Putin signs treaty making Crimea part of Russia

[green73]

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news...es-crimea-bid-to-join-russia/article17538515/

As the Russian national anthem played and parliamentarians chanted “Russia! Russia!” Russian President Vladimir Putin and Crimean leaders Tuesday signed a treaty making the peninsula part of the Russian Federation.

The annexation comes just two days after 96.8 per cent of Crimeans voted for union with Russia in a referendum criticized by the Ukrainian and Western governments as illegal.

Update:

Russian and Crimean parliaments sign treaty of accession

MOSCOW —Russia effectively absorbed Crimea Tuesday afternoon, moments after President Vladimir Putin declared that Russia has no designs on any other parts of Ukraine.

In a speech to a joint session of parliament, which he used to call for the “reunification” of Crimea with Russia, he said that the region has a special role in Russian history that makes it unique.

Ecstatic members of the Russian parliament watched while Putin and Crimean leaders signed a treaty of accession as soon as Putin was done speaking, and the Kremlin said afterwards it considers the treaty to be in force even before parliament has ratified it.

Sevastopol, the city where Russia’s Black Sea fleet is based, also entered the Russian Federation, as a separate entity.

Even while declaring that Moscow will not seek to expand its holdings in Ukraine, Putin also promised that Russia will do what it must to protect the rights of Russians living abroad -- which suggests that he intends to play a role in restive eastern Ukraine, with its large Russian population.

He said Moscow will always protect the rights of Russians using “political, diplomatic and legal means.”

But he stressed: “Don’t believe those who say Russia will take other regions after Crimea. We don’t need that.”

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/world...3183b2-654e-45ce-920e-4d18c0ffec73_story.html

 

[FindLiberty]

I hope it turns out that it was a Peace Treaty...

 

[pcosmar]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/pic...The-week-in-pictures-7-May-2010.html?image=13

Dancers in historical uniforms dance during a concert in the Ukrainian Black Sea port of Sevastopol to commemorate the 65th anniversary of the defeat of Nazi Germany in 1945

I wonder if there will be dancing?

 

[Zippyjuan]

Sevastopol, the city where Russia’s Black Sea fleet is based, also entered the Russian Federation, as a separate entity.

The real target.

But he stressed: “Don’t believe those who say Russia will take other regions after Crimea. We don’t need that.”

Didn't Nazi Germany make a similar promise? There are reports that Russians are stirring up protests in other Russian- speaking parts of Ukraine.

Crimea is heavily dependent on Ukraine for things like energy and water supplies. Russia will want to insure those supplies cannot be cut off.

 

[Ronin Truth]

Crimea is Russian. Do you notice the difference?

 

[pcosmar]

There are reports that Russians are stirring up protests in other Russian- speaking parts of Ukraine.
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The Nazis that took over are stirring up trouble for Russians in Ukraine without any help from Russia.

They are serious and violently anti-Russian..
I expect they will turn their attention to other minorities as well.. Give it time and watch.

 

[FindLiberty]

I wonder if there will be dancing?

I think so; those boots appear to be made for dancing as opposed to made for walking or pressing down upon necks.

 

[Peace&Freedom]

The episode shows, once again, that Russia is a chess player, and the US is a poker player. They worked out this game by thinking several moves ahead the whole way, while the West disasterously miscalculated that they would simply back down once the Kiev coup was in force. The US/EU bluffed about doing something more serious than placing token sanctions on a couple of Russian officials. Putin called that bluff successfully, in large part because Russia doesn't know how to bluff, and in part because the West didn't think ahead to realize Russia had the better positioning to win the standoff.

In 2008 Russia took back South Ossetia militarily, then calmly explained in a press conference that the NATO/US/Israeli factions behind Georgia's aggression had about an hour to back down, or else the bombs would start flying. Russia doesn't bluff, which is why Georgia backed down. Same scenario is working out with Crimea.

 

[Zippyjuan]

Didn't' Russia say they had no interest in annexing Crimea? Now they say the same thing about not having interest in the Ukraine?

 

[pcosmar]

I wonder if there will be dancing?

Apparently so.

 

[green73]

Didn't' Russia say they had no interest in annexing Crimea? Now they say the same thing about not having interest in the Ukraine?

I can see eastern parts of Ukraine following suit. Should Russia say no to them?

 

[vita3]

Impressive plays by Russia.

Hard to argue with 97%.

 

[Zippyjuan]

I can see eastern parts of Ukraine following suit. Should Russia say no to them?

Crimea was a semi- autonomus state within the Ukraine. They had not asked for independence before Russia sent in their military.

 

[green73]

Crimea was a semi- autonomus state within the Ukraine. They had not asked for independence before Russia sent in their military.

Russia has, by treaty, had military there for years.

I think they started thinking about it quite a bit after the coup by the West and the fascists.