All eyes will closely watch President Putin and Russia during the coming hours and days. Basically the question is : "Will Putin, with the benediction of the Douma, decide to protect rioting ethnic Russians in Ukraine and in this way, annexe Ukraine" ?
When in February 2014 the last President of Ukraine, Viktor Yanukovych, an ethnic Russian, fled to Moscow after he was overthrown, it was decided to hold a new Presidential Election on 25 May 2014. Will Putin now try to stop this Election ?
Putin has already annexed Crimea this year and would dearly like to repeat this operation. He wants to recover Ukraine which fled the yoke of Communist Russia in 1991 at the same time as 10 other satellite countries, most of which are now in the EU.
In the meantime, Russian troops are constantly manoeuvering near the borders with Ukraine while Putin repeats that Ukraine must pay Russia for the Siberian Gas it has supplied. The Russian Rouble is sliding towards a new devaluation because rich oligarchs have transferred Billions of hard currencies into western tax havens.
Will something happen this week ?
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