Image: Nov. 2015: Ukraine President Poroshenko gives “Order of Freedom” award to Soros, thanks him for involving himself in Ukraine’s internal affairs for 25 years, and for the currency speculator's “professional advice on a wide range of public finances.” After Soros' 25 long years in Ukraine, we see his version of “democracy” and respect for “civil society” exemplified. Soros “immediate protege” Poroshenko having been massively rejected by voters, exhibits no respect for “democracy” or society, instead immediately advances language law to promote hatred and division: “Computer software must also have a Ukrainian-language interface although the law also allows the use of English or any other official language of the European Union.”…
4/25/19, “Ukraine’s president-elect says being blocked from calling snap poll," Reuters, Kiev, Ukraine
“Ukraine’s president-elect Volodymyr Zelenskiy, keen to build parliamentary support, said on Thursday the election commission was preventing him from calling a snap parliamentary election by delaying the announcement of his election victory.
Zelenskiy won by a landslide in last Sunday’s presidential election but he has no lawmakers in parliament. Calling a snap election could help his new party win seats while his popularity is high.
But he has only a limited time in which to call a snap election: He can do so only after the election commission has officially declared his election win, but no later than six months before the next scheduled parliamentary election, which is due in late October.
“There is victory, but no authority,” Zelenskiy said in a video posted on social media.
The central commission delayed the announcement of the official results, in order to delay his inauguration beyond May 27, he said. “Why? So that President Zelenskiy does not even have the opportunity to think about the dissolution of the Verkhovna Rada (parliament),” he said.
An election commission spokesman declined immediate comment but on Tuesday the deputy head of the commission said the result would be declared on April 30, ahead of its official deadline.
Zelenskiy is expected to take power within weeks. His ability to work with parliament will be crucial to meeting the expectations of his voters and passing reforms to keep foreign aid flowing.
Zelenskiy’s powers will include appointing the head of the state security service, the head of the military, the general prosecutor, the central bank governor and the foreign and defense ministers.
But parliament must confirm each appointment. Zelenskiy also needs lawmakers to pass legislation that matters to the International Monetary Fund, Ukraine’s most important foreign backer, such as a bill to criminalize illegal enrichment.”
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Obama freely admits US engineered the 2014 coup of Ukraine’s elected government. The US having won the violent and bloody coup, Ukraine became a colony of Soros and the US war industry. On condition that Ukraine continue its war against Russia, the US-controlled IMF gave Ukraine billions in loans–“Should the [Ukraine] central government lose effective control over the east, the program will need to be re-designed.” It had taken the US and Soros over two decades and expenditure of $5 billion US tax dollars to make Ukraine beg for mercy.
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Added: Who needs elections? In Ukraine, Soros is treated as a head of state:
Nov. 2015: Ukraine President Poroshenko gives “Order of Freedom” award to Soros, thanks his fellow oligarch for involving himself in Ukraine’s internal affairs for 25 years, and for Soros’ “professional advice on a wide range of public finances.” Poroshenko is the stooge installed by the US after it engineered 2014’s violent overthrow of Ukraine’s elected government.
Image from Nov. 12, 2015, “President awarded George Soros with the Order of Freedom,” president.gov.ua
“President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko awarded founder of Open Society Foundations George Soros with the Order of Freedom. The Head of State handed the award in person during the meeting with the world-famous financier and philanthropist.
“Your activity of the past few years has significantly contributed to the recent democratic changes in Ukraine. That’s why I am honored today to present you this high award with a symbolic name – the Order of Freedom,” the President said.
The Head of State noted substantial role of the International Renaissance Foundation founded by George Soros [but funded in part by US taxpayers via the US government] in the development of state and strengthening of democracy in the course of the last 25 years.
The President expressed gratitude for the efforts of George Soros, his long-term comprehensive plan to support Ukraine, as well as professional advice on a wide range of public finances. In his turn, George Soros noted that it was a great honor to receive that award for him personally and on behalf of the International Renaissance Foundation. [Soros’ Renaissance Foundation in Ukraine was funded in part by US taxpayers.]
