09-02-2010, 08:36 AM
(This post was last modified: 09-02-2010, 08:38 AM by Peter Presland.)
The silence from Ukraine is truly deafening.
Tymoshenko postponed her press conference scheduled for Monday. Muted claims of inevitable victory for Yanukovich with the electoral commission having provided numbers for percentage of votes remaining to be counted which, as of about mid-day Monday was just less than the gap between the two camps.
Results originally scheduled to be announced Sunday night.
But as of 07:30 GMT Tuesday morning, still nothing, with Al Jazeera, Eurasia Net, Reuters, AP and Rick Rozov's Yahoo list all silent.
I don't know how to interpret the silence. Clearly there is skulduggery afoot - the natural state of affairs with such momentous issues at stake for both Russia and US/NATO (let alone Ukraine itself) - but my crystal ball has gone cloudy.
My suspicion is that, with enthusiasm for street protests by either side drained, the status-quo may just get away with stealing it.
As usual I sincerely hope I am wrong.
PS
Also, from my extensive monitoring of the UK and US MSM over the past 3 days, I have yet to see a single mention of the elections in Ukraine - strange eh?
Tymoshenko postponed her press conference scheduled for Monday. Muted claims of inevitable victory for Yanukovich with the electoral commission having provided numbers for percentage of votes remaining to be counted which, as of about mid-day Monday was just less than the gap between the two camps.
Results originally scheduled to be announced Sunday night.
But as of 07:30 GMT Tuesday morning, still nothing, with Al Jazeera, Eurasia Net, Reuters, AP and Rick Rozov's Yahoo list all silent.
I don't know how to interpret the silence. Clearly there is skulduggery afoot - the natural state of affairs with such momentous issues at stake for both Russia and US/NATO (let alone Ukraine itself) - but my crystal ball has gone cloudy.
My suspicion is that, with enthusiasm for street protests by either side drained, the status-quo may just get away with stealing it.
As usual I sincerely hope I am wrong.
PS
Also, from my extensive monitoring of the UK and US MSM over the past 3 days, I have yet to see a single mention of the elections in Ukraine - strange eh?
Peter Presland
".....there is something far worse than Nazism, and that is the hubris of the Anglo-American fraternities, whose routine is to incite indigenous monsters to war, and steer the pandemonium to further their imperial aims"
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"Never believe anything until it has been officially denied"
Claud Cockburn
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".....there is something far worse than Nazism, and that is the hubris of the Anglo-American fraternities, whose routine is to incite indigenous monsters to war, and steer the pandemonium to further their imperial aims"
Guido Preparata. Preface to 'Conjuring Hitler'[size=12][size=12]
"Never believe anything until it has been officially denied"
Claud Cockburn
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