Anyone covering the Ukrainian presidential election for the Western media during the last few days has had to perform a complicated balancing act. How else could you explain President Poroshenko’s underwhelming finish to a trusting reader of the New York Times or the Washington Post, despite the fact that the president was proclaimed a hero in both the US and the EU for his role in the Maidan “revolution” of 2014? Poroshenko got a mere 15.96% of the ballots cast, and many voters openly expressed doubts over his ability to make it into to the second round. How could television comedian Vladimir Zelensky overtake Poroshenko by almost 15 percentage points (30.4%) after Poroshenko’s supposedly “heroic” war against “Russian aggression”? And how could Yulia Tymoshenko, who was “imprisoned by that pro-Russian crook of a president” Viktor Yanukovych from 2012 to 2014, finish a distant third with just 13.4%, after two years in jail and an active fight against what she calls “Russian aggression” in eastern Ukraine?

The verdict of the voters

The truth is that while the final outcome of the Ukrainian election has not yet been made public, the moral, political, and economic bankruptcy of the crudely nationalist regime that established itself in Ukraine after the Maidan coup of 2014, is plain for everyone to see. This article will demonstrate that even the Western media indirectly acknowledges this fact. Only Western and Ukrainian sources will be used to prove two devastating truths about the violent “revolution of dignity” on Maidan Square in Kiev, which the US and the EU openly supported in 2014.

Here are the facts that  the Western press also acknowledges. First of all, over the course of the last five years of IMF-led reforms, Ukraine has become the poorest nation in Europe (as Der Spiegel reports); second, Maidan gave rise to “the dirtiest and most shameful” presidential race in the history of Ukraine as an independent nation (as Bloomberg was forced to admit, after many years of praise for the “revolution of dignity”). In fact, the West itself has already handed down a “guilty” verdict in regard to the regime of President Petro Poroshenko. The US and the EU are just unwilling to admit their share of the responsibility for the ongoing disaster, preferring to talk about Russian “aggression” in the Donbass (the Russian-speaking population of which were lovingly described as “subhumans” by the first post-Maidan Ukrainian prime minister, Arseny Yatsenyuk). The second favorite topic of the Western media is the “occupation” of Crimea (whose autonomous status inside Ukraine was slated for elimination by the far-right members of the post-Maidan Ukrainian government  immediately after taking power in 2014).

The poorest nation in Europe

The economic collapse of Ukraine is plain for everyone to see. It is so indisputable that incumbent President Petro Poroshenko did not even dare bring up the economy during his campaign, preferring to focus on his confrontation with Russia. “The real choice [that voters have to make] is between me and Putin,” Poroshenko said at the peak of his campaign, offering the rather puzzling choice of: “Either Poroshenko or Putin”  — a slogan that was reprinted in millions of campaign posters, numerous ads on TV, and in newspapers. Poroshenko’s alternative was so absurd that even Euronews decided to publish a remark by Yelena Bondarenko, an anti-Maidan journalist and former deputy of the Ukrainian parliament (during the administration of the much-maligned Viktor Yanukovych, the president ousted after Maidan), quoting Bondarenko’s Facebook comment: “Does Putin know that he is running for office in March?” But of course Euronews refrained from interviewing Bondarenko, whose views run counter to the mainstream Western narrative about Ukraine. During her brief visit to Moscow, Bondarenko shared with this correspondent her views on the reasons for Ukraine’s economic impoverishment.

“The Ukrainian economy is being destroyed not only by corruption, as the Western media report, but also by Kiev’s self-imposed isolation from the traditional Russian market. This misfortune is self-inflicted, since it was Kiev that declared Russia a hostile country and imposed sanctions first, long before Russia fought back,” Bondarenko said. “Contrary to Poroshenko’s promises, the association agreement with the EU did not make up for the Russian market that was lost to Ukraine. In fact, Ukrainian exports to the EU diminished by 36% in the first year after Yanukovych was ousted.” Bondarenko’s bitter assessment of the state of the Ukrainian economy is corroborated not only by data from the Ukrainian Ministry of Economic Development, but also by none other than the Washington Post. That newspaper, once so enthusiastic about Maidan, reported the collapse of the Ukrainian currency (the hryvna) from 8.2 hryvnas to the dollar (under the much-maligned Yanukovych) to 25.3 hryvnas over the course of just one year of Ukraine’s exposure to Poroshenko’s “young reformers.” This downturn for the hryvna reflected the downturn of Ukraine’s economy after it forcefully “separated” itself from Russia’s, causing the Ukrainian GDP to plummet by 6.8% in 2014 and by 9.8% in 2015, as reported by Reuters.

