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it was actively killing those very Albanians.

In very long history, to initiate a war, every powers need (to create) *good reasons*.
I would support NATO if they were good judges.
But in reality, in Kosovo, NATO bombing, and KILLING ordinary Yugo citizens. They are not good either.
When KLA is in power, they suppressed Serbians community, to drag them out. The West was silent.
All the top official figures of Kosovo *ARE* crimes, but whitewashed by their master.
The same were/are happened with Lon Nol/Kherme Rough in Cambodia (e.g) in the past or Syria at the moment.
Yes, Assad is not a good guy, but definitely better than the "moderate" groups, which is actually terrorists.

Meanwhile, nothing of a kind happened in Ukraine.

Odessa massacre, how about this after one year? No one was convicted despite that dozens were burnt alive.
This is just very little of that news came out in Western press:
Two mother and daughter were killed just for be sympathy to rebels.
http://news.yahoo.com/ukraine-...

Ukraine use convicts to fight "terrorists", just like KLA:
http://www.kyivpost.com/conten...
...And they committed crimes:
http://rt.com/news/268105-ukra...
You could search for Ukraine media for that news, too.
Eventually, U.S.A confirmed which Russia loudly claimed long before,
https://twitter.com/repjohncon...
..Which ban to support Azov battalion (which is now part of Ukrainian National Guard ;)

Glory to heroes!

Don't post that in front of a Polish!

Please point to the fascists riddling the current Ukrainian government.

Members of Svoboda, the neo-Nazi inspired party formerly known as the "Social-National Party of Ukraine", hold several government posts: Oleksandr Sych, Vice Prime Minister; Andriy Mokhnyk- Minister of Ecology and Natural Resources; Ihor Shvayka, Minister of Agriculture.

Svoboda is so far right that just three years ago there was a move to have the party banned nationwide: http://www.kyivpost.com/conten...

I can hardly call russian propaganda stuff "information". I watch plenty of their footage over e.g. youtube, and mind you, the stuff they're smoking must be fantastic. We even have a website for some of that, with disclosure - http://www.stopfake.org/en/new...

So.. Yanukovich is gone, EU association is halfway done. Now, let's get back to the "nazi scum" you keep referring to. Who are they? Are they in government? What are the actions they performed which can be classified as fascistic? This is perhaps 3rd time I'm asking for this info from you?

There was plenty of rhetoric about united country, it still goes on. https://www.youtube.com/watch?... -- I assume you are Russian-speaking. For others, they are chanting "one, single, united Ukraine". The video is from May, so it's fairly recent.

A lot of people from Donbass region participated, and Poroshenko had 33% (Luhansk) and 36% (Donetsk) support - http://www.cvk.gov.ua/pls/vp20...

There was universal support and praise coming from everywhere except for Russia http://www.kyivpost.com/conten...

Do you have any links to support your claim of violations?

Last week a Ukrainian court put the blame for the famine on Stalin and several other officials.

That was in 2010.
So a Russian propaganda outlet runs a story about a lawsuit brought by the grandson of one of the biggest murderer's in history. Do you thing the grandson of Stalin might be a bit biased?

The point that makes it obvious is the fact that of the millions of people who died most were from the Ukraine. One estimate from the Encyclopedia Britannica is that of the 6-8 million who dies 4-5 million were from the Ukraine. This is odd considering that most of Russia's grain and many other foodstuffs comes from the Ukraine. When there is a famine one would expect the production areas to be least hard hit. That was not the case because Stalin exported most of the food. He also wanted fewer Ukrainians so break any Ukrainian nationalism and allow Russians to occupy the land.

Because they almost certainly don't? Objective polling before the election put only 41% of Crimeans in favour of becoming part of Russia. Russia invaded, installed a puppet Crimean government (kicking the democratically elected one out) took over the airwaves, spread propaganda everywhere, refused to allow impartial international observers in and then called an election which they "won" with 97% support - the jump from 41% to 97% isn't within any sane margin of error.

It's less than 41% actually. In 2011 it was 33% and in 2013 it was 23%

http://www.ibtimes.com/gallup-...

