Situationen i Ukraina just nu.

The long-term outlook for global oil prices is lower, perhaps much lower, giving a strong boost to the U.S. economy while potentially crippling the economy of Vladimir Putin's Russia. Vast new discoveries of oil and natural gas in the U.S. and around the globe could drive the oil price to as low as $75 a barrel over the next five years from a current $100.

The level of popular support for the idea of Ukraine's joining NATO is currently too small to put this idea on the agenda, lawmaker Petro Poroshenko, who is running for president of Ukraine, has said.

"If the idea is supported by less than 50%, then we cannot use it, so as not to ruin the country," he said during Dragon Capital's 10th annual investment conference in Kyiv on Wednesday.

Poroshenko said Russian aggression had led to the fact that a record number of Ukrainians currently support Ukraine's accession to NATO - 39%, whereas earlier their percentage was only about 20%.

"The answer to the question of whether Ukraine will join NATO is not an answer [that will be given] in the Kremlin," he said.

Ukraine's security service, known by the acronym SBU, said in a statement on its website that it had detained Oleg Bakhtiyarov, a leader of the extremist Eurasian Youth Union of Russia, for allegedly planning to storm the country's parliament and Cabinet of Ministers buildings in Kyiv by force.

The Eurasian Youth Union, a Russian political organization and youth wing of the radical Eurasia Party, has been banned from Ukraine for carrying out acts of vandalism reported to be anti-Ukrainian.

The SBU said that Bakhtiyarov, working under the guise of a civil society activist in Kyiv, had recruited some 200 people to assist in storming the buildings and had stockpiled Molotov cocktails and various tools to carry out the provocation. He was also in possession of an undisclosed amount of cash.

"O.Bahtiyarov promised participants of the assault a cash reward up to $500 each," reads the SBU statement.

Bahtiyarov's goal was to destabilize Ukraine and disrupt the presidential election campaigns. Elections are scheduled for May 25.

In addition, Bahtiyarov had made arrangements with various Russian television channels to produce video footage of the raids on the buildings, ostensibly to be used as propaganda, according to the SBU report.

Bahtiyarov is being interrogated by Ukrainian security services as the investigation continues, reads the SBU statement.

Separately, the SBU on March 31 also detained an intelligence officer from Transnistria, the region that broke away from Moldova with Russia's help in 1992, according to a report on the agency's website. Russian forces in recent weeks have reportedly held military exercises there.

The officer, identified as S. Kuzhmuk, was reportedly smuggling arms into Ukraine to be distributed and used to stir up further unrest in the country ahead of the May elections. He was taken into custody while meeting with an "agent" who is a Ukrainian citizen, the SBU said.

Sovjet avvecklades inte, det föll samman efter ett misslyckats kuppförsök 1991, augustikuppen om du kommer ihåg när Jeltsin stod på pansarvagn och försökte övertala militären att sluta skjuta på regeringsbyggnaderna... http://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Augustikuppen