Today marks 28 years since the Chernobyl nuclear disaster in Eastern
Ukraine.
Tatar organizations in the Middle Volga
have nominated Mustafa Dzhemilev for the Nobel Peace Prize. This calls
attention to Dzhemilev’s efforts to defend his land and growing ties between
the Tatars of Crimea and the Tatars of the Middle Volga. But then again, maybe
Putin will be nominated again this year for ‘defending Russian speakers in
Ukraine’. Or yet, another United States official will be ‘humbled’ by this
prize while they continue warfare and their mastery of foreign intervention.
Interim PM Yatsenyuk met with Pope Francis today in Rome.
Does peace have a place in geopolitics? What can the Pope say? If only he could
tell Yatsenyuk not to trust anyone. Not his `allies’ like Tymoshenko, the USA or the IMF. But then again, surely Yatsenyuk knows that
already. What options do the interim leaders have?
In other news, overnight, Russian aircraft invaded Ukrainian
airspace seven times. Meanwhile, two residents of Donetsk and Luhansk
disappeared today: the theatre director Pavlo Yurov, whose work recently won an
award in Kyiv, and Denys Hryshchuk, a volunteer in the arts.
Furthermore, the violence continues in Slovyansk. A BBC
reporter has had a gun held to her head. The Roma community continues to be
targeted with violence and intimidation and Ukrainian speakers are beaten up in
the streets.
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