Ukraine’s interim government is looking to crack down on the Crimea’s autonomous parliament today for its move toward secession, issuing arrest warrants for the region’s Prime Minister Sergey Aksyonov as well as the speaker of parliament and several other MPs.
The courts are saying Aksyonov, the head of the Russian Unity Party, was “illegally appointed” to Crimean premier, and that it was likewise illegal to organize a referendum on secession from the Ukraine.
The Crimean parliament initially set the referendum for May, but Aksyonov pushed it up to the end of March, and today officials say it has been moved up against to March 16, in the hopes of avoiding a protracted standoff.
Crimean officials have been under pressure to agree to talks with the Ukrainian interim government about some settlement short of secession. The talks are almost certainly impossible now with every major Crimean leader facing immediate arrest if they leave the peninsula for anywhere else in the Ukraine.
I can't listen to anything coming out of the mouths of these illegitimate leaders in the Ukraine, especially when hey talk about anyone else being illegitimate.
The fascist goons appointed by a foreign gov't. issuing arrest warrants. LOL
Arseniy Yatsenyuk interim Government in Kiev probably thinks his Molotov throwing rioters are more legitimate because they left more dead bodies in the streets.
"Democracy" goes out the window when the illegally appointed Kiev Government installed at the point of the gun sends out a Posse to arrest those organizing a free and fair Crimean Election.
Hey, isn't this the guy (Yats as they call him) who Assistant Secretary of State Victoria Nulan and Ambassador Geoffry Pyatt were caught on phone recording saying they were going to put him in power because they could work with him??? I think so. Arseniy Yatsenyuk is an illegitimate prime minister as with the coup govt that is in place. I think it is against international law for a foreign government to assist in a violent overthrow of a democratically elected government.
Good, these Crimean warmongers should be locked up. The Ukrainian government has been voted in power by the Ukrainian parlement and therefore is legit. Many Ukrainian civilians have died for a democratic Ukrain, and not be the vazal state of Russia. The criminal former president of Ukraine should be arrested for crimes against humanity. Thankfully his money and that of his cronies are confiscated by Europe and the US.
Actually John, the current Ukrainian govt is illegitimate for they violently overthrew the prior govt whom was democratically elected. Whether you like the prior leadership or not you do not have a right to violently overthrow them. That is why you have elections. Most of us do not like Obama's illegal spying on America via the NSA and his other un-constitutional violations, but we cannot therefore violently overthrow his administration; we can certainly protest and if we had a Congress that actually upheld their oath of office, they could impeach and convict/or not convict the President but agains we cannot overthrow his government. If we did that we lower ourselves to the degenerates currently occupying Ukraines govt via a violent coup.
The stench of hypocrisy.
If the West elects to recognize a government which hired snipers after the legitimate deal between Yanukovich and Poland, France was reached, this does not spell good future developments.
On top of this, I understand the revolutionary Ukrainian government wants Yanukovich to stand trail at Hague for those snipers killing both protesters and Berkut. And this mess is only beginning of things to come. Wait until Ukrainians will realize the conditions on which the UE/US help will be delivered.
They will climb barricades to joint Russia, but it will be too late. They have to understand that BANKS, not goverments rule this world.
Your first statement is exactly the reason why Putin correctly believes that he and the EU were screwed and one does not screw Putin. The EU on the other had appears to enjoy greatly being screwed by the current government in Kiev. Our own president does not experience that pleasure because, as I understand, he did not endorse that deal.
It is not widely known that the Ukrainian parliament did not only depose by vote Ukraine's president but also ousted the elected members of his party from the Duma. All votes of that body are therefore illegal.
So we have unelected usurpers of power telling the ELECTED members that they cannot have a plebiscite to determine which country they want to live in! especially as the region was in Russian for several hundred years not so long ago! and transferred in breach of UN laws of self determination in the first place!