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Purveyor

(29,876 posts)
Thu Mar 12, 2015, 05:34 PM Mar 2015

Yanukovych Ally Peklushenko In New Ukraine Mystery Death

Source: BBC

A former regional governor has been found dead in Ukraine, the latest in a series of deaths involving allies of deposed President Viktor Yanukovych.

Oleksandr Peklushenko, former head of Zaporizhzhya, had suffered a gunshot wound to the neck and authorities said initial inquiries pointed to suicide.

A member of Ukraine's Party of the Regions, he was being investigated over the dispersal of protesters last year.

Five other officials also died in mysterious circumstances this year.

All of them supposedly took their own lives in the past six weeks

Stanislav Melnyk, 53, an ex-MP was found shot dead in his bathroom on 9 March
Mykhaylo Chechetov, former party deputy chairman, died after apparently jumping from a window in his 17th-floor flat on 28 February; he had been accused of abuse of office and fraud

Read more: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-31855700

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Yanukovych Ally Peklushenko In New Ukraine Mystery Death (Original Post) Purveyor Mar 2015 OP
Well, that's ONE thing they can't blame on Putin Demeter Mar 2015 #1
That won't stop them. Putin is responsible for all evil in the world. Comrade Grumpy Mar 2015 #4
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Thanks for the needed humor! Xinhuanet being an impartial observer erronis Mar 2015 #3
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I post from them all and catch flak from all for doing so. As the saying goes Purveyor Mar 2015 #6
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Demeter

(85,373 posts)
1. Well, that's ONE thing they can't blame on Putin
Thu Mar 12, 2015, 05:45 PM
Mar 2015

although I am sure some twisted, bigoted minds will try.

 

Comrade Grumpy

(13,184 posts)
4. That won't stop them. Putin is responsible for all evil in the world.
Thu Mar 12, 2015, 07:23 PM
Mar 2015

This is just part of his devious machinations to invade all of Europe.

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erronis

(15,306 posts)
3. Thanks for the needed humor! Xinhuanet being an impartial observer
Thu Mar 12, 2015, 07:10 PM
Mar 2015

You could also read the Tasmanian Auto Merchant for as good a discussion about Peklushenko's suicide-by-neck-wound. Your link did not seem to have any content on this and pablum on other items.

While the West is frantic about finding casus belli for just about every slight (except those from the Israelis), it is interesting that we are supposed to ignore the sporadic killings of opponents and confidants of the Putinesque apparatchik.

And while you're smarming over the Chinese and their pacifist ways, could you explain their continued militancy over islands in the South (China) Sea? Pushing a bit, just like Russia into Crimea, maybe?

Oh, and if I want to commit suicide, I don't think I'd choose my neck as a good place for a bullet. Just sayin.

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Purveyor

(29,876 posts)
6. I post from them all and catch flak from all for doing so. As the saying goes
Thu Mar 12, 2015, 09:51 PM
Mar 2015

'if you are taking flak, you are over the target'.

Part of the enjoyment of posting here I suppose.

Response to Purveyor (Reply #6)

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