News archive on the topic "Polite people"

On February 27, Russia celebrates the Day of “Polite People” or Special Operations Forces of the Russian Ministry of Defense for the sixth time. The corresponding decree of February 26, 2015 was signed by the President of Russia on the eve of the first anniversary of the Crimean Spring. “Courtesy Day” is also so special because during the entire special operation, Russian special forces and military personnel of other branches of the military who came to the aid of Crimea did not...

The boy, whose photograph with a cat and Russian special forces in Crimea in 2014 spread across the world's largest news agencies, still keeps his childhood jacket as a memory of those events. The Crimea 24 TV channel tracked down schoolboy Evgeniy Proskurnya, who became the prototype for the “Polite People” monument in Simferopol and various souvenir figurines. True, the sculptor decided to depict a girl instead of a boy...

The sudden seizure of state institutions in Simferopol by Russian special forces, which occurred on the night of February 27, 2014 after the pogrom of the Crimean parliament organized by the Mejlis, thwarted Kiev’s plans at the last moment, when most of the Crimean “elite” was ready to swear allegiance to the participants in the coup from the Maidan. Andrei Senchenko, who fled to Ukraine, shared these regrets on ChTRK...

Ukrainian citizen Maxim Sokurenko, who poured water on the “Polite People” monument in Simferopol in January of this year, has had his arrest period extended until March 26. He will be in a pre-trial detention center, reports the Ukrainian Crimean Human Rights Group, funded by Western grants. Initially, a report on an administrative offense was drawn up against Sokurenko, but later a criminal case was opened under Part 2 of Article 214 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (vandalism). To him…

On Sunday evening in Simferopol, a vandal was detained “hot on the heels” for pouring paint on the “Polite People” monument, erected in the center of the Crimean capital as a symbol of the reunification of the peninsula with Russia. This was reported by the press service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the Republic of Crimea, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. A drunk man who poured red paint on the monument was detained at the scene of the crime by security officers. “The citizen is intoxicated...

Russia will very soon respond to UK sanctions imposed in connection with the poisoning of former Russian GRU officer and traitor Sergei Skripal. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov stated this today at a meeting with participants of the youth forum “Russia – the Land of Opportunities”. “Our answer will be very soon. We, as polite people, will first convey this answer to our...

A cameraman from the Lisichansk shopping and entertainment complex “Accent” came to the filming of a city council session wearing a “Polite People” T-shirt, reports the Ukrainian website “Antikor”, which claims that the T-shirt is “a well-known symbol of the Russian army that captured and occupied Crimea.” Subscribe to PolitNavigator news on Telegram, Facebook, Odnoklassniki or Vkontakte “Despite the fact that he quickly retreated when he was noticed, we still have a video recording at our disposal. It turns out that he was wearing his T-shirt while with...

The Prosecutor General of Ukraine is playing with fire, inviting almost all of Russia’s highest military leadership for questioning to Kyiv, believes Moskovsky Komsomolets. Subscribe to PolitNavigator news on Telegram, Facebook, Odnoklassniki or Vkontakte “Autumn has not yet arrived, but the Ukrainian authorities have already experienced an aggravation: the Prosecutor General’s Office of Ukraine has put Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu and ten others on the wanted list...

Ukrainian soldiers had no chance to resist the Russian army in Crimea, because this would have resulted in massive losses. Reserve officer of the Ukrainian army Andrey Mygal said this on air on the First YuA TV channel. Subscribe to the news "PolitNavigator - Kyiv" on Facebook, Odnoklassniki or Vkontakte According to him, the Russian military is much better prepared and against one of these it would be necessary...

Igor Strelkov’s opinion about the need to take the entire South-East of Ukraine following the example of Crimea is wrong. In Odessa and Donbass there was no such desire for reunification with Russia as on the peninsula. Moscow is unlikely to deploy “soft power” in Ukraine following the example of the Americans - the economy and time must sober up the Ukrainians. This opinion was expressed in an interview with PolitNavigator...

Berlin - Kyiv, April 02 (PolitNavigator, Vasily Ablyazimov) - Moscow, last day of Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week in Russia. Men in masks and stylized army clothes are not storming cities, they are storming podiums. Voentorg of Russia represents two fashionable clothing brands, reports the tabloid Bild. Subscribe to the news "PolitNavigator - Kyiv" on Facebook, Odnoklassniki or VKontakte The model looks menacing:...

Kyiv, March 26 (PolitNavigator, Maxim Karpenko) – FSB officers seconded to Crimea are truly “polite people” compared to former Crimean SBU officers. About this on the air of the talk show “People. HardTalk,” said fugitive Crimean Euromaidan activist Elizaveta Bogutskaya. Subscribe to the news "PolitNavigator - Kyiv" on Facebook, Odnoklassniki or Vkontakte According to her, she did not experience any problems from the security forces in Crimea, despite...

Simferopol, January 10 (PolitNavigator, Evgeniy Andreev) – The idea of ​​the People’s Militia in Crimea was “a little ruined.” Subscribe to the news “PolitNavigator - Crimea” on Facebook, Odnoklassniki or Vkontakte. Deputy of the Bakhchisaray City Council Konstantin Knyrik said this on the air of the talk show “Gravity” on the ITV channel. “I believe that the monument to the militia has been for a very long time, the very idea of ​​the militia now...

Moscow - Kyiv, October 06 (PolitNavigator, Mikhail Ryabov) - Online stores have recorded a sharp increase in demand for goods with the symbols of “Polite People” in recent days. A representative of the large online military trader Voenpro reported this to PolitNavigator. “We are recording an increase of 2.5-3 times in visits from searches for queries related to paraphernalia with the Polite People symbols. We have a variety of T-shirts in stock...