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Euromaidan activists require “Berkut” fighters to take off their masks, and take a “Walk of Shame” (video)

Posted on January 11, 2014 by chervonaruta

Published on Jan 10 , 2014 Activists of AutoMaidan late Friday blocked three buses of “Berkut” [special riot forces] who had earlier beaten protesters in the court yard after the Kyiv Svyatoshynsky court ruling [on the “Vasilkovsky terrorists”]. Activists demanded … Continue reading →

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“Berkut” brutally beat activists and journalists after trial (photo & video added)

Posted on January 10, 2014 by chervonaruta

You would think from the photos – that this is the Maidan crackdown from November 30th. No, this happened today. Photo report near Kiev Sviatoshynsky court “Berkut” beat journalists and activists… Oleksandr Rudomanov – January 10, 2014, 19:37   L.B.ua … Continue reading →

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400 years of a European “passport” in Ukraine

Posted on January 9, 2014 by chervonaruta

Exactly four hundred years ago the name “Ukraine” first appeared on a geographical cartograph [map]. On the map of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. Within the circles of historic cartographic professionals, the map upon which the name of a country … Continue reading →

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#Maidan Diary: Thoughts on hatred

Posted on January 8, 2014 by chervonaruta

Vitaliy Portnikov, status update while visiting the Holocaust Memorial January 5, 2014 original: https://www.facebook.com/EuroMaydanTranslations/posts/275223795962385 At the Holocaust Memorial, I thought about the Nazi’s treatment of the Jews with hatred–whom they tried to destroy for “racial inferiority,” of Ukrainian nationalists who were … Continue reading →

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#Maidan Diary: They Turned Off the Lights on Maidan

Posted on January 8, 2014 by chervonaruta

On Independence Square in Kiev, where a Christmas prayer was to be held, they turned off the lights. 06/01/2014 19:11,  UNIAN original: http://www.unian.net/news/615913-na-maydane-nezalejnosti-vyiklyuchili-svet.html As stated by a UNIAN correspondent, at particularly the upper exit to the “Khreschatyk St” metro station, on … Continue reading →

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