Tuesday, February 22, 2022
Crise ukrainienne : l'UE propose d'interdire l'accès de Moscou à ses marchés et services financiers
LE FIGARO – EN DIRECT : La Commission et le Conseil européens proposent d'interdire aux autorités russes d'accéder aux marchés et services financiers européens et de cibler les banques finançant les opérations militaires russes dans les régions séparatistes ukrainiennes.
Le point sur la situation
Après une longue allocution télévisée, Vladimir Poutine a reconnu lundi soir, en signant deux décrets, l’indépendance des territoires séparatistes prorusses de l’est de l’Ukraine, faisant entrer la crise avec l’Ukraine dans une nouvelle dimension. Ce mardi, le Parlement russe doit entériner la décision du chef du Kremlin.
Le président russe a ensuite ordonné à son armée d’entrer dans ces territoires pour y assumer «les fonctions de maintien de la paix».
Rapidement, les pays européens, l’ONU, et les États-Unis ont condamné ce qu’ils considèrent comme une violation du droit international. Pour le secrétaire général de l’ONU, Antonio Guterres, cette décision est «incompatible avec la Charte des Nations Unies». Pour le chef de la diplomatie américaine Antony Blinken, elle contredit «l’engagement de la Russie envers la diplomatie».
Toute la journée de mardi, ils prépareront des sanctions contre la Russie : Les États-Unis ont déjà interdit tout nouvel investissement, échange ou financement par des personnes américaines à destination, en provenance ou dans les régions prorusses de Donetsk et Lougansk. Londres sanctionne trois oligarques et cinq banques russes. L’UE propose également de cibler les banques russes et l'accès aux marchés européens. Les céréales en hausse, sur fond de menace de conflit en Ukraine » | EN COURS : mardi 22 février 2022
Après une longue allocution télévisée, Vladimir Poutine a reconnu lundi soir, en signant deux décrets, l’indépendance des territoires séparatistes prorusses de l’est de l’Ukraine, faisant entrer la crise avec l’Ukraine dans une nouvelle dimension. Ce mardi, le Parlement russe doit entériner la décision du chef du Kremlin.
Le président russe a ensuite ordonné à son armée d’entrer dans ces territoires pour y assumer «les fonctions de maintien de la paix».
Rapidement, les pays européens, l’ONU, et les États-Unis ont condamné ce qu’ils considèrent comme une violation du droit international. Pour le secrétaire général de l’ONU, Antonio Guterres, cette décision est «incompatible avec la Charte des Nations Unies». Pour le chef de la diplomatie américaine Antony Blinken, elle contredit «l’engagement de la Russie envers la diplomatie».
Toute la journée de mardi, ils prépareront des sanctions contre la Russie : Les États-Unis ont déjà interdit tout nouvel investissement, échange ou financement par des personnes américaines à destination, en provenance ou dans les régions prorusses de Donetsk et Lougansk. Londres sanctionne trois oligarques et cinq banques russes. L’UE propose également de cibler les banques russes et l'accès aux marchés européens. Les céréales en hausse, sur fond de menace de conflit en Ukraine » | EN COURS : mardi 22 février 2022
Die ukrainische Armee ist zwar viel stärker als beim letzten Krieg – gegen eine russische Invasion hat sie aber kaum eine Chance
NEUE ZÜRCHER ZEITUNG: Die Streitkräfte versuchen sich innert kürzester Zeit vom sowjetischen und postsowjetischen Ballast zu befreien. Sie haben dabei grosse Schritte unternommen, kämpfen aber weiterhin mit Problemen.
Ukrainische Soldaten und Soldatinnen posieren Mitte Februar in Odessa für ein Foto. | Emilio Morenatti / AP
Die ukrainischen Streitkräfte haben sich in den letzten drei Jahrzehnten radikal verändert: Aus dem militärischen, antiwestlichen Bollwerk der sowjetischen Roten Armee wurde eine Truppe, die sich als erste Frontlinie gegen Russlands militärischen Expansionismus versteht, modernisiert und aufgerüstet durch den einstigen Todfeind Nato.
