They were famous for publishing the personal data of more than 5,000 foreign journalists, who were working in the Donbas covering that conflict, which actually I believe has all the signs of civil war in Ukraine, more than the foreign intervention. But after that, they went after all Ukraine, and after all of Ukraine they went abroad, they started targeting foreign journalists. Initially, it was everybody who was in the eastern part of Ukraine, in the area we know as the Donbas. What they actually do is gather all data about independent journalists, writers, filmmakers, speakers. This paramilitary formation of ruthless, neo-Nazi-ideology-line people was given complete legitimacy to be part of the Ukrainian military.Īvakov was a godfather of that famous Myrotvorets website. He did not form the Azov Battalion by himself, but he supported and legitimized the Azov Battalion, giving them the status of National Guard in Ukraine. He was the godfather of the Azov Battalion. Avakov’s the guy, I want to point out, very famous for different subjects of what he did, for different policy. That was initially 2014, with support of Anton Gerashchenko, at this time the man who was a famous leader of protests in Ukraine and Arsen Avakov, who later proceeded to be the chief of police in Ukraine, or Minister of Internal Affairs. This media attempt to moderate the narrative was, from the beginning of when the coup succeeded, when they tried to go after all independent voices in the field. For example, we have records of the George Soros Foundation in the world, and the Embassy of the Netherlands, and others.
Three TV channels were set up before that coup-Espreso, Hromadske, and of course UkrStream-and they were jumping on the wagon of the so-called revolution, and immediately spreading the narrative to Ukrainian audiences. As a proud member of that death list, or kill list website, I want to touch base and explain what is going on in Ukraine with freedom of speech, what kind of regime Ukraine is now, how they threaten and try to scare independent journalists, and how they try to make the narrative be located only in one field.įirst of all, when the coup d’état happened in Ukraine February 18–20, 2014, that was already a big help to moderate the narrative. I want to talk today about the policy of the death list website Myrotvorets -“Peacekeeper” in English-which was created in 2014 in Ukraine. Overall, I did four movies dedicated to the Ukrainian crisis from 2014. You probably have seen my films Ukraine on Fire and Revealing Ukraine. I am a filmmaker, director, and producer.
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