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Nationalist Group Takes Responsibility for Murders in Ukraine
Nationalist Group Takes Responsibility for Murders in Ukraine
The Spate of Mysterious Deaths Continues
We have previously reported on a series of mysterious “suicides” of former members of Viktor Yanukovich’s Party of the Regions in Ukraine (see “Mysterious Deaths in Ukraine” for details and the list of the dear departed as of March 26). At the time it wasn’t quite clear whether this was a falling out among thieves, or what seemed more likely, a politically motivated series of murders which the government duly neglected to investigate by declaring even quite obviously suspicious deaths suicides. After we posted the article, yet another former Party of the Regions politician died of a gunshot wound – Oleg Kalashnikov (aptly named for the occasion). Spinning this one as a suicide was difficult, but the authorities were nevertheless curiously reluctant to call it a murder, preferring to simply say nothing instead.
However, when a government-critical journalist, Oles Buzyna was recently murdered by two sharp shooters while jogging near his home, it became altogether impossible to call it a suicide again. A few hours later, yet another journalist critical of the government, Sergey Sukhobok, was killed in Kiev. Sukhobok was born in Donetsk and vehemently opposed to the government’s use of force in Eastern Ukraine. Buzyna, while a severe critic of extremist nationalists and the government, was not simply “pro Russian” either, as Justin Raimondo notes here. Rather, he was in favor of Ukrainian independence, without wanting the country to be subsumed in the EU’s superstate monstrosity.
Raimondo also points to a number of other things the government in Kiev has done in recent months that are not exactly compatible with the fairy tale of Ukraine’s new leadership representing converts to “Western values”:
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Macedonia authorities allege opposition plot to topple government
Macedonia authorities allege opposition plot to topple government
(Reuters) – Police in Macedonia said on Saturday they would charge four people with trying to overthrow the government, including – according to one senior government official – the leader of the main opposition Social Democrats.
Police said the plot involved trying to gather intelligence against the government and blackmailing Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski to dissolve his cabinet and call a snap election.
A senior government official who declined to be named told Reuters that one of the suspects was Zoran Zaev, leader of the Social Democrats, who appeared defiant in comments on Macedonian website A1on.
“This is a clear attempt by the government to prevent the publication of their crimes and all the evil that this government has done,” A1on quoted Zaev as saying.
The prospect of his imprisonment threatens to further deepen political divisions in the former Yugoslav republic, with the Social Democrats boycotting parliament for almost a year since alleging fraud in the last parliamentary election.
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