Comments by "turquoisestones" (@turquisestones) on "BBC News" channel.

  1. ian novak: "Nope. Russia offcialy recognized Crimea as part of Ukraine..." - Yes, that was about THAT state of Ukraine that was existing at that time and Russia DID live up to that recognition while THAT state of Ukraine existed. However, that state of Ukraine stopped existing 3 years ago, when the supreme state power was seized in violation of the Constitution of the state, i.e a coup took place. And it was AFTER that that Crimea proclaimed its independence because there was and there is still no law obliging Crimea to remain as a part of Ukraine after the state power has been taken illegally, that is, in violation of Constitution. And it was AFTER that proclamation of independence that Russians entered Crimea. Therefore, if Russia stole anything from anyone, it was Crimea stolen from Crimea itself, not from Ukraine, and Crimea was more than happy to be stolen by Russia.
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  2. @ian novak: "Good to know for Ukrainians that Ukrainian debt owned Russian stopped existing :) No country=no debt :)" - Your logic is truly amazing! By your logic, in 1991 Russia should have stopped paying all the debts that it had inherited from the USSR because USSR stopped existing! :) However, Russia has been consistently paying back all its international debts inherited from the USSR and has fully paid them back this year. The debt does not disappear with the disappearance of the old state and the appearance of a new - especially if the new state has declared itself a successor to the previous state and, thus, inherits all the previous state's international debts. With Ukraine (the present-day Ukraine) situation is even simpler because it considers itself exactly that very state of Ukraine that was born in 1991. Hence, it automatically assumes all the debts that Ukraine had before February 2014. And had the new Ukraine declared itself in February 2014 to be a new state - that is, the one that possessed neither Crimea, nor Donbas - then Russia would have, surely, restructured the debt - in fact, the debt could have been completely written off. "Note, that Russia is still recognized Ukraine as a country" - Sure. Russia DOES recognize Ukraine as a separate country with its own President within those regions that agreed to participate in the presidential elections in May 2015. However, Crimea and Donbas, as we know, did not participate in those elections. Therefore, neither Crimea, nor Donbas are considered by Russia to be parts of the state of Ukraine that Russia recognizes. The status of Donbas is still uncertain - whether it eventually becomes a part of Ukraine or remains independent only future will show; and the status of Crimea is clear - it is part of Russia. In fact, if Russia recognized today Ukraine as possessing Crimea as its territory, then Russia would contradict itself because Russia considers Crimea now as its own part and according to the Constitution of Russia Crimea is an integral part of Russian Federation. "You cannot claim that "Oh, in my opinion you ceased to be human being, you become an animal. So, I have to right to steal you everything, because you don't exist anymore"Theft is a theft. Russia is a thief bbecause Russia stole Crimea." - You can only steal something from someone else if that something belonged to that someone at the moment of theft. If I take a pen that used to belong to you, but now belongs to Jack, then the best you can do is claim that I have stolen a pen from Jack; however, you can't claim that I have stolen that pen from you! Now pay your full attention here: Crimea ALREADY DID NOT BELONG to Kiev when Moscow took it. By that time Crimea had already declared its independence from Kiev. Show me at least one law that would oblige Crimea to stay submitted to Kiev after an unconstitutional revolution (coup) has taken place there. The Constitution of Ukraine doesn't oblige any region of Ukraine to stay submitted to those who have seized the state power by means of revolution. Revolution is, in fact, not allowed by the Constitution of Ukraine, and any act of unconstitutional seizure of the state power is a state crime according to the Constitution of Ukraine (article 5).
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  3. @draft galosa: "Crimea is Ukraine, RUssia stole the land." - You can't steal something from someone to whom that something does not belong. When Russian troops moved into Crimea, Crimea already did not belong to Kiev. Crimea only belonged to itself at that time; therefore, if Russia stole anything it was Crimea from Crimea, not Crimea from Ukraine.
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  4. For those who have never lived in South Korea or Taiwan and think that the wife was literally shocked: most likely she was not. Yes, she understood that things went wrong - most likely because her husband had been telling her many times not to interrupt - but she still must have not felt that that was too big of a deal. I can't say for women in Japan or China, but can say this for the women in South Korea (the wife on the video is South Korean) and those in Taiwan. I keep seeing this happening in Taiwan and in South Korea all the time - women interrupt and say "sorry", but you don't really get the feeling that they are sorry - because they are really not, and rest assured they will interrupt you the very next time. It's like when you say "excuse me" when you cough - you don't really ask anyone to excuse you. For you it's just a formality to say that and you don't think that coughing is rude or impolite. I already gave up teaching my wife, she is Taiwanese, not to interrupt. I know that she will still be doing that - all Taiwanese do that. It's not a big deal for her, as well as for women in general in Taiwan and in South Korea.
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  5. Sylwester Woodest: "once again NONSENSE !" - Why?
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  6. @Oleksandr Konstantynov: "Ukraine attacks Crimea and Donbass. isn't it strange that countries 'attack themselves'?" - Yes, it is strange, however, it's not the case of Ukraine. That state of Ukraine, of which Donbass and Crimea used to be its integral parts, had already stopped existing by the time Kiev attacked Donbass. Plus, both Crimea and Donbass had already declared their independence from Kiev by that time.
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  7. So, BBC reporters can ask Putin questions, but Russians cannot ask Biden or Strammer anything? Where is more freedom of speech then, in the West or in Russia?
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  8. So, how is this not a threat to Russia's sovereignty? NATO has been creeping toward Russia since 1991 despite its own promises not to do so. It started to do so when Russia posed absolutely no threat to the West! NATO has been building missile systems in Eastern Europe (with only 5 minutes for missiles to reach Saint-Petersburg) despite Russia's multiple voiced concerns. And again, it started doing so when Russia posed no threat to the West. NATO was the first country to violate the International law by bombing Yugoslavia without the UN Security counsel in 1991. Then NATO violated it once again when it bombed Iraq - again without the UN consent. The West was also the first to violate the principle of indestructibility of European borders and of the territorial integrity of a nation when it turned one part of Serbia (Kosovo and Metohija) into a separate state named Kosovo - without holding any referendums there! Then the West fully supported the violation of the Constitution of Ukraine in February 2014, when, as a result of a coup, was deposed a legally elected president that had previously been recognized as such by absolutely all countries on earth, including the ones in the West. Then the West began to support those regions of Ukraine who refused to submit themselves to the new unconstitutional authorities in Kiev. Then the West was hypocritically turning its blind eye to the constant shelling of civilians in those regions by Kiev, while at the same time pumping Ukraine with weapons and NATO military instructors during the course of 8 years - while Russia was still waiting for Kiev to observe Minsk agreements instead. Besides, NATO built labs for developing bacteriological weapons in Ukraine and still holds such ones in Georgia and South Korea - at the doorstep of Russia - while, again, ignoring Russia's multiple concerns in this regard. Then Zelenski made an announcement in Munich - right before this war - that he was planning to develop a "dirty nuclear weapon" to be used against Russia. And the West, again, simply ignored that announcement and even chose not to report it in its media. Now, how is that "not a threat to Russia's sovereignty"? Only a fool would think that the West, given its "nice" behavior since the collapse of the USSR, still didn't pose any threat to Russia. Take a random guess on what the USA would do if Russia messed up in a similar way right at the US border. And if you lack imagination, then recall the Caribbean crisis and the US' response then to the USSR's move to install its missiles in Cuba.
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