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"EU leaders try to restart talks with Ukraine but hopes fade" by Maria Danilova and Raf Casert | Associated Press, November 29, 2013
VILNIUS, Lithuania — European Union leaders sought Thursday to revive a stalled agreement with Ukraine after the former Soviet republic shocked the 28-country bloc last week by opting for closer ties with Russia in a geopolitical tug-of-war.
However, Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany held out few hopes that a deal will be cobbled together during a two-day EU summit with eastern partners that opened Thursday evening.
‘‘I have no hope that it will succeed this time, but the door is open,’’ Merkel said as she entered the summit . ‘‘We will make very clear that the EU is ready to take in Ukraine as an associated member.’’
Why would anyone want to join that economy-destroying looting machine for bankers?
Faced with pressure from Russia, President Viktor Yanukovych of Ukraine shelved plans for closer ties with the EU last week. The move sparked protests at home and set back EU plans to pry a nation of 46 million people loose from Moscow’s orbit and push its geopolitical clout right up to Russia’s border. Instead, Moscow would like Kiev to join a separate union that aims to rival the EU.
Still, the EU has not given up and has said the deal could be signed any time after the summit.
Ukraine remains careful not to burn any more bridges with the EU at the summit....
While facing pressure from the EU, Yanukovych is grappling with discontent at home. Thousands of people have kept up daily protests in Ukraine’s capital against Yanukovych’s decision to drop further EU integration for closer ties with Russia. Mass protests in 2004, known as the Orange Revolution, brought down Yanukovych, and he is wary of a repeat of the same scenario now.
And it is now well known that was a CIA coup. All these revolutions with catchy names in my propaganda promoting pre$$ are.
The protesters have been calling for former prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko to be released from jail. The EU has made the release of Tymoshenko, the political rival of Yanukovych, and an end to selective justice in Ukraine conditions for signing the association agreement.
But Tymoshenko herself has urged European leaders to ink the deal with Ukraine without linking it to her release.
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"EU leaders, Ukraine split over Russian influence, accords" by David M. Herszenhorn | New York Times, November 30, 2013
VILNIUS, Lithuania — Ukraine, a nation of 46 million people that borders on four EU states — Poland, Slovakia, Hungary, and Romania — faces an increasingly grave economic crisis and is in desperate need of a financial aid package.
They are getting it from a more stable and prosperous Russia.
Officials here said Yanukovych had reiterated his request for assistance in a meeting Thursday with the European Commission president, José Manuel Barroso, and the European Council president, Herman Van Rompuy, and asked them for help in persuading the International Monetary Fund to soften the terms of a large loan deal that has been under negotiation for months.
Oooooooh! That is what the tensions with the EU are about! Yanukovych under pressure because he's bucking the IMF. Morsi did that.
The request suggested that Yanukovych had received no guarantee of economic aid from President Vladimir Putin of Russia, despite several face-to-face meetings in recent weeks. The Kremlin’s success in derailing the accords with Europe was the latest in a string of foreign policy victories for Russia.
Yeah, these controlled opposition protests are about checking Russia!
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"Ukraine protesters seek pro-EU pact; 10,000 march urging president to sign accord" by Yuras Karmanau | Associated Press, December 01, 2013
Part of agenda-pushing is having the issue in the paper day after day after day.
KIEV — About 10,000 antigovernment demonstrators angry about Ukraine’s refusal to sign a pro-European Union agreement converged Saturday on a square outside a monastery where protesters driven away in a predawn clash with police were taking shelter. Some opposition leaders called for nationwide strikes.
That doesn't seem like many in a country of 46 million!
The demonstrators outside the St. Michael’s Golden-Domed Monastery were shouting ‘‘shame’’ and ‘‘resign.’’ Opposition leaders at a news conference called on Ukrainians to mobilize en masse.
‘‘Each of you have to come out and express your own position on what kind of country you want to live in — a totalitarian, police-controlled country where your children will be beaten up or in a European country,’’ said Vitaly Klitschko, a world boxing champion and leader of the opposition Udar party.
I don't want that but I'm getting it anyway.
