Anti-Maidan

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Anti-Maidan in Kiev on December 14, 2013

As anti-Maidan ( Ukrainian Антимайдан ; Russian Антимайдан ) are a series of demonstrations in the Ukraine called, the first against the euromaidan and later directed the new Ukrainian government. The initial participants were particularly in favor of supporting the Azarov II cabinet and President Viktor Yanukovych . After Yanukovych was deposed, the anti-Maidan split into various other groups, some of which overlapped. These ranged from people who protested against social injustices to supporters of a federalization of Ukraine to pro-Russian separatists and nationalists .

history

During the Euromaidan

The actions took place from 2013 in response to the major protests on Maidan Nezalezhnosti in Kiev . On November 25, 2013, a counter-demonstration by around 10,000 government supporters took place there. According to The Interpreter Mag of the Institute of Modern Russia (a think tank of Pavel Khodorkovsky , son of Mikhail Khodorkovsky ), the Party of Regions paid every counter-demonstrator 100 hryvnias that day for their presence. On the same day there was also an anti-Maidan in Sevastopol in the Crimea . This was supported by the Communist Party of Ukraine (KPU) and the Party Russian Bloc on the Nakhimov organized Square. The initiators called for Ukraine to join the Eurasian Economic Union .

On November 27, 2013, supporters of the KPU and the Russian bloc held a rally in Mykolaiv . This took place near a Euromaidan demonstration and was described by the organizer as a “ provocation and paid action ”.

On November 29, 2013, another counter-demonstration in support of President Yanukovych took place in Kiev. Participants from eastern Ukraine drove to the rally in around 100 buses.

On November 30, 2013, a rally in support of Viktor Yanukovych was held in Kharkiv . The organizers spoke of 70,000 participants who appeared with both Ukraine and EU flags. BBC Ukraine spoke of 40,000 participants. There were posters with inscriptions like “ EU - yes, job cuts no! “Shown. According to Interfax -Ukraine, many demonstrators said in face-to-face meetings that they would not protest voluntarily. Instead, they would do so out of fear of losing their jobs, among other reasons.

On December 2, 2013, the Sevastopol City Council turned to President Yanukovych. There was a request for a reorientation of Ukraine's foreign policy in favor of Russia and the Eurasian Economic Union. This happened on the initiative of the Russian bloc, which is part of the anti-Maidan movement.

On December 3, 2013, a tent camp was set up in Kiev by supporters of the government and the Party of Regions. This was in Mariinsky Park in front of the Verkhovna Rada building . On the same day, about 200 communists held a rally in front of a statue of Vladimir Lenin in Donetsk . They called for a national referendum on the Association Agreement between the European Union and Ukraine and chanted " The unification of Ukraine, Russia and Belarus is inevitable ". Also on December 3, the Russian bloc called for the resignation of the Minister of Education and Science, Dmytro Tabachnyk . The party justified this by saying that he had allowed “ a huge number of students ” to take part in the “ nationalist ” protests on the Maidan.

On December 4, 2013, 15,000 people demonstrated for the then president in Donetsk, many of whom traveled by bus. The Party of Regions contradicted rumors that the protesters were involuntarily attending the rally.

On December 8, 2013, a rally under the motto “ Let's build a Europe in Ukraine ” was held at the tent camp in Mariinsky Park in Kiev . The speakers reaffirmed their support for the president and called for a peaceful settlement of the situation in Ukraine. Opposition spokesmen were convicted of trying to " split Ukraine ". The Press Service of the Party of Regions spoke of around 15,000 participants, the local police of around 3,000. On the same day in Sevastopol, the organization Russian Community of Sevastopol held a rally in support of the Berkut special unit , which was held responsible for violent operations within the framework of the Euromaidan.

On December 13, 2013, the private news agency UNIAN reported that a train with around 500 supporters of the president from Donetsk was going to Kiev. In addition, the Party of Regions in Dnipropetrovsk organized 10,000 people who would take part in an anti-Maidan in Mariinsky Park in Kiev.

