Situationen i Ukraina just nu.

The unique photographs and 90 gigabytes of video material shared with The Daily Beast provide strong evidence that the massacre in the Maidan was in fact a vicious and clinical assault ordered by the pro-Russian Yanukovych regime and executed by its arch loyalists.---

According to Dr. Olga Bogomolets, a Maidan leader and a candidate in Ukraine’s slated May presidential elections, the photographs shown to her by The Daily Beast provide unique insight into what took place on February 20. She argues they cast doubt on an official investigation currently underway into the events of that day, which was ordered by the country’s interim government and is being conducted jointly by the new head of the SBU, Valentyn Nalyvaichenko, along with the prosecutor general’s office. The SBU failed to respond to phone and email requests for a meeting with Nalyvaichenko to discuss the substantial photographic material.

“We have demanded an independent and transparent investigation into who was involved in the crimes that took place and we are very worried that the people who are investigating are members of the bodies responsible for the shootings,” says Bogomolets.

Western journalists have published photos of snipers who shot at protesters and police in Kiev shortly after 9 o’clock on the morning of February 20 and continued about seven hours later in the afternoon drawing to the bloodiest day. The photos prove that the shooters were from Ukraine.

But concerns grew of further tensions in Crimea, after Crimean Tatars voted at a meeting in Bakhchisaray, their historic capital, to seek self-determination, and appealed to international bodies to uphold their rights as a people.

At an extraordinary meeting of the Kurultay, the Tatars’ national council, delegates adopted a resolution vowing to “launch political and legal procedures (for the) ethnic and territorial autonomy of the Crimean Tatar people on their historical territory, Crimea”.
The measure appealed to the UN, Council of Europe, OSCE and other institutions to support them in their push for autonomy.

Russia’s annexation of Crimea has worried the Tatars, who make up about 300,000 of the Ukrainian peninsula’s 2m population, and are now uncertain whether to accept Russian citizenship and acquiesce to the takeover or remain in their homeland with “foreign” passports.
Many boycotted the March 16 referendum which was used to endorse Russia’s widely condemned takeover of Crimea.

Law enforcement officers have detained the first suspects in the shooting of protesters in Kyiv on 18-20 February 2014, said Interior Minister Arsen Avakov today [30 March 2014].

“On Thursday, I believe, we will be able, together with the Prosecutor General and the Security Service of Ukraine, to present a preliminary report on the investigation of the mass murders. We will show and discuss information harmless to further investigation. Among other things, we will release information on the detained suspects from law enforcement bodies and organized criminal gangs,” Avakov wrote on his Facebook page.

There is no question about Poroshenko’s nationalist credentials. In 2012 Poroshenko, wrote in his Facebook blog: “there has to be just one state language in Ukraine, Ukrainian—that is my position that is not going to change.”---

This year’s revolution in Ukraine “was a victory of unarmed people coming to die for their belief, “ Poroshenko said. “People in Russia have a right to their choice if they want to live in an empire, but they need to accept that people in Ukraine have their right to be free.”

Monday morning in an interview on the television network he owns, Channel 5, Poroshenko said he has “no doubt that in 10 to 11 years, say by 2025, Ukraine will become an EU member."---

Earlier this year, Poroshenko was criticized for recruiting and financing extremists during the street fighting in Kiev. Again, he denied the allegations, and he says he has no involvement with nationalists from the extremist Right Sector: “I only met with their leader Dmitry Yarosh two or three times during the revolution,” Poroshenko told me.

What’s striking about Poroshenko is that, unlike most of the country’s oligarchs, who are seen as sucking the lifeblood out of the nation, he has managed to create an image of himself as a hard-working self-made businessman simply trying to serve the state the best way he knows how. And in a country rife with scandals, Poroshenko has dodged quite a few.

Poroshenko himself is considered to have a clean record. The "Chocolate Baron" is credited with generating his estimated 1.3 billion euro ($1.79 billion) fortune on his own. Starting by selling cocoa beans, he gradually incurred more and more candy factories and went on to found the branch heavyweight Roshen. Now, he also owns automobile and bus factories, a shipyard and the private TV station Channel 5.

While amassing his billions, Poroshenko seems to have stayed within the law, said Svitlana Zalishchuk, whose CHESNO ("Honest") non-profit put all of the presidential candidates under a microscope. "We couldn't find any instances of corruption," she said.

Furthermore, Zalishchuk said, the billionaire has operated relatively transparently in politics. "Last year, he published the names of his employees and the times he was available to speak with citizens. He just didn't publish his side income - that's the only negative that we could ascertain."

Makalös förljugenhet hos The Voice of Russia. De visar foton de knyckt från The Daily Beast, på Alfagruppen vid SBU:s lokaler den 20:e februari, och har sedan endast detta att säga:

http://voiceofrussia.com/news/2014_03_31/Photos-prove-Maidan-snipers-who-shot-at-protesters-and-police-were-Ukrainians-media-reports-9449/

Krimtatarerna kräver autonomi, kan bli en intressant händelseutveckling:

http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/c8a8bc18-b85d-11e3-af5e-00144feabdc0.html#axzz2xWgfyl7S