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May 14, 2024 08:07
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Kittens are cute, but Putin wants to remind everyone he doesn't want American missiles in Romania or Poland, and he may just have to do something about it.
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-russia-europe-shield-idUSKCN0YI2ER
quote:Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday warned Romania and Poland they could find themselves in the sights of Russian rockets because they are hosting elements of a U.S. missile shield that Moscow considers a threat to its security.
Putin issued his starkest warning yet over the missile shield, saying that Moscow had stated repeatedly that it would have to take retaliatory steps but that Washington and its allies had ignored the warnings.
Earlier this month the U.S. military -- which says the shield is needed to protect from Iran, not threaten Russia -- switched on the Romanian part of the shield. Work is going ahead on another part of the shield, in Poland.
"If yesterday in those areas of Romania people simply did not know what it means to be in the cross-hairs, then today we will be forced to carry out certain measures to ensure our security," Putin told a joint news conference in Athens with Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras.
"It will be the same case with Poland,"he said.
Putin did not specify what actions Russia would take, but he insisted that it was not making the first step, only responding to moves by Washington. "We won't take any action until we see rockets in areas that neighbor us."
He said the argument that the project was needed to defend against Iran made no sense because an international deal had been reached to curb Tehran's nuclear program. The missiles that will form the shield can easily reach Russian cities, he said.
CRIMEA ISSUE CLOSED
Putin sounded a defiant note over Crimea, the Ukrainian region which Russia annexed in 2014. Moscow said it was acting on the will of the Crimean people, who voted to join Russia, but Western governments say it was an illegal land grab.
"As far as Crimea is concerned, we consider this question is closed forever," Putin said. "Russia will not conduct any discussions with anyone on this subject."
The Russian leader also touched on relations with Turkey, which have been toxic since the Turkish military shot down a Russian fighter jet near the Syrian-Turkish border last November. Ankara said the plane strayed into Turkish airspace, an allegation Moscow denies.
Putin said he was ready to consider restoring relations with Ankara, but that would require a first step from Turkey, and so far there was no sign of that.
Putin was asked about the South Stream project, a planned gas pipeline from Russia that would have gone under the Black Sea to Bulgaria and onwards to southern Europe. Russia shelved the project after Bulgaria backed out.
He blamed the U.S. government and the European Commission, saying they had pressured Sofia to withdraw. But he said Russia was going ahead with an extension of its Nordstream pipeline in the Baltic, and he hoped no one would try to hinder that project.
Everything is the western homonazis fault. Why do you make me hurt you?
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May 28, 2016 02:47
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150 trained Russian hooligans responsible for most of the violence in Marseille.
quote:The Marseille prosecutor, Brice Robin, says 150 specially trained Russian hooligans were behind much of the violence that broke out in they city before the England v Russia game on Saturday.
Robin spoke after a weekend of violence in the French port city before the European Championship match on Saturday, which ended in a 1-1 draw.
About 35 people have been injured, including four people whose conditions were described as serious. Robin told reporters Monday that while “almost of those who were wounded were British,” England supporters were also responsible for some of the violence. He said 20 people have been arrested. Ten of them – six Brits, an Austrian and three French – will face immediate trial.
Kyiv held it's first gay pride parade this weekend.
quote: Around a thousand people turned up on Sunday for Ukraine's first major gay pride march which was held amid tight security measures in the capital Kiev.
Several thousand police forces were guarding the procession in central Kiev and the rally was peaceful despite far-right groups making threats last week to attack it.
People were marching with rainbow flags and carried placards saying "Love has no gender."
"The road to equality in Ukraine is difficult as well as dangerous," Bohdan Hloba, one of the rally's organizers, said. "We have been threatened with a 'bloodbath' but every step of this march gives us hope."
Authorities sanctioned gay rights marches when the new pro-Western government came into power after the 2014 revolution, but earlier gatherings have been small and have come under attack from far-right groups.
The Kiev city police cordoned off nine streets and closed one subway station Sunday to ensure tight security and prevent clashes. A few anti-gay activists did get in, however, although they were not violent.
"I'm against gay propaganda that these sick people have organized here in collusion with authorities," said Serhiy Hashchenko, a 56-year-old father of 12 who went to the march carrying a placard "Ukraine is no Sodom."
Ultra-nationalist radicals who have threatened to disperse the march were watching it from the security perimeter lined with riot police.
Ukrainian police chief Khatiya Dekanoizdze said the police was following ultra-nationalist groups and detained 57 people before and during the rally.
