About one thousand supporters of the parties Russian Bloc and Russian Community of Crimea and other pro-Russian organizations have marched in Simferopol at rallied in protest against derogation on Russian-speaking citizens’ rights in Ukraine on August 24, 2009. Carrying a banner “Forever With Russia!” and chanting “Russia!” and “Crimea is Russian land!” protesters marched to the building of the permanent representative of the President of Ukraine in Crimea. When they’ve reached their destination, they took out more banners with words “Ukraine is cancer on history and territory of Rus”, “Enemy on territory of the Holy Rus. Hitler 1941-45, Yuschenko 2004-???”, “Ukraine’s Galicia heroes are traitors and criminals.” The main person of Crimean Russian Community Serhii Tsekov mentioned that this meeting has been devoted to unity of the Russian world and that the Russian protest would be growing. He announced, that Ukrainian authorities were humiliating the culture of the Russian-speaking citizens of Ukraine.
At the same time, about 150 representatives of the Sobor party, the Ukrainian People’s Party, the Narodnyi Rukh of Ukraine party and Majlis of the Crimean Tatar people rallied near the monument to Taras Shevchenko celebrating the Independence Day of Ukraine. Ukrainian News

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