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On Saturday, the Donetsk Oblast police chief agreed to demands to resign by pro-Russian patriots who occupied his headquarters hours after a dozen activists seized two buildings in another eastern Ukraine town. Police chief Konstantin Pozhydayev told a group that entered police headquarters wearing Berkut uniforms, “As you demanded, I’m stepping down”. Earlier in the day, about a dozen patriots seized the SBU building and the police station in Slavyansk, a town about 100 kilometres (62 miles) north of Donetsk. According to the MVDU, initially, the group occupied the police station, where they seized at least 400 handguns and 20 automatic weapons, stating, “The aim of occupying (the police station) was the guns … they’re giving these guns to participants in the protest in Slavyansk”. The patriots followed up the attack on the police station by taking over the SBU building.
MVDU boss Arseny Avakov said on his Facebook account that “armed men in camouflage fatigues” led the attack and he vowed a firm response. He said that MVDU spetsnaz were on the way, adding there was zero tolerance for armed terrorists. However, the number of casualties and hostages remain unknown. After the two incidents, junta “Foreign Minister” Andrei Deshchitsya urged Russia to stop “provocative actions” by its agents in the eastern Ukraine during a phone call with Minister of Foreign Affairs Sergei Lavrov, who denied providing any support to local patriots. Meanwhile, Donetsk separatist leader Sergei Tsyplakov claimed responsibility for the raid on the police station in a statement issued to RIA-Novosti, but insisted that his people weren’t armed. A new wave of unrest erupted in Ukraine’s east last weekend, when pro-Moscow activists seized several government buildings in the cities of Donetsk, Lugansk, and Kharkov, demanding a referendum on autonomy and closer ties with Russia.
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Note well that Avakov doesn’t use official media to announce his “decisions”… he uses his Facebook page. That’s prima facie evidence that he doesn’t trust the career staff, and that he couldn’t replace them with junta flunkies, as the junta’s only made up of thieves and political operatives in Yuliya’s cabal and unhinged Galician terrorist nationalist nutters, not anyone with any real professional competence in anything. Avakov changes his tune faster than he changes his gotchies… nobody believes either his threats or his blandishments. That’s a recipe for a tragedy, as no one believes his threats… you see, he’s made so many empty threats that when he does actually make a real one, no one will believe him (on either side). That’s a sure way to ensure the maximum bloodshed, sad to say.
My guess is that many Berkut sorts went to ground after the junta outlawed them (literally). The junta didn’t catch all of them (not with a convicted real estate fraudster in charge of the MVDU… that’s like putting Junior Gotti in charge of the FBI). That is, many made it to the Crimea, and many headed for friendlier parts in the Eastern Ukraine. It may well be that the nucleus of the patriot Opolchenie are former Berkut troopers, so, it wouldn’t surprise me to see some of them in Berkut kit. I think that the police chief KNEW who he was dealing with… and chose discretion over pointless valour. He knew that Berkut spetsnaz could seize the station and do so with the smallest amount of casualties. He chose life over the junta… that tells you much about how ordinary pragmatic folk view their chances of long-term survival, doesn’t it?
Oh, yes… Lavrov said today that Russia has “no intention” of taking the southeastern Ukraine. Listen to him CAREFULLY… he said that Russia has “no intention” of doing so. However, as we all know, unforeseen circumstances and uncalculated for events often overturn the best of “intentions”, don’t they? Sergei Viktorovich is a real diplomat, unlike Kerry… therefore, the Old Master knows how to deploy “diplomatese”… he’s NOT lying, but do attend to his words in their literal sense, if you please (its “belly talk” in the best Oriental style). If you don’t , you might get an unpleasant and rude surprise…
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12 April 2014
Xinhua
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/world/2014-04/12/c_133257733.htm
Voices from Russia 
5 September 2014. A Picture IS Worth a Thousand Words… Justice… American-Style
Tags: America, Anglo, Berkut, George Will, Novorossiya, political commentary, politics, Russia, Russian, Russian culture, Russian history, Ukraine, United States, USA
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THIS is what the Western punditocracy supports. FULL STOP. They APPLAUD it when the junta kicks the elderly in the face. They APPLAUD it when the junta replaces professional cops like the Berkut with Uniate fascist thugs who beat and torture as they will, leaving the rule of law trampled in the mud. They APPLAUD it when the junta fires Smerch rockets indiscriminately into civilian neighbourhoods. They APPLAUD it when the Uniate fascists shoot VSN soldiers and/or their families out-of-hand. It tells me that the Western punditocracy are soulless scumbags at heart… who worship “Might makes right” and “Winning is the only thing”. Keep this in mind when you see that mewling suck-up Will on the TV with his goofy bow-ties… he’s not merely a “talking head”, he’s an unashamed apologist for evil. After all, we HAVE to hurt the Grandmas in Kiev… it’s not only for their own good, it’s to George Will’s personal profit (he’s an “investor”, dontcha know).
I call such people evil and I’m not alone…
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