We are good skaters, and we are good guys,"he toldESPN. His whereabouts are not known. No one is raising a voice against these actions. Chen, 20, finished 11th in her qualifying round Monday, moving on to the women's competition Friday and Saturday with almost no hope of winning a medal. In addition, he has a keen interest in Ukrainian politics. She gave Sikharulidze a piece of advice: "This is your crystal vase. Elena Berezhnaya. Soon evidence emerged of a quid pro quo between Russian and French votes in the pairs figure . In short, under Zelenskys rule, the government agencies and others armed groups are detaining, imprisoning, and killing people in Ukraine. The Ukrainian SBU security services has served as the enforcement arm of the officially authorized campaign of repression. Denis Kireev On March 5, 2022,Denis Kireev, a Ukrainian negotiator during the Ukraine-Russiacrisis, was shot and executed by the Ukrainian Security Service (SBU) because he was a suspected spy. "It's one thing that puts you over the top, if you skate the whole program cleanly. Two surgical operations were performed to remove bone fragments from her brain. Sign up to get important news and culture from around the Northwest, delivered to your inbox six days a week. A member of the Ukrainian government negotiating team. I don't have enough money to buy nine judges. Prior to the start of the Russian military operation against Kiev, a few instances of the brutality, torture and extra judicial killings were reported by a host of organisations, HRW, OSCE, Amnesty International, OHCHR and in France OFPRA. The accident caused partial paralysis on her right side, and doctors were unsure if she would walk again. The crowd, in a split second, went from rapturous . He subsequently learned that Igor was held by the SBU at the time and being used to bait Shariy into disclosing his location. For 8 years Ukrainian nationalists have internalised naked hate against Russian speaking Ukrainians and by default judged them to be guilty of being pro-Russian. V Kovaleva, E Berezhnaya, M Komandirov, M Rudkovskii, A Uzdensky. Horrid glimpses into these detentions were provided: Several also alleged that after being transferred to SBU premises they were, variously, beaten, subjected to electric shocks, and threatened with rape, execution, and retaliation against family members, to induce them to confess to involvement with separatism-related criminal activities or to provide information. Carried out by Territorial Defense volunteers tasked with enforcing law and order during wartime, these acts of humiliation and torture have targeted everyone from accused Russian sympathizers to Roma people toalleged thieves. Required fields are marked *. On March 7, the mayor of Gostomel, Yuri Prylipko, was found murdered. 3 1. Posted on 3/26/22 at 11:46 am. Twenty years ago, Elena Berezhnaya, together with Anton Sikharulidze, became the Olympic champion in the sports doubles competition. Her coach Eteri Tutberidze has been seen watching over her other two pupils, Anna Shcherbakova and Alexandra Trusova, who would be elevated to favorites without Valieva. Perhaps the most ghastly incident of repression took place when neo-Nazis backed by the Ukrainian government kidnapped Maxim Ryndovskiy, a professional MMA fighter, andbrutally tortured himfor the crime of training with Russian fighters at a gym in Chechnya. Last year, she narrowly lost her title to Michelle Kwan. Dmitri Djangirov. Anton Gerashchenko, an advisor to the Ukrainian Ministry of Internal Affairs, celebrated the mayors murder, Telegram post by Anton Gerashchenko, advisor to the Ukrainian Ministry of Internal Affairs, celebrating the assassination of traitor and Kreminna Mayor Volodymyr Struk, On March 7, the mayor of Gostomel, Yuri Prylipko, was found murdered. She spoke in various countries' parliaments, telling them about Nazism in Ukraine. . Be a part of it. By then, it was too late; her qualifying performance Monday was dismal. The Azov members and SBU agents recorded the torture session and published images of Matjuschenkos bloodied face online. And now, at the worlds, a medal is within reach entering tonight's long program. Several journalists and Ukrainian dissidents, including the prominent columnist, Common Ukrainian citizens have also been subjected to torture since the start of the war this February. Russia's Elena Berezhnaya can tell you about the perils of pairs. Russian foreign ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova said Thursday she hoped Gonzalo Lira Lopez who disappeared following his criticism of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky was alive and well. Two months later, the hard practices began. Dmitry Djangirov, Dmytro Djangirov, and Dmitry Dzhangirov are some of his other names. Several journalists and Ukrainian dissidents, including the prominent columnistOles Buzina, weremurdered by state-backed death squadsafter their names appeared on the list. Obviously, a highly repressive with systematic serious human rights abuses committed against civilians, by members of the military