Russia Today: “On Saturday, Russia’s Consul General in Simferopol, Vyacheslav Svetlichny, said he did not exclude the possibility of Russian passports being issued not only for ex-Berkut officers, but also for all Ukrainian citizens who wanted them.” 

 

“SCM Group remains committed to the common principles of corporate ethics, business transparency and responsibility to our partners and the society and, in particular, does not carry out any joint business activity with Viktor Yanukovych and his family.”

 

Despite discussions in Moscow, Kyiv and the West about what the Kremlin plans to do in Crimea, Vladimir Putin’s plans for “separating Crimea from Ukraine” are “perfectly transparent” and are likely to go ahead if they are not blocked by some unexpected development.

 

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Vitali Klitschko said that because of the use of force nearly 100 people were killed and almost 1,000 were wounded. "The responsibility for these actions should be held personally by the man who was in authority - former President Yanukovych," he said.

 

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“The latest reports from the Crimea are that, as of the early hours of Friday morning, large contingents of “unknown’ individuals have seized the premises of the Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar people as well as the airports in Simferopol and Sevastopol.  In the jigsaw of events on Thursday, the attack on the main representative body of the Crimean Tatars could not be more dangerously provocative.”

 

The territorial integrity of Ukraine appears more in doubt as the United States and Europe dither and “Putin is playing the ‘good cop’, ‘bad cop’ routine.”

Key highlights of the results: Revenues decreased 23.8% y-o-y to USD 725.5 million in Q2 FY2014, driven by lower soft commodity prices and a mix of lower sunflower oil sales volumes and higher grain exports. Compared to Q1 FY2014, revenues increased 75.7% in Q2 FY2014, owing to larger volumes of sunflower oil and grain sales. 

 

“Whatever the explanation for the current exacerbation of tensions, he argues, the real threat of the current evolution of events in Ukraine’s Crimea will be far broader and could lead to “the accelerated disintegration of Russia” and to the designation of Putin as “the terminator” rather than the savior of Russia and the Russian people.

 

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