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European observers present in the Ukraine since the beginning of the rioting noted that the putschist junta in Kiev violates human rights and that their actions would be illegal in most EU countries. Mateusz Piskorski, a leftist populist SRP member of the Sejm of the Polish Commonwealth of the Fifth Convocation, director of the European Centre of Geopolitical Analysis (ECAG), told ITAR-TASS that the rhetoric of the political forces dominating the Euromaidan calls for obvious violations of fundamental human rights, mostly rights of national minorities. Piskorski said that the ECAG dispatched several groups of experts during the Euromaidan protests; they interviewed protesters and collected various materials, including leaflets, which, obviously, contained incitement to interethnic strife. Piskorski observed that the ECAG received intel that national minorities, for instance, Magyars, didn’t feel secure at present, pointing up that witnesses heard anti-Semitic slogans on the Maidan. He thinks that we can see a wave of political repressions in Ukraine of late, not only against the Party of Regions, but also against other political factions, for instance, against the KPU, saying, “We’ve heard much about cases of physical violence against people who oppose the new political forces”. Piskorski is sure that normal civilised European states would class the political factions responsible for the Maidan rioting as neo-Nazis and neofascists.
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Former Security Service of the Ukraine (SBU) head Aleksandr Yakimenko said in an interview with Rossiya-24 that the USA and Poland played a force multiplier role in the Ukrainian coup, where Washington was reluctant to let the conflict de-escalate into a peaceful settlement, saying, “On the Maidan, there were several political parties and movements that joined forces to form the Right Sector, plus their Western patrons, of course. Poland and the USA played a special role in it. [Jan Tadeusz] Tombiński, the EU envoy in the Ukraine, represented Poland. He’s a Polish national; he regards its participation in the EU, NATO, and all manner of blocs and organisations to boost its advantage. Poland pulled every string, using the EU and NATO as vehicles to subjugate the Ukraine. Washington wasn’t content with the EU peace initiative in the Ukraine. They weren’t all too happy about the EU’s intent to go ahead with peace negotiations and peace policy [in the Ukraine]. They weren’t happy about the attitude of EU leaders and of [EU’s High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy] Catherine Ashton, who held talks with Yanukovich as the country’s legitimate president”.
13 March 2014
Editor:
I’ll give you a term… Prometheanism. Click on the link… it’ll tell you why the USA and Poland are acting as they do. Why has the USA bought into Prometheanism? It’s because Zbiggy beat Kissinger out for influence in the American foreign policy apparat. Never forget, Zbig’s father was an official for the Colonel’s Régime in the Second Polish Republic, which was a fascist state through-and-through (it was so unpopular that many Poles refused to fight for it in September 1939). The USA has had its foreign policy hijacked by a fanatical White Pole émigré… he’s the guru of Nuland and Herbst. How can we get the country back on track? God only knows…
BMD
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Former SBU head Aleksandr Yakimenko said in an interview with Rossiya-24 that Washington handpicked the top officials in the Ukrainian junta, Euromaidan forces didn’t choose them. Yakimenko waved off claims that Euromaidan activists had a say in choosing the new leadership, calling it a common mistake, saying, “The Maidan didn’t appoint these people, the USA did. Just look at the recent appointments… [Andrei] Paruby, [Viktor] Gvozd, [Valentin] Nalivaichenko, all these people served the American special services. These people were all top officials in the Yushchenko administration and boasted about their links with the SBU and with intelligence”.
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On Thursday, Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO), General Secretary Nikolai Bordyuzha told reporters after a hearing in the RF Gosduma, “Naturally, we’re following the events in the Ukraine. We see that some use the Ukraine for information attacks on some CSTO countries. We’ve seen NATO experts on information warfare in the Ukraine. The Ukraine isn’t a CSTO member. For this reason, we don’t have any plans on the Ukraine in the CSTO now”.
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The Flight Radar 24 tracking service said that some Russian airlines altered their flight paths to bypass both the Ukraine and the Crimea. On Wednesday, the tracker showed that Aeroflot modified the flight path of its flight to Simferopol to keep it in Russian airspace and avoid the mainland Ukraine. Aeroflot later confirmed this in a Tweet, “We decided today to change some of our flight routes”. It added that cost didn’t factor into this decision. On Thursday, Aeroflot Flights SU 2137 bound for Istanbul and SU 2741 bound for Antalya followed altered routes, as did Transaero, NordWind, and several foreign carriers, including Turkish Airlines. Sources in the airlines industry said that the carriers followed recommendations issued by the Russian air traffic authority.
