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By Greg Butterfield

Second part of interview with Borotba's Alexey Albu on the 5th anniversary of the U.S.-backed coup in Ukraine

“Analyzing the situation in Venezuela, we see that the same funders that worked in Ukraine paid for the buildup of the crisis. We see that the imperialists use the same tactics: they create organizations to influence the electoral process, the same as in Ukraine. For riots in the streets and attacks on “undesirables,” mobile fighting units are created, consisting of so-called civil society activists. In Ukraine, this was the right-wing organization AutoMaidan, in Venezuela the Guarimberos.

"Of course, there are differences due to local specifics. In Ukraine, the right-liberal opposition in 2013 was united, and in Venezuela, the opposition is strongly split. In Ukraine, there was no real strong national leader — President Viktor Yanukovych turned out to be a wet rag. In Venezuela, there is a strong leader — Nicolás Maduro. Therefore, there is a chance that the imperialist forces will break their fangs."

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RRB referred case to court over rogue actions of former SBU employees

RRB referred case to court over rogue actions of former SBU employees

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RRB referred case to court over rogue actions of former SBU employees

24.07.2020 05:56

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An indictment was filed in court against two former Ukrainian security service employees accused of beating an Automaidan activist in 2015.

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Oleg Sentsov, Ukrainian filmmaker and activist, wins EU′s Sakharov Prize | Europe| News and current affairs from around the continent | DW

Who is Oleg Sentsov?

The 42-year-old Ukrainian filmmaker Oleg Sentsov was born in the city of Simferopol, the administrative capital of what Russia has called the Republic of Crimea since annexing the peninsula in 2014. Sentsov, who is best known for his 2011 film “Gamer,” has been a fierce critic of Russia’s involvement in Ukraine and its annexation of Crimea, which followed a controversial referendum. After the outbreak of the Euromaidan protests in November 2013, Sentsov joined the Automaidan movement and helped deliver food to Ukrainian soldiers surrounded by the Russian military in Crimea.

Why was he imprisoned in Russia?

In May 2014, Sentsov was arrested in Crimea by Russia’s FSB security service. He was accused of collaborating with the Ukrainian far-right ultranationalist group Right Sector to plot attacks on pro-Russian organizations in the cities of Simferopol, Sevastopol and Yalta. The “terrorist group” that Sentsov allegedly led carried out two arson attacks — one on the office door of the Russian Community in Crimea association and another at the headquarters of the ruling United Russia party in Simferopol. In addition, Sentsov was charged with conspiring to blow up the city’s Lenin monument and Eternal Flame memorial.

Sentsov during a check-up in prison in September

The evidence against Sentsov provided by the prosecution was largely based on the testimonies of two other defendants in the case, Gennady Afanasyev and Alexey Chirniy, who were eventually found guilty and sentenced to seven years in jail. Afanasyev, who was the main prosecution witness, later withdrew his confession, saying he had been forced to testify against Sentsov and that he had been tortured.

Still, in August 2015, a Russian military tribunal in Rostov-on-Don sentenced the Ukrainian film director to 20 years in a high–security penal colony. Sentsov claims to have been beaten, showing his wounds as evidence. But the tribunal dismissed his bruises, suggesting that he had inflicted them upon himself.

The fact that no one was injured in the arson attacks was also ignored by the court. After the country’s Supreme Court dismissed his appeal, Sentsov was sent to serve his sentence in a prison camp above the Arctic Circle, in the Russian town of Labytnangi.

Read more: Activist Zoya Zvetova shares concerns about human rights violations in Russia

Sentsov was tried as a Russian citizen despite holding only Ukrainian citizenship. In October 2016, Russia denied a request for Sentsov’s extradition toUkraine on the grounds that he had become a Russian citizen upon the annexation of Crimea.

Activists and human rights organizations continue to demand Sentsov’s release

Why did Sentsov go on a hunger strike?

On May 14, 2018 Sentsov went on a 145-day hunger strike, demanding that all Ukrainian political prisoners be freed from Russian jails. According to the Ukrainian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, their number has now reached 64. Although the hunger strike posed a threat to Sentsov’s life, his lawyer Dmitry Dinze pointed out that his client did not want to starve himself to death. “His goal is not to commit suicide or die in jail but to win. He just wants his demands to be met,” Dinze revealed in an interview with Russia’s online magazine Afisha Daily. He ended the strike on October 5.

Why is he considered a political prisoner?

Sentsov’s case has received widespread international attention, with several human rights organizations, including Amnesty International, and Human Rights Watch denouncing the judgement as disproportionate and politically motivated. Numerous prominent intellectuals, such as Nobel laureates Herta Müller and Svetlana Alexievich or film directors like Pedro Almodovar and Aki Kaurismäki, have also highlighted Sentsov’s plight. Russia’s best-known human rights organization, Memorial, deems Sentsov a political prisoner and has demanded his release.