and police are not an impediment to being part of the European and NATO family. Reportedly a member of the Ukrainian military intelligence service. Elena Berezhnaya remembers that Anton Sikharulidze arrived at her hospital bedside and she knew, immediately, that she was in the hands of someone she could trust. Last night, Berezhnaya and her new Russian pairs partner, Anton Sikharulidze, brought drama to the World Figure Skating Championships. document.getElementById( "ak_js_1" ).setAttribute( "value", ( new Date() ).getTime() ); Focusing on the many crimes of the Zelensky regime, Ukrainian soldiers of the 206th battalion of the territorial defense of the Ukrainian capital, Yesterday, Ukrainian Security Service officers with machine guns came to my parents apartment, stole almost all the money, and took my father away without bringing any charges My mother went to the Security Service office today, but they say they dont know anything about it. Keep supporting great journalism by turning off your ad blocker. Nitric oxide 29, 46-52, 2013. Since Russia launched its military operation inside Ukraine, the SBU has hunted down local officials that decided to accept humanitarian supplies from Russia or negotiated with Russian forces to arrange corridors for civilian evacuations. The three-time Olympic champion served a three-month ban in 2014. Americans Jenni Meno and Todd Sand are fourth, and Kyoko Ina and Jason Dungjen are fifth. The worst cases are carried out by paramilitary and ultra-nationalist units. Russian skaters in particular have a history of positive results dating to 2000, when decorated pairs skater Elena Berezhnaya was stripped of a gold medal from the European championships for testing positive for pseudoephedrine. People are not only being tied up to street furniture as suspected looters, but people are being bound up or arrested for being pro-Russian, for not being able to say the word Palyanytsya in Ukrainian. After Canadians Jamie Sale and David Pelletier produced a flawless free skate at the 2002 Olympics in Salt Lake City, the gold medal was awarded to the Russian duo: Elena Berezhnaya and Anton. On March 3, pictures of Stroks visibly tortured body appeared. They worked through the summer and fall, getting ready for the Russian nationals. However, they frequently come to the SBUs central office for holding, for example, specific meetings or plotting secret operations.. The post-Maidan regime has focused its wrath on Ukrainians who have advocated a peace settlement with pro-Russian separatists in the countrys east, those who have documented human rights abuses by the Ukrainian military, and members of communist organizations. Medvedchuk escaped house arrest at the onset of the war between Russia and Ukraine, but is a captive once again, and may be used as collateral for a post-war prisoner swap with Russia. The couple meshed, finishing second in the Russian championships and third at the European championships. "People are nostalgic for such a style," Moskvina said of her young pair. On the battlefield, meanwhile, the Ukrainian military has engaged in a series of atrocities against captured Russian troops and proudly exhibited its sadistic acts on social media. They used a lighter to heat up a needle, then put it under my fingernails, he told Cohen. After unsuccessfully teaming up with Aleksandr Ruchkin, her coach's son, Berezhnaya teamed up with Latvian Oegs ahovs and they skated together more than five years. Notably, during the Donbass conflict, the Ukrainian side committed extremely heinous crimes, such burying people alive, beheadings (as reported by Newsweek), pitiless systematic acts of torture, rapes, looting, on a significantly much larger scale compared to the reported crimes committed by the pro-Russian side also featured in these reports. Gerashchenko stated that the site was extremely important for the national security of Ukraine. He then added that anyone who does not understand this or tries to interfere with this work is either a puppet in the hands of others or works against the interests of national security. [2]. Both have since married and retired from skating, competitively and in exhibitions. The long list of human rights abuses and ill-treatments by the SBU has been amply catalogued in the past, along with the assistance of ultra-nationalist groups, who are tacitly permitted to act indiscriminately against anyone they deem as an enemy of Ukraine. Elena Berezhnaya, a well-known human rights activist is also arrested. Though Patriots for Life is regarded as pro-Russia, in part because of his close relations with Vladimir Putin, the new chairman of the party has, Members of the state-sponsored neo-Nazi Azov Battalions National Corps, Zelenskys administration escalated the assault on his top opponent in February 2021 when he, Under Zelenskys watch, the war is being used to kidnap, imprison and even kill opposition members, Then they put bags over our heads, tied our hands with tape and took us to the SBU building in a car. By March, she was standing on the ice with Sikharulidze; in May, they