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For his criminal activities Putin has ordered innocent people in multiple locations to be murdered in order to steal - and he is still walking around freely - how long does the world tolerate this?
Putin is a war criminal and must be arrested and
First the Crimea and innocent people dead.
Then the Malaysia Airlines flight MH1, over 200 killed.
The U.S. Secretary of State Mr. John Kerry laid out what he called overwhelming evidence of Russian complicity in the downing the Malaysia Airlines flight and called rebels' behavior "grotesque".
Kerry expressed horror at how pro-Moscow separatists at the crash site in eastern Ukraine treated the remains of victims from the disaster. Mr. Kerry criticized Russian President Vladimir Putin and threatened "additional steps" against Moscow.
"Vladimir Putin has no soul", the U.S. Vice President Joe Biden concluded after meeting with the Russian President already at Kremlin in 2011. Biden told "Mr. Putin, I'm looking into your eyes, and I don't think you have any soul." Mr. Putin had smiled and said, "We understand one another".
Vladimir Putin is an obvious international criminal. He must be prosecuted for war crimes, for ordering multiple planned murders and for international grand larceny - all done by him for the purpose of his personal power & financial gains.
click: War crime
The ICC - International Criminal Court in The Hague (Dutch: DenHaag),
Netherlands, is where this monstrous Robber Baron must be sentenced to be kept behind the bars until his natural death.
Click: International Criminal Court - ICC
The International Criminal Court has the option to sentence the guilty party, in this case Vladimir Putin, along the guidelines set out in Article 77. These allow for the prison sentences up to 30 years and, in certain cases, when “justified by the extreme gravity of the crime and the individual circumstances of the convicted person”, the Court may decide to impose a life sentence. However, according to the Rome Statute guidelines the ICC does not give a death sentence. As the today's #1 enemy of the world, as a mass murderer and ..... (a long list of wrong doings) Putin certainly would deserve a court-given death sentence. Or maybe it would be too easy for him, perhaps suffering the rest of his natural life would be a harder sentence. Click: Rome Statute
In addition to prison sentences, the Court can also impose a fine or confiscate assets derived from the crimes. Click: Penalties ICC
Putin's worldwide distributed, hidden assets said to be in tens or possibly even in hundreds of billions - all stolen from the government sources
(= stolen from the Russian people) must be returned to the families of his victims. Already now, before he may get hiding (as another terrorist Osama Bin-Laden did), worldwide the nations should stick together and have the U.N. deciding to set a price for Putin's arrest or his head. There are enough bounty hunters with the skills of a sniper around. The world is starting to realize how dangerous this man, Putin, has become.
The world does not need this criminal - Putin is a danger to the whole world.
With the modern technology this person is more dangerous to the world than Hitler or any other individual in the world history. The nuclear weapons are on his fingertips 24/7 reaching any location in the world. No matter how one thinks, this man is becoming the #1 enemy of the whole world threatening everyone's life worldwide.
There are other mini-Putins in some other smaller countries - they seem to be sticking together with the daddy- Putin (e.g. Syria, Cuba, etc.).
Putin is the new Hitler with the modern nuclear arsenal combined with the modern technology.
Any experienced human behavioral scientist would agree on this statement: sooner or later a person in Putin's power-position will get strongly paranoid and fully insane and starts believing his mission is to murder every person worldwide.
(He already now is convinced that HE, Putin, has to control the worldwide web as he has announced publicly!)
Already now the signs for a lacking mental clarity are present in Putin's behavior. Putin sees only what he wants and does not care how he gets there. On his roads to his goals have always been plenty of dead human bodies murdered by his orders as his bridges. The longer he has been in power the higher the dead body piles have become. If nothing is done, his sickness can only get worse easily ending in becoming a worldwide nuclear killer-machine.
Putin must be stopped - and stopped now. There is enough evidence to cut his road (and some even his throat). The world must unite to end his story.
Everyone knows what the typical sentence is for a crime titled "mass-murdering".
Mr. Putin is guilty as charged multiple times during multiple years.
Click: International Criminal Court
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Article 2 of 3
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When Russia seized Crimea in March 2014,
it acquired not just the Crimean landmass
but also a maritime zone more than three times its size with the rights to underwater resources potentially worth trillions of dollars.
Russia portrayed the takeover as reclamation of its rightful territory, drawing no attention to the oil and gas rush that had recently been heating up in the Black Sea. But the move also extended Russia’s maritime boundaries, quietly giving Russia dominion over vast oil and gas reserves while dealing a crippling blow to Ukraine’s hopes for energy independence.
Russia did so under an international accord that gives nations sovereignty over areas up to 230 miles from their shorelines.
