<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:10pt"><div style="margin-top: 0.5em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; line-height: 22.399999618530273px; color: rgb(37, 37, 37); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" class=""><b class="" style="">From BoilingFrogsPost article by William Engdahl (below)</b></div><div style="margin-top: 0.5em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; line-height: 22.399999618530273px; color: rgb(37, 37, 37); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; background-color: transparent;" class=""><b class="" style=""><br class="" style=""></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0.5em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; line-height: 22.399999618530273px; color: rgb(37, 37, 37); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; background-color: transparent;" class=""><b class="" style="">BoilingFrogsPost founder:
Sibel Deniz Edmonds</b> is a former <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Bureau_of_Investigation" title="Federal Bureau of Investigation" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none;" class="">Federal Bureau of Investigation</a> (FBI) <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Translator" title="Translator" class="" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none;">translator</a> and founder of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Security_Whistleblowers_Coalition" title="National Security Whistleblowers Coalition" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none;" class="">National Security Whistleblowers Coalition</a> (NSWBC). Edmonds gained public attention following her firing from her position as a language specialist at the FBI's Washington Field Office in March 2002. She had accused a colleague of covering
up illicit activity involving foreign nationals, alleged serious security breaches and cover-ups and that intelligence had been deliberately suppressed, endangering national security. Her later claims gained her awards and fame as a whistleblower.<sup id="cite_ref-pen-sibel-edmonds_1-0" class="" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sibel_Edmonds#cite_note-pen-sibel-edmonds-1" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background-image: none;" class="">[1]</a></sup></div><div style="margin-top: 0.5em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; line-height: 22.399999618530273px; color: rgb(37, 37, 37); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" class="">Edmonds testified before the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/9/11_Commission" title="9/11 Commission" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none;" class="">9/11 Commission</a>, but her testimony
was excluded from the official 567 page <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/9/11_Commission_Report" title="9/11 Commission Report" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none;" class="">9/11 Commission Report</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sibel_Edmonds#cite_note-2" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background-image: none;" class="">[2]</a></sup></div><div style="margin-top: 0.5em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; line-height: 22.399999618530273px; color: rgb(37, 37, 37); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" class="">She is the founder and publisher of the <i class="" style="">Boiling Frogs Post</i>, an online media site that aims to offer nonpartisan investigative journalism.<sup id="cite_ref-About_Boiling_Frogs_Post_3-0" class="" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi:
-webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sibel_Edmonds#cite_note-About_Boiling_Frogs_Post-3" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background-image: none;" class="">[3]</a></sup> In March 2012, she published a memoir, titled <i class="" style="">Classified Woman – The Sibel Edmonds Story</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sibel_Edmonds#cite_note-4" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background-image: none;" class="">[4]</a></sup> Edmonds has also worked to investigate and write about <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corruption_in_Afghanistan" title="Corruption in Afghanistan" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none;" class="">corruption in Afghanistan</a>.</div><div style="margin-top: 0.5em; margin-bottom:
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Ministers</h1><div class="" style="font-size: 11px; margin: 15px 0px; text-transform: uppercase; padding-left: 25px; padding-right: 15px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Tahoma, sans-serif; line-height: 22px; background-color: rgb(233, 233, 233);"><span class="" style=""><span class="" style=""><a href="http://www.boilingfrogspost.com/author/william-engdahl/" title="William Engdahl" rel="author" style="color: rgb(12, 129, 66); text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold;" class="">WILLIAM ENGDAHL</a></span></span> | <span class="" title="2014-03-11T20:00:17+00:00" style="padding: 2px 0px; background: none;">MARCH 11, 2014</span><span class="" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px 0px 2px 22px; float: right; background: url(http://www.boilingfrogspost.com/wp-content/themes/magazine/images/icon-comments.png) 0px 3px no-repeat;"><a
href="http://www.boilingfrogspost.com/2014/03/11/ukraine-names-oligarchs-and-gangsters-as-governors-ministers/#comments" style="color: rgb(12, 129, 66); text-decoration: none;" class="">8 COMMENTS</a></span></div><div class="" style="position: relative; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; background-color: rgb(233, 233, 233);"><div style="line-height: 1.3em; padding-right: 15px; padding-bottom: 17px; padding-left: 25px; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif !important; font-size: 18px !important;" class=""></div><center style="padding-right: 15px; padding-left: 25px;" class=""><b class="" style=""><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="">Why would people in the US, allegedly promoters of democracy, not care about the gangsters & murderers their policies have brought into Kiev?</span></b></center><div style="line-height: 1.3em; padding-right: 15px; padding-bottom:
17px; padding-left: 25px; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif !important; font-size: 18px !important;" class=""></div><div style="line-height: 1.3em; padding-right: 15px; padding-bottom: 17px; padding-left: 25px; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif !important; font-size: 18px !important;" class=""><img src="http://www.boilingfrogspost.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/0311_EngdahlPost.jpg" alt="null" style="height: auto; max-width: 100%; padding: 3px 6px 3px 3px; float: left; margin-right: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="line-height: 1.3em; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="">The newly self-elected Ukrainian government is reorganizing all institutions of power, dissolving the special riot police, naming its cronies to key political posts. But perhaps the most indicative of the true character of the new regime is the naming last week of new Governors to head the major political divisions of regions of Ukraine.
