{"id":60305,"date":"2023-09-30T18:42:53","date_gmt":"2023-09-30T18:42:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/teknomers.com\/en\/this-is-how-it-goes-now-news-urix-foreign-news-and-documentaries\/"},"modified":"2023-09-30T18:42:54","modified_gmt":"2023-09-30T18:42:54","slug":"this-is-how-it-goes-now-news-urix-foreign-news-and-documentaries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/teknomers.com\/en\/this-is-how-it-goes-now-news-urix-foreign-news-and-documentaries\/","title":{"rendered":"This is how it goes now – news Urix – Foreign news and documentaries"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

In this case you can read about: Mariupol. You might remember the name. City in Donetsk Oblast, eastern Ukraine. Perhaps the hardest battles during the war took place here. Before, the town sign was in yellow and blue. Now it has acquired Russian colours. Russian soldiers patrol by it, while people who have come to see the sign take selfies in front of it. Mariupol is one of several cities occupied by the Russians. In a big ceremony in the Kremlin on 30 September last year, four documents were signed. The documents proved that Putin was serious about the threat to forcibly incorporate large parts of Ukraine into Russia. Exactly one year has passed. Putin declared Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson and Zaporizhzhya as Russian. In a football-like cheer, with hands on top of each other, Putin, together with the governors of Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson and Zaporizhzhya, declared that they were Russian. Photo: Grigory Sysoyev \/ AP How are things going with these areas today and with the people who live there? How is Putin’s Russification going? And who are Putin’s men in the Russian-occupied areas? It is difficult to get good information about what is happening there. Almost no independent media or researchers are allowed to travel there. In addition, the situation in the occupied areas is portrayed very differently in Russia and in free parts of Ukraine. There is a lot of propaganda on both sides. news has spoken to several experts to get answers to the question. – Things are certainly not going well with these areas, says H\u00e5vard B\u00e6kken at the Norwegian Defense Academy. The area is under strict occupation regime. They are close to the front line. Life there is harder than both in free Ukraine and in Russia. – They are occupied territory in the middle of a war that is underway, so things are going hard, says J\u00f8rn Holm-Hansen at NIBR-Oslo Met. The human rights violations are extensive, both researchers point out. – There have been reports of a number of human rights violations, people who are arrested without due process, physical abuse and deportations, says Holm-Hansen. The body of a local resident of Kherson who was killed in a Russian attack on a shop in May. Photo: DINA PLETENCHUK \/ AFP Among other things, Amnesty International has documented several executions in areas occupied by the Russians. Donetsk and Luhansk Already in the spring of 2014, rebels declared two new people’s republics in Donetsk and Luhansk counties. These have always been rewarded with Russian support, not least militarily. According to the Human Rights Court, Russia has had sufficient control to be held legally responsible for events there since then. – And since 2019, these areas have been exposed to a comprehensive Russification policy, which can naturally be seen as a preparation for the annexation, says B\u00e6kken. He said that Freedom House’s index for political freedom gave these areas only four out of 100 points even before the full-scale invasion – far worse than Russia and marginally ahead of North Korea. – Legal certainty is absent. Democratic facades are just facades, and human rights violations are extensive. Financially, they have also suffered, says B\u00e6kken. Ukrainian Olena Archipenko in Siversk in Donetsk waits to help hand out bread. A picture from 2 May this year. Photo: DIMITAR DILKOFF \/ AFP After 2022, the situation has worsened further. – Donetsk and Luhansk have had to pay an extreme price for the acts of violence since 2022. The population was mobilized early and has been used as cannon fodder, says B\u00e6kken. Kherson and Zaporizhzhya The situation in the parts of Ukraine that have been occupied in recent times is somewhat different, B\u00e6kken explains. – Here, local support has always been marginal. Russia has seen itself forced to rule as an occupying power in the more traditional sense, with a small group of active collaborators on board. The police dress Dmytro (10) in a bulletproof vest. Together with his family, he has to evacuate from his village of Stepnohirsk