Menteri Luar Jerman Guido Westerwelle (tengah) dan juga
juara tinju heavyweight dan UDAR (Ukraine Demokratik Pakatan Pembaharuan)
pemimpin parti Vitali Klitschko (dariKiri) berjalan di sepanjang Dataran
Kemerdekaan di Kiev 4 Dis 2013 (Reuters/Vasily Fedosenko – think IN pictures @1WORLD Community)
MADAyuMadyan | JohnnyAdam – Perdana
Menteri Rusia, Dmitry Medvedev, mengkritik lawatan pegawai tertinggi Barat untuk
Ukraine protes anti-kerajaan, memanggil mereka “campur tangan dalam hal ehwal
dalaman Ukraine.”
Beliau
merujuk kepada lawatan 2 hari Menteri Luar Jerman Guido Westerwelle ke Ukraine
untuk sidang kemuncak OSCE, yang dimulakannya petang Khamis dengan lawatan ke
tengah-tengah tunjuk perasaan berterusan. Diiringi oleh 2 pemimpin pembangkang,
menteri Jerman melawat Dataran Kemerdekaan Kiev dan Dataran Eropah, kedua-dua
tempat utama untuk demonstrasi berterusan.
“Maafkan
saya, tetapi mengambil bahagian dalam tindakan itu disebut hanya campur tangan
dalam hal ehwal dalaman,” kata Medvedev tentang lawatan Westerwelle ini.
“Saya
tertanya-tanya bagaimana rakan-rakan Jerman kami rasa jika, misalnya, Menteri
Luar Russia hanya pergi ke beberapa perhimpunan, yang melanggar
peraturan-peraturan Jerman. Saya ragu-ragu mereka akan mengambil ia sebagai
langkah mesra,” kata Medvedev.
Westerwelle
adalah jauh dari satu-satunya tokoh politik barat yang telah datang untuk
bercakap dengan penunjuk perasaan Ukraine sejak beberapa minggu lalu. Antara
yang tertarik ke Kiev untuk berasa gembira aktivis adalah bekas Perdana Menteri
Poland Jaroslaw Kaczynski, yang kini mengetuai parti Pis konservatif, Victoria
Nuland, Penolong Setiausaha Negara Amerika Syarikat untuk Eropah dan Serani Hal
Ehwal, Loreta Grauziniene, Speaker Lithuania Parlimen, dan menteri-menteri luar
dari Belanda dan Kanada, Frans Timmermans dan John Baird, masing-masing.
Russia’s PM rebukes West for taking sides on
Ukraine protests
Russia’s
prime minister, Dmitry Medvedev, has criticized the visits of top Western
officials to Ukrainian anti-government protests, calling them
"interference in Ukraine’s internal affairs."
He was
referring to the two-day visit of German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle to
Ukraine for an OSCE summit, which he started Thursday evening with a tour to
the heart of the ongoing protest. Accompanied by two of the opposition leaders,
the German minister toured Kiev’s Independence Square and European Square, the
two main venues for the ongoing demonstrations.
“Excuse
me, but taking part in such actions is called simply interference in internal
affairs,” Medvedev said about Westerwelle’s visit.
“I
wonder how our German partners would feel if, for instance, the Russian Foreign
Minister just went to some gathering, which was violating German regulations. I
doubt they would take it as a friendly step,” Medvedev said.
Westerwelle
is far from the only western political figures who has come to speak to
Ukrainian protesters over the past few weeks. Among those flocking to Kiev to
cheer the activists were Poland’s ex-Prime Minister Jaroslaw Kaczynski, who
currently heads the conservative PiS party, Victoria Nuland, US Assistant
Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs, Loreta Grauziniene, the
speaker of the Lithuanian Parliament, and the foreign ministers of the
Netherlands and Canada, Frans Timmermans and John Baird, respectively.
Perdana Menteri Dmitry Medvedev (tengah) memberikan
satu temu bual di pusingan-atas kerja Kerajaan pada tahun 2013 kepada saluran
TV persekutuan di TV Center Ostankino. (RIA Novosti/Alexander Astafyev – think
IN pictures @1WORLD Community)
JohnnyAdam – Ketika
dia menegur perarakan meluluskan pegawai, Medvedev menggesa Barat untuk
membiarkan Ukraine menyelesaikan perbezaan mereka sendiri. “Semua mereka
masalah mesti dijaga oleh kerajaan Ukraine dan rakyat Ukraine, bukan orang luar,
bukan Rusia. Tetapi negara-negara lain mesti bertindak dengan betul juga,” katanya.
Beliau
juga menolak naratif popular yang menerangkan keputusan Ukraine tidak
menan-datangani perjanjian perdagangan utama dengan Kesatuan Eropah, yang
mencetuskan tunjuk perasaan, akibat tekanan diplomatik yang menggalakkan
daripada Rusia.
“Mereka
membuat pengiraan dan menyedari bahawa mereka tidak bersedia untuk itu pada
masa ini. Ia adalah perniagaan mereka sendiri. Kita hanya menunjukkan perhatian
mereka kepada masalah dan berkata mereka akan menghadapi mereka,” kata
Medvedev.
