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A leader of the Ukrainian radical
group Pravy Sektor (Right Sector), Dmitry Yarosh, has called on Russias
most wanted terrorist Doku Umarov to act against Russia in an address
posted on Right Sectors page in VKontakte social network. READ MORE:
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Ukraine nationalist leader calls on 'most wanted' terrorist Umarov 'to act against Russia'
Published time: March 01, 2014 18:12
Edited time: March 02, 2014 01:54
A leader of the Ukrainian radical group Pravy Sektor
(Right Sector), Dmitry Yarosh, has called on Russia’s most wanted
terrorist Doku Umarov to act against Russia in an address posted on
Right Sector’s page in VKontakte social network.
The statement points out that “many Ukrainians with arms in
the hands” supported Chechen militants in their fight
against Russians and “it is time to support Ukraine
now.”
The message, signed “leader of Right Sector Dmitry
Yarosh” then calls on Umarov “to activate his
fight” and “take a unique chance to win” over
Russia.
Yarosh, who is a self-proclaimed deputy secretary of the National
Security and Defense Council of Ukraine, leads the far-right
militant Right Sector group. He used to be a leader of radical
nationalist group Trident, which became the core of Right Sector.
The radical leader has been consistently anti-Russian in his
statements, calling for the destruction and division of the
“Moscow Empire” and openly supporting Chechen militants
and Georgian aggression. Yarosh believes Russia is Ukraine’s
“eternal foe” and has said that war between the two
countries is “inevitable.”
At the same time, the Right Sector leader said Ukraine should be
“careful” with its future EU membership, as the
“bureaucratic monster of Brussels” is “doing
everything to bring to naught the national identity” of EU
member countries.
Yarosh’s outrageous plea to terrorist Doku Umarov exhibits the
“guts of the so-called new Ukrainian authorities,”
Chairman of the Presidium of the Russian Congress of Peoples of
the Caucasus told Itar-Tass.
“Extremists, nationalists of all stripes, flooded the
peaceful republic threatening it with chaos and violence,”
Aliy Totorkulov said.
Applause Erupts As Ukrainian Opposition Leader Freed From Prison
By Erik Ortiz and Maria Stromova
A
chief political rival of embattled Ukrainian President Viktor
Yanukovych was freed Saturday from prison as the defiant leader
struggled to hold on to power as protesters seized control of the presidential palace and the parliament voted to remove him from office.
Former
Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko waved to supporters from a car as she
was driven out of the hospital in the northeastern city if Kharkiv,
where she has been treated for a bad back while serving a seven-year
sentence since 2011.
"Our country can from this day on see the sun, because dictatorship fell," Tymoshenko said.
Parliament
members had voted to free her after Yanukovych fled the capital of Kiev
a day after announcing a pact with opposition leaders. Yanukovych said
he is traveling the country to seek advice and will “do everything to
stop the bloodshed” that left at least 77 dead, hundreds injured and
nearly collapsed the country into a civil war.
“I
am not planning to leave the country,” he said in a video televised on
local media. “I am not planning to resign. I am a legitimately elected
president. I was given guarantees of safety by all the international
mediators I worked with.”
Yanukovych
claimed his car was shot at, but that he didn’t fear for his life,
denouncing some of the opposition protesters as “bandits.”
“I
will not sign anything with the bandits who are terrorizing the whole
country and Ukrainian people. They are discrediting the country,” he
said on UBR television.
Presidential Press Service / AFP - Getty Images
Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych speaks to a local station in Kharkiv on Saturday.
In
another strike against the president, the parliament Saturday freed
Tymoshenko, who had been imprisoned on charges of abuse of office, which
the West had questioned. They also endorsed Oleksandr Turchynov as the
new speaker.
The apparent toppling of the pro-Russian looks likely to pull Ukraine away from Moscow’s orbit and closer to Europe.
Ukraine’s Leader Flees the Capital; Elections Are Called
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Protesters Take Control of Presidential Palace
Sergey Ponomarev for The New York Times
KIEV,
Ukraine — Abandoned by his own guards and reviled across the Ukrainian
capital but still determined to recover his shredded authority,
President Viktor F. Yanukovych fled Kiev on Saturday to denounce what he
called a violent coup, as his official residence, his vast, colonnaded
office complex and other once impregnable centers of power fell without a
fight to throngs of joyous citizens stunned by their triumph.