in the Zaporizhzhya region. The picture was taken on 12 September this year. Photo: STRINGER \/ Reuters Most Ukrainians identify with Ukraine as it is where they are citizens. They see themselves as Ukrainians, whether they speak Russian or not. – This meets the occupying power with an active policy to change the world view and the national identity of children and young people in order to be able to build a form of support in the population in the long term. Valentyna Hleha (60) stands in one of the rooms in her house that was destroyed when Russia occupied the village of Kamianka, near the town of Izium in the Kharkiv region. The village was occupied by Russians from April to September 2022. Photo: SERGEY BOBOK \/ AFP All the experts news has spoken to in connection with this case emphasize that getting first-hand and independent information from the area is, so to speak, impossible. At the same time, they point out that there is clearly very active work on the part of the Russian authorities to Russify these areas. – The policy of Russification is taking place at all levels and can become a leader for Ukraine’s opportunities to take back territory. This was said by Russia expert Gudrun Persson in an interview with the Swedish newspaper Dagens Nyheter in May. Russia’s war planning has thus extended far beyond the battlefield. In what Gudrun Persson calls “a Stalinist tradition”, the Kremlin has planned to make Eastern Ukraine Russian in the same way that they have Russified Crimea since the annexation in 2014. Putin is said to have visited Ukraine in April this year. Image is from a video from Russian TV that showed him meeting soldiers in the Kherson area. Photo: AP According to those news has spoken to in connection with this case, the trend towards Russification in the four areas is clear: Ukrainians must take Russian passports. They want to say that they must take Russian citizenship and renounce Ukrainian citizenship The ruble has been introduced as currency Ukrainian opinion leaders are being persecuted Ukrainian children are being forcibly moved to Russian territory The Russian curriculum has been introduced in schools and teaching is conducted in Russian – Russia is also actively working for to take control of the information traffic in the area, says Martin Paulsen at the University of Bergen (UiB). Russian passports were checked when the Ukrainians were to vote in the Russian-occupied areas earlier in September. Photo: ALEXANDER ERMOCHENKO \/ Reuters J\u00f8rn Holm-Hansen says that those who do not take a Russian passport lose their right to pensions, healthcare and other welfare schemes. – People can be stopped by patrols on the street and asked harassing questions if they cannot show Russian passports. Earlier in September, “elections” were held in the occupied areas. And Putin made a “failed election” in what was anything but a democratic election. All four governors who took part in the ceremony where Russia celebrated the annexation last year were re-elected a week ago. – Russia now has four new regions, said President Vladimir Putin during the ceremony on 30 September last year. Photo: SPUTNIK \/ Reuters And all four stood for election for Putin’s ruling party “One Russia”. – Roughly speaking, Putin has remotely controlled the occupied Ukraine through one of his old allies, namely Sergej Kiriyenko. I can imagine he has also been central to the selection of local leaders, including the incumbents, says B\u00e6kken. These are the governors of the four counties: Denis Pushilin, Donetsk. between 23.00 and 04.00 when he became governor on 23 September. Introduced a ban on public meetings, as well as censorship of mail, internet and telephone. It is the FSB that will control this. Lead the DNR through the entire process of being admitted to the Russian Federation. Leonid Pasetshnik, LuhanskSupreme commander of the “Luhansk People’s Republic” (LNR) since 2017. Since December 2022, he has been a member of the Putin party One Russia. Military background and started working in the Ukrainian Security Service (SBU) in 1993 where he worked until 2014. Took sides with the separatists during the uprising in Donbas, and became Minister of State Security in the LNR the same year. It is his former employer, SBU, which he is now investigating for violations of three sections of the Ukrainian Criminal Code. Yevgeny Balitskij, Zaporizhzhya Has a background as a pilot and businessman. Has a seat in the Ukrainian National Assembly “Verkhovna Rada” for both the Regional Party and the Opposition Platform Party. Both of these parties are now banned. They were supporters of closer cooperation between Ukraine and Russia. They have been blamed for being pro-Russian