Young reformers and old foreign policy

Immediately prior to the election, some in the Western media made a desperate attempt to rehabilitate the “young reformers” from Arseny Yatsenyuk’s government (most of whom were not Ukrainian citizens and were fired by Poroshenko after fights over systematic corruption in 2015-2017). Bloomberg trumpeted the inclusion of Yatsenyuk’s former economics minister, the Lithuanian banker Aivaras Abromavicius, as part of the team of candidate Vladimir Zelensky seeing in this a sign that Zelensky would fight the supposedly villainous “old system.” Zelensky, a Russian-speaking Ukrainian comedian, surged ahead of Poroshenko in the polls and started getting good press in the US and the EU after vowing total loyalty to Washington and Brussels several weeks before the election. Now Zelensky is viewed by Politico (for example) as a potentially good alternative to Poroshenko, simply because Zelensky (unlike Poroshenko) is not ashamed to speak in public in Russian, the native language of 36-40% of Ukraine’s population.

The fact that Zelensky is not even promising to change the disastrous anti-Russian foreign-policy stance of the post-Maidan regime is generally overlooked by newspapers both in the US and in the EU. However, without shifting from Poroshenko’s posture on joining NATO and other anti-Russian alliances, it simply won’t be possible to end what Kiev calls its “war with Russia” —Ukraine’s five-year-long military operation against the rebellious regions of Donetsk and Lugansk, generally known as “the Russian-speaking regions of the Donbass.” (Russia does not consider this military action to be a war with Ukraine, calling it instead a Ukrainian civil war and blaming the Maidan coup for escalating the political divisions between eastern and western Ukraine, which had previously been resolved during elections, into a bloodbath between people had gone to  school together and were citizens of the same country.) So, Zelensky is not really suggesting a solution to the “war problem.” Meanwhile, ending the hostilities in the Donbass is seen as the highest priority by the majority of the Ukrainian electorate, as Reuters confirms in its report from the war-torn areas of Ukraine. So, Ukrainians’ hopes for peace will most likely also be dashed by the candidate Zelensky.

War enshrined in laws 

Even if Poroshenko leaves office, his legacy will prevent Ukraine from ending the war anytime soon. The warfare in eastern Ukraine is the fruit of  NATO’s eastward expansion that was launched by Washington and Brussels in the mid-1990s without buy-in from Moscow, as Counterpunch rightly admits. And during Poroshenko’s tenure, Ukraine’s path toward EU and NATO membership has become enshrined in its constitution, despite Russia having made no secret of its position that Ukraine joining NATO would be a “red line” for Moscow. So, even if we adopt the Western view that the war is actually between Ukraine and Russia, Poroshenko has done everything to make that war last longer. Back in 2018, the Ukrainian parliament, led by Poroshenko’s faction, adopted what is known as the law on the de-occupation of the Donbass, which brands Russia as “an aggressor” and makes it impossible for Ukraine to comply with the peace agreements that were signed by Poroshenko and the representatives of the Donbass rebels and were made public in Minsk in February 2015 (what are called the “Minsk Agreements”). So why, after adopting that law, is Ukraine unable to honor its commitments under the Minsk agreements? Because Ukraine’s new law on de-occupation makes amnesty for the rebels and a special status for the Donbass impossible, despite the fact that amnesty and that special status formed the core of the Minsk Agreements in 2015. The Economist magazine noted that the law on de-occupation “infuriated” Russia. Obviously, if something “infuriates” one party to a conflict and you are an intermediary or a benevolent observer of this conflict, you should reject that “something.” Not so for the Economist: it actually praised the law, saying that it “called a bully by its own name.”

