Obama on Ukraine

July 30, 2014

THE PRESIDENT:  No, it’s not a new Cold War.  What it is, is a very specific issue related to Russia’s unwillingness to recognize that Ukraine can chart its own path. 

And the sooner the Russians recognize that the best chance for them to have influence inside of Ukraine is by being good neighbors and maintaining trade and commerce, rather than trying to dictate what the Ukrainian people can aspire to, rendering Ukraine a vassal state to Russia -- the sooner that President Putin and Russia recognizes that, the sooner we can resolve this crisis in ways that doesn't result in the tragic loss of life that we’ve seen in eastern Ukraine.

http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2014/07/29/statement-president-ukraine

July 18, 2014

"Here’s what we know so far. Evidence indicates that the plane was shot down by a surface-to-air missile that was launched from an area that is controlled by Russian-backed separatists inside of Ukraine. "

"What we know right now, what we have confidence in saying right now is that a surface-to-air missile was fired and that's what brought the jet down.  We know -- or we have confidence in saying that that shot was taken within a territory that is controlled by the Russian separatists."

http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2014/07/18/statement-president-ukraine

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Pakistan thread:

http://poleshift.ning.com/profiles/blogs/disastrous-flood-in-pakistan

"dacha" thread:

http://poleshift.ning.com/group/surviving/forum/topics/a-summerhouse-in-the-wild?xg_source=activity

2011:

http://poleshift.ning.com/forum/topics/2-week-vacation-in-the-wild?xg_source=activity