As of earlier this
week the Ukrainian parliament voted to ban propaganda and symbols
that in anyway relate to “totalitarian communist and Nazi regimes.”
According to the article Russia states that this is why they support
the separatists in the eastern Ukraine because of a “Fascist threat
from the Kiev government. Although Ukraine states that its reasoning
behind the ban is because they had discovered a plot to create a
separatist state in Odessa and Ukraine's security service arrested
nearly thirty people who were planning to create a independent region
similar to that of the ones in Luhansk and Donetsk. As of April the
Donetsk and Lehansk regions were declared as sovereign states and it
seems that other groups are forming to create a similar situation in
Odessa within a few days. According to the SBU (Ukraine's security
service) chief Valentyn Nalyvaychenko the groups were planning on
carrying out a series of assassinations of local politicians in hopes
of destabilizing the city to make it easier to make the transition.
Russia has accused the Kievian government of being run by fascists
and naming the Right Sector, a group which first assembled as an
“ultra nationalists umbrella organization” which played a large
role in the anti-government protests last year, and its leader Dmytro
Yarosh as the root of the issue.
William A. Bullard
April 11, 2015
10:38 P.M.
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-32239140
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