Then, as now, Sikharulidze maintains his innocence, and the innocence of his partner in the figure skating controversy plaguing the only Olympic gold medal they ever won. Kamila Valieva, the 15-year-old Russian superstar who was expected to deliver her nation its third straight Olympic gold medal in womens figure skating, tested positive for a banned heart medication before the Beijing Games, the Russian newspaper RBC reported. The. A separate video published by Ukrainian and US-backed Georgian Legion soldiers showed the fighterscarrying out field executionsof wounded Russian captives near a village outside Kiev. Washington, Brussels are indeed capable of doing, as they shown a long-standing ability to sweep under the carpet, Contras in Nicaragua, death squads in South and Central America, KLA crimes in Kosovo, moderate rebels in Syria and now Ukrainian ultra-nationalists. His whereabouts are not known. Prylipko had, Then there was the murder of Denis Kireev, a top member of the Ukrainian negotiating team, who was killed in broad daylight in Kiev after the first round of talks with Russia. She has not taken part in any practice in Beijing since the team competition. Notice the other insignia, one SS Galicia of WW2 notoriety. In addition to being a successful journalist, he is a well-known political expert, political scientist, and political analyst. They included the For Life Party, the Left Opposition, the Progressive Socialist Party of Ukraine, the Socialist Party of Ukraine, Union of Left Forces, Socialists, the Party of Shariy, Ours, State, Opposition Bloc and the Volodymyr Saldo Bloc. 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. Marina Eltsova and Andrei Bushkov are second. The so-called "greatest sports team ever assembled" came together to compete for the USA in basketball at the 1992 Summer Olympic games. Then there was the murder of Denis Kireev, a top member of the Ukrainian negotiating team, who was killed in broad daylight in Kiev after the first round of talks with Russia. Zelenskys administration escalated the assault on his top opponent in February 2021 when heshutteredseveral media outlets controlled by Medvedchuk. "She loves skating," Moskvina said. "When I started to teach them, every minute I was afraid to look," she said. Another paramilitary group, Right Sector also has wide connections with the SBU. As weapons pour into Ukraine from NATO states and the war intensifies, the atrocities are almost certain to pile up and with the blessing of leadership in Kiev. While Vasylenko left the photo online, Arestovych deleted it eight hours after posting when confronted with the fact that he had published a fake. In a carefully choreographed address to US Congress on March 16, US corporate media has responded by showering Zelensky with fawning press, driving a campaign for his nomination for the Nobel Peace Prize and inspiring a, The war is being used to kidnap, imprison and even kill opposition members who express themselves critical of the government, a left-wing activist beaten and persecuted by Ukraines security services, Torture and enforced disappearances common practices of Ukraines SBU, When a US-backed government seized power in Kiev following the Euromaidan regime change operation of 2013-14, Ukraines government embarked on a nationwide purge of political elements deemed pro-Russian or insufficiently nationalistic. (HRW 2016). Once again, the moral high ground as avidly promoted by thousands of NGOs, think tanks and a multitude of reports, dissipates rapidly in reality into a dark void. Once upon a time, there would have been prisoners of conscience that Amnesty International would have supported and denounced human right abuses, now it is a case of total amnesia, right across the board, a deadly silence reigns over the widespread instances of human right abuses and atrocities, unless it is finger pointing at Russia. During the short program, Sal and Pelletier had tripped and fallen on their closing pose. Chairman of the trade union of Ukrainian steelworkers and miners. Addressing the UN Security Council, Elena Berezhnaya, head of the Irina Berezhnaya Institute for Legal Policy and Social Protection, said that glorification of the SS Galicia Division has become common practice in Ukraine, as has the erection of monuments to commemorate Bandera and his supporters, and government funding of neo-Nazi groups under . 