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The biggest threat to Western civilization is posed not by other civilizations, but by our own pusillanimity - and by the historical ignorance that feeds it.I was wrong.
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Ukrainian radicals clash with police outside Poroshenko's office, give ultimatum to presidentRFE/RL reports that the protesters attempted to attack the Poroshenko's motorcade and that 22 police were injured. In the picture below you will see the fliers featured earlier. It looks like time is running out for Porky:
Masked men tried to storm the Ukrainian president's office, prompting police to use tear gas against them. The radicals promised to sabotage Petro Poroshenko's re-election and ramp up street violence if their demands aren't met.
Extreme nationalists were the driving force in the 2014 coup that brought Poroshenko to power in Ukraine, but now - with three weeks remaining before the vote - they may become actors in his political demise.
Several thousand masked men, dressed in the paramilitary gear affiliated with neo-Nazi vigilantes Batallion Azov, marched from Maidan (meaning 'Independence') Square in central Kiev to the presidential administration on Saturday. When in situ, they tried breaking through the police cordon to get into the building. The radicals threw stones and flares at the law enforcers, who responded with tear gas and batons to push the attackers back.
Around 700 officers had been keeping order in the center of the Ukrainian capital on the day, according to the police. The organizers of the attempted action announced that some 4,000 people took part in the protest and the Ukrainian media reckons this estimate is about right.
The protesters came from groups loyal to nationalist leader and Ukrainian parliament member Andrey Biletsky, commander of the infamous neo-Nazi Azov battalion, which took part in the fighting in Eastern Ukraine on Kiev's side; he is also the head of the far-right National Corps party.
Before the clashes broke out, the radicals were gluing stickers with their demands on the riot shields and helmets of the police officers. What they want from Poroshenko is punishment for those involved in a massive fraud at UkrOboronProm, a state concern that manages the country's military-industrial complex.
A recent media report blamed the first deputy head of Ukraine's National Security Council, Oleg Gladkovsky, and his son, of using fake firms to sell spare parts to Ukrainian arms makers at up to three times the accepted prices.
"You have one week," the radicals chanted, meaning that in seven days the two must be put behind bars. If this doesn't happen, Biletsky has promised to target all of Poroshenko's campaign rallies in the run up to the election on March 31.
Poroshenko, who is running for a second term, faces a challenge given his low approval rating. A survey by pollster Sofia earlier this week revealed that he was supported by just over 13 percent of the population, trailing both of his main rivals - comedian Vladimir Zelensky (20.3 percent) and ex-PM Yulia Tymoshenko (13.9 percent).
Poroshenko had already removed Gladkovsky from his position at the Security Council, but he's unlikely to take any further steps, due to the former deputy head reportedly being his closest ally and friend.
Poroshenko was not in Kiev during the assault on his office and had gone to Cherkasy, in central Ukraine, where he was to speak at a rally. There, a group of nationalists clashed with police after chanting anti-Poroshenko slogans during the event.
The president was evacuated from the rally in a car, according to witnesses. 15 officers protecting him were injured in the scuffles, the Interior Ministry said, in a statement.
Ukrainian Police: 22 Officers Hospitalized After Clashes With Far-Right Activists Police in Ukraine say that 22 officers were injured in clashes with far-right protesters who tried to attack a presidential motorcade ahead of this month's election.
Police said in a statement on March 10 that 19 officers were hospitalized the previous day in the city of Cherkasy, where supporters of the National Corps party tried to block President Petro Poroshenko's motorcade and called for arrests of figures linked to an alleged military corruption scandal.
The clashes in Cherkasy erupted after Poroshenko made a speech for the March 31 presidential polls.
Police said that two law enforcement officers were also injured in clashes with National Corps activists near the presidential offices in Kyiv, with one hospitalized.
Criminal investigations have been opened into the violence in both Kyiv and Cherkasy, about 150 kilometers southeast of the capital, police said.
After the report was broadcast on YouTube on February 25, Poroshenko announced that a probe has been launched into the allegations.
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After the crash, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) announced it would review Boeing's previous safety analyses of the aircraft.
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