This particular event exposes the problem: The Economist and the vast majority of other Western media outlets are not benevolent observers. They were on Kiev’s side from the very beginning of the post-Maidan regime. And they did so not so much out of love for Ukraine, but rather out of hatred for some evil entity that they call “Putin’s Russia,” but which is actually just Russia, pure and simple.

Western coverage: the facts belie the narrative

Now, as the Ukrainian election showcases the full extent of Ukraine’s impoverishment and the degradation of its political institutions, inconsistencies are beginning to emerge in the Western press’s narrative on Ukraine. In fact, attentive readers of Western reports on Ukraine might be feeling the same shock as that experienced by “Russiagate” believers after reading the conclusions of the Mueller Report. It was all a lie, as the American Conservative rightly put it. The facts (Ukraine’s impoverishment and corruption, the dirty and undemocratic presidential election, Kiev’s unwillingness to make peace in Donbass, and its provocative stand against Russia) — these facts are just incompatible with the prevailing narrative of the Western media about the nice young reformers fighting against the “old system,” which is somehow constantly being reinvigorated by Russia.

After the first round of elections in Ukraine, the holes in that Western narrative are now simply impossible to hide. It was Poroshenko’s fear of the West’s “treason” against him that revealed, for example, the unseemly links between the post-Maidan Ukrainian elite and the American embassy, which is still headed by Obama’s appointee Marie Yovanovitch, and the ensuing scandal. In an interview with the Hill, Ukraine’s prosecutor general, Yuri Lutsenko, revealed that during a personal meeting Yovanovitch gave him a list of the individuals in the Ukrainian establishment who were seen by the US as allies and who should not be prosecuted under any circumstances. Here is a quote from the Hill:

“Unfortunately, from the first meeting with the US ambassador in Kiev, [Yovanovitch] gave me a list of people whom we should not prosecute. My response of that is: it is inadmissible. Nobody in this country, neither our president nor our parliament nor our ambassador, will stop me from prosecuting whether there is a crime,” Lutsenko said in his interview with the Hill.

The US State Department called Lutsenko’s claim that he had received this list of untouchables “an outright fabrication,” but the cat was out of the bag. The direct influence that the United States exerts on the post-Maidan regime has long been suspected, and for most Ukrainians Lutsenko’s statement was a “revelation” of a generally known “secret.”

So, as the Polish think tank Nowa Europa Wschodnia (“New Eastern Europe”) asks in a recent publication, what was the purpose of Maidan, if Ukraine is poorer and more corrupt than under Yanukovych? The answer is simple: its goal was to make Ukraine a country that is hostile to Russia, in a state of constant confrontation with its neighbor, and embroiled in a simmering conflict with a big segment of its own population. This goal was achieved through the joint efforts of the United States, the European Union, and Ukrainian ultra-nationalists. And this election offers no hope of changing this state of affairs anytime soon. The election simply exposed this terrible state of affairs — even to the Western media.

The presidential elections in Ukraine have rightly been described as a race between three neo-Nazis, each more of a Russia-hating racist than the rest.

Whichever one of them wins, the United States and the entire NATO alliance are mortally committed to supporting an extremist, out-of-control and desperate failing regime that would not hesitate to pull America into a thermonuclear war for its own selfish ends.

The parallels and lessons to be drawn from the beginning of both the terrible world wars of the past century are striking. In 1914, the Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria-Hungary was assassinated in Sarajevo, the capital of the obscure and unstable provinces of Bosnia-Herzegovina by Gavrilo Princip, an idealistic, murderous young fool in a plot backed by Deep State elements in the Serbian government.

The Serbian government and monarchy was torn apart between two feuding factions, each of which routinely slaughtered each other, including women and children in horrific massacres. Nevertheless, the Russian government felt a strong sense of Orthodox Christian and Slavic identification with the Serbs. So when the Austro-Hungarians decided to crush them, St. Petersburg declared war on Austria-Hungary, which in turn brought in Germany as Vienna’s ally.