Russia had tried, unsuccessfully, to gain access to energy resources in the same territory in a pact with Ukraine less than two years earlier.
“It’s a big deal,” said Carol R. Saivetz, a Eurasian expert in the Security Studies Program of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. “It deprives Ukraine of the possibility of developing these resources and gives them to Russia. It makes Ukraine more vulnerable to Russian pressure.” Click: Carol Saivetz - MIT
Click: MIT Security Studies Program
Gilles Lericolais, the director of European and international affairs at France’s state oceanographic group, called Russia’s annexation of Crimea “so obvious” as a play for offshore riches. click: Gilles Lericolais
In Moscow, a spokesman for President Click: Vladimir V. Putin said there was “no connection” between the annexation and energy resources, adding that Russia did not even care about the oil and gas. “Compared to all the potential Russia has got, there was no interest there,” the spokesman, Dmitry Peskov told the .
Exxon Mobil, Royal Dutch Shell and other major oil companies have already explored the Black Sea, and some petroleum analysts say its potential may rival that of the North Sea. That rush, which began in the 1970s, lifted the economies of Britain, Norway and other European countries.
William B. F. Ryan, a marine geologist at the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University, said Russia’s Black Sea acquisition gave it what are potentially “the best” of that body’s deep oil reserves.
Redividing the Black Sea Russia’s annexation of Crimea also gives Russia control of a large swath of the Black Sea, including deep oil reserves.
Oil analysts said that mounting economic sanctions could slow Russia’s exploitation of its Black and Azov Sea annexations by reducing access to Western financing and technology. But they noted that Russia had already taken over the Crimean arm of Ukraine’s national gas company, instantly giving Russia exploratory gear on the Black Sea.
“Russia’s in a mood to behave aggressively,” said Vladimir Socor, a senior fellow at the Jamestown Foundation, a research group in Washington that follows Eurasian affairs. “It’s already seized two drilling rigs.”
Click: Vladimir Socor - The Jamestown Foundation
The global hunt for fossil fuels has increasingly gone offshore, to places like the Atlantic Ocean off Brazil, the Gulf of Mexico and the South China Sea. Hundreds of oil rigs dot the Caspian, a few hundred miles east of the Black Sea.
Nations divide up the world’s potentially lucrative waters according to guidelines set forth by the 1982 click: Law of the Sea Treaty.
The agreement lets coastal nations claim what are known as exclusive economic zones that can extend up to 200 nautical miles (or 230 statute miles) from their shores. Inside these zones, countries can explore, exploit, conserve and manage deep natural resources, living and nonliving.
The countries with shores along the Black Sea have long seen its floor as a potential energy source, mainly because of modest oil successes in shallow waters.
Just over two years ago, the prospects for huge payoffs soared when a giant ship drilling through deep bedrock off Romania found a large gas field in waters more than half a mile deep.
Russia moved fast.
In April 2012, Mr. Putin, then Russia’s prime minister, presided over the signing of an accord with Eni, the Italian energy giant, to explore Russia’s economic zone in the northeastern Black Sea. Dr. Ryan of Columbia estimated that the size of the zone before the Crimean annexation was roughly 26,000 square miles, about the size of Lithuania. Click: Eni
Let's briefly look at the situation in Lithuania and 2 other Baltic countries, Latvia and Estonia, as their background is similar to Ukraine's.
Lithuania, only 500 miles from Moscow and part of the European Union, gets presently all its gas delivered by the Russian gas supplier Gazprom.
So did/does Ukraine. So do the other two Baltic States Estonia & Latvia, located next to Lithuania. Click: Gazprom
click: Baltic states - click: Lithuania - click: Estonia - click: Latvia
Lithuania's own gas terminal plans with Norway helped Lithuania negotiate lower gas price from the Russian supplier Gazprom but, for how long as they Lithuanians fear similar actions as Russia took in Ukraine.
click: Gas Terminal Plans Helped Lithuania Negotiate Lower Price
click: News for Lithuania
All these 3 Baltic states are former parts of Russia and all of them still presently have Russian speaking communities as was/is the case in Ukraine. They know that Putin cannot be trusted to follow any agreements.
