Physicist Nazar Bartosik has compiled this 12-slide presentation documenting what has been happening in Ukraine:
Kurkov, Riabchuk, Marynovych
24 01 2014Andrey Kurkov, Russophone Ukrainian author of Death and the Penguin and 17 other books (translated into a total of 25 languages), author and political scholar Mykola Riabchuk, and human rights activist Myroslav Marynovych, writing on behalf of the Ukrainian branch of PEN International:
“[The Ukrainian government has] crossed the red line that separates semi-authoritarian regimes from genuine dictatorships.
“They persistently tighten the screws, encourage lawlessness and provoke more confrontation and violence. They remain deaf to all moderate voices and calls for peace. They seem to understand only the language of force […]
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Andrukhovych
24 01 2014From Yuri Andrukhovych, one of Ukraine’s most internationally celebrated writers, author of Recreations, The Moscoviad, Perverzion, Disorientation on Location, My Europe, and numerous other novels, books of poetry and essays:
During the less than four years of its rule, Mr. Yanukovych’s regime has brought the country and the society to the utter limit of tensions. Even worse, it has boxed itself into a no-exit situation where it must hold on to power forever—by any means necessary. Otherwise it would have to face criminal justice in its full severity. The scale of what has been stolen and usurped exceeds all imaginination of what human avarice is capable.
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Zhadan
24 01 2014From Serhiy Zhadan, author of “Big Mac and Other Stories,” “Anarchy in the UKR,” “Capital,” “Ballads of the War and Reconstruction,” “The Very Best Poems, Psychedelic Stories of Fighting and Other Bullshit,” “History of Culture at the Beginning of the Century,” and other works:
“The main cause of violent confrontations is the passing of the January 16 laws. They have eliminated any space for maneuvering for the protestors. Wittingly or unwittingly, the government is pushing civil society into a corner, from which there’s no exit except to break the system.”
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