Trotz demonstrativer Gelassenheit dürften die Ukrainer aber ahnen, dass sie bei einer Invasion des grossen Nachbarn auf verlorenem Posten stünden. Mit 200 000 aktiven Soldaten und mindestens 250 000 Reservisten unterhält die Ukraine zwar die zweitgrösste Armee Europas nach der russischen. Personell wie materiell ist sie dieser dennoch haushoch unterlegen – grossen Verbesserungen seit 2014 zum Trotz. Der Schock von 2014 » | Ivo Mijnssen, Wien | Dienstag, 22. Februar 2022
Die ukrainischen Streitkräfte haben sich in den letzten drei Jahrzehnten radikal verändert: Aus dem militärischen, antiwestlichen Bollwerk der sowjetischen Roten Armee wurde eine Truppe, die sich als erste Frontlinie gegen Russlands militärischen Expansionismus versteht, modernisiert und aufgerüstet durch den einstigen Todfeind Nato.
Trotz demonstrativer Gelassenheit dürften die Ukrainer aber ahnen, dass sie bei einer Invasion des grossen Nachbarn auf verlorenem Posten stünden. Mit 200 000 aktiven Soldaten und mindestens 250 000 Reservisten unterhält die Ukraine zwar die zweitgrösste Armee Europas nach der russischen. Personell wie materiell ist sie dieser dennoch haushoch unterlegen – grossen Verbesserungen seit 2014 zum Trotz. Der Schock von 2014 » | Ivo Mijnssen, Wien | Dienstag, 22. Februar 2022
«Warum schweigt die Welt zu unserem Schicksal?» – Die Evakuierten aus dem Donbass erwartet in Russland eine ungewisse Zukunft
NEUE ZÜRCHER ZEITUNG: Seit Freitag treffen Tausende, vor allem Frauen, Kinder und Ältere, aus dem Donbass in der angrenzenden südrussischen Region Rostow ein. Nach anfänglichem Chaos herrscht trotz Andrang Ruhe. Die Ausgereisten fühlen sich von der Welt alleingelassen.
Aus den Regionen Donezk und Luhansk Evakuierte kommen in Russland an. | Dmitry Rogulin / TASS / Getty
An den Sambeker Höhen brennt die ewige Flamme in der stockdunklen Nacht. Die Silhouetten ausgestellter Panzer zeichnen sich am Himmel ab. Der grosse Freilicht-Museumskomplex, in den vergangenen sieben Jahren gebaut, erinnert an den Verteidigungskampf des Zweiten Weltkriegs im Hinterland der südrussischen Städte Taganrog und Rostow am Don. Hier zweigt die Strasse nach Awilo-Uspenka ab, dem Grenzposten zur Ukraine. Dahinter beginnt der Donbass, genauer: die separatistische «Volksrepublik Donezk». Kolonnen von Militärfahrzeugen bewegen sich am Abend, als Wladimir Putin seine Rede noch nicht gehalten hat, in diese Richtung. » | Markus Ackeret, Awilo-Uspenka und Taganrog | Dienstag, 22. Februar 2022
An den Sambeker Höhen brennt die ewige Flamme in der stockdunklen Nacht. Die Silhouetten ausgestellter Panzer zeichnen sich am Himmel ab. Der grosse Freilicht-Museumskomplex, in den vergangenen sieben Jahren gebaut, erinnert an den Verteidigungskampf des Zweiten Weltkriegs im Hinterland der südrussischen Städte Taganrog und Rostow am Don. Hier zweigt die Strasse nach Awilo-Uspenka ab, dem Grenzposten zur Ukraine. Dahinter beginnt der Donbass, genauer: die separatistische «Volksrepublik Donezk». Kolonnen von Militärfahrzeugen bewegen sich am Abend, als Wladimir Putin seine Rede noch nicht gehalten hat, in diese Richtung. » | Markus Ackeret, Awilo-Uspenka und Taganrog | Dienstag, 22. Februar 2022
So rüstet sich Moskau für Sanktionen
FRANKFURTER ALLGEMEINE ZEITUNG: Präsident Putin sagt, dass Sanktionen Russland bloß stärker machen. Das glauben Ökonomen aber nicht. Wie steht es um die Wirtschaft des Landes?
