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The Party of Regions faction in the Rada left the hall to protest junta military repressions in the eastern “Ukraine”. Aleksandr Yefremov, chairman of the Regions Rada faction, told junta chieftain Aleksandr Turchinov, “I’ve heard one thing from the right side of the session hall for many years… that the main thing in our state is people and human rights. Now, they’re killing people in the eastern Ukraine … We asked you to halt the anti-terrorist operation (sic), but you pretended that nothing’s happening. The Party of Regions believes that to work in the session in this situation is a supreme manifestation of hypocrisy. We’re leaving the hall”. After that, all the Regions Rada People’s Deputies left the hall.
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Interfax reported that Valery Blagodetelyov, spokesman of Slavyansk People’s Mayor Vyacheslav Ponomaryov, said the statement of junta chieftain Aleksandr Turchinov claiming that junta forces destroyed opolchenie strongpoints and secured the site around a TV tower was ludicrous. He said, “We deny Turchinov’s statement. All bases and strongpoints are still under our control. The statement about ‘mopping-up’ the area near the TV tower is also far-fetched. We’ve never deployed forces at that place. Junta forces occupy the tower’s site sporadically. We just keep an eye on them”.
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An audio recording of a phone conversation between oligarch and Governor of Dnepropetrovsk Oblast Igor Kolomoisky and Oleg Tsaryov made by unknown persons appeared on the internet. The caption to the posted recording said that the conversation took place late at night on 10 May 2014, and former SBU officers calling themselves the Joint Cyber-Militia of Donetsk, Lugansk, and Kharkov Oblasts recorded it. In addition, another audio record posted online proves that Kolomoisky personally ordered the Odessa massacre. As Chelovek-Online reported, Oleg Tsaryov confirmed that the phone chat was authentic.
Igor Kolomoisky
Howdy!
Oleg Tsaryov
Hi!
Kolomoisky
Where are you? Same place?
Tsaryov
Yeah.
Kolomoisky
How goes it?
Tsaryov
Okay.
Kolomoisky
Listen; there was a bad mess here. Someone killed a Jew from the Dnepropetrovsk community.
Tsaryov
What’s up there?
Kolomoisky
Someone killed a Jew from the Dnepropetrovsk community. I’m in the synagogue now.
Tsaryov
What did he do there?
Kolomoisky
Never mind what he did. They say they’re promising **** big bucks for your head now.
Tsaryov
My head?
Kolomoisky
Yeah. One million bucks. They say they’d hunt you down anywhere. I’ve let you know. Stay in Moscow… don’t go anywhere.
Tsaryov
I want to tell you something. In Africa, there are some…
Kolomoisky
They’ll hunt down your associates too.
Tsaryov
In Africa, there is such a … such a poison…
Kolomoisky
Listen, bollocks to what’s in Africa. Stop spinning yarns to me. I tell you, there was a prayer in the synagogue on the eve of Shabbat. Pray for that man, comrade Shlemkevitch, a Jew killed in Mariupol, *****
Tsaryov
That’s how it is then.
Kolomoisky
They say that Tsaryov’s to blame ****. Tomorrow, your people will be the cock-shot here. You tell them to get the *****out of here. We’re going to hang them right in the square. You know, tell Markov not to come here either… to the Ukraine… under any circumstances. Got it?
Tsaryov
Don’t call me anymore, Igor.
Kolomoisky
You don’t want me to call? Okay. See ya.
Tsaryov
Bye, see ya.
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RT reported that two junta APCs fired at a car carrying RT Ruptly video journalists near Kramatorsk. The team and a crew from Channel 5, another Russian TV network, were in the same car heading to the town of Dmitrovka, as APCs “came out of nowhere” and “opened fire for no clear reason”. The bullets didn’t hit the car. Earlier, junta forces shot freelance videojournalist Fyodor Zavaleykov, 23, of the RT Ruptly team, in the abdomen whilst he was covering military operations in Mariupol. According to RT, he received serious wounds on 9 May whilst trying to film junta forces’ assault on the Mariupol police building. Three days later, after negotiations with junta authorities failed to allow a German medical jet to land in Mariupol, the reporter went to Moscow for treatment.
Editor:
Note well that the junta pigs didn’t allow a medical jet from the EU to evacuate a newsman. That tells you much about them, their Langley and Vatican sugar daddies, and the Americans who urge on the Uniate trash by sucking up to them (especially, certain “Orthodox” seminaries!).
BMD
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Editor:
If I could, I’d say to Dmitri Kiselyov that there are people amongst the VOR staff who suck up to the West. The dead giveaway in the posts on the Ukraine is that such people use the Galician hillbilly dialect names for people and places, not proper Russian usage (the Galician dialect is a backwoods patois, not suitable for formal use on a news site). Thus, it’s “Aleksandr Turchinov”, “Lugansk”, “Yuliya Timoshenko”, or “Kiev”… anyone who refuses to use proper Russian transliteration is spitting on the Russian state’s POV and supporting that of the junta pigs. Of course, one can have one’s opinions… but one can’t spout viewpoints opposite to those of the Russian state on a Russian state broadcaster… that seems logical to me. Besides, that I’d urge the use of the traditional “the Ukraine” in all English writing… “Ukraine” came about by mewling Uniate activists in the 90s, who threw spoilt-children tantrums if people continued to use the traditional and correct English usage (they’d run to their American and Vatican protectors and scream “hate speech”). It’s “the Ukraine” for the same reason we say “the Netherlands”… the first is “the borderlands”, the second is “the lowlands”. That’s what I see, any road.
