European Union (EU) leaders decided early Sunday 31/8/14, to give Russia one week to de-escalate the Ukraine crisis, otherwise the bloc would impose tougher sanctions on Moscow, European Council President Herman Van Rompuy told a news conference after a special summit in Brussels. According to a draft statement from the summit, the EU leaders were set to ask the European Commission and the EU's diplomatic service "to urgently undertake preparatory work" on further sanctions that could be implemented if necessary.

Никогда мы не будем братьями

Никогда мы не будем братьями

ни по родине, ни по матери.

Духа нет у вас быть свободными –

нам не стать с вами даже сводными.

Вы себя окрестили “старшими” -

нам бы младшими, да не вашими.

Вас так много, а, жаль, безликие.

Вы огромные, мы – великие.

А вы жмете… вы всё маетесь,

своей завистью вы подавитесь.

Воля - слово вам незнакомое,

вы все с детства в цепи закованы.

У вас дома “молчанье – золото”,

а у нас жгут коктейли Молотова,

да, у нас в сердце кровь горячая,

что ж вы нам за “родня” незрячая?

А у нас всех глаза бесстрашные,

без оружия мы опасные.

Повзрослели и стали смелыми

все у снайперов под прицелами.

Нас каты на колени ставили –

мы восстали и всё исправили.

И зря прячутся крысы, молятся –

они кровью своей умоются.

Вам шлют новые указания –

а у нас тут огни восстания.

У вас Царь, у нас - Демократия.

Никогда мы не будем братьями.

Анастасия Дмитрук, 2014 год

We will never be brothers,

Neither by Fatherland, nor by mother.

You don’t have the spirit to be free,

You and us cannot be…even allies.

You’ve proclaimed yourself to be senior,

We may be younger…, but we’re not yours.

You are many but, what a pity, all so faceless,

You are big…, We are grand.

You keep pressing us, you keep drudging,

You will choke on your own envy.

Will—that word is unknown to you,

Ever since your childhood, you’ve been in chains.

At your place, “silence is golden,”

At ours, Molotov cocktails are burning.

Yes, the blood in our hearts is hot,

What are you to us? Blind “kinsfolk?”

Our eyes are fearless,

Unarmed we are still dangerous.

We have matured and become bold,

At the gunpoint of a sniper.

Executioners knocked us down on our knees,

But we have risen up and got even.

The rats aren’t running to hide for nothing,

They will bathe in their own blood.

You keep getting new orders,

We have flames of revolution burning here.

You have Tsar, we have Democracy,

We will never be brothers!

To the Fascist KGB Dictator-PUTIN!

Cynical Russian Mistakes

Canada mocked Russia’s assertions that their paratroopers crossed the border by mistake by releasing this map. The biggest mistake Russia made, was not in crossing the Ukrainian border, but in letting Putin gain power and create a KGB state. 

The mantle of the last ‘dictator in Europe’ moves from Lukashenko to Putin, since part of Russia is also in Europe. 

By publishing the map, Canada is offering Russia’s elite paratroopers a lesson in geography. It might be useful to teach them map reading lessons as well. Clearly they’re a bunch of lamebrains to make such an elementary mistake. 

It would also seem that Russian troops make this elementary mistake quite often in other countries. Abkhazia comes to mind, so does Moldova and their squatters Dniestria, South Ossetia, and many others.

Ukrainian Independence Day 24th August 2014

The conflict in eastern Ukraine has a surrealist, absurdist air to it. Weapons and terrorist fighters - colloquially known as “little green men” - appear seemingly from nowhere (as they did in Crimea), and yet from a well-known source: Russia. Government buildings are occupied. Strange, pseudo-official stamps are issued. The fighters battling the administration in Kyiv use WWII Communist rhetoric throwing the meaningless moniker “fascist” at all who oppose them; they make reference to obscure geographical concepts that were thought to have died with the Russian empire, and attempt to impose a Zhirinovsky/KGB doctrine on another sovereign country.

This is for Putin the dickhead: 

"You're wasting your time. You can't have the Ukraine. It's joining the European civilization, and turning its back on your Asiatic Mongol confederation." 

Why Merkel is SOFT on Russia sanctions