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Shale gas and politics: Are Western energy giants? interests behind Ukraine violence?
Published time: May 17, 2014 13:08
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A Ukrainian army armoured fighting vehicle patrols north of the eastern Ukrainian town of Slavyansk May 13, 2014. (Reuters/Yannis Behrakis)
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Economic interests, such as untapped shale gas resources, already sliced and diced by Western energy giants, are behind the Kiev government?s ?anti-terrorist? operation against the pro-federalist regions, foreign policy expert Nebojsa Malic tells RT.

The eastern Donetsk and Lugansk regions cut ties with Kiev and declared independence from Kiev after a popular vote last Sunday. Yet federalist activists have no doubt that a new wave of government crackdown is on its way.

And they do have every reason to think so, because, as RT?s Gayane Chichakyan reports, reinstating control over the restive regions isn't the only agenda driving Kiev's ongoing offensive, as the core of the conflict is probably only business as usual.

Eastern Ukraine is not only of people who don?t want to be under the Kiev coup-installed government?s control, but there are also natural energy resources in the region, such as coal and more specifically, shale natural gas, untapped deposits of which lie underground in the Dnieper-Donets basin.

The cities Kiev is now striving to force into submission by making them war zones are situated in the area of shale gas deposits.

Tensions are highest in the city of Slavyansk in the Donetsk region: it has been besieged by Kiev?s troops and armed militants of the Right Sector neo-Nazi union for weeks. The self defense forces in eastern Ukraine's newly-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic are on high alert.

It?s in the Donetsk Region that Shell signed, in January 2013, a 50-year profit sharing deal with the government of Ukraine to explore and drill for natural gas in shale rock formations.

These are future profits that Kiev doesn?t want to lose.

?I would say that the economic interest in this case is what?s driving the coup regime in Kiev to launch military actions against its own citizens, because they stand to make a profit from these contracts signed by the previous government,? foreign affairs expert Nebojsa Malic commented to RT.

US energy giant Chevron signed a similar deal for $10 billion last year, but it is focusing on developing shale gas reserves in the West of Ukraine.

Ukrainian paratroopers ride atop an APC in the village of Starovarvarovka, southwest of the eastern Ukrainian town of Slavyansk May 15, 2014. (Reuters/Yannis Behrakis)Ukrainian paratroopers ride atop an APC in the village of Starovarvarovka, southwest of the eastern Ukrainian town of Slavyansk May 15, 2014. (Reuters/Yannis Behrakis)

Yet it?s not just energy giants that have a stake in Ukraine?s reserves.

The recent appointment of the US Vice President?s son, Hunter Biden, to the board of directors of Ukraine?s largest private gas producer, Burisma Holdings, has put the Ukrainian shale gas development deal into a new perspective.

Burisma holds licenses covering the Dnieper-Donets basin in the eastern Ukraine and Biden jr. is not the only American with political ties to have recently joined the company's board.

Devon Archer, a former senior advisor to current Secretary of State John Kerry's 2004 presidential campaign and a college roommate of Kerry's stepson, signed up with Burisma in April.

?There is certainly no better demonstration of altruism and humanitarianism in a free market than criticizing a country for corruption, sponsoring a coup to overthrow the allegedly corrupt government - and then appointing sons and friends of American officials to be on boards of companies having interests in that country,? Nebojsa Malic said. ?Surely, that is perfectly legal and above board,? he added.

Washington now props up the coup-imposed government in Kiev in any way it can, justifying its crackdown on the pro-federalist protesters under the pretext of maintaining the nation?s territorial integrity.

The interim government does not hesitate to use the army against the protesters in the East, including unarmed civilians, dubbing them ?terrorists? and ?pro-Russian activists,? which makes people in the eastern Ukraine strongly believe that it is not their interests that Kiev and its Western backers have at heart.

According to the UN, the death toll of victims in the Ukraine conflict that started last autumn has already surpassed 250, but the end of the crisis seems nowhere near.

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Baghlan Markazi, Afghanistan, April 30, 2014
First Published: 12:41 IST(30/4/2014)
Last Updated: 12:51 IST(30/4/2014)
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Afghan police have arrested the parents of a 14-year-old girl after they attacked a religious cleric and cut off his nose and ears in retaliation for what they say were a series of sexual attacks on their daughter.

Right activists say there has been a sharp rise in violent attacks against women in the deeply conservative Muslim country, where women have fought hard to gain rights after the collapse of Taliban government in 2001.

Restoring women's rights after the Taliban was ousted by a US-led coalition of troops was cited as one of the main objectives of the war.

The provincial head of women's affairs, Khadija Yaqeen, told Reuters that the girl had told her parents four months ago she had been assaulted.

The father invited the mullah to his house on Monday for dinner, police said.

"I cut off his ears and nose," her father Abdul Qahar, dressed in a traditional shalwar kameez and a turban, said from the police chief's office in the northern Baghlan province.

"I don't know if a cat ate his ears, but his nose went down the drain," he told Reuters, speaking in the Dari language Police arrested the girl's parents on Tuesday. Ahmad Jawid Basharat, a police spokesman in Baghlan, said Qahar had tied the cleric's hands and feet and cut off his nose and an ear as an act of revenge.

The 32-year-old cleric denied he had assaulted the girl. Police said they have opened a case against him. Religious, or sharia, law often holds sway over contitutional law in some parts of rural Afghanistan.

"If there was a functioning rule of law, then he would be punished even more severely," said the girl's mother, Sultana, wearing a traditional all-covering burqa.

There is growing fear among many people in Afghanistan that the withdrawal of NATO-led forces and efforts to reach a political agreement with the Taliban to end the 12-year-old war could undermine hard-won freedoms for women.

The hardline Islamist government banned girls from attending school when it ruled the country from 1996 to 2001, and during the insurgency its militants have regularly bombed girls' schools built with US money.


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