Italy’s second largest newspaper La Repubblica has broken western media’s silence over the latest wave of political murders in Ukraine.
In an unusual for mainstream western media frank assessment of Kiev’s post-Maidan regime, La Repubblica has denounced “a ruthless sweeping away of every form of political opposition taking place in Kiev”. The paper was reacting to yet another assassination in Ukraine — this time of a popular journalist Oles Buzina.
The captions describe Oles Buzina as a “journalist and writer very well known in the Ukrainian capital” and his murder as an “execution on his door step”.
“Somebody is systematically killing all those opposed to the Ukrainian government borne from last year’s ‘revolution’.”
Noteworthy here are the inverted commas into which the Italian newspaper puts the word ‘revolution’, thereby putting in doubt the democratic nature of the regime change in Kiev.
The article then quotes President Putin as saying that this is “one of the many crimes of the new Ukraine”.