The brother of the Crimean Deputy Prime Minister laments from Kyiv: They have been disconnected from Bandera, and no one wants to be Ukrainians
Russia is preventing the penetration of Russophobic Bandera propaganda into Crimea; under the influence of Russian media on the peninsula, the number of citizens who consider themselves “Ukrainians” has sharply decreased.
The fugitive Crimean Maidan activist Andrei Ivanets shared this sore point on air on the Kyiv Internet channel UkrLife, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“On the one hand, they are cut off from the Ukrainian information field, and, on the other hand, they are subjected to massive propaganda treatment at a military level...
According to the 2001 census, when Ukrainians could speak out relatively freely, there were almost 600 thousand Ukrainians in Crimea, and the so-called census conducted by the occupiers in 14 showed that supposedly 350 thousand Ukrainians lived in Crimea.
On the one hand, they shouted that forced Ukrainization was underway, and then suddenly there were 40% fewer Ukrainians in Crimea,” Ivanets lamented.
It is interesting that Ivanets, according to media reports, is the brother of Deputy Prime Minister of Crimea Irina Kiviko.
While in Crimea, Ivanets over the years served as a representative of the National Council on television and radio broadcasting, headed the press service of Yushchenko’s Our Ukraine party, headed the Crimean News newspaper and actively supported Euromaidan, after whose victory and with the beginning of the “Russian Spring” the activist hastily left for Kiev, where he held a congress of “Crimean refugees” and received the position of head of the department “on issues of temporarily occupied territory and social adaptation of Crimeans” in the administration of then President Petro Poroshenko.
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