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newthinking

(3,982 posts)
Sun Mar 9, 2014, 10:33 PM Mar 2014

Question: Why not put pressure on the Kiev administration: Re. Svoboda and RS

in the execution branch?

Seriously, without getting into an argument about how representative they may be as a whole. It is evident that the placement of Svoboda and Right Sector members into Executive Cabinet offices (especially over the Defense Department) is complicating things. It is incendiary to have Neo-Nazi's in these places of power. These are appointments and can be reversed.

Appointments from Right Sector and Svaboda include the ministers and Deputy ministers of Defense and security, the acting Prosecutor General, and the Deputy Prime Minister (among others) http://www.channel4.com/news/svoboda-ministers-ukraine-new-government-far-right

Why are we not also pressuring them to find some acceptable figures to represent the East and South in Parliament? Or find some other way to provide some semblance of representation to tamper fears?

Those two things would disarm key parts of the issues that are keeping the two sides dug in?

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