Donetsk, Kharkov, Lugansk - way to Russia.

[Pagan]

 
ruSSian terrorists  fighting each other



http://sprotyv.info/news/267-bliz-slovyanska-mezhdu-terroristami-proizoshel-boy

[Pagan]

VITALY PORTNIKOV: A Nation of Anti-fascists

By Vitaly Portnikov.
05.06.2014  16:48
Translated and edited by Voices of Ukraine.

Russian media call the separatists in the south-east of the country no less than “supporters of federalization”–this propaganda cliché has become so normal that consumers of Russian informational products probably won’t even be very surprised if they find out that the “supporters” wage battle using the latest weapons systems, depose legally elected mayors and city councils, and generally act like typical occupants do, regardless of their place of residence. Because occupation is first of all a forceful imposition of your opinion on the majority of the population and the destruction of those who disagree. In Moscow they can tell any stories they like about the “Ukrainian junta” but the fact remains–from the time of Victor Yanukovych’s flight from the country, not one regional or municipal council had its power terminated, with the exception of the Crimean Parliament who embarked on a path of collaboration with the occupation authorities. Not a single mayor has been impeached–in other words the will of no cities and regions in the country was violated. With the “supporters of federalisation” on the other hand, the first thing they do is try to seize power.

And this is not surprising because they are “supporters of federalisation” Russian-style. Europe already has one such federation, glued together literally with blood after a civil war that was started not by the local residents, but by a neighbouring country, convinced that only they know how everyone should live. It is Bosnia and Herzegovina, in which there are in fact three governments–the nation itself, the Muslim Croat Federation, and the Republika Srpska [Serbian Republic].

Before the collapse of Yugoslavia there was no trace of any Republika Srpska. It appeared after ethnic cleansing with the participation of “supporters of federalisation” of the military from neighbouring Serbia. Of course these supporters simply wanted to separate half of the territory of Bosnia and to attach it to Serbia (and even better–all of Bosnia and Herzegovina), but they simply couldn’t wipe out everyone who disagreed with this. This is exactly why they had to negotiate. But on the other hand, from the territory controlled by the “supporters of federalisation” they managed to expel everyone–Muslims, Croats, and of course, those Serbs who wanted to live in a unified Bosnia without inter-ethnic conflicts. And that is when Western mediators with the help of the dictator Slobodan Milosevic created a new state, in which the two parts still cannot be reconciled with one another–and cannot drift apart either.

But in this case Bosnia’s fate is far more enviable than Ukraine’s would be if the “supporters of federalisation” chop off a piece of it with assault rifles and machine guns. Because Serbia changed in the years after the war, they finished with dictatorship and are striving for EU membership. And, by the way, they will get there before Bosnia, have no doubts about that. But our “federal district Soviet Union” will neighbour an ever-more browning Russia. It will overflow with Nazi propaganda, which literally splatters from Russian TV screens, with chauvinistic arrogance, hatred of the civilised world and confidence that all issues in the world are solved through force and thievery. And it will broadcast this poison onto the territory which could be saved from the “supporters of federalisation” and the New Reich.

Therefore, it will still not be a real, unified nation. A real unified nation is a state of anti-fascists, who understand that fascism comes from the Kremlin and are doing everything possible to protect against the new infection. A country in which the interests of anti-fascists and Europeans try to combine with a Nazi view of the world, still will not last long.

Source: uainforg.livejournal.com

http://maidantranslations.com/2014/05/12/vitaly-portnikov-a-nation-of-anti-fascists/

[Nemo1024]

Looks like Pagan has come into office and started his working day 
You can set your clock by him, and judge the importance of the day that passed by the density and aggressiveness of his posts.

[247crypto]

Etnic cleansing is in act.

for us Ukrainians the only question is how to remove them from our territory without allowing them to take chunks of it with them

We cannot live together with them after this war; they will either be killed or pushed out.

