On March 4, late in the evening the acting mayor Victor Shchadey was attaked in Uzhgorod. Shchadey with knife wound is hospitalized now in resuscitation unit of the city hospital. "Attacked from the back, a purely gangster handwriting - to intimidate, but to leave alive. And it is already the second attack on politicians of Zakarpatye for the last week ", - noted in the message.
48.The reporter Sergey Rulyov was beaten and tortured on Maidan. Kiev, 05.03.2014
In the center of Kiev, on Maidan, unknowns in a camouflage beat and tortured the reporter of "Navigator" Sergey Rulyov who arrived to the square for taking pictures of the reporting on an anti-war action.
"Near Central Post Office the unknown man in a camouflage saw me and began to shout: "it was him who interviewed "Berkut"! ". After that I was seized, put an armlock on me and dragged into the tent opposite to the Trade Unions Building. I was offended there, beaten by legs, imputing me that I am on a "Berkut" side, that I made journalistic stories about it, that I am guilty for the death of 100 people" — Rulev said on a phone from an ambulance car.
"4 persons beat me. There was a woman in a scarf with them who, without saying a word, kicked me in a groin. After that they dragged me into the seized Ministry of Agrarian and Industrial complex where I was searched, the documents, the journalistic certificate, accreditation in the Verkhovna Rada, the business cards, two phones and two cameras were reived from me " - the journalist continued.
"When I was pulled out to Khreshchatyk again, I started shouting and calling for help, fell down on the ground, was again beaten by legs, but nobody reacted. Approximately at 12:00 I was dragged to the burned-down Trade Unions Building. In a lobby they immidiately started beating me. In a courtyard unknown people in a camouflage pulled together hands, stripped me to the buff and continued to beat. They shouted: "ah, I got you! ", "he is with "Berkut", he was killing us! ". After that, four of them pulling hard on me on a floor, again something stuck something in my hand – they say, "now you, bitch, will talk to us, what intelligence services you work for! ", — the reporter claims.
According to Rulyov, when he was convolved the unknown woman started torturing him – to pull his nails with flat-nose pliers.
After a while they endowed a bag on the Rulyov's head and drove him somewhere.
"Brought – put on a floor and began to beat again. I declared that I know Artyom Skoropadsky, the head of the "The Right Sector" press service, and also the journalist Elena Bilozerskaya who sympathes nationalists. Unknowns began to call her, Bilozerskaya confirmed that Rulyov is a journalist, but mentioned that earlier I painted over plates with indexes on Mazepa Street. It caused indignation – they started beating me again and threatening to put in a basin with cement and to dump to Dnepr" — the reporter continued.
"Then, a person with an imperious voice came to the room and told them that Sergey Rulyov is really the journalist, really he took pictures of events on Grushevsky street and expelled them all. I was unmasked. 2 young activists of "The right sector" appeared in front of me. They began to expostulate – they say, why you walk on Maidan. Gave me soothing pills, water, brought a t-shirt and a sweater. Copied all my data again. Returned me only the old phone and the old camera. Gave me guards and being accompanied by 4 people I was taken to Proreznaya street and put into the ambulance car. Now the car is taking lucky me to the hospital" — Rulyov concluded.
Ukrainian "national committees" wanted to seize the German factories, 05.03.2014
As it turned out to Tagesspiegel, participants of "national committees of self-defense" in Ukraine tried to take control on German businesses. This information received from the Foreign Trade Chamber of Germany in Kiev was confirmed to the newspaper by the head of one of the companies.
Last week the letter from "national committee of self-defense' came to Quarzwerke Gruppe plant in Vinnytsia region. Authors accused the firm in "corruption and mockeries at workers" and made the demand to "immediately appoint to the firm management the person called by committee". "We politely referred to continuous control of external auditors and refused to appoint a new administration of the plant", - the dean Otto Hiber said.
"Due to his words, last Friday alleged authors of the letter really arrived to factory by bus, intending to seize it, but were pushed aside by employees (there work 320 people all together). Hiber told that he secured with support in fight against such unfriendly absorption from representatives of the new government in the regional center and in Kiev ", - is said in the article.
The similar case as Tagesspiegel reported to Foreign Trade Chamber, occurred in the Zhitomir region. Under evidence of the executive director of East committee of the German economy Rainer Lindner, "uncertainty among the German firms grew very strongly ". He noted that the Kiev square of Independence is "not only "Euromaidan" as many people in Germany think. It is really possible to meet there supporters of rapprochement with the West but nationalists and an assemblage of hooligans also come across".
Despite the described incident, Hiber trusts in the future: "Problematic times from the point of view of economy are coming to Ukraine. But I am convinced that the new government will provide the investors with more favorable conditions than there were at the time of its predecessors".
