Carillet’s Updates about Ukraine, Crimea, TMI/CIU (March 24 2014)
From personal correspondence
From my written chat before oral conversation I reported Friday:
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9:38 AM /3:38 PM
Thank you, sir! Yeah, we were having staff meeting when you called. You can’t imagine how we miss you and need you. We are surviving very difficult times for our country and personally, each one of us. It really hurts and is really difficult to stay calm and not going hysterical. We (staff) are really in despair, seeing no good future. Do not know what to do. Just wanna live where it is safe and where a person can feel free…. miss you.
The former CIU/CAC building.
Keep praying about our land registration and then our selling the old college building. With Crimea becoming Russian, the chances that our bldg. could be taken from us are very good. But with God, all things are possible.
Here is a pessimistic (but the writer would say realistic) view of our current situation:
SO, it’s about 90% guaranteed that Moskovskaya is lost. Since Bagrov [director/president of the largest university in Crimea, and who tried to get our building in 2008] already announced TNU’s moving under Russian ministry of Education a week or two ago, he (or whoever is interested) would get the land and the building once everyone is ready 🙁
God brought us this far; may he continuing to deliver us from thieves.
Crimean-Ukrainian Border partially closed
S…. We have heard from several different sources that the Ukrainian side of the boarder is not letting in men [between ages of 18 and 45] from Crimea, as they are worried about more ‘Titushki’ [thugs, infiltrators] coming into Eastern Ukraine. These reports came from people who tried to drive out, and were turned back. As I understand, it is specifically Ukrainians with Crimean registration. I have heard a unconfirmed report that they are not letting women out either.
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Helpful links
Rather than my daily selecting so many of the articles listed in the Kiev Post and the events in lb.ua, I will select fewer things to post with annotation but am giving you the links to scan the news and analysis.
I have been selecting so many articles for my own archives, but understand that many of our readers might not even have the time to just read the headlines I select, while others often click on all the ones that are linked to English papers and read every word.
There are many helpful articles and issues in the Kyiv Post.
http://www.kyivpost.com/hot/crisis-in-crimea/
To get the latest news, be sure to refresh your tab that is linked to Kiev Post.
Another source that is less about links to yet other sources and articles but more about events as they unfold is lb.ua:
http://lb.ua/theme/events_in_Ukraine_in_English
But be sure to click on the latest date posted, and refresh your browser each time you return to the page.
A video source of various kinds of investigated reporting in Crimea: Vice News
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FoZwWzYBBkc
Sanctions – can work, in time, but something more is needed now
Sanctions will work, if increased, but they will take time, maybe too much time if Putin decides to take Eastern and Southern Ukraine while the Ukrainian military is under equipped.
Russia Will Never Be Like Us
We’ve spent 20 years trying to make it a Western country. Bad idea.
All of this will take time, and for some it may be too late. In Kiev, Ukraine, last week, I met young Ukrainians who were heartbreakingly enthusiastic about the idea that they might, someday, live in a different kind of country. I didn’t have the heart to tell them that I didn’t know if they ever would.
Invasion of mainland Ukraine – inevitable?
Anna Goryainova via Euromaidanpr
Delayed invasion/May Gambit – Thoughts from Kyiv on 22 March 2014
Mychailo Wynnyckyj PhD, March 23, 2014 Is an invasion of eastern Ukraine by Russian troops imminent? This seems to be the question on everyone’s mind…