On December 14, 2013, according to TheInsider.ua, the chairmen of the Russophile parties, the Russian Bloc and Russian Unity, met with the Russian Consul General in Crimea. There the party leaders said that they would prepare an anti-Maidan with the aim of a national referendum on the independence of Crimea. On the same day, a large-scale rally in support of the president was held in Kiev. There, alongside other leaders of the Party of Regions, the parliamentary group leader Alexander Efremov and Prime Minister Mykola Azarov appeared. Among other things, he spoke of the “ need to unite the forces of all Ukrainians and the whole country in order to act as a united front in negotiations with Russia and the European Union for reasons of national interests ”. According to the local police, 100,000 people from different regions of the country attended the demonstration.

On December 22, 2013, Ukrajinska Pravda reported that the government supporters in Mariinsky Park in Kiev had dismantled their anti-Maidan camp.

On December 23, 2013 it was reported that around 80 anti-Maidan activists, allegedly called “Titushki” thugs, were gathering in front of an office of the Party of Regions in central Kiev . They asked for money that they had been promised.

On January 13, 2014, another large rally of supporters of the Party of Regions took place in the tent camp in Mariinsky Park in Kiev. It is not known whether the camp was rebuilt or whether the report by Ukrajinska Pravda that the tent camp was dismantled is a false report. Mikhailo Chechetov, parliamentary director of the Party of Regions, appeared at the demonstration. The "commander" of the "tent city" Olexandr Zinchenko told reporters that the activists were demonstrating for " stability in the country ". He also said that it was “ unacceptable ” to “ hinder the adoption of the state budget ”. The activists would plan to stay in the camp until the state budget is approved. Participants collected signatures for a petition addressed to the Kiev city council. In this they called for the center of the city to be " liberated " from demonstrators . At the same time, they spoke out in favor of a “ peaceful solution to the situation ”.

On January 21, 2014, Prime Minister Azarov criticized the Western reporting on the Euromaidan in an interview with the Russian television channel Rossija 24 : “ The Western media pay attention to one place and not to the other. “The anti-Maidan would represent all of Ukraine. The Euromaidan, however, would essentially only represent the oblasts of Lviv , Ternopil and Ivano-Frankivsk . On the same day, a rally of over a thousand government supporters was held in Mariinsky Park in Kiev. The "commander" of the "tent city" Olexandr Zintschenko told the Interfax-Ukraine news agency that the demonstration was directed against the " coup " that was being carried out by the Euromaidan demonstrators.

On January 25, 2014, a rally of government supporters was held in Mykolaiv. The 400 or so participants said they feared an attack by local soccer fans and Euromaidan activists on the Regional State Administration (RSV) building in Mykolaiv. Shortly before, the RSV in the cities of Lviv , Ternopil , Rivne , Khmelnytskyi and Ivano-Frankivsk had been stormed and taken by Euromaidan demonstrators. The pro-government activists chanted " We are the regions and we are millions " and " Fascism will not come through ". Participants said that they had gathered to not allow “ fascists ” to come to power.

On January 26, 2014, around 1,000 government supporters gathered in front of a Shevchenko monument in Donetsk . The aim was to " defend " the regional state administration from possible attacks by Euromaidan activists. Participants were a local organizing among other members of Afghanistan - veterans . The demonstrators presented posters that read “ No to war! Kiev is not Kabul ”,“ Stop Fascism ”and“ No to the EU ”. A veteran spokesman said that “ Euro-Titushki ” ( Euromaidan thugs ) would go to Donetsk to undermine local stability and order: “ We have decided to guard our city from them. “A short time later, unknown men with baseball bats appeared at the demonstration. They beat one of the participants who suffered severe head injuries. Three other people were also injured. Then the unknowns disappeared again.

After the Euromaidan

On the night of February 28 to March 1, 2015, Mikhailo Chechetov, who had appeared as a speaker at anti-Maidan rallies in Kiev in December 2013 and January 2014 , fell from the 18th floor of his apartment building. The deputy leader of the Party of Regions left a farewell letter.