Während die EU und die Amerika noch über Sanktionen beraten wegen Russlands Anerkennung der Separatistengebiete und der Entsendung weiterer russischer Soldaten in die „Volksrepubliken“, hat Bundeskanzler Olaf Scholz (SPD) schon die erste Maßnahme bekannt gegeben: Die Zertifizierung der Ostsee-Pipeline Nord Stream 2 wird vorübergehend ausgesetzt. Damit kann die fertig gebaute Leitung bis auf weiteres nicht in Betrieb genommen werden.
Die russische Führung war in den vergangenen Wochen stets bemüht, sich von Sanktionsdrohungen unbeeindruckt zu zeigen. Präsident Wladimir Putin behauptete mehrfach, der Westen werde ohnehin „in jedem Fall“ Strafmaßnahmen verhängen, unabhängig davon, „ob es einen Grund gibt, der mit den Ereignissen in der Ukraine zu tun hat, oder nicht“. Der Westen werde schon einen Grund finden, denn das Ziel sei ein anderes: „Die Entwicklung Russlands zu bremsen.“ Dabei, so Putin am Montag in seiner Rede zur Anerkennung der Separatistengebiete in der Ostukraine, machten Sanktionen Russland bloß stärker. » | Katharina Wagner, Wirtschaftskorrespondentin für Russland und die GUS mit Sitz in Moskau. | Dienstag, 22. Februar 2022
Crise en Ukraine : sous le choc, l’Europe devrait d’abord se limiter à des sanctions « ciblées » contre la Russie
LE MONDE : Des mesures à l’encontre de Moscou pourraient être décidées dès mardi après-midi lors d’une réunion des ministres des affaires étrangères à Paris.
L’ultime tentative d’Emmanuel Macron pour tenter d’« éviter le pire », un conflit ouvert au cœur du continent, aura donc tourné court : la reconnaissance par Vladimir Poutine des deux républiques séparatistes prorusses du Donbass met en échec les efforts diplomatiques engagés par le président français depuis le début de l’année. La décision du chef du Kremlin enterre les accords de Minsk, signés en 2015 pour apaiser, par le biais d’une médiation de la France et de l’Allemagne, le conflit entre Kiev et Moscou sur le sort des régions situées dans l’est de l’Ukraine. Afin de donner une chance à la diplomatie, Paris et Berlin s’étaient mobilisés, en vain, ces dernières semaines pour tenter de débloquer le processus, paralysé depuis des mois.
La décision de Vladimir Poutine à peine connue, les condamnations se sont succédé dans les capitales européennes, qui, à l’instar des Etats-Unis, devaient examiner, dès mardi 22 février, dans l’après-midi, l’adoption de sanctions ciblées. Ces mesures pourraient être décidées lors d’une réunion extraordinaire des ministres des affaires étrangères réunis à Paris, en marge d’un sommet avec des pays de l’Indo-Pacifique. « Il faut agir vite, ces sanctions seront partielles, mais rapides », a demandé Josep Borrell, le haut représentant de l’Union pour les affaires étrangères. Si besoin, une réunion extraordinaire du Conseil européen pourrait avoir lieu rapidement. » | Par Philippe Ricard, Thomas Wieder (Berlin, correspondant) Cécile Ducourtieux( Londres, correspondante) et Jean-Pierre Stroobants (Bruxelles, bureau européen) | mardi 22 février 2022
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L’ultime tentative d’Emmanuel Macron pour tenter d’« éviter le pire », un conflit ouvert au cœur du continent, aura donc tourné court : la reconnaissance par Vladimir Poutine des deux républiques séparatistes prorusses du Donbass met en échec les efforts diplomatiques engagés par le président français depuis le début de l’année. La décision du chef du Kremlin enterre les accords de Minsk, signés en 2015 pour apaiser, par le biais d’une médiation de la France et de l’Allemagne, le conflit entre Kiev et Moscou sur le sort des régions situées dans l’est de l’Ukraine. Afin de donner une chance à la diplomatie, Paris et Berlin s’étaient mobilisés, en vain, ces dernières semaines pour tenter de débloquer le processus, paralysé depuis des mois.
