PUTIN REJECTS UKRAINIAN SEPARATISTS' AIM TO BECOME PART OF RUSSIA (STA BREAKING NEWS and ARCHIVES)

by Mother_Of_The_World , Friday, September 19, 2014, 13:38

So much for the crazed notion that Putin is hell-bent on restoring the old Soviet Union!
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Source: Washington's Blog

Russia’s Leader Putin Rejects Ukrainian Separatists’ Aim to Become Part of Russia

Posted on September 19, 2014 by Eric Zuesse.

The leader of the Ukrainian separatists says that their efforts to get Russia’s President Vladimir Putin to accept their territory as being a part of Russia have been firmly rejected by Putin’s Government; and, so, “we will build our own country.” (This important statement from the rebel leader Andrei Purgin on Wednesday, September 17th, was inconspicuously buried halfway through an AP news story that focused instead on “East Ukraine Casualties.” It’s common for propagandistic news reports, such as characterize the U.S. media, to bury what’s important in the news story, and not even to headline that crucial information. So: this information was buried, and was not headlined.)

Russia’s Government has thus made clear that it is not seeking to add to its territory. While Russia has accepted the approximately million refugees who have fled to Russia from Ukraine’s civil war, Russia does not want any part of Ukraine’s territory. Crimea was traditionally part of Russia, throughout the period 1783-1954, until the leader of the Soviet Union gifted Crimea to Ukraine (the nation that was called the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic) in 1954, but the residents of Crimea never accepted that, and they overwhelmingly considered themselves still to be Russians. Furthermore, the Russian Navy’s lease on the Crimean port of Sebastopol for its Black Sea Fleet extended till 2042, and the February 2014 coup-installed Ukraine Government wanted to cancel it, which threatened crucial Russian national defense. Furthermore, many of those new Ukrainian leaders wanted a nuclear war against Russia. So, Putin accepted Crimea back into Russia, but he will not admit more than that as being added to Russian territory.

*SNIP*

FULL POST:
http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2014/09/russias-leader-putin-rejects-ukrainian-separatists-aim-become-part-russia.html