‘Over My Dead Body’: Defiant Ukrainian MP Beaten By Nationalist Crowd (Video)

[Purveyor]

A Ukrainian parliamentarian and former minister of emergencies was attacked and beaten by a group of radical nationalists in the port city of Odessa on Tuesday. He was to take part in a press conference ahead of the country’s parliamentary election.

Nestor Shufrych, a deputy from toppled President Viktor Yanukovich’s Regions Party, was diagnosed with a brain concussion and closed craniocerebral injury after he was “welcomed” by Odessa activists from the Right Sector, AutoMaidan, and other right-wing political groups, the regional office of the Ukrainian Ministry of Internal Affairs reported.

Shufrych was going to make a statement to the media alongside members of the opposition, as part of a political campaign preceding the October 26 parliamentary election. The event was first organized in an office, but was later relocated to the building of the regional administration.

The MP explained that he had known about the pre-planned action, which was aimed at “repeating the performance with garbage cans and green disinfectant.” However, he said there was no way the “activists” could force him into that.

“They wanted to put me in a waste container, but the only way they could do it would be over my dead body,” he said, recalling the case of Vitaly Zhuravsky, another prominent Regions Party member.

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[newthinking]

1. Thank you for posting this. It is amazing that this actually made the western press

People were also beaten protesting the Lenin statue toppling in Karkiv this weakend (Right Sector/"Ultras&quot , but of course only the toppling made it to our media.

Toppling the Statue was about intimidation, not about "political expression". It is part of the continuation of the current government in Ukraine allowing these groups and others to continue to freely intimidate and visit violence on the country. Why aren't these groups in jail? They certainly would be pursued in most any other western country.

Non violent expression is tolerated by right wing groups, but in Ukraine they allow them to violently terrorize their people. Why is that?