Last year, a gay pride march in Kiev was called off less than half an hour after it began as right-wing activists pelted the marchers with smoke grenades.
And here's some shelling at night in Donetsk.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQzYh7Og-CU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BDosp7mjsuw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bsaeAm4oIjc
The truce is going well. One civilian was killed.
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Jun 13, 2016 12:42
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Having read this thread, and its previous iterations, this is clearly just Putin collecting kompromat on Trump so they can do great deals with each other, and give him a heads up for the coming campaign so Clinton doesn't win.
In the GOP election thread the consensus was if Russia did steal that data (and the Russians naturally emphatically deny it), they wouldn't disclose it to anyone, but keep it for ??? Their own edification apparently.
Ukraine and Canada will hold an economic forum on June 20.
http://www.kyivpost.com/article/con...campaign=buffer
quote:Ukraine's next big free trade agreement is likely to come soon with Canada, with an agreement signed this summer after a June 20 business conference in Toronto. Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is expected to visit Ukraine in July.
Negotiations are also under way with Turkey and Israel.
The Canadian agreement will open the North American nation to most Ukrainian goods, promote joint ventures and investment and help Ukrainian producers get access to raw materials. More details are here: http://me.gov.ua/Documents/List?lang=uk-UA&tag=Inf...
The biggest step forward this year came with a free-trade agreement that came into effect in January with the European Union. Ukraine has for several years had agreements with fellow Soviet republics.
Altogether, Ukraine has signed 16 free trade agreements covering 45 countries.
The "Ukraine-Canada: Open For Business" forum takes place at the Toronto Congress Centre on June 20. More information can be found here http://forum.cucc.ca/program.html
One of the participants, Daniel Bilak, managing partner of CMS Cameron McKenna, said the forum will provide "a unique opportunity for Canadian business to understand the impact of reform measures that have been implemented by Ukraine to date. The Ukrainian side will not only evaluate the export opportunities for Ukrainian goods, but Ukrainian government officials will hear first-hand what still remains to be done to improve the business climate to attract serious investment.”
Others participants will include: Diane Francis, a senior fellow of the Atlantic Council; Chrystria Freeland, Ukraine's minister of international trade; Aleksandr Danylyuk, Ukraine finance minister; Nataliya Mykolska, Ukraine deputy economy minister: Igor Bilous, head of the State Property Fund of Ukraine; and Francis Malige, regional managing director for the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development; Zenon Poticzny, president of the Canadian-Ukraine Chamber of Commerce; Roman Waschuk, Canada's ambassador to Ukraine; Andriy Shevchenko, Ukraine's ambassador to Canada; Bohdan Kupych, vice president of business development for KM Core; Dmytro Shymkiv, deputy head of the Presidential Administration; Lenna Koszarny, CEO of Horizon Capial; Taras Kutovy, Ukraine's agriculture minister; Paul Grod, president and CEO of Rodan Energy Solutions and Andriy Kobolyev, CEO of Naftogaz Ukraine.
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Jun 14, 2016 22:21
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France still has the bloodiest national anthem.
Russia's Olympic hopes in track and field events are being dashed for Rio this summer. Russians are reacting in a way you would expect Russians to react.
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/18/sports/olympics/russia-barred-rio-summer-olympics-doping.html?_r=0
quote:Russia’s Track and Field Team Barred From Rio Olympics
Russia’s track and field team is barred from competing in the Olympic Games this summer because of a far-reaching doping conspiracy, an extraordinary punishment without precedent in Olympics history.
The International Association of Athletics Federations, the governing body for track and field, announced the decision Friday, ruling in a unanimous vote that Russia had not done enough to restore global confidence in the integrity of its athletes.
Russia won 18 medals in track and field — including eight golds — at the last Summer Olympics. But when the Rio Games begin on Aug. 5, no track and field athletes will compete under the Russian flag. Not even East Germany, which conducted a notorious doping scheme throughout the 1960s, ’70s and ’80s, faced such a penalty.
“Politics was not playing a part in that room today,” Sebastian Coe, the head of the track and field organization, said about the vote Friday. “It was unambiguous.”
The case against Russia has advanced over the last seven months. Reports by the World Anti-Doping Agency and by news organizations have detailed a state-run doping scheme that punctured the integrity of the Olympics, seemingly upending many of the results from the 2008 Beijing Games, the 2012 London Games and the 2014 Sochi Games.
