Originally Posted by OUTLAW 09
Scenes from #ElectricYerevan : Protesters passing out song sheets, learning & singing Sardarabad & other nat'l songs pic.twitter.com/dcVkyo3jm5
Must be called "The Strange Revolution" pic.twitter.com/tni0WVI7dg
ElectricYerevan Exposes #Kremlin's Mindset
http://www.rferl.org/content/electri.../27095362.html … pic.twitter.com/7IqGs4HSvi
With the initial reports or anti war demos by ethnic Russians coming out of the Russian occupied Ukrainian zones and this article--I will go out on a limb and state Putin has lost his non linear war in the eastern Ukraine--and badly lost it.
Yes the fighting will go on for awhile and the dying and destruction as well but he has lost and has yet to see it.
He has lost the Ukrainian civil society as a whole--and that was his target in the eastern Ukraine and he has driven a wedge for years to come between Russians and Ukrainians who share a lot historically.
http://foreignpolicy.com/2015/06/26/...ore-ukrainian/
Why Ukrainians Are Speaking More Ukrainian
By Ievgen Vorobiov
June 26, 2015 - 5:14 pm
It’s been 16 months since the first Ukrainian soldier was shot by Russian troops in soon-to-be occupied Crimea. Since then, Russia’s ongoing war against Ukraine has presented the country’s Russian-speaking population with some tricky questions about identity.
“I’m afraid of speaking Russian now, because Putin might want to protect me” — that became the frequently repeated joke last year after the Russian president made it clear he considered Russian-speakers in Ukraine to be endangered by Kiev’s new government.
Now many Russian speakers in Ukraine — who live primarily in the country’s east and in large cities — are demonstratively turning to Ukrainian as a badge of self-identification. A concise tutorial on how to switch from Russian to Ukrainian, written by a Kiev blogger, has earned thousands of shares and reposts. Patriotic Russian-speakers in Kiev and big eastern cities are pledging on social networks to speak Ukrainian to their children, hoping to make the next generation more fluent and natural speakers of their native tongue.
For the first time in decades, speaking Ukrainian is seen as fashionable rather than backward.
Ukraine’s strong civil society has also been an important factor in “socializing” the country’s adult population into using Ukrainian. Amid the dire lack of state-funded support for life-long education, dozens of organizations and initiatives teach the language to adults across the country. Activists say the bulk of their students came in the wake of the Euromaidan revolution and the beginning of the Russian-Ukrainian war. Most of the students, says an organizer of the biggest course in Kiev, are 30-to-50-somethings. Free Ukrainian courses have mushroomed in big, mostly Russian-speaking cities such as Dnipropetrovsk, Zaporizhzhia, Kharkiv, Kramatorsk and Odessa. However, they’ve also popped up in Lviv and Vinnytsia, Ukrainian-speaking cities where many people displaced from Crimea and the east have settled.
The media landscape is also unmistakably becoming more Ukrainian. Granted, the traditional media are still somewhat dominated by Russian: two of the top three TV channels broadcast their evening news and most entertainment programs in Russian. Most high-circulation weekly magazines are published in Russian. However, the emergence of powerful Internet-based news outlets is bucking the trend. Ukrainian-language web-based TV, most notably Hromadske.TV and Espreso, have few Russian-language competitors of comparable quality, although the former has started to produce programs in Russian.
Since over half of Ukrainians regularly use the Internet, the social media is turning into another channel of “Ukrainization,” especially of the middle class. Top bloggers writing in Ukrainian on Facebook and Twitter are boosting their follower bases, and many Ukrainian Internet users are starting to abandon platforms based in Russia, such as VK, the Russian equivalent of Facebook. A controversy over Facebook blocking Ukrainian-created content, allegedly by Russian citizens staffing tech support teams in Dublin, provoked calls to write more in Ukrainian as a way to insulate the “Ukrainian” blogosphere from Russian interference. Discussing politics in Ukrainian makes it harder for Russian trolls to chip in.
The gravitational pull of the Ukrainian language is making a mark on business, too.
For the first time, Ukrainian pop music is selling better than Russian.
A popular chain of coffee shops, Lviv Handmade Chocolate, has made waitresses and baristas that serve customers only in Ukrainian into a signature policy, yet the chain is popular across the whole country. Roman Matys, a Ukrainian activist, campaigns for companies to include labels and documentation in Ukrainian in addition to Russian, and several large companies have yielded to his group’s petitions.
