The conflict in Ukraine

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Notes

1. For the full text, see The Guardian. 22 February 2014.

2. The most thorough research of this question has been conducted by I. Katchanovski. See his “The ‘Snipers’ Massacre’ on the Maidan in Ukraine,” 20 February 2015. http://www.academia.edu/8776021/The_Snipers_Massacre_on_the_Maidan_in_Ukraine.

3. Various polls confirmed the popular support. See “Survey of Attitudes of the Crimea People to the Events of 2014” http://newcoldwar.org/survey-on-attitudes-of-the-crimea-people-to-the-events-of-2014/; and “Pew Centre Poll April of 2014 – 91% of respondents in Crimea state referendum was free and fair” Pew Centres’ Global Attitudes Project (2014) www.pewglobal,org/2014/05/08/chapter-1-ukraine-desure-for-unity-amid-worries-about-political-leadership-ethnic-conflict

4. http://www.unian.info/world/111033-text-of-putins-speech-at-nato-summit-bucharest-april-2-2008.html

5. For the conclusions of an in-depth study by a Russian opposition newspaper, see Yu. Polukhin, “Kapkan dlya svoikh,” Novaya gazeta, 2 July 2014, pp. 7–9. See also a summary of Katchanovksi’s research on the massacre at http://newcoldwar.org/a-new-analysis-of-the-massacre-events-in-odessa-ukraine-of-may-2-2014

6. For a report on the early stages of the protests in the east and a plea for understanding, see O. Grytsenko, “What Drives the Hate in Eastern Ukraine,” Kyiv Post April 16, 2014. On the earlier anti-Yanoukovich uprisings in the western regions, see R. Sakwa, Frontline Ukraine, Crisis in the Borderlands, London: I.B. Taurus, 2015, p. 83.

7. For the full text, see http://www.unian.info/politics/1043394-minsk-agreement-full-text-in-english.html

8. See, for example, the article from The Financial Times, a newspaper that is very sympathetic to Kiev: “School lessons and shelling forge new identity in east Ukraine,” 14 February 2015.

9. ^“Kto sryvaet Miniskie soglashenia,” Novaya gazeta, 22 May 2015.

10. “It is baffling, however, why the Ukrainian government has not sought to win over the easterners by trying to send them its own aid convoys, even if the rebels prevented them from crossing into their territory. To ordinary people in the east it looks like Kiev does not care much about them and considers them the enemy.” (T. Judah, “Ukraine: Inside the Deadlock,” The New York Review of Books, 7 May 2015).

11. The average monthly pension stands at US$ 72.5, and the number of Ukrainians in food poverty has increased sixfold in the past two years. Business News Europe, 14 July 2015 (www.bne.eu).

12. International Republican Institute, Public Opinion Survey Residents of Ukraine, 16–30 July 2015, http://www.iri.org/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/2015-08-24_survey_of_residents_of_ukraine_july_16-30_2015.pdf

13. To cite just two examples, Vadim Troyan, deputy commander of the neo-nazi Azov Regiment and active member of the neo-nazi paramilitary organisation Patriot of Ukraine (the paramilitary wing of the Social-Nationalist Assembly) is head of the Kiev police. (H. Coynash, “Disastrous Police Appointment,” 7 November 2014, Human Rights in Ukraine, http://khpg.org/en/index.php?id=1415367345), and Dm. Yarosh, head of the neo-nazi party Right Sector is advisor to the Chief of General Staff of the army, Viktor Muzhenko. http://www.mil.gov.ua/en/news/2015/04/05/dmytro-yarosh-appointed-as-advisor-to-chief-of-general-staff/

14. http://www.spiegel.de/politik/ausland/ukraine-droht-neuer-konflikt-diesmal-an-der-westgrenze-a-1043616.html