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Russia’s Partisans Imposing Their Rule in East Ukraine -- Jamie Dettmer, Daily Beast
The anti-Kiev rebels are getting ready for battle by arresting “spies” and interrogating reporters while looking over their shoulders for support from Moscow.
SLOVYANSK, Ukraine—When he threw his head back, shaking it in disbelief that such a question could be asked, the real menace of the former Soviet military officer came through. One of his gold teeth glinted in the light as he sneered. Why was he holding a pro-Ukrainian woman activist? She who had been led blindfolded into detention on Sunday evening.
“I have information she is a spy,” said Vyacheslav Ponomaryov, the pro-Russian militant leader in Slovyansk, a rust-belt industrial town on a tributary of the Donets River an hour’s drive from the Russian border.
The pro-Ukrainian activist, who had taken part in the February protests in Kiev that led to the ouster of Russia-friendly President Viktor Yanukovych, is among seven others, including a charity worker, currently being detained in Slovyansk by Ponomaryov and his masked gunmen. They now rule not only the government buildings they seized on April 13 but hold sway across the entire town of 129,000, patrolling its streets and overseeing the club-wielding locals who man checkpoints circling the town and block strategic junctions.
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My Comment: These men are not interested in negotiations and compromises .... on the flip side .... some Ukrainian nationalists are just as bad.
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