NewsWeek - Ukrainian Nationalist Volunteers Committing 'ISIS-Style' War Crimes
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Ukrainian Nationalist Volunteers Committing 'ISIS-Style' War CrimesBy Damien Sharkov
Ukrainian servicemen from the "Azov" battalion detain men at a site of battle with pro-Russian separatists in the eastern Ukrainian port city of Mariupol June 13, 2014. Osman Karimov/Pool/Reuters
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[font size=2]Groups of right-wing Ukrainian nationalists are committing war crimes in the rebel-held territories of Eastern Ukraine, according to a report from Amnesty International, as evidence emerged in local media of the volunteer militias beheading their victims.
Armed volunteers who refer to themselves as the Aidar battalion “have been involved in widespread abuses, including abductions, unlawful detention, ill-treatment, theft, extortion, and possible executions”, Amnesty said.
The organization has also published a report detailing similar alleged atrocities committed by pro-Russian militants, highlighting the brutality of the conflict which has claimed over 3,000 lives.
Amnesty’s statement came before images of what appeared to be the severed heads of two civilians’ started circulating on social media today, identified by Russian news channel NTV as the heads of rebel hostages.
Shortly after, Kiev-based news network Pravilnoe TV reported that it had spoken with one of the mothers of the victims who confirmed her son was a rebel, captured during fighting in Donetsk.[/font]
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this ugly shite. But, leave putin alone wah wah wah!
They try to cover up all of putin's atrocities and just point out anyone else's..no matter if it's in a response to atrocities committed against them or not.
I've never seen such a committed bunch of fans..
Lover boy..
Putin is a screaming homophobe..
In State Of The Nation Address, Putin Defends Anti-Gay Law
"MOSCOW (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin used his state-of-the-nation address on Thursday to defend conservative values, referring obliquely to his government's anti-gay stance as he chided the West for treating "good and evil" equally.
Russia has faced Western criticism over a law banning "propaganda of non-traditional relations," which gay rights groups say has given a green light to harassment and intimidation. The law has prompted activists across the world to demand a boycott of the Winter Olympics in Sochi in February.
In his 70-minute televised speech from an ornate Kremlin hall, Putin pledged to defend traditional family values, which he said were the foundation of Russia's greatness and a bulwark against "so-called tolerance — genderless and infertile."
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"Putin is believed to be a devout Christian" Yeah, we know all about those "devout Christians" who use hate in the name of Christ.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/12/12/putin-state-of-the-nation_n_4432001.html
Putin’s grip on the internet
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The precedent of persecuting bloggers to silence them was set in 2008, a year after a blogger Savva Terentyev criticised police in a comment on a LiveJournal post he was sentenced to one year suspended sentence, article 282 of Russian Criminal Code for, “fomenting of social hatred” towards policemen. Since then, article 282, which covers actions provoking animosity and hatred towards certain religious, social, gender or national groups has been used to silence bloggers through the courts.
The other charge commonly used against internet users is “extremism” . Throughout Putin’s reign this charge has been used to target people who criticise the Kremlin — together with defamation and drug legislation. Russia’s Department of Presidential Affairs won three defamation lawsuits against newspaper Novaya Gazeta in just one week last year. All the articles talked about this authority’s controversial withdrawals from Russian budget and extremely high salaries of its staff. The editor-in-chief Dmitry Muratov told Index that Kremlin has been using defamation suits as a censorship instrument.
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Starting from 1 November 2012 Russian authorities won’t need a court ruling, like they did in the Terentyev case. Authorities will appeal to ISPs, like in the Rumyantsev case, create website blacklists and will be able to actually shut down anything they won’t like. Previously, a court ruling could make a website or the URL of a certain web content inaccessible in a specific region, while it stayed available in another.
Andrey Soldatov, an expert on Russian security services, notes that soon “the Kremlin will have at its disposal the facilities for blocking access to internet resources across the whole of Russia”, including Skype and Facebook."
http://uncut.indexoncensorship.org/2012/08/putins-russia-internet-censorship/
More recently..
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Putin ramps up Internet censorship, citing Google and Snowden to ensure public support
On March 13, a half-dozen highly trafficked opposition blogs and indie media outlets were suddenly blocked within Russia. The websites — including the highly respected Ekho Moskvy radio station and the blog of popular nationalist opposition politician, Alexei Navalny — received no notice of the impeding cutoff.
There was no court order, no trial, not even a public hearing. But there’s no doubt the move was official: Roskomnadzor, Russia’s mass media and telecommunications regulator, very publicly announced it in a directive to Russian ISPs, explaining that access to these websites must be blocked for extremism and for encouraging people to attend unsanctioned protests — in this case, against Russia’s annexation of Crimea.
This new formal power to unilaterally block access to any website comes via a brand new Internet censorship law that went into effect on February 1, 2014. It’s called the “Law of Lugovoi” — named after its author, State Duma Deputy Andrei Lugovoi, a scary ex-FSB officer-turned-Duma deputy who is better known as the prime suspect in the 2007 polonium assassination of Alexander Litvinenko in London.
Russia has refused to extradite Lugovoi to the UK to face trial and has instead allowed him to make a second career for himself as an ambitious legislator in Russia’s lower house of parliament. Lugovoi has put his personal stamp on plenty of bills, including ones that limit free speech and expand the power of the FSB. (He’s also know for periodically issuing veiled death threats against opposition politicians.)
http://pando.com/2014/03/20/putin-ramps-up-internet-censorship-citing-google-and-snowden-to-ensure-public-support/
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One more time: yes, this National Socialist march took place today, legally, in St Petersburg. @svaboda
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May 1st in #Russia.Ppl with #nazi flags are welcomed, meanwhile ppl with #ukrainian flag are detained @TukvaSociopat
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http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=4903928
Speaking of whining about another country and covering up Russia.. same poster.
And it would've been more difficult to find the pictures (I would've done it on my phone if one of the Putinists made me). I was so glad that you did the groundwork there, because I knew I was right, but using my phone to post is so unwieldy. It really made me happy someone did the digging for me!
I never forget when someone backs me up when I'm posting via phone, because it really is a time saver. So many times I post one liner phone posts and people insult me and I don't feel like kicking their inane threads when I get to my PC, so I let it go, really frustrating that they think they won one when in actuality I don't want to kick their false posts to rebut them. Better to let their propaganda sink than to win an internet argument. 
or want a phone that does all that. It's just my laptop and I had just seen it posted on that May day on another site and then there was your post on DU.. with the "window open". Nice when something comes together like that to counteract the propaganda.
I'll note that the Putinists didn't post a damn thing about UA soldiers being beheaded by the rebels. 
And no I won't post the gore here just google it if you want to see peoples heads in boxes.
The rebels did "nothing", they were just home watching TV when the "coup" government following orders from the USA attacked them.
Give me a break. Attack and seize government buildings and start killing people the government will respond.