On April 15, 2015, the anti-Maidan activist and former MP of the Party of Regions Oleh Kalashnikov was shot dead in his home in Kiev. His data was previously published on the Mirotvorets website, along with those of opposition Oles Busyna .

On April 16, 2015, the journalist Oles Busyna, who ran for the anti-Maidan Russian bloc in the 2014 parliamentary elections , was also shot dead in front of his home in Kiev.

On September 19, 2016, the well-known anti-Maidan activist Yevgeny Shilin was shot dead in a restaurant in Moscow . Shilin was the leader of the militant Kharkiv anti-Maidan organization " Oplot " (Оплот, bulwark), which recruited its members from a local martial arts club.

Anti-Maidan in Russia

In February 2015, an anti-Maidan demonstration was held in Moscow with around 35,000 participants who supported the policies of President Vladimir Putin . Several Russian parties now belong to the movement.

In September 2016, on the initiative of anti-Maidan activists , the Levada polling institute was classified as an “organization that functions as a foreign agent ”.

Web links

Individual evidence

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  2. ^ Short explanatory dictionary of the Euromaidan (in Russian) . Marketing Media Review. December 16, 2013. Retrieved March 19, 2017.
  3. ^ South-East Ukraine: Extremism and the Anti-Maidan (in English) . University College London . May 9, 2014. Retrieved March 19, 2017.
  4. ↑ Large demonstration in support of the EU agreement (in English) . EurActiv . November 25, 2013. Retrieved March 19, 2017.
  5. ↑ The Interpreter: A new online publication from IMR (in English) . Institute of Modern Russia. April 30, 2013. Retrieved March 19, 2017.
  6. ↑ About us (in English) . Institute of Modern Russia. 2017. Retrieved March 19, 2017.
  7. ^ Maidan 2.0: A Protest with Reservations . The Interpreter Mag. November 25, 2013. Retrieved March 19, 2017.
  8. ↑ In Sevastopol, the Russian bloc and the KPU assemble an anti-Maidan (in Russian) . Newsroom. November 25, 2013. Archived from the original on March 20, 2017. Retrieved March 19, 2017.
  9. ↑ At the rally next to the Euromaidan in Nikolaev, communists and the Russian bloc appeared (in Russian) . NikWesti. November 27, 2013. Retrieved March 20, 2017.
  10. ↑ Ukrainian rejection of the EU treaty causes rival rallies at home . Euronews . November 29, 2013. Retrieved March 19, 2017.
  11. ↑ Ukraine: Tensions in Kiev while pro- and anti-government protesters hold rallies (in English) . Euronews. November 29, 2013. Retrieved March 19, 2017.
  12. ↑ A large-scale pro-government rally was held in Kharkiv (in English) . BBC Ukraine. November 30, 2013. Retrieved March 19, 2017.
  13. ^ A rally in support of the President and the national interests of Ukraine took place in Kharkiv (in Russian) . Interfax-Ukraine. November 30, 2013. Retrieved March 19, 2017.
  14. ↑ City Council of Sevastopol asked Yanukovych to join the Customs Union (in Russian) . Newsroom. December 2, 2013. Archived from the original on March 21, 2017. Retrieved March 20, 2017.
  15. ↑ View of Donetsk: The "other half" of Ukraine is angry about the protests in Kiev (in English) . BBC News . December 3, 2013. Retrieved March 20, 2017.
  16. ↑ The Russian bloc demands the resignation of the education minister (in Russian) . Comments.ua Donbass. December 4, 2013. Archived from the original on March 21, 2017. Retrieved March 19, 2017.
  17. ↑ Dozens of buses were taken to the pro-government rally (in Russian) . Gazeta.ua. December 4, 2013. Retrieved March 19, 2017.
  18. ↑ The "regional" affirm that the miners in Donbass will voluntarily demonstrate for the government (in Russian) . Comments.ua Donbass. December 4, 2013. Retrieved March 19, 2017.