La décision de Vladimir Poutine à peine connue, les condamnations se sont succédé dans les capitales européennes, qui, à l’instar des Etats-Unis, devaient examiner, dès mardi 22 février, dans l’après-midi, l’adoption de sanctions ciblées. Ces mesures pourraient être décidées lors d’une réunion extraordinaire des ministres des affaires étrangères réunis à Paris, en marge d’un sommet avec des pays de l’Indo-Pacifique. « Il faut agir vite, ces sanctions seront partielles, mais rapides », a demandé Josep Borrell, le haut représentant de l’Union pour les affaires étrangères. Si besoin, une réunion extraordinaire du Conseil européen pourrait avoir lieu rapidement. » | Par Philippe Ricard, Thomas Wieder (Berlin, correspondant) Cécile Ducourtieux( Londres, correspondante) et Jean-Pierre Stroobants (Bruxelles, bureau européen) | mardi 22 février 2022
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Putin Calls Ukrainian Statehood a Fiction. History Suggests Otherwise.
THE NEW YORK TIMES: In a speech, President Vladimir V. Putin bent Ukraine’s complex history into his own version that served as a justification for his cleaving off more of its territory.
People in Odessa on Sunday commemorated protesters killed in 2014 by paramilitary police forces in Kyiv, Ukraine. | Brendan Hoffman for The New York Times
KYIV, Ukraine — In his speech to the Russian nation on Monday, President Vladimir V. Putin buoyed his case for codifying the cleavage of two rebel territories from Ukraine by arguing that the very idea of Ukrainian statehood was a fiction.
With a conviction of an authoritarian unburdened by historical nuance, Mr. Putin declared Ukraine an invention of the Bolshevik revolutionary leader, Vladimir Lenin, who he said had mistakenly endowed Ukraine with a sense of statehood by allowing it autonomy within the newly created Soviet state.
“Modern Ukraine was entirely and fully created by Russia, more specifically the Bolshevik, communist Russia,” Mr. Putin said. “This process began practically immediately after the 1917 revolution, and moreover Lenin and his associates did it in the sloppiest way in relation to Russia — by dividing, tearing from her pieces of her own historical territory.”
As a misreading of history, it was extreme even by the standards of Mr. Putin, a former K.G.B. officer who has declared the Soviet Union’s collapse the greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the 20th century. » | Michael Schwirtz, Maria Varenikova and Rick Gladstone | Published: Monday, February 21, 2022; Updated: Tuesday, February 22, 2022
KYIV, Ukraine — In his speech to the Russian nation on Monday, President Vladimir V. Putin buoyed his case for codifying the cleavage of two rebel territories from Ukraine by arguing that the very idea of Ukrainian statehood was a fiction.
With a conviction of an authoritarian unburdened by historical nuance, Mr. Putin declared Ukraine an invention of the Bolshevik revolutionary leader, Vladimir Lenin, who he said had mistakenly endowed Ukraine with a sense of statehood by allowing it autonomy within the newly created Soviet state.
“Modern Ukraine was entirely and fully created by Russia, more specifically the Bolshevik, communist Russia,” Mr. Putin said. “This process began practically immediately after the 1917 revolution, and moreover Lenin and his associates did it in the sloppiest way in relation to Russia — by dividing, tearing from her pieces of her own historical territory.”
As a misreading of history, it was extreme even by the standards of Mr. Putin, a former K.G.B. officer who has declared the Soviet Union’s collapse the greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the 20th century. » | Michael Schwirtz, Maria Varenikova and Rick Gladstone | Published: Monday, February 21, 2022; Updated: Tuesday, February 22, 2022
The West Knows the Cost of Appeasement. We Can’t Rule Out Any Option for Stopping Putin
THE GUARDIAN – OPINION: The Russian leader has shown he cares enough about Ukraine to shed blood over it. He needs to know the gain won’t be worth the pain
‘What Putin has in common with Hitler is a mystical belief in a nation stretching beyond his country’s current borders.’ Russia's President Vladimir Putin addresses the nation in Moscow, Russia on 22 February, 2022. Photograph: Anadolu Agency/Getty Images
Vladimir Putin’s recognition of two Russian-backed separatist regions in eastern Ukraine as independent, along with his subsequent deployment of troops and tanks to the regions, has moved Europe closer to the brink of war.
Despite many differences, there are echoes of 1938 in current developments. Putin may not be Hitler; Ukraine in 2022 isn’t Czechoslovakia in 1938; and French president Emmanuel Macron, Olaf Scholz, the German chancellor, and their western colleagues aren’t some sort of collective Chamberlain. But 1938 does carry important lessons: the most important being that deterrence may seem more expensive and risky than accommodation today, but it is essential for Europe’s long-term security.
