OBAMA Menandatangani SEKATAN Rang Undang-undang RUSIA, tidak MERANCANG untuk MENGGUNAKANNYA untuk SEKARANG

Srikandi - Presiden Amerika Syarikat, Barack Obama telah menandatangani rang undang-undang yang akan membolehkan White House untuk mengenakan sekatan ekonomi lanjut mengenai Rusia ke atas Ukraine, walaupun Pentadbiran telah berkata ia tidak mempunyai rancangan yang segera untuk memperkenalkannya.

"Pentadbiran saya akan terus bekerja rapat dengan sekutu dan rakan-rakan di Eropah dan di peringkat antarabangsa untuk bertindak balas kpd perkembangan di Ukraine dan akan terus mengkaji dan menentukan sekatan untuk bertindak balas kepada tindakan Rusia," kata Obama dalam satu kenyataan. "Pada masa ini, Pentadbiran tidak berniat untuk mengenakan sekatan di bawah undang-undang ini, tetapi Akta memberikan kuasa tambahan Pentadbiran yang boleh digunakan, jika keadaan memerlukan."

"Kami tetap bersedia untuk melancarkan kembali sekatan Rusia perlu mengambil langkah yang perlu," katanya.

Obama menggesa utk "penyelesaian diplomatik" mengikut gencatan senjata yg ditandatangani di Minsk, yg telah tdk dipatuhi sepenuhnya, sama ada oleh kuasa-kuasa kerajaan Kiev atau rantau Donbas, di mana lebih 4,000 orang terbunuh dalam konflik yang telah timbul dikalangan sejak musim bunga.

"Kami sekali lagi menyeru Rusia utk menamatkan pendudukan & cuba pengilhakan Crimea, menghentikan sokongan kpd puak pemisah di timur Ukraine, & melaksa-nakan kewajipan itu ditandatangani sehingga di bawah perjanjian Minsk," kata Obama.

Sekatan adalah untuk memukul tenaga dan pertahanan syarikat milik negara Rusia.

Entiti Amerika Syarikat akan dilarang dpd melabur dalam gas gergasi Gazprom, dan syarikat itu akan menghadapi sekatan tambahan jika ia memutuskan bekalan ke negara-negara timur utama Eropah, dengan siapa ia telah squabbled berulang kali berbanding harga. Sekatan lain akan melibatkan Rusia senjata pengeksport Rosoboronexport.

Mungkin yang paling penting, organisasi dalam sektor kewangan negara yang dilanda masalah akan dihalang dpd berurusan dengan mana-mana bank-bank Amerika Syarikat, langkah yang sama seperti yang dihadapi oleh Iran pada titik rendah daripada kejatuhan di atas program nuklearnya.

OBAMA Signs RUSSIA Sanctions BILL, No Plans to USE 

it for NOW . . .

US President Barack Obama has signed a bill that will allow the White House to levy further economic sanctions on Russia over Ukraine, though the Administration has said it has no immediate plans to introduce them.

"My administration will continue to work closely with allies and partners in Europe and internationally to respond to developments in Ukraine and will continue to review and calibrate our sanctions to respond to Russia's actions," Obama said in a statement. "At this time, the Administration does not intend to impose sanctions under this law, but the Act gives the Administration additional authorities that could be utilized, if circumstances warranted."

"We remain prepared to roll back sanctions should Russia take the necessary steps," he added.

Obama urged for a "diplomatic solution" in accordance with the ceasefire signed in Minsk, which has not been fully complied with, by either the forces of the Kiev government or the Donbas region, where over 4,000 people have died in a conflict that has raged since spring.

"We again call on Russia to end its occupation and attempted annexation of Crimea, cease support to separatists in eastern Ukraine, and implement the obligations it signed up to under the Minsk agreements," Obama said.

The sanctions were to hit Russia’s state-owned energy and defense companies.

US entities would be forbidden from investing in gas giant Gazprom, and the com-pany would face additional sanctions if it broke off supplies to key eastern European countries, with whom it has squabbled repeatedly over price. Other sanctions would involve Russia’s arms exporter Rosoboronexport.

