The ousted President Yanukovych sows discord new in Ukraine. After the controversial Crimean referendum he calls for that all Ukrainian regions hold similar referendums.
Viktor Yanukovych has interfered once more from Russia in the affairs of his native country. The Ukrainian ex-president had fled to the neighboring country in February after the change of power in Kiev. Now less than two weeks after the controversial referendum on the annexation of the Crimea to Russia, he called for referendums in all Ukrainian regions. “As president, I call on any reasonable Ukrainian citizens:! Do not use by the scammers you need a referendum on the status of each region of Ukraine,” quoted the Russian news agency Itar-Tass Yanukovych on Friday.
The 63-year-old stressed that only a nation-wide referendum and no early presidential election could stabilize the situation and get the unit.
Russia had, despite all the international protests, the Ukrainian Black Sea peninsula incorporated. The General Assembly of the United Nations condemned this step on
Thursday. The Panel adopted a non-binding resolution in which the referendum is called the Crimea as “invalid”. For the text voted 100 countries, eleven voted against it. The representatives of 58 countries abstained. Russia declared the Resolution adopted by the UN General Assembly was “counterproductive”.
Crimean Secession:Right sector protested in front of Parliament
In Ukraine, even the ultra-nationalist group is right sector continued their protest against Interior Minister arsenic Awakow. The movement, which had recently founded a party will peacefully demonstrate outside parliament in Kiev, announced spokesman Andrei Bondarenko. Recently one of their leaders had come by police bullets to death.
Awakow have his subordinates not under control. “The rally is not directed against the country and not against the parliament,” Bondarenko told the station Radio Liberty on Friday.
High-ranking politicians such as the Ukrainian presidential candidate Pyotr Poroshenko and Vitali Klitschko had held the violent demonstrators on the eve of a storming of the parliament. The rights sector accuses the authorities, they would have let Alexander Musytschko, a coordinator of the group in western Ukraine, targeted murder.
The Interior Ministry, however, stressed Musytschko have opened at a detention even attempt fire on the officers and was fatally injured in the shooting. Awakow announced to publish all documents and video recordings on the case. “Then everyone can decide who is a hero and who a common bandit,” Awakow wrote on his Facebook page.
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