  19. ↑ Several thousand Party of Regions activists continue their rally in support of the President (in Russian) . Interfax-Ukraine. December 8, 2013. Retrieved March 20, 2017.
  20. ↑ The Russian Community of Sevastopol held a rally in support of “Berkut” (in Russian) . UNIAN. December 8, 2013. Retrieved March 20, 2017.
  21. ↑ A special train with supporters of the president travels from Donetsk to Kiev (in Russian) . UNIAN. December 13, 2013. Accessed March 21, 2017.
  22. Jump up ↑ The Dnipropetrovsk regions bring ten thousand people to the Anti-Maidan (in Russian) . UNIAN. December 13, 2013. Accessed March 21, 2017.
  23. ↑ Are they preparing a separatist Euromaidan in Crimea? (in Ukrainian) . TheInsider.ua. December 14, 2013. Archived from the original on December 14, 2013. Retrieved on March 20, 2017.
  24. ↑ The “regional” counted a hundred thousand at their rally (in Russian) . Comments.ua Crimea. December 14, 2013. Archived from the original on December 15, 2013. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved March 21, 2017. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / crimea.comments.ua
  25. ↑ The regional ones dismantle their “Anti-Maidan” in Mariinsky Park (in Ukrainian) . Ukrajinska Pravda. December 22, 2013. Accessed March 21, 2017.
  26. ↑ Outraged Titushki came to a PR office to ask for money for the anti-Maidan (in Ukrainian) . Ukrajinska Pravda. December 23, 2013. Accessed March 21, 2017.
  27. ↑ Party of Regions supporters start new rally near parliament, planning to stay until the state budget is approved (in English) . Interfax-Ukraine. January 13, 2014. Accessed March 21, 2017.
  28. ↑ Azarov: On the Anti-Maidan there are people from all oblasts, on the Euromaidan there are only a few (in Ukrainian) . Ukrajinska Pravda. January 21, 2014. Accessed March 21, 2017.
  29. ↑ Government supporters again hold a rally near parliament, this time against the "coup" (in English) . Interfax-Ukraine. January 21, 2014. Accessed March 21, 2017.
  30. ↑ Yanukovych enemies are taking over buildings . Kyiv Post . January 24, 2014. Accessed March 21, 2017.
  31. ↑ In Ivano-Frankivsk, demonstrators took an RSV. The governor has fled (in Russian) . Comments.ua. January 24, 2014. Accessed March 21, 2017.
  32. ↑ The participants in the pro-government rally in Nikolayev expect football fans and Maidan activists to attack the RSV (in Russian) . NikWesti. January 25, 2014. Retrieved March 21, 2017.
  33. ↑ A rally in support of the government was held in Donetsk: a man's head was smashed (in Russian) . Novosti Donbassa. January 26, 2014. Retrieved March 21, 2017.
  34. ↑ Chechetov says that the "anti-Maidan" will not stop "until the situation stabilizes". (in Russian) . Podrobnosti . December 14, 2013. Accessed February 17, 2020.
  35. ↑ The Anti-Maidan intends to defend the budget for 2014. (in Russian) . Ukrajinska Pravda. January 13, 2014. Retrieved February 17, 2020.
  36. ↑ Talk of the town from Kiev: Nobody dies just like that . TAZ . March 21, 2014. Retrieved March 21, 2017.
  37. ↑ Data leak in eastern Ukraine: a threat to journalists . TAZ. May 12, 2015. Accessed March 21, 2017.
  38. ↑ Ukraine: Pro-Russian journalist killed in Kiev . Time online . April 16, 2015. Accessed March 21, 2017.
  39. ↑ Famous Ukrainian anti-Maidan activist killed in Moscow restaurant (in English) . Radio Free Europe . September 20, 2016. Accessed March 22, 2017.
  40. ^ Fascists in the Ukrainian-Russian conflict: Right sector meets Oplot . TAZ. March 9, 2014. Retrieved March 22, 2017.
  41. ↑ Anti-Maidan protesters were paid at Zeit-online, February 22, 2015
  42. ↑ Минюст признал “Левада-центр”, “иностранным агентом” . In: Novaya Gazeta , September 5, 2016.
  43. ↑ Минюст нашел у "Левада-центра" американские деньги , Lenta.Ru, September 6, 2016