For the past twenty years, state education policy has been to promote Ukrainian in schools without directly impending the use of Russian. Ukraine’s post-Soviet governments, even pro-Russian ones, treated secondary education in Ukrainian as a generous concession to national-minded activists. While only 47 percent of Ukrainian schools taught in Ukrainian at the end of Soviet rule in the 1980s, that rate steadily increased to 75 percent in 2004 and 86 percent in 2013. And as Ukrainian has become the principal teaching language at leading universities, schoolkids and their parents perceive it as more of a priority, even if they use Russian at home.
The trend was not reversed even after the passage of the 2012 “language law,” which provided for greater use of Russian on the regional level. Legislative initiatives pertaining to the language use have been politicized since the Maidan revolution as well. Parliament’s attempt to repeal the controversial language law in February 2014 (which was rejected by a presidential veto) was used as a rallying call by pro-Russian separatists in eastern Ukraine.
Ukraine is still a bilingual country. But the Ukrainization phenomenon is not just anecdotal — survey data shows that, in the last decade, the country’s linguistic landscape has undergone a visible change. In 2005, 42 percent of Ukrainians claimed that they spoke mostly Ukrainian at home. By 2011, 53 percent said they spoke it in their everyday lives. Since most of them are perfectly fluent in Russian as well, the 11 percent upsurge, representing at least 5 million people, reflects the share of Ukrainian society that has switched from Russian to Ukrainian. The Euromaidan revolution and conflict with Russia accelerated that trend: a poll conducted in May 2015 shows that almost 60 percent of the population prefer to use Ukrainian in everyday communication.
This burgeoning popularity of Ukrainian, especially among the youth and the middle class, is having unifying effects on the country’s social structures. It facilitates social mobility between the east and the west. Many western Ukrainian students are bringing their Ukrainian to universities in Kiev and the big eastern cities. Young IT and service professionals who move from Kharkiv or Dnipropetrovsk to Lviv tend to bring Ukrainian into their everyday lives, despite Lviv’s tolerance for Russian speakers.
The revival of Ukrainian is only one of many societal upshots in the Ukrainian-Russian war.
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Reference the shot down of MH17 by Russia.
Eliot Higgins @EliotHiggins aka bellingcat
Russia doesn't want an international MH17 tribunal because
- They provided the Buk that shot it down
- They faked evidence to blame Ukraine
In 2014, #Russia wanted to frame Ukraine for MH17 & demanded closer UN involvement. Then came @bellingcat... ❓���� pic.twitter.com/XNoq4XZ8gg
Putin’s Pursuit of ‘Russian World’ Destroying Any Possible Unity of Russian-Speaking Space
http://www.interpretermag.com/putins...-irisova-says/ … pic.twitter.com/KAclxofuWE
Even in RU language equivalent @OSCE_SMM shows affectation, not objectivity for #PutinAtWar is also a linguistic war pic.twitter.com/pKFL3dzFOh
The Cold War Never Really Ended Russia's refusal to face the past allowed it to return
http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/...-ended/395243/ … pic.twitter.com/Jv7Xso3XcL
#News
Beside Nadja Savchenko, #Russia holds another 29 Ukrainians, taken hostage inside #Ukraine.
- Ukr center for the release of prisoners
Appears that somehow regardless of what they say the Russian leadership is "somewhere out there in space without a safety net".
Notice not a single mention that maybe just maybe Russian actions are in fact contributing to the "increased tension" but hope it is the other guy's fault.