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. Yan Taksyur, a well-known publicist and host of the First Cossak channel, known for defending the Church against slander and hatred, is suffering from cancer, and his family is worried he wont live to see his trial. The government knowingly allows these human rights abuses for its own interest. Two of the nine judges put them in first place, but overall, they are behind Germany's Mandy Wotzel and Ingo Steuer and fellow Russians Marina Eltsova and Andrei Bushkov. Solely judging by the list as outlined in this article, it is just a little indication of the broader situation where there are hundreds of detainees in Ukraine, their circumstances and status hasnt warranted the attention to make their disappearance / arrest on social media, their whereabouts are not known at all. With partner Anton Sikharulidze, she is the 1998 and 1999 World champion, 1998 Olympic silver medalist and 2002 Olympic champion. Almost. Denis Kireev. "I hope here to be in the top 24" to qualify for next year's Olympic Games, she said. This April, a vivid illustration of the SBUs brutality emerged in the form of video (below) showing its agents pummeling a group of men accused of Russian sympathies in the city of Dnipro. Elena Berezhnaya, whose biography is full of various events, never complained to her parents about her coach. The Neo-Nazi group C-14 leader, Yevhen Yaras, Other recent instances of the rule of the. 3 1. Together Elena Berezhnaya and Anton Sikharulidze won 27 gold, 9 silver and 5 bronze medals, all in . Fragments of the temporal bone touched the lining of the brain. His bodyguards tried to use firearms to prevent Shufrychs detention, one of the soldiers told RFE/RL, adding that all four had been handed over to the police. Then they put bags over our heads, tied our hands with tape and took us to the SBU building in a car. 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. A few weeks ago Gonzalo Lira put out this video relating to THIS hit piece from the Daily Beast, I have taken the time to look up the names in Gonzalos tweet, Volodymyr Oleksiiovych Struk(Ukrainian: ; 15 May 1964 2 March 2022) was a Ukrainian politician. Elena had to go through two major neurosurgery operations. At that time, cruel treatment of children in sports was the norm, and coaches, without hesitation, used force or pressure . 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 . Canadian figure skaters Jamie Sale and David Pelletier said Wednesday they were not surprised by charges that their competition at the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City was fixed. advocated for a settlement of the conflict in Donbass, 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. . The injury had been an accident, but Berezhnaya had quarreled often with her former partner, Oleg Sliakhov, and said she had become afraid of him. This April, a pro-Ukrainian Telegram channel called fckrussia2022 posted a video depicting a Russian soldier with one of his eyes bandaged, suggesting it had been gouged during torture, and mocked him as a one-eyed pig. Mikhail & Aleksander Kononovich leader of the youth wing of the outlawed Communist Party of Ukraine (CPU), and his brother, Aleksander Kononovich, were arrested by Ukrainian authorities in Kiev and could reportedly be facing execution. Charged with participation in the aggressive war. Militant of the Ukrainian left-wing organisation Livytsia. Ref:70-year-old native of Kiev, an Orthodox journalist and TV presenter, Pershiy Kozatsky. 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 . A Russian-friendly Ukrainian lawmaker has been detained by Ukrainian soldiers after they said he was taking pictures of a military checkpoint in Kyiv, where Ukrainian forces have been fighting Russian invasion since last week. Event: Detained by the SBU (?) Within this scope includes being pro-Minsk agreements, advocating for peace in Donbass or highlight human rights abuses. He subsequently learned that Igor was held by the SBU at the time and being used to bait Shariy into disclosing his location. 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. There they continued to interrogate us and threatened to cut off our ears, Matjuschenkos wife, The torture of left-wing activist Alexander Matjuschenko on March 3 in Dnipro, recorded by Azov members and posted on Telegram by the city of Dnipro, Matjuschenko was jailed on the grounds that he was conducting an aggressive war or military operation, and now faces 10 to 15 years in prison. Nonselective inhibitors of histone deacetylases (HDAC) can. Self: Battle of the Blades. 