They include dual Israeli-Ukrainian nationals and notorious billionaire gangsters. This seems to be the “democracy” that US State Department Assistant Secretary for European Affairs, Victori Nuland had in mind when she rejected earlier EU compromise initiatives with the terse comment, “Fuck the EU.”</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.3em; padding-right: 15px; padding-bottom: 17px; padding-left: 25px; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif !important; font-size: 18px !important;" class=""><b class="" style=""><span style="line-height: 1.3em; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="">Now, economic destruction</span></b></div><div style="line-height: 1.3em; padding-right: 15px; padding-bottom: 17px; padding-left: 25px; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif !important; font-size: 18px !important;" class=""><span style="line-height: 1.3em; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="">The non-elected or provisional Ukrainian government headed by 39-year old
Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk has made key regional appointments as Governors in the industrial pro-Russian eastern Ukraine.</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.3em; padding-right: 15px; padding-bottom: 17px; padding-left: 25px; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif !important; font-size: 18px !important;" class=""><span style="line-height: 1.3em; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="">The Prime Minister has named three billionaires, including Ukraine’s richest, to head the key political regional or advisory posts.</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.3em; padding-right: 15px; padding-bottom: 17px; padding-left: 25px; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif !important; font-size: 18px !important;" class=""><span style="line-height: 1.3em; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="">Ihor Kolomoisky, a metals, banking and media baron worth between $3 and $6 billion, will be governor of his native region Dnipropetrovsk. He built his billions as a crony of
convicted fraudster, ex-premier Yulia Tymoshenko. He is an Ukrainian-Israeli business oligarch of Jewish descent with a dual Ukrainian-Israeli citizenship although dual citizenship is not recognized by Ukraine. Until now he has controlled his business empire from Switzerland. He is the leading partner of the Privat Group. </span><a title="" href="file:///C:/Users/Matthew/Documents/Boiling%20Frogs%20Post/Posts/Engdahl-Ukraine_Billionaires-March12-2014.doc#_edn1" style="color: rgb(12, 129, 66); text-decoration: none; word-break: break-word;" class=""><span style="line-height: 1.3em; color: rgb(0, 0, 255);" class="">[i]</span></a></div><div style="line-height: 1.3em; padding-right: 15px; padding-bottom: 17px; padding-left: 25px; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif !important; font-size: 18px !important;" class=""><span style="line-height: 1.3em; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="">Serhiy Taruta, the country’s 16th-richest man, was put in charge
of the strategic coal mining region of Donetsk. Serhiy Taruta is a Ukrainian businessman, chairman of Industrial Union of Donbas, and President of FC Metalurh Donetsk.</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.3em; padding-right: 15px; padding-bottom: 17px; padding-left: 25px; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif !important; font-size: 18px !important;" class=""><span style="line-height: 1.3em; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="">According to Forbes magazine, he ranks among the 500 richest people in the world, with his estimated wealth being around 2 billion US dollars. </span><a title="" href="file:///C:/Users/Matthew/Documents/Boiling%20Frogs%20Post/Posts/Engdahl-Ukraine_Billionaires-March12-2014.doc#_edn2" style="color: rgb(12, 129, 66); text-decoration: none; word-break: break-word;" class=""><span style="line-height: 1.3em; color: rgb(0, 0, 255);" class="">[ii]</span></a></div><div style="line-height: 1.3em; padding-right: 15px;
padding-bottom: 17px; padding-left: 25px; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif !important; font-size: 18px !important;" class=""><span style="line-height: 1.3em; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="">Most eyebrow-raising is the role of Ukraine’s richest man, billionaire Rinat Akhmetov, former money backer of Yanukovych. Akhmetov has pledged to “do everything possible to maintain the integrity of our country.” Akhmetov, whose SCM Group controls nearly half of the country’s coal, steel, ore and thermoelectricity sectors is listed as the 47th richest man in the world with an estimated net worth of US 15.4 billion. He allegedly won his billions through ties to organized crime in the 1990’s. Akhmetov issued a statement on March 2: “I state with all due responsibility that SCM Group, which today employs 300,000 people and represents Ukraine from west to east and from north to south, will do everything possible to maintain the integrity of our
