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On 2014-03-28, at 3:25 PM, Louis Proyect wrote: > On 3/28/14 3:11 PM, Marv Gandall wrote: >> Russia Times. >> >> Just kidding. > > http://www.tasnimnews.com/English/Home/Single/297143 > The Maidan gathering wants Andrey Parubiy, 43, to head the country’s National > Security and Defense Council. A deputy for Fatherland party, he actively > participated both in the recent uprising and in the Orange Revolution. > Parubiy began his political career back in the late '80s, when he headed a > nationalist youth organization. > > A leader of the radical group Pravy Sektor (Right Sector), Dmitry Yarosh was > reportedly proposed as the council’s deputy head. However, he has so far not > accepted the offer, RT reported. > > http://peopleandnature.wordpress.com/2014/03/28/take-sides-with-people-not-with-putin/ > The second group, the Right Sector, is a really dangerous collection of > neo-Nazis and extreme nationalists, formed in the course of battles with > Yanukovich’s police force. It has combat units, some armed, all over Ukraine. > But the assertion, repeated by Seumas Milne and many other western > journalists, that their leader Dmitry Yarosh is deputy head of the national > security council, is wrong. He was offered the job, and turned it down.[1] > > [1] I have checked dozens of stories about Yarosh from Russian and Ukrainian > news outlets. They report e.g. his plan to run for president, to turn the > Right Sector into a political party, etc, but do not describe him as a member > of the government. I have checked with sources in Kyiv who confirm that he > never was. When the new government was formed at the beginning of March, it > was widely reported that Yarosh was offered a post. That information seems to > have been picked up by western journalists who assumed he had accepted, but > didn’t check. It's possible Yarosh might have been offered the job but turned it down. That would still indicate that the new government has had to defer to the far right's popular support. How much support Parubiy, Yarosh, and the far right have within the population - and, more particularly, within the repressive agencies of the state, including the new National Guard being formed by Paruiby - should, as I indicated, become more clear within the next few days, depending on how the standoff in front of the Rada is resolved. ________________________________________________ Send list submissions to: Marxism@greenhouse.economics.utah.edu Set your options at: http://greenhouse.economics.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