[247crypto]

http://ntv.livejournal.com/353029.html

[Balthazar]

[247crypto]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJQivcpOvuk

[Pagan]

Russian mass media produced the next dose of fakes about snipers on Maidan

TV-channel Russia-1 demonstrated another news item, which is supposed to prove that snipers killing people during the tragic events in February on Maidan were the members of the Right Sector (the news item starts from 1:08:30):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yaT_gZQR3qo#t=4117

As an argument, journalists adduce a statement of the fugitive former Head of the Ukrainian Security Service Oleksandr Yakimenko, who claims that the shots were being fired from the Philharmonic building, at that time controlled by Maidan supporters under command of Andriy Parubiy. Yakimenko adds that later 20 fighters were seen going out from the Philharmonic with guns.

As a proof, journalists of Russia-1 even demonstrate men going out from some building and allege literally that, “here these men are going out from the Philharmonic building”. At the same time voice-over is thoroughly explaining to the audience that the members of the Right Sector are carrying guns, which they used for killing people, and thermopads, which snipers usually lie on. Besides, in support of Yakimenko’s words, Russia-1 shows Andriy Parubiy, who keeps an eye on the “withdrawal”.



In fact, all these statements are faked. Firstly, here is how the Kyiv Philharmonic looks like:



Secondly, it is situated far and quite aside from the place, where people were being murdered by the sniper’s shots. Besides, there are lots of very high buildings between the Philharmonic and Institutska Street, there is no line-of-site there.



As for the men, who are said to go out from the “Philharmonic building” after shooting at Maidan supporters, they indeed are the members of the Right Sector, however they are going out not from the Philharmonic building, but from the “Dnipro” hotel, which for some time was a headquarter of the Kyiv branch of this organization. Moreover, they were going from there in the end of March, long after the day of shooting on Maidan:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijS_ZNTWivc

Some people claim that Yakimenko made a mistake in his interview, that in fact he meant not the Philharmonic building, but the Conservatory one, which is situated on Maidan. However, even this supposition doesn’t stand up to scrutiny. There is no line-of-site from the Conservatory, the high building of “Ukraine” hotel stands in a way. This can be seen even on the map used by Russia-1 in its news item:



If you try to look at the Conservatory from the place, where activists were shot, you will see the following:



Therefore, the shots can’t be fired neither from the roof of the Conservatory.

But this is not the end. In this news item Russian-1 mentions again leaked phone conversation between Estonian Foreign Minister Urmas Paet and Catherine Ashton, the High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs, when Paet allegedly claimed, that people were killed by snipers, acting in favor of the then opposition. In fact, Paet did not say this, he only retell Ashton the version, which he heard from others.

Stopfake has already written about this. http://www.stopfake.org/urmas-paet-ne-podtverzhdal-chto-snajpery-byli-nanyaty-liderami-majdana/

We remind that Russian First channel has recently produced totally faked news item, showing how Ukrainian authorities cut all the trees on Institutska Street in order to conceal evidence of the directions of snipers’ shots. You can watch a detailed exposure of this news item in our 7th videodigest. https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=VG49hwgFA1Q

http://www.stopfake.org/en/russian-mass-media-produced-the-next-dose-of-fakes-about-snipers-on-maidan/

[Pagan]

lol, CNN vs. Russia Today. Кaк тoлькo нaчинaютcя coбытия - cpaзy пpиeзжaeт CNN. Кaк тoлькo пpиeзжaeт Russia Today - cpaзy нaчинaютcя coбытия.

[Pagan]

Remember her?She was "AntiMaidan activist”?“Soldiers mom"?Now she organizes fake referendum http://www.unian.ua/politics/917128-soldatska-mati-z-kieva-organizuvala-luganskiy-referendum-u-moskvi-zmi.html#ad-image-0 …



^ ruSSian actors from burned circus 

[Pagan]

“We will not let Putin spit into our soul” – full interview with Mykola Volynko, Head of the Trade Union of Donbas Miners

An interview with Mykola Volynko, Head of the Trade Union of Donbas Miners



For a second week, the Donetsk region has been shaken by an armed revolt, whose participants demand that Kyiv hold a referendum about the future of the region. The anti-terrorist operation mounted by the central government failed, the negotiations by the governor of the Donetsk region Serhiy Taruta did not manage to produce any results either. In the Donbas town of Sloviansk which was seized by the “people’s militia” there is regular shooting, and the “people’s mayor” there has again asked Putin to send  peacekeeping troops to the region.