The allegations were wide-ranging and detailed: Athletes were given a three-drug cocktail of banned substances and liquor; authorities helped athletes evade drug tests by surreptitiously swapping out tainted urine; thousands of incriminating samples were destroyed; drug testers were threatened by members of Russia’s Federal Security Service.
But perhaps the most influential force in the track organization’s decision was the outcry from athletes outside of Russia. A groundswell of Olympians across sports agitated for penalties after WADA had been slow to respond.
“Athletes have been losing sleep,” said Lauryn Williams, a track and field and bobsled athlete from the United States. “You can’t have faith in anybody who is Russian.”
The Russian ministry of sport said in a statement Friday that it was disappointed in the ruling. “We now appeal to the members of the International Olympic Committee to not only consider the impact that our athletes’ exclusion will have on their dreams and the people of Russia, but also that the Olympics themselves will be diminished by their absence,” the ministry said.
The I.O.C., the ultimate authority over the Games, was scheduled to discuss the decision on Tuesday. If Olympics officials amended the ruling against Russia, it would be an unusual move, as they have historically deferred to the governing bodies of specific sports.
So, what does Russia do about it? This
quote:Russian federal investigators said on Saturday they had opened a criminal case against the country's former anti-doping chief on charges of abuse of office, a day after world athletics' governing body upheld a ban on Russia for systematic doping.
Grigory Rodchenkov, the former Moscow anti-doping laboratory chief who later fled to the United States, has spoken widely about how Russia ran a cover-up of doping by dozens of its athletes at the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics.
The country's investigative committee, which is responsible for conducting investigations into local authorities and federal governmental bodies, said Rodchenkov ordered his subordinates in 2014 to recycle samples despite pledging to store them until further notice by the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA), which resulted in damaging state interests.
Investigators said they believed Rodchenkov used his authority contrary to the legitimate interests of the anti-doping laboratory in order to extract personal benefits.
Rodchenkov, who is in hiding in the United States, could not be reached for comment.
Earlier this month, the investigative committee launched criminal proceedings against officials from the All-Russia Athletic Federation on similar charges relating to 2009-2013.
The International Association of Athletics Federations on Friday unanimously upheld its ban on Russian track and field athletes competing at international competitions, saying not enough progress had been made with reforms and dashing the team's hopes of going to the Rio Olympics.
Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Friday he would seek the intervention of WADA and the International Olympic Committee over the decision.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KxcP7TRY178
quote: I still do not want to die
Labour productivity - increase. Barriers to the development of future markets, - to remove. Updating the material base of educational institutions - to continue. Number of employees (it is very important that I am going to say), employed in small and medium-sized businesses, with today's 18 million people is expected to increase ...
In fact, no matter what he was going to say. It is important that he has to say then, a little later, when reporting on the style of the report will go to the cause. When talking about the fact that it and all truly interested. This will be an important political statement that is worth discussing.
The so-called economic part of Vladimir Putin's speeches in the era of sanctions is a purely therapeutic purposes. Reassure people. Slow down the running of foreign investors. to reassure himself. All of them, including the lecturer, and addressed a speech about productivity. Also, congratulations to the winners of socialist competition. That is, the regions, took first place in the table, "the annual national investment climate rating."
However, climate discourages Western businessmen in Russia, no matter how much is awarded to leaders-governors challenge pennants, trophies and banners, and Vladimir Vladimirovich about it guesses. What is really there "future markets". However, to participate in the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum is necessary, Juncker himself arrived, no joke, and the President of the Russian Federation shares with the audience his thoughts different.
First talks about the material basis, and it is very boring. But then in the framework of the planned discussion specially ordered from overseas journalist Fareed Zakaria begins to ask him political questions, and then the story becomes dynamic. Putin finally starts talking about what everyone's mind: about Trump and America of the Minsk agreements, and Ukraine, of Syria and of the sport.
From the first words it is clear that Vladimir Vladimirovich annoyed. He points out the master that he "distorts" his speech about Trump, although Zakaria cites them close to the text. He is accustomed to trying to play off the Old World to the New, saying that Obama "does not care about the sanctions", but the unfortunate Europeans suffer from them. He stands up for Assad, against the background of very serious clashes Pentagon with Defense Ministry sounds pretty ominous. He did not conceal schadenfreude, discusses football theme and type do not understand how this "two hundred people marked our fans a few thousand Englishmen."
