Antimaydan: action against violence
The events that have been happening in Ukraine lately, have forced part of the population to rally to protect against those who use violence on the barricades. In some areas even special organizations and associations were created. So, in particular, in the Lviv region, an association called "National Guard of Ukraine." In addition, the Verkhovna Rada received a proposal to create a parliamentary association, which will take over the resolution of the issue of resolving the situation in Kiev and the country as a whole.
The organization includes people who have permits to own firearms weapons. The main task entrusted to them is the protection of citizens. According to a member of the initiative group of Svyatoslav Yavorivsky, the organization has nothing to do with terrorism or extremism, but its members are ready to give a fitting rebuff to those traitors who commit violence and are doing lawlessness. Yavorivsky called for the creation of such organizations throughout Ukraine.
At the same time, the Ukrainian parliament also voiced a proposal to create a deputy union, which should end the confrontation between the pro-government and opposition forces. Currently, there is a real threat of a split in the country (which, in fact, is under siege). Civil conflict gradually began to develop into a war in which people perish. The gulf between the people and the government becomes insurmountable. Therefore, the Verkhovna Rada can no longer consist of two irreconcilable camps, but must unite and take responsibility for the state and prevent the imposition of a state of emergency.
Currently, after the adoption of the “anti-Maidan” laws of January 16, which tightened the criminal punishment to the protesters, mass riots began in Kiev, which resulted in the seizure of regional administrations of ten oblasts: Volyn, Lviv, Ivano-Frankivsk, Chernivtsi, Rovno, Ternopil, Khmelnitsky , Vinnitsa, Zhytomyr and Poltava. In addition, attempts to capture were carried out in Chernigov, Cherkasy and Sumy. Clashes of protesters and law enforcement officers also occurred in Zaporizhia, Kremenchug and Dnepropetrovsk.
The president offered the opposition leaders a place in the Ukrainian government, and if they agreed, he promised to send the Cabinet of Ministers to resign. Later, Klitschko and Yatsenyuk spoke to the protesters with a statement that they intend to achieve the holding of early presidential elections.
In spite of the fact that “Euromaidan” ideas covered most of the country's territory, nevertheless, those areas that look at what is happening from a completely different angle have survived. In Western Ukraine, where the local population supports Euromaidan and where power passed into the hands of opposition forces with little or no battle, there is one area that is very different from the rest. This is about the Transcarpathian region. In the capital, Uzhgorod, several attempts have been made over the past few days to seize the local administration. In the capital on Euromaidan several times already reported the fall of Uzhgorod. But in reality, the opposition forces failed to seize power. And even more: not only representatives of law enforcement agencies, but also civil activists from the local population, who categorically reject the goals of the opposition, came out against extremists.
In Uzhgorod, there are rumors that in reality the organizers of Euromaidan in Kiev are not locals at all, but activists from the Svoboda association and other far-right organizations (or Galician Nazis, as they are called in Transcarpathia). Self-defense detachments form against the opposition in the city, which must oppose the opposition. And even more, some of the locals threaten to cut off gas to Europe if it continues to support radical extremists. And these are far from empty threats. It is worth remembering only that the Urengoy-Pomary-Uzhgorod gas pipeline passes through the Transcarpathian region, which was built during the Soviet period and which supplies central European and Eastern European states with fuel.
The lack of great support for opposition forces in the Transcarpathian region is quite simple to explain. The fact is that the Rusyns have long lived in Transcarpathia, whom the center-right forces have always viewed as a pro-Russian minority. And to some extent, this characteristic is not without logic, as evidenced by the results of the majority of elections and referendums (here the vote is about the same as in the eastern regions of the country). In addition, in the memory of the local population there are still memories of the period of the Second World War, when the region was under the control of Ukrainian nationalists, who organized mass repressions here and pursued a policy of forced Ukrainization. The activities of the nationalists left such a negative memory of themselves that the new generation of the center-right sense is also met with hostility. Therefore, it is not surprising that the residents of Transcarpathia do not want to live in a state in which neo-Nazis will be in power. And local activists are already thinking about what responses could be: whether joining the status of a separate territory to the European Union, or joining Eastern Ukraine.
Despite the fact that these threats look fantastic, the residents of Transcarpathia are very serious. And they have already taken the first decisive steps: about three hundred Transcarpathians are currently blocking the access to Uzhgorod on the Veretsky Pass. They intend to prevent the entry of Galician extremists into the territory of Transcarpathia, who from Lvov went to Uzhgorod to capture the regional administration and administrative buildings.
Something similar is happening in the eastern regions. So, for example, the governor of the Luhansk region V. Pristyuk made a statement that the local population intends to give a fitting rebuff to visiting extremists who are trying to establish their own rules in other regions. The governor noted that everything is stable in the region, people are working. No one touches anyone here. People have their own position, and they do not want to take part in the riots and political sabbath that takes place in the country. In Lugansk, we will note, round the clock patrols of national combatants and law enforcement authorities are on duty.
In Odessa, near the regional administration a few days ago, a rally of "anti-Maidanovites" was held. People stood with posters: “Ukraine without Maidan”, “Our President Yanukovych”. Among the protesters were activists of the pro-government party, "Youth Unity", "Watch", "Young Regions". The governor of the region N. Skorik, as well as the chairman of the regional council N. Tindyuk, his deputy P. Khlytsov also took part in the rally. In their speeches, they all condemned the euromaidan, called for a ban on the All-Ukrainian Union "Freedom".
The last point, by the way, was performed in the Autonomous Republic of Crimea. In connection with the situation in Ukraine, the Supreme Council took some measures aimed at maintaining public security and order in the territory of the autonomy. The council’s statement says that in connection with the anti-constitutional coup that occurred in ten regions, the legitimate authority was removed from the exercise of the powers vested in it, the status of autonomy was also threatened. In this regard, the Presidium decided to ban the activities and symbols of the All-Ukrainian Freedom Association and other extremist formations on the territory of the Crimea Crimea. In addition, the Council instructed the management of the Ministry of Internal Affairs to use all legal methods and methods to ensure the protection of life and health, property, rights and freedoms of the population in the autonomy. Among these methods is the strengthening of the protection of the territory of Crimea at the entrances (airports, bus stations, train stations), as well as the prevention of the activities of radical groups and organizations encroaching on the legitimate interests of citizens and the state on the territory of the autonomy.
Materials used:
http://www.utro.ru/articles/2014/01/27/1171256.shtml
http://www.aif.ru/euromaidan/prediction/1091450
http://polemika.com.ua/news-136787.html
http://polemika.com.ua/news-137050.html
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