donbas self-defense fighters (clause five of Minsk-2) and there will be no recognition of special status for the Donetsk and Lugansk republics (clauses 11 and 12). Kyiv’s ongoing economic blockade is a violation of clause eight.
…the agreement carries the full weight of the United Nations Security Council. The Security Council endorsed Minsk-2 on February 17. Ukraina håller inte Minsk-2-avtalet

”The government in Kiev must implement reforms and introduce particular amendments in its constitution on the special status of Donbass and the electoral process in the region. We hope that the results will be achieved by the end of this year,” Ayrault said, according to the French newspaper.
Figaro
Vem bryter mot Minsk-2-avtalet?

II. Trots påståenden om brott mot mänskliga rättigheterna på Krim har utomstående en annan uppfattning:

Stephen EBERT (USA): ”Recent Western-conducted public opinion polls and observations from a French fact-finding delegation clearly contradict official US representations of the Crimea as a “kingdom of terror”.
I am no mere casual observer – I speak Russian fluently, and with over 3 decades of involvement, have a deep understanding of the history and culture of both Russia and the former USSR. I also have perspective gleaned from closely following Russia media. The West’s labeling of the latter as “propaganda” is in and of itself ill-informed and dangerous propaganda. The West (more specifically the State Department) certainly has the right to its own opinion, but not its own facts.” Krim: Happy campers or kingdom of terror?

Ukrainian political scientist Taras Berezovets, a Crimea native, recently started an initiative he called Free Crimea, aided by the Canada Fund for Local Initiatives and aimed at building Ukrainian soft power on the peninsula. He started by commissioning a poll of Crimean residents from the Ukrainian branch of Germany’s biggest market research organization, GfK. The poll results were something of a cold shower to Berezovets.

GfK Ukraine’s poll wasn’t based on actual field work, which is understandable, since a Ukraine-based organization would have a tough time operating in today’s Crimea, which is rife with Russian FSB secret police agents and ruled by a local government intent on keeping dissent to a minimum. Instead, it conducted a telephone poll of 800 people in Crimea.

The calls were made on Jan. 16-22 to people living in towns with a population of 20,000 or more, which probably led to the peninsula’s native population, the Tatars, being underrepresented because many of them live in small villages. On the other hand, no calls were placed in Sevastopol, the most pro-Russian city in Crimea. Even with these limitations, it was the most representative independent poll taken on the peninsula since its annexation.

Eighty-two percent of those polled said they fully supported Crimea’s inclusion in Russia, and another 11 percent expressed partial support. Only 4 percent spoke out against it.

Yet answers to other, more neutral questions show Crimeans are not interested in going back to Ukraine.

Fifty-one percent reported their well-being had improved in the past year. That especially concerns retirees, who started receiving much higher Russian pensions. Being part of a wealthier state — and, despite its recent economic woes, Russia is still far wealthier than Ukraine — is a powerful lure, despite a drop-off in tourism revenues, the peninsula’s major source of income. Berezovets’ group estimates that they dropped to $2.9 billion in 2014 from $5.1 billion the year before — but that is being compensated by transfers from Moscow. In 2015, the peninsula will receive 47 billion rubles ($705 million), or 75 percent of its budget, from Russia, not counting the increased pensions. Ukraine never financed the peninsula at that level: in 2014, it planned to transfer 3.03 billion hryvnias ($378 million at the time) to Crimea.

Crimeans’ year of upheaval has made them sophisticated news consumers: They have learned to reject the propaganda flying at them from all sides. Eighty percent say Ukrainian coverage of their region is all or mostly lies. While 84 percent watch Russian television from time to time, only 10 percent say they trust it. Social networks have become the most trusted source of information: 29 percent say they rely on them.”
Krimborna gillar läget

Most Crimeans ‘happy to be back in Russia’ – head of French delegation to peninsula
”A delegation of French lawmakers visited Crimea on July 23-24.
MP Thierry Mariani, who led the group of 10 politicians, said the citizens of Crimea were “reassured” they “don’t have to face the same situation as the people who live in the regions of Lugansk and Donetsk” – the eastern areas of Ukraine devastated by war waged by the Kiev authorities against the rebels there.

“What we want to say is that the majority of people we have met, various contacts, seemed happy to be back in Russia,” he said at the press conference organized by TASS.

“Crimea is an absolutely peaceful region,” said French MP Claude Goasguen. The people in Crimea cannot be criticized for the fact that the referendum brought peace to them, he added.
Goasguen stressed the Crimean authorities had the absolute right to organize the referendum last year, explaining “the coup in Ukraine was staged not by the people from Crimea, but by those in Maidan.”
Fridsamma Krim

Lästips från ”M”.
http://hitchensblog.mailonsunday.co.uk/2015/02/a-not-so-brief-history-of-crimea.html

Crimea under siege: Revisiting the Crimean referendum

Open letter to Minister of Foreign Affairs of Canada on Ukraine and Russia

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* Ukrainakrisen: Från Nulandkakor till kallt krig. Del 2
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