Élections locales en Ukraine 25/10/15
Version ministère de l’Intérieur #Tout_va_bien (so far : 17h11 locales)
Ukrainian Interior Ministry does not register serious violations on election day so far
▻http://www.kyivpost.com/content/ukraine/ukrainian-interior-ministry-does-not-register-serious-violations-on-electi
The Ukrainian Interior Ministry has not registered any serious mass violations related to the electoral process so far.
(intégralité)
Néanmoins…
Il n’a pas été possible d’ouvrir les bureaux de vote à Marioupol (10h12)
Polling stations can’t be opened in Mariupol over mistakes in voting ballots
▻http://www.kyivpost.com/content/ukraine/polling-stations-cant-be-opened-in-mariupol-over-mistakes-in-voting-ballot
The polling stations in Ukraine’s south-eastern town of Mariupol, Donetsk Oblast, failed to open, as the majority of town’s elections commission’s members refused to accept the ballots finding mistakes in some of them.
The commission’s members from post-Maidan parties spent the night at Priazovsky Rabochy printing house, which belongs to oligarch Rinat Akhmetov, to avoid distribution of them to the polling stations.
At about 8 am they were preparing to seal the printing house and wait for the final decision of the Central Election Commission, Galyna Odnorog, famous volunteer and candidate to the local city council from Batkivshchyna party told the Kyiv Post by phone.
’There are the very grave mistakes in the ballots, one candidate is indicated from the wrong party there,’ she said.
She added that the head of the election commission Iryna Yurina demanded to accept the ballots and hand them over to the polling stations, threatening the commission’s members of criminal prosecution for disruption of the elections.
The director of the printing house told the local media that some of the ballots, which the commission’s members found at the polling stations, were defective and they had been not supposed to be used for the vote.
Néanmoins…
Quelques soucis à Krasnoarmiysk (16h41)
Central Election Commission obliges Krasnoarmiysk branch to immediately hold elections
▻http://www.kyivpost.com/content/ukraine/the-central-election-commission-of-ukraine-obliges-krasnoarmiysk-election-
The Central Election Commission of Ukraine has ordered Krasnoarmiysk town election commission to hand over the ballots to precinct election commissions immediately and to hold the elections in Krasnoarmiysk.
(intégralité de la brève)
suivi à 17h05
Court stops election in Krasnoarmiysk, rules ballots printed illegally
▻http://www.kyivpost.com/content/politics/court-stops-election-in-krasnoarmiysk-rules-ballots-printed-illegally-4006
A local court in Donetsk Oblast’s Krasnoarmiysk, just 30 miles west of Russian-controlled Donetsk, ruled that local election authorities have illegally printed ballets. The court ordered polling stations closed in the city of 65,000 people.
The local election commission printed the ballots at a private printing press without supervision. That’s a violation of Ukraine’s election laws, the Krasnoarmiysk court ruled.
However, the Central Election Commission of Ukraine on Oct. 25 ordered the Krasnoarmiysk election commission to hand over the ballots to precinct election commissions immediately and to hold the elections, according to Interfax-Ukraine. However, despite the CEC ruling no election is expected to take place on Oct. 25.
Et diverses irrégularités mineures : absence d’isoloir, campagnes poursuivies hier samedi, longues files d’attente…
▻http://www.kyivpost.com/content/ukraine/ukraines-local-elections-begin-with-reports-of-ballot-problems-live-update
Un mort et de nombreux policiers blessés devant le Parlement ukrainien
▻http://www.lemonde.fr/europe/article/2015/08/31/forte-explosion-devant-le-parlement-ukrainien-apres-le-vote-d-une-reforme-co
Au moins quatre-vingt-dix policiers ont été blessés par une explosion devant le Parlement ukrainien, à Kiev, lundi 31 août. Arsen Avakov, le ministre de l’intérieur de l’Ukraine, a annoncé qu’un des policiers était mort, après avoir reçu un fragment d’un engin explosif dans le cœur. La déflagration a eu lieu alors que des affrontements avaient lieu entre la police et des manifestants, qui protestaient contre l’adoption en première lecture par les députés d’un projet de loi controversé donnant davantage d’autonomie aux territoires de l’Est prorusse.
La réforme constitutionnelle, souhaitée par les Occidentaux conformément aux accords de paix de Minsk signés en février, est au cœur de débats acharnés en Ukraine, où beaucoup la voient comme une tentative de légaliser de facto le contrôle par les rebelles d’une partie de l’est industriel du pays.
« … souhaitée par les Occidentaux,… » certes, mais prévue par les Accords de Minsk de février. C’est le point 11.
Il est vrai que ces mêmes accords prévoyaient, au point 4, un dialogue entre les parties, dialogue qui n’a absolument jamais été même envisagé.
►https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minsk_II
Et dans le Parlement, ce n’est pas beaucoup mieux.