While
Mr. Yanukovych’s nemesis, former Prime Minister Yulia V. Tymoshenko,
was released from a penitentiary hospital, Parliament found the
president unable to fulfill his duties and exercised its constitutional
powers to set an election for May 25 to select his replacement. But with
both Mr. Yanukovych and his Russian patrons speaking of a “coup”
carried out by “bandits” and “hooligans,” it was far from clear that the
day’s lightning-quick events would be the last act in a struggle that
has not just convulsed Ukraine but expanded into an East-West
confrontation reminiscent of the Cold War.
President Viktor Yanukovych denounced a “coup” on TV.Presidential Press Service, via Agence France-Presse — Getty Images
At
the presidential residence a short distance from the capital,
protesters carrying clubs and some wearing masks were in control of the
entryways Saturday morning and watched as thousands of citizens strolled
through the grounds in wonder. “This commences a new life for Ukraine,”
said Roman Dakus, a protester-turned-guard, who was wearing a ski
helmet and carrying a length of pipe as he blocked a doorway at the
compound. “This is only a start,” he added. “We need now to make a new
structure and a new system, a foundation for our future, with rights for
everybody, and we need to investigate who ordered the violence.”
With
the riot police they battled for days having disappeared, the
protesters claimed to be in charge of security for the city. There was
no sign of looting, either in the city proper or in the presidential
compound.
A
pugnacious Mr. Yanukovych appeared on television Saturday afternoon,
apparently from the eastern city of Kharkiv, near Ukraine’s eastern
border with Russia, saying he had been forced to leave the capital
because of a “coup,” and that he had not resigned, and had no plans to.
He said indignantly that his car had been fired upon as he drove away.
“I
don’t plan to leave the country. I don’t plan to resign,” he said,
speaking in Russian rather than Ukrainian, the country’s official
language. “I am a legitimately elected president.” He added: “What is
happening today, mostly, it is vandalism, banditism and a coup d’état.
This is my assessment and I am deeply convinced of this. I will remain
on the territory of Ukraine.” He also complained of “traitors” among his
own former supporters but he declined to name them.
Regional
governors from eastern Ukraine met in Kharkiv and adopted a resolution
resisting the authority of Parliament. They said that until matters were
resolved, “we have decided to take responsibility for safeguarding the
constitutional order, legality, citizens’ rights and their security on
our territories.”
One of the few institutions still taking orders from the president was the official trilingual website of the Ukrainian presidency,
which posted a transcript of his defiant television address. But, by
evening, the text had appeared only in Ukrainian and Russian, suggesting
that his English translator had perhaps jumped ship.
The
former nerve center of Mr. Yanukovych’s power, the huge compound of the
presidential administration, just a few hundred yards from Independence
Square in Kiev, was empty Saturday aside from protesters who patrolled
its courtyard and blocked off a nearby street to prevent residents
swarming into the building. Ukrainian flags flying outside had all been
lowered to half-mast, in honor of those killed by police officers and
snipers on Thursday.
Mr.
Yanukovych said in his television appearance that he would be traveling
to the southeastern part of Ukraine to talk to his supporters — a plan
that carried potentially ominous overtones, in that the southeast is the
location of the Crimea, the historically Russian section of the country
that is the site of a Russian naval base.
The president’s departure from Kiev, just a day after a peace deal with the opposition
that he had hoped would keep him in office until at least December,
capped three months of streets protests and a week of frenzied violence
in the capital that left more than 75 protesters dead. It turned what
began in November as a street protest driven by pro-Europe chants and
nationalist songs into a momentous but still ill-defined revolution.
With
nobody clearly in charge, other than the so far remarkably disciplined
fighting squads, lieutenants of Ms. Tymoshenko moved to fill the power
vacuum. With Oleksandr V. Turchynov, a former acting prime minister and
close ally of Ms. Tymoshenko, presiding over the Parliament, her
Fatherland party seemed to be in charge, at least temporarily.