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. CIA employees have been present in Kiev since 2014. She doesn't remember the toe pick of Oleg Sliakhov's skate catching her on the left side of her head. Berezhnaya said she was scared only "a little bit, at the beginning," when she returned to the ice. Ref: Article/ Current status is unknown although alleged to have been killed. Against this background of feverish witch-hunts, any hint of the slightest suspicion of cooperation or aiding Russians is tantamount to a summary execution in some situations, or more likely, a beating and being handed over to the SBU. After the compulsory dance, worth 20 percent of the overall score, Olympic gold medalists Oksana Grishuk and Evgeni Platov are first, rivals Anjelika Krylova and Oleg Ovsyannikov are second, and Canadians Shae-Lynn Bourne and Victor Kraatz are third. Notes: "I think you do have to have a quad to win here," said Fairfax's Michael Weiss, who begins competing Wednesday in the men's short program after nearly landing the quadruple toe loop at the U.S. nationals. Resident give testimony as to the war crimes perpetrated by UAF and Azov fighters. Elena Berezhnaya If you haven't heard from me in 12 hours or more, put my name on this list. The Ukrainian government knows this, more so since Zelensky, since heappointed Oleksandr Pokladas the SBUs counter-intelligence chief in 2021. Poklad has a sinister reputation as the The Strangler . The crowd, in a split second, went from rapturous . A short list of those who have fell foul of the Ukrainian government and its policies: Denis Kireev (high-ranking government official), Mikhail & Aleksander Kononovich (political party leaders), Elena Berezhnaya (Human rights activist / ex-figure skater). "My hope is to win a medal in Nagano.". Elena Berezhnaya remembers only that she was spinning "too close" to her pairs partner as they practiced side-by-side camel spins alone in a rink in Riga, Latvia, 14 months ago. The judges from Russia, Poland, China, Ukraine and France gave them a 5.8, sliding Canada into second place behind Berezhnaya and Sikharulidze. Current whereabouts unknown. Sotskova finished eighth at the 2018 Olympics in Pyeongchang. Moskvina began teaching them slowly, cautiously. Seemingly countless videos have appeared on social media showing civilians tied to lamp posts, often with their genitals exposed or their faces painted green. . They used a lighter to heat up a needle, then put it under my fingernails, he told Cohen. In a carefully choreographed address to US Congress on March 16,Zelensky stated, Right now, the destiny of our country is being decided. postdoctoral fellow, Thomas Jefferson University. This March 3 in the city of Dnipro, SBU officers accompanied by Azov ultra-nationalists raided the home of activists with the Livizja (Left) organization, which has organized against social spending cuts and right-wing media propaganda. She spoke in various countries' parliaments, telling them about Nazism in Ukraine. 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. In the following days, the SBU arrested broadcast journalist Yan Taksyur and charged him with treason; human rights activist Elena Berezhnaya; Elena Viacheslavova, a human rights advocate whose father, Mikhail, was burned to death during the May 2, 2014 ultra-nationalist mob attack on anti-Maidan protesters outside the Odessa House of Trade Title. 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. Your email address will not be published. She was probably one of the only Ukrainian activists who wasn't afraid of the regime. "The joy has come out of it." On March 19, Russian official and triathlete Dmitry Polyanskiy tweeted, "We are extremely worried about the fate of Ukrainian human rights defender and anti-fascist activist Elena Berezhnaya, who was taken by #Ukraine's Security Services (SBU)." Valievas status for the individual competition next week has also been cast in doubt. The SBU has a harrowing track record of serious human right abuses, which continues today. Photos+video clipof him being intimated and threatened. Editor-in-chief of the online magazinehttps://timer-odessa.net/. The Elena Berezhnaya and Steven Cousins thing was something of a shock a few months ago and it pretty much came out of nowhere but on the back of another shock breakup in the skating world that Cousins was rumoured to have been involved in. As per the show, Oleg was abusive and temperamental, leading to tension during their practices and performances. "People are nostalgic for such a style," Moskvina said of her young pair. Germany's Mandy Woetzel and Ingo Steuer are first. It must remembered that the Ukrainian authorities have continued to use a database, the Mirotvorets (Peacekeeper) website, to highlight those that they consider as enemies of Ukraine. There is one less traitor in Ukraine, Internal Affairs Ministry advisor Anton Geraschenko stated in endorsement of the murder of a Ukrainian mayor accused of collaborating with Russia. When a US-backed government seized power in Kiev following the Euromaidan regime change operation of 