sign in sign up
<<
Home , Euromaidan, Kseniya Simonova, Serhiy Taruta

CIVIC SECTOR OF GRASSROOTS MOVEMENT EuroMaidan Newsletter # 26

2014 Poroshenko promises peace, offers terms to insurgents

Presidential elections are a prologue to the dramatic overhaul of the Ukrainian

June political landscape

9

0

- On May 7, 2014 the new Ukrainian President Petro understanding" with on parts of a plan

03 Poroshenko was inaugurated in . With his proposed by President for ending inauguration, he also became the head of ’s violence in the east of the country. Read more at (Eng)

.

6 military forces. See photos at http://goo.gl/0bcp3K http://goo.gl/tQLqOm 2

# In his first speech as the , The Birth of New Political Reality Poroshenko promised to achieve peace, unity and Presidential elections are merely a prologue to the European integration for Ukraine while in office. (Eng) dramatic overhaul of the political landscape (Eng) http://goo.gl/Eo3Ksz http://goo.gl/oexAeT

Read the English-language translation of Poroshenko's Newly inaugurated President Poroshenko says he is inaugural address on June 7 (Eng) http://goo.gl/rWdcIn willing to call local 's restive and watch video at http://goo.gl/w2Gaxw region but insists the country will always be a unitary state (Eng) http://goo.gl/UFvNXx

NEWSLETTER With 56 international delegations at Poroshenko’s inauguration and a noticeable spike in The G7 have given another month to ‘take cultural and intellectual life prompted by the measures’ at de-escalation while in reality it will in Kyiv, Ukraine stands out as an old country with a continue to wage an undeclared war on Ukraine. new soul. Read more (Eng) http://goo.gl/3TF4D8 Meanwhile, France is free to sell warships to Russia and train the Russian navy on how to use them (Eng) The international reaction to Poroshenko’s inauguration. http://goo.gl/31aDz3 Read more at (Eng) http://goo.gl/NnWGWQ Will Ukraine’s next President be able to stop Russia’s The main challenge for Poroshenko today is to imperial ambitions? Read more (Eng) understand that his victory is the result of a fortuitous http://goo.gl/w3Hvwl set of circumstances and in no way a vindication of all of the choices he has made during a convoluted political Petro Poroshenko: Ukraine’s search for an honest career. (Eng) http://goo.gl/I5KrZ9 oligarch. Read more at (Eng) http://goo.gl/rTT0re

June 9: Ukraine said it has reached a "mutual

07.06.14. Inauguration of th the 5 President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko; 06.06.14. Russian President Putin in isolation during a meeting in Normandy, France.

1

Another column of Russian armored vehicles breaks through

the Ukrainian border June 7: another column of Russian armored vehicles broke (Eng) http://goo.gl/zCaLGa through the Ukrainian border (Eng) http://goo.gl/py1a9U Has Been a Mafia State for Years. Can Kiev

2014

In an open appeal to Ukraine’s prime minister Arseniy Break the Cycle of Violence? (Eng) http://goo.gl/z9o53U Yatsenyuk, the parliamentary speaker and head of the SBU [security service] and the Human Rights Group has “If not me, then who?” Trains At Ukrainian

June called for urgent measures to evacuate all residents of areas National Guard Base. Motivated not by money, but by an idea,

9

0 where the authorities’ anti-terrorist operation is underway.

- they are all volunteers who have taken leave from their work, (Eng) http://goo.gl/ivgAxc who choose not to fight, but to defend Ukraine at the front lines. (video w. English subtitles) http://goo.gl/an00d7 Russian leaders have made clear that the antiterrorist operation

26. 03

# in Ukraine’s east is, for the Kremlin, a stumbling block to Soon a new battalion called “”, consisting of Crimean recognizing the elections. Russia’s refusal has no effect on Tatars, will join the National Guard. (Eng) http://goo.gl/7iYdrk electoral legitimacy or world recognition, but this does affect prospects for a diplomatic, negotiated settlement of the crisis In recent years, the West has been largely oblivious to Russia’s between the two states. (Eng) http://goo.gl/dN4QYW propaganda machine, which has managed to use its reach to create a league of clueless Putinists the world over. The Acting President announced the partial Ukrainian popular revolution has shined a spotlight on the closing of Ukraine’s eastern border, including in Central outright fabrications and despicable lies by Kremlin-controlled NEWSLETTER and North Oblasts (Eng) media which strives to create an alternate reality for its http://ukrainianweek.com/News/110326 audiences. Russia’s top 20 lies about Ukraine (Eng) http://goo.gl/4diQXh Russia criminalizes ‘concealment’ of dual citizenship. Russian President has signed into force a law Russian involved in kidnapping OSCE which is surely aimed at putting further pressure on representatives (Eng, video) http://goo.gl/ewQ4O3 living in the Crimea under Russian . (Eng) http://goo.gl/2UuVo1 Russia has already added information about its annexation of the Crimea to school history textbooks. Read more at Ukraine is in the process of filing a lawsuit against the Russian http://goo.gl/Bexwsq Federation in the amount of USD 84.7 billion for the recent annexation of Crimea, said Ukraine’s Acting Prime Minister