began to skate together. Other recent instances of the rule of themob,ultra-nationalist, territorial defense enforcers: 13 March, the house of Dmitry Lazarev, a left-wing activist, was burnt down, (in a village near Odessa). "We are not so clear with that concerning prize money and the financial situation. Pro-Western monitors including the United Nations Office of the High Commission (UN OHCR) and, Kiev officially endorses assassinating Ukrainian mayors for negotiating with Russia, On March 1, for example, Volodymyr Strok, the mayor of the eastern city of Kreminna in the Ukrainian-controlled side of Lugansk, was kidnapped by men in military uniform, according to his wife, and, On March 3, pictures of Stroks visibly tortured body appeared. The Ukrainian government knows this, more so since Zelensky, since heappointed Oleksandr Pokladas the SBUs counter-intelligence chief in 2021. Mikhail & Aleksander Kononovich. OPBs critical reporting and inspiring programs are made possible by the power of member support. CAPTION: Oksana Grishuk and Evgeni Platov make a formal appearance in the compulsory dance, earning first-place marks. Poklad has a sinister reputation as the The Strangler . She doesn't remember the blade leaving a two-inch gash through her hairline, or penetrating her skull. While training together in January 1996, she suffered a serious injury, leaving her partly paralyzed and unable to . We dont know where my father is, we dont know what hes being charged with. It was not possible to participate in the championship: Elena Berezhnaya received a terrible injury. . Western media has looked the other way, however, as Zelensky and top officials in his administration have sanctioned a campaign of kidnapping, torture, and assassination of local Ukrainian lawmakers accused of collaborating with Russia. "She loves skating," Moskvina said. Elena Berezhnaya Update 1995-96 Champion Series Final The 1995-96 ISU Champions Series Final was held in Paris, France from February 23 through 25, 1996. they were real champions. After less than a year together, they were European medalists. The judges from Russia, Poland, China, Ukraine and France gave them a 5.8, sliding Canada into second place behind Berezhnaya and Sikharulidze. And Sikharulidze's. Let's speak of her health,' " Moskvina said. During that time, Nalyvaichenko was, In 2021, Zelensky appointed one of Ukraines most notorious intelligence figures, Oleksander Poklad, to lead SBUs counterintelligence division. Today, she is a mystery: injured, chagrined and unable to land all but the easiest of the triple jumps. But her coach, Tamara Moskvina, remembers what the doctors told her when she obtained a visa and traveled from Russia to see her tiny skater lying motionless and speechless in a hospital bed five days after the accident. The so called international community has expressed no interest or desire to take a closer look at this disturbing situation in Ukraine. The SBU accounts for a large percentage of reported arbitrary detention, torture, and abuse of detainees, from a period from 2014 to 2019. A Ukrainian Orthodox journalist has been held by authorities in Kiev for two weeks now with no access to a lawyer or necessary medical care. With Mishin she was the World Silver medalist and competed in the 1968 . The activities of those politicians aimed at division or collusion will not succeed, but will receive a harsh response, President Zelenskystated. On the flip side, the Russian side has also documented the human rights abuses and repression: The SBU has a harrowing track record of serious human right abuses, which continues today. People were surprised to see her; she was wearing a scarf to cover her shaved head. Dont wait. Sikharulidze was Berezhnaya's boyfriend at. Event: murdered on the street of Kiev, near Pechersky Court building by the SBU security service. Later that year, ice dancer Anastasia Shakun was given a one-year suspension for taking furosemide after she claimed a pharmacy suggested it for swelling in her eye. "When I started to teach them, every minute I was afraid to look," she said. Accused of: treason and illegal enrichment. Verified email at jefferson.edu. While Western media homes in on Russian human rights violations at home and inside Ukraine, the Ukrainian government has authorized a propaganda campaignknown as Total Warthat includes the planting of bogus images and false stories to further implicate Russia. Currently in a pre-trial detention centre. The first indication of a problem with the results of the three-day team competition which concluded Monday with Russia winning gold, the U.S. silver and Japan bronze came when the medal ceremony was postponed indefinitely. The SBU has a history of torture, brutal interrogations, extra judicial murders and other violence and threats carried out with total impunity. Later that year, ice dancer. Marina Eltsova and Andrei Bushkov are second. Zelenskys administration escalated the assault on his top opponent in February 2021 when heshutteredseveral media outlets controlled by Medvedchuk. The accompanying post was captioned, looking for Nazis.. US corporate media has responded by showering Zelensky with fawning press, driving a campaign for his nomination for the Nobel Peace Prize and inspiring aflamboyant musical tributeto himself and the Ukrainian military during the 2022 Grammy awards ceremony on April 3. "Because for two consecutive years my coach and I stay in the United States, we were not familiar with some of the regulations, especially financial regulations," she said through an interpreter. 