Klitschko’s call encapsulated the two issues agitating the demonstrators: President Viktor Yanukovych’s refusal to sign an association agreement with the EU and the violent dispersal of protests denouncing that decision.
This has all the $tink of a CIA-in$ired coup!
The association agreement would have established free trade and deepened political cooperation between Ukraine and the European Union, but stopped short of membership in the regional bloc.
In the city of Lviv in western Ukraine, where sentiment for European integration is especially strong, 10,000 demonstrators protested the failure to sign on Saturday.
The opposition is calling for Yanukovych to be impeached and on his government to resign. Meanwhile, another prominent protest figure, Parliament deputy Arseniy Yatsenyuk, said opposition leaders were working to organize nationwide strikes.
Early Saturday, officers in riot gear moved against several hundred protesters at Independence Square in the Kiev city center, beating some with truncheons. Some protesters then went to the monastery about 500 yards away to take shelter in its cathedral.
In the early morning action, police took 35 demonstrators into custody. Some protesters were bleeding from their heads and arms after the clash.
‘‘It was horrible. We were holding a peaceful demonstration and they attacked us,’’ protester Lada Tromada said. ‘‘They threw us away like garbage.’’
I'm sure getting a certain slant to these protests!
Prime Minister Mykola Azarov said in a statement that ‘‘the information from different sides which I have at the moment does not allow firm conclusions about who is responsible for this provocation’’ but said it would be fully investigated.
Kiev police chief Valery Koryak laid the responsibility on the protesters, saying the police were provoked into action, Interfax news agency reported.
That I believe.
A US Embassy statement said ‘‘the United States condemns the violence against protesters’’ and ‘‘we urge the government of Ukraine to respect the rights of civil society and the principles of freedom and speech and freedom of assembly.’’
That's a tell right there, from the country that has no standing to criticize anyone.
About 10,000 people had rallied on the square Friday evening to protest Yanukovych’s backing off from the pact, which had been eagerly anticipated by Ukrainians who want their country to break out of Moscow’s orbit and tilt toward the West.
That's all?
Opinion surveys in recent months showed about 45 percent of Ukrainians supporting closer integration with the European Union and a third or less favor close ties with Russia.
Surveys by who?
Protests had been held in Kiev during the past week since Yanukovych backed away from the EU agreement. It was to have been signed Friday at an EU summit in the capital of Lithuania, and the passing of that date sparked an especially large turnout of protesters.
Yanukovych argued that Ukraine, a nation of around 45 million, cannot afford to sacrifice trade with Russia.
46 million, around 45 million, whatever. I love the inexactitude.
Moscow regards Ukraine as historically part of its orbit and has tried to block the deal with the EU by banning some of Ukraine’s imports and threatening more trade sanctions.
A 2009 dispute between Kiev and Moscow on gas prices resulted in a three-week cutoff of gas to Ukraine.
Saturday’s harsh action was in contrast to the mass protests of the 2004 Orange Revolution, when tens of thousands came to the square nightly for weeks and set up a vast tent camp on the main street leading to the square.
Like Occupy Wall Street did before they were beaten down!
Police had a mostly low-profile presence during those demonstrations.
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"Huge crowds join Ukraine protest movement; 300,000 rally in Kiev; see action as a ‘revolution’" by David M. Herszenhorn | New York Times, December 02, 2013
KIEV — As many as 300,000 people took to the streets of Kiev on Sunday, and thousands more rallied in other cities across Ukraine, to demand the resignation of President Viktor Yanukovych, the largest outpouring of fury so far over his refusal to sign far-reaching political and trade accords with the European Union.
Speakers at the rally in Kiev said that protests — now in their 11th day — would continue until Yanukovych was toppled and new elections were called.
“I want the authorities to know that this is not a protest; this is a revolution!” said Yuri V. Lutsenko, a former interior minister and a leader of Ukraine’s Orange Revolution in 2004, speaking to the huge crowd that thronged Independence Square in defiance of a court order. “Revolution!” the crowd roared back. “Revolution!”
The Associated Press estimated the size of the Kiev crowd at 300,000.