Also the leader of the puppet government - a Russian gangster nick named Goblin - was from a party which got 4% of the vote in the last elections. And it's not even clear that the votes in Parliament making him PM and organising the referendum were quorate. Also Parliament was surrounded by gunmen who only let in MPs who would vote the right way

http://time.com/19097/putin-cr...

So far, the most revealing aspect of his time in power has been the way he came to possess it. Before dawn on Feb. 27, at least two dozen heavily armed men stormed the Crimean parliament building and the nearby headquarters of the regional government, bringing with them a cache of assault rifles and rocket propelled grenades. A few hours later, Aksyonov walked into the parliament and, after a brief round of talks with the gunmen, began to gather a quorum of the chamber's lawmakers.

It is not clear whether the parliament was seized that day on his orders. On the one hand, the masked gunmen identified themselves as members of Crimea's "self-defense forces," all of which are, according to Aksyonov, directly under his control. On the other, he claims the seizure of the buildings was done "spontaneously" by a mysterious group of fighters. "We only knew that these were Russian nationalist forces," he tells TIME in an interview Sunday. "These were people who share our Russian ideology. So if they wanted to kill someone, they would have killed the nightwatchmen who were inside."

Instead, they let the guards go, sealed the doors and only allowed the lawmakers whom Aksyonov invited to enter the building. Various media accounts have disputed whether he was able to gather a quorum of 50 of his peers before the session convened that day, and some Crimean legislators who were registered as present have said they did not come near the building. In any case, those who did arrive could hardly have voted their conscience while pro-Russian gunmen stood in the wings with rocket launchers. Both of the votes held that day were unanimous. The first appointed Aksyonov, a rookie statesman with less than four years experience as a local parliamentarian, as the new Prime Minister of Crimea. The second vote called for a referendum on the peninsula's secession from Ukraine.

Oh and the referendum offered people a choice between independence (and joining Russia later) or joining Russia immediately - "yes, now" or "yes, later". There was no way to vote for the status quo of staying inside the Ukraine.

https://www.kyivpost.com/conte...

The ballot for March 16 Crimean referendum gives two choices, to join Russia or become independent.

Voters in Ukraine's Russian-occupied Crimea who vote in the March 16 referendum have two choices - join Russia immediately or declare independence and then join Russia.

So the choices are "yes, now" or "yes, later."

The referendum took place only two weeks later dur

"But illegally removed from office. Ukraine's constitution requires a 2/3 vote to impeach a president, but a 3/4 vote to remove him from office. 328 votes is well short of that 3/4 majority."

Well short? did you actually fail maths as well as politics or something? 73.3% is about as far from well short as you can get, especially given the law was put in place by him in the first place. It's also a firm democratic mandate, but again, you apparently don't get what democracy is either because you seem to think it's a thing where only your personal opinion matters in spite of the view of the majority of the Ukranian population.

"Oh, and installed the founder of a neo-nazi party as head of the country's security."

Oh I see, so instead it's better they all just submit to the neo-nazi Russian leadership, yes, neo-nazi, or did you miss all that stuff about using homosexuals and foreigners as scapegoats in Russia. In case you missed it it was kind of a big thing in the run up to Sochi. There are nazis on both sides of the equation.

"By supporting this coup, you are opposing democracy."

You really really need to learn how democracy works, again, I'll make it clear to you, it's not a thing where a minority gets to dictate to the majority. What you're asking for is dictatorship. It simply doesn't matter how you try and spin, whilst yes, there are some ethnic minorities in the Ukraine who support Russia, Putin and Yanukovych, the vast manjority are against them. What is it you find so utterly hard to understand about this?

"Like the right wing in Venezuela, they are trying to do by force what they failed to do at the ballot box."

Unlike the Ukraine, Venezuela can't even claim it's elections were free and fair, they were deemed not to be. I guess you're just one of those fools who loves to support dictatorships, the sort of person that was the reason the likes of Hitler, Mao, and Stalin could get away with what they did. You must be very proud of yourself and your support for dictatorship.

I'll make it abundantly clear to you that you're completely wrong if you think there is anything whatsoever undemocratic going on in the Ukraine (apart from Russia's occupation of Crimea):

Pre protests, support for EU is by far the biggest block vote, 45% vs. 14%:
http://online.wsj.com/news/art...