Perhaps most crucially, organizations in the country’s embattled financial sector would be barred from dealing with any US banks, a measure similar to that faced by Iran at the low point of the fallout over its nuclear program.

Dalam perkembangan berkaitan, rang undang-undang yg memberi kuasa kepada Obama untuk membekalkan senjata anti-kereta kebal, pesawat pengawasan dan peralatan canggih yang lain untuk kerajaan Petro Poroshenko di Kiev, walaupun pegawai Rumah Putih berkata Presiden tidak mempunyai rancangan segera untuk membolehkan Amerika Syarikat senjata yang akan digunakan untuk meletakkan pemberontakan di timur negara itu.

Spekulasi telah timbul dikalangan semua minggu sama ada sekatan keras baru akan membantu dalam menyokong langkah-langkah yang sedia ada, yang sudah Lumpuhkan keupayaan syarikat-syarikat Rusia untuk meminjam wang di Barat, dan juga menyekat kerjasama ekonomi dan mencegah kanan Kremlin dan Crimea pegawai dari bercuti ke Amerika Syarikat dan Eropah.

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Tetapi 2 faktor nampaknya telah meletakkan brek pada rancangan itu. Obama adalah benci untuk mengenakan langkah-langkah baru tanpa sokongan dari Brussels, di mana tidak ada perpaduan kepada keperluan sekatan masa depan, dengan Francois Hollande malah ada yang pada hari Khamis yang sedia ada perlu ditarik balik, jika Rusia memaparkan positif "gerak isyarat."

Yang ke-2, ruble Rusia telah runtuh sejak minggu lalu - sebahagiannya disebabkan oleh harga minyak - bermakna ia telah dilakukan lebih buruk daripada mana-mana mata wang lain berbanding dolar sejak awal tahun ini. Lebih daripada $87 billion rizab mata wang asing Rusia telah digunakan untuk memangkin ruble pada 2014.

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Vladimir Putin bangkit pada langkah-langkah semasa sidang media tahunan di televisyen pada hari Khamis, menuduh Barat mahu "rangkaian" dan "de-claw Beruang Rusia."

In a related move, the bill authorizes Obama to supply anti-tank weapons, surveillance drones and other sophisticated equipment for Petro Poroshenko's government in Kiev, though White House officials said the President had no immediate plans to allow US weapons to be used to put down the uprising in the east of the country.

Speculation has raged all week about whether new harsh sanctions would augment the existing measures, which already hamstring Russian companies' ability to borrow money in the West, as well as restricting economic co-operation and preventing senior Kremlin and Crimea officials from traveling to the US and Europe.

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But two factors appear to have put a brake on the plan. Obama is loathe to impose new measures without backing from Brussels, where there is no unity on the need for future sanctions, with Francois Hollande even suggesting on Thursday that existing ones should be lifted, if Russia displays positive "gestures."

Secondly, the Russian rouble has collapsed over the past week - partly due to oil prices - meaning it has performed worse than any other currency against the dollar since the turn of the year. More than $87 billion of Russia's foreign currency reserves has been used to prop up the ruble in 2014.

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Vladimir Putin hit back at the measures during his annual televised press conference on Thursday, accusing the West of wanting to "chain" and "de-claw the Russian Bear."

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RUSIA tidak MENYERANG Barat, hanya MEMPERTAHANKAN Kepentingannya - PUTIN . . .

Presiden Rusia Vladimir Putin bercakap pada sidang akhbar tahunannya di Moscow pada 18 Disember 2014 (Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks during his annual press conference in Moscow on December 18, 2014 (AFP Photo/Kirill Kudryavtsev)

iLMu2lautan – Rusia melindungi kepentingan negara, tetapi ia tidak menyerang mana-mana negara Barat dari segi politik, kata Presiden Rusia Vladimir Puitn.

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Putin berkata bahawa sumbangan Rusia hanya dibuat terhadap tempoh semasa ketegangan "adalah satu pendirian yang semakin kukuh dalam mempertahankan kepentingan negara."

"Kami tidak menyerang sesiapa sahaja dalam erti kata politik," katanya. "Kami hanya mempertahankan kepentingan kami . . . ini yang tidak berpuas hati rakan-rakan Barat, terutamanya Amerika, datang dari ini."

