2014 Ukrainian Maidan Revolt: News, Views, Photos & Videos

jobjed said:

Your opinion ≠ maths. Stop misquoting it as such.

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SampanViking said:

Irrespective of whether it is the Western Regions wanting to join the EU or the Eastern wanting to join Russia, that the majority of Ukrainians actually do not want to be a part of Ukraine!

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thunderchief said:

Shale gas and oil shale are real deals, there is no doubt about that.
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Rutim said:

Tatars of course boycotted the referendum

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asif iqbal said:

The issue here delft is that two wrong don't make a right, I am not supporting the actions of US on Libya or Iraq and not supporting Russia for standing by Assad what is wrong is wrong

You deport all the ethnic people and send in Russians and hold a referredum and say its your territory?

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Rutim said:

Let's say that 58% of Crimean population speaks Russian, 12% are Tatars and rest are Ukrainians. 87% means all of Ukrainians and Russians went to vote and they all said 'Yes' to separation from Ukraine (Tatars of course boycotted the referendum). This means almost 100%.

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Japan Imposes Mild Sanctions on Russia Over Crimea said:

TOKYO — Japan on Tuesday imposed some modest sanctions on Russia for its recognition of Crimea as an independent state — suspending talks on relaxing visa requirements between the two countries and talks on investment, space exploration and military cooperation.

Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida said in a statement that Japan does not recognize the outcome of Crimea's referendum to split from Ukraine, saying it violates the Ukrainian Constitution.

"It is regretful that Russia's recognition of the independence of Crimea interferes with the integrity of Ukraine's sovereignty and territory," Kishida told reporters. "We cannot overlook Russia's attempt to change the status quo by force."

The moves are seen as mild compared to sanctions by the U.S. and European Union, which have frozen the assets of individuals linked to the unrest in Crimea or who support the region's vote to secede from Ukraine.

But Japanese officials said that an investment seminar sponsored by private institutions but backed by both governments that was scheduled for Wednesday was still on.

Ties between Russia and Japan have been strained for decades due to a dispute over a cluster of Russian-controlled islands off the northern island of Hokkaido called the southern Kurils in Russia and the Northern Territories in Japan. The dispute has kept the two countries from signing a peace treaty after World War II.

But last month, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said that negotiations toward forging a treaty were accelerating. Abe is also eager to unleash new trade and energy business with Russia that has been hung up by the dispute.

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Jura said:

Instead of Likes, I've gotten Wikipedia articles LOL

I asked mainly because I recall some time ago, three years maybe, there was "a shale gas rush" in Poland, with claims of reserves for one thousand years of Poland's current natural gas consumption! but now there seems to be "only 1 -- 10% shale gas left" of those estimates, without any digging as far as I know ... and for example ExxonMobil pulled off (in September 2013, I just checked)

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Europe Nears First Commercial Shale Gas Production in Poland

Europe passed a “major milestone” on the way to starting commercial shale gas production as San Leon (SLE) Energy Plc said testing at one of its Polish wells was successful.

Natural gas flowed from the vertical Lewino well in a shale formation in the Baltic Basin in northern Poland at as much as 60,000 cubic feet per day during tests, Dublin-based San Leon, a natural-gas explorer backed by billionaire George Soros and Blackrock Inc., said today in a filing. The company will start drilling a more productive horizontal well no later than July, said Dennis McKee, the chief executive officer of United Oilfield Services Sp. z o.o., which worked on Lewino.

Countries including Poland, the U.K., Ukraine and Romania are keen to develop shale gas resources as a way to lower energy costs and reduce imports. Europe must get a grip on energy prices to protect growth and reduce the cost gap with the U.S., where a shale-gas revolution has cut prices, European Union Energy Commissioner Guenther Oettinger told a conference in Berlin on Jan. 21, via a link from Brussels.

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asif iqbal said:

I will be straight forward and clear, Ukraine peoples are very nice and friendly they are good to do business with and always wanted to be separate from Russia but at the same time they were also nice to the Russians and allowed them the naval base for the Russian Black Sea Fleet

It's the responsibly of all European country's, NATO and US to help Ukraine and stand by them throgh thick and thin

All of them should be ashamed with thier slow slow approach with all the modern militray hardware they were unable to stop Crimea falling to Russia

I am not saying there should be a war but where is the deterrence now???

Europe is shivering with fear of Russia no one has the guts to stand up to them and this just gives them more and more confidence tomorrow when another Eastern European country's falls under the spell of Russia

The referredum is illegal and not recognised, you can't deport the ethnic people's send in Russians hold referredum and say its part of your country

This is illegal the region was ethically cleansed and Crimes belongs to Ukraine end of story

For all their naval power the West has let Ukraine down so quick to jump to Libya and Syria yet nothing when a entire region is axed by Russia shameful

That's what this is shameful tomorrow who's next?

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solarz said:

What exactly are you trying to say?

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thunderchief said:

Not all of the Tatars boycotted referendum, there are those with ties and relatives in Russia. ...

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