euronews interview : Tymoshenko: 'I will never abandon Ukraine' 1/04/2011
In order to go to Brussels for the European People's Party conference, the leader of the Ukrainian opposition 'Fatherland' party, Yulia Tymoshenko, had to ask permission from the country's Attorney General, because she is under investigation for alleged financial irregularities during her premiership. In an interview with euronews she said that in the year since the presidential elections much has changed in Ukraine.
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Unrest has swelled in scale in recent weeks, and turned violent on Sunday when hard-core radicals broke away from the main protest area in the capital Kiev ...
22/01/2014
(FULL STORY at http://eurone.ws/1hL6oDm ) At least three demonstrators have died in the capital Kyiv during clashes with riot police. According to a medical worker at the scene, two protesters died after being shot and a third fell from a high level.The bodies were found after police began dismantling barricades near a government district in Kiev this morning,
1/02/2014
Ukraine's foreign minister, Leonid Kozhara, spoke to Al Jazeera about the ongoing violence and protests in his country.Speaking to Al Jazeera from Munich, he called on Ukranians to distance themselves from the opposition, saying there was a "big misunderstanding between the government and opposition".He disputed claims that an opposition activist, Dmytro Bulatov, 35, had been tortured.
Ukraine's general prosecutor says both those who died from bullet wounds were found less than three hours apart in a national library close to the area where protesters have clashed with police since Sunday.
'Titushki',
los matones pagados por Yanukóvich. El Gobierno ucraniano paga 17 euros
al día a estos camorristas para que se infiltren en las manifestaciones
de los opositores y las revienten violentamente
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1/02/2014
The US secretary of state, John Kerry, said that the US and the EU supported the people of Ukraine as they sought a stronger democracy, as protests against the government of Viktor Yanukovich threatened to turn international. In comments made on Saturday, Kerry said Ukrainians deserved the right to decide their own future and should not be coerced into accepting their future lay with one country - a reference to President Yanukovich's decision to renege on a cooperation deal with the EU under pressure from Russia. Al Jazeera's Simon McGregor-Wood reports.
