Monday, February 3, 2014

Putin pressing for end of protests

It is being reported that Putin is pressing president Yanukovych to use police and military to end protests. It becomes apparent that Russia is behind the terror campaign against protests' leaders. Because more and more oligarchs and high ranking officials began to support opposition Putin decided to stop playing nice. He may even support crackdown before the Olympic Games.

Russia stopped allowing Ukrainian goods to cross the borders which means that the production will eventually stop. The flow of natural gas may also be stopped which may be catastrophic since winter weather over there is even worse then here. All of that is designed to cause Russian supporters to rise up against protesters.

This looks like a repeat of situation right before Russian attack on Georgia. Will that lead to civil war or even regional war?