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Why do so many Russians seem to dislike the west? Historian Juliane Fuerst tackles the question on the History News Network:
The current rift between Russia and the West is not a conflict in which one side is guilty of aggression and the other is a victim. It is not about whose newspapers write the truth and whose politicians are more hypocritical. It is not even really a rift about the question of Crimean nationhood, Ukrainian government or NATO enlargement. Rather, the current conflict is a culmination of historical processes that shaped Russian attitudes towards the West.
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11:53
4.5.2014
Interfax reports:
Head of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov has accused the UN Security Council of inaction with regard to punitive operations in southeast Ukraine.
"Not a single country of the United Nations condemned the Ukrainian punitive operation at a time when local people died under rocket fire from Ukrainian helicopters in Sloviansk and when people burned in Odesa in a house set on fire by Right Sector militants. There is not a single conflict that the United Nations would have settled. And it won't in the future as long as the United States is imposing its will by stick and carrot," Kadyrov wrote in Instagram social network.
The Chechen leader noted that for a second time in a day he was forced to express his indignation with the actions of the Ukrainian authorities in cities of Donetsk region and other southeastern regions.
"If militant formations operate in Ukraine and the illegal authorities patronize them, then the results of the UN Security Council discussion of the situation in that country arouse ten-fold indignation. Even before when terrorists shed bloody in Chechnya and the UN remained silent I realized that the organization does not have a stance of its own, its own opinion. Almost all countries at the UN are acting only at the instructions of the USA and Western Europe. And the disagreeing are lining up after Afghanistan, Libya and Iraq," Kadyrov added.
Head of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov has accused the UN Security Council of inaction with regard to punitive operations in southeast Ukraine.
"Not a single country of the United Nations condemned the Ukrainian punitive operation at a time when local people died under rocket fire from Ukrainian helicopters in Sloviansk and when people burned in Odesa in a house set on fire by Right Sector militants. There is not a single conflict that the United Nations would have settled. And it won't in the future as long as the United States is imposing its will by stick and carrot," Kadyrov wrote in Instagram social network.
The Chechen leader noted that for a second time in a day he was forced to express his indignation with the actions of the Ukrainian authorities in cities of Donetsk region and other southeastern regions.
"If militant formations operate in Ukraine and the illegal authorities patronize them, then the results of the UN Security Council discussion of the situation in that country arouse ten-fold indignation. Even before when terrorists shed bloody in Chechnya and the UN remained silent I realized that the organization does not have a stance of its own, its own opinion. Almost all countries at the UN are acting only at the instructions of the USA and Western Europe. And the disagreeing are lining up after Afghanistan, Libya and Iraq," Kadyrov added.
11:51
4.5.2014
A correspondent from "Rossiya 24" television reporting from Slovyansk that the city remains "under siege." Says the city is surrounded by the Ukrainian military, that no shots were fired overnight or this morning, but that it "appears some activities will be carried out soon."
Two strategic buildings in the city center -- the security services building and the City Council building -- remain in the hands of "the militia," according to the correspondent. He reports, however, that the militia is trying to change positions.
Two strategic buildings in the city center -- the security services building and the City Council building -- remain in the hands of "the militia," according to the correspondent. He reports, however, that the militia is trying to change positions.
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11:33
4.5.2014
Images, video making the rounds today purporting to show pro-Ukrainian activists trying to save separatists from the burning trade-union building in Odesa.
10:58
4.5.2014