Topic: Crimea - page 21. (Read 156940 times)

Well, it´s an old idea of the Russians in the 19th century and the Soviets in the 20th to simplify the transport between the ports of Odessa and Mariupol.

This is a massive project that requires tens of billions of USD. Ukraine is already in deep debt, and they won't be able to afford any of this. And by the way, I can't see any major benefits from this planned canal as well....

Ukraine plans to build the Black and Azov Ship Canal, which would turn the Crimea peninsula into an island...

MOSCOW, April 3. /TASS/. The work of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) mission in Ukraine cannot spread to the territory of Crimea, Russia’s OSCE envoy Andrey Kelin said on Friday.

"When the mandate of the mission was adopted and then extended, we made a very clear statement that Crimea does not fall under the mission’s mandate. It is the territory of Russia," Kelin said during a Moscow-Vienna video link-up.

Maybe, but things are changing. Many of them were participated in the uprising against the junta, for example.

Tatars weren't angels. Crimean Khanate sold millions of russian, polish, lithuanian people into slavery. Their activity was a real PITA for everybody, someone had to resolve this issue.

Fisher estimates that in the sixteenth century the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth lost around 20,000 individuals a year and that from 1474 to 1694, as many as a million Commonwealth citizens were carried off into Crimean slavery.

It seems that the position and everyday conditions of a slave depended largely on his/her owner. Some slaves indeed could spend the rest of their days doing exhausting labor: as the Crimean vizir (minister) Sefer Gazi Aga mentions in one of his letters, the slaves were often “a plough and a scythe” of their owners. Most terrible, perhaps, was the fate of those who became galley-slaves, whose sufferings were poeticized in many Ukrainian dumas (songs). ... Both female and male slaves were often used for sexual purposes.

Another celebration video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MShEfE5ETLg

When Catherine the Great Invaded the Crimea and Put the Rest of the World on Edge

A Crimean state controlled by Tartars gained its independence from the Ottoman Empire in 1774 after the Russo-Turkish War. The treaty brought Crimea within Russia’s sphere of influence before it was formally annexed in 1783. The Ottomans started a second Russo-Turkish War (1787–1792) during Catherine's reign. This war proved catastrophic for the Ottomans and ended with the Treaty of Jassy (1792), which legitimized the Russian claim to Crimea.

patriciaormsby | March 23, 2015 at 4:53 am

Hatoyama was ridiculed harshly on the Sunday news debate program for doing exactly as this fellow: going there himself to see what is true and what isn’t. A few of the panelists seemed to recognize the seriousness of the Ukraine stand-off, though the majority of those had been “brainwashed” by America, to use a word Hatoyama himself used about Japan, and called Russia the aggressor.

In Japan, many people will be fooled and remain stubbornly so. Those that go to America these days and go beyond the Japanese “bubble” of packaged tours (even English school programs insulate the students from actual interactions with the natives), can see that America is no longer the “knight in shining armor” that would defend human rights. They are few, but I think Hatoyama was popular enough, and people realize he is not an idiot. Knowledge of a duality of “truth” is also a strong part of Japanese culture, with an “official truth” and the “actual reality,” so there are many who will quickly ascertain why the government is attacking our ex-Prime Minister. I wonder if my friend who scoffed at the idea of Nazis in Kiev because he’d heard that it was only Russian propaganda from sources he trusted, were still alive (accident or murder–we still don’t know), if Hatoyama’s brave action would cause him to reconsider what I was telling him.

Sources like the Guardian are trusted because they have exposed scandals in the recent past. They and Avaaz, whom we saw exposed the other day, can become serious obstacles to revealing the truth. The late Michael C. Ruppert, who had worked for the LA police and a stint for the CIA, said that for disinformation to work, it has to be 95% (not sure of the exact figure) accurate. We who fight that 5% of lies have a frustrating time. As a rule, once a source lies to me, I never trust it again.

Lada Ray | March 23, 2015 at 5:29 am

Very well put!
I know from direct Crimean sources that Hatoyama did go to Crimea and was charmed and very impressed by how happy Crimeans were to be with Russia. Me, I didn’t need to go anywhere – I always knew that.
He said that it was so nice in Crimea he wouldn’t mind living there. In response, Crimean authorities offered him Crimean citizenship, as a good will jesture I guess, and he said he would consider it if he has trouble in Japan and if government prevents his return. Perhaps he was being polite, or who knows, he may consider it after all. It appears Japanese govt took all that as a personal insult.
That’s in addition to being US puppets.