Tindakan Rusia, yang digambarkan sebagai agresif di Barat, adalah tindak balas kepada apa yang negara-negara Barat lakukan, kata Putin.

"Rusia pada tahun 1990-an berhenti sepenuhnya penerbangan pengebom jarak jauh bahawa Kesatuan Soviet yang digunakan untuk membawa keluar," katanya. "Tetapi pengebom strategik Amerika dengan senjata nuklear masih terbang. 

Mengapa? 

Terhadap siapa? 

Siapa yang diancam siapa? "

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RUSSIA Not ATTACKING West, JUST Defending ITS 

Interests - PUTIN . . .

Russia is protecting its national interests, but it not attacking any western nations politically, Russian President Vladimir Puitn said.

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Putin said that the only contribution Russia made toward the current period of tension “is an increasingly strong stance in defending its national interests.”

“We are not attacking anyone in the political sense,” he said. “We are only defending our interests… The displeasure of our Western partners, particularly the Americans, comes from that.”

Russia’s actions, described as aggressive in the West, are a response to what Western nations are doing, Putin said.

“Russia in the 1990s completely stopped the long-range bomber flights that the Soviet Union used to carry out,” he said. “But American strategic bombers with nuclear weapons still flew. Why? Against whom? Who was being threatened?”

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Komen Putin datang sebagai tindak balas kpd soalan veteran editor berita DUNIA BBC, John Simpson, yang bertanya sama ada Putin krisis semasa dalam hubungan antara Rusia dan Barat adalah hasil daripada pencerobohan Rusia. 

Simpson memetik peningkatan rondaan Tentera Udara Rusia di ruang udara antarabangsa sebagai contoh pencerobohan itu. Pertukaran ini berlaku di Putin Q & A tahunan sesi di Moscow.

Putin’s comments came in response to a question from the BBC’s veteran world news editor, John Simpson, who asked Putin whether the current crisis in relations between Russia and the West was a result of Russia’s aggression. Simpson cited the increased patrols of the Russian Air Force in international airspace as an example of such aggression. The exchange happened at Putin’s annual Q&A session in Moscow.

Amerika telah lama mengabaikan kepentingan Rusia walaupun mengadu Moscow kira-kira banyak kali ini, kata Presiden.

"Ambil sistem peluru berpandu anti-balistik. Yang secara unilateral menarik diri dpd Perjanjian ABM, adalah satu asas yang penting dalam sistem keselamatan antarabangsa? 

Adakah bahawa kami? 

Tidakkah, Amerika Syarikat yang melakukannya. 

Mereka secara unilateral menarik diri dan mewujudkan ancaman kepada kita, "kata Putin.

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Tidak seperti Amerika Syarikat, yg mempunyai berpuluh-puluh pangkalan tentera di seluruh DUNIA, Rusia hanya ada 2, kata Putin. 

Dan orang-orang berada di tempat-tempat di mana keselamatan negara Rusia secara langsung mengancam, di Kyrgyzstan dan Tajikistan, kata Presiden.

The US has been ignoring Russian interests despite Moscow’s complaining about this many times, the president said.

“Take the anti-ballistic missile system. Who unilaterally withdrew from the ABM Treaty, which was a cornerstone of the international security system? Was that us? No, the US did it. They unilaterally withdrew and are creating threats toward us,” Putin said.

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Unlike the United States, which has dozens of military bases around the world, Russia has only two, Putin said. And those are in places where Russia’s national security is directly threatened, in Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan, the president said.

Tentera Amerika Syarikat berdiri di sebelah Patriot permukaan-ke-udara bateri peluru berpandu di pangkalan tentera di Morag, Poland (U.S. soldiers stand next to a Patriot surface-to-air missile battery at an army base in Morag, Poland (Reuters)

"Dan kami orang2 sekarang bahawa kita mempunyai dasar yg agresif? Adakah anda mempunyai akal? 

Adakah kita meletakkan tentera kita di sempadan Amerika Syarikat? 

Siapakah yang meletakkan tentera NATO, infrastruktur tentera hampir kepada kita? 

