Welcome, East Ukraine into Federation of Independent States

Governments in the Ukrainian Territory Today   

     Russia took the Crimea away from the Ukraine.  Now, East Ukraine, with the help of Russia, is declaring itself independent from Kiev. 

     There is precedence within the Russian Federation of Independent States for such a declaration.  The Russian Georgians did so a few years back.  And before that in Moldva, a segment of the country became independent from the rest.

     I assume that the same adjustments will be made between the Ukraine and the East Ukraine that have been applied in these other changes in governmental rule, now stabilized over time.   Importantly, while it is obvious that the new government of East Ukraine has no debts, the fact that the Ukraine's borders have been redefined implies the government in Kiev is not responsible for obligations and understandings that applied when the country was whole.  So it, too, is debt-free at this moment in its primordial history of boundary instability.

     The above means that there is no reason for the IMF to loan money to the Ukrainian government, when by treaty and by force the Ukraine ruled from Kiev has only just recently been circumscribed and its boundaries drawn.  Any debts and obligations done before today are not the province of the Ukrainian government, since its jurisdiction had not been stabilized.

     And we know that plenty of governments have gone bankrupt through the ages.

Russia's Commitment to the Russian Federation of Independent States

     If Russia is truly committed to enforcing the provisions of the Constitution of the Federation, I would expect that it will immediately withdraw forces from Islamic provinces within its jurisdiction and permit thereby the establishment of an Islamic Independent State in the Federation from territory that is now under its control.