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In reply to the discussion: Oliver Stone agrees: The Maidan Square riots were just another CIA coup. [View all]pampango
(24,692 posts)9. People protesting the reversal of a major foreign/economic policy. That must be a CIA plot.
Yanukovych had campaigned for president in 2010 on a platform of integration with Europe. Throughout 2013 his government steps to achieve that goal by November 29 when the Association Agreement with the EU was to be signed at a conference in Lithuania. As the date approached Yanukovych started to back pedal (although he also issued statements of a continued commitment to integration with Europe) under pressure from Russia.
To coordinate preparation of Ukraine for European integration, the Government of Ukraine adopted a Plan on Priority Measures for European Integration of Ukraine for 2013. Successful implementation of the plan was assumed to be one of the conditions necessary for signing of the Association Agreement, planned for 29 November 2013 during the Eastern Partnership Summit in Vilnius.
In March 2013, Stefan Fuele, the EU's Commissioner for Enlargement, informed the European Parliament that while Ukrainian authorities had given their "unequivocal commitment" to address the issues raised by the EU, several "disturbing" recent incidents, including the annulment of Tymoshenko's lawyer Serhiy Vlasenko's mandate in the Verkhovna Rada (Ukraine's parliament), could delay the signing of the agreements. However, the next day the Ukrainian Ministry of Foreign Affairs expressed its optimism that they would still be signed in November.
On 7 April 2013 a decree by President Yanukovych freed Lutsenko from prison and exempted him, and his fellow Minister in the second Tymoshenko Government Heorhiy Filipchuk, from further punishment.
On 3 September 2013, at the opening session of the Verkhovna Rada after the summer recess, President Yanukovych urged his parliament to adopt laws so that Ukraine would meet the EU criteria and be able to sign the Association Agreement in November 2013.
On 18 September the Ukrainian cabinet unanimously approved the draft association agreement.
On 25 September 2013 Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada Volodymyr Rybak stated that he was sure that his parliament would pass all the laws needed to fit the EU criteria for the Association Agreement since, except for the Communist Party of Ukraine, "the Verkhovna Rada has united around these bills". ... the EU's Commissioner for Enlargement, Stefan Fuele, stated he expected that the Verkhovna Rada would the next day consider and adopt the remaining bills necessary for the signing of the association agreement, planned for 29 November 2013.
The European Parliament's monitoring mission in Ukraine stated (also on 21 November 2013) that there was still a possibility to sign the EU-Ukraine Association Agreement. The same day Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych stated "an alternative for reforms in Ukraine and an alternative for European integration do not exist...We are walking along this path and are not changing direction".
In the following days, Euromaidan, the biggest protests since the Orange Revolution, were being held in Kiev by opposition parties. On 26 November 2013 the Ukrainian Government admitted that Russia had asked it to delay signing the EU association agreement and that it "wanted better terms for the EU deal". "As soon as we reach a level that is comfortable for us, when it meets our interests, when we agree on normal terms, then we will be talking about signing," President Yanukovych stated in a televised interview. The same day Russian President Vladimir Putin called for an end to the criticism of the Ukrainian decision to delay the association agreement, and that the EU deal was bad for Russia's security interests. Putin was responding to statements by the President of the European Council, Herman Van Rompuy, and the President of the European Commission, José Manuel Barroso, that had stated they "strongly disapproved" of Russia's actions. On 26 November 2013 Prime Minister Azarov stated during a government meeting "I affirm with full authority that the negotiating process over the Association Agreement is continuing, and the work on moving our country closer to European standards is not stopping for a single day". President Yanukovych still attended the 2829 November EU summit in Vilnius but the Association Agreement was not signed. During this summit the European Union and Ukraine initialed an Air Services Agreement. Also during the summit, President Yanukovych stated that Ukraine still wanted to sign the Association Agreement but that it needed substantial financial aid to compensate it for the threatened response from Russia, and he proposed starting three-way talks between Russia, Ukraine, and the EU.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ukraine%E2%80%93European_Union_Association_Agreement
People caring about a reversal of a major policy the government itself had spend months and years pursuing, is not evidence that the resulting protests must be the work of "outside agitators". (That's the term used against civil rights protesters in the US back in the day.)
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Oliver Stone agrees: The Maidan Square riots were just another CIA coup. [View all]
another_liberal
Dec 2014
OP
If you can't believe everything to come out of Hollywood, what can you believe?
Nuclear Unicorn
Dec 2014
#2
If "being a tool" is grounds for dismissal, we ought to just roll up DU and go home
Scootaloo
Dec 2014
#17
And Putin has a history of manipulating nations against the will of their people, even violently so?
MattSh
Dec 2014
#66
Last I checked, the CIA was piping food up prisoner's asses and getting called "patriots" for it
Scootaloo
Dec 2014
#18
Last time I checked, those actions occurred during the Bush Administration...
brooklynite
Dec 2014
#23
People protesting the reversal of a major foreign/economic policy. That must be a CIA plot.
pampango
Dec 2014
#9
"... this underhanded intervention in the internal affairs of another sovereign country."
pampango
Dec 2014
#14
He says Hitler and Stalin are just misunderstood and the Jews are preventing an "honest discussion"
Major Nikon
Dec 2014
#26
When someone starts ranting about "Jewish domination of the media?" Sure. (nt)
Posteritatis
Dec 2014
#44
No, I don't. To his credit, he apologized for those remarks, very sincerely.
NuclearDem
Dec 2014
#47
It reminds me of the uproar over Hannah Arendt's observation about Hitler's henchmen.
Octafish
Dec 2014
#41
But it's okay this time because it fits a pre-selected narrative, you see. (nt)
Posteritatis
Dec 2014
#45
Mere foreigners can never have any agency of their own. It's all the US. Oy. (nt)
Posteritatis
Dec 2014
#43
And I'll bet these guys agree with Oliver Stone. You know..."birds of a feather" & all.....
Tarheel_Dem
Dec 2014
#50
It is indeed. He really hearts Putin, and I'm learning that Stone likes him a lot too.
Tarheel_Dem
Dec 2014
#54