No cost and without sensationalism. Thus, according to Putin during the plenary session that "America - a great power, today is probably the only superpower", but the meaning of this statement is not entirely clear. Whether Vladimir Vladimirovich shared with the audience his sad discovery, or lull the vigilance of potential enemy. Whether recruits him gently, like a couple of months ago, when he called Obama "a strong and decent man." And about Ukraine, we learn that if not for "coup" in Kyiv, supported by the West, "probably ... the opposition in a democratic way by means of elections to come to power. That's all. We have worked with them ..." Then, , imagine, and the Crimea probably would have stayed at the neighbors, and the Donbass.
All this is terribly interesting, and even touching, if we add to the above phrase is also dedicated to Bill Clinton. With it, Putin "worked" at the beginning of his presidential career and "grateful for some things that happened like ... entering" the future of our national leader "in politics." Furthermore. "Several times he (Clinton) showed signs of attention and respect to me personally and to Russia." Yes would be an exemplary model for the husband of his wife, coming prezidentshi America - so you can decipher the message that Vladimir Vladimirovich directs Hillary. Let it also admired Putin's Russia and, if he wins, and you will not know this world, gentlemen, so he will get better.
In general, speaking in his hometown of President of the Russian Federation tried to solve the problem obviously unsolvable. On the one hand, to show the audience and missing Western citizens, especially the Americans that he is not averse to make peace with them. Still, the sanctions are, and very efficiently, Whatever he sang about the economic success and the happy times, it is for small businesses. "We ... we like people say, do not hold evil and ready to meet our European partners", - informs the public, Putin, forgive all who should, and announcing to blame anyone but himself. And if you take into account the personality of the speaker, it must be admitted that such heights Dobronravov he still almost was not raised. Well, can not jump higher than his head, and on the first call to Sarkozy to cancel kontrsanktsii guarantor responds timidly, fearing kidalovo, but also on the willingness to take this step, too, hints. As I would be inclined to believe, prompted by Kudrin and Gref that "geopolitical tensions" promises catastrophe of the Russian economy.
However, it remains in force and its promise to fight for the sovereignty of Russia to the last round, and this means that the president is trying painfully to understand the central paradox of the era. Neither the Crimea or Donbass can not be given, but political isolation and economic hardship in relation to what he calls sovereignty - unpleasant phenomenon. Therefore, in the search for the fifth corner he gradually shifted somewhere to the side, suddenly discovering the ability affranchise obvious enemies, spies and assassins. Natura can not be undone, but the reality that Vladimir Vladimirovich has lost touch in the spring before last year, all the louder and more insistent reminds himself, and irritated his answers to tricky questions slip some new words.
They are drowning in a sea of empty chatter and the usual mocking jokes and extras provides laughter and applause, but to the speaker, it seems, is not much fun. Yes, and it is difficult to pronounce new words and he hides them behind the words shabby. Splashing his resentment, anger, hatred. Not quite imagining that he do next, and what with all the talk to them.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WVQbxXvyG7A
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Jun 20, 2016 13:06
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Belarus will denominate their currency effective July 1, 2016. Every 10,000 br of the old money will be worth 1 br of the new money. Belarusians will also have coins again.
http://udf.by/english/main-story/130149-belarus-to-have-denomination-with-new-rubles-and-kopeks-photo.html
quote:Belarus to have denomination with new rubles and kopeks
On July 1, 2016 Belarus will have a denomination of the Belarusian ruble. The decree was signed on November 4 by Aliaksandr Lukashenka.
According to the press service of the National Bank of Belarus, the denomination will be carried out by replacing the banknotes of 2000 for banknotes and coins of 2009 in a ratio of 10,000 "old" rubles to 1 "new" ruble. This means that the current 100 rubles will be replaced by 1 kopek.
Earlier, Aliaksandr Lukashenka said that the new money was printed already six years ago and is waiting for its time (see. Video).
The National Bank has announced that there will be seven denominations - 5, 10, 20, 50, 100, 200 and 500 rubles, eight denominations of coins - 1, 2, 5, 10, 20 and 50 kopeks, and 1 and 2 rubles.
It is noted that each banknote corresponds to one of the regions of Belarus and Minsk. The new money will have the signature of the former head of the National Bank Piotr Prakapovich (the money was printed when he was the Chairman).
From July 1, 2016 to December 31, 2016 the "old" and "new" money will be in parallel circulation. For five years the bills of 2000 will be exchanged for the bills of 2009. For details, see here.
