Ukraine (closed; covers till August 2014)

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Putin Too Clever by Half on Delaying Russian Referendum

May 8, 2014

Putin is engaged in the classic Leninist approach of two steps forward and one step back: He has absorbed Crimea and destabilized Ukraine and now will receive credit in some circles for being a peacemaker. He has made it more difficult for the West to come up with a united position because it is certain that some capitals will say this is not the time to push forward. Yet, he has left all his options on the table, not agreeing to any substantive change on Ukraine or anywhere else.

http://www.jamestown.org/programs/ed...4#.U2ydY9oaySN

According to one Ukrainian site (written in 2011) "Donetsk Republic" was organised by Aleksandr Tsurkan, who worked in Yanukovich presidential election team in 2004. Yanukovich lost to orange revolution and Tsurkan left to Donetsk to organise movement that could act as opponent to president Yuschenko. Last biggest event was protest meeting where gathered 15 persons. After Yanukovich became president this organisation became quiet.

http://zrada.org/hot/26-nation/244-p...a-ukrainy.html

2012. "Donetsk Republic" opened their "embassy" in Moscow in the office of Dugin's youth movement. That year Putin became president again under "Eurasian Union" banner.

http://gazeta.ua/ru/articles/politic...9?mobile=false

Autumn same year Dugin's people arrived to Donetsk to share know how about Eurasianism. There was talk about "Eurasian Union", which is Putin's geopolitical project.

http://rusmir.in.ua/pol/3362-v-donec...a-nauchno.html

7.05.2014 Russia's present day "useful idiot" Bckman is in the game.

Ukrainian separatists opening mission in Helsinki
The eastern Ukrainian separatist group calling itself the "Donetsk Republic" will be opening a representative office in Helsinki, according to Finnish academic and activist Johan Bckman.

Johan Bckman says that the representative office will be opened on the 18th of this month at a conference in Helsinki where the keynote speaker will be Russian political scientist Aleksandr Dugin, an ideologist of the creation of a Eurasian empire. Bckman added that he has had talks in Moscow with Donetsk separatist leader Denis Pushilin on setting up a western European representative office in Helsinki. As Pushilin is on the EU sanctions list, it is unlikely that he will be present for the opening.

http://yle.fi/uutiset/ukrainian_sepa...lsinki/7226818

Bäckman is working for Russia's front organisatins for some time. He was one of the most active international election monitors in Crimea. In Finland he is representative of Russia's RISI institute, whose head is retired special service general. If you tell to Finn "Backman", usually very calm people lose their temper

It's very hard not to agree with Paul Goble.