In World War II, Adolf Hitler was determined on his mad and wicked scheme to conquer all the plains of Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union and literally annihilate the Russian as well as Jewish peoples. (Recent research has shown that as many as 20 million Slavs, overwhelmingly Russian, were deliberately murdered in 200 smaller and little known extermination camps in Nazi-occupied Russia and Belorussia.)

Still, it was the instability and recklessness of the racist Polish nationalist government, which persecuted Russians and Ukrainians as well as Jews in race laws that British historian Paul Johnson compared to those of Apartheid-era South Africa that triggered the world war. The Poles refused to make any sane and sensible defense agreement with the Soviet Union, the only nation that could protect them. They madly thought Britain and France on the other side of Europe would magically be able to protect them.

Today, it is Ukraine that plays the fateful role of potential powder keg for a global explosion that Serbia did in 1914 and Poland in 1939.

Just as the Serbs were driven insane by their passionate hatred for the Austro-Hungarian Empire and the Poles by their own loathing for the Soviet Union and the Russian people, the clique that rules Ukraine today and controls its election process hates modern Russia.

The three leading candidates in this election, current President Petro Poroshenko, former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko and literal clown Volodymyr Zelensky outdo each other in their expressed hatred of Russia.

The US political class mindless and its appalling cowardly, ignorant and sheer lazy mainstream media swallows the Big Lie that Ukraine is a virtuous and stable democratic nation: The US–backed and orchestrated violent coup d’etat of 2014 in Kiev notwithstanding.

Yet an American polling organization, Gallup, reported in March that Poroshenko retains the trust and credibility of only 6 percent of the Ukrainian people who have suffered his total incompetence for the past five years.

According to Gallup, the Ukrainian political system cobbled together on Washington’s orders after the 2014 coup does marginally better: A whopping 12 percent of the Ukrainian people trust it, which means 88 percent of them don’t.

Yet it is this corrupt, violent and chaotic shambles of a state that is leading the United States and all of NATO into a fateful collusion with Russia that could escalate into global thermonuclear war.

In 1914, the rulers of Russia were obsessed with supporting Serbia. In 1939 the rulers of Britain and France were obsessed with supporting Poland and would not countenance a real alliance with the Soviet Union because the Poles opposed it. Today, Ukraine is the focus of the West’s ignorant, incompetent do-gooder obsessions.

It does not really matter whether Poroshenko, Tymoshenko or Zelensky wins the joke election in Kiev: All of them are local radicals, extremists and gamblers with no sense of responsibility or obligation to their mindless protectors in the West at all.

All of them are so filled with hatred of the Russian people and its leaders that they would eagerly fan the flames of thermonuclear conflagration if they thought it would get them even a minor territorial favorable adjustment on the Don.

Friedrich Nietzsche famously predicted that whom the gods would destroy, they first made mad. The leaders and guides of the American people are fulfilling that vision now in their passion to wage war, come what may, for the frauds, crooks, gangsters and confidence artists they support to lead Ukraine.

Nietzsche was no Christian. But Jesus issued the same warning even more vividly. Pigs filled with devils, he observed, madly galloped off the edge of a cliff.

The split is between the oligarchy striving to cement the victory won at Maidan and the instrument it used to reach the goal – the energy of mob leading to the installation of ochlocracy. The ruling tycoons still need mobs, especially against the background of people’s resistance in the South-East, but they want to exercise more control over the ruling regime. Ranting and raving Timoshenko scares those who are accustomed to be masters of life by calling for «war till victory is won». She adroitly manipulates baser instincts of mobs. Her behavior, the funny stories about throwing crutches away or the threats to use nuclear weapons against Russians, as well as stunningly mydriatic pupils of her eyes staring at interlocutors while she is talking – it all makes experts believe that they deal with steady delirium provoked by drugs, or even psychological anomaly. But after all nobody else but Timoshenko is the one who to call the shots in Ukraine at present. She heads the party that the two top leaders – acting prime minister Yatsenyuk and interim president Turchinov – belong to. No wonder the country is in such a mess. 

