CIVIC SECTOR OF

GRASSROOTS MOVEMENT

2015

EuroMaidan Newsletter # 65

Poroshenko: Nemtsov Killed Over Plan to Reveal Links to Conflict

March 2 element of warfare. http://goo.gl/LimDr0 Ukrainian President says Russian

– opposition politician and Kremlin critic Boris Nemtsov was Moscow preparing revolts in major Ukrainian cities, killed because he was going to reveal evidence of Moscow's Poroshenko ally says. http://goo.gl/Q3RJHm involvement in the separatist conflict in eastern Ukraine. http://goo.gl/Xb2CWP Mykhailo Chechetov, former deputy head of the Party of Regions parliament faction, was found dead after

bruary bruary Boris Nemtsov’s last post: “Crimea annexed committing suicide in on the night of Feb. 27. unlawfully”. http://goo.gl/oH2Gbi; Boris Nemtsov was http://goo.gl/nsHV69; His apparent suicide occurred a few murdered two weeks after he told a Russian newspaper that, hours after the Prosecutor General of Ukraine announced like his mother, he was afraid that would intentions to start criminal prosecution against him. have him killed. His was one of the few public voices of http://goo.gl/gL8Aoe sanity in , unafraid to speak out and even to make a 65.Fe 24 film about the war Putin has launched against Ukraine. Russian “separatist” proxies in the so-called “

# http://goo.gl/9zSC6R People’s Republic” (DNR) have announced that they consider Mariopol “their ” territory. http://goo.gl/Vybo8K Ukrainian model missing after witnessing Nemtsov’s murder. (Video) http://goo.gl/zCqKyh Ukrainian authorities on Feb. 27 took conciliatory steps towards demonstrators protesting the central bank's policy Mar. 1: Ukraine parliament member is arrested in Moscow after police cracked down on their camp the previous day. for participating in Nemtsov Memory March. (photos, Ukr) http://goo.gl/w521V0 http://goo.gl/VhpKhx Officers from the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) and the Slowly, the West is realizing that Ukraine needs help to Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) have detained five more prevail in Russia's war against the nation. Several countries suspects involved in the deaths of four citizens as a result of

NEWSLETTER are now sending military personnel to train the Ukrainian the Sunday, Feb.22 terrorist attack in . army. While not weapons, better training is also a crucial http://goo.gl/Im2dP6 ; http://goo.gl/R0271V

Left: Defenders of the freedom of speech, victims of Russia.

Centre and Right: Mar 1, Moscow. At least 10,000 people participated in Nemtsov memory march. “Leviafan killed Nemtsov and wants to eat Nadia” http://goo.gl/gSV1BQ; http://goo.gl/dDPKYh

‘Instead of a Maidan, the Donbas has come to Moscow’ Kyiv analyst: Putin will likely attack a NATO country next

Mikheil Saakashvili: “Ukraine’s younger generation is The March 1 protest represented an effort by Boris Nemtsov amazing and fearless. It has brought lively debate and an and others to “prepare a Russian Maidan … Only instead of open political system, and finally there is more or less a ‘Maidan,’ the Donbas came to Moscow,” in the form of consensus among the political class that business as usual bullets in his back, “the last political argument in the cannot continue. Drastic reform — to tackle corruption, Russian Federation.” http://goo.gl/LrxXN9 advance deregulation, attract foreign investment and liberate the country from the stranglehold of oligarchs and kleptocrats Kyiv analyst: Putin will likely attack a NATO country next. — is unavoidable”. http://goo.gl/vVKDY6 http://goo.gl/idgnXd

In Defense of the NBU’s Capital Controls. Ukraine 2015: “Putin’s plan” or a “Marshall plan”? Ukraine http://goo.gl/NPG0b1 is at war against two enemies: external and internal, Putin and corruption. It may be tough, but it has a chance to win Russia against Europe. Why is Russia so persistently both. E.Dykyj. (Ukr, Ita) http://goo.gl/3p23Rp 1aggress ive toward Ukraine? http://goo.gl/20a5h8

Monitors see advancement, not withdrawal

2015 Silent advances – the Russian offensive towards has already begun

attempting offensive actions. In particular, over a 24 UN: death toll surpasses 6,000 people in Donbas war. Nearly 15,000 have been wounded during the conflict. hour period (Feb 27), two tactical units of insurgents

2 March and Russian mercenaries attempted to attack the – http://goo.gl/C2k0mS positions of the ATO forces with the support of armored Mar.1: Ukraine military says militants using truce to vehicles in the vicinity of Opytne. http://goo.gl/yr6FqL regroup. http://goo.gl/a2dHLB Feb 28: Ukrainian photographer Serhiy Nikolayev died Russia concentrates its army around Mariupol and Pisky by shelling in Donetsk region. http://goo.gl/38Ocpc - Ukraine’s General Staff. http://goo.gl/wlK5CT Security experts believe that Ukraine will face more

65. 24 February Silent advances – the Russian offensive towards terror attacks after a blast in Kharkiv ripped through a # Mariupol already began. http://goo.gl/Et9g84 EuroMaidan Revolution anniversary march on Feb. 22, killing four people. http://goo.gl/s2fpt9 Russian generals run conflict in Donbas - U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Geoffrey Pyatt. The Donetsk terrorist gangs are using artillery to http://goo.gl/WODm9d execute Russian mercenaries who are owed back pay for several months of “service,” reports Liga.net, citing the Feb.28: Monitors see movement, not withdrawal, by Russian TV journalist Timur Olevsky. NEWSLETTER Kremlin-backed separatists as scattered fighting http://goo.gl/5vqN2M continues. http://goo.gl/ykIrtt ; Andriy Lysenko: Russia- backed militants deceive observers, imitating heavy Story of life and death of a Russian militant from Orsk weapons withdrawal. http://goo.gl/JxPXoQ who was killed in Donbas: "Every second man is here because of a loan or is hiding from justice". (Video) Feb.28: Operational data from Information Resistance. http://goo.gl/4M5QUl In the conflict zone in the Donbas, Russian-terrorist forces continue to grossly violate the ceasefire, firing at What life is like in the self-proclaimed separatist Ukrainian troop positions in the ATO area and republics. http://goo.gl/hNa1PB

