I managed to talk to the other day to my friends who live in Crimea. They were born from Russian families caught up in the boarder transfer between Russia and the Ukraine and they were telling me about the appalling treatment that Russian families got from the Ukrainians during this period and that the racial issues are still there today and how at the time they had their nationalities stripped and other ones forced upon them... It was a bit confusing to listen to as the line kept on being cut off, but its a different side to the story of whats going on. Hopefully I can speak to them again this week as they are trying to get to somewhere safer.
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The invisible ham Fig rolls are the best, Wed 23 Apr 2014, 13:17,
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Boarder transfer? Like on the Hogwarts Express?
Also, you might want to read something a bit more neutral, such as this report from the UN; www.ohchr.org/Documents/Countries/UA/Ukraine_Report_15April2014.doc
Eg. "In eastern Ukraine, where a large ethnic Russian minority resides, the situation remains particularly tense with ethnic Russians fearing that the central Government does not represent their interests. Although there were some attacks against the ethnic Russian community, these were neither systematic nor widespread. There are also numerous allegations that some participants in the protests and in the clashes of the politically opposing groups, which have already taken at least four lives, are not from the region and that some have come from the Russian Federation."
Otherwise it all sounds like the Crimean version of UKIP (UK families forced to accept the laws of Brussels ...)
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Ghoti Fingers, Wed 23 Apr 2014, 13:47,
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thanks for that link, ill have a read. I only know what i have been told by them and what i read in the news papers and see on tv.
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The invisible ham Fig rolls are the best, Wed 23 Apr 2014, 18:09,
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It's an issue that includes other format USSR countries too.
I lived in Estonia for a number of years and the attitude towards ethnic Russians there is discriminatory. It builds up tension and eventually kicks off.
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JamTallons, Wed 23 Apr 2014, 14:01,
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