Sentsov has pleaded ‘not guilty’ to all charges. “I consider myself a Maidan activist, but that does not mean that I am a criminal,” he said in his courtroom speech. “We drove out our criminal president. When your country occupied Crimea, I returned there and engaged in the same volunteer work as on Maidan,” he added. Sentsov also pointed out that he had spoken to hundreds of people and “considered what to do next.”

“But I never called on anybody to carry out actions that could have led to deaths. I did not create terrorist organizations, and I certainly had nothing to do with Right Sector,” he claimed.

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How Angry Car Owners Became The Driving Force Of Ukraine's Protest Movement

View this image ' Reuters KIEV, Ukraine - Eight days after he vanished without a trace during a midnight police attack on Automaidan, the activist drivers' group he leads, Dmitry Bulatov was found wandering, covered in bruises and severely concussed, in a village near Kiev, his face Read more at http://headacheshelp.com/awesome/how-angry-car-owners-became-the-driving-force-of-ukraines-protest-movement/

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How Angry Car Owners Became The Driving Force Of Ukraine's Protest Movement

How Angry Car Owners Became The Driving Force Of Ukraine’s Protest Movement

View this image › Reuters KIEV, Ukraine — Eight days after he vanished without a trace during a midnight police attack on Automaidan, the activist drivers’ group he leads, Dmitry Bulatov was found wandering, covered in bruises and severely concussed, in a village near Kiev, his face encrusted with black streaks of blood. Unknown assailants with Russian accents had kidnapped him and taken him to a…

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Maria Kuvshinova: What Sentsov Could Die For What Sentsov Could Die For Maria Kuvshinova Colta.Ru May 25, 2018 Oleg Sentsov. Photo by Sergei Pivovarov.

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Winter on Fire – An Essential Celebration of People’s Power

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Winter on Fire – An Essential Celebration of People’s Power

Peaceful marching through the streets has always been the time-honored way of public protest. The 2013/14 Ukranian AutoMaidan Revolution (aka “Revolution of Dignity”) started with orderly demonstrations as thousands of fed-up citizens people took to the streets of Kiev (capital city). The pro...

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Analyzing the situation in Venezuela, we see that the same funders that worked in Ukraine paid for the buildup of the crisis: Freedom House, USAID, International Republican Institute, National Endowment for Democracy and others. We see that the imperialists use the same tactics: they create organizations to influence the electoral process, the same as in Ukraine. In Ukraine, it was the Committee of Voters of Ukraine, and in Venezuela it’s Foro Penal Venezolano. For riots in the streets and attacks on “undesirables,” mobile fighting units are created, consisting of so-called civil society activists. In Ukraine, this was the right-wing organization AutoMaidan, in Venezuela the Guarimberos. And so on… Of course, there are differences due to local specifics. In Ukraine, the right-liberal opposition in 2013 was united, and in Venezuela, the opposition is strongly split. In Ukraine, there was no real strong national leader -- President Viktor Yanukovych turned out to be a rag and a vegetable. In Venezuela there is a strong leader -- Nicolas Maduro. Therefore, there is a chance that the imperialist forces will break their fangs.

Alexey Albu, coordinator of banned Ukrainian Marxist organization Borotba

From a forthcoming interview with Struggle-La Lucha

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Kherson, Ukraine's New Border, Automaidan, Afghans

Kherson, Ukraine’s New Border, Automaidan, Afghans

Despite having been to nearby Nikolaev many times, this was my first time in nearby Kherson. I came the 40 miles there just after having spent the day doing street interviews in Nikolaev. Situated both east, and south of that city which had expressed generally pro-Russian sentiments, yet with few expressing any real desire to be a part of Russia, I was interested to see how Kherson would compare.

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The Wanted Man Behind Ukraine's Protest-on-Wheels

It's a gruesome story.

After vanishing for eight days, just as an emboldened protest movement extracted key concessions from a reeling Ukrainian government, Dmytro Bulatov is now lying prone on a hospital bed. The 35-year-old activist—one of the leaders of Automaidan, a group of pro-European Union motorists working alongside the 'Euromaidan' street protesters—says unidentified men with Russian accents abducted him, cut off part of his ear, cut up his face, hung him up by his wrists, and left him to die outside Kiev in the bitter cold. Instead, Bulatov pounded on a villager's door and was rushed to the hospital.

"They crucified me, they nailed down my hands," he said on Ukraine's Channel 5.

The government has reacted ominously. Officials have opened a criminal investigation into the incident, but they have also sent police and prosecutors to the hospital, placed Bulatov on a wanted list, and speculated that his kidnapping was "staged with the aim of committing a provocation."

