NEWSLETTER #71. 7 - 13 April 2015
CIVIC SECTOR OF EUROMAIDAN GRASSROOTS MOVEMENT EuroMaidan Newsletter # 71 Ukrainian Parliament Bans Communist, Nazi Propaganda Moscow wants Crimean Tatars to forget their history Apr 13. The 'Normandy Four' met in Berlin for talks on the fragile east Ukraine ceasefire. The EU is threatening further sanctions against Russia if it does not fulfil peace deal. http://24today.net/open/376094 Ukrainian Parliament Bans Communist, Nazi Propaganda. http://goo.gl/5hgbRY; Summary of Ukraine’s four new de-communization bills. http://goo.gl/RLyrQb “Public access to the archives of the special services is an important decision intended to ensure the past will not be repeated. Now Ukraine wants to go along this path,” but “in Russia in contrast, hopes for such a decision were forgotten and buried long ago.” http://goo.gl/UHHXuc Amnesty International says "shocking new evidence" shows pro-Russian militants in eastern Ukraine have killed execution-style soldiers in their captivity. http://goo.gl/mJN0Z2 Far-Right Leader Named Ukrainian Military Adviser.
http://goo.gl/DwfI1L Ukrainian authorities say they have detained more than 40 alleged members of a terror group in the Black Sea port city of Odesa. http://goo.gl/Y9rMpR Murders of EuroMaidan reconstructed in a video timeline (VIDEO). http://goo.gl/ZzHGev Moscow wants Crimean Tatars to forget their history; Kyiv wants all Ukrainians to remember it. http://goo.gl/QSd5AA A recent Russian news broadcast added an entirely fictitious phrase supposedly spoken by Ukraine’s President in the latest of countless attempts to push the Kremlin line about alleged discrimination of Russianspeakers. Fiction is needed since reality is not on Moscow’s side. A survey, for example, has found only 19% support for Russian becoming a State language. http://goo.gl/ARh4XT
Left: Children at war. Dreams - Alina: “Return back home, that’s obvious. I don’t want anything else.” http://goo.gl/8ehA5W Right: Internally displaced schoolgirl has invented device to prevent the enemy finding Ukraine’s soldiers’ dugouts (Rus) http://goo.gl/HdVPjj
Moscow can’t afford having Ukraine war become a frozen conflict Why the war in Ukraine is not a Cold War The western world will soon witness a further escalation of Russia’s crusade with the western world. The Ukrainian military and some NATO and US military experts have tried to warn the West and urged political and economic responses, such as freezing Russian assets. http://goo.gl/8Cu1Tb Putin’s Chilling Message to the West - Ariel Cohen. http://goo.gl/iqa709 Russian military analyst: New Russian attack on Ukraine
likely as a frozen conflict threatens Putin’s goals and interests. http://goo.gl/GNxp7a Analyst: Moscow can’t afford having Ukraine war become a frozen conflict. http://goo.gl/pEVbMF Russians laugh at any suggestion that the Ukrainian people came out to the Maidan to make history and insist that they were driven there by American political technologists, a reflection of the fundamental contrast between their country and that of the Ukrainians. http://goo.gl/zV53nq
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The coming battle of Shyrokyne – escalation is looming More Russian troops and weapons enter east Ukraine war zone Apr 12. Upon arrival at the “DPR”-controlled Donetsk railway station (8km outside of Donetsk city centre), the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission (SMM) witnessed heavy fighting between “DPR” and Ukrainian Armed Forces in areas near the city visible from their location. http://goo.gl/rIJ9Gd Apr 12. Ukrainian forces faced 20 attacks by Kremlin-led militants in 48 hours and spotted 30 enemy drones probing their positions. http://goo.gl/JDqSnZ Apr 12. Spot report by the SMM to Ukraine: Renewed Intensive Fighting in the Shyrokyne Area, Donetsk Oblast. http://goo.gl/zoAoKY Apr 8. OSCE monitors have come under fire by Kremlin-backed separatist forces in Shyrokyne, casting more doubt about the durability of the ceasefire reached in February. http://goo.gl/u4Ps0T Apr 7. Explosion In Ukraine's Kharkiv Targets National Flag Memorial. http://goo.gl/LeZf0t Markiyan Lubkivsky, an advisor to the head of the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU), said about 400
more Ukrainian prisoners of war are being held by militants in the Russian-occupied territory of Ukraine. http://goo.gl/tzOt5T While the front between Ukrainian and Russian troops has seemed quite stable during the last few weeks, there are several solid indications that there will be escalation in the coming weeks with one main hot spot seeming to be the area East of the coastal hub Mariupol, namely the village of Shyrokyne. http://goo.gl/TGXi9f Ukraine’s intelligence discovers training center for foreign militants near Horlivka. http://goo.gl/TEQSRT Ukraine will treat introduction of Russian 'peacekeepers' as act of aggression. http://24today.net/open/375768 SHCHASTYA, Ukraine -- The welcome sign at the entrance of Shchastya, a small town in eastern Ukraine, now reads like a cruel joke. "Happiness Begins Here," says the stone marker, a decrepit blueand-yellow affair pockmarked by bullets. http://goo.gl/ZYqYfl
Latest war statistics from Ukraine. http://goo.gl/cxgqSx
The ‘Donetsk people’s republic’ prohibits meetings and rallies .
