{"id":7472,"date":"2015-04-22T06:30:28","date_gmt":"2015-04-22T11:30:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=7472"},"modified":"2015-04-22T06:31:12","modified_gmt":"2015-04-22T11:31:12","slug":"7472","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=7472","title":{"rendered":"Nationalist Group Takes Responsibility for Murders in Ukraine"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"art-postheader\"><a title=\"Permanent Link to Nationalist Group Takes Responsibility for Murders in Ukraine\" href=\"http:\/\/www.acting-man.com\/?p=36986\" rel=\"bookmark\">Nationalist Group Takes Responsibility for Murders in Ukraine<\/a><\/h3>\n<p><strong>The Spate of Mysterious Deaths Continues<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>We have previously reported on a series of mysterious \u201csuicides\u201d of former members of Viktor Yanukovich\u2019s Party of the Regions in Ukraine (see \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.acting-man.com\/?p=36575\">Mysterious Deaths in Ukraine<\/a>\u201d for details and the list of the dear departed as of March 26). At the time it wasn\u2019t 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 \u2013 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.<\/p>\n<p>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\u2019s use of force in Eastern Ukraine. Buzyna, while a severe critic of extremist nationalists and the government, was not simply \u201cpro Russian\u201d either, as\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/original.antiwar.com\/justin\/2015\/04\/16\/the-murderers-of-kiev\/\">Justin Raimondo notes here<\/a>. Rather, he was in favor of Ukrainian independence, without wanting the country to be subsumed in the EU\u2019s superstate monstrosity.<\/p>\n<p>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\u2019s new leadership representing converts to \u201cWestern values\u201d:<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nationalist Group Takes Responsibility for Murders in Ukraine The Spate of Mysterious Deaths Continues We have previously reported on a series of mysterious \u201csuicides\u201d of former members of Viktor Yanukovich\u2019s Party of the Regions in Ukraine (see \u201cMysterious Deaths in Ukraine\u201d for details and the list of the dear departed as of March 26). At [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[3088,1610,1314,4879,4877,4878,821,2283],"class_list":["post-7472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-government-opposition","tag-kiev","tag-murder","tag-oleg-kalashnikov","tag-party-of-the-regions","tag-sergey-sukhobok","tag-ukraine","tag-viktor-yanukovich"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7472","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7472"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7472\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7474,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7472\/revisions\/7474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}