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South -east is a delicate matter
In the cities of southeast of Ukraine on Sunday, rallies of supporters and opponents of Russia's actions in Crimea are again held on Sunday. On the eve of Kharkov and Donetsk, those who advocated the federalization or joining of regions to Russia went to the square. In Dnepropetrovsk, at the same time, a 7,000-strong rally “For United Ukraine” gathered for an anti-war action. The ratio of supporters and opponents of the annexation of Crimea by Russia is radically different in cities, which are sometimes located from each other just a few hours of driving.
On Sunday afternoon, participants in the pro -Russian rally in Lugansk broke into the building of the regional state administration and hung from the windows of the 2nd and 3rd floors state flags of Russia and Belarus, as well as a red flag with a sickle and a hammer. During the assault, the audience chanted the slogans "Russia! Russia!", Classing on March 16 to hold a regional referendum on joining Russia. Police officers did not counteract the rally participants, leaving both the building of the state administration and the approaches to it. Later, one of the leaders of the pro -Russian activists, the commander of the so -called Lugansk Guard, Alexander Kharitonov, read out a resignation statement allegedly signed by Mikhail Bolotsky, recently appointed Governor of the Luhansk Region. In total, from 2 to 3 thousand people participated in the assault on the regional state administration.
The situation remains extremely troubled in the Donetsk region: the movement of the Ukrainian missile systems “Buk” is noted here, on Sunday, the State Duma deputy Vladimir Zhirinovsky intends to fly to the city (however, it may simply not be launched by border guards, as happened on Saturday with filming groups of several Russian television channels ). The action of supporters of the territorial integrity of Ukraine planned on March 9 was canceled by the organizers at the request of the authorities for security reasons (according to the data on Sunday morning, it will still take place ). After the arrest on Friday, the leader of the “People’s Militia of Donbass” Pavel Gubarev, shares in his support at first almost came to naught, but several hundred people gathered again on Saturday on Lenin Square, and the Donetsk advertising manager Sergei Tsyplakov took leadership over the protesters . On Sunday evening, it became known that the building of the regional state administration in Lugansk was captured by activists requiring a referendum to join the region to Russia .
Three hours by train in the old Soviet sedentary carriage, and from the poor subsidized miners' Donetsk you get into the rich profitable metallurgical Dnepropetrovsk . In the ranking drawn up two years ago by the Ukrainian magazine “Comments” based on 25 criteria, Dnepropetrovsk takes 5th place, and Donetsk-only the 16th. The first President of Ukraine Leonid Kuchma , who was from here, Julia Tymoshenko , studied at the institute and began a party career, lived here the first of the opposition activists, who died on the Maidan , Sergei Nigoyan . A huge building rises above the city center - the Jewish complex “Menora”, built in 2012 by oligarch Igor Kolomoisky , the owner of the Privat financial group and the president of the United Jewish Community of Ukraine. The new Ukrainian authorities in Kiev appointed Kolomoisky the governor of Donetsk, but there is no such hostility to him as billionaire Sergei Tarut in Donetsk.
“I live in the region, in the yellow waters where the uranium mines are located. There, the provision was directly Moscow, they came there from all over Ukraine, from the west, from the east, and from Moscow. Two buses came to us - self -defense, not self -defense, but they spoke in Ukrainian. They defeated the city council building, and remove the inscription from the Palace of Culture named after Lenin, to remove the portraits of Yanukovych. Everyone has the right to speak the language of the City Council, there is no one, there is no one to pay a couple of cars and the store Now in the Crimea, I am observing the lies on both sides, nor here, in Dnepropetrovsk, no “Bandera” ones have the right to decide who to be with them, but not Western Ukraine and not Muscovites, who believe that they have cottages there, then Crimea should be Russian. ”
“You forgive me, but Russia behaves inappropriately! Uzurpation of power takes place in the Crimea. I am also a half -breeding, father - Ukrainian, mother - from the Smolensk region. But we live in Ukraine and will not allow our territory to be seized. We are all civilized people, live in the 21st century, each of us has not only a zombie, but also the Internet. People understand that in Russia we are only in words. We rise from the knees and build a new democratic Ukraine. ” “And how do you feel about the surgeon? ( One of the leaders of the Russian biker movement who participated in the Biker festival in Sevastopol with Vladimir Putin. - Approx. RS )” - “Surgeon, of course ... (pause) is wrong that lay down under Putin, is wrong.”
The spouse of Alexander Tatyana joins the conversation: “A friend from the Crimea came from Crimea, says there are no such messes, someone wants to Russia, someone does not want, but the main population is not going to Russia. Both fresh water and electricity are all coming from the mainland, and people understand that this will be only new economic problems.”