After denomination, if the dollar rate remains at today's level - one dollar will cost 1.75 rubles. And the largest denomination of 500 rubles will cost $285. Now the biggest denomination of 200 thousand is worth 11.5 dollars.
  
As this is scheduled to happen a mere 48 hours before the country's main national holiday on July 3, it will of course go smoothly and people will be able to use credit and debit cards with ease.
e: almost forgot to include this is a CIA plot too, to bring economic panic to Belarus and allow NATO and the EU to blah blah blah.
HUGE PUBES A PLUS fucked around with this message at 16:53 on Jun 22, 2016
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Jun 22, 2016 16:49
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Now that I think about it. What is the point of it actually? And why is it posted in the netherlands of all places? As far as I can tell the average Joe here has no strong opinion about either romania or hungaria
Because Hungarians and Romanians really don't like each other, so whoever put it in the Netherlands was using that as a reason.
Found this in the chat thread.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opin...5275_story.html
quote:Russia is harassing U.S. diplomats all over Europe
Russian intelligence and security services have been waging a campaign of harassment and intimidation against U.S. diplomats, embassy staff and their families in Moscow and several other European capitals that has rattled ambassadors and prompted Secretary of State John F. Kerry to ask Vladimir Putin to put a stop to it.
At a recent meeting of U.S. ambassadors from Russia and Europe in Washington, U.S. ambassadors to several European countries complained that Russian intelligence officials were constantly perpetrating acts of harassment against their diplomatic staff that ranged from the weird to the downright scary. Some of the intimidation has been routine: following diplomats or their family members, showing up at their social events uninvited or paying reporters to write negative stories about them.
But many of the recent acts of intimidation by Russian security services have crossed the line into apparent criminality. In a series of secret memos sent back to Washington, described to me by several current and former U.S. officials who have written or read them, diplomats reported that Russian intruders had broken into their homes late at night, only to rearrange the furniture or turn on all the lights and televisions, and then leave. One diplomat reported that an intruder had defecated on his living room carpet.
In Moscow, where the harassment is most pervasive, diplomats reported slashed tires and regular harassment by traffic police. Former ambassador Michael McFaul was hounded by government-paid protesters, and intelligence personnel followed his children to school. The harassment is not new; in the first term of the Obama administration, Russian intelligence personnel broke into the house of the U.S. defense attache in Moscow and killed his dog, according to multiple former officials who read the intelligence reports.
But since the 2014 Russian intervention in Ukraine, which prompted a wide range of U.S. sanctions against Russian officials and businesses close to Putin, harassment and surveillance of U.S. diplomatic staff in Moscow by security personnel and traffic police have increased significantly, State Department press secretary John Kirby confirmed to me.
“Since the return of Putin, Russia has been engaged in an increasingly aggressive gray war across Europe. Now it’s in retaliation for Western sanctions because of Ukraine. The widely reported harassment is another front in the gray war,” said Norm Eisen, U.S. ambassador the Czech Republic from 2011 to 2014. “They are hitting American diplomats literally where they live.”
The State Department has taken several measures in response to the increased level of nefarious activity by the Russian government. All U.S. diplomats headed for Europe now receive increased training on how to handle Russian harassment, and the European affairs bureau run by Assistant Secretary Victoria Nuland has set up regular interagency meetings on tracking and responding to the incidents.
McFaul told me he and his family were regularly followed and the Russian intelligence services wanted his family to know they were being watched. Other embassy officials also suffered routine harassment that increased significantly after the Ukraine-related sanctions. Those diplomats who were trying to report on Russian activities faced the worst of it.
“It was part of a way to put pressure on government officials who were trying to do their reporting jobs. It definitely escalated when I was there. After the invasion of Ukraine, it got much, much worse,” McFaul said. “We were feeling embattled out there in the embassy.”
There was a debate inside the Obama administration about how to respond, and ultimately President Obama made the decision not to respond with similar measures against Russian diplomats, McFaul said.
A spokesman for the Russian Embassy in Washington sent me a long statement both tacitly admitting to the harassment and defending it as a response to what he called U.S. provocations and mistreatment of Russian diplomats in the United States.
“The deterioration of U.S.-Russia relations, which was not caused by us, but rather by the current Administrations’ policy of sanctions and attempts to isolate Russian, had a negative affect on the functioning of diplomatic missions, both in U.S. and Russia,” the spokesman said. “In diplomatic practice there is always the principle of reciprocity and, indeed, for the last couple of years our diplomatic staff in the United States has been facing certain problems. The Russian side has never acted proactively to negatively affect U.S. diplomats in any way.”