Up to now, the miners, with whom many associate Donbas, have not spoken out. In an April 22, 2014 interview for “Moscow Echo,” the head of the Independent Trade Union of Donbas Miners Mykola Volynko explains to journalist Ilya Azar why he is for a unified Ukraine, why he supports the ‘banderites’ and why Putin should to stay away and deal with Russia’s problems instead.

- So do you think that Ukraine is losing Donbas?

No, Ukraine will not lose Donbas; people do not want this to happen. Although it might seem like it from the outside. Especially from the side shown by the Russian media. I ask you: Do we have an uprising? Do we have a lot of blood on the streets? Barricades? Have you been on the streets? Is it the case?

- Not here, but it is the case in Sloviansk.

Well, in Sloviansk… This is all happening with the “help” of the local authorities and local law enforcement agencies and because of the indecisiveness of the central government. If you look at it, the army has been falling apart for years, not just the last few months, the police and the Security Services were being corrupted for years, the local government represented by the Party of Regions and their jackasses from the Communist Party were robbing the region since 1991, again and again. All those who disagreed either disappeared or left, and some were bribed. So there you go.

I would like to ask you! Why does Putin need this headache – Donbas? Why doesn’t he  sort out what is happening in the Krasnodar region? You know that Krasnodar is already unofficially called ‘New Yerevan.” My father is from Krasnodar, and my soul aches seeing the things which are happening there. Why does he meddle with us? Why does he not sort out his own mess?

- ‘New Yerevan’ because there are many people from the Caucasus there?

Of course! Why do the Kuban Cossacks remain silent and tolerate this humiliation and outrage? We, the people of Ukraine, stood up because we were sick of the outrage.

- You were suffering in silence for a long time. No one stood up in Donbas until Yanukovych was toppled in Kyiv.

Yes?? Do you know how many members of our Union and the Independent Union of the Miners of Ukraine were on Maidan (Independnece Square in Kyiv)? Do you? There were many of us!

- How many?

Many, get it? Many. And they were constantly rotating, rotating, rotating. That’s why Putin can’t manage to execute his plan here in one go. The resistance is increasing. If the central government is afraid to arm the people and the separatists are armed, one day people will not pay attention to the central government and will wipe them out [separatists].

- Do you think weapons should be given to people? It looks like a civil war now.

And who is pushing the people towards a civil war? Who? Guys, why did you come here? I ask Putin: “Why did you come here? You have a mess in Russia. Russia is not just Moscow or St. Petersburg. First improve the life of the people in the provinces.”

- Putin maintains that there are no Russian troops in Ukraine.

No troops? Does he think that he will be believed as was the case with Crimea? What other army has AK-100’s?

- None.

Only Special Forces of the Russian people’s liberation army? Russian liberation army?

I respect Russians, but I do not like it when someone comes to my home and tells me what to do. Putin is creating a falling-out between our people, do you understand? Yanukovych united all of Ukraine [against him] and Putin by his actions united the whole world against himself. But it’s the ordinary people who suffer. Putin imagines himself like the Almighty, but he offends God by this.

You know, at one point, they were painting icons with Yanukovych’s face on them. The painted icon in Luhansk began to rot, and this is a bad sign. As far as I know, Putin is also a saint on an icon and this is also a bad sign. I hope that Russians will realize that it is not possible to live like this. I do not agitate them, but they must understand, that they can’t come barging into a neighboring place as if it were their own.

- Actually, the popularity of Putin has increased since the annexation of Crimea.

Really? The lack of information leads to gossip and rumors. Any rating can be made up, especially in your country (Russia). If you like living like this, great. I am just saying: do not come to our country. Putin has spoken about us, miners, with such disdain!  (1)

Who speaks like that? A man? A statesman? Or a Khan? You know, in Russian the words Khan and ‘kham’ (cad) rhyme, and they are not too far apart in meaning. Right? He thinks that we will tolerate his spitting into our soul? Nooo.

- What will you do?

We? Why would I tell you now? You will see with time.

- For now it seems like there is no response to the separatists.

No response? Despite everything there is already a guerrilla struggle. While the central government is sitting on the fence the people are resisting.