Putin, though a brutal authoritarian leader, is not a charismatic madman like Hitler. He has used targeted repression and assassinations to control the Russian opposition, rather than concentration camps. His ideology is flexible: for all his anti-western rhetoric, he and his associates have often kept their money and their families in the west.
What Putin has in common with Hitler, however, is a mystical belief in a nation stretching beyond his country’s current borders. Putin sees Ukraine as the key to this “Russian world”. In his speech on Monday announcing the recognition of the Donetsk and Luhansk “people’s republics”, Putin spoke of Ukraine as an “integral part of our own history, culture and spiritual space” and described the creation of a Ukrainian Soviet republic by Lenin as “the tearing away from Russia of a part of its own historical territories”. Last year he wrote that there was no historical basis for a Ukrainian people separate from Russians. » | Ian Bond * | Tuesday, February 22, 2022
* Ian Bond is the director of foreign policy at the independent thinktank, the Centre for European Reform, and a former British diplomat.
Vladimir Putin’s recognition of two Russian-backed separatist regions in eastern Ukraine as independent, along with his subsequent deployment of troops and tanks to the regions, has moved Europe closer to the brink of war.
Despite many differences, there are echoes of 1938 in current developments. Putin may not be Hitler; Ukraine in 2022 isn’t Czechoslovakia in 1938; and French president Emmanuel Macron, Olaf Scholz, the German chancellor, and their western colleagues aren’t some sort of collective Chamberlain. But 1938 does carry important lessons: the most important being that deterrence may seem more expensive and risky than accommodation today, but it is essential for Europe’s long-term security.
Putin, though a brutal authoritarian leader, is not a charismatic madman like Hitler. He has used targeted repression and assassinations to control the Russian opposition, rather than concentration camps. His ideology is flexible: for all his anti-western rhetoric, he and his associates have often kept their money and their families in the west.
What Putin has in common with Hitler, however, is a mystical belief in a nation stretching beyond his country’s current borders. Putin sees Ukraine as the key to this “Russian world”. In his speech on Monday announcing the recognition of the Donetsk and Luhansk “people’s republics”, Putin spoke of Ukraine as an “integral part of our own history, culture and spiritual space” and described the creation of a Ukrainian Soviet republic by Lenin as “the tearing away from Russia of a part of its own historical territories”. Last year he wrote that there was no historical basis for a Ukrainian people separate from Russians. » | Ian Bond * | Tuesday, February 22, 2022
* Ian Bond is the director of foreign policy at the independent thinktank, the Centre for European Reform, and a former British diplomat.
Putin Orders Troops into Eastern Ukraine on ‘Peacekeeping Duties’
THE GUARDIAN: Russian deployment follows decision to recognise territories in south-east will be viewed in Ukraine and by other western allies as an occupation
Vladimir Putin has ordered his military to enter the Russian-controlled areas of southeast Ukraine following a decision to recognise the territories as independent states.
The decision to dispatch his troops to perform “peacekeeping duties” will be viewed in Ukraine and by other western allies as an occupation of the region and likely trigger tough sanctions and a Ukrainian military response.
The deployment was revealed in the text of two treaty documents that Putin signed with the leaders of the separatist republics on Tuesday.
The third article of the treaties provided for the “implementation of peacekeeping functions by the armed forces of the Russian Federation” in the self-proclaimed Luhansk and Donetsk People’s Republics, which Ukraine and most of the world views at its sovereign territory. With video » | Andrew Roth in Moscow and Julian Borger in Washington | Monday, February 21, 2022
Vladimir Putin has ordered his military to enter the Russian-controlled areas of southeast Ukraine following a decision to recognise the territories as independent states.
The decision to dispatch his troops to perform “peacekeeping duties” will be viewed in Ukraine and by other western allies as an occupation of the region and likely trigger tough sanctions and a Ukrainian military response.
The deployment was revealed in the text of two treaty documents that Putin signed with the leaders of the separatist republics on Tuesday.
