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Back after an outage for a publisher update!
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Speaking to journalists ahead of the EU foreign ministers meeting in Brussels, Swedish Foreign Minister Carl Bildt said:
"We had [Russian] President [Vladimir] Putin the other day saying two things, that he thought that the so-called referendum should be delayed. That did not happen and he could possibly say that he doesn't control of events. He said, the other thing that he was going to do -- withdraw Russian forces from the border. That did not happen. And I think it would be difficult for President Putin to say he doesn't have control over the Russian forces."
"We also saw, by the way, that some persons in eastern Ukraine that we know are very closely tied into Moscow were very active in the so-called referendum. So we will see what happens. You have to judge Moscow less by the words and more by the actions. I think we have learned that during the past few months.
"Red lines are on the other side of the Atlantic. They are the ones that are in the business of red lines. I am not quite certain that we are. We are in the business of trying to help Ukraine. Develop its democracy, preserve its territorial integrity, reform its economy after decades of corruption and mismanagement. These are huge tasks that are going to be dominating the next few years. This is not a crisis that are going to pass in a week or two weeks. It is going be there for quite some time. We want to stabilize Ukraine, others want to destabilize Ukraine. That is the big difference."
"We also saw, by the way, that some persons in eastern Ukraine that we know are very closely tied into Moscow were very active in the so-called referendum. So we will see what happens. You have to judge Moscow less by the words and more by the actions. I think we have learned that during the past few months.
"Red lines are on the other side of the Atlantic. They are the ones that are in the business of red lines. I am not quite certain that we are. We are in the business of trying to help Ukraine. Develop its democracy, preserve its territorial integrity, reform its economy after decades of corruption and mismanagement. These are huge tasks that are going to be dominating the next few years. This is not a crisis that are going to pass in a week or two weeks. It is going be there for quite some time. We want to stabilize Ukraine, others want to destabilize Ukraine. That is the big difference."
12:09
12.5.2014
Map on wall in office of governor of Donetsk People's Republic shows territory they want in #Russia. pic.twitter.com/iFKx7pRXrm
— Alexander Marquardt (@MarquardtA) May 12, 2014
12:11
12.5.2014
Peacefull inside #sloviansk From time to time shooting on outskirt #slavyansk according to sources shells fired from both side #ukraine
— Pierre Crom (@PierreCrom) May 12, 2014
12:13
12.5.2014
As reported earlier, a reporter from Russian nonstate media abducted:
Donetsk rebels confirm they've taken Pavel Kanygin of Novaya Gazata. http://t.co/w89mkX56AL
— Roland Oliphant (@RolandOliphant) May 12, 2014
12:16
12.5.2014
Has Pavel Gubarev, the self-declared "people's governor" of Donetsk, said too much? Is Ukraine's richest man behind the eastern separatists?
Whoops, Gubarev says 2/3 of separatist insurgents in #Donetsk eventually were paid by #Akhmetov, even committed ones. http://t.co/1u58Fzvff1
— Natalia Melnychuk (@pravolivo) May 12, 2014
12:23
12.5.2014
Fascism returns to Ukraine: one epic text by Timothy Snyder absolutely everybody should read http://t.co/duG4YyNmpq pic.twitter.com/xr2owzIfn3
— Maxim Eristavi (@MaximEristavi) May 12, 2014