- What do you think about Tymoshenko, who came to Donetsk and announced the formation of the people’s militia brigades?

Only recently she was saying that we need to have peaceful negotiations. I think one thing: it would be better if she continued to focus on her convalescence. I suggest that she first look around, and then talk.

- The anti-terrorist operation in Donbas started and ended in a very strange manner, it looked almost like a setup.

Yes. But good for the guys [servicemen] in Mariupol, who opened fire [on those who were attacking the military unit]. There is a charter, there is law, and they must be followed, especially considering that only Nazi SS and punitive forces used to put children and women in front, in harm’s way.

- What to do with them, by the way? When the ordinary peaceful residents surround the military vehicles, you won’t run over them.

“Ordinary”? We have already seen who they are. They say that they are unemployed but at the same time they wear expensive gear, carry photo cameras and drive their cars around everywhere.

Let the appropriate authorities deal with them. There, [in Kramatorsk] a brave soldier snatched the check from a grenade (threatened to blow up the crowd] and all [peaceful citizens] ran away. That’s the way to deal with them.

- The rally for “Unified Ukraine” on April 17 was the first one in Donetsk since March, people were too afraid before then.

Not to worry. This is only the beginning, you see. There is an information war and unfortunately Ukraine is losing at it. For now. For now. I was at the market yesterday and people were already complaining because the roads to Kharkiv are closed and they need to bring the goods for sale from there. People are already complaining.

- Closed by whom?

By Putin, by the separatists. Not by the central government.

- But you won’t deny that many people here are not happy with Kyiv?

We will always be unhappy with everyone. This is human nature; we hate those who are in power, no matter how good they are.

- Everyone talks about ‘banderites,’ that everything bad comes from them.

The Secretary of the town council of Donetsk, who unofficially leads the separatist movement, announced to everyone  that 700 people from Right Sector are coming here and we must meet them head on. They looked for them and where are they? A few days ago someone runs into the mine shouting: “Right Sector is here, they are holding a rally!” They all run to look for the rally and no one checks that it is 7:00 a.m. Psychosis.

“Who are these ‘banderites’?” I ask everyone, “Who are they? What did they fight for?” They fought for their people, for their country and for their language. There were many Russians, Tatars and Jews among the ‘banderites.’ They fought against the Communist regime.

- This opinion is not very popular here. If you walk in Sloviansk, a girl walking with a dog checks whether you are a Russian and says: “Good thing you are not a ‘banderite’ – I would shoot them from a machine gun”.

You know, I had a conversation in the mine. One guy says: “I would shoot those ‘banderites.’ I answer: “No problem [in Ukrainian]. Start with me.” “Only bear in mind,” I say, “when you start to shoot you will be shot at. What have they done to you, have they taken anything from you? Don’t they let you breathe?” Lack of  information leads to gossip and rumors.

- So why have you not managed to explain this to people in the last 23 years?

For the last 23 years the communists, who re-painted themselves as democrats, ruled in Donbas. That is why we now demand lustration; this law is so badly needed. Every official must go through lustration. Especially because Yanukovych revived the institution  of snoops by an unofficial order when he became a president. Legal paid spies.

All these 23 years the communist propaganda remained.

How many languages do you know?

Two: Russian and English. I tell my grandchildren that they must know, at minimum, three: Ukrainian as a state language, Russian as a conversational language of brother Slavs and then English. It used to be shameful in Donbas if you didn’t know Ukrainian.

A few days ago they read out a document in Ukrainian and one [miner] shouted: “Translate, I don’t understand.” I asked: “How many years have you lived here?” He answered: “I was born here but I do not want to accept this language.” “Do not want? Then: suitcase – train station – Russia. How can you live here and not know the Ukrainian language?” I served in the army in Turkmenistan and after two years I was able to speak in Turkmen.

- You do not support the demand to make Russian the second state language?

Then why didn’t the communists change the Constitution and why didn’t they make Russian a state language? They pull this out every time before the elections [and then forget about it]. I’m sick of this Russian language problem! I’m speaking Russian to you. Has anyone attacked you here because you speak Russian?