June 7, Slovyansk terrorists bombed an orphanage. (Eng) http://goo.gl/1bPD CX

Sentsov: My country, for whose freedom I fought, will not abandon me More than 200 hostages held by militants In Crimea, prior to being sent to jail in Moscow, detained The “government” of the self-proclaimed “Donetsk People’s film director was beaten, strangled, and Republic” prevents refugees from leaving the region. (Eng) threatened with rape by representatives of the Federal http://goo.gl/ZnL2nt Security Service of Russia. (Eng) http://goo.gl/8zve3c ; http://goo.gl/USy7xf Kremlin-backed militants on the hunt for pro-Ukrainian students (Eng) http://goo.gl/xzw7XU The Governor of the State Administration announced that militants in the oblast are “Luhansk will never be the same again”. Read a story of a holding more than 200 hostages (Eng) blogger about his native city at http://goo.gl/WAhvWQ http://goo.gl/A7YW5Q 2

Ukrainian interim Government’s first 100 days in office

2014 Ukraine’s interim government’s first 100 days in office, Kyiv and Moscow reportedly to restart talks on June 7

summary (Eng) http://goo.gl/2tN6Jr about their dispute over Russian natural gas deliveries. (Eng) http://goo.gl/0V2hYB

June

Moral Authorities Initiative Group “December 1” have

09

- announced the necessity of extraordinary parliamentary Read about Ukraine’s export and high dependency on

3

0 elections: “it is the moral duty of authorities to Russia as its major export partner at

. announce elections” (Ukr) http://goo.gl/nZzdty http://goo.gl/bHRZAg

26 # Authorities to create a new constitutional committee Nuland and Kolomoysky discuss anti-corruption efforts (Eng) http://uacrisis.org/ihor-koliushko/ in Ukraine. Read more at (Eng) http://goo.gl/Xjp1RH

NEWSLETTER Stop Supporting Terrorists! No

Business with Putin’s Criminal Regime, says London Euromaidan (Eng) http://goo.gl/rDM9VS Over 30,000 shelters prepared for Donbas refugees (Eng) http://goo.gl/waAO 6I

The Future of Maidan

June 7: the Viche on Maidan is demanding Vitaliy Popov got married two weeks ago, just a week extraordinary Parliamentary elections and a complete after they met on Independence Square. (Eng) power reload in Ukraine (Ukr) http://goo.gl/lgRCU5 http://goo.gl/F8xhtG

June 6: Activists from the Civic Sector of EuroMaidan Documents exposing the enormous web of corruption demanded a public report of the Government’s first involving Victor Yanukovych were in the spotlight at 100 days in office (fotoreport, Ukr) Mezhyhirya Fest, an international conference on

http://goo.gl/IauPJw investigative journalism held at the fugitive ex- president’s opulent country estate outside Kyiv. Read The newly elected mayor of Kyiv, Vitaliy Klitschko, more (Eng) http://goo.gl/Qqfhda has announced that Maidan – the heart of the

Euromaidan revolution in the center of Kyiv – will be Architects propose a new vision for the Maidan. Read cleared in the near future. (Eng) http://goo.gl/b1vyMb more (Eng) and see photos at http://goo.gl/OMfcXh

Many social initiatives that emerged on Maidan are How Ukraine ousted an autocrat: the logic of civil now successfully engag ed in helping the Ukrainian resistance. Read more at (Eng) http://goo.gl/mL451i army and the National Guard. There are dozens, #MaidanLivesOn: From Revolution to Reform. Watch hundreds, and perhaps even thousands – within the scope of the country – of such groups. (Eng) a prerecorded online discussion about the future of http://goo.gl/e7up6O Ukraine’s reforms (Eng) at http://goo.gl/zcXGRq

Read news bulletin No 1 of the civic initiative EuroMaidan Revolution activist Liza Shaposhnik, who is living with cerebral palsy, and Russian activist Reanimation Pack of Reforms for Ukraine at (Eng) http://goo.gl/RN2Mgg

What has been voted in the Parliament on , 2014 The Decree voted by the MPs declared cease fire Ukrainian physicist pioneered the field of nuclear and

2014 gravitation science

June

09 Between Hitler and Stalin: Ukraine in World War II Dmitri Ivanenko made a great contribution to the - 3 (Video with Eng subtitles, annotations in Eng) physical science of the twentieth century, especially to

0

. http://goo.gl/fIJu5D; http://www.ucrdc.org/Film- nuclear physics, field theory (physics), and gravitation

6

2 Hitler.html theory. His outstanding achievements include: the first

# shell model of nuclei (1932); the first model of exchange Ukrainians made an enormous contribution to allied nuclear forces (1934); the prediction of synchrotron victory in World War II (Eng) http://goo.gl/RdRlX7 radiation (1944); and, the theory of hypernuclei (1956) (Eng) http://goo.gl/PwKfVR

NEWSLETTER

Left: Kseniya Simonova – master of sand animation. Watch video at http://goo.gl/DLYocP Right: St. Michael Cathedral in Kyiv. Ukrainian Baroque is distinct from Western European Baroque in having more moderate ornamentation and simpler forms (Eng) http://goo.gl/saM6lP; http://goo.gl/PshKsg

CONTACT INFORMATION

Press-center of Civic Sector of EuroMaidan Kateryna Maksym +38(066) 6906927 [email protected]

www.facebook.com/hrom.sektor.euromaidan http://euro-revolution.org Follow us on twitter @maidan_go

Previous issues of our newsletter are available at http://goo.gl/IxWXRd

If you wish to receive this newsletter, or if you would like to unsubscribe, please email Anastasia Bezverkha at [email protected]