Maidan

Why is Deutsche Welle continuing to profoundly offend people in a country which as you are well aware has every reason to remember Nazism with pain and absolute abhorrence? Offend them, I would stress, not with some unpalatable truth, but with misleading insinuations and lies which may serve the interests of those who concocted such a “sensation” too weeks ago, but in no way serves the cause of truth

It is galling that you can buy the doll in one shop in Kyiv, as well as in England, the USA and other countries. I don’t think I will ever fathom how people can buy figures of Hitler and Stalin. However something else remains quite incomprehensible. How can you manufacture a sensation based on lies at the expense of a nation which suffered from fascists and butchers of all breeds?

As Victory Day approaches, we believe it fitting in remembrance of all victims of Nazism in Ukraine to take all measures to clear the Internet of profoundly offensive and misleading comments about the Hitler doll. We give sample letters to send to all concerned

We warmly welcome the initiative taken by Trumpet.com in withdrawing their article about figurines of Hitler having arrived in Ukrainian shops because the “source material that the article was based on was both inaccurate and misleading”. We look forward to similar steps from the BBC, the UK newspapers Daily Telegraph and Daily Mail, Deutsche Welle, and all others.

We are calling on all those concerned that information reported by the media is accurate and objective to help us ensure the same. We do not have the financial resources of the major media outlets. We can and will “fight” them one way only - with the truth.

We will be asking how the BBC came to use the news report of a Russian television company reporting on a story about Ukraine. Used it, we would add, without any reference to its source, and with at least one crucial omission. Of no less interest is how a UK newspaper could have quoted as its source yet seriously distorted a Ukrainian newspaper article. In fact, general bemusement is difficult to avoid over the fact that not one of these media outlets would appear to have checked any of the information they reported on site

I would ask Yury Lutsenko and all those calling for the reinstatement of the death penalty to just type in the following words on Google: DNA, wrongful, prison. Or try torture and confession. You’ll read enough arguments to last a lifetime.

On 22 April 2008 the European Court of Human Rights decided that Dilshod Kurbanov, whose extradition on politically motivated charges of a religious nature is demanded by the Uzbekistan authorities, must not be extradited from Russia pending further notification

On the recent response by Minister of Internal Affairs Yury Lutsenko expressing support for reinstatement of the death penalty for particularly grave crimes against a person, on the Constitutional Court’s conclusion that the death penalty contravenes the Constitution, and on Ukraine’s European choice

“It was only after I made the film “Katyń” that I had the grounds to come here and visit his grave”, Pan Wajda explained before the film showing in Kharkiv. “My father was a witness to the Katyń Crime, and my mother lived through the Katyń lie. This true crime was directed mainly against the Polish intelligentsia since it was they most of all who opposed Stalin’s plans to subjugate Poland”