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Posted By: IowaDad, 3/21/2022 10:36:03 AM

On Saturday and Sunday, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky invoked his emergency powers under martial law to suppress several opposition political parties and implement a "unified information policy." In an address to the nation delivered Sunday, he announced a temporary ban on "any activity" by 11 political parties. The ban includes the Opposition Platform – For Life party, which holds 43 seats in Ukraine's national parliament and is the largest opposition party. Zelensky's information policy involves "combining all national TV channels, the program content of which consists mainly of information and/or information-analytical programs, [into] a single information platform of strategic communication" to be called "United News."

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Reply 1 - Posted by: janjan 3/21/2022 10:48:09 AM (No. 1105799)
Ukraine has never been a democracy, regardless of what the politicians/media want you to believe. That doesn’t change the tragedy unfolding there but we might be seeing a few cracks in the Zelensky love story.
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Reply 2 - Posted by: TexaTucky 3/21/2022 10:48:56 AM (No. 1105800)
Banning opposition parties and implementing a "unified information policy" kinda rhymes with what both Hitler and Stalin did. But that was a great idea you had inveighing upon Israel to help you out with your Democracy: Ukrainian Style.
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Reply 3 - Posted by: vrb8m 3/21/2022 10:50:08 AM (No. 1105802)
Previously posted. https://www.lucianne.com/2022/03/20/zelensky_nationalizes_tv_news_and_restricts_opposition_parties_81619.html
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Reply 4 - Posted by: curious1 3/21/2022 11:09:41 AM (No. 1105823)
Isn't that what various flavors of 'socialists' do? So they are national socialists or fascists?
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Reply 5 - Posted by: VietVet68 3/21/2022 11:13:06 AM (No. 1105829)
Just as with the democrats in America all Zelensky needed was a little crisis to allow his inner dictator to show its true self.
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Reply 6 - Posted by: IowaDad 3/21/2022 11:14:16 AM (No. 1105830)
Apologies for this repeated post!
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Reply 7 - Posted by: RuckusTom 3/21/2022 11:16:32 AM (No. 1105833)
Naw. Ukraine is not a corrupt country that should be invited into NATO - right on Russia's border. This would be like Mexico inviting communist China or Iran in with their military to control their side of our southern border.
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Reply 8 - Posted by: GustoGrabber 3/21/2022 12:01:44 PM (No. 1105878)
I wouldn't want the armed kleptocracy of the European Union sharing my borders either. We need to stop NPRing this guy. He is a Soros EU WEC one world great reset stooge.
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Reply 9 - Posted by: DogFacedPonySoldier 3/21/2022 12:50:41 PM (No. 1105924)
Democrat-style Dictatorship!
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Reply 10 - Posted by: RussZilla 3/21/2022 1:25:31 PM (No. 1105938)
I the US had done this to the press, we probably would've won a few of our wars since the 50's!
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Reply 11 - Posted by: FormerDem 3/21/2022 2:15:43 PM (No. 1105963)
Last week the Russians put a bag over the head of the mayor of a city and kidnapped him. Then a city council member named Galina Danilchenko somehow Became mayor and told the city to get back to normal. Now the first mayor is back, due to pressure. What is Galina's situation? What should happen if an elected mayor is kidnapped and somebody from a pro-Russia party installs herself and tells everyone to quit fighting? I don't know but I would guess this thing about parties has to do with, what do you do? I don't know, but I would guess the idea is to take her surrender of the city following mayor-kidnap, out of the realm of what appears reasonable paperwork-wise
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