Today, the first English translation was
released of Channel ’1+1′ and the creative association ‘Babylon 13 series of documentaries ‘The Winter That Changed Us
All’ about the revolutionary events this winter.
Postcards from Maidan is
also translating some of their work into English. Postcards from Maidan and
Stories from Maidan is a two-fold art initiative that helps to bring support to
Ukrainian protesters in different regions of the country. The postcards project contains a
series of cards based on works of contemporary artists and the stories project is
a campaign in which contemporary artists visit hospitals, talk to people and
work on the artistic embodiment of their stories from Maidan. Among other
goals, the project aims to recover lost contacts and enable protesters to learn
about each other. http://postcardsfrommaidan.org/
In Kyiv, investigations
on-going by the Prosecutor General of Ukraine,
the Security Service, the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the Ministry of
Revenues and the National Bank of Ukraine, reported today that Yanukovych, his family and friends ‘legalized’
UAH 77.2bn (3.65bn GBP), revenues from their criminal activities. The Financial
Monitoring Service sent requests to financial investigative units of 136
countries with the goal of establishing and further blocking bank accounts,
corporate rights, securities and other legal claims to real estate and other
assets.
Meanwhile on the Crimean peninsula, the
headmaster of the only Ukrainian-speaking schools in Simferopol, Natalya
Rudenko (in the position since 1997), was forced to resign from her position
today under pressure from ‘Aksenov’s self-defense’ and City Council officials.
The government has stated this
school must become Russian-speaking.
Excerpt from an article from ‘voices of the revolution’: a
memory of Ustym Holodnyuk (Sotnya #38), by Alyona Stadnik
“... I
saw his [Ustym’s] mom again. Bloodless, lifeless, understanding everything
and having lost everything. I tried to explain to her, to say thank you. Ustym
saved me, Ustym saved my 18-year-old sister, Ustym saved my mother. Ustym saved
all the girls, all the children. I do not know, I do not know… But I think that
everyone who saw a mother whose son was killed, will never be able to shoot at
anyone.
We went
to Zbarazh for the third time for 40 days, it was last weekend. Ustym’s
mom was so beautiful – her face, colorless. With such a look [in her
eyes]… And you know what … I would like to say that I’ve never seen such a
look, but it’s not true. I saw it later. I saw it, because we stopped at the
village Travneve (Zbarazh district, Ternopil oblast) on our way back.
A 17-year-old Nazar, who also was killed on Maidan, lived there. And I saw
his mother there. His mother’s face was ashen, all features were smoothed out
by the sadness and the look in her eyes, it was that look … And she was silent
as well. Very silent.”
In other news:
Putin warned Europe on Thursday that it may
face a shutdown of Russian natural gas supplies if it fails to help Ukraine
settle its Russian gas bill.
Pro-Russian protesters continue to occupy
government buildings in Donetsk and Luhansk. Many of these demonstrators are
armed.
In northwest Romania, U.S. and Romanian troops began
a week of joint military exercises. Romania, Russia and Ukraine all border the
Black Sea.
Former president of Poland, Aleksander Kwasniewski, stated today that he believed Putin will
not stop after the annexation of Crimea or Eastern Ukraine. He warns Putin will
attempt to gain control over all of Ukraine to make it a part of the Russia-led
Eurasian Union.
Finally, NATO released satellite images that show Russian
military build-up at the Ukrainian border. Between
35,000 and 40,000 Russian troops are in a state of advanced readiness and could
deploy within 12 hours of a decision.
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