Ukraine Opposition Leader Vitali Klitschko in Fight of His Life
By Tracy Connor, Henry Austin and Alastair Jamieson
The
face of the opposition in the Ukraine is a heavyweight boxing champ
with a Ph.D who has lost only two fights but is now locked in the battle
of his life.
Vitali Klitschko, a 6-foot-7 father of three, is known as Dr. Ironfist for his achievements in the ring and the academic arena.
Once
feared for a devastating left jab, the 42-year-old is now landing
political blows as head of the Ukranian Democratic Alliance for Reform
and the protests that have erupted into deadly clashes in Kiev.
At
least one old opponent is in his corner. Lennox Lewis, who defeated
Klitschko in a controversial 2003 match, tweeted his support on
Wednesday.
Klitschko's
new rival is Ukranian President Viktor Yanukovich — and he demanded
Yanukovich resign on Wednesday, saying he's responsible for "murder and
terror against peaceful civilians."
"Blood
is shed on the streets of Kiev," Klitschko said in a video address.
"The main reason for this is actions of the authorities. Therefore,
people today demand Yanukovich and his government to resign.
"The
sooner this happens, the less blood is shed, the faster Ukraine will
move to a civilized future for which people has taken to the streets."
Earlier,
he had appeared in Independence Square — after fierce fighting left 26
people, including 10 police officers, dead — to urge demonstrators to
hold their ground.
"We will not go anywhere from here," he told the crowd. "This is an island of freedom and we will defend it."
The
son of a Soviet pilot and former colonel who launched his boxing career
in 1995, Klitschko got involved in politics during an injury-forced
temporary retirement. In 2005, he made a bid to become mayor of Kiev —
the first of three failed runs for the seat.
Vitali
Klitschko, the UDAR (Punch) party head, helps anti-government
protesters carry a wounded man. (Yury Kirnichny / AFP Getty Images)
As
protests turned deadly violent Tuesday in Kiev, two of the Ukraine’s
more vocal and visible leaders are men who became household names in the
world of sports.
Vitali Klitschko, the former boxing champion and
the head of the pro-Western Udar opposition party in Ukraine, urged
protesters to continue their actions while Sergei Bubka, the former
pole-vaulting great, urged peace from the Winter Olympics in Sochi.
Klitschko addressed a crowd of about 20,000 Wednesday, telling people to
defend their camp even as fires burned around it.
“We will not go
anywhere from here,” Klitschko told the crowd (via the Associated
Press) at the main encampment at Independence Square. “This is an island
of freedom and we will defend it.” Read More and Watch Video Here
Tens
of thousands of Bahraini pro-democracy protesters wave signs and
national flags during a march along a divided four-lane highway near
Barbar, Bahrain, west of the capital of Manama, Feb. 15, 2014.
Reuters
February 15, 2014
MANAMA
— Tens of thousands of Bahrainis joined a peaceful demonstration on
Saturday to mark the third anniversary of an abortive pro-democracy
uprising led by majority Shi'ite Muslims.
The rally organized by the kingdom's main opposition al-Wefaq movement was one of the biggest staged since 2011.
Vast
crowds of men, women and children took to the streets of the small Gulf
Arab nation calling for democracy, political reform and the release of
political prisoners, witnesses said.
"We will not stop until we achieve our demands," protesters shouted. "Shi'ites and Sunnis, we all love this country."
Police
could not be seen at the rally on Budaiya Highway, which links
Bahrain's southern Budaiya region with the capital Manama, witnesses
said. No clashes were reported.
The Interior Ministry said a
policeman had died after being wounded by a "terrorist" blast on Friday.
Three other policemenwere wounded the same day, while 26 people had
been arrested.
"Some villages saw rioting, vandalism and the targeting of policemen," the ministry said, referring to Friday's unrest.
Bahrain,
with Saudi help, crushed the demonstrations that began on Feb. 14, 2011
inspired by Arab uprisings elsewhere, but has yet to resolve the
conflict between majority Shi'ites and the Sunni-led monarchy they
accuse of oppressing them.
The ruling family has launched a third round of dialogue with its opponents, but no political agreement is in sight.