According to the Decree, George Soros is awarded “for significant personal contribution to the strengthening of the international authority of the Ukrainian state, implementation of socio-economic reforms and many years of fruitful activity”.”
Image: Soros’ “immediate protege,” Ukraine Pres. Poroshenko awards the US interventionist George Soros the Order of Freedom Award in Nov. 2015. Image from Luxembourg Herald, 10/13/18…………………………………..
Added: As a newly installed puppet of US and US-controlled IMF, Ukraine is warned it will lose the money unless it continues to attack its Russian neighbors:
5/21/2014, “IMF warns Ukraine on bailout if it loses east," cnbc.com
“Ukraine, struggling with a stuttering economy as well as an escalating crisis with neighboring Russia, has had its $17 billion International Monetary Fund bailout signed off. But international lenders are already warning of threats to its funding.”…
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Added: Ukraine, August 2005, Obama and Lugar in Ukraine to remove its weapons
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4/25/19, “Ukraine passes language law, irritating president-elect and Russia,” Reuters, Pavel Polityuk, Kiev, Ukraine
“Ukraine’s parliament approved a law on Thursday that grants special status to the Ukrainian language and makes it mandatory for public sector workers….
The law, which obliges all citizens to know the Ukrainian language and makes it a mandatory requirement for civil servants, soldiers, doctors, and teachers, was championed by outgoing President Petro Poroshenko.
He is expected to sign it into law before he leaves office in coming weeks after losing re-election on Sunday to Volodymyr Zelenskiy, an actor who mainly speaks Russian in public.
Ukrainian is the predominant language in western Ukraine, while Russian is predominant in much of the east. Both languages are spoken widely in the capital Kiev, and a large proportion of the population speaks both fluently.
Television is often bi-lingual, with talk show hosts and their guests slipping between the two languages, sometimes asking questions in one and answering them in another.
Language has become a much more sensitive issue since 2014, when a pro-Russian president was [removed from office in a violent and bloody coup engineered by the US which Obama freely admits though media still misreports] toppled in a [so-called] popular revolt and Russia responded by annexing the Crimea region and backing a pro-Russian separatist uprising in the east [moves which Obama said were not part of a grand strategy Putin but his reaction to being caught by surprise by 2014 US overthrow of Ukraine government]….
Poroshenko put promotion of the Ukrainian language at the heart of his [massively] unsuccessful re-election campaign.
Zelenskiy, who played a schoolteacher-turned-president in a Russian-language comedy series on Ukrainian TV before launching his political career, said on Thursday his team would examine the new law to see if the rights of all citizens were respected.
“We must initiate and adopt laws and decisions that consolidate society, and not vice versa,” he wrote on Facebook….
The new legislation requires TV and film distribution firms to ensure 90 percent of their content is in Ukrainian and for the proportion of Ukrainian-language printed media and books to be at least 50 percent.
Computer software must also have a Ukrainian-language interface although the law also allows the use of English or any other official language of the European Union….
The make-up of the parliament has not changed since Zelenskiy’s election win [“Has not changed” suggesting what? Reuters omits that the massively rejected US backed Ukraine government of Poroshenko refuses to officially announce the new president’s victory, thus delaying his ability to begin working to change the corrupt, rejected parliament] and remains dominated by a coalition supportive of Poroshenko.”
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Added: Everyone hopes for the best, but the newly elected president may turn out to be Poroshenko-light.
4/25/19, “Ukraine President-Elect Says Commission Trying to Prevent Snap Parliament Election,” AntiWar.com, Jason Ditz
“Despite landslide win, Zelenskiy victory still not announced.’
“Ukrainian President-elect Volodymyr Zelenskiy won a landslide election last week over outgoing President Petro Poroshenko.
While the vote wasn’t close and there has been no serious complaint of irregularities, the election commission has still not officially announced Zelenskiy’s victory.
This means he’s still president-elect and not president, meaning he still has no formal authority. One commission spokesman claimed the result would be declared on April 30, but Zelenskiy believes the commission intends to drag this out beyond May 27.
The problem is Zelenskiy wants to call a snap election for parliament, hoping to use his popularity to get some MPs from his party into parliament. Currently, he hasn’t a single MP, but he cannot dissolve parliament until he’s actually president.
