#Commentary of Elena Melnik on double standards when enforcing laws in Ukraine

"To my friends, everything; to my enemies, the law" - this phrase is attributed to the dictators Francisco Franco and Benito Mussolini. They headed the fascist regimes: one in Spain, the other one in Italy. In Ukraine, where, as you know, "there is no fascism", this phrase completely reflects the current state of affairs. In particular, Sergey Taruta admitted that "in Ukraine, no one believes that the law is one for all."
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#Commentary of Ekaterina Martyanova on Ukraine’s response to words of Italian ambassador to Russian Federation regarding Crimean referendum

The Ukrainian ambassador to Italy Evgeny Perelygin angrily and with demands attacked a colleague representing Italy in Russia. The reason was the words of the Italian ambassador in an interview with the Italian newspaper Cesare Maria Ragaglini, where he called joining the Crimea to Russia a "voting for independence" and criticized EU's help to Kiev.
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#Commentary of Miroslav Rudenko on inciting hatred by Ukrainian TV hosts over language

Recently, the host of the Ukrainian TV channel ZIK, Ostap Drozdov, kicked away a Russian-speaking journalist out of the studio for refusing to speak Ukrainian. After a brief discussion on this topic, Drozdov decided to explain his decision by a post in Facebook. It turns out that the Ukrainian-speaking population was forced to "tolerate the dominance" of the Russian language, and the Russian-speaking population is the "pledge of war".
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