The third article of the treaties provided for the “implementation of peacekeeping functions by the armed forces of the Russian Federation” in the self-proclaimed Luhansk and Donetsk People’s Republics, which Ukraine and most of the world views at its sovereign territory. With video » | Andrew Roth in Moscow and Julian Borger in Washington | Monday, February 21, 2022
Monday, February 21, 2022
What’s at Stake for the Global Economy if Russia Invades Ukraine
THE NEW YORK TIMES: Countries that depend on the region’s rich supply of energy, wheat, nickel and other staples could feel the pain of price spikes.
The seaport in Odessa, Ukraine. A Russian attack on Ukraine could contribute to far-reaching jumps in the price of food and energy. | Brendan Hoffman for The New York Times
After getting battered by the pandemic, supply chain chokeholds and leaps in prices, the global economy is poised to be sent on yet another unpredictable course by an armed clash on Europe’s border.
The lead-up to a potential Russian invasion of Ukraine has already taken a toll. The promise of punishing sanctions in return by President Biden and the potential for Russian retaliation has pushed down stock returns and driven up gas prices.
An outright attack by Russian troops could cause dizzying spikes in energy and food prices, fuel inflation fears and spook investors, a combination that threatens investment and growth in economies around the world.
However harsh the effects, the immediate impact will be nowhere near as devastating as the sudden economic shutdowns first caused by the coronavirus in 2020. Russia is a transcontinental behemoth with 146 million people and a huge nuclear arsenal, as well as a key supplier of the oil, gas and raw materials that keep the world’s factories running. But unlike China, which is a manufacturing powerhouse and intimately woven into intricate supply chains, Russia is a minor player in the global economy. » | Patricia Cohen and Jack Ewing | Monday, February 21, 2022
After getting battered by the pandemic, supply chain chokeholds and leaps in prices, the global economy is poised to be sent on yet another unpredictable course by an armed clash on Europe’s border.
The lead-up to a potential Russian invasion of Ukraine has already taken a toll. The promise of punishing sanctions in return by President Biden and the potential for Russian retaliation has pushed down stock returns and driven up gas prices.
An outright attack by Russian troops could cause dizzying spikes in energy and food prices, fuel inflation fears and spook investors, a combination that threatens investment and growth in economies around the world.
However harsh the effects, the immediate impact will be nowhere near as devastating as the sudden economic shutdowns first caused by the coronavirus in 2020. Russia is a transcontinental behemoth with 146 million people and a huge nuclear arsenal, as well as a key supplier of the oil, gas and raw materials that keep the world’s factories running. But unlike China, which is a manufacturing powerhouse and intimately woven into intricate supply chains, Russia is a minor player in the global economy. » | Patricia Cohen and Jack Ewing | Monday, February 21, 2022
Putin Recognizes 2 Separatist Regions in Fiery Speech
THE NEW YORK TIMES: President Vladimir V. Putin addressed the nation late on Monday, bitterly accusing Ukraine of being a “puppet” of the United States. The U.S. and E.U. said they would begin imposing limited sanctions.
Refugees from the separatist-held territories of East Ukraine watching an address by President Vladimir V. Putin from their hotel room on Monday in Taganrog, Russia. | Sergey Ponomarev for The New York Times
MOSCOW — President Vladimir V. Putin said he would recognize the independence of two Russian-backed territories in eastern Ukraine and warned the government of Ukraine that further bloodshed “will be fully and wholly” on its conscience, delivering an emotional and aggrieved address that set the stage for the possibility of Russian military action against Ukraine.
The White House responded by saying that President Biden will begin imposing limited economic sanctions on the two separatist regions, stopping short of imposing any penalties directly on Russia for now but vowing that more would come. Leaders of the European Union also condemned Putin’s move and said they will impose sanctions on those involved.
Immediately after the speech, state television showed Mr. Putin at the Kremlin signing decrees recognizing the so-called Donetsk and Luhansk People’s Republics, which were created after Russia fomented a separatist war in eastern Ukraine in 2014. Mr. Putin also signed “friendship and mutual assistance” treaties, raising the possibility that Russia could move some of the forces it has built up around Ukraine’s borders into those territories. » | Anton Troianovski and Valerie Hopkins | Monday, February 21, 2022
MOSCOW — President Vladimir V. Putin said he would recognize the independence of two Russian-backed territories in eastern Ukraine and warned the government of Ukraine that further bloodshed “will be fully and wholly” on its conscience, delivering an emotional and aggrieved address that set the stage for the possibility of Russian military action against Ukraine.