Adakah sesiapa yg mendengar kepada kita, bercakap kepada kita tentang hal itu? 

Tidak, apa-apa. Sentiasa ada jawapan yang sama: ia bukan perniagaan anda, "kata Putin.

Putin berkata, Rusia hanya mahu dianggap sebagai rakan kongsi yang setaraf oleh Barat.

"Kami mahu membangunkan hubungan normal pada keselamatan, anti keganasan. Kami akan bekerjasama dalam pengawalan senjata nuklear. 

Kami akan bekerja pada ancaman seperti dadah, jenayah terancang, penyakit berjangkit berbahaya, termasuk Ebola. 

Kami akan melakukan semua bersama-sama seperti yang kita akan bekerjasama dalam ekonomi, selagi rakan kongsi kami mahu, "kata Putin.

“And you are telling now that we have an aggressive policy? Do you have common sense? Do we place our troops at US borders? Who is placing NATO troops, military infrastructure closer to us? Does anyone listen to us, talk to us about it? No, nothing. There is always the same response: it’s not your business,” Putin said.

Putin added that Russia simply wants to be treated as equal partners by the West.

“We want to develop normal relations on security, counterterrorism. We will work together on nuclear non-proliferation. We will work on threats like illegal drugs, organized crime, dangerous infectious diseases, including Ebola. We will do it all together as we will cooperate on the economy, as long as our partners want that,” Putin said.

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KEGILAAN Membeli-BELAH, Kekecohan MEDIA Sosial dan JENAKA di RUSIA Runtuh RUBLE . . .

RIA Novosti/Maksim Bogodvid

iLMu2lautan – Kereta mewah, barang kemas, peti sejuk dan TV menjual seperti goreng pisang panas. Rusia bergegas untuk membeli runcit selepas 'Black Tuesday’ - hari Ruble kehilangan 20% daripada nilainya. Dan anda boleh menontonnya pada media sosial.

SHOPPING Frenzy, SOCIAL Media FUSS and JOKES in RUSSIA as Ruble COLLAPSES . . .

Luxury cars, jewellery, fridges and TVs are selling like hot cakes. Russians are rushing to buy retail after 'Black Tuesday’ - the day the Ruble lost 20% of its value. And you can watch it on social media.

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Pengedar kereta sedang membincangkan 1 "ledakan" sejak November – lot jenama mewah sedang dibeli, wang tunai. Mercedes-Benz dan Lexus yang merupakan ‘pembelian’ paling banyak yang dilaporkan.

"Sebaik sahaja euro mula meningkat, kami menjual semua kereta, malah yg paling mahal," kata seorang wakil jualan BMW di Barnaul, selatan Rusia. AltaiEuroMotors, peniaga rasmi Volkswagen di Barnaul katanya Selasa "hanya bebe-rapa kereta" ditinggalkan di kedai.

Sementara itu Rusia Lada Granta menyertai barisan kereta termurah di DUNIA, akan datang yang ke-2 selepas Autos Cina dan India. Pada masa ini kos kira-kira 300,000 Rubles ($ 4,500).

Car dealers are speaking of a “boom” since November - high end brands are being bought off the lot, for cash. Mercedes-Benz and Lexus being the most widely reported purcahses.

“As soon as euro started rising, we sold all cars, even the most expensive,” says a BMW sales rep in Barnaul, southern Russia. AltaiEuroMotors, official Volkswagen dealer in Barnaul, reported Tuesday“only several cars” were left in the shop.

Meanwhile the Russian Lada Granta joined the ranks of the cheapest cars in the world, coming second after Chinese and Indian autos. Currently it costs about 300,000 rubles ($4,500).

RIA Novosti/Alexandr Kryazhev

Perkakas rumah, telefon pintar, komputer berlian dan juga di mata pembeli pra-dada.

Anna Trofimova, Ketua PR di gergasi runcit Media Markt kepada RIA Novosti daripada "peningkatan ketara dalam permintaan pd TV dan Peralatan rumah. Jualan set TS telah meningkat lebih daripada 2 kali ganda,"

Home appliance, smartphones, diamonds and computers are also in the pre-bust shopper eye.