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On Thursday, Vladimir Konstantinov, the Chairman of the Supreme Soviet of the Republic of the Crimea (VS RK), said that the Republic of the Crimea (RK) government declared Euromaidan leaders Vitaly Klichko, Arseny Yatsenyuk, and Oleg Tyagnibok personae non grata, as they propagate far-right extremist nationalistic ideology.
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On Thursday, Aleksandr Sidyakin, a member of the Russian PACE delegation, told ITAR-TASS, “Human rights in the Ukraine are a complete fiction. Currently, the Ukraine is a country that violates elementary human rights, including the right to life. The present authorities in the Ukraine can’t guarantee the right to life; Ukrainian citizens are shot in broad daylight by their fellow citizens… provocateurs… whilst the authorities refuse to investigate these crimes”. He strongly criticised infringements on the right of free speech in the Ukraine, pointing to a recent ban imposed on broadcasts of Russian TV channels and pro-Russian channels, saying, “In the Ukraine, they prosecute journalists for expressing points of view not in sync with the Euromaidan position. Now, freedom of speech in the Ukraine is no more than a mere fiction. They’ve also violated the rights to labour, social welfare support, and pension allowances. Russia carries out a humanitarian mission in the Crimea. Europe turned a blind eye on the situation because it suits both Europe and the USA”.
Mikhail Markelov, Deputy Head of the RF Gosduma Committee on Public Associations and Religious Organisations focused on the violence in the Ukraine and the disrespect shown for the human rights of the population, in particular, the Russian-speaking population, saying, “Having legalised the activities of the Right Sector and other radical groups, the illegitimate authorities stripped the population of the Ukraine of state protection”.
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Earlier today, the press service of the MVDU announced the arrest of 38 armed people who’d committed a nocturnal incursion at a bank office in Moskovskaya Street, saying, “At night, young people in camouflage and masks, armed with clubs and knives, broke into a bank office”. Bank security guards managed to shut themselves away in a well-protected office on the premises and called the police. Three units of the MVDU arrived at the scene, including from the Titan and Sokol special divisions. According to MVDU Press Secretary Svetlana Pavlovskaya, cops seized three Kalashnikovs, some 20 PM pistols, one Saiga hunting carbine, as well as knives, batons, and an angle grinder from the attackers. (an angle grinder, usually used in building masonry cutting, would have in this case have been used to cut an entryway into the bank OR possibly to TORTURE any captured victims !)
Later on, the press service of the MVDU announced that it’s freeing the perps that the cops nicked last night as they attempted to rob a bank in Kiev. The detained and then released perps were Euromaidan activists, who were part of the recent bloody events in Kiev, rabid supporters of the radical and extremist junta that seized power recently. Commenting on the unexpected release of the suspects, an MVDU spokesman said, “We established the identities of all 38 people involved; they’re all Ukrainian citizens. There are no grounds for their detention. We’re sending their voluntarily-surrendered weapons for examination. We’re questioning the bank guards and studying the surveillance camera footage. We’ll ascertain who was at the bank that night and what they did”.
The nocturnal intruders called themselves the “Warriors of Narnia”; they were active participants in the recent bloody events in Kiev. Local media repeatedly mentioned them in reporting on the battles with the Berkutovtsy during the seizure of the city administration building. One of intruders told the cops that they’d come to protect the bank, and another one said, “We were just passing by and accidentally entered the bank”.
13 March 2014
Editor:
If this doesn’t tell you that lawlessness reigns in “Indian Country” (the junta-controlled Ukraine), nothing will. The entire situation is so murky that NO ONE knows what’s going on… even the special services of the USA and Russia, that’s why VVP is being so cautious. The junta only controls the ground that they stand upon… if you believe otherwise, you’re a damned fool.
