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On February 20th 2014, Maidan square exploded. Following this event, President Viktor Ianoukovytch fled the country and left power. Three weeks later, Crimea voted its unification with the Russian Federation. The country is now on the verge of a civil war. How did this happen? The Ukranian Powder Keg is an immersion in a country torn appart, in which each community tries to extricate itself. A country highjacked by far-right militias, inspired by fascist and neo-Nazi ideologies. Three journalists - Gregoire Deniaud, Vincent Nguyen and Hugo Van Offel - went to three different places across Ukraine to explain what is going on.Gregoire Deniaud was in Kiev and Lviv in order to understand how a movement that was created to denounce rampant corruption has become so radicalised and why the ultra-nationalists of the right wing are so popular nowadays among the insurgents of Maidan. In Kharkiv, he has been following some pro-russian demonstrators who have been marching under the flag of the "URSS" calling for Vladimir Poutine to save them from nazism as well as burning books of Ukranian poets. Vincent Nguyen was in Crimea at the time of the referendum alongside the Tartars, who had been traumatized by their mass deportation under Staline, and who have boycotted the referendum calling it 'illegitimate'. He has been able to see at first hand Russian propaganda at work: his camera man spent several hours in the hands of pro-russian militia; he was convoked after they having released him to ask him to explain to the press that he had been well treated during his detention. Meanwhile Hugo Van Offel went on a journey through time to Abkhazie. Since the conflict between Russia and Georgie in 2008, Abkhazie and the south of Ossetia have been annexed 'de facto' by Russia. The international community have no longer the right to inspect, foreign journalists are tolerated one at a time and are constantly watched. In Abkhazie, Hugo Van Offel has been able to observe the "Russian miracle" that is today awaiting a majority of Crimeans... ; but also its accompanying "guardianship" |
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European/Baltic Studies |
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Politics and International Affairs |
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Originally produced by Upside Television in 2014 |
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In English |
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