[Skybird]

Russia has demanded that the Ukrainian constitution is being changed. The Ukraine should become a federal state, and Russian should be guaranteed as a second official language.

the reasons can easily be seen. The language thing is about protecting the Russian minorities living in the Ukrainian West and strengthening the Eastern provinces, the constitution thing is ab out giving the Russian Eastern provinces solid influence in internal Ukrainian po9ltiics - something I argued from beginning on is one of the real top intentions of the Russians in this operation.

The exciting question will be how the Kremlin will react if the Ukraine becomes an official EU membership candidate or an EU member.

The Ukraine becoming a formal NATO member hopefully is a scenario that is not seriously pushed in the West.

When surfing the web, more and more info is being blogged and shown in various places that show to what degree Western money was used in the Ukraine to destabilise the situation and to provoke unrest. Considering what criminal figures and fascists have taken over and now are hailed by Western politicians as "true democrats", one could vomit about the Western hypocrisy here.

Meanwhile it became known today that the German government will not object to intentions by energy company RWE to sell shares or even all of DEA to Gazprom. That clearly indicates what to think about those robust words about sanctions they spit out all the time. It means nothing if at the same time a policy is being run that strengthens Russian influence in German and European energy policies. Jokes about boycotting Russian gas and use American companies as a replacement, are pointless, since the terminals needed in the Us to ship sufficient amounts of gas do not exist and would not be ready before several years - if the US energy revolution survives indeed. There are some indicators hinting that maybe it all is just a huge hype that lacks substance to last, US companies have reduced their investments in fracking and shale gas production in the past 6 months or so.

On the internaional law thing, I have read three comments by Germany experts for said international law now who all said the same: formally, the international law guarantees the integrity of national states "as they are" (which can be seen both positive and negative). However, there is not one detail ruling that local regions do not have a right to secede. The right to split up, is recognised. International law only marks some demands for the formal circumstances under which such a secession and earlier referendum should take place. - What we have in the given situatiohn, is a local population that by majority wants to no longer being governed by the Ukrainian government, but wants to secede. And that wish is perfectly legal, and it also is absolutely okay from a moral point of view. What can be criticised, is the speed by which the referendum was set up, not waiting for an elected government in Kiev to - well, to do what with said referendum? elay it? Cheat about it? Forbiddi8ng it in an act ofd dictatorial tyranny? And what kind of crimjnals can we expoect to get elected as new government when not he thugs of the ukrainian fascists rule the state offices and a money-stealing bitch like Tymochenko has still realistic chances to get elected? So, for mally you can attack Putin for pushing things this fast and uncompromised. In practical reality, why would one expect him to wait until a most likely corrupted leadership makes its nest in the Ukraine again, and then negotiate with them about something that is the natural right of people anyway knowing that these corrupted elites would never agree to let the Crimea voluntarily go anyway as if they had any claim to make and the population there being their property which they can own?

The west absolutely is no innocent player here, nor an honest broker. In the end the West does not necessarily want freedom and law and order in the Ukraine, what you can see in how they shake hands with Tymochenko and the current gang around the interim "prime minister". What the West wants is the Ukraine in the EU at all cost and NATO once again sneaking towards Russia's borders.

And we accuse Putin of thinking in schemes and patterns of the cold war...??? Double standards at their best, I say.

Last but not least, the referendum expresses a secondary message as well. A deep mistrust and antipathy for NATO, and the EU.