2nd note: Our friend Joel Kovel writes that Dnepropetrovsk is where his father was born.
- Mitchel Cohen
An anti-fascist activist kidnapped by Ukraine’s security forces was released from state captivity yesterday.
http://www.morningstaronline.co.uk/a-b50b-
Anti-fascist activist released after kidnap by Ukrainian secret services
Maria Matyushenko’s arrest on Tuesday night came as Kiev secret services SBU carried out a series of illegal raids on Marxist organisation Borotba (Struggle) of which she is a member offices and members across Ukraine.
Fascist coup-installed President Petro Poroshenko also warned late on Tuesday that he may prematurely cancel a barely holding ceasefire with anti-Kiev rebels in the east after they shot down a military helicopter, killing nine.
SBU bootboys who are waging a war on left-wing forces that opposed the fascist putsch that grew out of the Euromaidan protests burst into Ms Matyushenko’s flat in Dnepropetrovsk, south central Ukraine.
They ransacked her home, seizing mobile phones and computers, including an iPad belonging to her 13-year-old sister.
Armed paramilitaries had also tried to arrest Borotba activists following a regular anti-fascist rally in Kharkov last month.
Anti-fascists said state authorities had launched a crackdown on social media accompanied by “mass interrogations” of activists carried out jointly by security services and far-right militants.