2:31 in Lancasters video, the womans corpse can be seen clearly. Date: 16 March 2022, Event: detained, beaten and tortured by ultra-nationalist group, Date: Precise date unknown- 1st week of March 2022. Moskvina began teaching them slowly, cautiously. Accused of: spreading pro-Russian and pro-Belarusian views. and treason. It's unclear if a medal ceremony will be held. With partner Anton Sikharulidze, she is the 1998 and 1999 World champion, 1998 Olympic silver medalist and 2002 Olympic champion. Episode #81: Tamara Moskvina. "She's been to Europeans and the Olympics. People have been reportedlykilledfor not pronouncing the shibboleth word correctly and thus assumed to be part of subversive Russian reconnaissance groups. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. "Let's speak about her health. This controversial website created in 2014, under the initiative of Anton Gerashchenko, (the Ukrainian deputy minister of internal affairs). Two years ago, China's Lu Chen was the world champion of women's skating. N E W Y O R K, July 31, 2002 -- An alleged Russian mob boss was arrested and charged with plotting to fix the ice-dancing and pairs figure-skating competitions in the 2002 Winter Olympics . postdoctoral fellow, Thomas Jefferson University. A figure skating scandal at the 2002 Salt Lake City Winter Games saw Canadians Jamie Sal and David Pelletier briefly lose the gold medal to Russians Elena Berezhnaya and Anton Sikharulidze; in . and charged with treason. Next, on April 12, Zelensky announced the arrest of his principal political rival, Viktor Medvedchuk, by Ukraines SBU security services. Moskvina, a legendary pairs coach in St. Petersburg, Russia, was standing beside the boards at Malley Sports Center watching Berezhnaya's performance. Valentyn Nalyvaichenko, the first head of the SBU after the Euromaidan regime change operation of 2013-14, nurtured close ties to Washington when he served as general consul to the Ukrainian embassy to the US during the George W. Bush administration. Vlodymyr Struk. As journalist Dan Cohen, For his part, Shariy has been placed on the notorious Myrotvorets public blacklist of enemies of the state founded by Anton Geraschenko the Ministry of Internal Affairs advisor who endorsed the assassination of Ukrainian lawmakers accused of Russian sympathies. The US Inept State Department openly endorsed the presidents move,declaringthat the United States supports Ukrainian efforts to counter Russias malign influence, Three months later, Kievjailed Medvedchuk and charged him with treason. As he wiped out his opposition, Zelenskyorderedan unprecedented domestic propaganda initiative to nationalize all television news broadcasting andcombineall channels into a single 24 hour channel called United News to tell the truth about war.. Reporters asked the Kremlin about the potential doping issue late Wednesday amid speculation that the gold medals won by Valieva and five other Russian skaters that took part in the team competition could be at risk. People have been reportedly, The SBU has a history of torture, brutal interrogations, extra judicial murders and other violence and threats carried out with total impunity. . Top-level officials and media outlets are wilfully ignoring what is taking place in Ukraine, by believing that the Russians are far worse, in scope and extent of human right abuses, while at the same time sanitising a wide range of heinous abuses, disappearances and killings in Ukraine. Below, Russias RIA Novosti profiled Prozorov and covered his disclosures in a 2019 special. Against the background of rampant corruption, by the end of 2021, Ukraine fell to 122nd place out of 180 countries in the Transparency International Corruption Perceptions Index (Transparency International, 2021). As you can see from the list, the whereabouts of many are not known, actual accusations against them are not known either. Then they put bags over our heads, tied our hands with tape and took us to the SBU building in a car. Notably, during the Donbass conflict, the Ukrainian side committed extremely heinous crimes, such burying people alive, beheadings (as reported by Newsweek), pitiless systematic acts of torture, rapes, looting, on a significantly much larger scale compared to the reported crimes committed by the pro-Russian side also featured in these reports. Meanwhile, dozens of other, Among those targeted by the SBU were Mikhail and Aleksander Kononovich, members of the outlawed Leninist Communist Youth Union of Ukraine. Notes:Currently held in a pretrial detention centre, been beaten and are facing execution