Focus: support radicals Kiev is an alarming indicator
The support of the Ukrainian authorities and the local press radical armed groups is a bad sign, said the political scientist Andreas Umland in an interview with the German weekly.
For the Ukrainian government in the battle, all means are good, writes Focus, wondering, will have the possibility of Ukraine to maintain oversight of radical groups.
printed illustrated edition emphasizes that the attacks against the Ukrainian authorities in connection with their cooperation with neo-Nazi groups were heard for several months." It is now known that right-wing formation fighting on the side of regular troops ", the Journal says, pointing to the page of the battalion " " the social network " Vkontakte ".
According to political scientist of the University of Kiev Andreas Umland, that such groups are supported by the government and in the media, is an alarming sign." But on the plight is always light: the government in the battle with the separatists is to mobilize all they could ", - noted he.
This is not the first Western press, who drew attention to the battalion " Azov " and his authorized representatives. First wrote About it, for example, the British print edition and was told (Sverigesradio. Se).
numerous anti-government protests were started in the South-Eastern regions of Ukraine at the end of February 2014. They were the response of local citizens to violent change of power in the country and the subsequent attempt to cancel the Verkhovna Rada of the law granting Russian the status of regional language. The center of the Pro-Russian opposition-minded people with power in Kiev became the Donbass. About how developed the conflict in the South-East of Ukraine.
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