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Opposition Party Office In Kharkiv Attacked
▻http://www.rferl.org/content/ukraine-opposition-party-office-attacked/27167147.html

At least 50 young men, many in balaclavas, have attacked the former office of the Party of Regions in Ukraine’s eastern city of Kharkiv.

The office is currently used by Ukrainian lawmaker Mykhaylo Dobkin, who represents the Opposition Bloc in parliament.

The attackers destroyed a minibus parked near the office and smashed the building’s windows with stones on August 3.

The attackers said they were representing the Ukrainian right-wing nationalist group Right Sector and an organization called Public Guard.

They said they gathered at the site to protest against the Opposition Bloc’s participation in local elections in October and attacked the building after Dobkin’s people started shooting at them with firearms, wounding one activist.

Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second-largest city, is only about 20 kilometers from the Russian border.

… sous les yeux de la police (vidéo incorporée)…

Masked gang attacks office of pro-Russian party in Ukraine’s Kharkiv - watch on - uatoday.tv
▻http://uatoday.tv/society/masked-gang-attacks-office-of-pro-russian-party-in-ukraine-s-kharkiv-468173.

Some 70 youths throw stones and set off explosions at ’Opposition Block’ building

Police have launched an investigation after the group of men in Kharkiv vandalized the office of the Opposition Block political party, an indirect successor of former Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych’s Party of Regions.

No injuries were reported.

TASS: World - Ukraine’s opposition activist kidnapped and beaten up in Kharkiv
▻http://tass.ru/en/world/812297

KIEV, August 3 /TASS/. An activist of Ukraine’s Opposition Bloc who was taking part in a pro-party rally in Kharkiv, a city in eastern Ukraine, was kidnapped on Monday. The party’s press service said that its office had also been attacked.

“The activist was standing outside the Kharkhiv regional justice department where the Opposition Bloc was planning to hold a picket when, according to witnesses, he was grabbed by unidentified persons who threw him into a camouflage range rover with the Azov [volunteer battalion - TASS] inscription on it,” the Opposition Bloc said in its statement.
The man was then taken to a cemetery where he was undressed and beaten up. The kidnappers also took away the activist’s cell phone.
“Four people in balaclava helmets questioned and bullied the man for forty minutes. They asked him why he had come to a rally and where his parents worked. After that, they beat him up and left him at the cemetery. At the moment, the man is receiving all the necessary medical help,” the Opposition Bloc said.
Ukraine’s Opposition Bloc headed by Deputy Mikhail Dobkin rallied outside the Kharkov regional administration on August 3. They want the region’s justice department to register the party’s Kharkiv branch so that the Opposition Bloc could run in the local elections. At the same time, activists of another organization called Gromadska Varta gathered outside the justice department to protest against the Opposition Bloc’s registration.

Pour les (gentils) assaillants (de Secteur Droit), ce sont, évidemment, les (méchants) assiégés qui ont commencé…

Dobkin’s office in Kharkiv : Opposition Bloc MP Dobkin’s office attacked with firecrackers as shootout occurred. VIDEO - Dobkin, assault, Kharkiv, titushki, Right Sector, Dobkin’s office in Kharkiv, Attack (03.08.15 15:39) « Video news | EN.Censor.net
▻http://en.censor.net.ua/video_news/346263/opposition_bloc_mp_dobkins_office_attacked_with_firecrackers_as_shooto

Several dozens of young men wearing camouflage and balaclavas attacked a building previously used as a Party of Regions office and being an office of the Opposition Bloc MP Mykhailo Dobkin at the moment.

As reported by Censor.NET citing Interfax, the people broke the windows in a van parked in front of the building. They also hurled stones and firecrackers at the building with gunfire being heard.

Police are holding 20-30-meter perimeter, though without intervening. They refuse to give any comments on such a behavior.

As reported, the attackers were activists of a reserve battalion of the Volunteer Ukrainian Corps (DUK) “Right Sector”, as well as activists of Hromadska Varta. Kharkiv (Public Guard. Kharkiv organisation - ed.).

According to them, the first to use force were Dobkin’s titushkas barricaded in the office. They started firing traumatic weapons. After that, according to activists, they responded with stones and firecrackers. Source: ▻http://en.censor.net.ua/v346263

(photos et vidéos)

Kharkov branch of Opposition bloc was denied registration
▻http://news.rin.ru/eng/news///123060
(traduction un peu défaillante…)

The justice Department in the Kharkiv region refused to register the regional organization of the Party " Opposition bloc, said on the first day of the week the head of the regional Department of justice Yury Georgievskiy.
“I have decided to refuse the registration of the regional organization of the Party” Opposition bloc “, ? the news Agency the words of St. George. George recalled that on 24 July Authorized Deputy from the Opposition bloc Mikhail Dobkin filed in the Office of the documents with 2 requirements. First ? note conclusion about stop the legal entity of the regional organization of the Party” Law and order “, which last year was renamed the” Opposition bloc “. Second ? take note and register the regional organization of Party” Opposition bloc ".