Ukraine
telah dalam genggaman bantahan awam besar-besaran sejak akhir November, apabila
kerajaan mengumumkan bahawa ia tidak akan menandatangani Perjanjian Persatuan
yang dinanti-nantikan dengan EU. Pro -EU ramai integrasi mengambil alih dataran
utama di Kiev dan juga mengadakan tunjuk perasaan di bandar-bandar Ukraine.
Konfrontasi
dengan kerajaan meningkat minggu lepas dengan pengusiran kejam kem bantahan di
ibu negara, yang diikuti oleh rusuhan ganas dan rampasan beberapa ban-gunan
kerajaan oleh aktivis. Pada masa ini, pembangkang menuntut peletakan jawatan
kerajaan dan pilihan raya presiden awal - menuntut bahawa pihak berkuasa
menolak.
As he
rebuked the parade of approving officials, Medvedev called on the West to let
Ukrainians settle their differences on their own. “All those problems must be
taken care of by the Ukrainian government and the Ukrainian people, not
foreigners, not Russia. But other countries must act correctly as well,” he
said.
He also
dismissed the popular narrative that explains Ukraine’s decision not to sign a
key trade agreement with the EU, which sparked the protest, as a result of
overwhelming diplomatic pressure from Russia.
“They
made calculations and realized that they are not prepared for it at the moment.
It’s their own business. We simply pointed their attention to the problems and
said they would face them,” Medvedev said.
Ukraine
has been in the grip of mass public protest since late November, when the
government announced that it would not sign the much-anticipated Association
Agreement with the EU. Pro-EU integration crowds took over main squares in Kiev
and also staged protests in other Ukrainian cities.
The
confrontation with the government escalated last week with the brutal eviction
of a protest camp in the capital, which was followed by violent riots and the
seizure of several governmental buildings by the activists. At the moment, the
opposition is demanding the resignation of the government and early
presidential election – demands that the authorities reject.
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‘Bantahan di Ukraine tidak menentang Rusia,
tetapi
terhadap masa depan pasca-Soviet’ . . .
JohnnyAdam – Paralysed
oleh pergolakan dan mendalam yang dibahagikan, Ukraine adalah sekali lagi di
persimpangan. Penghalang dari revolusi kepada revolusi, pemimpin-pemimpin
negara sentiasa menggambarkan pilihan sebagai salah satu antara lalu
autori-tarian dan masa depan yang demokratik. Tetapi adakah ia perlu menjadi
begitu hitam, putih dan oren?
Bolehkah
Ukraine mendamaikan identitinya dengan kepentingannya atau ia akan terjun ke
dalam kegawatan yang pahit? Oksana disertai oleh Ahli Parlimen Ukraine dan
aktivis Andriy Shevchenko untuk menganalisis isu-isu ini.
‘Protest in Ukraine not against Russia, but
against post-Soviet future’ . . .
Paralysed
by unrest and deeply divided, Ukraine is yet again at a crossroads. Stumbling
from revolution to revolution, the country's leaders always portray the choice
as one between an authoritarian past and a democratic future. But does it have
to be so black, white and orange?
Can
Ukraine reconcile its identity with its interests or will it plunge into bitter
turmoil? Oksana is joined by Ukrainian MP and activist Andriy Shevchenko to
analyse these issues.
Follow
live Updates on protests in Ukraine: http://on.rt.com/dhvlo2
‘Tiada Jalam dapat bersembunyi dari NSA kecuali
tinggal
di dalam Gua & kembali kepada tulisan tangan’ . . .
JohnnyAdam – Agensi
perisikan Sweden Isyarat FRA intipan pemimpin Rusia dan ber-kongsi data yang
dikumpul dengan Amerika Syarikat, laporan media tempatan memetik kebocoran
Edward Snowden. Sweden 'akses kabel' yang dibuat kedudukannya 'Unik' di mata
NSA. 80% peratus daripada trafik internet antarabangsa Rusia akan melalui
negara ini. Penganalisis perisikan Glenmore Trenear-Harvey menyertai RT untuk
membincangkan isu ini.
‘NO WAY to hide from NSA
except live in CAVE
& revert to handwriting’ . . .
Swedish
signals intelligence agency FRA spied on Russian leaders and shared the data
collected with the US, local media report citing Edward Snowden leaks. Sweden's
'cable access' made its position 'unique' in the eyes of the NSA. 80 per cent
of Russia's international internet traffic goes through the country.
Intelligence analyst Glenmore Trenear-Harvey joins RT to discuss this issue.
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Polis Yunani tembak Gas pemedih mata pada
penunjuk perasaan pelajar . . .
JohnnyAdam – Polis Yunani tembak gas pemedih mata pada membantah pelajar di Athens semasa perarakan menandakan ulang tahun 2008 remaja ditembak oleh pegawai polis.
Greek police fire tear gas at student protesters. Greek police fire tear gas at protesting students in Athens during march marking anniversary of the 2008 shooting of teenager by police officer.