Mayhem inside, outside Rada as parliament passes decentralization bill
▻http://www.kyivpost.com/content/ukraine/mayhem-inside-outside-rada-as-parliament-passes-decentralization-bill-3968
Mayhem broke out at Ukraine’s parliament on Aug. 31 – inside and outside – as lawmakers passed the first reading of a controversial bill on decentralizing the country’s system of government.
Inside the parliament, the Radical Party of Oleh Liashko attempted to derail voting by blocking the parliament tribune and sounding klaxons as lawmakers spoke for and against the bill.
Outside, protesters attacked police with sticks and snatched riot shields from officers, as massed ranks of police formed a heavy cordon around the parliament building. Flags of the right-wing Svoboda (Freedom) Party and the ultranationalist Right Sector group waived.
One riot officer was reported killed when a protester threw a grenade at police. Around fifty other policemen were wounded in the attack, Ukrainian media have reported.
Explosion de la grenade
▻https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DinAxLyR7II
Dans les instants qui suivent, beaucoup de blessés entassés derrière la colonnade.
▻https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JlqGFW8c6Qw
UPDATES: Riot policeman killed, several wounded in grenade attack outside nation’s parliament
▻http://www.kyivpost.com/content/ukraine/riot-police-severely-wounded-in-grenade-attack-outside-nations-parliament-
One National Guard serviceman was killed and several policemen badly wounded on Aug. 31 when an explosive device was thrown at them from among a crowd of far-right Svoboda Party and Right Sector organization protesters outside parliament.
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Avakov said that the demonstrator who threw the grenade at the police had also been detained. He is a member of Svoboda and a fighter of Svoboda’s Sich volunteer battalion, he added.
Avakov blamed Svoboda and its leader Oleh Tyahnibok for the clashes. Tyahnibok denied the accusations and attributed the clashes to a government-orchestrated provocation.
Situation at Ukrainian parliament building becomes normal
▻http://www.kyivpost.com/content/ukraine/situation-at-ukrainian-parliament-building-becomes-normal-396890.html
The situation at Ukraine’s Verkhovna Rada building has stabilized, law enforcers are staying at the incident site, an Interfax correspondent reports.
brève à 18:29 locales, 17:29 à Paris
Two journalists, including Frenchman, injured in central Kyiv
▻http://www.kyivpost.com/content/ukraine/two-journalists-including-frenchman-injured-in-central-kyiv-396880.html
Some 56, including two journalists, were injured in the clashes breaking out near Ukraine’s Verkhovna Rada building on Aug. 31, deputy head of the Petro Poroshenko Bloc faction Oleksiy Honcharenko said.
(intégralité de la brève)
Arsen Avakov: Some 122 hospitalized after being injured outside Rada
▻http://www.kyivpost.com/content/ukraine/arsen-avakov-some-122-hospitalized-after-being-injured-outside-rada-396887
One hundred and twenty-two people have been hospitalized after being injured in clashes outside the building of the Ukrainian Verkhovna Rada on Aug. 31; eleven of them are critical, Interior Minister Arsen Avakov has said.
Galerie de 22 photos
▻http://www.kyivpost.com/multimedia/photo/clashes-near-verkhovna-rada-396862.html
Deux brèves sur les victimes (en plus du policier mort)
Ukrainian Health Ministry : 44 people asked for paramedics, 21 sustain gunshot wounds after blast in central Kyiv
▻http://www.kyivpost.com/content/ukraine/ukrainian-health-ministry-44-people-asked-for-paramedics-21-sustain-gunsho
Forty-four people have turned to paramedic brigades for medical assistance after clashes outside the Verkhovna Rada, 21 of them with gunshot wounds, the Ukrainian Health Ministry has said.
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French journalist injured near Rada in Kyiv has cerebral concussion, Ukrainian reporter injured in leg
▻http://www.kyivpost.com/content/ukraine/french-journalist-injured-near-rada-in-kyiv-has-cerebral-concussion-ukrain
Ukrainian and French journalists injured near the Verkhovna Rada sustained different injuries, the public relations department of the Ukrainian Interior Ministry’s main department in Kyiv said.
(avec comme souvent avec le KP des précisions supplémentaires dans le titre)
Logiquement, ce serait le moment pour Porochenko d’aller au bout de la reprise en main des milices nationalistes, déjà progressivement amalgamées dans la Garde nationale. Mais,
• il est face à des hurluberlus armés jusqu’aux dents, qui ne se laisseront pas faire,
• dont on a du mal à mesurer le poids réel dans l’opinion publique,
• le discours anti-oligarque et anti-corruption est un terrain qui leur est plus que favorable puisque le bilan du président sur ces points est plus que maigre
• ce qui fait que son soutien à lui doit être en réalité assez faible (mais celui de I. Tymochenko que l’on voit s’opposer violemment à la réforme constitutionnelle au parlement est encore plus marginal…)
• et il y a des élections (municipales) dans 3 mois.
