Democracy Gone Astray

Democracy, being a human construct, needs to be thought of as directionality rather than an object. As such, to understand it requires not so much a description of existing structures and/or other related phenomena but a declaration of intentionality.
This blog aims at creating labeled lists of published infringements of such intentionality, of points in time where democracy strays from its intended directionality. In addition to outright infringements, this blog also collects important contemporary information and/or discussions that impact our socio-political landscape.

All the posts here were published in the electronic media – main-stream as well as fringe, and maintain links to the original texts.

[NOTE: Due to changes I haven't caught on time in the blogging software, all of the 'Original Article' links were nullified between September 11, 2012 and December 11, 2012. My apologies.]

Sunday, April 13, 2014

Russia Arrests 25 Ukrainians Suspected Of Attacks

MOSCOW, April 3 (Reuters) - Russia has detained 25 Ukrainians it suspected of preparing attacks in the southern and central part of the country, the Federal Security Service (FSB) said in a statement on Thursday.

The detained, who were reported as being members of ultra-nationalist movements, were planning attacks between March 14 and 17, it said, in Russia's Rostov, Volgograd, Tver, Orel, Belgorod, Kalmykia and Tatarstan regions.

The press service of the Ukrainian state security service (SBU) dismissed the report as "nonsense".

The announcement came hours after the SBU said that Russian security staff had been present at the SBU headquarters aiding previous authorities during anti-government protests in Kiev in which more than 100 people were killed.

Russian Rossiya state TV channel aired a video showing several detained young men, one of them admitting to being a member of an ultra-nationalist movement.

A website for the NTV channel reported, citing security services' data, that the detainees were assigned by the SBU to take pictures of Russia's military equipment near the Ukrainian border and to establish contacts with radicals inside Russia.

The hints of Russian involvement in Ukraine protests could further strain ties with the country's former Soviet master, which annexed the Crimea region after Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovich's removal from power, in what has become the worst East-West standoff since the Cold War.

The FSB denied any involvement in the Ukraine protests. Russia's RIA news agency quoted it as saying earlier in the day: "Let these statements be on the conscience of the Ukrainian Security Service." (Reporting By Alexei Anishchuk, Editing by Timothy Heritage)

Original Article
Source: huffingtonpost.com/
Author: Reuters

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