The White House responded by saying that President Biden will begin imposing limited economic sanctions on the two separatist regions, stopping short of imposing any penalties directly on Russia for now but vowing that more would come. Leaders of the European Union also condemned Putin’s move and said they will impose sanctions on those involved.
Immediately after the speech, state television showed Mr. Putin at the Kremlin signing decrees recognizing the so-called Donetsk and Luhansk People’s Republics, which were created after Russia fomented a separatist war in eastern Ukraine in 2014. Mr. Putin also signed “friendship and mutual assistance” treaties, raising the possibility that Russia could move some of the forces it has built up around Ukraine’s borders into those territories. » | Anton Troianovski and Valerie Hopkins | Monday, February 21, 2022
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Credit Suisse : les obscures affaires du roi Abdallah II de Jordanie
LE MONDE : ENQUÊTE « Suisse Secrets » | Le souverain hachémite a placé au moins 200 millions d’euros chez Credit Suisse. Sa fortune reste sans rapport avec l’héritage reçu de son père et contraste avec la paupérisation de la société jordanienne.
Le roi Abdallah II de Jordanie aime les placements discrets. A l’automne 2021, le scandale des « Pandora Papers », une gigantesque fuite de documents émanant de cabinets spécialisés dans la création de sociétés offshore, avait révélé que le monarque possédait quatorze résidences de luxe, éparpillées entre Londres, Washington et Malibu, en Californie. Des propriétés d’une valeur de 106 millions de dollars (93 millions d’euros), dissimulées derrière un entrelacs de sociétés-écrans.
Mais cet empire immobilier ne constitue qu’une partie de la fortune cachée du souverain jordanien, âgé de 60 ans et au pouvoir depuis 1999. L’enquête « Suisse Secrets », coordonnée par l’Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP), et à laquelle Le Monde et 47 autres médias du monde entier ont participé, montre que, durant la dernière décennie, le roi Abdallah II a abrité au moins 200 millions d’euros chez Credit Suisse, un prestigieux établissement financier helvétique frappé depuis des années par des scandales à répétition. » | Par Le Monde | lundi 21 février 2022
Skyler Wixom | My Faith. My Sexuality. My Journey Forward.
Jan 15, 2020 • Skyler Wixom, a BYU graduate and adjunct professor, shares his story of coming out and finding his path of authenticity and honesty. Skyler gives kind and sympathetic advice to Latter-Day Saints and Church leaders regarding his sexuality.
He shares his story coming out for the first time to his mission president and the loving advice his mission president gave him.
Skyler discusses where is at today, including the transition of his faith and what led him from life as an active Mormon to exploring his sexuality.
He shares his story coming out for the first time to his mission president and the loving advice his mission president gave him.
Skyler discusses where is at today, including the transition of his faith and what led him from life as an active Mormon to exploring his sexuality.
Home Office Bans ‘Golden Visas’ for Wealthy Foreign Investors
Kick the b*******s out, wherever they come from! We don’t need their filthy lucre. – © Mark
When Soldiers Kiss and Make Up! When East Meets West.
Switzerland At Risk of EU Blacklist after Credit Suisse Leak
THE GUARDIAN: Apparent due diligence failures by Swiss bank prompts centre-right calls for EU to review relationship with Switzerland
The fallout from a huge leak of Credit Suisse banking data threatened to damage Switzerland’s entire financial sector on Monday after the European parliament’s main political grouping raised the prospect of adding the country to a money-laundering blacklist.
The European People’s party (EPP), the largest political grouping of the European parliament, called for the EU to review its relationship with Switzerland and consider whether it should be added to its list of countries associated with a high risk of financial crime.
Experts said that such a move would be a disaster for Switzerland’s financial sector, which would face the kind of enhanced due diligence applied to transactions linked to rogue nations including Iran, Myanmar, Syria and North Korea.
“When Swiss banks fail to apply international anti-money-laundering standards properly, Switzerland itself becomes a high-risk jurisdiction,” said Markus Ferber, the coordinator on economic affairs for the EPP, which represents Europe’s centre-right political parties.
“When the list of high-risk third countries in the area of money laundering is up for revision the next time, the European Commission needs to consider adding Switzerland to that list.” » | Kalyeena Makortoff and David Pegg | Monday, February 21, 2022
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