Our communication unexpectedly flows into the skirmish of Alexander with a lady passing by, who announces that she was from Yevpatoria: “We were presented to Ukraine for 25 years! Give us all!” - "Who gave it?" - "Khrushchev!" - “Who told you what he gave, there was a devastation after the war and the Crimea had to be lifted, I also had a gift!” - “I don’t have to tell me, I am 67 years old on a passport!” - "And look one hundred percent!" - "Let one hundred, we want to be Russia!" - the woman answers, considering below her dignity to respond to such a busting for March 8th.
The anthem of Ukraine begins to play over the square at this moment: on a huge screen installed on one of the houses surrounding it, the Ukrainian Fifth Canal is continuously broadcast. The fears that Dnepropetrovsk can support what is happening in the Crimea or even more to become part of Russia is trying to finally dispel Leonid, an employee of the local television channel: “Remember such a series,“ Alf ”, about an alien? It was a very popular one. The first season we showed the Ukrainian dubbing, and the second one already with the Russian one fell sharply, the third had to be translated into Ukrainian.”
On Sunday afternoon, participants in the pro -Russian rally in Lugansk broke into the building of the regional state administration and hung from the windows of the 2nd and 3rd floors state flags of Russia and Belarus, as well as a red flag with a sickle and a hammer. During the assault, the audience chanted the slogans "Russia! Russia!", Classing on March 16 to hold a regional referendum on joining Russia. Police officers did not counteract the rally participants, leaving both the building of the state administration and the approaches to it. Later, one of the leaders of the pro -Russian activists, the commander of the so -called Lugansk Guard, Alexander Kharitonov, read out a resignation statement allegedly signed by Mikhail Bolotsky, recently appointed Governor of the Luhansk Region. In total, from 2 to 3 thousand people participated in the assault on the regional state administration.
The situation remains extremely troubled in the Donetsk region: the movement of the Ukrainian missile systems “Buk” is noted here, on Sunday, the State Duma deputy Vladimir Zhirinovsky intends to fly to the city (however, it may simply not be launched by border guards, as happened on Saturday with filming groups of several Russian television channels ). The action of supporters of the territorial integrity of Ukraine planned on March 9 was canceled by the organizers at the request of the authorities for security reasons (according to the data on Sunday morning, it will still take place ). After the arrest on Friday, the leader of the “People’s Militia of Donbass” Pavel Gubarev, shares in his support at first almost came to naught, but several hundred people gathered again on Saturday on Lenin Square, and the Donetsk advertising manager Sergei Tsyplakov took leadership over the protesters . On Sunday evening, it became known that the building of the regional state administration in Lugansk was captured by activists requiring a referendum to join the region to Russia .
Three hours by train in the old Soviet sedentary carriage, and from the poor subsidized miners' Donetsk you get into the rich profitable metallurgical Dnepropetrovsk . In the ranking drawn up two years ago by the Ukrainian magazine “Comments” based on 25 criteria, Dnepropetrovsk takes 5th place, and Donetsk-only the 16th. The first President of Ukraine Leonid Kuchma , who was from here, Julia Tymoshenko , studied at the institute and began a party career, lived here the first of the opposition activists, who died on the Maidan , Sergei Nigoyan . A huge building rises above the city center - the Jewish complex “Menora”, built in 2012 by oligarch Igor Kolomoisky , the owner of the Privat financial group and the president of the United Jewish Community of Ukraine. The new Ukrainian authorities in Kiev appointed Kolomoisky the governor of Donetsk, but there is no such hostility to him as billionaire Sergei Tarut in Donetsk.
