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Six Donetsk Residents Kidnapped by Separatists

This on its website reports the Independent Trade Union of Miners of Ukraine.

“How to tell the head of the Independent Trade Union of Miners of Ukraine Mikhail bagpipes, separatists in camouflage and masks broke into the house to them,” – said in a statement.

Among the enthusiastic – miner from the mine “Russia”, a member NPHU Alexander Wolf, businessman Konstantin Museyko Igor Bratus, whose wife is a member of the Party of Regions and supports the unity of the country, a member of the same party Valery Pavlik miner Gurov and citizen Bubych.

http://24tv.ua/home/showSingleNews.do?na_donechchini_separasti_pryamo_z_domivok_vikrali_shistoh_aktivistiv&objectId=439489

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I met 1 of the seized Donetsk miners a week ago. He’s practically a pensioner. Repts say when released he “showed signs of torture”. Awful.

Video of Ukrainian intelligence officers detained by p̶r̶o̶-̶R̶u̶s̶s̶i̶a̶n̶ ̶s̶e̶p̶a̶r̶a̶t̶i̶s̶t̶s̶ Russians

Asked if they belonged to Ukrainian Alpha special forces, the man said: “Yes.”

Another of the blindfolded men said they did not use weapons.

“As for the arms use, we didn’t use our arms not because we are not skilled but because we just didn’t have a moral right to use it in such situations.”

Interfax Ukraine news agency reported the three men were looking for a Russian citizen suspected for killing Volodymyr Rybak, deputy of Gorlivka City Council, found dead on April 19.

Rybak’s body was found on the banks of the river Siversky Donets, near Slavyansk, and authorities said there was evidence of torture.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/ukraine/10791091/Ukrainian-intelligence-officers-detained-by-pro-Russian-separatists.html

Russian Invaders Freed from Detention in Odesa

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Prisoners released as pro-Russia activists storm Odessa police HQ
More than 60 activists detained during violence that led to people being burnt alive in trade union buildling set free.

A group of pro-Russia activists has stormed the police headquarters in the southern Ukrainian city of Odessa and released scores of prisoners detained at the scene of deadly violence on Friday that culminated in people being burned alive in a trade union building.

In the pouring rain, men armed with clubs battered their way into the building through a vehicle entrance.

Ranks of riot police offered no resistance. When crowds burst into the compound and began smashing windows and wrecking police vans, officers agreed to release the activists.

Men and women, many in tears, emerged from the door of their cell block and left through a tunnel of cheering supporters. Local police said later that 67 people were set free.

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/may/04/pro-russia-prisoners-released-militants-storm-odessa-police-headquarters

Ukrainian Journalists intimidated in Odesa

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Female and elderly hooligans are the first line of the invasion. Then military-aged hooligans with bats and knives, then guns, kidnapping. Then Russian intelligence and Special Forces and one or two brutal tortures to further intimidate people, all backed by the Russian military massed on the border.

Russian Officials Persecuting Christians as Well as Muslims in Occupied Crimea

The persecution of Muslims in occupied Crimea and threats to Jews in those parts of eastern Ukraine where pro-Russia groups have seized power have received a great deal of attention in the West as evidence of what these Ukrainian areas face if Moscow is able to maintain its control there.

But the actions of Russian officials, both local and from Moscow, against Christian groups have receive much less attention, even though the numbers of people affected are far larger and constitute equally clear violation of the rights of those who are the victims of such anti-religious efforts.

Like its Soviet predecessor, the government of the Russian Federation has been hostile to the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, viewing it as an effort by the Vatican to penetrate the “canonical space” of the Russian Orthodox Church. Throughout the Soviet period, the Uniates as this church is known were among the most persecuted religious groups in the USSR.

With the annexation of Crimea, Uniate leaders say, the Russian authorities have begun “the total persecution” of its leaders and parishioners. Three Uniate priests were “kidnapped” by Russians, and although they were subsequently released, one of them has been charged with “extremism”.

In addition, several Uniate churches have been vandalized in Russian-controlled areas just north of Crimea and in Crimea itself, Uniate priests have received threatening phone calls and letters. One note said that the recent kidnappings/arrests should serves as “a lesson to all Vatican agents.”

Kyiv has condemned such actions by Russian officials in Crimea. The Ukrainian culture ministry on March 18 said that “Recently, in the Autonomous Republic of Crimea cases of persecution of the clerics of various denominations have been documented. There has been an unprecedented violation of rights in the field of freedom of conscience and religion. We demand there be a stop to the practice of terror and for rights and liberties to be respected.”

But instead of pulling back, the Russian authorities in occupied Crimea have continued their repression of this Christian group and more recently of parishes belonging to the Ukrainian Orthodox Church-Kyiv Patriarchate as well. On Sunday, Archbishop Kliment, administrator of that church’s Crimean eparchate, said Russian officials are neither protecting religious facilities nor allowing churchmen to go to them.

http://www.interpretermag.com/russian-officials-persecuting-christians-as-well-as-muslims-in-occupied-crimea/

Russia to Prosecute Crimean Tatar Protesters Over Unrest

Thousands of Crimean Tatars on Saturday responded to news that their spiritual leader had been banned from the peninsula by blocking several highways in a tense standoff with riot police — the first sign that the Muslim ethnic group’s discontent with Russian authorities may lead to turmoil.

On Saturday, Crimean authorities promised to dish out criminal charges to the group, which numbered about five thousand, according to the BBC Russian service. The group broke through border posts near the city of Armyansk and crossed the border into the buffer zone between Ukraine and the Crimean peninsula to meet Mustafa Dzhemilev, former head of the Crimean Tatar Mejlis, the ethnic group’s representative body.

http://www.themoscowtimes.com/news/article/russia-to-prosecute-crimean-tatar-protesters-over-unrest/499385.html

The Donetsk Republic’s so-called ‘Ministry of Foreign Affairs’ has issued a release, calling for armed rebellion on May 9th.

The Donetsk Republic’s so-called ‘Ministry of Foreign Affairs’ has issued a release, calling for armed rebellion on May 9th.

“For the first time since the Great Patriotic War in the former Ukraine events occurred that not only resemble, but also directly coincide with the actions of the Nazi occupiers….the unconditional right of all citizens to take up arms and wage holy war against the heirs of brown abominations which today spreads across the territory of the former Ukraine…We invite you to meet on Victory Day on May 9 as did our ancestors, and to resist the advance of fascism, defending peace, your families, their right to the great victory of the new scourge of the new fascist boot, which today tramples our land, burns, killing and maiming people. Let the earth burn under the Nazi occupiers and their collaborators. The enemy will be defeated! Victory will be ours!”

(vk.com)

Putin’s Not Post-Communist, He’s Post-Fascist

And when Putin evokes the myth of Moscow as a “Third Rome,” it is clear he is assigning the Russian people with an historic mission. Responsibility is falling to Russia not only to stop Western decadence at its borders, but also to provide a last bastion for those who had already given up hope in this struggle. But he is also saying that Russia can never yield.

“Death is horrible, isn’t it?” Putin asked viewers at the end of his television appearance. “But no, it appears it may be beautiful if it serves the people: Death for one’s friends, one’s people or for the homeland, to use the modern word.” That’s as fascist as it gets.


http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/speeches-by-russian-president-putin-betray-fascist-inspiration-a-967283.html