Russian Embassy, UK ✔ @RussianEmbassy
#NATO defence ministers' summit outcomes show its determination to dominate Europe, it leads to escalation of tension pic.twitter.com/eG6h7D5QMB
Militant group of 40 attacked #Maryinka blockpost of Ukr Armed Forces. Were pushed back http://dpsu.gov.ua/ua/about/news/news_7646.htm …
Russia-backed militants shelled Stanytsia Luhanska w/ mortars, anti-tank guided missiles. 1 civilian got killed http://www.moskal.in.ua/?categoty=news&news_id=1858 …
Destruction in Berdyanske after militant shelling with self-propelled artillery yesterday
http://www.mariupol.tv/news/war/mari...nkov_foto.html … pic.twitter.com/1yDcm2R56m
Over the past day militants opened fire 16 times in sector "M". Used heavy artillery, mortars, tanks - Sector M spox
http://www.mariupol.tv/news/war/mari...nkov_foto.html …
Overnight Stanytsia Luhanska was almost continously bombarded by militants. Civilian was killed - Moskal
http://moskal.in.ua/index.php
Militants fired at Starohnativka from tanks. Used 122-, 152mm howitzers at town + #Shyrokyne https://www.facebook.com/ato.news/po...22774181066721 … pic.twitter.com/MBg2PZGzM2
Yesterday Militants 91 times attacked Ukr positions & civilian areas. Attacks intensified during the evening – ATO Most actively in Donetsk area: fired 55 times
https://m.facebook.com/story.php?sto...21&__tn__=%2As …
Russian mercenaries "Prizrak", who were led by Mozgovoy. Their cars sport #Russia|n Federation license plates. https://twitter.com/anisim/status/614683776753487873 …
News
Between June 15 and June 26, 7 Ukrainian troops were killed, defending #Shyrokyne and 28 were injured.
- Sector M spox
Paradox ElectricYerevan against RU media lies about them being Maidan : because in fact they do believe in RU lies pic.twitter.com/43UfLuhun9
Armenia violates ceasefire with Azerbaijan 90 times within 24 hours: http://en.trend.az/azerbaijan/karabakh/2411603.html … pic.twitter.com/MMQsgF8731
After Armenian prez offers "concession" by "suspending" electricity price, 7-day mark may be end of govt "patience" 4 #ElectricYerevan
Striking photos by @shelomovskiy of #ElectricYerevan http://bit.ly/1KhCh5Y
no matter what the outcome of #ElectricYerevan protests, there is no way to return to status quo; certain to be a long, hot & tense summer
Protesters not backing down #ElectricYerevan NOW http://civilnet.am/live pic.twitter.com/qECY0gfJvG
Armenian activists do not accept president's offer http://news.am/eng/news/274192.html … #ElectricYerevan
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VIDEO #Ukraine SBU seized components for (#Russia(n)) drone able to carry 100kg explosives https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ytXVPB12iwc … pic.twitter.com/vm2dskuNRH
Russia attempts to legitimize its annexation of Crimea by declaring illegal the 1954 transfer of Crimea to Ukraine! pic.twitter.com/0s2LwdMU8W
VIDEO A #Putin "genius" takes (whipping) oath to become one of his "LNR soldiers" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ioPlPOKrtQ … #Ukraine pic.twitter.com/GfK0Fc9kks
Ocuupied #Debaltseve. "Humanitarian aid" being unloaded fm Russian cargo train. pic.twitter.com/oJ9ucmQGgG
In Donetsk, terrorists burned alive entire family for Ukrainian symbols http://newsdaily.com.ua/post/907811 pic.twitter.com/z8HaU5zCSl
74 years ago, from June 22-28, Stalin's NKVD massacred 1,681 Ukrainians in one prison in Lviv. http://eon.ca/wordpress/blog/2015/04...y-street-lviv/ … pic.twitter.com/DLkSvQ6pNC
youtube.com/watch?v=aAoA4eVZyaU … 'Singing & dancing phase.' (As in #Ukraine, war next, #Russia's Ivans say) #ElectricYerevan pic.twitter.com/vfd391NCGH
Latest from OSCE Special Monitoring Mission (SMM) to Ukraine based on information received as of 19:30 (Kyiv time), 26 June 2015
At the JCCC headquarters in Soledar (government-controlled, 75km north-east of Donetsk), the Ukrainian Armed Forces and the Russian Federation Armed Forces representatives at the JCCC presented the SMM with two separate logbooks, both indicating a majority of ceasefire violations committed by the “Lugansk People’s Republic” (“LPR”) and “DPR” armed groups. The Ukrainian Major General, Head of the Ukrainian side to the JCCC, stated that, in the morning of 26 June, the “DPR” forces launched 122 rockets from six Grad-P light portable rocket systems, impacting in the vicinity of Berdianske (government-controlled, 103km south of Donetsk, 18km east of Mariupol), destroying a JCCC vehicle and forcing representatives of the Ukrainian Armed Forces to abandon a JCCC observation post. The Russian Federation Armed Forces Chief of Staff also referred to usage of approximately six pieces of Grad-P light portable rocket systems
After heavy beating and torture Russian terrorists pretend taking care of Ukrainian POWs.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PFKK7-HjP7w … pic.twitter.com/ztyRLQUL9R
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