Putin creates his own rules no matter how illegal. These 3 Baltic countries are all EU members but: that, as an international war & other criminal, means nothing to Putin. Putin is a psychopath in power and takes any action, even, as the world knows, murder as needed. click: Psychopathy
Putin can create a new world war with his criminal actions. The world has to unite to bring Putin to the international court as he clearly is an international war & economic criminal. The world has to stop him before he starts sitting in the Russian nuclear bomb headquarters and sending death anywhere in the world. Putin has a secret desire to be the King of the whole world.
click: European Union (EU)
click: EU Countries
Let's go back to the Ukrainian situation and to the real reason why Crimea was occupied by Putin's soldiers. It's the oil worth trillions. About the gas & oil plans in the Crimean waters this was Putin's statement:
“I want to assure you that the Russian government will do everything to support projects of this kind,” Mr. Putin said at the signing, according to Russia’s Interfax news agency.
A month later, oil exploration specialists at a European petroleum conference made a lengthy presentation, the title of which asked: “Is the Black Sea the Next North Sea?” The paper cited geological studies that judged the waters off Ukraine as having “tremendous exploration potential” but saw the Russian zone as less attractive. Click: North Sea Click: Oil and gas - North Sea
In August 2012, Ukraine announced an accord with an Exxon-led group to extract oil and gas from the depths of Ukraine’s Black Sea waters. The Exxon team had outbid Lukoil, a Russian company. Ukraine’s state geology bureau said development of the field would cost up to $12 billion.
“The Black Sea Hots Up,” read a 2013 headline in GEO ExPro, an industry magazine published in Britain. “Elevated levels of activity have become apparent throughout the Black Sea region,” the article said, “particularly in deepwater.”
Why does it seem that everything in this world of ours has become a question of fossil fuels? Have human values changed so much in 60 years...
When Russia seized the Crimean Peninsula from Ukraine on March 18, it issued a treaty of annexation between the newly declared Republic of Crimea and the Russian Federation. Buried in the document — in Article 4, Section 3 — a single bland sentence said international law would govern the drawing of boundaries through the adjacent Black and Azov Seas. Click: Black Sea Click: Azov
Dr. Ryan estimates that the newly claimed maritime zone around Crimea added about 36,000 square miles to Russia’s existing holdings. The addition is more than three times the size of the Crimean landmass, and about the size of Maine.
At the time, few observers noted Russia’s annexation of Crimea in those terms. An exception was Romania, whose Black Sea zone had been adjacent to Ukraine’s before Russia stepped in.
“Romania and Russia will be neighbors,” Romania Libera, a newspaper in Bucharest, observed on March 24. The article’s headline said the new maritime border could become a “potential source of conflict.”
Many nations have challenged Russia’s seizing of Crimea and thus the legality of its Black and Azov Sea claims. But the Romanian newspaper quoted analysts as judging that the other countries bordering the Black Sea — Georgia, Turkey, Bulgaria and Romania — would tacitly recognize the annexation “in order to avoid an open conflict.”
Most immediately, analysts say, Russia’s seizing may alter the route along which the South Stream pipeline would be built, saving Russia money, time and engineering challenges. The planned pipeline, meant to run through the deepest parts of the Black Sea, is to pump Russian gas to Europe.
Originally, to avoid Ukraine’s maritime zone, Russia drew the route for the costly pipeline in a circuitous jog southward through Turkey’s waters. But now it can take a far more direct path through its newly acquired Black Sea territory, if the project moves forward. The Ukraine crisis has thrown its future into doubt.
As for oil extraction in the newly claimed maritime zones, companies say their old deals with Ukraine are in limbo, and analysts say new contracts are unlikely to be signed anytime soon, given the continuing turmoil in the region and the United States’ efforts to ratchet up pressure on Russia.
“There are huge issues at stake,” noted Dr. Saivetz of M.I.T. “I can’t see them jumping into new deals right now.” Click: MIT - Massachusetts Institute of Technology
The United States is using its wherewithal to block Russian moves in the maritime zones. Last month, it imposed trade restrictions on Chernomorneftegaz, the breakaway Crimean arm of Ukraine’s national gas company.
The company has drilling rigs off Crimea's west coast and in the Sea of Azov.
"Crimea is occupied territory. We will continue to impose costs on those involved in ongoing violations of Ukraine's sovereignty and territorial integrity," said US Under Secretary for Terrorism and Financial Intelligence David Cohen.
The sanctions freeze any assets of Chernomorneftegaz that are within US jurisdiction and prohibit any transactions by any US persons with the company.
In addition, the US Department of Commerce said it has added Chernomorneftegaz to its "Entity List" that in effect denies any export, re-export or in-country transfer of any goods to the company
Click: Chernomorneftegaz
Click: US imposes sanctions on Crimea-based gas company
Click: David S. Cohen
Eric L. Hirschhorn the United States under secretary of commerce for industry and security, said sanctions against the Crimean business would send “a strong message” of condemnation for Russia’s “incursion into Ukraine and expropriation of Ukrainian assets.” click: Eric L. Hirschhorn
Source: (1) Alexandra Odynova contributed reporting from Moscow.Click: Alexandra Odynova
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Putin says Russia economy
will be cured, offers no remedy
(Reuters) - President Vladimir Putin assured Russians that the economy would rebound after the ruble's dramatic slide this year but offered no remedy for a deepening financial crisis.