If Zelenskiy is unable to dissolve parliament, his abilityto deliver on promised reforms, with an eye on keeping foreign aid flowing, will be in serious doubt. Indeed, it’s unclear if he’s even going to be able to appoint new cabinet ministers with literally no MPs in his party.”
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Added: Ukraine’s biggest problem is that it’s a puppet of the Washington DC war machine:
4/26/19, “Why Ukraine’s Comedian President Is Likely to Be More Joke Than Solution,” Strategic Culture Editorial
“There are so many contradictions and paradoxes in Ukraine’s recent presidential election and its outcome that expectations should be reserved.
For a start, the 41-year-old Zelensky who is a popular TV comedian is a complete political novice. His entire election campaign was vacant in any policy detail. Yes, he did say he wanted to hold direct talks with Moscow to end the nearly five-year war in eastern Ukraine between state forces and pro-Russian separatists. But then only days before his election, Zelensky disparaged Russia as an “aggressor” and described Russian President Vladimir Putin as an “enemy”.
The move this week by Russia to grant citizenship to ethnic Russian people from Ukraine’s breakaway Donbas region was roundly condemned by Washington and the European Union as undermining Ukraine’s sovereignty. [Embarrassing since the US is adamantly open borders, has no interest in US sovereignty, calls you racist if you want a strong US border.]. Moscow said it was merely fulfilling internationally recognized legal rights of people with Russian heritage. In any case, Zelensky also joined in the ill-considered condemnations against Russia over its passport move.
This suggests that the new Ukrainian president is a “Poroshenko-Lite”. The only change is a softening of the anti-Russian rhetoric that has so dominated the Kiev regime since the 2014 CIA-backed coup which ushered in Poroshenko’s presidency.
Zelensky has talked previously about implementing the Minsk peace accords signed in 2015, yet he has also contradicted himself by saying he will not grant the Donbas political autonomy or accede to an amnesty for combatants – meaning the war against the ethnic Russian population by the Russophobic Kiev regime will continue. He also – shamefully – made public comments apparently valorizing the Nazi collaborator Stepan Bandera and the latter’s fascist followers.
Moscow is therefore correct to express caution in the political significance of the new Ukrainian president. The Kremlin said it will await substantive action and policy changes, rather than basing its judgement on the vapid words of a TV star-turned-politician. There is an analogy here with US President Donald Trump and how his ascent to the White House changed nothing in Washington’s hostile policy towards Russia.
Perhaps the clearest conclusion to be drawn is that Ukrainian citizens expressed not so much support for Zelensky – how could they when his manifesto was so utterly vacuous? – but rather his landslide victory was a massive repudiation of the incumbent president and the anti-Russia mentality in Kiev that was such a hallmark of Poroshenko’s presidency.
In other words, the ordinary Ukrainian people are so sick and tired of the militaristic nationalism as well as endemic corruption in Kiev that they voted for someone, anyone, who appears slightly more reasonable. Even if that candidate is a comedian with no political vision.
For the past five years, the Kiev-dominated Ukrainian state has been nothing but a puppet regime for Washington, NATO and to a lesser extent the European Union. It has served as a spearhead against Russia with vile provocations and slander. It is in fact an abomination of international law and democratic principles.
There is no sign that things will change fundamentally under this new president in spite of his seemingly more reasonable rhetoric. The hopes of Ukrainians for economic improvement, elimination of corruption by oligarchs and normalization of relations with their compatriots in Donbas and with Russia will likely be dashed. Voting for comedian Vladimir Zelensky as some kind of savior for their numerous woes could turn out to be a very cruel joke.
The problem lies in Kiev being a puppet regime for Washington which functions to push an anti-Russia geopolitical agenda. Zelensky is not a solution; his turn at the presidency is merely an intermission break from the ongoing calamity that is Ukraine.”
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While the vote wasn’t close and there has been no serious complaint of irregularities, the election commission has still not officially announced Zelenskiy’s victory.