BMD
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On Thursday, Admiral Vladimir Komoyedov, the chairman of the RF Gosduma Defence Committee and commander of the Black Sea Fleet in 1998-2002, told a roundtable in Moscow that activists of the Ukraine’s radical Right Sector group plotted to bomb a café in Crimea, but that the cops foiled the conspiracy, saying, “It’s become known now that cops detected and arrested members of the right-wing bloc; they wanted to blow up the Shaiba café, not far from Yalta , which dated back to Khrushchyov’s days. A bomb disposal team found an explosive device there”. He also said that a group of tanks had arrived from Lvov in the southern Ukraine, noting, “The situation is very problematic. The main endeavour of the right-wing bloc is to thwart the referendum in Crimea by whatever means it can”. However, he ruled out the possibility of any intervention by the Ukrainian Navy, commenting, “I rule out any combat activity on the part of the Ukrainian navy because its units and ships lack battle-readiness”.
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This piece is a bit disjointed; it appears “stream of consciousness”. However, it conveys a sense of the utter confusion and anarchy in junta-controlled areas. God do help the ordinary folks caught in the middle of all this…
BMD
Euromaidan militants started a fight with pro-Russian activists during a rally in Donetsk. A peaceful mass-meeting turned into a clash, hardly controlled by Ukrainian cops. Witnesses said that the Euromaidan militants suddenly appeared; in the beginning, they were placid, but they then began to throw objects. The cops tried to arrest several pro-Russian activists, but the crowd freed them. Police tried to establish order, but harassment on the part of outside provocateurs continued. The latter threw stones and steel bars. Then, someone called the crowd to overturn the buses where the cops kept detainees. The activists reached the buses, and demanded that the cops set the prisoners free. The police deployed in a defensive formation around the buses, but they could hardly contain the activists. LifeNews reported that no medical personnel were on the square, so, the wounded couldn’t get any medical aid. People use gas sprays, but the number of wounded is unknown. Ambulances arrived at the square, and the activists begin to retreat. LifeNews said that there was little threat of serious disorders.
Members of two rallies… Euromaidan militants and pro-Russian activists… gathered on Lenin Square in Donetsk. Pro-Russian activists claim that the Euromaidan militants came to the rally with “particular purposes” in mind. Police created a reinforced cordon and to keep order. Sources tell us that both sides number about 1,000 people in total. A pro-Russian activist said, “This is an evident provocation. They could’ve organised a rally somewhere else”. Yevgeni Dinyansky, head of the NGO “South-Eastern Initiative”, told us about the members of the pro-Ukrainian rally, “In fact, there’s no pro-Ukrainian party here, it’s very small. This is an evident provocation, as someone sent students there. These students were put under pressure… they could come to this rally or they’d be sacked from the university”.
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On Thursday, a Euromaidan militant died in a clash at a rally in Donetsk in the Eastern Ukraine. The local office of the Ministry of Health said that pro-EU militants attacked a pro-Moscow rally, noting, “According to preliminary conclusions by doctors, a man was stabbed”. Oblast authorities stated that 17 were wounded in the clashes.
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On Thursday, a 22-year Donetsk man died in clashes that erupted between Euromaidan militants armed with batons and peaceful demonstrators who chanted pro-Russian slogans. More than a dozen were injured as violence ensued after participants broke through a police barrier in the centre of the city. Tensions swelled in Donetsk, where the Russian-speaking population supports creating an eastern Ukrainian autonomy against the putschist junta in Kiev. According to hospital sources, the 22-year-old man was stabbed. Media reports indicated that the man was just a passer-by who wasn’t a part of the demonstrations. This is the first death reported outside the capital during the recent violence triggered by the political crisis in the Ukraine. It was unclear who started the clashes, as demonstrators broke through a police cordon keeping the two sides apart.
According to local media reports, pro-Maidan militants provoked the pro-Russian crowd by shouting far-right slogans “Glory to Ukraine” and “Glory to heroes” {that is, Banderovtsy scum: editor}, loudly demanding the that the Russians bow to Ukrainian territorial sovereignty. Donetsk is a Ukrainian industrial centre. A rally of Euromaidan “Greater Ukraine” supporters met an anti-junta demonstration in the city centre (near the Lenin statue). The newspaper Novosti Donbassa (News of Donbass) said that three people were taken to a hospital neurosurgery department after the clashes. The 22-year-old male died in the ambulance. Seventeen people were administered first aid on the scene, and 11 were in the ICU of a local hospital. Authorities in Donetsk Oblast are requesting a referendum to widen the eastern industrial region’s autonomy as the region has a large Russian-speaking population.