“The ‘Donetsk people’s republic’ has adopted a law prohibiting meetings and rallies. http://goo.gl/XV5Med Letters From Donbas: 'Everything's Been Looted And
Destroyed'. http://goo.gl/9iCoaE Kremlin's separatists launch psychological warfare on Donbas residents. http://goo.gl/wfptxD
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Ukrainian government takes more steps towards transparency Inflation spikes in Ukraine The Standard & Poors (S&P) rating agency has downgraded Ukraine's credit rating to CC, a notch lower than the previous CCC- level, and says the outlook is negative. http://goo.gl/yYhLZl New figures show that inflation in Ukraine during the first quarter of this year increased 20.3 percent compared to the January-March period in 2014, and that last month alone it rose by 45.8 percent. http://goo.gl/7J8W3V Ukrainian government takes more steps towards transparency. http://goo.gl/JrBWPP
Ukraine's former chief government financial inspector has accused Prime Minister Arseniy Yatenyuk and his entire Cabinet of having knowledge of embezzlement schemes at state-owned companies that have caused at least Hr 3.5 billion (nearly $150 million) in damages to the state under their watch. http://goo.gl/a7fNbI During a televised presentation on April 7, President Petro Poroshenko signed a law which should hopefully make public broadcasting a reality in Ukraine, and the First National TV Channel [UTV-1] proved the point by switching to the new public broadcaster logo. http://goo.gl/0x4C0r
Left: Protester holds sign: "The voice of freedom - ATR - will not be strangled!" Russian occupiers close 11 of 12 Crimean Tatar media outlets and 2,700 of 3,000 others. http://goo.gl/YCNr48 Right: Kyiv city council launches open online vote for projects commemorating Heaven’s Hundred. http://goo.gl/cO8y1n
Imprisoned Crimean Activist takes Russia to Strasbourg over forced citizenship Russia proposes “Day of Joy” instead of Crimean Tatar Deportation Anniversary The Russian Occupation Regime in Crimea proposes a “Day of Joy” to replace the Crimean Tatar Deportation Anniversary. http://goo.gl/GcCSX5 Oleg Sentsov and Oleksandr Kolchenko are facing likely 20-year sentences for refusing to confess to charges which are both politically motivated and absurd. Kolchenko is accused of throwing a Molotov cocktail into an empty United Russia party office which the FSB call a ‘terrorist act seeking Crimea’s ‘secession’ from Russia’. http://goo.gl/1lJsSo Sentsov: “20-year sentence predetermined, but your regime will end sooner”. http://goo.gl/2tbQ7O Putin conducting ‘hybrid genocide’ against Crimean Tatars, Muzhdabayev says. http://goo.gl/5JN28y
Crimean counter-extremism police search home of exATR cameraman. http://goo.gl/QB5s6p The Ukrainian Center of the International PEN strongly protests against the rising tide of political repression in the Russian-annexed Crimea that encroaches upon basic rights and freedoms including those of speech, opinion, and access to information. http://goo.gl/eMt6OY Crimean police now target imprisoned Maidan activist’s family. http://goo.gl/5SQYEJ Tatyana Guchakova, former deputy chief editor of Black Sea News, has been taken away by FSB officers in Yalta after a 10-hour search of her home. http://goo.gl/Zw7a3V Imprisoned Crimean activist takes Russia to Strasbourg over forced citizenship. http://goo.gl/kLOulY
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Left: Dutch lawyer about “Scythian treasures” trial: Ukraine has a very strong case. http://goo.gl/c5S2Yb Right: Apr.12 Celebrating Easter on frontlines in eastern Ukraine (Video) http://goo.gl/pZIhm5
Violinist Gidon Kremer dedicates Hong Kong encore to Ukraine Ukrainian Spring Cultural Festival underway in Paris As Ukraine celebrates French Spring, the Ukrainian Spring Cultural Festival is underway in Paris. http://goo.gl/8km2D9 A schoolgirl from Ternopil has invented a device that can shoot down enemy drones from the distance of 200 m. (Ukr) http://goo.gl/J2O1Dd Gidon Kremer, considered one of the greatest living violinists, surprised the sell-out crowd at the Cultural Centre Concert Hall on Thursday with an encore dedicated to Ukraine. The situation between Russia and Ukraine can't leave anyone indifferent, says former Soviet artist. http://24today.net/open/375810;
http://goo.gl/GzsIaF We are witnessing the 3rd Russo-Ukrainian war. The first began in December 1917 and ended in 1925 when the CHEKA reported no more serious Ukrainian partisan resistance. The second began in 1944 and ended in 1950 when the UPA was no longer a cohesive fighting force. The third began in March 2014 when Russian snipers killed two Ukrainian soldiers in Simferopol. http://goo.gl/exMHRm Russia and the Russian nation owe their existence to the Mongols, Kalmyk émigré Eurasianist argues. http://goo.gl/4bF4x6
Христос воскрес! Happy Easter! Pysanka (Easter egg) festivals in different cities around Ukraine (photos) http://goo.gl/5IW95Y
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