But why this home-grown Valkyria, which publicly demonstrates her derring-do, is so much afraid of Poroshenko coming to power? The constitution limits the presidential power; the «chocolate king» was a leading Maidan sponsor and never deviated from the ideas of Ukrainian nationalism or whatever. The Timoshenko’s affirmations that she does not like oligarchs for the reasons of social class divisions sound really ridiculous. The newly emerged Joan of Arc with a braid is not prone to asceticism. Nobody doubts she has pocketed enough money that belongs to Ukrainian people, no matter former president Yanukovych pushed hard line on her. In Great Britain they have recently discovered 85 accounts totaling 85 million pounds. Timoshenko is jittery realizing the oligarchs will finally crack down on the odious leaders of ochlocracy and she is the prime target. 

If the election takes place on May 25, the new president will have a formidable weapon – the control over law enforcement agencies that are investigating the massacres and provocations that have taken place during the Maidan protests, in Odessa and Mariupol. Poroshenko may get information on perpetrators. It does not mean he will make it public; the bloody trace is leading to his money too. But it was hardly him who gave the concrete orders. So he will use the information to ultimately get rid of opponents. Timoshenko needs the investigation to be postponed for at least a few years to make the traces fade away. After all her party Batkivshchyna was the driving force of the coup staged in Ukraine, nothing is taking place without her leader’s approval. The very devilish intrigue of Ukrainian blood performance could have been born only in somebody’s extremely perverse and inflamed mind – among all the Ukrainian politicians Yulia Timoshenko is the only one to possess it. 

General Pinochet or she-devil wearing a skirt, as they call it in Ukraine, Timoshenko has no wish to get behind bars again. Neither does she want to lose the reins; the lust for power is in her blood. She’ll go to any length to reach the goal even if it means plunging Ukraine into abyss. Illegal armed formations are mushrooming across the country, at that she is creating an army of her own – National Salvation Front with best military thinkers and seasoned professionals filling the top positions. The strength of Julia’s army is around ten thousand and the formation appears to be getting ready for the third revolution. The Poroshenko and Timoshenko have by and large the same stances on Russia but she has already painted her competitor in the race as a national traitor. As she told Svoboda Slova (Freedom of Speech) TV program, no coalition with Poroshenko is possible. She accuses him of being in collusion with Moscow-oriented gas tycoon Dmitry Firtash. According to her, they made a deal in Vienna where Firtash was kept behind bars. After thorough investigation Russia lifted trade bans on the shipment of confectionery products of the Ukrainian corporation Roshen that were imposed by Russia’s Federal Service for Supervision of Consumer Rights Protection and Human Welfare. Roshen belongs to Poroshenko and the fact makes Timoshenko suspicious. The Simferopol shipyard formally also belongs to the «chocolate tycoon», though in practice it’s out of his control. The facility has recently signed a $136 million ship repair contract with Russia. The leader of Batkivschyna party saw it as a reason to accuse Poroshenko of treason. 

The Timoshenko’s escapades and extravaganza start to scare the West. She blackmails the European Union and the United States threatening to stage another maidan. She wants to become the darling of the West and make it offer military aid to Ukraine so that it could wage war against Russia. Timoshenko would not stop before provoking a clash between the United States and Russia pursuing the goal of clinching power. In comparison with her even Poroshenko and CIA analysts appear to be moderate. Many thousands of human lives depend on what this drug addict says or does. On April 18 Timoshenko asked the US Congress for military aid including air defense and anti-armor systems as well as personnel training. 

Some US congressmen let know that she’d better leave the race. Yulia pinned hope on her gift of eloquence to make the US administration support her. Her visit to the United States was slated for April 9-11. Her representatives had held at least three meetings with US lawmakers before the planned date. Formally the purpose of meetings was to express gratitude for the US support in the days Timoshenko was in jail. Jim Slattery, head of Wiley Rein LLP 20-member public policy group and a former U.S. Congressman was involved in preparations. Ultimately the visit was suspended. According to estimations, the «needy» Timoshenko spent $1.050.000 for lobbying purposes in the United States. 