- Not really. I would say I have a greater chance to be attacked for speaking Ukrainian here.

Exactly. It is Ukrainian language that needs protection here. It is very bad that they incited Russians and Ukrainians against each other. Next it might be “catch Jews!” Yes? Yes. Instead of living in peace, they incite.

- Many quote anti-Russian statements of [members of the national party Svoboda] Oleg Tyahnybok and Iryna Farion.

Listen. I often meet thisTyahnibok and I speak Russian, he speaks Ukrainian and we understand each other perfectly. Farion is not worth mentioning, it is her problem. My mother, God rest her soul, is from Ivano-Frankivsk. I go there, I speak Russian in the beginning and then don’t even notice how I gradually start speaking Ukrainian. If Russian will become a state language, will that change anything?

- No one will be worse off?

But why?

- And why not?

Why doesn’t Russia give other languages the status of the state language?

- Because there is no such obvious two languages separation in Russia.

Really? How many Tatars do you have? What, only one or two?

- Well, not half.

Really? Many! Give a second language to the Turkic peoples.

- Why do you always look at Russia? Let’s have a look at Switzerland, for example…

Guys, why do you meddle with our business? Your Lavrov tells us how we should re-write our Constitution. “[Change to] federalisation!” No one has got a clue as to what is a federative state. If you look at Germany, they united the country on the basis of federation, but here federation means to get away. I don’t want this. I want to live in peace.

- You do not live in peace now

All in its time

- By the situation is only getting worse.

Who told you?!

- Have you been in Sloviansk recently?

Is Sloviansk an indication of the whole of Ukraine? What is good in Sloviansk? There it is only worse and worse.

- Yes, that’s what I am talking about, there is nothing good there!

But why? Taxpayers who did not want to be robbed anymore came out on Maidan. Now in Sloviansk separatists want to separate. No problem guys, let’s have a referendum without guns. But if you lose the referendum, what are you going to do?

- But Kyiv refuses to hold the referendum!

It does not refuse. There is simply no law to authorize holding one.

- A law could be passed.

Why? Who needs it? Putin?! Why do you tell us how to live?

- Why not prove that you are right by holding a referendum?

Why are you so fixed on this referendum? Well?

- Because many people in Donetsk  are fixed on it.

If they want to live in Russia, let them go there. The majority does not want to live in Russia. By the way, interesting, where have they all came from, with weapons? When we were at rallies, we did not have weapons. And here suddenly it’s “I want a referendum” and people with AK-100’s start showing up.

- Many of those with weapons are locals.

OK, but why should the minority dictate its will to the majority?

- How will you prove that they are the minority?

Why prove? If they were the majority, Donbas would be separate by now. Everything is stupidly simple, Vova Putin would give lots of weapons and they would separate.

- Is it not what is happening now?

No, not happening yet.

- Vova Putin gives weapons, a few towns are seized, and they hold a referendum.

It is their problem. We had a “registration of Jews” announced.

- It is fake! Even the Rabbi of the Donetsk regions admitted it.

I don’t know whether it is a fake or a “make”. Suppose it is true? I won’t be surprised.

- So you think there are no people in Donbas who truly want to separate from Ukraine?

And never were. There is nostalgia for the Soviet Union among many older people. Back then we were young and nothing ached and squeaked, so we remember those years because it was nice to be young.

- Well, not just that. They also say that the pensions are low, and in Russia they are higher.

Then I have a question for the Russian people: “Do you need such freeloaders, who did not pay a penny into the Russian pension fund, but want to have the same pension as yours? Do you need them?” These are dreams of freeloaders; only proletarians count money in someone else’s pocket. What did you do to have such a pension?

- Some also say that Donbas feeds all of Ukraine, and as soon as they stop paying taxes to Kyiv, they will start to live better.

What?? (chuckles) Are they out of their minds? I suggest you count up how much we are paying and how much we are being paid. We are being fed by Kharkiv, Poltava and Dnipropetrovsk oblasts. They are the givers and we are the takers. The two most depressed oblasts of Ukraine are the Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts. On a subconscious level there is a belief that we are feeding someone. How many mines were there once, and how many have been closed? Whom are they feeding if they are subsidized from the state budget?

