Yesterday, a crowd prevented the Crimean Parliament (the Supreme Rada of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea) from assembling (see post 110). Today, the Rada assembled and voted for a referendum on secession of Crimea from Ukraine.
Google translation follows with minor fixes from me:
The Supreme Rada of Crimea announced a referendum on the status of the republic
Author: White Russia News
Just recently the Supreme Rada of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea has announced an all-Crimean referendum on the status of autonomy and the expansion of its powers. With the proper treatment to residents of autonomy made by the Presidium of the Verkhovna Rada of Crimea. "Crimeans, as a result of an unconstitutional seizure of power in Ukraine with the support of radical nationalists armed gangs peace and tranquility in the Crimea compromised - a spokeswoman said the chairman of the Verkhovna Rada of the ARC Oksana Korniichuk. - Yesterday's clash at the building of the Crimean parliament, led to bloodshed and human victims - is the result of rampant political extremism and violence that swept the country. Ukraine slipping into total chaos, anarchy and economic disaster. Under these conditions, the Verkhovna Rada of the ARC as the highest representative body of the ARC, based on the will of the elected him Crimeans assumes all responsibility for the fate of the Crimea. Following the fundamental canons of democracy, the Presidium of the Crimean parliament believes the only possible way out of this situation, the application of the principles of direct democracy. convinced that only the holding of an all-Crimea referendum on the status of autonomy to improve and expand its powers allow Crimeans themselves without external pressures and dictates determine future autonomy ", - emphasized the Rada in its address.
Meanwhile, "maydan power" takes unpretentiously bandit form. Muzychko Alexander (Sasha White), one of the leaders of the UNA-UNSO, currently the head of the "Right Sector" in western regions of Ukraine, came to talk to the prosecutor Andrei Targon Bids village in Rivne region (watch the video bewaring obscenities in Ukrainian language). You think, the Ukrainians want any normal kind of power? Recall that Muzychko in 1994 with a group of Ukrainian volunteers arrived in Chechnya to assist troops separatists. Participated in numerous battles with Russian federal forces, mainly in the city of Grozny. For Military Merit Dudayev personally awarded the Order Muzychko CRI "Hero of the nation."
[Video at source; Freepers, learn the obscenities, we might need them]
Transcarpathian patriotic organization "Karpatoros" lead by Joseph Fedelesha announced an ultimatum to the "Right sector" and "other entities of unknown origin." "The fault of corrupt officials through our native land - Transcarpathia - Today the flames of civil war. News reports from the field are reminiscent of the battle. Under the pretext of lustration power thrives violence, looting, extortion, kidnapping. Recent events have shown that the police and the Security Service is unable to restore order in the region, where the "real owners" areas became bandits who hide under the "guise" of the "right sector" and other organizations of unknown origin. We Transcarpathians, are being exchanged for lucrative positions and chairs of high power cabinets. But we also know how to fight, "- says the Carpatoross statement. " Activists call within 48 hours to the police and other law enforcement agencies have mobilized all employees to maintain order in the area. From the heads of councils at all levels (regional, urban), regardless of party affiliation required to resign. Also "Karpatoros" requires that "all the administrative buildings of the self-proclaimed" mayors "and another drunken riff-raff." Earlier, the MP from the faction "Motherland" Gennady Moskal(*) said that in Kiev and other regions of the country intensified armed gangs that hiding behind slogans of the Euro-Maidan, engaged in robbery and looting. "Under the slogans of the revolution, these groups rob abandoned houses, take the jewels, valuables, as well as alcoholic beverages, that sharing a bottle on the spot, then shoot a firearm, throw Molotov cocktails space and even raped women and girls who had not managed to escape" - says Moskal. He also said that these groups of masked men with bats, firearms and machetes freely in Kiev and other Ukrainian regions. "They stop vehicles, mocking passengers and demand money supposedly to support the revolution," - said Mr. Moskal.
(*) Moskal? They couldn't think of a better name. "Moskal" is a derogatory term for Russians all over Ukraine.