2013-14, Ukraines government embarked on a nationwide purge of political elements deemed pro-Russian or insufficiently nationalistic. Yet, they have no time or inclination whatsoever to do likewise for those critical of Zelenskys government, state- repression that is innumerably and unrelentingly cruel, harsher, and significantly deadlier. Nathan Chen completed his four-year journey toward an elusive Olympic gold medal Thursday, following his record short program at the Beijing Games with a near-perfect free skate th. 2:31 in Lancasters video, the womans corpse can be seen clearly. She gave Sikharulidze a piece of advice: "This is your crystal vase. As of today, eleven mayors from various towns in Ukraine are missing. Common Ukrainian citizens have also been subjected to torture since the start of the war this February. Yet amazingly, she wanted to skate again. In March 2022 he was the subject of media coverage internationally due to his kidnapping and death. 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. 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. Former leader of the Union of Left Forces, Ref: wrote on his FB page: The SBU has arrived, Assistant to a deputy of the opposition party OPZZH (Opposition Platform for Life). In this article, you may learn about his whereabouts, age, Wikipedia information, and more. As of today, eleven mayors from various towns in Ukraine are missing. Dmitry Djangirov, Dmytro Djangirov, and Dmitry Dzhangirov are some of his other names. Western media outlets have been following the Kiev line without exception,claimingthat all mayors been arrested by the Russian military. 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. No justice, truth or reparation was attained for any of the victims of enforced disappearance, secret detention and torture of civilians by the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) from 2014 to 2016, and not a single suspected perpetrator was prosecuted. The Ukrainian SBU security services has served as the enforcement arm of the officially authorized campaign of repression. "We are not so clear with that concerning prize money and the financial situation. In fact, the Ukrainian government has begun, Photos distributed by pro-Ukraine Telegram channels showing captured, tortured and executed Russian soldiers, Video has also emerged this April showing Ukrainian soldiers, Ukrainian and Georgian Legion fighters celebrate after executing captive Russian soldiers on video. It is unclear whether Valieva applied for a therapeutic use exemption or has a history of heart problems. Similarly, Gennadiy Druzenko, the head of the Ukrainian military medical service, Ukrainian officials present woman tortured and killed by Azov as victim of Russia, While Western media homes in on Russian human rights violations at home and inside Ukraine, the Ukrainian government has authorized a propaganda campaign, In one especially cynical example of the strategy, Ukraine 24 a TV channel where guests have, As weapons pour into Ukraine from NATO states and the war intensifies, the atrocities are almost certain to pile up and with the blessing of leadership in Kiev. The fate of at least a dozen well-known opposition activists, political analysts, journalists, politicians, and bloggers remains unclear. 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. Last night, Berezhnaya and her new Russian pairs partner, Anton Sikharulidze, brought drama to the World Figure Skating Championships. Goodbye. Whereabouts unknown. It is banned by the World Anti-Doping Agency because it can help endurance and increase blood flow efficiency. But if I was her mother, I would cry. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has framed his countrys war against Russia as a battle for democracy itself. 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's been to Europeans and the Olympics. She landed just a triple toe loop, fell on another triple jump and turned three planned triples into singles. Sikharulidze, who knew Berezhnaya and was hoping to begin training with her, took a train to Riga, checked her out of the hospital, and brought her to St. Petersburg. As expected, the West organisations are all too eager to publicise any crackdown of dissenting voices in Russia. Ref: A worker from the Arcelor Mittal Krivoi Rog company. And then, she arranged for Berezhnaya to be spirited out of Latvia. Lesia Vasylenko, a Ukrainian member of parliament, and Oleksiy Arestovych, the top advisor to President Zelensky, published the photo of the defiled female corpse on social media. 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. 