We are a subsidized industry, so whom are we feeding? It’s the same information campaign that has gone on since the Soviet times, when we were constantly told that we are the cleverest, the most beautiful, that we are feeding everyone. I myself read in 1989 that we are the breadwinners, but then I looked into it and understood that it is not the case.

- So if everything is so bad, maybe it will better in Russia, where there is more money?

Run where? We know what Rostov region mines are like now, we know. We are members of the international independent miners trade union. The Rostov region does not have an organization because the mines are CLOSED. So will Putin feed us out of his generosity?

- So much time has passed and the miners did not come out to any rallies.

And they won’t! And now, thanks to that Putin speech, they are all the more reluctant to go to him.

- Ok, then against him?

All in time, you see.

On whose side do you think the local authorities are?

They are on your team. (Russia)

- The local authorities in Donetsk have even named a square “In memory of killed Berkut fighters…”

You know, everyone has quickly forgotten how much they all hated the police before March 1. Police raped a miner here with a truncheon and everyone was outraged. After the events in Vradiivka (2) last summer, everyone hated the police. And now Berkut are heroes. Nice. All in time, this propaganda will pass and life will become normal.

- What do you think is the difference between the seizures of the administration  buildings in Donetsk and those in the Western Ukraine and Kyiv earlier?

You know what? There they did not ask Poland or USA to help and did not call for foreign troops to invade. And here these guys have seized the buildings and shout: “Vova Putin, send your troops here!” Do you want a better life or do you want to call an occupation army? This is a very, very big difference.

- What is more likely: that the presidential elections will be held in Donbas on May  25 or that on May 9 Russia will invade?

Won’t Putin suffer too much from heartburn? I hope that the people of Ukraine won’t let Putin do this.

- So people in Crimea are completely different then, not like people in Donbas, since they have accepted it?

OK, so how about if I let you vote but I stand over you with an automatic weapon? The Crimean Tatars were promised all sorts of privileges in the new Constitution and got nothing! The local authorities were promised that they wouldn’t be replaced, but they were!

Here is my favorite joke. Sarah asks Abraham: “Why aren’t you sleeping?” Abraham answers: “I owe Moishe a tenner, so I need to pay it back and can’t sleep because of it.” Sarah knocks on the wall: “Moishe, has Abraham borrowed a tenner from you?” “Yes.” “Well, he won’t pay it back,”, says Sarah and turns back to Abraham: “Sleep Abraham, let Moishe lose his sleep now.” So you took Crimea, and now it’s your headache. However, here, in Donbas, we won’t let you do the same.

Ilya Azar (Donetsk). Eho Moskvy

This record is also available in:Russian

Source: http://inforesist.org/head-of-the-trade-union-of-donbas-miners-we-will-not-swallow-putins-spit-into-out-soul/?lang=en, edited by Kalyna 14

[Pagan]

ruSSian agent “Strelkov” asks Kremlin for help in Slovyansk



Igor Hirkin (aka “Strelkov”), an employee of the Main Intelligence Directorate of Russia,  has proclaimed himself Commander-in-Chief of the “Donetsk People’s Republic” and has appealed to Russia for military assistance. The text of his “first decree” in the form of leaflets is being distributed in Slovyansk and Kramatorsk, reports Ukrainska Pravda, citing Novosty Donbasu, May 12.

“Given the urgency of the situation in the country, the genocide of the Donetsk population unleashed by the junta in Kyiv and the threats of intervention by NATO, I appeal to the Russian Federation to provide military assistance to the Dnipropetrovsk People’s Republic (DPR),” he stated.

Strelkov also declared he was bringing under his direction as “commander in chief of the DPR ” all permanently stationed military units, police, security services, customs, border guards, prosecutors and also other paramilitary formations.”

“Commanders will now carry out only my orders and instructions,” he announced.
In addition, he openly declared war on Ukrainian law enforcement, asking Russia to introduce on the territory of the DPR the “regime of counter-terrorist operation,” using the common Russian term for similar operations.

“As part of the counter-terrorist operation, all fighters in Ukrainian neo-Nazi groups (the so-called National Guard, the Right Sector, Lyashko battalion, and so on) are subject to detention, and in the case of armed resistance, will be destroyed on the spot,” Strelkov announced.