The Minister explained that the Office could not fulfill the Second requirement, because you are running the destruction of the regional organization of that political Party, and as long as it will not be completed in Accordance with applicable law, registration is not possible. According to his statement, the liquidation procedure will take More than 2 months, for this reason, the Opposition bloc will not have the opportunity to participate in the elections.

George also said that the Management of four refused registration of the territorial organization of the “Opposition bloc” because of deficiencies in the documents submitted by the Authorised Party “Law and order”. For its part, the Opposition bloc said about the readiness to ignore local elections." We refer to all democratic countries and international organizations not to recognize the elections, which is not allowed opposing political force", - has told in the Party.

Remember, in the centre Hurikova Monday riots were started after the meetings at the County courthouse on Sumskaya street, where on the first day of the week heard a case on the registration of the regional branch of the Opposition bloc. Authorized Mikhail Dobkin several times submitted documents, but the justice Ministry denied registration, indicating the number of observations.

About 50 people in the shape with black and red stripes stormed the office of the former Party of regions. Unknown in balaclavas began to dismantle paving under construction near temple of the Holy myrrh-Bearers and throw in the house, and smashed parked near the office of the minibus. Later it was claimed that the battalion of special purpose of the Ministry of interior of Ukraine East building surrounded the office of the “Opposition Party” in Kharkov, where he barricaded unidentified, one of which was called as the assistant Deputy Opposition bloc Mikhail Dobkin. Later the young men who were in the Kharkiv office of the Opposition bloc, escorted to police stations. The events in Kharkiv qualified as “hooliganism with a use of weapons”, what happened on the first day of the week clashes in the city opened two criminal cases, said the Prosecutor’s office of Kharkiv region of Ukraine.

Riots in Kharkiv, unknown people in Balaclava attacked the office of the Party of Regions 03/08/2015

▻https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BaGlCZkMkMk

La page est accessible.

Violence erupts after rival Kharkiv rallies
►http://www.kyivpost.com/content/ukraine/violence-erupts-after-rival-kharkiv-rallies-2-394928.html

Special forces were deployed along with police negotiators on Aug. 3 when a rally in Kharkiv erupted into violent clashes, with pro-Ukrainian activists driving supporters of the Opposition Bloc into a building in a scene frighteningly reminiscent of the May 2 Odesa tragedy.

La suite reprend les éléments déjà exposés ci-dessus. Dommage qu’elle n’ait pas été accessible, cette une synthèse assez claire dès hier soir.

Tout ça, c’est la faute du gouvernement ! Démission, démission ! scande l’opposition…

Opposition Bloc demands Rada disbandment over Mukacheve events
▻http://www.kyivpost.com/content/ukraine/opposition-bloc-demands-rada-disbandment-over-mukacheve-events-393322.html

The parliamentary coalition must be held responsible of the events in Mukacheve and Ukrainian Verkhovna Rada re-elected, the Opposition Bloc Party said in a statement.

“The coalition of war must answer for the shooting in Mukacheve … The Ukrainians are not feeling protected, poverty has come into Ukraine, corruption and lawlessness are flourishing. The war continues in Ukraine. All this is a result of the efforts by the current coalition of war and parliament. This has to stop! The current coalition and parliament have failed. The coalition of war must be disbanded. Verkhovna Rada must be re-elected,” the party said in the statement, which was posted on its official site on July 12.

Il faut dire le « mafieux » (trafiquant de cigarettes) fait partie de la coalition gouvernementale…

L’incident de Mukachevo vu par l’OSCE

Spot Report by the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine, 12 July 2015 : Monitoring events in the wake of deadly shooting in Mukacheve | OSCE
▻http://www.osce.org/ukraine-smm/171881

On 12 July, the SMM dispatched a patrol of the Ivano-Frankivsk-based team to monitor events in the wake of an armed incident that reportedly occurred the previous day in Mukacheve (Zakarpattia region, 605km south-west of Kyiv). According to media reports, at least two people were killed – reportedly members of the Right Sector (Pravyi Sektor) – and several others were wounded in a shootout at a café allegedly owned by a member of parliament (Verkhovna Rada).

On its way to Mukacheve, the SMM observed heightened security measures, including several police checkpoints. At one such checkpoint, north of Mukacheve, about 2km from the alleged incident scene, the SMM saw the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) arriving, with ten armoured vans and two minibuses. At the time, the scene itself was made inaccessible by law enforcement for security reasons.

The SMM met together with the Mukacheve mayor, deputy mayor, and a police spokesperson. According to the interlocutors, a task force from Kyiv, comprised of the SBU, the National Guard and the Prosecutor General’s Office, was in charge of the on-going post-incident operation. According to them, other Right Sector members involved in the incident had hidden in a forest. At 18:02, near Stryi (120km north-east of Mukachevo), the SMM saw a Ukrainian Armed Forces convoy moving towards Mukacheve, comprised of 11 APCs, two trucks loaded with soldiers and one fuel truck.

The SMM spoke with the Mukacheve hospital director and two of his deputies, who said a man with a gunshot wound in his head, admitted to hospital on 11 July, was still in a critical state. According to them, on the same day five wounded civilians and five police had been admitted to hospital. On 12 July, they added, police had brought to hospital one dead body, and the SBU had brought two seriously wounded persons. They said three civilians and three police admitted the previous day had been discharged today. The SMM will continue to monitor the situation.