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. Elena Berezhnaya. If the Russian team is disqualified, the U.S. team would be elevated to the gold medal for the first time in the event. There they continued to interrogate us and threatened to cut off our ears, Matjuschenkos wifetold the leftist German publication Junge Welt. Along with winning the short program and free skate, she became the first woman to land a quadruple jump in Olympic competition, giving her team the maximum number of points while underscoring her status as the individual favorite. The couple stood on the ice for the first time last March. As if this was remotely possible to gloss over or make light of absolutely odious human rights abuses. Notes:Anton Gerashchenko, Advisor to the Minister of Internal Affairs of Ukraine, announced on his social media account that the Mayor of Kreminna, Volodymyr Struk, was shot dead by unknown patriots after he was kidnapped from his home. Journalist Dan Cohenintervieweda Ukrainian businessman named Igor who was arrested by the SBU for his financial ties with Russian companies and detained this March in the security services notorious headquarters in downtown Kiev. 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. . 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. The SBU accounts for a large percentage of reported arbitrary detention, torture, and abuse of detainees, from a period from 2014 to 2019. "I was sure I would be able to skate," she said. "The media is making us like bad guys. Igor said he overheard Russian POWs being beaten with pipes by Territorial Defense volunteers being coached by SBU officers. Sikharulidze and Berezhnaya, left, wound up sharing the gold medal with Sale and Pelletier. Ukraine 24 claimed that it found this woman in Gostumel, one of the regions in the Kiev Oblast that the Russians vacated on March 29. Remember that Zelensky has now outlawed all opposition parties but not all, those parties who support him are allowed to continue, with ultra-nationalists & Neo-Nazis part of these political parties and who happen to be highly influential too. Tellingly, even the U.S State Department managed to notice and picked up on these disturbing aspects of Ukrainian law enforcement behaviours: UN noted significant deficiencies in investigations into human rights abuses committed by government security forces into allegations of torture, enforced disappearances, arbitrary detention, and other abuses reportedly perpetrated by the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU).. After the injury Elena couldn't speak or walk. Liked by Elena Berezhnaya Anellotech honored to be recognized by Plastic Industry Association for our Bio-TCat Process technology (which converts non-food biomass, including And she feared him, even though she lived with his family. 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. Doctors cleaned out the wound and hoped for the best. Elena Viktorovna Berezhnaya ( Russian: , born 11 October 1977) is a Russian former pair skater. AsZelensky proclaimed during a visit to the city of Buchathis April, if we do not find a civilized way out, you know our people they will find an uncivilized way out., And then there is the war against civilians. 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. Ref:Times of Israel/Daily Mail/Kyiv Independent. Hes also covered the Armenian-Azerbaijan conflict reaching over 8 million aggregate views on hisYouTube channelwith his reporting on the ground there. Independent journalistPatrick Lancasteris on the ground, showing some truly shocking scenes in this report from Ukraine. These reports provided a glimpse into a situation that was overwhelmingly swept under the carpet by EU, U.S. officials and the corporate MSM alike. With partner Anton Sikharulidze, she is the 1998 and 1999 World champion, 1998 Olympic silver medalist and 2002 Olympic champion . When did Elena Berezhnaya first compete in the Olympics? The accident caused partial paralysis on her right side, and doctors were unsure if she would walk again. The passage of, The Ukrainian security service known as the SBU has served as the main enforcer of the post-Maidan governments campaign of domestic political repression. What Happened To Russian Figure Skating Pair Elena Berezhnaya And Anton Sikharulidze. The silence is deafening and all of them mute on the repression that is taking place in Ukraine, likely start the process of EU accession in June. 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. Most of the detentions and disappearances are often carried out by the Ukrainian Security service, (SBU), under a sweeping repression. 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. 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.
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