“Law enforcement of the republic will be given the means to prosecute the leaders of the Kyiv junta and other persons involved in the instigation, organization, and implementation of mass murder on the territory of the DNP: I. Kolomoysky, P. Nalyvaychenko, A Parubiy, A Avakov, Yu. Tymoshenko, A Turchynov, A. Yatseniuk, O. Lyashko, A Artemenko, as well as U.S. citizens John Brennan, Victoria Nuland, Jen Psaki,” he continued.

He also said the presence of “all soldiers and officers of the armed forces, internal security forces, the Security Service of Ukraine, Ministry of Internal Services on NTP territory from now will be considered illegal.”

Strelkov demanded that within 48 hours all such soldiers swear allegiance to the DPR or leave its territory.

“Everyone who comes over to the DPR command of DPR will be guaranteed the preservation of military and special ranks, salaries and social benefits (assuming they have not been involved in grave of especially grave crimes)”, Strelkov declared.

As Ukrainska Pravda reported earlier, citing the publication OstroV, May 12, the former self-proclaimed leaders of the DPR actually have been suspended by a certain Serhiy Zdrylyukov, who calls himself the “right hand” of Igor Strelkov (Hirkin).

According to a source at NPR cited by OstroV, right after the “referendum,” the “representative” of Igor Strelkov (Hirkin) forcibly removed from “power” the previous leaders.

“On Sunday there was a coup. Purgin, Lyagin and Makovych were removed from decision-making by a group of people led by a man who presented himself of the assistant of Strelkov” from Slovyansk,” the source reported.

According to this source, Roman Lyagin, who was responsible for counting the votes, was forced to announce the results of the “referendum” immediately. Earlier, the representatives of the separatist leadership themselves admitted that “was has been achieved in Slovyansk would have been impossible without Igor Strelkov.

As previously reported, the Security Service of Ukraine has determined that “Strelkov” is a colonel in the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Russian Federation, whose real name is Igor Hirkin.

Sources:

http://www.pravda.com.ua/news/2014/05/12/7025115/

http://www.pravda.com.ua/news/2014/05/12/7025046/

[Pagan]

The ‘Criminal Spring’ In Ukraine’s East



Any serious social disruption is inevitably followed with a wave of crime. Usual social rules and standards weaken, the state loses its privilege on using coercion, authority of the ‘man with the gun’ takes over, large amounts of weapons come into uncontrolled distribution. Such a condition is known as ‘anomy’ in sociology. Currently, Luhansk Oblast is moving towards anomy in quantum leaps, as power-wielding structures are paralyzed while paramilitary armed groups become more and more active.

Luhansk Oblast has actually never been safe regarding crime rates; moreover, it holds its position in the first five regions leading in numbers of committed crimes. Criminal traditions are in general quite strong at Donbas because this industrial region had served as a shelter for different dropouts. Some of them have socialized while being involved in industrial development; others have continued with their usual business. Donbas reality in fact has offered two lifestyles: either hard work at factories and coalmines, or live the fun and easy life of a criminal woith the final destination in prison. When a major part of the male population has a criminal record, prison ethics start to affect society very seriously. Gangsters turn into heroes that resist the life of the middlebrows. This is a repeat of the ‘‘turbulent 90s’ in the Donbas region. Actually, even former president Yanukovich’s bio with his two prison terms did not seem repelling to Donbas – they accepted him as ‘one of us’.

Any experiments on destabilization will bear sad results on this social background. After pro-Russian gunmen had seized the Luhansk SBU building on April 6 and got access to weapons it became clear that the city should get ready for the advancing crime wave. In fact, due to their random nature, it is very hard for any paramilitary groups to maintain discipline among their ranks. Besides, weapons quite often come into hands of criminals who use the situation to search for ‘easy game’.

After Luhansk had been seized by separatists, crime reports started flowing in about cars ‘confiscated’ from government employees and citizens. The ‘rebels’ also seized cars from the Oblast administration garage. A cash transit car with about 1,000,000 UAH was hijacked by strangers in Stanychno-Luhanskiy district. There were reports of robberies and rapes, beatings and shootings following household conflicts (for example, masked people shot at fishermen for unknown reasons).

