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Media in Ukraine ‘under siege,’ says OSCE
By Mick Krever, CNN
Media in Ukraine is “under siege,” a top official from the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe told CNN’s Christiane Amanpour on Monday.
“The situation is extremely dangerous,” Dunja Mijatovic, OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, said. “I receive reports on intimidation, threats, harassment of journalists on a daily basis. Today, even on the hourly basis.”
Mijatovic is just back from a fact-finding mission to Ukraine.
“Media is used as a tool for manipulation,” she said. “Channels are switched off overnight, like it happened in Crimea, and replaced with channels originating from the Russian federation.”
“So the pattern is known, unfortunately. And it is something that is happening as we speak.”
The state of Ukraine media freedom
Christiane Amanpour speaks with Dunja Mijatovic, OSCE Representative for Freedom of the Media.
Click above to watch Mijatovic’s full interview with Amanpour.
EXCLUSIVE: Russia can’t be ‘firefighter and arsonist’ in Ukraine, says U.S.
By Mick Krever, CNN
Russia cannot continue to pledge its support to deescalating unrest in Ukraine and at the same time fuel that turmoil, the U.S. says.
“You cannot dress yourself like a firefighter and behave like an arsonist,” Victoria Nuland, the top U.S. diplomat for Europe, told CNN’s Christiane Amanpour in an exclusive interview.
“We are very concerned about the Russian hand behind the destabilizing things that we’re seeing in eastern Ukraine.”
A dossier obtained Monday by CNN shows what Ukrainian officials say are images of well-equipped gunmen operating in eastern Ukraine who look similar to photographs of Russian forces taken in Crimea, Russia and during Russia's 2008 invasion of Georgia.
Nuland said that the “bearded man” who has allegedly appeared both in Georgia and eastern Ukraine is “clearly a GRU agent,” referring to the main intelligence body of the Russian military.
CNN cannot independently confirm the photographs, some of which were first published in the New York Times.
U.S. point person on Ukraine crisis
Christiane Amanpour speaks with Victoria Nuland, the Assistant U.S. Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs.
Selling America to the world
From Kiev to Damascus, Moscow to Caracas, there are very few international conflicts and debates where the actions and position of the United States is not influential.
In Ukraine, the United States stands solidly behind the interim government, and slapped some sanctions on Russian officials after Moscow annexed Crimea.
But as Moscow continues to play out a similar drama in eastern Ukraine now, the nation and its neighbors want to know what the U.S. is going to do, if anything, to prevent any further land grabs.
The people of Syria of course have been asking that sad question for three years now; despite laying out a red line over chemical weapons, the White House has kept a hands off policy there.
And then there's the tricky question of how the United States stretches over the head of governments to reach the people in countries such as Iran and Cuba.
The ‘degenerate’ art that Hitler hated
The use of propaganda and the willingness to re-shape history is hardly unique to the conflict brewing in eastern Ukraine.
In fact, the modern art of propaganda reached new heights, or depths, back in the 1930s by Adolf Hitler and the Nazis, when they declared war on modern art itself.
An extraordinary exhibit at the Neue Galerie in New York is drawing huge crowds to see the kind of artwork the Nazis admired – hanging side by side with the kind they despised, what they called "degenerate art."
Acclaimed historian Simon Schama, author most recently of "The Story of the Jews," took CNN’s Christiane Amanpour on a tour, and offered a chilling reminder: First they came for the art, and then for everyone else.
Click above to watch.
Plus, with rare footage, Amanpour takes a look at back the 1937 Nazi exhibition of 'degenerate' art:
Rare footage of Nazi art exhbit
With rare footage, Christiane Amanpour takes a look at back the 1937 Nazi exhibition of 'degenerate' art.
‘Very few things’ Ukraine can do to keep country together, Putin ally warns
By Mick Krever, CNN
The Ukrainian government has little possibility of keeping its country from falling apart, a top member of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s party told CNN’s Christiane Amanpour on Thursday.
“There are very few things the Ukrainian government can do now to keep their country together,” Vyacheslav Nikonov said.
President Putin on Thursday denied that there are Russian forces inside eastern Ukraine, but maintained his country’s right to intervene if necessary.
Nikonov warned that Russia would move in militarily if there were “full-scale civil war in Ukraine and government forces using artillery and aircraft against their own people.”
Russia's red line for intervention
Putin-ally Vyacheslav Nikonov says that Russia would intervene in Ukraine if there were "full-scale civil war."
“I would not expect that [to] happen,” he said, but added that the Ukrainian government is “not very adequate” and he is unsure “what are they going to do.”
“I would not see any restraint on the side of the authorities in Kiev. There are not just tanks, which are moving, but also artillery. And there are bombers, which are flying over the protesting people.”
Web extra: What's it like to be Molotov's grandson?