With the public’s anger deepened by the brutal force used by the police to disperse protesters in Kiev early Saturday, fissures have emerged at the highest levels of Yanukovych’s administration, as well as in Parliament.
The pejorative use of the word brutal tells you all you need to know regarding the slop I'm seeing.
Serhiy Lyovochkin, the chief of the presidential administration staff, reportedly submitted his resignation Friday.
At least five lawmakers from Yanukovych’s Party of Regions, which controls Parliament, spoke out forcefully against the violence by the police, and at least two, David Zhvania and Inna Bohoslovska, said they had quit the party.
Bohoslovska sent a text message to one of the protest leaders, Yegor Sobolev, telling him: “If I can be useful, I am here. Let’s go to the rally.”
Many Ukrainians view the agreements with Europe as crucial to a brighter economic and political future and to breaking free, once and for all, from the grip of Russia and Ukraine’s Soviet past. The steady escalation of the protests — and the violent crackdown — has created a volatile situation.
More violence erupted late Sunday afternoon outside the presidential administration building when demonstrators clashed with a battalion of police officers guarding the building. Smoke bombs and stun grenades were set off, and the police responded with tear gas.
Authorities reported Sunday night that about 100 police officers and more than 50 protesters had been injured, including some with chemical burns to their eyes from tear gas. The police made scattered arrests but did not immediately release a tally.
There were also signs that some of Ukraine’s wealthiest business leaders, the so-called oligarchs, were turning against Yanukovych or at least positioning themselves for a potentially big shift in the government.
Sobolev, a former journalist and now a civic activist, noted that he had been invited to appear on a prime-time television show on the Ukraina channel, which is owned by Rinat Akhmetov, Ukraine’s richest man. Sobolev said he viewed the invitation as an effort to reach out to the opposition forces rallying against Yanukovych.
Yanukovych was also the antihero of the Orange Revolution in 2004, when mass protests erupted in response to blatant election fraud that led to his comfortable victory over Viktor A. Yushchenko in contradiction to exit polls and preliminary returns.
The protests led to a new election, which Yushchenko won. I just can't read this slop anymore, I'm sorry.
Yanukovych made a comeback in 2010, when he defeated Yulia V. Tymoshenko, the former prime minister, who has since been convicted of abuse of authority and imprisoned.
Although Yanukovych condemned the violence by the police on Saturday and promised an investigation, there was immediate fallout as the government drew heavy international criticism, including from the United States.
Who gives a shit? They got Russia.
The Kiev police chief, Valery Koryak, submitted his resignation Sunday, saying he had given the order to use force, though it was not clear he had control over the officers engaged in the violence. The interior minister, Vitaly Zakharchenko, did not accept the resignation, but he said he was suspending Koryak while an investigation was underway.
Zakharchenko also publicly apologized for the use of excessive force by the police, but it did little to mollify the outrage.
Unlike in 2004, the current protests have been focused not on installing a particular political leader, but rather on the thwarted ambitions of millions of Ukrainians who view integration with Europe as a step toward eliminating rampant corruption, overhauling the justice system and generally improving the nation’s quality of life.
Then they are all dupes. Haven't they been paying attention to what is happening in Greece, Italy, Spain, and France?
“People are not on the street to support exact politicians,” Sobolev said. “There are even a lot of people who said we don’t need politicians. The general opinion was something closer to the American and European ideal — that the real power should be citizens, not ministers, not presidents, not politicians.”
I'm one who says that!
Still, in a meeting Saturday night, civic activists agreed to yield organizational responsibility for the protest movement to the three main political opposition parties: Tymoshenko’s Fatherland coalition; the Udar Party led by champion boxer Vitali Klitschko; and the nationalist Svoboda Party, led by Oleg Tyagnibok.
Sobolev said the civic activists wanted to tap into the larger financial and organizational resources of the parties. Standing near Shevchenko Park, where the thousands of demonstrators began their march on Sunday, he pointed at a truck driving by with loudspeakers fixed to its roof belonging to the Fatherland Party. “See, they have these things,” he said.