country.” </span><a title="" href="file:///C:/Users/Matthew/Documents/Boiling%20Frogs%20Post/Posts/Engdahl-Ukraine_Billionaires-March12-2014.doc#_edn3" style="color: rgb(12, 129, 66); text-decoration: none; word-break: break-word;" class=""><span style="line-height: 1.3em; color: rgb(0, 0, 255);" class="">[iii]</span></a></div><div style="line-height: 1.3em; padding-right: 15px; padding-bottom: 17px; padding-left: 25px; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif !important; font-size: 18px !important;" class=""><span style="line-height: 1.3em; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="">According to Wikipedia, Akhmetov was a former ‘enforcer’ and ‘leader’ of Akhat Bragin’s ‘Tatar’ clan or mafia, responsible for the use of “mafia methods to push aside the ‘red directors’ of the Industrial Union of the Donbass.” </span><a title=""
href="file:///C:/Users/Matthew/Documents/Boiling%20Frogs%20Post/Posts/Engdahl-Ukraine_Billionaires-March12-2014.doc#_edn4" style="color: rgb(12, 129, 66); text-decoration: none; word-break: break-word;" class=""><span style="line-height: 1.3em; color: rgb(0, 0, 255);" class="">[iv]</span></a></div><div style="line-height: 1.3em; padding-right: 15px; padding-bottom: 17px; padding-left: 25px; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif !important; font-size: 18px !important;" class=""><b class="" style=""><span style="line-height: 1.3em; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="">Dicey Cabinet Too…</span></b></div><div style="line-height: 1.3em; padding-right: 15px; padding-bottom: 17px; padding-left: 25px; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif !important; font-size: 18px !important;" class=""><span style="line-height: 1.3em; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="">The new “interim” Cabinet of Arseniy Yatsenyuk fits into a similar pattern of oligarchs, gangsters
and corruption. It includes Andriy V. Parubiy as new Secretary of the National Security and Defence Council of Ukraine. Parubiy led the anti-government riots. His mooted deputy at National Security is neo-nazi Right Sector (Pravyi Sektor) leader, Dmytro Yarosh. Pravi Sektor is estimated to number 5,000 and were inbvolved in the most extreme violence at Maidan Square and allegedly did the sniper killings of police and demonstrators that led to the coup on February 22. Among the members of the Pravi Sektor is the hard-core Ukrainian National Assembly-Ukrainian National Self-Defense (UNA-UNSO), reported tied to NATO and used for their “dirty wars” in Chechnya, Georgia and elsewhere since 1991. Haaretz, Israel’s oldest newspaper, reports that Right Sector distributed translations of <i class="" style="">Mein Kampf</i> and the <i class="" style="">Protocols of the Elders of Zion</i> in Maidan Square.</span><a title=""
href="file:///C:/Users/Matthew/Documents/Boiling%20Frogs%20Post/Posts/Engdahl-Ukraine_Billionaires-March12-2014.doc#_edn5" style="color: rgb(12, 129, 66); text-decoration: none; word-break: break-word;" class=""><span style="line-height: 1.3em; color: rgb(0, 0, 255);" class="">[v]</span></a></div><div style="line-height: 1.3em; padding-right: 15px; padding-bottom: 17px; padding-left: 25px; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif !important; font-size: 18px !important;" class=""><span style="line-height: 1.3em; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="">In 1991 on Ukrainian independence from Russia, new National Security and Defense Council head Parubiy founded the neo-Nazi Social-National Party of Ukraine together with Oleh Tyahnybok, the leader of Svoboda, who is now a People’s Deputy in the new Ukrainian pariament. Yarosh also heads the neo-nazi Stepan Bandera Tryzub organization since 2005. On their website, Yarosh issued an appeal to Dokka Umarov, the
Chechen terrorist guerrilla leader associated with Al-Qaeda, for support of Ukraine.</span><a title="" href="file:///C:/Users/Matthew/Documents/Boiling%20Frogs%20Post/Posts/Engdahl-Ukraine_Billionaires-March12-2014.doc#_edn6" style="color: rgb(12, 129, 66); text-decoration: none; word-break: break-word;" class=""><span style="line-height: 1.3em; color: rgb(0, 0, 255);" class="">[vi]</span></a></div><div style="line-height: 1.3em; padding-right: 15px; padding-bottom: 17px; padding-left: 25px; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif !important; font-size: 18px !important;" class=""><span style="line-height: 1.3em; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="">Svoboda is an extreme far-right party, basically fascist and anti-semitic. Its previous name, the Social-National Party of Ukraine says much. Svoboda Party has six major cabinet ministries in the government of Arseniy Yatsenyuk. Tyahinybok, its head, has given speeches in the past deriding “kikes” and in
2005 wrote a letter to the president calling for an investigation into “organised Jewry and criminality in Ukraine”. Svoboda is part of an alliance of European neo-fascists, the Alliance of European National Movements, which includes France’s National Front, the British National Party and Hungary’s Jobbik. </span><a title="" href="file:///C:/Users/Matthew/Documents/Boiling%20Frogs%20Post/Posts/Engdahl-Ukraine_Billionaires-March12-2014.doc#_edn7" style="color: rgb(12, 129, 66); text-decoration: none; word-break: break-word;" class=""><span style="line-height: 1.3em; color: rgb(0, 0, 255);" class="">[vii]</span></a></div><div style="line-height: 1.3em; padding-right: 15px; padding-bottom: 17px; padding-left: 25px; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif !important; font-size: 18px !important;" class=""><span style="line-height: 1.3em; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="">Among the key posts, the Svoboda Party now controls the General