Le rapport des observateurs de l’OSCE
Spot Report by the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine (SMM) : Protest outside national Parliament in Kyiv turns violent | OSCE
▻http://www.osce.org/ukraine-smm/179251
On 31 August beginning at 09:00hrs, the SMM monitored protests in front of the national Parliament (Verkhovna Rada) building in Kyiv. Some 3,000 persons (male and female of all ages) carrying “Svoboda”, “Radical Party” and “Ukrop” flags were protesting against constitutional amendments that were being voted on inside the Parliament. The event was initially peaceful and orderly with no signs of unrest. During both the morning and afternoon, the building was heavily secured by a ring of riot police (approx. 1,000) and in addition national guards (approx. 1,000) with anti-riot equipment. Former Members of Parliament and current leaders of “Svoboda” and “Radical Party” were visible in the crowd of protesters.
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Slovak officials seize 130 kilograms of smuggled ‘amber’ at border with Ukraine
▻http://www.kyivpost.com/content/business/slovak-officials-seize-130-kilograms-of-smuggled-amber-at-border-with-ukra
Slovak customs officials confiscated more than 130 kilograms of what they suspect to be undeclared amber at the Vysne Nemecke border crossing from a vehicle driven by a Ukrainian with a Hungarian passenger inside, Slovak newspaper Michalovsky Korzar reported on Aug. 11.
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Ukrainian Interior Ministry Arsen Avakov estimates the size of the nation’s black market for amber to be $500 million. Authorities say the gemstones are mostly extracted in the northern areas of Zhytomyr, Rivne and Volyn oblasts in a pine forest range known as Polissya.
Some 150-300 tons of amber is extracted yearly in Ukraine, of which only 3-4 tons is mined legally, according to Ukraine’s environmental ministry.
On Aug. 4 a law enforcement task force seized 2.6 tons of allegedly illegally mined amber in Rivne Oblast preliminarily valued at $3 million, Avakov stated on his Facebook page.
Lawyer previously accused of large-scale fraud appointed to fight corruption
▻http://www.kyivpost.com/content/kyiv-post-plus/lawyer-previously-accused-of-large-scale-fraud-appointed-to-fight-corrupti
The Interior Ministry has appointed a woman with a history of aiding corrupt figures to be in charge of recovering stolen assets on behalf of the Nation’s Anti-Corruption Bureau.
Olena Tyshchenko, a lawyer who previously represented the interests of Kazakh-banker-turned-fugitive Mukhtar Ablyazov, has been chosen to head the bureau’s department on recovering Ukrainian assets illegally moved overseas.
Interior Minister Arsen Avakov announced the appointment on July 7, praising Tyshchenko as a “remarkable individual” with vast professional experience.
But lawmaker Serhiy Leshchenko soon took to Facebook to slam Avakov’s decision, pointing out that while Avakov had credited Tyshchenko with nine years of experience in the Verkhovna Rada’s committee on corruption, she had actually only worked for less than a year – and for the rest of the time she hadn’t even been in the country.
She was, however, visiting her fugitive boss in France and London, according to the French authorities, not to mention spending time in a Russian jail on suspicion of large-scale fraud, according to the Ukrainian Interior Ministry and Tyshchenko herself — although she says she was jailed for political reasons.
“In other words, out of nine years of service to the state, Tyshchenko spent eight years not serving the state at all, but in London, France and in a Moscow detention facility. And now she will be responsible for cooperating with Western security services in recovering stolen assets. Do you not find that ridiculous?” Leshchenko wrote.
Tyshchenko was jailed by the Russian authorities in the fall of 2013 on suspicion of large-scale fraud and the laundering of more than $3.3 billion in illegally obtained funds. The allegations against her stemmed from her time representing Ablyazov, the former head of Kazakhstan’s BTA Bank.
Investigation into May 2 Odesa events completed – Ukrainian Interior Ministry
▻http://en.interfax.com.ua/news/general/225608.html
The Ukrainian Interior Ministry’s Main Investigations Department has completed the investigation into the criminal case opened on the basis of the riots that took place in Odesa on May 2, Zorian Shkiriak, adviser to the interior minister, said.
“The Ukrainian Interior Ministry’s Main Investigations Department has completed the investigation into the criminal case opened on the basis of the riots that took place in Odesa on May 2. The criminal case materials against 24 people, including the organizers and active participants in the riots, will be forwarded to court,” he told a briefing in Kyiv on Thursday.
Shkiriak added that another nine people are on the wanted persons list and they remain under investigation.
L’enquête criminelle sur les événements d’Odessa est bouclée. La formulation du communiqué ne parle que « d’émeutes »…