Ukrainian Crisis

Opposition of Ukraine fueled violent protests agianst government forces seizing government building. Yanukovych the president, fled to Russia. Ukrainian Opposition ceased control declared Yanukovych a wanted man and installed their own interim president. The US and EU immediately recognised the new interim government of Kiev.


Crimea (autonomous region of Ukraine) disagreed with the way Kiev (Ukraine's capital city) is handling the matter with ousting the elected president without a proper impeachment procedure. Crimea declared independence and hold a status referendum on March 16 to join Russia or not.

Results of referendum: 88% voter turn out, 95.7% voted in favour of joining Russia.

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Vladimir Putin (President of the Russian Federation) immediately press for the State Duma and Federal Council of Russia to accept the referendum from Crimea and recognise the will of its people to join Russia.

Crimea was officially signed as part of Russia by the Russian and Crimeans authority, however, majority of the int'l community voted on the UN General Assembly that they are refusing to recognise the Crimea referendum except for a few who sided with Russia (North Korea, Venezuela, Afghanistan and few others. Meanwhile China remained neutral on the matter.)

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US, EU proceed with sanctions on Russian top official

-US warns China over territorial disputes. Cites Russian sanctions as an example of American retaliation. rt.com/news/us-threats-china-sanctions-385

Meanwhile here's the Russian response so far to US sanctions
Putin mocks sanction and said he will open an account at a bank on the sanctioned list by the US and EU. http://rt.com/news/putin-president-sanctions-bank-305/

Moscow telling Washington to "Relax and do some Yoga"http://rt.com/news/moscow-sanctions-us-relax-417/

Moscow also fired back by sanctioning US officials

Germany's response
After remarks by Vladimir Putin that Russia was the one who supported East and West Germany's union as one country while their current allies now were against the idea. He then implied that Germany should support Crimea's reunion with Russia after a "Soviet mistake" by General Secretary Nikita (giving Crimea to Ukraine without the consent of Crimeans.)

Angela Merkel (Chancellor of Germany) later states Germany is not ready to sanction Russia.
[quite a contrary to what she said days prior to the EU] http://www.theguardian.com/world/video/2014/mar/20/angela-merkel-eu-russia-sanctions-ukraine-video


A Call for Independence from around the world

Meanwhile US and Russia are at it over the Ukrainian/Crimean matter,
Thousands around the world in Italy, http://www.eturbonews.com/44417/verona-italy-mass-demonstration-independence
Spain http://rt.com/news/catalonia-independence-spain-poll-805/, Donetsk http://rt.com/news/ukraine-donetsk-protest-russia-733/ are campaigning for independence. With thousands gatherings in Spain, Italy to protest their government, meanwhile in Donetsk, Government building has again been ceased by pro-Russians before the pro-EUs get their hands on it.
Scotland too is holding an Independence referendum for 18 of September, 2014.

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The matter is still on going with war of words between Russian officials and their western and European counterparts.

Though some of the above links does not work when you click on them, so it must be manually copied/paste to work.

 

I have been watching this conflict since it began on Ajazeera live English stream.
Excellent on the ground reporting and expert opinion.

http://www.aljazeera.com/watch_now/

 

Thanks for the link Dougie.

There is a lot of bias going around in this situation with each media outlets going about their own agenda. Though this is notably with western medias such as CNN, BBC etc., but cannot say much about RIA Novosti or RT as they tend to be bias too in their reporting as well. But at the end of the day, both side of the storey is being broadcast to the viewer.

Aye, Al Jazeera was the news station that lost some staff to 'bias' reporting. hehe. If only CNN, FOX journalist could do that also.

 

Yes AL Jazeera have acted on bias reporting and quite informative now.
I agree that CNN and FOX should do the same as you say.
We all want unbiased and honest reporting.

 

Agreed they should call those stations "Opinion Stations" rather than news stations. I can't stand to listen to any of them.

 

It's within the human nature to always label something with opinions. Lol.

That's why I like SEA (Syrian Electronic Army). Any media who defames the Syrian regime without stating the arguments of the Syrian government become a target. And these guys are great. Though there methods is much of like a little child and anyone can do them. Ever since SEA's campaign and hacking top sites, many media are very careful with their wording against Syria.

Though the Syrian government should really establish an official branch of Intelligence and hire all those guys running SEA as intelligence operatives to counter US' NSA, Britain's GCHQ etc.
Many countries were invaded and hated due to bias reporting, thus every country needs to arm themselves with their own state-run media that can counter the bias and propaganda from those 'news station' abroad.

 

Refreshing to see others who refuse to be lead by the ring through the nose of right wing, left wing, and government controlled media.
Just also remember Al Jazeera are still to some extent a Muslim based media and will not publish anything that puts Islam in a bad light.
All media, no matter how little bias they have, do still have their own agenda.

 

I think any religion run media wouldn't publish anything to put their religion in bad light.
I wouldn't call it an agenda as such, just self preservation.