The people have brought the dead paper angels. You have laid down flowers and lit candles for those who were murdered five years ago on independence square. Among them was a 17-year-old Student, who came to Kiev because he wanted to experience the Revolution – he was shot on the same day by a sniper. Or the young Olga Bura, who was a member of the uprising from the beginning, and with the life paid.

for weeks, Kiev looked like in the civil war, black smoke over the barricades and rubble, bloody street battles between protesters and police. Then, at the end of February 2014, on marched the sniper. There were over 100 Dead. The put an end to the unpopular President, Viktor Yanukovych, the country escape left-like the direction of Russia.

images: pictures of the protests of 2014

today’s Ukrainian leadership has flowers and angels for the victims, but no justice. The new policy will guard appeared with the promise to do everything differently. We will bring those responsible for mass murder to justice. At the end of January, the expelled President Viktor Yanukovych was sentenced for high treason to 13 years in prison. Because he still sits undisturbed in the Russian province, is not likely he will spend a day in jail. And then that was it.

A democratic Ukraine could convince the Russians that they can live differently.

Not a single one of the murderers of that time have been held accountable. The investigation would be completed “virtually”, it was said recently. Most of the perpetrators had fled to Russia. The vote for Yanukovych or the chief of the notorious Berkut special unit, which dissolves in Moscow demonstrations. However, not all perpetrators of violence. 441 Suspect had been identified, say human rights activists, most of them from the security services. 35 of them are up to today – as if nothing had happened. Several appear to be in a leading Position. The investigation authorities are by no means incapable, but simply unwilling. The attorney General is a loyal follower of President Petro Poroshenko. Investigators, who wanted to bring the work-up progress, complain that the had personally ensured that the studies had not come from the spot.

The reason is simple: Poroshenko does not want to touch the corrupt braid from the police, the secret service and the dishes, because it also makes the new Ukrainian leadership. In particular, if one has bought the loyalty with impunity. So you can keep good friends before unpleasant procedures, and annoying enemies, the courts of the Frass blame. The public Prosecutor is now legally against political competitors Poroshenko. And this explains also that in Ukraine more courageous journalists and activists, the fight against corruption and nepotism, to be murdered. With impunity, because these murders are never solved. The Ukrainians demonstrated five years ago and 15 years ago, during the orange Revolution, against the self-glory of the politicians, against impunity and arbitrariness.

has changed to the old political structures. The cliques of yesteryear still work today or have been re-established. The core remains: A few enrich themselves shamelessly, to keep the country at the expense of the people as a hostage. And in the presidential elections, which take place at the end of March, gets served in the war-torn Ukrainian people, candidates, behind which at least one Oligarch, knows only his own Agenda. The people are not died five years ago.

This week, the country has written its orientation towards the EU and Nato, even in the Constitution.

Really the only foreign policy has changed. For this radical. Ukraine has turned away from Russia, although the economic ties are still large. After the annexation of the Crimea and in the light of the war in Eastern Ukraine, the Kremlin today has no Chance to draw Kiev by peaceful means, back into its sphere of influence. Poroshenko has fought for his country, even his own, from Moscow independent Church. The Ukrainians are now allowed to without a visa travel to Europe – at least if you have enough money for such a luxury.

range: the Russian invasion of Crimea

This week, the country has written its orientation towards the EU and Nato, even in the Constitution. This gives the West a great responsibility, because Europeans and Americans must now ensure that it is not just empty words, when it comes to freedom, democracy and justice in Ukraine. The West must make Kiev abundantly clear that a democratic Ukraine must needs of all zerfresse the oligarchs rule and a judicial reform that does more than a few Thousand police officers and media attention with cool American uniforms.

The internal political reforms are just as important as the defence of the country against the Russian military attacks. In the long term, you might be even more important. Because a free, prosperous Ukraine might convince Russia’s neighbors that they can live otherwise than under the rigid Regime of Vladimir Putin.

(editing Tamedia)

Created: 22.02.2019, 22:32 PM