Not a single area, including the Russian majority Crimea support reunification with Russia with a total of only 13% supporting the Russian cause overall:
http://www.ukrinform.ua/rus/ne...

51% of Ukrainians support democracy, post protest 58% now support a union with the EU instead of Russia:
http://www.kyivpost.com/opinio...

The facts are there, this whole situation has the support of the majority, again, if you do not like this that's fine, but you're saying you do not like democracy. You can't pretend you're for democracy and against what's happened in the Ukraine because the two viewpoints are diametrically opposed - you must accept you're either for Russian dictatorship and against democracy, or for democracy and against Russian dictatorship. The numbers, the facts, just do not back any kind of assertion that what's occurred in the Ukraine is not a popular uprising by a majority against Russian interests.

You obviously hate cold fjord, christ, I do, I think he's wrong on almost everything, but everyone's right sometimes. This is one of those rare times, you're letting your personal hatred for someone put you on completely the wrong side of the argument. You may hate US imperialism, but in the Ukraine they've been victim of the equal and opposite Russian imperialism for a long time. Since 2004 we've seen events like this

The problem is that "primitive design" is often read as "poor design" by non-technical people. Primitive designs may be pretty good in themselves, and work quite well, but have become obsoleted by more advanced designs

Indeed. The current workhorse of the manned spacecraft industry is the Soyuz-class capsule. First launched in 1966. It's had significant upgrades since then but the Soyuz-A and the Soyuz TMA-07MM (launched December 17, 2012) look very similar.

Yes, it's a democratic republic where those who oppose the always winning democratically elected party get beaten up and imprisoned. Voting on the wrong party in Belarus can be bad for your health.

And Stalin's grandson excuses it saying genocide was not illegal in 1930's and is trying to sue the Ukraine http://www.kyivpost.com/news/nation/detail/58247/.

I find it utterly hilarious that someone is invoking human rights in defence of Stalin. Whiskey Tango Foxtrot indeed.

Russia always steals from the Ukraine (I'm a Ukrainian). At least this time it's just fairy tales. Last time they tried to starve us to death http://www.holodomorsurvivors.ca/
And Stalin's grandson excuses it saying genocide was not illegal in 1930's and is trying to sue the Ukraine http://www.kyivpost.com/news/nation/detail/58247/.
Screw the fairy tales I want justice for a genocide.

Theres interesting twist on that one lately. Baxter, which also previously almost "accidentally" spread modified bird flu in 2008 until it was noticed in one of the labs just at final moment, was supposedly testing some bio weapon in Ukraine.

http://www.consciousape.com/news/swine-flu-wars-baxters-ukraine-bio-weapon-exposed/

And further: “He said that Baxter’s Ukrainian lab was in fact producing a bio-weapon disguised as a vaccine. He claimed that the vaccine contained an adjuvant (additive) designed to weaken the immune system, and replicated RNA from the virus responsible for the 1918 pandemic Spanish flu, causing global sickness and mass death.”

We should perhaps note that Moshe revealed this information in August, a full two months and more before the Ukrainian ‘flu’ epidemic broke out.

Interestingly that was noted 2 months ago, and something unknown is now spreading there.

Since the moment the epidemic started to spread, 871,037 people have been diagnosed with flu and other respiratory viral infections, including 101,317 over the past 24 hours. As many as 39,603 of these people have been hospitalized, including 4,732 over the past 24 hours, and 317 are in intensive care.

60 people have died of severe respiratory conditions in the past week – 4 confirmed swine flu deaths, and what are being described as 56 “unexplained deaths” in the west of the country.

Looking at whatever has been happening with Baxter previously and with the swine flu.. interesting stuff.

1) Take power bricks and place in pile. 2) Cover in duct tape. 3) Continue wrapping of duck tape over cables. 4) Spray paint blue. Voila, a uni power brick... Seriously, i have this problem too, its even worse for traveling with devices. Most of the time the power brick is bigger than the gadget. I ended up building my powerbricks into my table, (underneath the desk) looks neater. Not much more functional. -tris me