"Ce sont les Etats-Unis qui paient [les contestataires ukrainiens] et ils ne le cachent pas. Ils déclarent ouvertement que leur argent sert à alimenter les tendances d'opposition", a déclaré M. Ichtchenko lors d'un duplex télévisé Moscou-Kiev organisé par RIA Novosti.
"La guerre n'est pas menée pour l'Ukraine, mais pour l'Europe, car le renforcement de la Russie et l'entrée de l'Ukraine dans les projets d'intégration avec cette dernière entraîneraient la mise en place d'un espace économique uni s'étendant de Lisbonne à Vladivostok. Cela signifie que les Etats-Unis seraient évincés d'Europe", a affirmé l'expert ukrainien.
"Certes, cette perspective ne plaît pas à Washington. C'est pourquoi il a lancé une offensive, profitant de la situation qui prévaut actuellement en Ukraine", a indiqué M. Ichtchenko, persuadé que les Etats-Unis "cherchent à déstabiliser leur adversaire géopolitique" dans la région.
région, estime Rostislav Ichtchenko, président du Centre d'analyse et de prévision systémiques (Kiev).
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Worse than Greece: Fitch says Ukraine's default risk high....
ReplyDeleteThe worsening political and economic circumstances in Ukraine has prompted the Fitch Ratings agency to downgrade Ukrainian debt from B to a pre–default level CCC. This is lower than Greece, and Fitch warns of future financial instability.
“Intensification of political and economic stress is such that default on government debt becomes probable,” Fitch said in an e-mail.
On the brink of default, the Ukrainian economy has taken a further beating as protests drag on in the capital Kiev. Foreign debt is $140 billion, nearly 80 percent of the country’s gross domestic product.
“There are emerging signs of stress in the banking system. Demand for foreign currency cash has risen, potentially leading to further steep exchange rate depreciation. These developments pose liquidity and asset quality risks, given the large amounts of foreign currency debt on private sector balance sheets,” the note said.
The Ukrainian Central Bank is tapping into the country’s reserves to pay off the country’s fast-accumulating debt.
Foreign reserves shrank 12.8 percent to $17.8 billion in January, the lowest since 2006, according data published by the central bank. Overall in 2013, international reserves dropped 16.8 percent, losing a total of $4.1 billion.
The central bank is intervening on behalf of the hryvnia, which has fallen significantly as President Viktor Yanukovich and the opposition fail to strike an agreement, and protesters continue to clash in Kiev after 3-months of unrest.
Limits on foreign-currency purchases have been set in order to protect the hryvnia, which has spiraled into freefall, rising above 9.0 against the dollar for the first time since February 2009. At 16:30 MST Monday it was trading 8.4350 against the dollar.
If the situation continues to unravel, more capital controls could be introduced to limit the amount of foreign currency bought, or even moved outside Ukraine. This is the action Cyprus took when it faced default in March 2013.
Russian money postponed
Ukraine’s $15 billion loan from Russia has been put on hold until a new government is formed. A transfer of $3 billion in Eurobonds has already been placed, but the uncertainty over when the next installment will come worries Fitch.
“We no longer assume the Russian loan will be disbursed in full, while Ukraine has lost external market access,” Fitch said.
“Fitch has previously warned that further Russian support is likely conditional on President Yanukovich’s continued political survival,” the statement said. .........................http://rt.com/business/ukraine-default-fitch-downgrade-386/
10/2/14
Putin slams West for "deterrence" policies against Russia...
ReplyDeletePresident Vladimir Putin has accused the West of "deterrence" policies against Russia similar to an alleged anti-Soviet policy of the Cold War era.
"Unfortunately, we can see this now, those atavisms of that theory of deterrence. They manifest themselves now here and there," Putin said during a meeting on Monday of a public council that helped organize the current Sochi Winter Olympics.
"When Russia shows positive developments," some fears arise in economies and political circles elsewhere in the world, "and so there are attempts to deter Russia, they manifest themselves now here, now there," he said.
Those present at the meeting included people from various ethnic groups in the North Caucasus, and Putin claimed that means employed in the alleged "deterrence" policies include "the Cherkessian factor."
"But, to be frank, as soon as I could see and feel that such attempts were being made, I had no doubt that those were attempts with hopeless means : because I know sentiments among Cherkessians, I know leaders of Cherkessian organizations, and I know what feelings they have for their smaller homeland and their larger one, Russia," Putin said.
Voice of Russia, Interfax
http://voiceofrussia.com/news/2014_02_10/Putin-slams-West-for-deterrence-policies-against-Russia-2776/
10/2/14
Ukraine opposition leader says demonstrations will continue....
ReplyDeleteThe leader of Ukraine's opposition party Batkivshchyna, Arseniy Yatsenyuk, says protesters in Kiev will not be evacuated from buildings they have occupied, despite all demonstrators who had been detained by the government being released.
"The most important thing was the release of the detainees. We will not evacuate Union Building (Profsayuz), Concert Hall (October Palace), Ukrainian House and the square as well," said Yatsenyuk.
In a statement made on Friday, Ukraine's Prosecutor-General, Viktor Pshonka, announced that all 234 people who had been arrested during the demonstrations throughout the country were released.
The opposition has also called for the cases against those who were arrested to be dismissed.
http://www.aa.com.tr/en/news/288654--ukraine-opposition-leader-says-demonstrations-will-continue
15/2/14