Voices of Ukraine

As a result of yesterday’s action with blocking the roads in Crimea after Mustafa Jemilev was barred from entering the peninsula, Crimean authorities are charging people with “abusing the sidewalks”. Here is a document that was received today.

One of the participants of yesterday’s events: “After Crimean Tatars were prevented from going back to Crimea by the Russian military at the “Turetskiy val” checkpoint, friends and relatives started to block the main roads of the Crimean peninsula. They were trying to make Crimean authorities let the Tatars back in. The road blocking itself was quite weak. Sometimes people just kept crossing the crosswalks to slowdown the traffic.
Crimean drivers are used to this type of protests and mostly found detours around them. As a result, there was no traffic jams. In one case, a woman was in a hurry to get home to her child. She was allowed to…

Since mid-March, Euromaidan Russian Propaganda  (Euromaidan RP) has been using the Euromaidan PR name to post separatist, anti-Kyiv, anti-Western propaganda and disinformation in an apparent effort to discredit Euromaidan PR.

As of May 4, Euromaidan RP has six followers. Several of their 240 tweets are retweets of material from RT, including articles and videos from RT’s YouTube channel. Euromaidan RP’s own material generally consists of anti-Kyiv and anti-Western propaganda.

All of Euromaidan RP’s tweets appear to bear the Euromaidan PR name, but it is easy to distinguish between a Euromaidan RP tweet and a Euromaidan PR tweet.

UKRAINSKA PRAVDA 04.05.2014

Russia is reinforcing its military grouping in Crimea, sending in aircraft and military units.
This information was reported by a Crimean military expert who asked to remain anonymous (Ukrinform). 

“The sky over Crimea was dark from all the aircraft overhead. Such massive transfer of aircraft has not been seen since the German occupation of Crimea in 1941.” noted the expert. According to our source, Russia has transferred several dozen MiG and Su fighters, close to a complete aviation regiment. 

Single pickets against Putin’s aggressive policy in Ukraine were staged on May 3 in Moscow. Activists went out on Manege Square one by one, holding placards with the words “hands off Ukraine” and “Putin’s power is killing people.”

According to Russian media reports, one of the protesters, Mihail Kirtseram was arrested and taken to the police station, but was later released to the hospital without a protocol.

Paul Goble, originally on Window on Eurasia

Staunton, May 3 – Only those who are in complete denial can fail to see that Vladimir Putin is a fascist, émigré Russian historian Yuri Felshtinsky says, given that “this analogy is so evident” in the wake of the Crimean Anschluss and the Kremlin leader’s own words and promotion of openly fascist figures like Dmitry Rogozin.