Latest from OSCE Special Monitoring Mission (SMM) to Ukraine based on information received as of 18:00 (Kyiv time), 1 October 2014

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  • Police warn Ukrainian against throwing politicians into garbage containers
    http://zik.ua/en/news/2014/09/27/police_warn_ukrainian_against_throwing_politicians_into_garbage_containers_52720

    The interior ministry has called on all participants of the pre-election campaign to stick to civilized behavior and stop throwing officials and politicians into garbage containers.

    A wave of incidents involving officials and politicians has snowballed in Ukraine recently, with protesters forcefully throwing them into garbage containers. In several cases, the protesters delivered the containers close to offices.

    Some officials were kept in evil-smelling containers for up to 20 minutes.

    Decrying police inaction, protesters call their actions ‘people’s lustration’ of corrupt officials or those who collaborated with the Yanukovych regime.

    The police warned Ukrainians that any such actions will be classified as law violations and are inadmissible during election campaigning.

    Le succès médiatique de ces actions, notamment auprès de la presse occidentale, a un effet boule de neige. Bizarre…

    • Un des derniers en date,…

      Frustrated over lack of justice, Ukrainians throw officials in trash (VIDEO)
      http://www.kyivpost.com/content/ukraine/frustrated-over-lack-of-justice-ukrainians-throw-officials-to-trash-video-

      Covered in red paint and sitting in the middle of a pile of rubbish on a cold pavement in the darkness, Viktor Pylypyshyn endured insults instead of celebrating his registration as a candidate for parliamentary election as he intended on the night of Sept. 25.
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      The assault on Pylypyshyn took place as he tried to register as a parliamentary candidate. An angry mob attacked him close to the Central Election Commission and threw him in a trash bin.

      Le Kyiv Post a une lecture plutôt partiale (et « pro-lustration ») des faits qu’on peut percevoir sur la vidéo.

      La angry mob a l’air de désigner quelques nervis d’extrême-droite, jamais filmés d’ailleurs,…

      Quant à Pylypyshyn qui est venu, seul, s’inscrire à la Commission électorale comme candidat dans une circonscription, c’est un député non-inscrit, élu le 15/12/13 à Kiev en battant un adversaire de… Svoboda

      Pylypyshyn wins a set in the Rada
      http://www.kyivpost.com/content/politics/pylypyshyn-wins-a-set-in-the-rada-333793.html

      With 100% of the ballots of precinct election commissions counted, self-nominee, head of Kyiv Residents Above All organization Viktor Pylypyshyn won the repeat parliamentary elections in Ukraine at constituency No. 223 in Shevchenkivsky district in Kyiv.

      According to the figures published on the Web site of the Central Election Commission, he scored 44.89% of the vote, whereas his closest rival – nominee of the Svoboda All-Ukrainian Union Yuriy Levchenko received 40.58% of the vote.

      La lustration a bon dos : méthodes #fascistes.

    • Et d’abord, c’est lui, enfin son garde du corps, qui avait commencé,…

      Latest from OSCE Special Monitoring Mission (SMM) to Ukraine based on information received as of 18:00 (Kyiv time), 1 October 2014 | OSCE
      http://www.osce.org/ukraine-smm/124979

      The SMM attended in Odessa a press conference of the Euromaidan co-ordination council. Representatives of self-defence groups, #Right_Sector and the #Lustration Committee gave their views on the incident involving the former Minister of Emergency and Member of Parliament who had come to the city to hold a press briefing, as part of his election campaign (see Daily Report 1 October). The man was beaten up by a small crowd outside the Odessa regional administration building on 30 September. Two of the speakers stated that the fight outside the administration building had started because the former Minister of Emergency’s bodyguard had hit a Euromaidan activist. Odessa self-defence leader said that if the police attempt to arrest the activists who had hit the man, the security situation may deteriorate. He also said that the self-defence activists will march on Kulikovo Pole square this Sunday and advised the anti-Maidan activists, who regularly gather there, to stay away from the square.