Posted on 03/27/2014 2:09:30 PM PDT by tcrlaf
Over 1,500 nationalists from the Right Sector have circled Ukrainian parliament in Kiev threatening to storm it on Thursday. They demanded the resignation of the interior minister after their leader Muzychko was killed in a police operation.
Up to 2,000 members of the Right Sector, which recently was revamped into a political party, flooded the square in front of Verkhovna Rada in the Ukrainian capital on Thursday night. The radicals, who brought car tires to burn with them, were banging on the Parliament’s doors, smashing the glass parts in them.
Wearing masks and brandishing bats, they were shouting "Avakov, get out!"
The parliament building was empty except for guards, some administrative staff and reporters. All the MPs had earlier left the building through an underground tunnel, RIA Novosti reported.
The protesters were threatening to break into the parliament if their demands were not met, journalists reported from the scene. The Rada’s security in the meantime concentrated in front of the entrance to the building and prepared water cannons, urging the journalists inside not to approach the windows looking onto Constitution Square.
Several hours into the standoff activists announced the rally was over for tonight as they decided not to storm the building just yet, but reconvene tomorrow.
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A goon who stole from his own Treasury, tried to rewrite his Constitution, showered his friends with cash, and operated with blatant disregard for the law.
And I think most damningly he allowed the Ukrainian army to be striped down bare ass naked with the russian bear next door. There was a report a few days ago that the army could not mobilize because they lacked vehicle batteries!
~And I think most damningly he allowed the Ukrainian army to be striped down bare ass naked with the russian bear next door. There was a report a few days ago that the army could not mobilize because they lacked vehicle batteries!~
Yes, sure.... He was drinking baby blood too. Do you really want to blame their later president for all the troubles? Bottom line is EVERY Ukrainian administration since 1992 was corrupt to boot. You simply have no idea. Do some research who are a ‘gas princess’ Timoshenko, and pre-Yanukovich hero of ‘color revolution’ Yuschenko.
Timoshenko’s husband was running a video rental as she first entered office and he was one of the Europe’s richest people a few years later. Yuschenko’s son was infamous for hanging around with notorious gangsters in the open in Kiev, drugging himself to near-death and running over people in his sport cars at the time, throwing money around. Every policeman who ever tried to arrest him was fired or prosecuted.
They have stolen and sold their batteries decades ago.
That’s what I hear from friends in Ukraine also.
Where are you from?
There is another source for your reading pleasure. It quotes a Ukrainian newspaper, you can go even deeper if you read Ukrainian.
Does the same work for the BBC?
The BBC is a public service broadcaster[7] that operates under a Royal Charter[8] and a Licence and Agreement from the Home Secretary.[9] Within the United Kingdom its work is funded principally by an annual television licence fee,[10] which is charged to all British households, companies and organisations using any type of equipment to receive live television broadcasts;[11] the level of the fee is set annually by the British Government and agreed by Parliament.[12]
Disagree. Ukrainians are in general a hard working people who have struggled under corrupt governments seemingly forever
We whine about corruption here but theirs make ours look like stealing penny candy
Yes, the same applies to the BBC. But Russian thought patterns are different from those of the Brits and of ourselves (learned during Cold War 1).
I believe that governments should not be owning or controlling civilian broadcasting corporations, by the way. I disagree, for example, with government control and funding of some of our own civilian broadcasting stations.
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