He'll be hated at DU!

But he's right.

they've been told to call the protestors.

Highly rec'd.

A voice of reason that cuts through all the propaganda!

merely pretending to be a tennis player.

It's very helpful.

And good luck to Sergiy in Indian Wells.

very different ideas come together. We don't know how many true neo-nazi types were in the protest but there were some, and we know there were Jewish people there and other groups. You have screwed your people up too much when those groups band together because the gov't is the bigger threat.

The Svoboda, the ultra nationalist party, hasn't earned one seat in government until the 2012 elections. There they received about 8%. That's a big difference for such a short period of time, so you know there was anger building up.

As platoon leader, Delta says he takes orders from activists connected to Svoboda, an ultra-nationalist party that has been frequently accused of anti-Semitism and whose members have been said to have had key positions in organizing the opposition protests.

“I don’t belong (to Svoboda), but I take orders from their team. They know I’m Israeli, Jewish and an ex-IDF soldier. They call me ‘brother,’” he said. “What they’re saying about Svoboda is exaggerated, I know this for a fact. I don’t like them because they’re inconsistent, not because of (any) anti-Semitism issue.”

The commanding position of Svoboda in the revolution is no secret, according to Ariel Cohen, a senior research fellow at the Washington D.C.-based Heritage Foundation think tank

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Still, Delta’s reasons for not revealing his name betray his sense of feeling like an outsider. “If I were Ukrainian, I would have been a hero. But for me it’s better to not reveal my name if I want to keep living here in peace and quiet,” he said.

Fellow Jews have criticized him for working with Svoboda. “Some asked me if instead of ‘Shalom’ they should now greet me with a ‘Sieg heil.’ I simply find it laughable,” he said. But he does have frustrations related to being an outsider. “Sometimes I tell myself, ‘What are you doing? This is not your army. This isn’t even your country.’”

http://www.haaretz.com/news/world/1.577114

Republicans would do the same.

Russia?! Only it's not privately owned by Murdoch and a billionaire Saudi .. it's run by the government.

"The majority of the population does not use the Internet. The only information they get is either from TV or newspapers. So their opinion on the situation is based on what they see on TV and that picture is not reflective of reality."

I've always said how fortunate we are to have our Social Media and the Net.

That would be so heartbreakingly hard.. being out on an International Tennis tour while your country is being invaded by Russia.

It's nice to see the view of an insider on this complicated situation.