This means he’s still president-elect and not president, meaning he still has no formal authority. One commission spokesman claimed the result would be declared on April 30, but Zelenskiy believes the commission intends to drag this out beyond May 27.
The problem is Zelenskiy wants to call a snap election for parliament, hoping to use his popularity to get some MPs from his party into parliament. Currently, he hasn’t a single MP, but he cannot dissolve parliament until he’s actually president.
If Zelenskiy is unable to dissolve parliament, his abilityto deliver on promised reforms, with an eye on keeping foreign aid flowing, will be in serious doubt. Indeed, it’s unclear if he’s even going to be able to appoint new cabinet ministers with literally no MPs in his party.”
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Added: Ukraine’s biggest problem is that it’s a puppet of the Washington DC war machine:
4/26/19, “Why Ukraine’s Comedian President Is Likely to Be More Joke Than Solution,” Strategic Culture Editorial
“There are so many contradictions and paradoxes in Ukraine’s recent presidential election and its outcome that expectations should be reserved.
For a start, the 41-year-old Zelensky who is a popular TV comedian is a complete political novice. His entire election campaign was vacant in any policy detail. Yes, he did say he wanted to hold direct talks with Moscow to end the nearly five-year war in eastern Ukraine between state forces and pro-Russian separatists. But then only days before his election, Zelensky disparaged Russia as an “aggressor” and described Russian President Vladimir Putin as an “enemy”.
The move this week by Russia to grant citizenship to ethnic Russian people from Ukraine’s breakaway Donbas region was roundly condemned by Washington and the European Union as undermining Ukraine’s sovereignty. [Embarrassing since the US is adamantly open borders, has no interest in US sovereignty, calls you racist if you want a strong US border.]. Moscow said it was merely fulfilling internationally recognized legal rights of people with Russian heritage. In any case, Zelensky also joined in the ill-considered condemnations against Russia over its passport move.
This suggests that the new Ukrainian president is a “Poroshenko-Lite”. The only change is a softening of the anti-Russian rhetoric that has so dominated the Kiev regime since the 2014 CIA-backed coup which ushered in Poroshenko’s presidency.
Zelensky has talked previously about implementing the Minsk peace accords signed in 2015, yet he has also contradicted himself by saying he will not grant the Donbas political autonomy or accede to an amnesty for combatants – meaning the war against the ethnic Russian population by the Russophobic Kiev regime will continue. He also – shamefully – made public comments apparently valorizing the Nazi collaborator Stepan Bandera and the latter’s fascist followers.
Moscow is therefore correct to express caution in the political significance of the new Ukrainian president. The Kremlin said it will await substantive action and policy changes, rather than basing its judgement on the vapid words of a TV star-turned-politician. There is an analogy here with US President Donald Trump and how his ascent to the White House changed nothing in Washington’s hostile policy towards Russia.
Perhaps the clearest conclusion to be drawn is that Ukrainian citizens expressed not so much support for Zelensky – how could they when his manifesto was so utterly vacuous? – but rather his landslide victory was a massive repudiation of the incumbent president and the anti-Russia mentality in Kiev that was such a hallmark of Poroshenko’s presidency.
In other words, the ordinary Ukrainian people are so sick and tired of the militaristic nationalism as well as endemic corruption in Kiev that they voted for someone, anyone, who appears slightly more reasonable. Even if that candidate is a comedian with no political vision.
For the past five years, the Kiev-dominated Ukrainian state has been nothing but a puppet regime for Washington, NATO and to a lesser extent the European Union. It has served as a spearhead against Russia with vile provocations and slander. It is in fact an abomination of international law and democratic principles.
There is no sign that things will change fundamentally under this new president in spite of his seemingly more reasonable rhetoric. The hopes of Ukrainians for economic improvement, elimination of corruption by oligarchs and normalization of relations with their compatriots in Donbas and with Russia will likely be dashed. Voting for comedian Vladimir Zelensky as some kind of savior for their numerous woes could turn out to be a very cruel joke.
The problem lies in Kiev being a puppet regime for Washington which functions to push an anti-Russia geopolitical agenda. Zelensky is not a solution; his turn at the presidency is merely an intermission break from the ongoing calamity that is Ukraine.”
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