At the march and rally on Sunday in Kiev — by far the largest gathering in the nearly two weeks of protests — demonstrators waved blue and yellow Ukrainian and EU flags. They chanted, “Thieves out!” “Shame!” and “Criminals behind bars!”
Even before the start of Sunday’s event, protesters had hatched plans to paralyze city streets with a traffic blockade Monday, complete with a map distributed on Facebook showing where supporters should position their vehicles. Others called for university students to abandon their classes and for workers to engage in a general strike.
That settles it! We see the FACE of the protests!
Karatnycky said that in response to the protests, a reconfiguration of Parliament seemed to be underway, with coalitions loyal to various oligarchs maneuvering for relative advantage.
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"Ukraine president defiant as protesters raid sites; Vows to bolster Russian alliance after spurning EU" by David M. Herszenhorn | New York Times, December 03, 2013
KIEV — Even as thousands of protesters occupied Independence Square, blockaded the Cabinet Ministry, and continued to demand his resignation, President Viktor F. Yanukovych of Ukraine on Monday defended his refusal to sign accords with the European Union.
Yanukovych also said he was on the verge of securing lower gas prices from Russia and urged opposition politicians to wait for presidential elections in 2015 to challenge him.
On the day after a huge protest by hundreds of thousands of people in Kiev, the capital, and by thousands more in other cities, Yanukovych struck a casual pose, sitting in an armchair for an interview with four television stations.
Yes, huge protests!
He seemed to brush aside the unrest in the country, saying he would leave as scheduled for a state visit to China on Tuesday and taking the opportunity to note that the government intended to increase financing for road repair next year.
To many here, it was unclear if Yanukovych’s calm demeanor reflected supreme confidence, complete denial, or some combination of the two. Other political leaders in Ukraine acknowledged that the authorities were facing a serious civil disturbance, including the occupation by protesters of Kiev City Hall and the large Trade Unions building nearby, as well as a blockade of the Cabinet Ministry, which prevented top officials from reaching their offices.
That's a tell. It's a civil disturbance.
Prime Minister Mykola Azarov, in a meeting with Western ambassadors, complained about the widening unrest, saying, “This has all the signs of a coup.”
The whole world sees it; you see it, I see it, they see it, we all see it.
Opposition leaders in Parliament said they would call for vote of no-confidence in the government Tuesday, while protest leaders appeared to be digging in for a long battle on the streets, establishing a tent city in Independence Square that included first aid stations and canteens.
Occupy Ukraine! How long until they are smashed?
The speaker of Parliament, Volydymor Rybak, has called for “round-table” talks to resolve the crisis in Ukraine, using the same buzz-phrase for negotiations in 2004 that ultimately settled the Orange Revolution with a revote that Yanukovych lost to Viktor A. Yushchenko. Rybak on Monday said he did not see any basis for declaring a state of emergency. That was a step Yanukovych and some of his top security advisers appeared to be considering, one that political analysts said would almost certainly escalate the confrontation with demonstrators who have defied court orders and edicts.
Those good kids have defied the courts like the good kids of America did?
Yanukovych’s remarks during the interview suggested that he was reaching out even further for help from Russia, where President Vladimir V. Putin on Monday remarked, “The events in Ukraine seem more like a pogrom than a revolution.”
Russia had exerted heavy pressure on Yanukovych to scuttle the political and free trade agreements with Europe, threatening trade sanctions that could decimate the Ukrainian economy.
Yanukovych, in the television interview, said that he planned to initiate negotiations this week with Russia to extend a strategic partnership agreement dating from 1997. He said that both Ukraine and Russia were acting in their own economic interests by seeking to strengthen ties, and he took a jab at the protesters who demanded that he sign the accords with Europe, suggesting that they were not acting in accordance with Western values.
Just to be clear, we all see what is really going on here, right?
“If we want European standards, we must do everything within the framework of the law. This is the principle of democracy,” Yanukovych said. He also suggested that the leaders in Parliament supporting demands for his resignation were getting ahead of themselves.
“I urge all politicians not to rush,” he said. “They are all still young, and they have everything ahead of them. Elections are coming. People will determine. Whoever is elected, so be it.”
