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Finnish court orders Russian neo-Nazi fighter into custody, awaiting potential war crimes charges
Yahoo! News ^ | Mon, December 18, 2023 | Nate Ostiller

Posted on 12/19/2023 11:39:09 AM PST by nickcarraway

A court in Helsinki ordered the pre-trial detention of Yan Petrovsky, a Russian neo-Nazi mercenary who has fought against Ukrainian troops, as he awaits potential formal charges on war crimes he allegedly committed in Ukraine, the Finnish media outlet Helsingin Sanomat reported on Dec. 18.

Petrovsky is a co-leader of Rusich, a Russian neo-Nazi paramilitary unit that has fought against Ukraine. He is accused by Ukraine, and now Finland, of committing war crimes during the Russian invasion of Donbas that started in 2014.

Finnish authorities arrested Petrovsky in July as he tried to fly to France under the name Voislav Torden. Ukraine requested his extradition so that he could stand trial for the alleged war crimes, but a Finnish court ruled on Dec. 8 that he could not be forced to go to Ukraine because it said conditions in Ukrainian prisons do not meet standards set by the European Convention on Human Rights.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Russia
KEYWORDS: 202307; finland; nateostiller; neonazi; notsurprising; petrovsky; rusich; russianreich; russonazis; voislavtorden; yanpetrovsky
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1 posted on 12/19/2023 11:39:09 AM PST by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway

Trudeau will give the nazi an award


2 posted on 12/19/2023 11:40:42 AM PST by NWFree (Sigma male šŸ¤Ŗ)
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To: NWFree
but a Finnish court ruled on Dec. 8 that he could not be forced to go to Ukraine because it said conditions in Ukrainian prisons do not meet standards set by the European Convention on Human Rights.

I'm not sure that the one who posted this article read it all the way through.

"The Ukraine government is as bad as neo-Nazi Russians!"

3 posted on 12/19/2023 11:47:10 AM PST by kiryandil (The Biden: "Zelensky, we need to sit down and have a talk.")
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To: NWFree; JonPreston
Rusich, a Russian neo-Nazi paramilitary unit

So Russia has Nazis military units!

well, well, well ...


4 posted on 12/19/2023 11:54:31 AM PST by canuck_conservative (NATO - keeping Europe free of Russian invaders for 74 years - you're welcome!)
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To: kiryandil

Makes you wonder about how Gonzalo Lira is being treated, don’t it?


5 posted on 12/19/2023 11:55:31 AM PST by mac_truck (aide toi et dieu t'aidera)
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To: canuck_conservative

Yeah you would think the great “denazifier” Putin would take care of his own nazis first.


6 posted on 12/19/2023 11:58:01 AM PST by funwithfood
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To: nickcarraway
So, let's Ukraine was the heart of neo-Nazism in Europe when the war began. Congress stopped funding in 2018 for Azov battalion because of its neo-Nazi ties.

Nazi collaborator Stepan Bandera is treated like Ukraine's modern-day founding father. There are more 150 monuments and/or streets named after Bandera. Marches occur in Ukraine with participants holding up pictures of him.

But, you and the mainstream media want us to believe this alleged neo-Nazi is represents of Russia despite the fact no nation on earth despises Nazis more than Russia. More 27 million Russians were killed in WW II by the Nazis.

Get back to posting cute stories about animals, Nicky.

7 posted on 12/19/2023 11:59:58 AM PST by Kazan
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Why would a Nazi want to fight against other Nazis?

Well, they say that he is a mercenary.... I guess his desire for money outweighs his Nazi beliefs.


8 posted on 12/19/2023 12:03:30 PM PST by LegendHasIt
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LOL. Way back before this current mire, even going back to the 90s, there was much written about all Nazis there are in Russia Way more than in Ukraine.


9 posted on 12/19/2023 12:09:16 PM PST by nickcarraway
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To: LegendHasIt

Why wouldn’t a national socialist fight another national socialist? They’re both nationalists who advocate socialism!
If they felt some camaraderie toward each other’s socialism or politics then wouldn’t national socialists, they would be international socialists - brother Marxists, i.e. communists! Though such comradeship only exists in theory the USSR has fought the PRC (China) & the PRC has fought Vietnam.


10 posted on 12/19/2023 12:12:16 PM PST by Reily (!!)
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To: Kazan
Long before this happened, even going into the 90s, there were many articles about all the neo-Nazis in Russia. The narrative that Ukraine was Nazi and Russia was Nazi free only surfaced after Putin invaded.

What about the Chechen jihadist? How do you spin that?

11 posted on 12/19/2023 12:12:44 PM PST by nickcarraway
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To: Kazan
More 27 million Russians were killed in WW II by the Nazis.

More Russians than 27 million were killed by another country, why don't Russian despise that country?

12 posted on 12/19/2023 12:14:59 PM PST by nickcarraway
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To: LegendHasIt

What about Chechen jihadists that make up a big part of Russian forces? That’s cool?


13 posted on 12/19/2023 12:16:17 PM PST by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway

But, but, but according to the Putin parrots, only Ukraine has neo-nazis.

Oh wait:

https://aijac.org.au/featured/russia-is-the-iran-of-white-supremacy/


14 posted on 12/19/2023 12:16:19 PM PST by 2CAVTrooper (Freedom is the sure possession of those alone who have the courage to defend it.)
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To: Kazan

The Nazi’s gave Bandera an opportunity to kill Russian Communists (Look up Holodomor if you don’t know what that means!). The West was in no position to help him, so he cut a deal with the devil - Hitler to fight in his mind a greater devil - Stalin. If the price was to commit atrocities along the way, then so be it.


15 posted on 12/19/2023 12:17:51 PM PST by Reily (!!)
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To: funwithfood

Some Nazis are more equal than others, it seems...


16 posted on 12/19/2023 12:21:19 PM PST by RedMonqey ("A republic, if you can keep it" Benjam Franklin.)
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To: canuck_conservative

That’s a pretty smug statement for someone who supports a country chock full of proud nazis.


17 posted on 12/19/2023 12:24:49 PM PST by TangoLimaSierra (ā­ā­To the Left, The Truth is Right Wing Violenceā­ā­)
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To: TangoLimaSierra

“chock full”??

lol

you must be thinking of Putin’s Russia, the New Reich! They’re the ones trying to conquer the World!!


18 posted on 12/19/2023 12:27:34 PM PST by canuck_conservative (NATO - keeping Europe free of Russian invaders for 74 years - you're welcome!)
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To: mac_truck
Makes you wonder about how Gonzalo Lira is being treated, donā€™t it?

That was my first thought...

19 posted on 12/19/2023 12:34:32 PM PST by kiryandil (The Biden: "Zelensky, we need to sit down and have a talk.")
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