Police officers carry the body of fellow policeman Abdul Wahid Al
Balouchi, who was killed in a bombing on Friday, during his funeral
procession in Riffa, Bahrain, Saturday, Feb. 15, 2014. Thousands of
Bahraini protesters clashed with security forces on Saturday, sending
tear gas into a major shopping mall and bringing the capital's streets
to a standstill on the same day that authorities said a police officer
died of injuries sustained from an earlier bombing. Photo: Uncredited,
AP
MANAMA, Bahrain (AP) — Bahraini anti-government activists
clashed with security forces as thousands of demonstrators took to the
streets on Saturday, sending tear gas into a major shopping mall and
bringing the capital's streets to a standstill on the same day that
authorities said a police officer died of injuries sustained from an
earlier bombing.
The Interior Ministry
said that the officer was one of two injured in what it called a
"terrorist blast" on Friday in the village of Dair, near the country's
main airport. It did not identify the officer. In a second statement,
the ministry characterized recent attacks against security forces as
"urban guerrilla warfare."
Chaos in the small Gulf-island nation
highlights deeper regional sectarian tensions that continue to roil
Bahrain three years after the country's majority Shiites began an Arab
Spring-inspired uprising to demand greater political rights from the
Sunni-led monarchy.
Neighboring Sunni-ruled Gulf countries with
smaller Shiite populations, led by Saudi Arabia, sent troops to Bahrain
in an effort to stem the uprising in 2011. More than 65 people have died
in the unrest, but rights groups and others put the death toll higher.
Ukraine unrest: EU and US clash with Russia in Munich
Anti-government protests in Ukraine show no sign of coming to an end
European
Council President Herman Van Rompuy said the "future of Ukraine belongs
with the EU" while US Secretary of State John Kerry said the US backed
Ukraine's "fight for democracy".
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov accused Western countries of double standards over violent protests.
Ukraine has been in turmoil since November, when it scrapped an EU accord in favour of a Russian bailout. 'Time on our side'
The security conference is an annual event held to discuss military and political affairs.
Mr Van Rompuy's opening speech referred to the EU's offer of close association with Ukraine.
"The offer is still there and we know time is on our side. The future of Ukraine belongs with the European Union," he said.
Mr Kerry launched a broad attack on "a disturbing trend in too many parts of Central and Eastern Europe and the Balkans".
He
said: "The aspirations of citizens are once again being trampled
beneath corrupt, oligarchic interests - interests that use money to
stifle political opposition and dissent, to buy politicians and media
outlets, and to weaken judicial independence."
Mr
Kerry added: "Nowhere is the fight for a democratic, European future
more important today than in Ukraine. The United States and EU stand
with the people of Ukraine in that fight."
He said the "vast
majority of Ukrainians want to live freely in a safe and prosperous
country - they are fighting for the right to associate with partners who
will help them realise their aspirations".
In an apparent swipe
at Moscow, he added that "their futures do not have to lie with one
country alone, and certainly not coerced".
Mr Lavrov said that a "choice is being imposed [on Ukraine] and Russia is not going to be engaged in this".
He
asked: "What does incitement of violent street protests have to do with
the promotion of democracy? Why do we not hear condemnation of those
who seize government buildings and attack police and use racist,
anti-Semitic and Nazi slogans?"
John Kerry had harsh words for corruption in eastern Europe and the Balkans
The
United States has traded barbs with Russia over Ukraine's future as key
opposition figures met US Secretary of State John Kerry amid concerns
that Kiev could call in the military to end anti-government protests.
Neither
side pulled any punches on Saturday, with Kerry saying that what
happens in Ukraine is crucial for Europe's future while his Russian
counterpart Sergei Lavrov blasted what he called wilful and two-faced
Western interference.
'Nowhere is the fight for a democratic,
European future more important today than in Ukraine,' Kerry told
political, diplomatic and military leaders at the Munich Security
Conference.
'The United States and EU stand with the people of
Ukraine in that fight,' said Kerry, who met later Saturday with
Ukrainian opposition leaders including former world boxing champion
Vitali Klitschko in Munich.
Kerry said Ukrainians 'are fighting
for the right to associate with partners who will help them realise
their aspirations - and they have decided that means their futures do
not have to lie with one country alone, and certainly not coerced.'
Presidential Press Service / AFP - Getty Images