Flowers in memory of those who died on the Maidan, Dnepropetrovsk, European Square
In the city center on European Square, where in November last year, opponents of Viktor Yanukovych’s refusal from European integration of Ukraine began to gather, flower trade is in full swing - in the yard on March 8. In this floral abundance, the impromptu memorial “Heavenly Hundred” - the activists who died on the Maidan is lost in this floral abundance. It is possible, partly for this reason, random passers -by pass by without stopping. Attention to the memorial is attracted only by our camera: “What is it?” - asks a middle -aged woman of her companion. “I don’t know, some diplomas were hung out,” he replies, referring to the A4 sheets suspended on the rope with names, surnames and short biographies of the dead.Former monument to Lenin on the former Square of his name
In the neighborhood - the Square of the Heroes of the Maidan, the former Square of Lenin, renamed on February 22 by the decision of the city council. On the “Yandex” maps, however, she still appears under the old name , unlike Google cards . The new name corresponds to the content. The Maidan activists demolished the monument to Lenin on February 21 in the evening, and on his pedestal now - candles in memory of the dead and posters demanding the Russian authorities to stop aggression in the Crimea. The building of the regional city administration was also stormed here, but not pro -Russian activists, but the “right sector”. "Can we remove you next to the car?" - We turn to police officers, who have a Ukrainian flag on the patrol car. “Of course, just wait, I’ll just change the flag, otherwise this one was fought off from the wind.” Let me remind you, in three hours of driving - a city where such flags were torn and trampled in the ground with the actual non -interference of law enforcement agencies for the “united Ukraine” participants.Sheets with the names of the dead in Kyiv
However, people who are extremely skeptical of the last months in Kyiv are also skeptical of what has been happening. Tatyana, a middle-aged woman, looks at me with a wary, so I have to show a journalistic certificate: on March 8, Deputy Dnipropetrovsk regional administration Svyatoslav Oliynyk said that seven Russian “pseudo-journalists” were detained in the city-provocateurs touring in the cities of the South-East and participating in various pro-Russian campaigns:“I live in the region, in the yellow waters where the uranium mines are located. There, the provision was directly Moscow, they came there from all over Ukraine, from the west, from the east, and from Moscow. Two buses came to us - self -defense, not self -defense, but they spoke in Ukrainian. They defeated the city council building, and remove the inscription from the Palace of Culture named after Lenin, to remove the portraits of Yanukovych. Everyone has the right to speak the language of the City Council, there is no one, there is no one to pay a couple of cars and the store Now in the Crimea, I am observing the lies on both sides, nor here, in Dnepropetrovsk, no “Bandera” ones have the right to decide who to be with them, but not Western Ukraine and not Muscovites, who believe that they have cottages there, then Crimea should be Russian. ”
Alexander Sulima
Alexander Sulima, nicknamed Banzay , a member of the Biker Sich Biker Sich Biker Club, is much more decisively and uncompromisingly (a city on the Dnieper in Zaporozhye, 122 kilometers south of Dnepropetrovsk):“You forgive me, but Russia behaves inappropriately! Uzurpation of power takes place in the Crimea. I am also a half -breeding, father - Ukrainian, mother - from the Smolensk region. But we live in Ukraine and will not allow our territory to be seized. We are all civilized people, live in the 21st century, each of us has not only a zombie, but also the Internet. People understand that in Russia we are only in words. We rise from the knees and build a new democratic Ukraine. ” “And how do you feel about the surgeon? ( One of the leaders of the Russian biker movement who participated in the Biker festival in Sevastopol with Vladimir Putin. - Approx. RS )” - “Surgeon, of course ... (pause) is wrong that lay down under Putin, is wrong.”
The spouse of Alexander Tatyana joins the conversation: “A friend from the Crimea came from Crimea, says there are no such messes, someone wants to Russia, someone does not want, but the main population is not going to Russia. Both fresh water and electricity are all coming from the mainland, and people understand that this will be only new economic problems.”
Our communication unexpectedly flows into the skirmish of Alexander with a lady passing by, who announces that she was from Yevpatoria: “We were presented to Ukraine for 25 years! Give us all!” - "Who gave it?" - "Khrushchev!" - “Who told you what he gave, there was a devastation after the war and the Crimea had to be lifted, I also had a gift!” - “I don’t have to tell me, I am 67 years old on a passport!” - "And look one hundred percent!" - "Let one hundred, we want to be Russia!" - the woman answers, considering below her dignity to respond to such a busting for March 8th.
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Russian invasion of Crimea: for "and" against "in Dnepropetrovsk
The anthem of Ukraine begins to play over the square at this moment: on a huge screen installed on one of the houses surrounding it, the Ukrainian Fifth Canal is continuously broadcast. The fears that Dnepropetrovsk can support what is happening in the Crimea or even more to become part of Russia is trying to finally dispel Leonid, an employee of the local television channel: “Remember such a series,“ Alf ”, about an alien? It was a very popular one. The first season we showed the Ukrainian dubbing, and the second one already with the Russian one fell sharply, the third had to be translated into Ukrainian.”
Posters on the pedestal of the former monument to Lenin
Indeed, the language composition of the population of the Dnipropetrovsk region in accordance with the results of the 2001 census was like this: 67% called Ukrainian their native language, and only 32% - Russian . In the Donetsk region, almost mirrored the opposite: 24% versus 75% , although when we landed at the Donetsk airport 4 days ago, there was not a single pointer in Russian. Neither in Donetsk nor in Dnepropetrovsk no one wants war and very few in reality want to join Russia. But a third or two -thirds of the population, dissatisfied with the infringement of their rights, is enough to collect rallies “for Russia” in at least every day in an unstable political situation. The new Kyiv leadership with the solution of linguistic and other issues, for example, a categorical ban on possessing a passport of another state, which still does not work due to the impossibility to control it, it would be nice to hurry up so that the television picture from such rallies does not make a way to justify the repetition of the Crimean scenario somewhere else for Vladimir Putin.