By Vestnik Kavkaza
Right after the referendums on the status of Donetsk and Lugansk regions, according to which the majority of the population voted for separation from Ukraine, the authorities of the self-declared republics don’t plan to hold the presidential elections on May 25th on their territory. Europe and the USA believe that the presidential elections in Ukraine are legitimate, while the referendums are not. However, it is doubtful that the elections will bring stability to Ukraine.
Vladimir Zharikhin, the deputy director of the CIS Countries Institute, thinks that “leaders of the election race are not positive figures, but I wouldn’t call them neo-Nazis. These are [Peter] Poroshenko and [Sergei] Tigipko. Yulia Tymoshenko takes only third place in the race. The leaders are interested in certain stabilization. They are reasonable, pragmatic, even cynical people.”
At the same time, according to Zharikhin, “a big group headed by Yulia Tymoshenko is not interested in stability now. The acting president and the acting prime minister are included in the group. They understand that they will lose power right after the elections. The other thing is that the power won’t be pro-Russian. But it won’t be their power. So they will fight for destabilization of the situation and will try to undermine the elections not only in the southeast, but also in the whole territory of Ukraine.”
Meanwhile, some experts call the current Ukrainian regime “Nazi.” Dmitry Gubin, Ukrainian political scientist, explains the definition by the following laws and drafts:
- On February 22 deputies of the Batkivshchina faction, which is considered to be moderate, proposed removing the law forbidding the propagation of neo-Nazism. They want to allow praising of Bandera and the SS.
- Almost on the same day the representative of Ukraine at the UN, Sergeyev, said that the results of the Nuremberg process should be reconsidered.
- On February 23 a former member of Batkivshchina, Oleg Lyashko, proposed a law forbidding the Party of Regions and the Communist Party because they do not support the Bandera course for ethnic cleansing.
- On the same day the Verkhovna Rada almost unanimously, together with those who ran away from the Party of Regions afraid of repressions, voted to abolish the law on regional languages. This law was not signed by Turchinov, who calls himself the acting president, but de facto it is already being implemented. One of the results of this is the disappearance of the Russian-language versions of the websites of the central institutions. Another result is the disappearance of some Russian-language TV shows.
- On March 5 Kvit, who calls himself the minister of education and science in Ukraine, said that the old course books, banned under Yanukovich by the minister Tabachnik, should be brought back, they praise the UPA, where the genocide of the Poles and Jews is praised and the persecutors are heroes.
- On March 17 Lyashko, as a measure connected to Russian aggression, proposes banning Russian media. This was implemented, but not on the level of the Parliament, but only the level of court and the National TV council. Depriving the separatists of their citizenship, so in fact the introduction of an apartheid regime on the South African and Estonian-Latvian principle. And the next one - the reintroduction of the death penalty for traitors to the Ukrainian nation.
- On March 20, the UDAR faction, the most pro-European one headed by Vitaly Klichko, proposed a law "On the rights of indigenous people", where it introduces the concept of the "title nation".
- On March 26 Tyagnibok and the deputies of Svoboda proposed law 4570 "On lustration". Lustration concerns not only those who supported the previous, legal, I would point out, authorities, but also their family members.
- On March 27 the Ministry of Education headed by the Nazi Kvit, who defended a dissertation about Dontsov, the founder of Ukrainian nationalism, proposes rejecting the concept of "free education"
- On April 8 Svoboda proposed rejecting the celebration of Victory Day.
- On April 10 they proposed introducing a question about nationality in all official documents.
- On April 11 this Nazi minister Kvit comes to Kharkov and says that all higher education will be only in Ukrainian, and this is the only option. And he stressed that all foreigners who want to enter a university should prepare only in Ukrainian. The biggest part of the income of the Kharkov, Donetsk and other universities is from foreign students paying for an education that is partly in Russian.
These facts are called by Gubin “a short chronicle of the orange, or rather brown, laws.”
