But they're going to be freezing their balalaikas off next Winter.

Russia to take Ukraine back. It is a massive economic liability and doesn't really give EU the warm feeling of acquiring for more than a few hours.

I wonder what Ukraine's debt to Russia is secured with -- Russia may start seizing assets to satisfy the debt -- like Eastern half of Ukraine.

the Ukraine naval ships that were blockaded from leaving port and stormed to remove Ukrainian crews. Also the army and air force assets I am sure worth billions. did they have Crimean national markings or Ukrainian markings, I would think the latter?

President Vladimir Putin has ordered all weapons and hardware left by the Ukrainian military after Crimea’s accession to Russia to be returned to Ukraine.

The Russian President, who is also the commander-in-chief of the military forces, gave the order to Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu at a rank-conferring ceremony in Moscow on Friday. The order concerns weapons, and military hardware including aircraft and ships.

Shoigu reported that Ukrainian units stationed in Crimea who had not wished to come over to the Russian side had left Crimean territory.

The minister added that the flags and symbols on all the ships that remained in Crimea were changed to Russian. “We have not allowed any acts of desecration and disrespect towards Ukrainian state emblems,” the official added.

http://rt.com/politics/putin-weapons-military-crimea-909/

above is from googling "russia returning ships to ukraine"

for this is RT and no other media source has carried this. I will believe it when I see it. Forgive me if I do not fully trust the outlet the Putin owns.

You fail to mention that 99% of the links to that search are the taking and storming of Ukraine ships.

From your link......

I doubt they would fabricate what it seems Putin had said.

I found a note on RIA Novosti too form yesterday : http://en.ria.ru/military_news/20140411/189165021/Russia-Begins-Transfer-of-First-Warship-Back-to-Ukraine--Source.html yes - I am aware that's Russian too but at least a media outfit with a sound record.

I gather from this http://www.kyivpost.com/content/ukraine/ukraine-protests-russias-denunciation-of-black-sea-fleet-agreements-2-343153.html that Russia has withdrawn docking facilities there for Ukraine's fleet.

I hope they continue. Curious about the 30 ships they want to keep though.

Except Putin owns RT. At this point, I'm not sure if the GOP owns FOX or vice versa

btw The Russian State owns RT : not Putin. I still maintain they wouldn't misquote him.

of having a propaganda agency and strangling the free press if your official statements were misquotes?

They are free to have it. Half the business of the military industrial complex is spare parts. Meanwhile NATO will force them to junk it.

and some of the previous debt may have been so too. That's effectively bullet proof as Greece has already found - forget write downs.

Locks me out.

There is a backdoor to FT but I don;t know what it is.

Below is the heart of the article. (they don't like you to cut & paste, but I figure I'll make an exception for this, just because.) Last sentence is because the article is of course addressed to folks who run emerging markets funds and the opportunity that exists in Ukraine sovereign debt because his contention is that they won't be allowed to default, regardless of the opinion of the bond rating agencies that chances of a default are reasonably high.
Basically saying that while it looks bad, 1. Like you say, it's English law, and no one wants to end up like Argentina, and 2.Ukraine's geopolitical positioning is such that it will never be allowed to happen.

btw - in a similar fashion that the significance of Argentina's bonds being written under New York law.

I'm not sure what the position is with regards gas destined for Europe from the storage tanks in Ukraine i.e when title passes from Gazprom. Only reference I've seen with regard the storage tanks is that they were one of the reasons the EU wanted Ukraine to sign - summer use by the EU when gas prices are lower.

Would require at least 400 tankers and literally millions of Atlantic crossings. That's aside from the US have the capacity to produce that much LPG.

And by the way - in a year a single super tanker emits the equivalent of 50 million cars.