Left: A mercenary from

Russia's Far East fighting in Ukraine. http://goo.gl/ol9Grx

Right: Vladimir Putin already has a theory about who killed one of his biggest critics. http://goo.gl/i1DYRO

Moscow court leaves Ukrainian POW Savchenko facing death by starvation Nadiya Savchenko: “I won’t see the spring, nor the Sun” . Ukrainian Pilot Jailed in Russia 'Could Die Within Days,' Nadiya Savchenko: “I won’t see the spring, nor the Sun”. Says Rights Advocate. http://goo.gl/T8KLFZ http://goo.gl/kx45aU Famous Russian writer and dissident A Moscow appeals court has rejected hunger -striking to Putin: If Savchenko dies, you would do well not to Ukrainian pilot Nadia Savchenko's challenge against an appear in Western capitals. http://goo.gl/eJwyu3 extension of her pretrial detention period, upholding a

ruling that she should remain in custody until May 13. http://goo.gl/n4O5qG

Yatseniuk as Prime-Minister - one year in

2015 How many billions of dollars did Ukraine lose in 2014?

60,900 ($2,794) bail on Feb. 25. It's been a year since Arseniy Yatseniuk became th http://goo.gl/9gX9NK

2 March Prime Minister of Ukraine. In a Feb 27 summarizing

– interview, Yatsenyuk reiterated his commitment to To Sell Airport. During the Yanukovych era, deep and structural changes in public administration, Boryspil International Airport went through at least energy sector, and other spheres. two high-profile scandals associated with attempts to http://goo.gl/Q9XYNW transfer it into private hands. Despite the change in officials, these attempts continue. The Finance Ministry will funnel the first tranche of a new IMF loan program into the replenishment of the http://goo.gl/0TiqN3 central bank's forex reserves and for foreign debt 65. 24 February On the Track of the Fleeing Capital. How many # repayments. http://goo.gl/9xPOcc billions of dollars has Ukraine lost in 2014? The government plans to increase social spending by http://goo.gl/zJJu3J 12.5 billion UAH, or some $450 million, to Deputy Education Minister Maksym Strikha: "Science outbalance the current 30 percent inflation rate. is not a means of satisfying one's curiosity, but the http://goo.gl/PO9VCc guarantee of the national security". Index for Monitoring Reforms (IMoRe) value for the http://goo.gl/4sdu9n

NEWSLETTER fourth monitoring period (February 9th –22nd 2015) On the maladies afflicting Ukraine’s National was at the lowest value since the start of monitoring. Academy of Sciences and its chances of recovery. See article for detailed statistics and explanations. http://goo.gl/s8x2sB http://goo.gl/obi8Pa . The so-called "Luhansk People’s Republic" has The Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine finalized a switched entirely to electricity supplies from Russia. resolution to introduce an additional 5-10% import http://goo.gl/2aYMep fee. http://goo.gl/xrjDe1

Ukrainian churches help Donbas refugees. A local court in Kyiv released Oleksandr Yefremov, http://goo.gl/XJylKX an ally of former President , on Hr

Ukrainians welcome Tatar refugees from Russia-occupied Crimea. http://goo.gl/U qYhyx ; Photos of Crimean Tatar refugees in Lviv http://goo.gl/6x SyC2

Bitter Crimean Anniversary – Victims of Russian Annexation

It has been exactly one year since Russian forces seized situation in the peninsula. http://goo.gl/UKJ63M control of government buildings and airports in Crimea Ukrainian Churches are facing imminent ban in Crimea. and organized the events leading swiftly to Russia’s http://goo.gl/9nXKft annexation of Crimea. It was a year that saw murder and

disappearances, Soviet-style bans and deportation, as New Weapon against Dissent in Crimea: ‘Ideology of well as persecution of all who oppose Russia’s Terrorism’. http://goo.gl/ngRSo3 occupation. http://goo.gl/cZFMSX

The West Is Ignoring Some Unpleasant Truths About Mustafa Dzhemilev: If Russia has occupied the Crimea, it Putin. http://goo.gl/ECsKdb shall bear full responsibility for the social and economic

Left: “Other world” of Ukrainian Carpathian

mountains. Photos of Ruslan Trach

2015 http://goo.gl/TibJjy

Right: 10 picturesque villages of Western Ukraine (Photos, Ukr)

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How recycling saves lives in Ukraine

65. 24 February

# Aero intelligence training center opened in Kyiv

Video) http://goo.gl/ycqKso How recycling saves lives in Ukraine. http://goo.gl/fxcp37 Those who never made it to last summer's grand show by the legendary Ukrainian rock band Okean Elzy have An aero intelligence support centre started working in a chance to see what they missed. The show has been Kyiv. Volunteer alumni from the National University NEWSLETTER turned into a movie. http://goo.gl/8OD4vo of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy (NaUKMA) and with support of the University aims to train the Ukrainian Valentyn Sylvestrov: Composer of Freedom. military in aero intelligence while also supplying them http://goo.gl/2S4a2C with drones. First battalion representatives have already passed their 3 week training course. (Ukr,

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