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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsApparently "Pro-Russian" demonstrators in Ukrainian city of Kharkiv don't know their own city hall.
https://twitter.com/dpeleschuk/status/453160725444579328http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/kiev-says-russia-provokes-trouble-in-eastern-ukraine-just-as-in-crimea/2014/04/07/8242ee71-465b-4113-91be-93f8bfa67ff1_story.html
"In Kharkiv, local reporters said a group of armed men stormed the opera house Monday thinking it was the mayors office."
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Which begs a huge question.....what sort of "local" activists don't know their own city hall?
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Apparently "Pro-Russian" demonstrators in Ukrainian city of Kharkiv don't know their own city hall. (Original Post)
Tommy_Carcetti
Apr 2014
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dionysus
(26,467 posts)1. but, but, but... the cardboard cutout comrades said otherwise!
they're so wholesome they like the opera, is all...
Cha
(297,154 posts)2. Response Tweet.. "that they love opera more than politics - no wait, that's not it . . ."
Jim Neal @jameswneal · 14h
@dpeleschuk @ChristopherJM that they love opera more than politics - no wait, that's not it . . .
Direct link to article .. helps to know your Russian!
http://echo.msk.ru/blog/echomsk/1295362-echo/?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter
Mahalo Tommy
Duckhunter935
(16,974 posts)3. can not be true
there is no link to RT
okaawhatever
(9,461 posts)4. That is just funny. I wonder if they asked directions to city hall? nt
nadinbrzezinski
(154,021 posts)5. Well...these boys just found politics and guns
Convenient, no!
for those who need it
joshcryer
(62,269 posts)6. It's obviously Russian thugs.
AverageJoe90
(10,745 posts)7. Not surprised at all, TBH.
One must wonder how many of the Pravy Sektor guys and other extremists might also be secret useful idiots of Moscow as well.....I'd say, probably a fair number of 'em, at least.....