Russia. Crimea. History. Nikolay Starikov

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СКАЧАТЬ The opposition demanded resignation of the Government and continuation of the Euro-integration. These demonstrations proved to be the most numerous and tense for the entire two-monthly period of the protests[49].

      The administration of the American President Barack Obama claimed that the responsibility for the conflict escalation should be on the Ukrainian authorities. Which proved to be not able to “admit and accept legitimate demands of own people” – according to a statement of the American administration. “The steps towards to criminalization of the peaceful protest, which were undertaken by the Ukrainian Government, undermine the democratic principles of the country” – claimed the U. S. National Security Council representative Kathleen Hayden[50]. Cannot help asking – why did the American administration not used the same approach to the “junta”, which later called itself as a power in Kiev? Why they have not blamed Turchinov and Yatsenyuk in the escalation of tension in the Donetsk and Lugansk regions? These two personage have certainly proved to “be not able to admit and accept legitimate demands of own people”? This question is a rhetorical one – the Americans always help only to “their” (i. e. “good guys”) and interfere with those who are not deemed to be “their” (i. e. “bad guys”).

      20 January 2014. The Foreign Affairs Council of EU called upon the official Kiev authorities to revise their last legislative acts. “They significantly restrict the fundamental rights of Ukrainian citizens to association, freedom of the media and the press, as well as seriously curtail the activities of public organizations” – claimed the Council[51].

      22 January 2014. An amazing picture on the Hrushevsky street. The confrontation between the militants and the police forces actually was taking place only on this street! Moreover, only on just one side of the street. Accesses to the administrative buildings on another side of the street are guarded only by a thin police line. The militants stubbornly attacked only from one (another) side.

      And all of a sudden, “Berkut” swooped forth, and just a mere handful of policemen took control over a barricade on the Hrushevsky street. Later it would be proven that there were no command to attack, the “Berkut”-guys just threw several stun grenades, and then – seeing fleeing militants – decided to move out forth on their own initiative. However, since there was no command – “Berkut” had to draw back to their initial position. After that in the social networks were flooded with the news: two people killed by “pro-Government snipers”. In fact, the police recovered two dead bodies[52]. Despite the attempts to make of those two unfortunates as victims of the “sanguinary regime”, the Interior Ministry claimed that these people were killed by a hunting shot and from a close range. Most likely – they were the specially prepared “sacred and sacral” victims of the revolution. This assumption is indirectly supported by the origin of the victims: one of them was a Belarusian, the second one – an Armenian nationalist. Seems, as if Ukrainian nationalists were specially left untouched. The Armenian guy just before his death read poems of the Ukrainian poet Shevchenko in front of a video camera with the flaming barricades as a background. Very romantic. Interesting, whether all militants recite poems, or only those, who then will be “accidentally” killed?[53]

      23 January 2014. The negotiations between Yanukovich and the opposition leaders lasted for five hours. After that, the opposition declared that an agreement was reached: the arrested protesters would be let free in return of de-blocking of the Governmental quarter and the Hrushevsky street. However, the people’s assembly rejected this proposal. After that, Arseniy Yatsenyuk declared that the Maidan would extend and would occupy the Hrushevsky street[54].

      28 January 2014. Most of the “dictatorial laws of 16 January 2014” were cancelled by the Rada majority vote. The Party of the Regions – on Yanukovich’s command – voted for the abolition of the laws, which were adopted by the very same deputies only two weeks ago. These “laws of 16 January” were finally annulled on 31 January 2014 by a special decree of the President Yanukovich No.732-VII[55]. The same day the President accepted the resignation of the Prime Minister Nikolay Azarov and the entire Government[56]. After some time the President proposed the position of the Prime Minister to Arseniy Yatsenyuk. The latter has turned down the offer. His aim was to become a Prime Minister without Yanukovich, and he was ready to pay for this with hundreds of human lives during the unrest and the coup.

      • Crimea. A mass meeting took place in Simferopol “against the dictatorship in Ukraine”. It was organized by the Majlis of the Crimean-Tatar people. The action was supported also by the “Euromaidan – Crimea” movement. The demonstration took place in front of the building of the office of the President of Ukraine in Crimea instead of the central square of Simferopol – at this square an anti-Maidan rally started at almost the same time.[57]

      1 February 2014. The opposition leaders Klitschko and Yatsenyuk participated in a Munich Conference where they had several meetings with the US Secretary of State John Kerry and some European leaders[58].

      4 February 2014.

      • The leader of the “UDAR” fraction Vitaly Klitschko called upon the Supreme Rada to vote for the enactment of the Constitution of 2004. The “Bat’kivshchina” leader Arseniy Yatsenyuk supported this proposal[59].

      • At the same time, Yulia Timoshenko had sent a letter from prison calling upon the “Bat’kivshchina” fraction to opt out the return to the 2004 Constitution and to start preparations for the new Presidential campaign instead.

      • Crimea. The Presidium of the Crimean Supreme Council has resolved “in the circumstances of zeal for power of national-fascist groups” to initiate a pan-Crimean poll about the state status of the Crimean Peninsula[60].

      12 February 2014. President Yanukovich agreed for a coalition government. By the day of 15 February, all arrested rioters were released from jails and were put under home detention in the scope of an amnesty. During the night from 15 to 16 February, the protesters unblocked all regional administrative buildings[61]. Seemed that the “orange scenario”, with all this violent fighting with police, with throwing “Molotov’s cocktails”, was about to fail. But at this moment, the USA just within one day switched from the “peaceful protest” onto the scenario of a violent coup.

      18 February 2014 – the crucial day. A drastic aggravation of the situation happened in the morning. It was accompanied by mass bloodshed. At the session of the Supreme Rada, the opposition has demanded an immediate roll back to the Parliamentary– Presidential form of the state governance, and return to the 2004 Constitution.

      • Approximately, at 11 o’clock the opposition leaders started the so called “peaceful assault” of the Supreme Rada. Several thousands of the Euro-Maidan activists rallied towards the Parliament building. The procession was headed by Andrey Ilienko, Oleg Tyagnibok, Oleg Lyashko and Andrey Parubiy. The “peaceful mode” of the demonstration “evaporated” at a distance of 100 meters from the walls of the Parliament. The protesters began stoning the police, and set fire on parked cars and trucks using bottles filled with flammable liquids. Fierce clashes began between the militants and the police forces, which were guarding the accesses to the Parliamentary building[62].

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