Ukraine readies for mass nationalist, anti-Nazi actions.

KIEV (Itar-Tass) - Ukraine has mounted security as mass
nationalist as well as anti-Nazi actions are planned in Kiev and other
cities on Friday.
"Police is ready for any turn of developments," spokesman of Kiev
police Vladimir Polishchuk said. Close to two thousand policemen will work
to prevent clashes between opposing parties. "Units of interior troops
will be in reserve, but they will not be sent to the streets if there is
no need," he said.
Clashes regularly take place on October 14 when nationalists mark the
anniversary of the creation of the Ukrainian insurgent army (UPA). This
year the Freedom Association said twenty thousand people would rally and
march in Kiev to demand that authorities reinstate the title of the Hero
of Ukraine to UPA founder Stepan Bandera and declare October 14 a national
holiday.
The Communists will respond to the nationalists by a rally at the
monument to Vladimir Lenin while the Socialists will gather nearby. Their
leader Natalya Vitrenko said the progressive Socialist Party would call to
declare October 14 the Day of memory of victims of the Nazis and Ukrainian
nationalists.
"Instead of kneeling and begging pardon from Ukrainian people for the
atrocities of UPA its followers want to re-write history and pose Bandera
and associates as heroes," she said.
Supporters of jailed former Prime Minister Yulia Timoshenko will also
march to parliament building on Friday.