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Russian Ambassador to UN Vitaly Churkin told the UN Security Council that all those who disagree with the current junta in Kiev, including Rada People’s Deputies, are in danger of violence. He added that such coercion led to the overthrow of the legally elected president, Viktor Yanukovich, who had to leave Kiev amidst threats to his health and life. Churkin said, “The forcible overthrow of the authorities was illegitimate. Resolutions adopted by the UN Security Council repeatedly condemned such actions. Instead of a government of national unity as envisaged in the 21 February agreement, Kiev saw the emergence of what Yatsenyuk described as a ‘government of winners'”. Churkin pointed up that a number of government posts in that government, including the Defence Ministry, are under the control of the extremist radical nationalist Svoboda faction.
Churkin noted, “A resolution adopted in December 2012 by the European Parliament slammed [Svoboda’s] views as racist, anti-Semitic, xenophobic, and running counter to the EU’s fundamental principles and values. In addition, it called upon pro-democratic parties in the Ukrainian Rada to refrain from entering into coalitions with that party. Where are the European values? Do the new authorities in Kiev profess them? In reality, the new authorities rely on a far more radical organisation… the so-called Right Sector, whose leader already declared his presidential ambitions. The radicals haven’t disarmed themselves in defiance of the 21 February agreement. Moreover, they’ve built up their arsenals from army depots they’ve raided. The new authorities did nothing to arrange a national dialogue to carry out genuine constitutional reform. In fact, the authorities in Kiev are cutting the country in pieces”.
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According to a survey conducted by the SREZ, over 90 percent of Crimeans wish to join Russia. An overwhelming majority of respondents (97 percent) criticised the aftereffects of the Euromaidan events and the junta’s decision to limit rights of national minorities. Nine in ten Crimeans said that the Kiev junta wasn’t legal and strongly opposed the activity of Ukrainian radical right-wing nationalist organizations (Right Sector, UNA-UNSO, Svoboda, and others). A third of the respondents argued that certain countries in Western Europe and the USA created a negative image of the events in the Crimea. The poll questioned some 500 respondents in large Crimean cities… Sevastopol, Simferopol, Yevpatoriya, Kerch, and Feodosia.
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On Thursday night, the local office of the Ministry of Health of the Donetsk Oblast State Administration said that a clash killed one person and injured 28 more, in a confrontation between participants of a pro-Russian rally and “Greater Ukraine” militants on Lenin Square in Donetsk. Local media identified the victim as Dmitri Chernyavsky, a militant of the local Svoboda branch. Two victims received medical assistance on the scene; they later chose to go home. Two others went to a regional trauma hospital, one went to Municipal Hospital Nr 17, and 11 are now in the neurosurgery department of Kalinin Hospital. The head of the Timoshenko junta, Aleksandr Turchinov, ordered the MVDU to immediately arrest and punish those responsible for killing a Svoboda goon {“Eek! They killed one of my neo-Nazi bully boys!”: editor}.
Editor:
Note that Turchinov demands that those who killed a neo-Nazi stormtrooper face the music, but neo-Nazis who attack a bank and terrorise the employees… “No problem, they were just being boys”. That’s evil… and no amount of part-time preaching will wash it away.
BMD
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In commenting on the attack on protestors in Donetsk on 13 March, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MID) said that Russia realises its responsibility for the lives of fellow citizens and nationals in the Ukraine and reserves the right to protect them. In a statement posted on the MID website on Friday, “Russia realises its responsibility for the lives of its fellow citizens and nationals in the Ukraine and reserves the right to take such people under our protection. Tragic events occurred in Donetsk on 13 March 2014, where there was bloodshed. Extreme rightwing groups armed with weapons and bats, who arrived in Donetsk from other parts of the country the day before, attacked peaceful protestors, who came into the streets to show their opposition to the destructive stance of those who call themselves the Ukrainian authorities. The clashes killed one person and injured many more”. The MID demanded that the Euromaidan leaders who seized power in Kiev to disarm all militants and guarantee public safety, stating, “We’ve repeatedly stated that those who came to power in Kiev must disarm militants, ensure public safety and the legitimate right of people to hold rallies. Unfortunately, judging from the latest events in the Ukraine, none of this happened, and the Kiev authorities don’t control the situation in the country. Russia is aware of its responsibility for the lives of its fellow countrymen in the Ukraine, and reserves the right to take people under protection”.