Several of the opposition leaders in Parliament, including Arseniy P. Yatseniuk of the Fatherland coalition, boxing champion Vitali Klitschko of the Udar party, and Oleg Tyagnibok of the nationalist Svoboda Party, are leading the protest movement in partnership with a coalition of civic activists.
After a violent crackdown by the police on several hundred demonstrators early Saturday, serious rifts had appeared to emerge in Yanukovych’s administration, notably among his Party of Regions in Parliament.
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"Vote to retain government spurs more Ukraine protests; With president on trip to China, standoff lingers" by Maria Danilova | Associated Press, December 04, 2013
KIEV — Ukraine appeared mired in a political standoff Tuesday, as massive protest rallies in its capital showed no sign of letting up and the government warned of its capability for force after a failed attempt to take it down.
The opposition lost its attempt to topple the government by parliamentary means when a vote of no-confidence failed by a sizable margin.
Meaning this protest is being ginned-up by my propaganda pre$$.
President Viktor Yanukovych left on an official visit to China, where he is expected to sign an array of economic agreements, his office said. He is expected to be gone until Friday, and the prospects for a definitive development in the next few days seem small.
Protest leaders vowed to continue their demonstrations, which have brought as many as 300,000 people to the streets of Kiev, in the largest outpouring of public anger since the 2004 Orange Revolution.
Soon after Tuesday’s vote, about 5,000 protesters gathered outside the presidential administration building, then moved to the city’s central Independence Square, where the crowd grew to more than 10,000, according to police estimates.
That's all?
The opposition called for the parliamentary vote over Yanukovych’s shelving of a long-anticipated agreement to deepen political and economic ties with the European Union, and the violent tactics used by police to disperse demonstrators protesting the decision.
Yanukovych has sought to quell public anger by moving to renew talks with Brussels. The government appears to recognize that the police violence may have galvanized long-brewing frustrations rather than stifle protests.
I wish my government would recognize such things, and I can't tell you how sick I am of this pot-hollering-kettle shit media!!
But while Prime Minister Mykola Azarov, attending the parliamentary session with his Cabinet, apologized for the violence, he also made a tough vow.
‘‘We have extended our hand to you, but if we encounter a fist, I will be frank, we have enough force,’’ he said.
There is a question as to how long protesters’ determination will last as winter sets in and the holiday period approaches, noted Adrian Karatnycky, a Ukraine analyst at the Atlantic Council, a think tank headquartered in Washington, D.C.
In addition to Yanukovych’s trip to China, ‘‘these things suggest Yanukovych is playing for time,’’ he said.
The no-confidence measure got the support of 186 members of the Verkhovna Rada, 40 shy of the majority needed. Even if it had passed, Yanukovych would have remained president, but the prime minister and Cabinet would have been ejected.
In turn, Vitali Klitschko, the super-heavyweight world boxing champion and leader of the opposition party Udar, vowed that the protest demonstrations would continue.
‘‘We will peacefully blockade the government building and not allow them to work,’’ he told demonstrators at Independence Square after the no-confidence motion failed.
Oleg Tyahnybok, leader of the nationalist Svoboda party, accused Russia of having ‘‘an interest in a situation where more and more blood flows in Ukraine. The president should accept our conditions for preventing this scenario — he should resign and call elections for all branches of power.’’
I think he meant gas and that could get cut off.
Russia wants to turn Ukraine toward its orbit and away from the EU.
Almost as if they are trying to turn them to the dark side, huh?
Besides, I was under the impression they were trying to keep Ukraine in orbit, but it is getting harder and harder to keep up with the agenda-pushing lies and mixed messages on a daily basis from my shit paper.
Azarov, like Yanukovych, has said Ukraine wants further integration with the EU, but wants to negotiate better terms and can’t bear the burden of the trade losses with Russia it would presumably suffer.
It's the IMF thing!
EU leaders have reaffirmed their willingness to sign the association agreement.
Ukraine is also deeply dependent on natural gas from Russia, which previously has sharply raised prices for its neighbor.
