CIVIC SECTOR OF GRASSROOTS MOVEMENT

2014 EuroMaidan Newsletter # 44 Red Cross representative killed in Donetsk Putin grants Russian citizenship to Yanukovych

October as “speculation”. http://goo.gl/1sm7CA Laurent Du Pasquier, representative of the Swiss Red

6 Cross died when a shell landed near the organization's Russian President has granted Russian

– headquarters in the separatist-held city of Donetsk. citizenship to former Ukrainian President Viktor http://goo.gl/aUVf8B Yanukovych, former Prime Minister and former Prosecutor General Viktor Pshonka. How Russian lies become news: ICRC representative http://goo.gl/mS3J1U death in Donetsk case study. http://goo.gl/MNTLye Putin suggests own terms for a dialogue with Ukraine. Watch StopFake News #27 in English at http://goo.gl/61Fe6L http://goo.gl/TgYZHj

September Mychailo Wynnyckyj: 10 reasons that a full-scale 0 At least 974 soldiers killed in ’s war against

3 invasion of Ukraine is possible before winter. Ukraine. http://goo.gl/v7p8ae

. http://goo.gl/OxvuFC

4 Russian Ministry of Defense declared the information

4 The Breach: Ukraine’s territorial integrity and the about Russian militaries taking part in the conflict in # Budapest Memorandum. http://goo.gl/qOvJkm

Left: the ‘Cyborg’ – 19- year old Ukrainian defender of the Donetsk airport. Watch video at (Ukr) http://goo.gl/HV9YWV

Right: A "DEATH

NEWSLETTER MAP” OF CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY Information on Russia- backed terrorists’ crimes against humanity in Donetsk and Luhansk regions. http://goo.gl/QqdQTC

Putin’s Russia will soon face 1917-like crisis Russian ruble hits all-time low

Russia this week: despite further refutations, even from Khodorkovsky sees 1917-like crisis coming to Russia separatist leaders, disinformation about mass graves and under Putin. (Eng, Video). http://goo.gl/o5lwU3 ‘organ-trafficking’ still circulates; Putin’s girlfriend to How the ‘Russian world’ concept propels Russian head Russian media group; Russian ruble hits all-time aggression in Ukraine. http://goo.gl/RBahKI low. http://goo.gl/F7Ssyv Russia’s Investigative Committee [IC] has faced - and will ‘do everything possible’ to defend failed - many tests to its credibility over recent months, compatriots in Baltic countries, Russian diplomat says. but its new ‘genocide’ case against Ukraine is probably a http://goo.gl/BgryNK record-breaker. http://goo.gl/GVAQ56 Russia’s Defense Ministry has proposed setting aside a Siberian professor fired after taking part in an academic special day to honor the Russian soldiers deployed without insignia for Moscow’s March annexation of conference in Ukraine. http://goo.gl/iC1Q5n . The move coincides with letters from the same ministry denying the ever-mounting evidence of Russian Nearly half of Russians want to send back refugees from 1 soldiers fighting and dying in Ukraine. Ukraine, new poll shows. http://goo.gl/5LohWk http://goo.gl/6HhpUm

Donetsk airport: the central battleground in Eastern Ukraine

Residents of Donetsk don’t want to live under ‘DNR’ control tense. Latest from OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to 2014 Oct 6: The situation in the Eastern regions of Ukraine. Ukraine based on information received as of 3 October http://goo.gl/KzExHk 2014. http://www.osce.org/ukraine-smm/125117 Oct 3: Intensive combat for the Donetsk airport continues. Overview of displaced peoples (as of 3 October 2014). Terrorists were most active near Donetsk airport, in http://goo.gl/9eDapk

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Donetsk itself, as well as on the outskirts of Avdiyivka

– and near the towns of Debaltseve and Popasna. Russian Shells exploded meters from a school in Donetsk, killing irregulars continue assaults on these localities using 10 people, including teachers and parents who had come artillery, mortars, multiple launch rocket systems, grenade to bring their children to the first day of school on Oct. 1. launchers and light weapons. http://goo.gl/3xAobw http://goo.gl/EEfTEk

September What’s so important about Donetsk airport? Over 70% of residents don’t want to live 0 http://goo.gl/nukxvF 3 under “separatist” rule. http://goo.gl/906m7M .

4 In Luhansk and Donetsk regions, and in particular in the

4 # city of Donetsk and its surroundings, the situation remains

NEWSLETTER

Lustration bill comes into force Crimean ‘authorities’ kidnap Crimean Tatars

Poroshenko signed the lustration bill, amendments Another Lenin down, but how many more remain?

possible. http://goo.gl/hkI4PL http://goo.gl/TwDsri

Alex ander J. Motyl: Enthusiasm for separation and reform Papal Nuncio in Denounces Russian Aggression in weakens in Ukraine. The good news is that secessionist Ukraine. http://goo.gl/QurKks and pro-Russian fever could be waning in eastern Ukraine. Patriarch Filaret: Moscow church does not serve needs of The bad news is the government in Kyiv has been sluggish the people. http://goo.gl/uqurtF in pushing through reforms. http://goo.gl/F2AeXG

Drones, not election campaign billboards, are what Ukraine Crimean Tatars complain about a campaign of harassment and intimidation launched against them. needs today. http://goo.gl/vxyyd7 http://goo.gl/CUwxRS Russian investigators want Savchenko trial held behind Crimea's ‘authorities’ probe kidnapping of two Tatars. closed doors. Nadiya Savchenko was first captured by http://goo.gl/Ql7O6E Kremlin-backed militants and forcibly taken to Russia with A law condemned by human rights organizations as no credible evidence to back the charges against her. It is discriminating against Crimean population and effectively not difficult to understand why the investigators would like recognizing the Crimea as Russian territory came into to hide the trial. http://goo.gl/vsNv49 force on Sept 27 after President ignored calls to veto it. http://goo.gl/FDyMu9 Ukrainian Foreign Minister does ‘Ask-Me-Anything’ on Russian2 geek forum http://goo.gl/tGOsXv Crimea is not historically ‘ours,’ Russian historian says in Russian ‘Vedomosti’. http://goo.gl/NBB1gv

Left: Designers mock Putin with an anti- invasion collection at Paris Fashion Week. Watch video at http://goo.gl/Q6835S

Right : Ukrainian boxer Oleksandr Usyk

became the new WTO champion. Watch video at http://goo.gl/gdUILx

Donbas - Ukraine’s terra incognita

2014 How Moscow hijacked the history of Kyivan Rus

400 years of the National University of “Kyiv-Mohyla Downplayed and obscured for half a century, the Donbas

6 October Academy”. A celebration to remember the past and to appears to be Ukraine’s historical and natural terra

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honor the dignity of the people of Ukraine. incognita http://goo.gl/Auq1Vt http://goo.gl/4UcSoZ Famous Ukrainian roofer known as "Mustang Wanted" How Moscow hijacked the history of Kyivan Rus. was awarded with a personalized pistol for his exploit of http://goo.gl/SU1nbt painting a star atop a building in Moscow in the colours of

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