She never checked out, Michael.
On Monday, 10 March 2014, Michael Kulyk <[email protected]> wrote:
> is julia's daughter back in a very expensive rome hotel?
>
> On Mar 10, 2014, at 5:12 PM, Pavlo Ivanchenko <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Perhaps the best solution would be for her to buy a one way ticket out of
> Ukraine along with her wheelchair and never to come back.
>
> PI
>
>
> http://www.thenewamerican.com/world-news/europe/item/17753-ukraine-new-interim-government-too-many-familiar-faces
>
>
> *Tymoshenko "Is Just Putin in a Skirt"*
>
> The outsized reach of the oligarchs was apparent to many as soon as
> Yanukovych was ousted and the "new" interim government began forming. The *New
> York Times* acknowledged this in an article by Andrew Higgins from Kiev
> on February 24, entitled "Ukrainian Protesters See Too Many Familiar Faces
> in Parliament After Revolution."
>
> Early in his piece, Higgins quotes "Irina Nikanchuk, a 25-year-old
> economist," whom he interviewed on the street outside the Parliament
> building in Kiev, as expressing the disgust widely felt by many Ukranians
> at the makeup of the interim government:
>
> Waving a banner calling for early elections to a new Parliament, she
> [Nikanchuk] cursed members of Parliament and opposition politicians like
> Yulia V. Tymoshenko who have so far become the principal beneficiaries of a
> revolution driven by passions on the street and bubbled with disgust at
> Ukraine's entire political elite.
>
> Parliament has moved swiftly since Mr. Yanukovych's flight on Saturday to
> restore a semblance of normal government, endorsing interim ministers and
> giving expanded powers to its new speaker, Oleksandr V. Turchynov, an ally
> of Ms. Tymoshenko, empowering him to carry out the duties of the president
> until a new presidential election is held in May....
>
> "We need new people who can say no to the oligarchs, not just the old
> faces," said Ms. Nikanchuk, referring to the wealthy billionaires who
> control blocks of votes in the Parliament but who, with a few exceptions,
> hedged their bets until the end about which side to support in a violent
> struggle that left more than 80 protesters dead between Mr. Yanukovych and
> his opponents.
>
> "Tymoshenko is just Putin in a skirt," she added, comparing the former
> prime minister and, until Saturday, jailed opposition leader with the
> Russian president, Vladimir V. Putin.
>
>
> http://www.thenewamerican.com/world-news/europe/item/8774-dispelling-disinformation
>
> Golitsyn is probably the most important Soviet defector ever to have
> reached the West. The reason for this is that he revealed the details of a
> long-range deception strategy of which the West previously had no
> knowledge. When debriefed, he emphasized, as he has done ever since, that
> because of his background of working within the "inner KGB" -- a
> super-secret strategic planning department of which not even ordinary KGB
> officers were aware -- he was uniquely qualified to inform the West about
> Soviet strategy. One of the superficial criticisms frequently made about
> Golitsyn is that he has been "out of the loop" since defecting to Finland
> with his wife and daughter in 1961, so how could he possibly know what was
> going on? People who say this reveal a failure to understand Golitsyn's
> significance, and what he has to offer the West.
>
> In summary, Golitsyn's importance is that, unlike all other defectors,
> Golitsyn discusses and elaborates upon Soviet *strategy.* By contrast,
> defectors like Oleg Gordievsky discuss mundane matters concerning the
> manner of their "escape" from the Soviet Union, perhaps revealing valuable
> operational information in order to gain the confidence of (in Gordievsky's
> case) Britain's MI6, before inserting strategic disinformation in their
> output. Golitsyn is different. He has spent his years in the West
> explaining patiently that the Soviets follow Leninist strategic principles,
> and are engaged in a deadly long-term war against the West. The Soviet
> revolutionaries have followed Lenin's advice to "work by other means."
>
>
> On Mon, Mar 10, 2014 at 3:44 PM, Stefan Lemieszewski <[email protected]>wrote:
>
>
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