Prosecutor’s Office. Deputy Prime Minister, Oleksandr Sych, is from Svoboda and will have key economic responsibilities. As well Svoboda controls the Ecology Ministry and the important Agriculture Ministry. Ukraine’s corn harvest is in danger because of the chaos. The country is the third largest corn exporter in the world. The Interior Minister, Arsen Avakov, was accused of illegal privatization of land and abuse of power and was under criminal investigation by the previous government, which forced him to flee to Italy. </span><a title="" href="file:///C:/Users/Matthew/Documents/Boiling%20Frogs%20Post/Posts/Engdahl-Ukraine_Billionaires-March12-2014.doc#_edn8" style="color: rgb(12, 129, 66); text-decoration: none; word-break: break-word;" class=""><span style="line-height: 1.3em; color: rgb(0, 0, 255);" class="">[viii]</span></a></div><div style="line-height: 1.3em; padding-right: 15px; padding-bottom: 17px; padding-left: 25px;
font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif !important; font-size: 18px !important;" class=""><span style="line-height: 1.3em; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="">Rounding out a new circle of corruption, Yuriy Prodan is Energy Minister, a post that raised many eyebrows in Ukraine because he is tied to Privat Group of controversial billionaire Igor Kolomoisky. As well, Oleksandr Shlapak, new Finance Minister a former deputy head of Kolomoisky’s PrivatBank, is also a representative of the Kolomoisky group. </span><a title="" href="file:///C:/Users/Matthew/Documents/Boiling%20Frogs%20Post/Posts/Engdahl-Ukraine_Billionaires-March12-2014.doc#_edn9" style="color: rgb(12, 129, 66); text-decoration: none; word-break: break-word;" class=""><span style="line-height: 1.3em; color: rgb(0, 0, 255);" class="">[ix]</span></a></div><div style="line-height: 1.3em; padding-right: 15px; padding-bottom: 17px; padding-left: 25px; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times,
serif !important; font-size: 18px !important;" class=""><span style="line-height: 1.3em; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="">This is the result of the US-engineered coup in Ukraine. Now with EU and US financial aid conditional on the new Ukraine government embracing severe IMF austerity and privatization as well as demand to end domestic gas price subsidies, the new government is clearly looking forward to the next rape of hapless Ukrainians and worse.</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.3em; padding-right: 15px; padding-bottom: 17px; padding-left: 25px; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif !important; font-size: 18px !important;" class=""><span style="line-height: 1.3em; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="">Why would people in the US, allegedly promoters of democracy, not care about the gangsters and murderers their policies have brought into Kiev? US-Polish security strategist, Zbigniew Brzezinski stated it clearly back in 1997:</span></div><div
style="line-height: 1.3em; padding-right: 15px; padding-bottom: 17px; padding-left: 25px; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif !important; font-size: 18px !important;" class=""><i class="" style=""><span style="line-height: 1.3em; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="">“Ukraine, a new and important space on the Eurasian chessboard, is a geopolitical pivot because its very existence as an independent country helps to transform Russia. Without Ukraine, Russia ceases to be a Eurasian empire. Russia without Ukraine…would then become a predominantly Asian imperial state, more likely to be drawn into debilitating conflicts with aroused Central Asians, who…would be supported by their fellow Islamic states to the south…if Moscow regains control over Ukraine, with its 52 million people and major resources as well as its access to the Black Sea, Russia automatically again regains the wherewithal to become a powerful imperial state, spanning Europe and
Asia.”</span></i><a title="" href="file:///C:/Users/Matthew/Documents/Boiling%20Frogs%20Post/Posts/Engdahl-Ukraine_Billionaires-March12-2014.doc#_edn10" style="color: rgb(12, 129, 66); text-decoration: none; word-break: break-word;" class=""><span style="line-height: 1.3em; color: rgb(0, 0, 255);" class="">[x]</span></a></div><div style="line-height: 1.3em; padding-right: 15px; padding-bottom: 17px; padding-left: 25px; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif !important; font-size: 18px !important;" class=""></div><center style="padding-right: 15px; padding-left: 25px;" class=""><b class="" style=""><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""># # # #</span></b></center><div style="line-height: 1.3em; padding-right: 15px; padding-bottom: 17px; padding-left: 25px; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif !important; font-size: 18px !important;" class=""></div><div style="line-height: 1.3em; padding-right: 15px; padding-bottom: 17px;