and running on Putin’s errands. Have been responsible for the companies that exported grain for the occupied area of \u200b\u200bZaporizhzhya. In September 2022, he joined the “One Russia” party. Send the request to Putin to take Zaporizhzhya joined the Russian Federation two days after he became a member of Putin’s party. Vladimir Saldo, Kherson Engineer with a background in the construction industry. Has a seat in the Verkhovna Rada for the Party of Regions. Has been active in local politics in the city of Kherson, but has not won the mayoral election. support of 33 percent of the voters in 2020. In March 2022 was appointed head of the “military-civilian administration” in Kherson, i.e. the cooperation governing powers and what according to Ukrainian law makes him a collaborator. Was the first in Kherson to take a Russian passport , 11 June 2022. – Ukrainians in occupied territory are forced to take Russian passports. It makes it difficult to talk about the popularity of the authorities, as they cannot express their opinions freely, says Irina Anisimova at UiB. – Governing powers are rarely popular in Ukraine, says Holm-Hansen. He explains that those who have positions in the occupied area are partly people who have lived there the whole time and who either prefer Russian rule to Ukrainian, or partly people who are opportunists and now see their average getting a lucrative position. – Those who prefer Russian rule, there are probably most of them in Donetsk and Luhansk and not so many in the areas that have been bombed “separately and together” as a result of the invasion, namely the Zaporizhzhya and Kherson regions. An image shared by Ukrainian authorities on 19 September this year. A fireman tries to put out the fire after Russian attacks in Kherson. Photo: HANDOUT \/ AFP Tobias S\u00e6ther at the University of Defense says that support for the occupying power is low in these areas. – This is illustrated by the active and more subtle resistance the population has shown over time, for example linked to reluctance to send their school children to Russian schools, and the Ukrainian agent and informant networks within the area, he says. – Resistance has also been expressed more recently through the challenges the occupying power has in recruiting personnel to political positions in Russian-friendly local and regional administration. – People are tight fisted, says Holm-Hansen about the Ukrainians in the occupied areas. Russia requires them to take Russian passports. The Ukrainian authorities, for their part, say that taking Russian passports is considered a criminal act – regardless of the motives the individual may have had. A law from 15 March 2022 gives ten to fifteen years in prison for civil and military collaboration with the occupying power. – Imagine that you live in occupied territory. If you don’t take a Russian passport, you will be deported. The following week, the Ukrainian forces come and retake the city. Then you will be considered a criminal, he says. City sign with “I love Huljajpole” near a building destroyed in a Russian attack in Huljajpole in the Zaporizhzhya region. Photo: STRINGER \/ Reuters While many of the people elected at the local level have got out of the occupied areas, others have joined the municipal councils controlled by the occupation. They can expect severe punishments if Ukraine manages to take back these areas. But, for example, several doctors, nurses, people who look after electricity supply, water and sewage have also continued in their jobs during the occupation. – Are they then collaborators? asks J\u00f8rn Holm-Hansen. – When the war settlement happens, there will be a lot to decide on. Here there is a danger that there will be a lot of jealousy and bad blood. Experts news has spoken to in connection with the case: H\u00e5vard B\u00e6kken, researcher at the University of Defense. Hires the research project “The dispute over Ukraine” where they see how Russia is trying to change the political identity in occupied territory. J\u00f8rn Holm-Hansen, researcher at NIBR-Oslo Met. Has politics and administration in Eastern and Central European countries, especially Russia, Ukraine and Poland as special fields. Irina Anismova is a researcher at the University of Bergen. She helps lead a research group that studies modern Russia. Tobias S\u00e6ther, researcher at the University of Defense. Appointed as a researcher on the Ukraine program at the Staff School since it was established in 2020. Martin Paulsen, head of department at the Department of Foreign Languages \u200b\u200bat the University of Bergen. Works with Russian, Belarusian and Ukrainian language and literature.
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