on false charges. During that time, Nalyvaichenko wasrecruited by the CIA, according to his predecessor at the SBU, Alexander Yakimenko, who served under the Russian-oriented government of deposed President Viktor Yanukovych. According to Prozorov, the ex-SBU officer, the Ukrainian security services have been directly advised by the CIA since 2014. The Ukrainian authorities and associated ultra-nationalist groups are after people who were not only very critical of the former but also the current Ukrainian government. My coach and I decided to return to China, to return to our federation . GL Gonzalo Lira (@realGonzaloLira) March 26, 2022. Ref: He was severely beaten during his arrest by the SBU. His authoritarian decrees have triggered the disappearance, torture and even murder of an array of human rights activists, communist and leftist organizers, journalists and government officials accused of pro-Russian sympathies. Perhaps the most gruesome image to have appeared on social media in recent weeks is the photo of a tortured Russian soldier who had one of his eyes gouged before he was killed. A glimpse of some of the attitudes tolerated within the law enforcement structures, starting with 2018, when an ex-SBU adviser, former deputy in the Rada, member of the far-right nationalist party Svoboda [Freedom], Yuri Michalchyshyn, advocated the following: To propagate a total extermination of the Kremlin vultures and ghouls, local traitors and turncoats, its voluntary helpers and accomplices instead of reconciliation with the traitors of the Motherland and the enemies of the Ukrainian people.. Russian bobsledder Nadezhda Sergeeva tested positive for trimetazidine at the 2018 Pyeongchang Olympics. While Zelensky spouts bromides about the defense of democracy before worshipful Western audiences, he is using the war as a theater for enacting a blood-drenched purge of political rivals, dissidents and critics. On 9 January 1996, Berezhnaya was seriously injured when Shliakhov's blade sliced into her skull while the pair were practicing a side-by-side camel spin in Riga. The Ukrainian government knows this, more so since Zelensky, since he. By the end of the high profile scandal, French judge Marie-Reine Le Gougne, was suspended for three years and the Canadians got their gold medal, the BBC reported. Documentaries that show the origin of the war in Ukraine, Q&A: a resource on covid-19 and vaccination, SARS-CoV-2 An Aerosolized Prion Disease And Potential Symptomatic Profile, The social contract has been broken by the few of the State, says Neil Oliver, There have been at least 300 deaths from the Pfizer mRNA shots this year in New Zealand, Watch the Water: Resources on snake venom in covid and mRNA vaccines, Xinjiang Police File Hack Why China is Terrified, The latest from Karen Kingston on the mRNA bioweapon. After the injury Elena couldn't speak or walk. App available to 3rd parties shows that unvaxxed is recorded as being vaxxed! We are not bad guys. [2]https://www.defenddemocracy.press/killing-and-terrorizing-journalists-in-ukraine/. Threats, harassment and calls for violence has been and continue to be made against those who: Add into this maelstrom another layer of extra-judicial repression, in the form ofimpromptu justice being meted out to civilians, bound up, tied to posts, beaten, humiliated and some killed as a result. Ukrainian soldiers use of the cellphones of dead Russian soldiers to mock and hector their relatives appears to be a common practice. Worse still, is the participation of the likes of Azov, Right Sector and others in the detentions and also disappearances of people. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has framed his countrys war against Russia as a battle for democracy itself. 27/28 March: Slema, Cherkasy region. Russian skaters in particular have a history of positive results dating to 2000, when decorated pairs skater Elena Berezhnaya was stripped of a gold medal from the European championships for . Ref: The daughter of Mikhail Viacheslavov, burned alive on 2 May 2014, in the Odessa House of Trade Unions. There are still some brave few who try to gather information on the arrests and detentions. Elena Berezhnaya. Yesterday, Ukrainian Security Service officers with machine guns came to my parents apartment, stole almost all the money, and took my father away without bringing any charges My mother went to the Security Service office today, but they say they dont know anything about it. She was disqualified from the two-woman bobsled event and served an eight-month ban. In 1996, Elena had a skate hit her head, slicing into her skull, during a practice session with Oleg. Here's what happened to Russian figure skaters Elena Berezhnaya and Anton Sikharulidze after the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City. The Neo-Nazi group C-14 leader, Yevhen Yarasopenly acknowledgedworking with the Ukrainian security service, (SBU). The passage ofdecommunizationlaws by the Ukrainian parliament further eased the persecution of leftist elements and the prosecution of activists for political speech.
