{"id":1259478,"date":"2025-07-12T19:56:31","date_gmt":"2025-07-12T16:56:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/anti-maidan-tests-the-limits\/"},"modified":"2025-07-17T06:55:52","modified_gmt":"2025-07-17T03:55:52","slug":"anti-maidan-tests-the-limits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/anti-maidan-tests-the-limits\/","title":{"rendered":"Anti-Maidan Pushes Boundaries: The Struggle for Ukraine\u2019s Soul"},"content":{"rendered":"

Source: Author’s Facebook<\/a> page<\/em><\/p>\n

To grasp the full picture of current events, it\u2019s essential to look back and forward\u2014at least a few weeks\u2014and understand the broader context. The searches and accusations against Vitaliy Shabunin are part of the same pattern as the \u201cmobilization\u201d of Bohdan Butkevych.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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A demonstrative and sudden refusal to comply with the law on the appointment of the head of the BEB, accompanied by the noise of Telegram trash and cheerful comments from PR teams.<\/span><\/h6>\n
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Raids on businesses, with searches for absurd accusations of \u201ctax evasion\u201d and even \u201chigh treason.\u201d<\/p>\n

Searches of relatives of EU People\u2019s Deputy Nina Yuzhanina.<\/p>\n

Confiscation of diplomat Konstantin Yeliseyev\u2019s phone during searches.<\/p>\n

Violation of the rights of local communities\u2014from Rivne to Chernihiv, from Sumy to Kyiv.<\/p>\n

And finally, \u201csanctions\u201d against Petro Poroshenko, along with over a hundred other \u201ccases.\u201d<\/p>\n

This is only what lies on the surface\u2014in headlines and reports by European institutions and the Commissioner for Human Rights of the Council of Europe.<\/p>\n

All these are manifestations of the same phenomenon: Anti-Maidan is testing the limits.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\t\t