Read more. [Image: Reuters/Glen Garanich]

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#Euromaidan #Automaidan Беркут разгромил Ситроен Автомайдана :( (в Вулиця Богатирська)

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EUROMAIDAN. 18–31 December 2013. AutoMaidan activists

On 18 December Prime Minister Mykola Azarov stated that without the deal with Russia "bankruptcy and social collapse would have awaited Ukraine". He also added that there was no way Ukraine could have signed the EU Association Agreement as Ukraine would have had to accept unfeasibly stringent IMF conditions for economic reform. The protest on Maidan Nezalezhnosti continued on 18 December 2013. On 19 December President Viktor Yanukovych stated "We have decided to pause [on the Association Agreement] to work out on what kind of conditions should be in place for us to sign the Free Trade Zone Agreement [a part of the Association Agreement]. And this answer should be found by the government. There isn’t any contradiction about Ukraine’s course on the [EU] integration issue. Generally, this is not about the integration, this is about economical relations". Although he added "If we talk about the work on the free trade agreement [a part of the EU Association Agreement], this will take us some time, and we still have a lot of uncertainties. Surely, we should see how this will benefit us in the short term, midterm, and long term". He also added that Ukraine may combine the EU Association Agreement with observer status in the Customs Union of Belarus, Kazakhstan, and Russia and the Eurasian Economic Union. And that Ukraine expects to be granted observer status in the Eurasian Economic Union, "As concerns the Eurasian Union, we filed a written bid in Astana in August this year to consider Ukraine's participation in the Eurasian Union as an observer". The same day Polish Foreign Minister Radosław Sikorski stated "I do not know any formal facts that should say that it is impossible to sign the association agreement between Ukraine and the European Union". Meanwhile Russian President Vladimir Putin commented on the 17 December deal between Russia and Ukraine (which he described as an "act of brotherly love"): "This is not at all linked to (protests at) Maidan, nor with the EU-talks that Ukraine leads… We're just seeing that Ukraine is in dire straits and we should support her". On 20 December high-ranking EU-officials stated that the EU is still ready to sign the Association Agreement "as soon as Ukraine is ready for it", that this agreement was also beneficial for Russia and that the EU "is totally not concerned about the fact that Ukraine is signing agreements with Russia". On 20 December 2013 Prosvita building in Kharkiv was thrashed by unknown. On 21 December, Volodymyr Maralov, a member of the activist anti-corruption group Road Control was shot and his car burned at approximately 11 p.m. on Shevchenko Square in Kiev while being attacked by two men and one accomplice. According to the surgeon who removed the bullet, it was within 6 inches of his heart. The group claims the attack was part of an ongoing effort by officials to stop the organization's reporting on police corruption. The assailants allegedly demanded Maralov expose the whereabouts of a group member who received political asylum in the United States in November, and for the location of incriminating data. Earlier this month, Road Control journalist Andriy Dzyndzya and his lawyer Viktor Smaliy were remanded into custody for two months; Dzyndzya is accused of stealing keys to a front-end loader that was used on the 1 December riots, his lawyer is accused of attacking a judge. On 22 December, the fifth ongoing week of the protests, 100,000 rallied in Kiev. During this day major opposition parties and non-partisans established a nationwide political movement called Maidan People's Union. And Klitschko told the crowds "We won't leave this place in any case. I'm inviting you to stand and celebrate the New Year here, on the Maidan". On 23 December 2013 Russian presidential aide Yuri Ushakov stated "there is no contradiction" in Ukraine's association with the EU and their observer status in the Customs Union of Belarus, Kazakhstan, and Russia and the Eurasian Economic Union. On 24 December 2013 an armed assault was conducted in downtown of Kharkiv on co-organizer of protest in Kharkiv Dmytro Pylypets. He received 12 stab wounds. In the early morning of 25 December Tetiana Chornovol, a well known Ukrayinska Pravda journalist, Euromaidan social-activist, and Batkivshchyna party member was brutally assaulted near Boryspil International Airport. Euromaidan activists called for a picketing of the Ministry of Internal Affairs at 8 am, in which hundreds attended, calling for Minister of Internal Affairs Vitaliy Zakharchenko's resignation. Chornovil was hospitalized with a broken nose, a concussion and multiple bruises. Opposition parties accused the authorities of being behind the attacks, while a statement from Olena Bondarenko of the Party of Regions categorized the attack as spontaneous violence caused by Euromaidan, and blamed the opposition. On 27 December a law (drafted by the second Azarov Government) introduced criminal liability for the seizure of buildings "which leads to the disruption of their normal operation" in the Criminal Code of Ukraine. On 29 December, re-energised by the 25 December attack on Chornovol, tens of thousands gathered again in Kiev. About 200 cars packed with protesters joined by over a thousand protesters marched on President Yanukovych's Mezhyhirya residence 10 kilometres outside Kiev's outskirts.

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