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Elena Styazhkina, for OstroV. March 2, 2014
Zinaida Gippius once said: “If you need to explain, there is no need to explain.” But this rule works for love. For those who know how to love. Those who want to hate maybe do need an explanation…
I am Russian. After January 16 I felt like an extremist. After February 20, I felt distinctly like a banderite. And for a long time now, since the Tuzla incident, like a Ukrainian.
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Officers refuse to recognize the administration head appointed by the new government of the Autonomy [Crimea]
The employees of the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) headquarters in Crimea and the Yalta City SBU do not obey the Crimean government, their representatives tell BSNews.
According to them, yesterday some TV channels and other media spread the false information that SBU had taken the side of the so-called Crimean government.
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Even before the fall of the Yanukovych regime, which according to many observers created a significant pro Ukraine turn, not a single region in Ukraine showed a majority willing to unite with Russia.
Translated by Julia Heki Kou
Source: Ukrinform news agency, 03.03.2014
There is not a single region in Ukraine, where a majority of people would aspire to unite with Russia.
These data of the most recent sociological survey were quoted by Mrs. Irina Bekeshkina, sociologist and Director of the Ilko Kucheriv Democratic Initiatives foundation, during a round table at Ukrainian news agency Ukrinform.
“Our survey is of extreme importance, because it shows that in Ukraine there is no region, no social group, where a majority of people would want a union with Russia. Although it is true that on a relative scale, the wish of unification with Russia is more popular in the East and the South”, Bekeshkina said.
Here she gave the example that even in Crimea, where the percentage of people wanting to unite with Russia has grown recently, it is still only 41%, that is less than half of the population. In Donetsk region, which is said by sociologist to be the second critical spot, there are only 33% of people wishing to unite with Russia.
Besides, Bekeshkina noted, there is a direct relation between the aspiration to unite with Russia and the age of respondents. “In these critical regions (Crimea and Donetsk), the aspiration to unite with Russia starts to prevail when the person gets close to their 55. That is, obviously it is the older generation. Maybe they are nostalgic about Soviet Union. Maybe they also want to get bigger pensions, like Russians get”, stated Irina.
Mrs. Bekeshkina also said that in total, only 12% of Ukrainians want to unite with Russia into one state. “In last years this number has decreased from 20 to 9 per cent, though after Maidan it has increased again by 3 per cent”, she summarized.
This nationwide survey in Ukraine was carried out by the Ilko Kucheriv Democratic Initiatives foundation and the Kiev International Institute of Sociology between February 8 and February 18, 2014 in all regions of Ukraine (including the city of Kiev), and in Crimea.
Dear brothers and sisters!
We, the representatives of Ukrainian churches and religious organizations, who are authorized to organize pastoral care among members of the Armed Forces and other military formations of Ukraine, are concerned about the situation that has developed in Crimea and other regions of our country.
Due to the intransigence of the leaders of the Russian Federation we are on the verge of a fratricidal war, pitting brother against brother. The soldiers of the Russian army and navy today are disregarding the laws of God and man that teach us how to live.
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Monday, March 3, 2014
The total loss in market capitalization of Russian companies on stock and comodities markets plunged by RUB 2 trillion.Some Russian tweets point out that “it is RUB 500 billion more than the cost of the Olympics.” This is a screen from Mitya Aleshkovsky’s twitter.
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