Russia vows no Ukraine invasion as leaders seek solution

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36. 'Rein in Ukraine's neo-fascists'

As if to endorse the sentiments of the EU resolution, the leader of Svoboda (or "Freedom&quot , Oleh Tyahnybok, is on record saying that Kiev is governed by "a Jewish-Russian mafia" and has said Ukrainians bravely fought Muscovites, Germans, Jews "and other scum" in World War II.

This unsavory constituency, including the "ultra" Right Sector movement, manned the barricades in the Kiev uprising, providing "security" to the mainstream political opposition leaders and matching the pro-government forces in violent tactics that led to the dozens of dead in and around the Maidan.

These rightist-nationalist forces were in large part responsible for the collapse of the agreement signed in February that called for early parliamentary and presidential elections and a return to the 2004 Ukrainian constitution, which harks back to the "Orange Revolution" that brought a pro-West government to power in Ukraine.

http://edition.cnn.com/2014/03/06/opinion/speedie-ukraine-far-right/