UKRAINE

Ukraine and Georgia have recently both been targets for NATO expansion, suffering colour revolutions financed by Soros and Berezovsky.

Last August Georgia tried to provoke a larger scale war with tie-muncher's mad invasion of South Ossetia on the opening day of the Olympic Games.

Now it seems Ukraine is being advised by a Soros-owned group Blackstone which until July had Lord Jacob Rothschild as a director.

This is just another attempt to rile Russia and paint it as the cruel and heartless aggressor.

The following facts suggest otherwise.

And in case you've forgotten who Soros was, he made a billion by screwing our currency...causing Berezovsky to fall in love with him for it, describing the financial rape as "top-notch!".


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From http://www.larouchepac.com/news/2009/01/07/soros-advised-ukrainian-government-cuts-gas-freezing-europe.html

Soros-Advised Ukrainian Government Cuts Gas To Freezing Europe
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January 7, 2009 (LPAC) -- An economic and humanitarian emergency began to take shape across southern Europe today, after government-run Naftohaz of Ukraine cut the flow of Russian natural gas in three pipelines across Ukrainian territory, which supply Russian Gazprom's customers in Turkey, the Balkans, and other European countries. Some affected parts of Eastern Europe are in the grip of a deep cold wave, with temperatures as low as minus 20 degrees C (minus 4 degrees F).

The dispute between Naftohaz and Gazprom escalated Jan. 1 when Gazprom stopped supplying Ukraine itself with gas, for lack of a contract, and it has been complicated by faction fights between the Ukrainian President and Prime Minister. But the outstanding feature of the situation is that the Ukrainian government, which today left southern Europe freezing, is being advised on financial and economic policy by megaspeculator and ex-Nazi George Soros, during this same period. The Soros factor betrays the natural gas crisis as orchestrated from London.

British geopolitical strategy outlets, including the London Economist weekly, have repeatedly trumpeted their hopes for a Russia-Ukraine showdown to force all Eurasia onto the agenda of a new empire, run through the EU and NATO.

As of October, Russian and Ukrainian Prime Ministers Vladimir Putin and Yulia Tymoshenko had agreed on an outline for renewal of the Naftohaz-Gazprom contracts, based on a below-market price for the gas, no increase in the transit fees charged by Ukraine for Russian gas going to Europe, and payment in full of Ukraine's gas bills for 2008. Then Ukraine's main exports, steel and chemicals, collapsed. Its currency tumbled. Ukraine turned to the International Monetary Fund for a $16.5 billion loan in October, which the Economist Intelligence Unit stresses was chiefly for servicing the foreign debt of Ukrainian banks. As a term of that loan, Ukrainian sources report, the government agreed to hire the Soros-owned Blackstone Group as a consultant. Prime Minister Tymoshenko admits meeting with Soros in December.

As of Dec. 31, Gazprom reported receiving no payment for the Naftohaz arrears. The Russian side then dropped the offer of a below-market price and proposed $450/thousand cubic meters for 2009. Naftohaz was demanding an above-normal $2/thousand cubic meter transit fee for the gas Gazprom ships to Europe. Kiev broke off the talks on New Year's Eve. Gazprom cut the supply of gas for Ukraine itself, continuing to send the "transit gas" for Europe. Several days later, Gazprom accused Ukraine of diverting up to 65.3 million cubic meters, and reduced its total supply to the pipeline network accordingly, by about 15%. Last night, Ukraine retaliated by cutting Europe off.

Bulgaria, Bosnia, Croatia, Macedonia, Serbia, Hungary and Greece received no Russian gas via Ukraine today. The flow to the Czech Republic dropped by 75%, to Poland by 85%, to Austria by 90%, and to France by 70%. Slovakia, losing 70% of its supplies, discussed declaring a state of emergency, RIA Novosti reported. Bulgaria scrambled to prepare restart of a nuclear plant, shut down when it joined the EU three years ago. Gazprom CEO Alexei Miller, at a press conference today in Moscow, said Gazprom has boosted the supply of gas through the Blue Stream pipeline across the Black Sea to Turkey, and through the Yamal-Europe pipeline from northern Siberia through Belarus and Poland, as well as purchasing gas on the spot market and drawing down reserve pools it owns in Europe, in an attempt to meet its obligations.

This evening Prime Minister Putin jumped into the situation, meeting with Miller and the head of Russia's Customs Service (which had handed Gazprom a citation for shipping "contraband" -- gas without a contract -- to Ukraine). Putin, who had been phoned by the leaders of Bulgaria and Romania, ordered Miller to take all the Gazprom-Naftohaz contracts with him to show EU officials when he goes to Brussels for talks on the crisis tomorrow.

The Communist Party of Ukraine, a large group in the Supreme Rada, today called for an emergency session on the gas crisis and growing tension with Russia. Economist Natalia Vitrenko, chairman of the Progressive Socialist Party of Ukraine, issued a statement Jan. 3, calling Ukraine's negotiating posture a "dirty political attack" on Russia. She noted that the government took Ukraine into the World Trade Organization (WTO) last May, with a pledge to move to world market prices; furthermore, since Nov. 1 Naftohaz is charging its domestic customers $320/thousand cubic meters, or nearly 60% more than the $201 it was offering to pay Gazprom in 2009. Has George Soros advised the Ukrainian authorities how to spend the difference?