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

The Solomachin family has hardly slept over the last few days. The dramatic events in Crimea worry them. Fyodor is Russian, and his wife, Halyna, is Ukrainian.
"Putin should defend the Russians in Russia, and I'll defend my Ukraine," Fyodor said resolutely. He is angry about Russia's action in Crimea.---

Now, the television is on in their house nearly 24 hours per day. They mostly watch the Ukrainian TV station "5. Channel." Again and again, Kolya, their neighbor, comes in and asks, "Did you hear that? The fascists on Russian TV claim that we Ukrainians are fascists!" Kolya is also an ethnic Russian.---

The Solomachin family does not think highly of Russian President Vladimir Putin. He's a thief, a liar and plain megalomaniac, they say. It's obvious, in their view, that former Ukrainian President Yanukovych just wanted to transfer Putin's corrupt model to Ukraine.
"They're both bandits," Halyna says.---

"Putin is not a Russian, he's a KGB spy. He has no nationality," says Halyna. She's the principal of the Russian school and a representative in Kakhovka's city council. She proudly emphasizes that, in spite of the pressure, she never voted for Yanukovych. It is good that the government in Kyiv finally changed, she says.

Halyna has no understanding for the reporting about her country on Russian television.
"Oh my god! What kind of nonsense are these lunatics telling there? What could I have against Russians? They are our brothers, it's my Fyodor," Halyna says. And then she asks: "Why are they tolerating this hypocritical system in Russia?"

[Back once more in Simferopol on Crimea: The woman at the reception of the hotel, a young Russian, asks me if I have interviewed all of the "fascists" in Ukraine. They're planning bombings in Crimea, she says. They want to blow up all the Russians. She says she heard this on Russian television.
Just 100 kilometers separate Kakhovka and Crimea. Reporting by Ukrainian and Russian media couldn't be more different. It seems that the people live in two different worlds.

För att parlamentet ska kunna fatta kvalificerade beslut måste minst 51 av parlamentsledamöterna vara närvarande. Enligt den nya regeringen var 61 ledamöter där. Men att döma av samtal med ett tiotal parlamentariker och åtskilliga ögonvittnen på plats tycks det snarare ha varit 36 ledamöter som var på plats.

- Enligt systemet som registrerar vilka som är närvarande och hur de röstade, ska jag ha varit där och röstat. Men jag var inte där. Det var inte heller en majoritet av mina kolleger, hävdar parlamentsledamoten Nikolaj Sumulidi.

Inte heller hans parlamentskollega Irina Kljujeva var där, men även hon är registrerad som närvarande.

- Jag ville inte gå dit, för jag förstod vad som skulle hända. Det var bara pro-ryska representanter där och de var långt färre än 50. Med andra ord var det omöjligt för parlamentet att hålla en legitim omröstning, säger hon.

Enligt Rysk enhets vice ordförande, Dmitry Polonskij, var det dock "folket som bestämde att vi behövde en ny regering och en folkomröstning. Det är vår vilja, ingen tvingade oss".