From border crossings still controlled by pro-Russian in recent days have passed armored tanks and men (do not refer to the exact number because it would certainly be inaccurate) it is estimated, however - from confidential sources - for about 150 armored personnel carriers, thirty wagons and 1,200 armed men.
The purpose of this article is to analyse:
- the Iraqi crisis (2nd paragraph),
- the Iranian nuclear development issue (3rd paragraph),
- the Ukrainian crisis (4th paragraph).
Ukraine has fallen into chaos. This seems to be the harsh reality after last two-day events. The umpteenth separatist action took place on Tuesday and it consisted in the occupation of prosecutor's office in Donetsk. Kiev made her move on Friday and launched a large-scale operation aiming to reconquer Slavyansk, a town belonging to Donetsk Oblast that has been under separatists control since early April and where OSCE observers were thought to be kept as hostages[1]. While the army was surrounding the city and trying to reach its centre (operation that has been impeded by civilians, which are openly supporting separatist forces), new clashes between pro-Russia and pro-Kiev supporters burst in Odessa: 42 people were killed and other 125 were injured[2].
Russia's role in international affairs has declined, at least temporarily, Moscow was de facto excluded from the Group of 8 industrialized powers .
The attempt by President Vladimir Putin of using the BRICS emerging powers in order to mitigate the isolation imposed by the West failed because of disputes with China and India about Tibet and Kashmir.
Relating to the Crimean crisis, two norms of international law must be taken into consideration. The first one is known as “the right to self-determination” and states that every people has the right to choose its own political status and that it can be done, for instance, by gaining independence or by full integration within another state. The second one is called “domestic sovereignty”: it means that a state has actual control within its borders and a violation of this norm occurs whenever a foreign presence in its territory is proved real and unauthorised.
President Vladimir Putin says that he had the right to invade Ukraine to protect Russian interests as well as Russian citizens after months of popular unrest , and the fall of Yanucovich , denies the intention of " annexing " the Crimea and adds that only citizens can and must decide their future.
After having assisted to the “political elimination” of former Ukrainian president Yanukovyc, the focus of international public attention switched from Kiev to the Autonomous Republic of Crimea, the Ukrainian peninsula on the northern coast of the Black Sea, a region in which about the 60% of its population belongs to the Russian ethnic group.
Ukraine Yanukovych crumbles in the blood, the hard-line dictator does not hold the push -European and shipwrecked on the barricades of the unemployed, students, workers, clerks, but most practitioners of urban guerrilla warfare.
All united and organized militarily against a man, a political party, a culture still too tied to the models of repression of the East.
On February 25, should be completed on a national unity government , the new prime minister is appointed interim Oleksandr Turchynov , right-hand man and most faithful of Yulia Tymoshenko, leader of the orange uprising in 2004.
The protests in Ukraine started at the end of November exactly November 21 when President Yanukovych has arbitrarily set aside a long-awaited trade agreement that would " depth " ties with the EU and called on the contrary to what the people wanted , greater support to Russia. This sparked a series of popular demonstrations pro EU have gradually increased in number and intensity.
