Ukraina valde Ryssland före EU - stora protester som följd, länkar i inlägg2

Ukrainian journalist Olga Tokariuk said the flag was often raised in protest camps during the uprising. "For these people, this flag doesn't represent that they're… fascists," said Tokariuk. "This flag represents rebels who were fighting for the [independence] of the Ukrainian state."

She said the Ukrainian Insurgent Army naively thought that Hitler would help them in their fight for independence, and does not indicate that they supported Nazi ideas. "This is a complex problem," said Tokariuk. "Foreign observers, they only focus on this side [that] they were allies of Hitler."

Taras Ganchak, 31, is a member of the Self-Defence group. He said the flag represents freedom and the spirit of Ukraine, and denies it has anti-Semitic connotations. Ganchak said he does not want to vote for any political parties, but will support the Right Sector, another militant group considered by some to be far-right. "I will support them because they were the bravest in that terrible war against riot police."

Until a few months ago, Gonchak was planning to move to the United States. But now, he plans to remain in Ukraine, saying the US and EU stalled to take action against Yanukovich.

Many of these bat-wielding protesters were on the frontlines of clashes with the former government's police force, gaining the respect of some otherwise sceptical protesters, such as Milchevskya.

"I'm a bit afraid of them, because yes, they are quite extreme - but as I see from these protests, they're not just mad people that just want blood," she said. "They have their history… I respect them very much and I thank them that they actually had enough forces to stay here."

The Right Sector, whose members often walk around wearing masks, is notoriously secretive and its leader is rarely seen.

While withdrawing Ukraine’s language law was primarily an anti-Russian move, it hurts the Hungarian community as well, Miklos Kovacs, the head of the Cultural Association of Hungarians in Transcarpathia, told Monday’s Magyar Hirlap daily.

Istvan Gajdos, the only Hungarian lawmaker in Ukraine’s parliament, said on Sunday that the scrapping of the country’s law on minority languages would hurt minorities.

He urged Hungary’s Prime Minister Viktor Orban and Foreign Minister Janos Martonyi to raise their voice in the interest of the Hungarian minority in Ukraine.

http://www.politics.hu/20140224/ukraine-language-law-withdrawal-to-hurt-hungarians-says-local-politician/

When I only arrived, I was frustrated by total disorganization, no leader, no clear strategy, and others issues. I had not perceived it as entirely “my war,” but then all of sudden I became one of those controlling the course of the protests. I had organized the self-defense corps, raised barricades, and became a commander of a squad at the requests of many people.

Since I served in the Israeli army, I was trained in and even participated in anti-terrorist operations.

Only in my squad, there are four Israeli people with military experience who came to the Maidan to help avoid the unnecessary loss of human lives.

From the very first days, I communicated with the Right Sector and UNA-UNSO activists, with all of those with whom I would have found nothing in common in peaceful times.

Well-organized extremists are a myth. I supervise people who are organized much better than the radicals. We react much faster and more efficiently. Under my direct supervision, I have thirty people but I can mobilize up to three hundred.

At the march of millions, I was walking with dozens of my Jewish friends next to the members of the nationalist Svoboda party,