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Western media and diplomats now openly admit that Putin lies deliberately and without hesitation. In its releases on Crimea, the state department used “fiction” and “false claims” to describe lies of Putin and his diplomats, but the usually restrained New York Times used “lies” in its headline. Putin’s reputation for lying was cemented by his casual statement in his April 17 news conference that Russian troops were all along in Crimea, despite earlier denials.
“…there is certainly enough evidence from the media coverage over the weekend to suggest that the votes in Donetsk and Luhansk were far from free, fair or even very representative.”
“…I think it's that type of weakness that has given Vladimir Putin a certain signal that he can continue with these things with impunity", Johnson said.
“The only way out” for the Kremlin leader, Geydar Dzhemal says, is “a purge of his own entourage, the sacking of [Medvedev’s] government and mass arrests among the systemic liberals”
The latest seizure was of 10,000 pre-filled ballots that were part of the ballot-stuffing operations of the pro-Russian separatists.
U.S. Democrat Party advisor says: President Putin has gone to Crimea; President Kennedy went to Berlin; President Obama should go to Kyiv.
Ukrainian national identity will be further defined and emerge more clearly due, in part, to the heavy-handed tactics of Hilarion and the Russian patriarch who feign fidelity with their Orthodox sisters and brothers in Ukraine, but whose deception cannot be masked by their veneer of piety, falsehoods and ongoing propaganda campaign to discredit Ukraine’s efforts to move toward the West.
US published evidence of the presence of Russian troops near the Ukrainian border. Satellite photos show that the troops are still in the 75-kilometer zone from the border with Ukraine.