D’ailleurs, en parlant du régime précédent, justement…

Will new parliament stay wedded to interests of oligarchs ?
▻http://www.kyivpost.com/content/ukraine/will-new-parliament-stay-wedded-to-interests-of-oligarchs-370147.html

The question now remaining is to what extent big business interests will clash with state-building endeavors that should include open and rules-based markets, the rule of law and respect for property rights.

Avec une revue des oligarques restant (ou revenant) au parlement.

Although never elected to parliament, chemicals tycoon Dmytro Firtash has had close associates in power and in the legislature. In the previous decade he played a major role in importing Russian natural gas to Ukraine. He currently is the nation’s leading nitrogen fertilizer producer.

Yuriy Boyko, the former energy minister who was Firtash’s power-of-attorney in the past, got elected with the Opposition Bloc, a newly formed political force that is a reincarnation of the former ruling Party of Regions. Firtash’s former business partner in gas trader RosUkrEnergo, Ivan Fursin, got elected in a single-seat district in Odesa Oblast. Yevhen Bakulin, the former CEO of state-owned Naftogaz when Boyko was energy minister, successfully ran in a Luhansk Oblast constituency. Serhiy Lyovochkin, with whom Firtash co-owns the Inter television channel, also got in with the Opposition Bloc.

“I have close relations with (Opposition Bloc leader Yuriy) Boyko, we’re friends. With Seryozha (Serhiy Lyovochkin) too, for many years,” Firtash said in an Oct. 20 interview with Lb.ua conducted in Vienna where he is awaiting extradition to the U.S. on racketeering charges.

(…)

Opposition Bloc remains the biggest hope of oligarchs like Firtash and Rinat Akhmetov, the nation’s richest man, who made his $10.5 billion fortune, by Bloomberg estimates, on energy and metallurgy. Former Deputy Prime Minister Oleksandr Vilkul got elected with the Opposition Bloc – he formerly ran several companies belonging to Akhmetov’s System Management Capital.

(…)

Former Russian citizen Vadim Novinsky, worth an estimated $1.4 billion, is a member of the Opposition Bloc too, as well as Vadim Rabinovych, whose fortune was valued at $255 million before the 2008-2009 economic crisis, according to Focus, a weekly magazine. Novinsky voted for the so-called “dictator laws” on Jan. 16 at the height of the EuroMaidan Revolution that severely curbed civil liberties.

The bloc’s seventh spot was Nestor Shufrych, who controls 25 percent of Naftogazvydobuvannya, a major privately-owned oil and gas producer, according to an investigation by The Insider, a Ukrainian website. He also voted for the January draconian laws.

(…)

Former energy oligarch Yulia Tymoshenko re-enters parliament as a leader of Batkivshchyna party. She has been known for her personal opposition to Firtash. “Please notice, I haven’t touched her. It’s she who waged war against me. Why, I don’t understand. I didn’t have a business with her, I didn’t share any money with her. No intersection points,” Firtash said in the Lb.ua interview.

Ihor Kolomoisky, the billionaire Dnipropetrovsk governor who controls the country’s largest bank, Privat, and several major assets in energy and metals, tried to reach an agreement with populist politician Oleh Lyashko, whose Radical Party received 7.4 percent of the votes, according to The Insider. However, Kolomoisky didn’t succeed and is looking for another parliamentary force for support.

(…)

Breaking up Naftogaz and selling large stakes to private investors has been on the agenda of current Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk. This issue will likely lead to conflicts between oligarchs vying for control of the company, especially its profitable gas transportation and storage system. Kolomoisky is close to Yatsenyuk’s People’s Front as well as to Samopomich and several members of Poroshenko’s Bloc, according to Fesenko. His deputy governor, Borys Filatov, got elected in a single-seat district of Dnipropetrovsk Oblast.

(…)

Billionare Viktor Pinchuk owns a major pipe-making business and is also close to Yatsenyuk, Fesenko says. Pinchuk didn’t respond too.

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Meanwhile, Samopomich’s leader Andriy Sadovy, the mayor of Lviv who refused to take a seat in the Rada, can be seen as a business-related figure too, despite Samopomich’s numerous statements about being absolutely independent of any businesses. Sadovy controls Lux, a radio and television company in western Ukraine, through his wife. The company’s key asset is Channel 24, a popular television station. Since Lux, like the rest of the local media market, is unlikely to make earnings, Sadovy needs to subsidize it.

En résumé,…

Volodymyr Ohryzko, the nation’s former foreign minister who failed to get a seat in the Rada, wrote in a blog recently: “In society’s conscience, parliament remains a place where one should go to ‘resolve (their own business) problems’ rather than write laws.”

… parliament remains a place where one should go to ‘resolve (their own business) problems’ rather than write laws.

Ce qui prouve bien l’archaïsme de la vie politique ukrainienne. Il leur reste à découvrir les méthodes occidentales et notamment la pratique ultramodernes du #lobbyisme.