padding-left: 25px; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif !important; font-size: 18px !important;" class=""><b class="" style="">F. William Engdahl, BFP contributing Author & Analyst</b><br class="" style="">William Engdahl is author of A Century of War: Anglo-American Oil Politics in the New World Order. He is a contributing author at BFP and may be contacted through his website at www.engdahl.oilgeopolitics.net where this article was originally published</div></div><div class="" style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; background-color: rgb(233, 233, 233);" class="">- See more at: <a href="http://www.boilingfrogspost.com/2014/03/11/ukraine-names-oligarchs-and-gangsters-as-governors-ministers/#sthash.hNYHz03e.dpuf" class="" style="">Ukraine names Oligarchs and Gangsters as Governors & Ministers</a></span><br class=""
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20px; background: none 0px 0px repeat scroll rgb(242, 242, 242);"><h3 class="" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; float: left; width: 602px; background: transparent;">Arseniy Yatsenyuk</h3><span class="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 10px; vertical-align: baseline; display: block; color: rgb(147, 143, 142); font-weight: bold; float: left; width: 602px; background: transparent;"><span class="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;">©</span> EPA/JULIEN WARNAND</span></div></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px 0px 5px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 602px; float: left; background: transparent;"><div style="padding-bottom: 10px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.6; background:
transparent;" class="">KIEV, March 6. /ITAR-TASS/. The appointed by Verkhovna Rada Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk has signed an order to dismiss three deputies of Ukraine’s defense minister as they opposed to giving the Right Sector militants the status of regular military units. A source in the Ukrainian government said this to Itar-Tass. “Yatsenyuk dismissed first deputy defense minister Alexander Oleynik,” the source specified. “Deputies defense minister Vladimir Mozharovskiy and Arturo Francisco Babenko were also dismissed.”</div><div style="padding-bottom: 10px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.6; background: transparent;" class=""></div><div class="" style="margin: 5px -20px 30px 30px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 333px; clear: right; float: right; background: transparent;"><div class="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px;
vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;"><a class="" href="http://en.itar-tass.com/russia/722151" target="_blank" style="vertical-align: baseline; display: block; color: rgb(0, 149, 219);"><img src="http://videocdn.itar-tass.com/fit/333x9999_4ec25037/tass/m2/en/uploads/i/20140305/955131.jpg" alt="Dmytro Yarosh" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; max-width: none; display: block; background: transparent;" class=""></a><div class="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 12px 20px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: rgb(242, 242, 242);"><a class="" href="http://en.itar-tass.com/russia/722151" target="_blank" style="vertical-align: baseline; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.4; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(0, 149, 219);">Right Sector leader Dmytro Yarosh put on international wanted list</a></div></div></div>The source added that on Wednesday, at a closed session of
Ukraine’s Defense Ministry the military officials expressed sharp criticism over giving the Right Sector militants the status of regular military units. “They stated that the legal adoption of this initiative would lead to a final split of the society and the country, and bring chaos into the operations of the state’s security agencies,” the source said.<div style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.6; background: transparent;" class=""></div><div style="padding-bottom: 10px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.6; background: transparent;" class="">He also said that “one of these military officials at this session directly told Arseniy Yatsenyuk that actions of today’s Kiev authorities that overtures with radical nationalist organization strip Ukraine of chances to ensure national unity, and it is just harmful to involve the state military agency in such dangerous
games”.</div><div style="padding-bottom: 10px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.6; background: transparent;" class="">“In this situation, the authorities were forced to make the corresponding management reshuffles. And they were implemented,” the source added, recalling that Petro Mekhed has been appointed as the new deputy defense minister.</div></div></div><div class="" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-style: normal; background-color: transparent;"><br class="" style=""></div></div></body></html>