There are constant reports of kidnappings. Jewelry shops have been robbed both in Krasnodon and Krasnyi Luch. There have been cross-fires in the streets. A man and woman were shot dead by gunmen at Dolzhansky checkpoint and their 10-year old daughter had been badly injured. A real criminal revolution had started. There is no need to discuss which of these deeds were committed by fighters of so-called ‘Southeast Army’ and which by criminals taking advantage of the situation of total disorder. Both are illegal violence bearers and both should receive legal punishment.

The police have proved their total disability in this situation. The law enforcement bodies in Luhansk Oblast can only state obvious facts of outrages that have taken place. Due to intricate political games as a result of which the Luhansk police had at least straddled the fence, if not expressed loyalty to separatist riots, had finally opened such a can of worms that it will be hard to localize the conflict for a very long time to come. Former Deputy Governor Eduard Lozovsky’s subsequently famous words addressed to the Euromaidan protesters that bandits should be treated the way that Zhukov treated them in 1946 (meaning they should be shot down) turnder out to be prophetic not for Kyiv where the revolutionary wave calmed quite soon, but for Luhansk facing a rapid growth of crime.

However, the main problem lies in the ‘controlled chaos’ observed in Luhansk. Criminal outrages demoralize local citizens who could stop ‘the Crimea scenario’ in Donbass. As Kyiv International Institute for Sociology’s survey has shown, most of Luhansk citizens (51.9%) had supported Ukraine’s territorial unity in April. However, a major part of them (43.2%) would prefer not to take an active part in any political actions. The same survey has shown that the criminal outrages are what Luhansk citizens fear most. The criminal chaos results in ordinary people not feeling safe even at home because even there they can be attacked by gangsters any moment. In this case, the Luhansk average citizen, scared to death, is willing to regain order at any price. And if Ukrainian authorities are unwilling to do this, let the Russian militaries interfere.

At the same time, city is cleaned up of any peaceful social activities, removing the opportunity for  social dialogue. No political or civil activist in their right mind will going to lead people under gunfire. This creates the needed propaganda picture, in which there are purportedly no pro-Ukrainian peaceful demonstrations in Luhansk and all the citizens want to join Russia (because only pro-Russian supporters feel safe to gather at meetings), with the malicious Right Sector ready to strike from any corner from some imaginary hiding-place, giving reason for leagues of armed people to cruise streets and seize administrative buildings ‘in defense’.

This picture can suit both the Russian propaganda market and the Ukrainian audience as well, as more people start to think that most of the people in Luhansk want to join Russia or to at least break away from Ukraine. This is a very easy and widely used technology. Let’s recall the October revolution in Russia, where the Bolshevist dictatorship was predecessed with a bloody chaos of criminal outbursts inspired by Bolshevists themselves. It actually did away with the remains of the old order and created a basis for new loyalty. “If not our rule, then gangs and bashings will come”.

Only powerful state politics combining diplomatic methods with tough actions can counter with this process. The time for volunteers, self-defense troops, and other people of good will is over. The situation has gone too far and now only professionals should interfere. Provided that they are given proper objectives and we haven’t been totally betrayed based on deals that we will never know about.

Translated by Irina Kostyshina, edited by Alya Shandra

http://v-variant.lg.ua/articles/76076-kriminalnaya-vesna.html

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In a week from now it will be 70 years ago that the Crimean tatar people was forcibly deported from the Crimea by Iosif Stalin for alleged collaboration with the Nazis. One of those deported is their current leader, Mustafa Cemilev. He served 17 years in camps for fighting for the return of his people.

Even though they were rehabilitated, it lasted until the last years of the Soviet Union that the Crimean Tatars were allowed to return to their homeland. Now they are again under threat. Cemilev has been banned from the Crimea, their parliament the Meclis is under threat of being banned because of "extremism". Thousands of Crimean tatars have been forced to flee to mainland Ukraine, and persecution of Crimean tatar activists has become a daily occurrence.

To make things even worse the authorities now refuse to allow a commemorative meeting on May 18, the day of deportation.

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