Russia opposes closer Ukraine-EU relations, hoping to draw Ukraine into a trading bloc of several former Soviet republics. But Karatnycky said the size and vehemence of the protests have effectively derailed Russia’s desire, and predicted Ukraine joining its bloc ‘‘would trigger a further escalation.’’
Mission accomplished?
At a Brussels meeting of NATO foreign ministers , US Secretary of State John Kerry said Europe and its allies have ‘‘all declined to engage in a rather overt and we think inappropriate bidding war.’’
Lawmakers in Poland, a country at the forefront of attempts to bring Ukraine into the EU’s 28-nation fold, adopted a resolution calling for dialogue between Ukraine’s opposition and the government. It also condemned the use of force during protests, and expressed solidarity with pro-European Ukrainians.
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"Ukraine protests grow after lawmakers reject demands" by David M. Herszenhorn and Andrew E. Kramer | New York Times, December 05, 2013
KIEV — The demonstrators who have laid siege to public buildings in this rattled capital expanded their protest Wednesday, blockading the central bank and setting up tents and lighting bonfires on the sidewalk outside.
Protest leaders had vowed to surround additional government buildings after Parliament on Tuesday defeated a measure calling for the resignation of Prime Minister Mykola Azarov and his government.
The failure of the no-confidence vote pushed the battle for the future of Ukraine back onto the streets, where protests began over the weekend. Demonstrators allied with opposition leaders say they will not relent until they have succeeded in removing the government, including President Viktor F. Yanukovych.
But it is not supposed to be about any one person, yup.
But the protesters’ goal of blockading the building of the presidential administration had not been accomplished by Wednesday morning. They did advance their sphere of control about 500 yards up a side street leading to Independence Square and erected a barricade near one entrance to the administration building.
There, on an overcast morning, a crowd waved flags and looked across around 100 yards of empty pavement at a dense line of riot police guarding the administration building.
The central bank seemed unprotected on the outside on Wednesday. Smoke from wood fires in drums drifted over the light blue neoclassical building, while men in jackets and stocking caps stood in front of the main doors.
Asked if the bank was open, one replied, “No, they’re redoing the books.”
Another added, “They’ve gone to Bermuda to be with their money.”
While it remains unclear how long the protest leaders can maintain their enthusiasm as winter deepens, the momentum seemed to be on their side for now.
Since the start of demonstrations on Nov. 22, many protesters, especially students, have been skeptical that elected officials would answer their demands, which were a response to Yanukovych’s decision not to sign far-reaching political and trade agreements with the European Union that had been in the works for years.
They are just like our Occupy Wall Street kids!
Protesters planning to attend antigovernment rallies arrived from western Ukraine. A few dozen dropped off bags at the headquarters of the Rukh political party, one of the many makeshift hotels for protesters, and were drinking tea there Wednesday morning.
One young man, Ivan Grem, said that he had seen buses on the highway from western Ukraine, ferrying people to the protest. That could not be independently confirmed.
Oh, protesters are being bused in? The hallmark of intelligence agency involvement.
Leaders of the protest movement — a loose coalition of the three main political opposition parties, civic organizations, and student groups — said they were digging in for a long fight. The demonstrators have already blockaded the Cabinet Ministry and seized City Hall and two other buildings near the square.
In a development likely to further anger protesters, prosecutors in Kiev charged nine demonstrators with organizing mass unrest following a violent confrontation between police and activists over the weekend. That conflict left many injured on both sides.
In a speech to Parliament before Tuesday’s no-confidence vote, Azarov had once again apologized for the police role in the violence and said that an investigation was underway that would hold those responsible accountable. He also warned that the authorities would answer any violence.
“We will give you a hand,” Azarov said. “If we see a fist, we have enough force.”
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What begins to become obvious through the coverage is that there are approved protests (gays, illegal immigrants, global warmers, gun control, and any other agenda-pushing attempts at coups), and there are disapproved protests (antiwar, Occupy Wall Street) met with elitist insult -- if covered at all -- in my monied media and propaganda pre$$.
Time for me to roll back my readings of the Boston Globe because it sucks.
