Talk:Berkut (special police force)

Soviet SEALs
What's the name of the soviet/ukranian SEALs that lived on this island (May-Island) near Ochakiv? At the Soviet coup attempt of 1991 they unanimously refused the order to watch over president Gorbachev in his dacha in Foros (southernmost city on Crimea). After that the military unit was the first to take the oath of allegiance to Ukraine. I guess it's not Berkut. -- Cherubino 01:56, 12 November 2006 (UTC)

berkut articles for content on wiki
--Львівське (говорити) 22:28, 28 January 2014 (UTC)
 * BBC: Ukraine's Berkut police: What makes them special?
 * Why Ukraine's Berkut Special Police Force Is So Scary

former SBU head [quoted passage removed] — Preceding unsigned comment added by Lvivske (talk • contribs) 2014-02-02T04:07:47


 * http://www.uriks.no/ukrainian-top-general-proof-russian-intervention-ukraine/ is now a dead link but the text is accessible at Internet Archive here. John Vandenberg (chat) 06:27, 25 April 2014 (UTC)

Need more material--foreign language okay
1. Fellow Wikipedians: Did you all notice that the founder of Wikipedia himself, Jimbo Wales, honored this article by weighing in |here the other day? (And the honor is greater, IMO, for the fact that he hasn't been editing very many articles of late, according to his user contributions page.)

2. If anybody has more examples of attacks or voter intimidation (even including an explanation of the regular m.o. of voter intimidation)--with qualifying published sources--I'd be happy to help add to the article. Valid Ukrainian or Russian language sources are fine.

3. Vive l'Ukraine! Paavo273 (talk) 19:39, 1 February 2014 (UTC)

Pravda
Is not a reliable source. Even if it were, there is no corroborating statement anywhere on the internet, at least that I could find (in English).24.234.240.235 (talk) 02:43, 20 February 2014 (UTC)

As for update: Russian passports were just distributed to them
--Niemti (talk) 23:37, 1 March 2014 (UTC)

Many have not disbanded
This article needs to include info that many Berkut are ignoring the order to disband from the regime in Kiev and are still active and organized. 71.181.182.97 (talk) 20:34, 3 March 2014 (UTC)

Berkut in Crimea become part of Russia's Interior Ministry.
Here's my source for modifying the page: http://itar-tass.com/politika/1070745

Bolegash (talk) 18:37, 29 March 2014 (UTC)

NYT article
There is an interesting problem with the large NYT quote added to this article by user:Jimbo Wales in January[//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Berkut_(special_police_force)&diff=prev&oldid=592718902]] which was raised at User talk:Russavia. The copyright aspect is an interesting fair use issue, as the quoted passage is not being critically discussed in the prose of the article that was added, and the object of Wikipedia is self-evidently to replace the need to consult all of the sources, but whether quoting and citing large passages reduces the commercial value of the source is not something I am familiar with the case law.

Anyway, .. the NYT article has essentially been retracted. Not just amended, but disappeared. user:Tarc noted that this can be seen at http://www.newsdiffs.org/article-history/www.nytimes.com/2014/01/28/world/europe/ukraine-leader-faces-new-pressure-to-end-unrest.html. Can anyone see a statement from the NYT about this disappeared story? IMO we should just replace it with other sources, and remove/rephrase where we have to. The first part of the quote can be re-sourced easily, as it was widely reported that Mykhailo Gavrylyak was mistreated in Berkut hands, apologies were given officially, etc.

However the second half of the quote, if I understand correctly, refers to Yuri Verbitsky/Yuriy Verbytskyi and while there is credible sources reporting what happened to Yuri, and it is a very high profile case, I havent found another reliable source which attributes this act to the Berkut. I looked at the sources for his entry on List of people killed during Euromaidan and didnt see (through the Google Translate lens) any of them clearly claiming that the Berkut did it. Help! John Vandenberg (chat) 09:24, 26 April 2014 (UTC)
 * I think we should assume the NYT action to be a silent retraction of the article or some part of it. If there aren't significant other sources confirming the claims there, I think the entire incident should stay deleted.--Jimbo Wales (talk) 19:59, 26 April 2014 (UTC)

External links modified
Hello fellow Wikipedians,

I have just modified 6 external links on Berkut (special police force). Please take a moment to review my edit. If you have any questions, or need the bot to ignore the links, or the page altogether, please visit this simple FaQ for additional information. I made the following changes:
 * Added archive https://web.archive.org/web/20140202203956/http://tvi.ua/new/2014/01/23/berkut_zaviz_i_pokynuv_u_lisi_divchynu to http://tvi.ua/new/2014/01/23/berkut_zaviz_i_pokynuv_u_lisi_divchynu
 * Corrected formatting/usage for http://www.lapresse.ca/international/dossiers/ukraine/201402/25/01-4742251-le-courage-dun-homme.php
 * Corrected formatting/usage for http://www.lapresse.ca/international/dossiers/ukraine/201402/25/01-4742251-le-courage-dun-homme.php
 * Corrected formatting/usage for http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/afp/140124/ukraine-protester-vows-fight-after-police-humiliation
 * Corrected formatting/usage for http://blog.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2014/01/27/cossack_at_the_heart_of_kiev_protests_refuses_to_give_in
 * Corrected formatting/usage for http://news.yahoo.com/ragtag-camp-grows-russias-frontier-201155946.html

When you have finished reviewing my changes, you may follow the instructions on the template below to fix any issues with the URLs.

Cheers.— InternetArchiveBot  (Report bug) 12:43, 18 July 2017 (UTC)

External links modified
Hello fellow Wikipedians,

I have just modified 2 external links on Berkut (special police force). Please take a moment to review my edit. If you have any questions, or need the bot to ignore the links, or the page altogether, please visit this simple FaQ for additional information. I made the following changes:
 * Added archive https://web.archive.org/web/20140215095615/http://www.uriks.no/ukrainian-top-general-proof-russian-intervention-ukraine/ to http://www.uriks.no/ukrainian-top-general-proof-russian-intervention-ukraine/
 * Added archive https://web.archive.org/web/20131216201603/http://vse.rv.ua/news/1387023781-girnik-spaliv-sebe-na-znak-protestu-pobittya-lyudey-berkutivcyami.html to http://vse.rv.ua/news/1387023781-girnik-spaliv-sebe-na-znak-protestu-pobittya-lyudey-berkutivcyami.html

When you have finished reviewing my changes, you may follow the instructions on the template below to fix any issues with the URLs.

Cheers.— InternetArchiveBot  (Report bug) 16:14, 11 January 2018 (UTC)

External links modified
Hello fellow Wikipedians,

I have just modified 2 external links on Berkut (special police force). Please take a moment to review my edit. If you have any questions, or need the bot to ignore the links, or the page altogether, please visit this simple FaQ for additional information. I made the following changes:
 * Added archive https://web.archive.org/web/20141114000843/http://rt.com/news/berkut-police-russian-passports-266/comments/page-1/ to http://rt.com/news/berkut-police-russian-passports-266/comments/page-1/
 * Added archive https://web.archive.org/web/20141120234244/http://www.demotix.com/news/4890666/berkut-and-ukrainian-soldiers-fight-pro-russians-near-slovyansk/all-media to http://www.demotix.com/news/4890666/berkut-and-ukrainian-soldiers-fight-pro-russians-near-slovyansk/all-media

When you have finished reviewing my changes, you may follow the instructions on the template below to fix any issues with the URLs.

Cheers.— InternetArchiveBot  (Report bug) 14:49, 17 January 2018 (UTC)