I've found it interesting that nearly every anti-protestor comments about the Ukraine situation here have been Russians (as per their profiles). A solid 75%+ anyway, for the last three threads. Why is that?
How to deal with the discontent:<p>1. Make things worse for everybody, much worse,<p>2. After public outrage, return things to how they were before #1,<p>3. Profit, while the public rejoices and celebrates a victory.
<i>Parliament - holding an emergency debate on the crisis - voted by 361 to 2 to repeal the protest law.</i><p>How many of those MPs voted for the law when it was passed two weeks ago? The article is missing that context.
That's weird.<p>- Ukraine needed to adapt their laws to EU standards before signing the association with EU.<p>- Pro-EU protesters fight against these laws.<p>I'm lost here.
If you actually read the laws that Yanukovych passed, they were hardly extreme, and are close to what is in place in most Western countries already.<p>Limits on shutting down infrastructure, arming yourself in a protest, wearing body armour, inciting violence, and setting up tents in public areas... Things which are illegal everywhere in the West.<p>But everyone gets their news through a filter here, no one reads primary sources, no one reads Ukrainian or Russian or even bothers with translation tools...<p>Edit - love the downvotes for suggesting people look into primary sources. Guess people love being sheep.