Evelyn Farkas, who served as deputy assistant secretary of defense for Russia, Ukraine and Eurasia until last year, said that there is no equivalence between whatever restrictions Russian diplomats are subjected to in the United States and the harassment and intimation that U.S. diplomats suffer at the hands of the Russian security services. The fact that the Russian government stands accused of murdering prominent diplomats and defectors in European countries adds a level of fear for Russia’s targets.
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According to dnr-news.com, the eight soldiers were sappers, not Russian.
http://dnr-news.com/dnr/33680-vsu-plenili-8-saperov-dnr-razminirovavshih-rayon-shirokino-po-soglasovaniyu-s-obse-basurin.html
quote:"In Shirokino area, 27 June, a separate engineering unit detachment DNR conduct routine clearance of the territory in coordination with the OSCE mission. Under the cover of artillery, combat engineers to capture, in the specified area has popped 54 reconnaissance brigade and division APU volunteer Ukrainian army. As a result of artillery fire killed two soldiers of the DNI, and eight were seriously wounded, because of which, unable to resist, had been taken prisoner "
LiveUA map labels this propaganda.
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Jun 28, 2016 13:31
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Today Georgia and Moldova officially entered into the association agreement with the EU. All 28 member states approved the status. Ukraine has not officially entered due to the Netherlands voting no in April.
http://www.rbc.ru/economics/01/07/2016/57763fcf9a7947b4266bec82?utm_source=pushs
quote:Agreement on Association of Georgia and Moldova with the EU officially came into force. The next step is still Ukraine, which prevented the referendum in the Netherlands
From 1 July 2016 the full force come agreeing eniya the association of the two former Soviet republics - Georgia and Moldova - the European Union, the European Commission said in a statement. Unlike Ukraine Tbilisi and Chisinau by the end of May, won the support of all 28 EU countries and the European institutions to gradually joining the general free trade area.
"New opportunities for small and medium-Georgian business, improve the quality of local agricultural products and the promotion of energy efficiency - these are just a small part of the areas where we have seen progress in the interim of the Agreement, and where now expect greater development", - said the European Commissioner for Enlargement Johannes Khan.
"Together with the current implementation of reforms in Moldova, the agreement is able to change the lives of Moldovans for the better, to create jobs, to bring stability and growth", - said Federica Mogherini, the head of the European External Action Service (EEAS).
As noted Deutsche Welle, the main advantage of the agreements in force - a phased withdrawal of mutual trade barriers. Moreover, the import duties on goods from those countries to Europe will come to naught much earlier than European imports to these countries. This is done to protect the small markets of Georgia and Moldova and the local producers for the transition period.
"On July 1 - is another important date in the Georgian-European relations since the time of the signing of the agreement, - said on the Georgian Foreign Ministry website. - To ratify the agreement on association becomes an important legal basis for completely new, higher level of cooperation with the EU. "
Also today EEAS published in Russian video explaining the benefits of the agreements with the EU for Georgian business. For example, in one case, argues that over the last two years from the date of signing of the Georgian glass factory "Mina" has increased deliveries of its products in Italy alone to 6 th. Tons per year (10% of total production). In general, according to Brussels, trade with the EU takes 31% of foreign trade turnover of Georgia. For the first year since the signing of the Association Agreement the export from Georgia to the EU grew by 15%.
It goes about the European Union Association Agreement was signed in conjunction with Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine more 27 June 2014. In all three cases, the documents are partially entered into force in the autumn of the same. Moreover, in the case of Ukraine, the European Parliament and the Verkhovna Rada ratified the agreement before all - September 16, 2014. In the case of the European Parliament's approval of Moldova took place on November 13, and in the case of Georgia - December 18, 2014.
However, in April 2016 in the Netherlands held a referendum , which resulted in 61% of the participants spoke out against the ratification of the agreement with Ukraine. Thus, without the approval of all 28 countries of the union, and the Council is not yet able to approve the final agreement on association with Ukraine. In regard to Georgia and Moldova this decision, the EU Council adopted on 23 May.
In the past week at the beginning of the summit of Heads of State and Government of the EU adopted a decision in principle to support the Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte to find out of this situation. Rutte himself said at the same time that his country needs "guarantees respect for its interests" for the ratification of the agreement with Ukraine. Make this any amendments to the agreement itself Kyiv flatly refused .
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