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Ukraine’s wealthiest man, Rinat Akhmetov, a Donetsk native who had been a member of Mr. Yanukovych’s political party, reportedly met with the separatists in Donetsk and urged them to negotiate with the government.
On Tuesday, protesters still controlled the regional assembly building but it appeared they were wavering in their demands. A meeting of the self- proclaimed republic’s makeshift council, held on the 11th floor of the regional government building, quickly descended into a cacophony of shouting, ringing mobile phones and table banging as the deputies clashed over plans.
“Are you going to shut your mouth or will I have to?” yelled one older man holding a Soviet flag. A woman struck a man who was trying to calm her down.
After a woman read out the independence declaration they had pronounced on Monday, the council voted to send out an appeal for international recognition.
State-run Russian television was the only media allowed in the room and reported live on what it called the Donetsk “activists” who declared their “people’s republic.” Itar-Tass, the Kremlin’s news service, called them “lawmakers” and “deputies” who had passed “a bill” to hold a Crimea-style referendum on independence. No surprise, that’s two weeks before Ukraine plans to hold its election to choose a successor to ousted Ukraine President Viktor Yanukovych.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said that representatives of pro-Russian elements in eastern and southern Ukraine should be allowed to participate in multilateral talks with Russia, the U. S., the European Union and the new government in Kiev. He accused Kiev of ignoring the interests of those parts of the country and said the crisis couldn't be resolved without taking them into account.
From his office atop the world’s biggest Jewish community center, Shmuel Kaminezki, the rabbi of this eastern Ukrainian city, has followed with dismay Russian claims that Ukraine is now in the hands of neo-Nazi extremists — and struggled to calm his panicked 85year-old mother in New York.
Raised in Russia and a regular viewer of Russian television, she ‘‘calls every day to ask: Have the pogroms happened yet?’’ Rabbi Kaminezki said. He tells his mother that they have not, and that she should stop watching Russian TV. ‘‘It is a total lie,’’ he said. ‘‘Jews are not in danger in Ukraine.’’
Dnepropetrovsk’s Jewish community, one of the largest in Ukraine, is celebrating the recent appointment of one of its own, a billionaire tycoon named Ihor Kolomoysky, as the region’s most powerful official. ‘‘They made a Jew the governor. What kind of anti-Semitism is this?’’ asked Solomon Flaks, the 87-year-old chairman of the region’s Council of Jewish Veterans of the Great Patriotic War, an association of a rapidly shrinking number of World War II veterans. Since being formed in 1994, when it had 970 members, the council’s membership has fallen to 103, the result of old age and emigration to Israel.
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