Russian politician Vyacheslav Nikonov was on Amanpour on Thursday to talk about unrest in eastern Ukraine.
Nikonov happens to be the grandson of Vyacheslav Molotov, who served as Soviet foreign minister for Josef Stalin during World War II. Molotov, of course, was also the namesake of the Molotov cocktail - that infamous home-made incendiary weapon.
Christiane Amanpour asked Nikonov what it's like to be Molotov's grandson.
Click above to watch his reply - and hear how he prefers his liquor.
Kidnapping children for battle, from Nigeria to Uganda
By Mick Krever, CNN
They come in the night.
Armed militants take young children from their beds, as they sleep: Young recruits for extremist causes.
It happened this week in Nigeria, when heavily armed Boko Haram Islamists kidnapped 200 girls from their boarding school.
And it has been happening in northern Uganda, Democratic Republic of Congo, and other neighboring countries for decades – the work of Joseph Kony and his Lord’s Resistance Army.
CNN’s Christiane Amanpour covered Kony’s sick work 16 years ago, for 60 Minutes, when she reported on the abduction of 139 girls from their school.
She spoke with their teacher, Sister Rachele Fassera, who begged for the children’s return.
“He bent down and on the ground he wrote, ‘The girls are 139. I will give you a 109.’ He wrote, ‘I keep 30,’ Sister Raquelle told Amanpour at the time.”
“I knelt in front of him,” she said. “And I said, please give me all the girls. He said, ‘No.’ [crying] Then they started, ‘Sister, they will rape us tonight. Sister, will you come back tonight?’”
“That was the last time I saw them.”
Russia: No plans to intervene, says ‘hysteria is becoming contagious’
By Mick Krever, CNN
Russia will not invade Ukraine, Russian Ambassador to the EU Vladimir Chizhov told CNN’s Christiane Amanpour on Wednesday.
“Russia has no plans to intervene militarily, no plans to invade anybody – not Ukraine, not any other country; or to annex anything.”
Amanpour asked the ambassador whether Russian would also stay out of Transnistria, the breakaway state - recognized by no sovereign nation – sandwiched in between Moldova and Ukraine.
Authorities in Transnistria asked Russia to recognize the enclave as a sovereign independent state on Wednesday.
“Hysteria is becoming contagious,” Chizhov said. “It’s not Russia’s intention to annex Transnistria or any other territory in any other place of the world.”
Russia's next move
CNN's Christiane Amanpour speaks with Russian Ambassador to the EU Vladimir Chizhov about unrest in eastern Ukraine.
Pro-Russian militants appeared to tighten their grip on Ukraine's eastern town of Slovyansk on Wednesday as Ukrainian military forces massed nearby in an uneasy standoff.
In Donetsk, six armored vehicles sent into the nearby city of Kramatorsk in the morning later showed up carrying Russian flags in Slovyansk.
EXCLUSIVE: UN issues stark warning against arming Ukraine protesters
By Mick Krever, CNN
“Whoever arms protesters can be held accountable for potential tragic consequences.”
That is the stark warning issued on Ukraine by the U.N. Assistant Secretary General for Human Rights, Ivan Simonovic, in an exclusive interview with CNN’s Christiane Amanpour on Tuesday.
“What is at the moment, I would say, most important, it is to prevent arming of protesters and transforming them into paramilitary troops.”
U.N. releases report on Ukraine
CNN's Christiane Amanpour speaks with U.N. Assistant Secretary General for Human Rights Ivan Simonovic.
Simonovic is the author of a new U.N. report, out Tuesday, that details the protests and incursions that lead up to Russia’s annexation of Crimea.
The report comes as worried residents and onlookers around the world shudder at the similarities between Russia’s annexation of Crimea last month and what is happening today in eastern Ukraine.
Estonian President Toomas Hendrik Ilves calls for ‘physical presence on the ground’ in region as deterrence against Russia
By Mick Krever, CNN
In an interview with CNN's Christiane Amanpour on Tuesday, Estonian President Toomas Hendrik Ilves called for a "physical presence on the ground" in the region as a deterrence against Russia.
Estonia, a former Soviet republic that shares a border with Russia, is now a member of NATO. Its leadership has been outspoken expressing concern about Russia's incursion into Ukraine.
"We need more exercises," President Ilves said. "We think that the decision to increase the number of planes providing air policing in the region is a very good one."
"But given the uncertainty that we see to the east and the kinds of actions that we’ve seen in the east, we need to make sure that others understand that this is not something to play around with."
Estonia's plea on Russia
CNN's Christiane Amanpour speaks with Estonian President Toomas Hendrik Ilves about Russia and Ukraine.
Amanpour asked President Ilves what he thought Russian President Vladimir Putin's "goal" was.
"We are in new territory right now. The rules have been broken."
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