Ukrainian oligarchs of the Poroshenko's team are not wasting time. On May 6 another coup attempt took place in Verkhovna Rada going unnoticed by public. The UDAR party came forward with an initiative to elect Poroshenko speaker of parliament and acting president instead of Turchinov. It suggested that Turchinov and Arsen Avakov, acting Minister of Internal Affairs, were to be dismissed while the head of SBU (special service) Valentin Nalivaichenko was to hold his position as a creature of UDAR and the CIA. Before the motion mutual understanding concerning the issue was reached between members of the Party of Regions and its two split fractions, independent MPs and some Batkivshchyna deputies concerned over vibrant activities of their party leader. Communists were ready to support the idea of ousting the interim government but refused to support the appointment of tycoon Poroshenko (no matter their votes were not decisive). Formally the reason was to be the failure of «anti-terrorist operation». The presidential election was to be postponed till autumn so that the «constitutional order» could be restored. At that the Ukraine’s government and the US embassy recommended to stop fiddling with new coups, they believed that Moscow could gain in case the oligarchs and ochlocrats clashed. 

A head-on collision is avoided at the time, but the clash between the two forces with uncertain outcome and obviously negative fallout for the country is ahead. Commenting on the situation MP Spiridon Kilinkarov noted that, «Ochlocracy means the power of mob which inevitably leads to dictatorship. It’s the most horrible thing. As a rule, when events unfold this way, a country is in for tough rule by iron hand».

This conciliatory tone, expressed to media in Donetz by Tymoshenko, sounded like a miraculous conversion – Alle-Yulia! – appropriate for the Christian celebration of Christ’s resurrection from the dead. Perhaps the lady’s plaited hairstyle is supposed to now signify a virtuous halo.

Only a few weeks ago, Tymoshenko was caught saying in a private phone call how she wanted to turn pro-Russia eastern Ukraine into ash from a nuclear attack. In the same leaked phone call – which Tymoshenko confirmed as authentic – the disgraced politician also called for ethnic Russians opposed to the Kiev junta to be «whacked in the head» by death squads…

Such criminal incitement is now expected to be forgotten, it seems, as Tymoshenko posed as a voice of reason on her «tour» of the east. It is doubtful that she actually did take soundings from protesters over the weekend – so deep is the contempt felt for her – and she probably confined herself to briefings from the various oligarch figures that the Kiev junta has newly imposed as political governors for the region.

The conversion from death-wish embezzler to matriarch of the nation was the second such miracle involving Tymoshenko. While in prison before being released by the Kiev junta that seized power at the end of February, Tymoshenko claimed that she was confined to a wheelchair allegedly because of her deteriorating health. Now, released from prison, the lady appears to have made a full recovery, walking on to public platforms to sing the praises of the coup-appointed Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk, who is also a leading figure of her neo-fascist Fatherland Party.

For years during her incarceration, Tymoshenko sent out distraught appeals to her backers in Western governments and the media claiming mistreatment by the former Ukrainian authorities. Her forlorn appeals were made from a prison wheelchair, which she said was necessary because of paralysis brought on by her cruel imprisonment. Never mind that her seven-year jail sentence was a result of a court prosecution, which found her guilty on counts of massive corruption involving state gas supplies and millions of dollars.

Her conviction was quashed by the Western-backed regime that seized power in Kiev on February 22. Pro-Western, pro-IMF looting of the economy, and pro-NATO, Tymoshenko came to fame during the CIA-backed Orange Revolution of 2004. She is now planning to run for the Ukraine presidency in elections scheduled for next month. Perhaps her presidential ambitions are having a cathartic effect, not only enabling her to ditch the wheelchair and stride forth, but also to abandon harboring odious ideas for mass murder.

And now – alleluia! – Tymoshenko is extending the hand of mediation to people whom she wanted to drop nuclear weapons on only a few weeks.

It may be Easter, but the protesters occupying buildings in eastern Ukraine are right to not buy this particular miraculous conversion. Nor should they vacate the buildings they began occupying earlier this month, or to disarm.

