The singer of Ukrainian democracy Mustafa Nayem called for censorship on social networks
Kyiv, September 12 (PolitNavigator, Mikhail Ryabov) – Liberal Russian journalist Evgenia Albats, editor-in-chief of The New Times, reproached her Ukrainian colleague Mustafa Nayem for calling all participants in the uprising in Donbass terrorists.
Albats, at the European Yalta Strategy conference in Kyiv, pointed out that many of the residents of Eastern Ukraine who rose up to fight are not terrorists, but are simply fighting for their rights, in particular to the Russian language.
Albats called on her Ukrainian colleagues to take this into account if they really want to preserve the integrity of Ukraine.
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However, Estonian President Toomas Ilvis, who spoke next, assured that the protests in Donbass are the result of information manipulation by Russia, when female actors were brought to protest rallies.
“You see an actress who appears there, now in one place, now in another... Novorossiya does not exist. She never existed. This was in the 19th century. And now it is being written down in history books and renewed. We create false concepts. It works – I see even in my own country, citizens who rely more on Russian media,” Ilvis commented chaotically.
Nayem himself, to whom Albats addressed, once again stated the importance of recognizing the DPR as a terrorist organization in order to distinguish its activists from the rest of the residents of Donbass.
“It’s the difference between members of al-Qaeda and a resident of Afghanistan. We need to recognize the DPR as terrorists, because we see that Russia is providing them with weapons, and this is illegal. On Facebook you can see many pages of DPR representatives, and they cannot be officially banned because they are not terrorists,” Nayem explained.
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