Ja, vad ska de nu ta sig till i Donetsk och Lugansk, dessa små skaror av anti-ukrainska och anti-europeiska virrhjärnor som ropar på Putin och ryska soldater och inte får något svar?
Det skulle krävas en del resurser och tålamod, men interimregeringen skulle kunna svälta, törsta och frysa ut dem genom att blockera de byggnader där de befinner sig och stänga av el och värme.
Jag tror knappast att de vill riskera en stormning med många döda om det går att undvika.
http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702303603904579491641537737078?mg=ren o64-wsj&url=http%3A%2F%2Fonline.wsj.com%2Farticle%2FSB 10001424052702303603904579491641537737078.html
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Even as Mr. Baryshnikov and his allies settle into the regional government office building they have occupied, they are beginning to wonder if the Russians are coming. "It'll just be like a car backfiring if the Russians don't come," Mr. Baryshnikov said after a council session on Tuesday descended into shouting, table banging and a scuffle.
Moscow so far hasn't responded to the appeals from Donetsk. Russian state television, which broadcast Monday's declaration of independence live, didn't turn up for Tuesday's session. At a council session on Wednesday morning, deputies said they would send an appeal to Crimea for peacekeepers, and then quickly ended the meeting.
Hopes of a quick replication in eastern Ukraine of the Crimean scenario so far seem to be fading, amid weak local support and growing pushback from Kiev and the West.
Självförsvarsgrupperna på och vid Maidan har betydligt mer konstruktiva och patriotiska intressen. Det är en brokig samling som uppenbarligen i det stora hela sköter sig bra och har ett genuint socialt patos för sitt engagemang. De vill se en nyordning, civiliserade, icke-korrupta, icke-kriminella normer som grundval för det ukrainska samhället. De har i mångt och mycket vunnit allmänhetens förtroende som upprätthållare av ordningen, eftersom poliskåren i stor utsträckning avvikit, avskedats eller helt enkelt inte går att lita på, då de vill hålla fast vid sin korrupta gamla praxis:
http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702303603904579491641537737078?mg=ren o64-wsj&url=http%3A%2F%2Fonline.wsj.com%2Farticle%2FSB 10001424052702303603904579491641537737078.html
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Heather McGill, a researcher on Ukraine for Amnesty International, said the militias provided a useful service during the protests by maintaining order and preventing looting.
She said Amnesty has concerns about the lingering presence of "large numbers of militaristic-looking men with batons who don't have an official license to perform that job."
But she said that her group has not registered any human-rights violations or attacks based on religion, race or ethnicity by members of the group.
Mr. Larionov belongs to a group of several dozen men that calls itself the Second Hundred, a name that springs from Cossack traditions.
He and other members deny fascist leanings, saying that Russia is trying to label them as neo-Nazis in an attempt to scare people and justify its recent invasion and annexation of the Ukrainian peninsula of Crimea.
Mr. Larionov gives more than one answer about why he's still on guard. "We'll be here to the end, till we see change, reform," he said. Later he said he'll stay on Maidan "until the Russians are gone" from Crimea.
He says he spends some of his time chasing after what he calls bandits, like a group of men he described as Armenian, armed with knives, that he says he disarmed at a bar the other day. "People call us instead of the police" because they don't trust the police, he says.
Some of his roommates at the convention center had broader concerns. Eduard Radi, 48 years old, said he was sick of crooked employers swindling him out of his pay. Igor Petrovsky, who had the same complaint, said he was left so poor, he had to camp out at the construction sites where he worked.
For now, Kiev residents seem unperturbed by the militias. Some bring the men food, or volunteer at the occupied convention center, including several psychologists who provide free counseling.
Vlada Osmak, a 45-year-old teacher and tour guide with fluent English, helps run a lending library at the convention center. She says she supports the militias, and thinks at least some members should stay until after the presidential elections. "Maidan should live until we see how our new president will behave. Maidan is the only visible measure of public control," she said.
Försonande löften från interimpresident Turchinov - klokt i detta läge, tycker jag. Frågan är väl dock om de landsförrädiska ockupanterna agerar rationellt och ger upp sina tilltag:
http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/04/10/us-ukraine-crisis-amnesty-idUSBREA390G020140410
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Ukraine will not prosecute pro-Russian separatists if they leave government buildings they have occupied in the east of the country and give up their weapons, acting President Oleksander Turchinov said on Thursday.
"We guarantee that there will be no criminal prosecution of people who give up their weapons and leave the buildings," Turchinov told parliament. "I am willing to do this by presidential order."
Colin Riddell ger sina synpunkter på den ukrainska revolten mot ett kriminellt system:
http://www.theoccidentalobserver.net/2014/03/the-ukraine-as-a-model-of-a-european-spring/
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There are those who claim that the whole thing was stoked up by foreign money and behind-the-scenes string-pulling by CIA operatives, etc. This simply does not square with the empirical evidence. Although the U.S. supported the revolution, there can be little doubt that this was a mass movement with broad-based support, especially in Kiev and the Western parts of the country. Live with it!