Leaders of the Kiev junta – Yatsenyuk and the self-styled interim president Oleksander Turchynov – are like Tymoshenko suddenly talking about «national unity» and making vague promises about «constitutional reform».

Under the Geneva agreement signed by the US, Russia, EU and the Kiev regime last Thursday, the latter is obligated to enter into national dialogue with political opponents in the east and south of the country with a view to allocating greater autonomy in those regions.
Crucially, the Geneva deal also calls for the disarmament of all groups across the state and for the evacuation of illegally held buildings in all cities. That stipulation should apply to the coup in Kiev and their neo-Nazi paramilitaries who continue to occupy Maidan Square and other public spaces.

But within hours of signing the Geneva document, the Kiev regime and its main sponsor, Washington, have begun interpreting the conditions in a one-sided, distorted way.

The fatal mistake stems from affording the Kiev regime the authority of «government of Ukraine» at Geneva. This not a sovereign government; it’s an installment of a regime by Washington and its European allies using criminal subversion. The only mandate this regime has is what Washington and Brussels bestows on it.

The Kiev junta may be talking vaguely about «national unity» but it is demanding a specific unilateral disarmament of the protesters in the eastern cities.

Moreover, Kiev’s self-proclaimed foreign minister Andrey Deshchytsa is now saying that if the protesters in Donetz, Kharkov and Slavyansk do not immediately disarm and vacate buildings, the Kiev regime will resume its «anti-terror» crackdown with the deployment of Ukrainian national security forces.

In this one-sided application of the Geneva agreement, the Kiev junta has the full support of Washington. US President Barack Obama said that the US government expects Moscow to facilitate the disarmament of pro-Russian demonstrators and if it doesn’t then Washington will pile on more sanctions, this time on the Russian economy. Washington has also said it will be supplying «non-lethal» military equipment to the Kiev junta.

So, the Kiev coup is allowed to seize power violently and illegally, deposing an elected president, Viktor Yanukovych, and his government, tear up the country’s constitution, threaten mass violence against ethnic Russians, and then make sovereign decisions regarding IMF loans and associations with NATO, the EU and US. This unelected fascist regime is allowed to continue bearing arms and to arrogate the right to deploy the national army of Ukraine for its reactionary political agenda. But all other opposing parties are to refrain from protest in the face of such usurpation, and indeed the opponents are being given an ultimatum to capitulate to these impostors or face violent retribution.

Alle-Yulia! Democracy and legality have been crucified, and we now expected to bow before the redemption of Western regime change in Ukraine.

Der Spiegel has looked through a top secret presentation by NSA's Center for Content Extraction, which is responsible for automated analysis of all types of text data. 

According to the document, the leaders of 122 states were among the high-ranked targets of the US intelligence. 

However, only 12 names were revealed by the German journalists in the publication as an example. 

With the heads of state arranged alphabetically by first name, the list begins with ‘A’ as in Abdullah Badawi, the former Malaysian prime minister. 

He’s followed by Palestinian president, Mahmoud Abbas, who appears so high due to being mentioned under his alias, Abu Mazin. 

The catalogue of world leaders under surveillance goes on with the heads of Peru, Somalia, Guatemala and Colombia right up to Aleksander Lukashenko of Belarus. 

The list is completed by Yulia Tymoshenko at No.122, who used to be Ukrainian prime minister from February-September 2005 and from December 2007 till March 2010. 

Merkel appears on the document between former Mali president, Amadou Toumani Toure, and Syrian leader, Bashar Assad. 

The document indicates that the German chancellor has been included in the so-called Target Knowledge Database (TKB), which includes “complete profiles” of the individuals under surveillance. 

The automated name recognition system, Nymrod, which deals with transcripts of intercepted fax, voice and computer-to-computer communications, has provided around 300 citations for Merkel alone, Der Spiegel wrote. 

The authors of the NSA presentation especially stressed the effectiveness of the automated capture, with manual maintenance of high-ranking targets database being “a slow and painstaking process”. 