The Donetsk office of the Genprokuratura Ukrainy initiated a criminal case, investigating the riots that took place in Donetsk on 13 March. A Genprokuratura spokesman said, “We’ve established that there was a conflict between participants of rallies on Lenin Square which escalated into disorders, one person was killed, another 29 were injured. The Genprokuratura of the Donetsk Oblast is also investigating the actions or inaction of law enforcement officials, who were supposed to ensure public order during peaceful rallies. Following a comprehensive and complete analysis of police actions, we’ll make the proper procedural decisions”.
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On Friday, the Ottawa Citizen reported that someone assaulted a Russian diplomat in Ottawa, the Canadian capital. He’s now in hospital in stable condition. Police and medics arrived at the scene of the attack at around 08.45 EDT. The diplomat sustained arm and back injuries. No comment from the Russian embassy was immediately available.
14 March 2014
Editor:
Canada has a very vocal “Ukrainian” diaspora community. That social group has a long history of harbouring and not expelling its more feral and violent elements (sadly enough… I’ve seen ordinary Ukies cower in fear of some of the more vicious fascist sorts) and of allowing glorification of Nazi collaborationists and outright terrorists. It’s sad, kids… it leads to things such as the above incident. However, don’t take it out on ordinary Ukies… keep your eyes open and oppose the plug-uglies, though.
BMD
Voice of Russia World Service
http://voiceofrussia.com/news/2014_03_13/US-handpicks-Ukraine-top-officials-8040/
http://voiceofrussia.com/news/2014_03_13/Russian-flights-bypass-Ukraine-1119/
http://voiceofrussia.com/news/2014_03_14/9-in-10-Crimean-residents-wish-to-join-Russia-survey-8173/
http://voiceofrussia.com/news/2014_03_14/Russian-diplomat-attacked-in-Canadas-capital-media-6441/
Voices from Russia 
2 August 2014. They Weren’t “Ukrainians” Then… They’re NOT “Ukrainians” Now
Tags: European history, genocide, history, History of Russia, History of the Soviet Union, Kresy, Little Russia, Malorossiya, PACE, Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, Poland, political commentary, politics, Russia, Russian, Russian culture, Russian history, Second Polish Republic, Soviet Union, Ukraine, UN, United Nations, USSR
Habitants de la Petite Russie (Inhabitants of Little Russia)
S Markaert
1844
From:
Adolphe-François Pannemaker, Illustrations de Moeurs, usages et costumes de tous les peuples du monde (Illustrations of Manners, Customs, and Costumes of All Peoples of the World) (Bruxelles BELGIUM, 1844)
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The word “Ukrainian” wasn’t in common usage in 1844 (of course, Uniate fanatics dig up and quote isolated and atypical instances of “Ukrainian”, but they don’t count)… in short, the concept didn’t exist in general circulation! To use the word “Ukrainian” for any situation or person prior to the late 19th century is an ignorant and obsequious anachronism, adopted to please and/or placate a loud political pressure group. It’s not truthful, so, decent people should avoid such a usage. In fact, until 1948, there was no “Ukrainian Catholic rite” in Roman documents… it was the “Ritus Rutheniensis”, that is, “the Russian (Catholic) Rite”. I got that from a 1948 official Roman publication that I saw in Dunwoodie in the 70s. Don’t fall for the loud Uniate propaganda… it doesn’t correspond to the facts… that goes for such things as the so-called 1930s “Genocide” as well (there was none… the UN and PACE agree with the Russian position that it wasn’t genocide, it was part of the tragedy surrounding Collectivisation). You should know that the Uniate fascists weren’t part of all that… they were in Poland, and none of them suffered one bit… indeed, they were willing hangsmen and bully boys for the White Poles (they burned Orthodox churches in the Kresy at the behest of the Poles… fancy that)! Do remember that when you hear their rants and accusations…
My thanks to the Cabinet member who turned me on to this resource.
BMD