Anna Trofimova, Head of PR at retail giant Media Markt told RIA Novosti of “a considerable rise in demand on TV and Home appliances. Sales of TS sets have risen more than twofold,”

RIA Novosti/Ruslan Krivobok

End Uses melengkung sehingga iPhone dan iPad pada harga melebihi $ 100 lebih rendah daripada di Amerika Syarikat. Laman web Rusia Apple berhenti jualan dalam talian "disebabkan oleh turun naik yang melampau dalam nilai ruble . . .".

Penukaran mata wang yang terharu di Moscow dan media tempatan melaporkan cepat skim cepat kaya.

Conusmers scooped up iPhones and iPads at prices over $100 lower than in the US . Apple's Russian website stopped online sales “due to extreme fluctuations in the value of the ruble . . .”.

Currency exchanges have been overwhelmed across Moscow and local media outlets are reporting get-rich-quick schemes.

RIA Novosti/Ruslan Krivobok

Salah bunuh diri yang dilaporkan - seorang ahli perniagaan di sebuah hotel mewah Moscow - kerana "terlalu melelahkan psikologi".

Jenaka Ruble pergi virus pada media sosial

Di tengah-tengah kejatuhan ruble media sosial Rusia menunjukkan mainan biasa untuk humor.

Salah satu meme atas melibatkan teh berikut:

-Apa Akan berubah jika anda kembali ke masa depan?

-Rubles!

Peminat terkenal Star Wars saga tidak terlepas masa untuk membandingkan kejatuhan ruble dengan kejatuhan Empayar Galaktik. ruble kini di Twitter di mana ia menyiarkan setiap hari, perasaan maaf untuk dirinya sendiri.

Pengarang video di bawah memutuskan untuk membentuk sebuah kisah cinta yang indah antara ruble dan setong minyak melalui plot filem terkenal Titanic.

"Jangan melepaskan tangan saya," menjerit ruble dengan suara Leonardo DiCaprio.

"Saya tidak akan membiarkan pergi," minyak mengulangi frasa yang terkenal oleh Kate Winslet.

Media sosial bahkan "mencipta" treatement spacial untuk ruble yang sakit. Ia termasuk Plantago untuk "mengubati" luka ruble itu, plaster melekat dan juga ikon St. Matryona, dipercayai mempunyai hadiah penyembuhan.

Beruang Rusia ruble boleh air dan ia akan menjadi kuat lagi, percaya pengguna twitter lain.

"Adakah anda menguruskan untuk membuat hajat?" Euro meminta dolar ironinya menonton ruble jatuh

Semua orang! Lari! "Menjerit yang ruble plummettng dari sebuah bangunan berbilang tingkat.

Ruble itu juga digambarkan dalam "Sad Keanu meme" menunjukkan gambar terkenal merengus yang berpandangan Hollywood pelakon Keanu Reeves makan sandwich 'ruble'.

One suicide was reported - a businessman in a luxurious Moscow hotel - due to “psychological overstrain”.

Ruble jokes go viral on social media

Amid the ruble collapse Russian social media is exhibiting its usual knack for humor.

One of the top memes involves teh following:

-What would change if you go back to future?

-Rubles!

The fans of famous Star Wars saga didn't miss a moment to compare the fall of ruble with the fall of the Galactic Empire. the ruble is now on twitter where it posts every day, feeling sorry for itself.

The authors of the video below decided to make up a beautiful love story between ruble and a barrel of oil via the plot of famous movie Titanic.

"Do not let go of my hand," shouts ruble with the voice of Leonardo DiCaprio.

"I'll never let go," oil repeats the famous phrase by Kate Winslet.

Social media even "invented" spacial treatement for a sick ruble. It included a plantago to "cure" ruble's wounds, a sticking plaster and even an icon of St. Matryona, believed have a gift of healing.

The Russian bear can water the ruble and it will be strong again, believe other twitter users.

“Did you manage to make a wish?” Euro asks dollar ironically watching the falling ruble

Everyone! Run!" shouts a ruble plummettng from a multistorey building.

The ruble was also pictured in a "Sad Keanu meme" showing a famous photograph of sullen-looking Hollywood actor Keanu Reeves eating a 'ruble' sandwich.

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