BMD
15 May 2014
Voice of Russia World Service
http://voiceofrussia.com/news/2014_05_15/Party-of-Regions-faction-leaves-Ukrainian-parliament-session-to-protest-military-operation-in-eastern-regions-8283/
http://voiceofrussia.com/news/2014_05_15/Ukrainian-forces-didnt-mop-up-territory-near-TV-tower-Slavyansk-militia-3274/
http://voiceofrussia.com/news/2014_05_15/Ukrainian-oligarch-puts-1-million-bounty-on-opponents-head-audio-recording-9493/
http://voiceofrussia.com/news/2014_05_15/Ukrainian-APCs-open-fire-at-RTs-video-agency-team-0156/
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Alfeyev sez Religious Tensions Deepen Ukraine Splits
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On Friday, Metropolitan Ilarion Alfeyev, head of the MP Synodal Department for External Church Relations (OVTsS), in an interview at his office in Moscow’s Danilovsky Monastery, said, “Other churches clearly lined up behind the Kiev government and differences are behind its decision to refuse me entry to the Ukraine last week. Religious tensions are deepening dividing lines in the Ukrainian crisis, with rival churches taking political sides, and Kiev slighting the MP. Our Church, which has broad support in the Russian-speaking eastern Ukraine, doesn’t take sides and wants to play a mediating role in the crisis. However, I doubt the others would see us as impartial. This lack of sympathy, unfortunately, is mutual”.
The MP’s critics certainly don’t see it as neutral in the crisis. Its head, Patriarch Kirill Gundyaev of Moscow and all the Russias, is close to President Vladimir Putin, and supports his drive to forge closer ties with former Soviet regions outside Russia. However, Ilarion said, “The Church has contacts in the Ukraine that the Kremlin lacks, including between Patriarch Kirill and President (sic) Aleksandr Turchinov. However, the government didn’t appear interested in the offer of mediation”. Kiev’s sensitivity to the activities of Russian church leaders was clearly on display on 9 May when it banned Ilarion from entering the country after flying into Dnepropetrovsk to give a local bishop an award on his 75th birthday. After they detained him for more than two hours, officials told Ilarion that he couldn’t pass border control and had to give the waiting bishop his award at the airport. He said, “This as a political decision with religious overtones. The people now running the Ukraine don’t belong to the Russian Orthodox Church. Yatsenyuk is a Greek Catholic (sic) {he’s a practising Scientologist pretending to be Uniate… his sister in the USA is an open Scientologist: editor} and Turchinov is a Baptist {he’s an apostate who left the Church for “Evangelical” heresy: editor}”.
Historic Divisions
The Ukraine has a chequered religious landscape. Alongside the Moscow-backed Ukrainian Orthodox Church are a breakaway Kiev-based Ukrainian Orthodox “Church” and another local Orthodox movement… both of which are schismatical in the eyes of all canonical Local Churches… and the Greek Catholic Church, linked to Rome. The Moscow-backed Church covers the entire Ukraine, but it’s strongest in the east, whilst the schismatical Orthodox and the Greek Catholics are more in the centre and west, where Ukrainian language and national sentiment are stronger. Priests from the schismatical Orthodox bodies and the Greek Catholics, who follow Orthodox-style worship, but are in communion with the Vatican, played a visible role during the protests in Kiev that led to the ousting of pro-Moscow president Viktor Yanukovich in February.
Ilarion said, “The Ukraine’s crisis isn’t religious in nature, but the situation with religious communities in the Ukraine somewhat reflects the divisions within the Ukrainian nation. The Greek Catholic Church and the schismatical groups clearly identified themselves with the current régime. Uniates always go against the Russian Orthodox Church; their goal is to subordinate all Ukrainian churches to the pope”. Eastern Catholic churches such as the Ukrainian Greek Catholics emerged in the 16th century. The Orthodox long accused them of trying to win over souls for Rome.
On Friday, the MP issued a statement offering its services as a mediator in the Ukrainian conflict, responding to Luxembourg Foreign Minister Jean Asselborn’s suggestion that religious communities play a part in seeking a solution. It echoed the tensions Ilarion mentioned, accusing other churches of exploiting “the sincere religious feelings of deeply pious Ukrainian people as a tool in a political struggle”.
Editor:
Note this (and it’s a QUOTE):
That means that SVS’ invitation of Robert Taft, a known papist perverter of the Orthodox liturgy, to speak there is blasphemous. Someone at the Centre should pass that info on to someone important like Balashov… maybe, it could stop this iniquity before it happens. To invite a Uniate to speak when Uniates are shouting, ”Knife the Moskali!” is beyond all words. Satan laughs. If you support inviting Uniates to speak in Orthodox venues you spit on Christ and His Church… you dishonour the memory of those killed in the Ukraine by Uniate and schismatical fascists. “Fascists Out!”, I say… and I’m NOT alone.
BMD
16 May 2014
Tom Heneghan
Alissa de Carbonnel
Reuters
http://news.yahoo.com/religious-tensions-deepen-ukraine-splits-russian-orthodox-official-155306393.html