1st sniper:" Someone has shot him. But it wasn't us. "
2nd sniper:" Miron, Miron, there are even more snipers? And who are they? "
ARD then interviewed Oleksandr Lisowoi, a doctor from Hospital No. 6 in Kiev, who confirmed that both protesters and government militia forces were shot by the same type of bullet. According to Dr. Lisowoi, "The wounded we treated had the same type of bullet wounds, I am now speaking of the type of bullets that we have surgically removed from the bodies -- they were identical"
Thus, Dr. Lisowoi confirmed what Estonia's Foreign Minister, Urmas Paet, told EU Foreign Policy and Security Policy chief, Catherine Ashton: "[W]hat is quite disturbing, the same Olga [Bogomolets] told that, well, all the evidence shows that people who were killed by snipers, from both sides, among policemen and then people from the streets, that they were the same snipers, killing people on both sides"[S]he also showed me the photos, she said that as a medical doctor, she can say that it's the same hand-writing, the same type of bullets, and it's really disturbing that now the new coalition, that they don't want to investigate what exactly happened. So that there is now stronger and stronger understanding that behind snipers, it was not Yanukovych, but it was somebody from the new coalition." (Flashpoint in Ukraine, p 180)
When you consider the fact that not one member of the neo-Nazi Right Sector (Pravyi Sektor) party was killed by sniper fire, and when you consider that the investigation of the sniper shootings was placed in the hands of Oleg Machnitzki, a member of the neo-Nazi Svoboda party that probably deployed those very snipers, it seems clear that the Obama administration and its spineless lackeys in Europe have backed a criminal enterprise, but call it "freedom" and "democracy."
Significantly, Mr. Nazemroaya sees the sniper fire as part of an attempted coup that failed to materialize on February 20th. As proof, he provides evidence which indicates that parts of Western Ukraine were preparing to declare their independence from the state still ruled by President Yanukovych after that date. He quotes The Guardian, which was commenting on the situation on February 21, 2014: "While protests continue on the streets of central Kiev, the cities in the west of Ukraine are slipping towards autonomy with new parallel governments and security forces that have openly admitted that they have deserted to the side of the protesters." (p. 96) (Had President Yanukovych behaved as Petro Porshenko now behaves toward similarly motivated separatists in eastern Ukraine, he would have bombed those western Ukrainian cities.)
When the coup failed on February 20th, the EU stepped in to broker an agreement between the opposition and the Yanukovych government on February 21st. The move was intended to empower the opposition leaders. But, while one faction of the opposition was negotiating, another faction continued the pressure from the streets. Thus, Mr. Nazemroaya concludes that the EU-brokered agreement was "a disguise for a putsch." (Ibid)
After the putsch, "the opposition leaders used the absence of about half the parliamentarians in the Rada to falsely give a cover of legality to their coup by taking the opportunity to pass parliamentary legislation that would have been defeated if all the Rada's members were present and voting." (p. 97)
Professor Rasmus adds one more piece to the coup puzzle, when he concludes that billionaire oligarchs, such as Victor Pinchuk, Igor Turchynov, Stepan Kuban, Sergey Tartuta, and Ihor Kolomysky, "who are either themselves in the Ukrainian parliament, or who formerly and continue to control blocks of 30-50 votes each, were undoubtedly behind the inside strategy of the February 22 coup." (p. 129)
Flashpoint in Ukraine contains another exceptionally good chapter titled, "The Ukraine Crisis and the Propaganda System in Overdrive," written by Edward S. Herman and David Peterson.
The authors focus on the many sins committed by the New York Times, which, relentlessly vilified President Putin, calling him a "Russian strongman," "bare-chested muscleman," "villain," "unreconstructed Russian imperialist," "leader of a rogue state," "authoritarian rule[r]," and "bully." (pp.173-74) Yet, "at no time through March 31 did a Times reporter, op-ed writer, or editorial characterize the events of February 21-22 as a "coup" or "putsch." (p. 178)
Anyone who knows anything about the history of post-Soviet Russia knows that the West's failure to honor its promise not to expand NATO eastward looms large in the minds of Russia's politicians. The best study of this failed promise is by Mary Elise Sarotte (see wikispooks.com/w/images/8/87/Not_One_Inch_Eastward.pdf ), which not only focusses on the many times "no further NATO expansion east" was discussed, but also on the actual verbal agreement reached between German Chancellor Helmut Kohl and Mikhail Gorbachev to trade a unified Germany under NATO for no further NATO expansion eastward.
Mr. Herman and Mr. Peterson correctly note that "this absolutely essential context to [explain] Russian action"was mentioned only twice in the pages of the New York Times from January through April 15, 2014, and only once by a Times writer."
Yet, the critical significance of NATO expansion to Russia's political elite has been made loud and clear. On December 10, 1993, Roger Cohen of the Times wrote: "Divergent Russian and NATO visions of the future of European security clashed today as President Boris N. Yeltsin of Russia repeated his opposition to any eastward expansion of the Atlantic alliance and top NATO officials said the door must be left open for the eventual admission of new members." On September 21, 1995, Craig Whitney of the Times wrote: "President Boris Yeltsin has made clear that the feels that the eastward expansion of an alliance that was created to keep the Soviet Union out of western Europe is a strategic insult."
On February 7, 1997, the Chicago Tribune published an article under the headline: "Russian Anger At Nato Plan Startles West." And, on February 24, 1998, former ambassador to the United States, Vladimir Lukin, claimed "it is not the truth" in response to Madelaine Albright's lie that Russian officials have little objection to NATO expansion.
In March 1999, NATO began bombing Yugoslavia which caused outrage among every segment of Russian society. Representative of such outrage was an article by Alexander V. Buzgalin titled: "Is NATO a Killer Cop?" (See www.thing.net/~oliveworks/buzgalin.html )
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