Der Spiegel were also shown a weekly report from the Special Sources Operations (SSO) division, which proves that the NSA had received a court order to spy on Merkel. 

According to the paper, FISA, the special court responsible for intelligence agency requests, provided the NSA with authorization to monitor “Germany” on March 7, 2013. 

The new Snowden leaks are significant for Germany as they prove that Chancellor Merkel was an official target for surveillance by the US. 

The office of German Federal Public Prosecutor, Harald Range, still hasn’t made up its mind over suing the National Security Agency. 

The allegations that the NSA monitored Merkel’s mobile phone and conducted mass surveillance on the communications of millions of Germans are currently under review by the prosecutors.

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She spoke Russian (her native tongue) and suggested that it was «about time we grab our guns and go kill those damn katsaps» (katsap is a Ukrainian word used to refer to the Russians in a negative tone). The conversation leaves no doubt about the fate of Russians if Timoshenko is elected President. Shufrych told her about his fellow MP asking him, «What should we do now with the 8 million Russians that stayed in Ukraine? They are rogues!» Timoshenko, who is known in the West as a «beacon of democracy» and a «prisoner of conscience», says, «Use nuclear weapons against them»… 

So 8 million are to be exterminated because of their ethnicity. As the conversation goes, Shufrych agrees with this «final option» for finding a solution to the issue of Russians living in Ukraine. 

It’s impossible to take it as a botched joke; today Mrs. Timoshenko is a gray eminence who calls the shots from behind the scenes. The so-called acting president Turchinov is a puppet on a string who has been dancing to the Timoshenko’s tune for the recent 15 years. Turchinov is kind of a devoted slave daring no move without the consent of his mistress. Batkivshchyna (the All-Ukrainian Union «Fatherland»), the Timoshenko’s political party, holds the reins in Ukraine today.  Yatsenyuk, the so called prime minister, is a Batkivshchyna member closely connected to Timoshenko. In some mysterious way she managed to leave the wheel-chair right upon her release from jail. Standing on her feet now, she is the person who really holds the power in the country. Timoshenko has Right Sector (Pravy Sector), Svoboda (Freedom) and Maidan self-defense groups – armed fascists free to march under the slogan «Ukraine for Ukrainians!» – on a loose leash. 

And now all these people will not wink an eye trying to assure that Russians have nothing to be afraid of in Ukraine, and nobody will ever dare to encroach on their rights. 

 Today a lot of things have come to surface providing a clue to what the Kiev junta wanted to do with the Russians of Crimea after the coup was staged. They planned mass slaughter of all public figures. Russia saved the Crimeans at the last moment by literally pulling the peninsula out to escape the hand raised to stab it with a knife. The real intentions of Kolomoisky towards Russian population are becoming clear. Kolomoisky, Governor of Dnepropetrovsk region, is a Timoshenko’s countryman; they have close business ties and think alike when it comes to Russians. His deputy Boris Filatov left a post in Facebook calling for making lucrative promises to Russians at first to hang them all afterwards. This high placed scum is not alone in his plans as the conversation between Timoshenko and Shufrych shows. The threats of physical violence against political opponents and anyone who thinks differently brings to memory the events that took place in Germany in 1939-1941. That’s what makes so eerie the everyday life of contemporary Ukraine democratized by Americans. 

It would be interesting to see how «free world leaders» will react to the Timoshenko’s recent revelations. As is known they spare no effort to display their ardent support for «young Ukrainian democracy». It would be right to make them comment the conversation. Western leaders should either recognize that they have made come to power arrant knaves, who are dyed-in-the-wool fascists with criminal minds and behavior. In this case they should abstain from hindering Russia’s activities aimed at protecting compatriots abroad. They can also sort out the mess themselves bringing their puppets to order and getting rapists and terrorists out of power structures. 

If the West does not recognize that its Ukraine’s policy has been wrong and refuses to rectify the blunders, then others will. In this case the world will have to support those who stand in the way of fascist plague being spread across the country with 45-million population at the time Ukraine marks the 70-year anniversary of liberation from fascist’s occupation.