Defiant and confident at a three-hour news conference, Putin blamed the economic problems on external factors and said the crisis over Ukraine was caused by the West, which he accused of building a "virtual" Berlin Wall to contain Russia.
Click: Berlin Wall
At times sneering, at others cracking jokes, he ignored pressure to say how he will fix an economy facing what his economy minister calls a "perfect storm" of low oil prices, Western sanctions over Ukraine and global financial problems.
The ruble has fallen about 45 percent against the dollar this year, and suffered particularly steep falls, but Putin refused to call it a crisis and said it would eventually rise again.
"If the situation develops unfavorably, we will have to amend our plans. Beyond doubt, we will have to cut some (spending). But a positive turn and emergence from the current situation are inevitable," Putin said in comments to a packed conference center that were broadcast live to the nation.
Although he said the recovery might take two years, much will depend on how long the West maintains sanctions on Russia over its role in the Ukraine crisis.
European Union diplomats said the 28-nation bloc would ban investment in Crimea from Saturday over Russia's annexation of the Black Sea peninsula and President Barack Obama is set to sign legislation authorizing new U.S. sanctions.
But Putin showed no sign of heeding a call by EU foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini for "a radical change in attitude toward the rest of the world and to switch to a cooperative mode". Click: Federica Mogherini
Sitting at a big desk in front of two large screens showing close-ups of his face, a white mug with a presidential crest on beside him, Putin appeared mainly intent on showing Russians he is in command and will not kow-tow to the West.
kow-tow: to agree too easily or eagerly to do what someone else wants you to do : to obey someone with power in a way that seems weak
kow-tow: to kneel & touch the forehead to the ground in token of homage, worship, or deep respect
DIVERSIFICATION PLEDGE
Diversification = the act or practice of manufacturing a variety of products, investing in a variety of securities, selling a variety of merchandise, etc., so that a failure in or an economic slump affecting one of them will not be disastrous.
The former KGB spy said Russia must diversify its economy to reduce dependence on oil, its major export and a key source of state income, but he gave no details and has said many times during 15 years in power that he will do this.
Click: KGB career Putin From 1985 to 1990
The KGB, an initialism for Komitet gosudarstvennoy bezopasnosti, was the main security agency for the Soviet Union from 1954 until its collapse in 1991.
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The ruble slipped as he spoke, and was about 2 percent weaker against the dollar on the day. The central bank increased its key lending rate by 6.5 percentage points to 17 percent on Tuesday, and has spent more than $80 billion trying to shore up the rouble this year, but to little avail.
Click: Ruble
Although Putin said the central bank and government had acted "adequately", he chided the bank for not halting foreign exchange interventions sooner, suggesting more decisive action might have made this week's big rate rise unnecessary.
"All this implies pretty big divisions within the administration as to how to react to the crisis and pressure on the rouble," said Timothy Ash, head of emerging market research at Standard Bank in London, adding that heads could roll.
Neil Shearing, chief emerging markets economist at Capital Economics in London, said Putin signaled no change of policy and capital controls remained "a measure of last resort".
"Whatever happens, a deep recession now looms," he said.
Putin's popularity has soared over the annexation of Crimea but the ruble's decline could erode faith in his ability to provide financial stability, an important source of his support.
An opponent, former Prime Minister Mikhail Kasyanov,
Click: Mikhail Kasyanov
said problems would mount as prices are expected to surge next year and Putin would need "an exit strategy" to leave power.
But Putin said he felt the "support of the Russian people", though he had not decided yet whether to seek a new six-year term in an election due in 2018.
Asked about click: Ukraine, where Russia has irked the West by backing pro-Russian separatists fighting in two eastern regions, Putin said Moscow wanted a political resolution to a conflict that has killed 4,700 people.
He also called for "political unity", suggesting he does not intend to annex the regions that have rebelled, and avoided calling them "New Russia", a phrase he has used in the past.
But he blamed NATO for the worst relations between Moscow and the West in decades.
"Didn't they tell us after the collapse of the Berlin Wall that NATO would not expand eastwards? But it happened immediately. Two waves of expansion. Is that not a wall? ... It's a virtual wall," he said.
Sources: Reuters
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Putin says Russia economy will be cured, offers no remedy ...www.reuters.com
Click: Vladimir Putin