Liberty Rising in the Ukraine: Live Feed

Posted on December 10, 2013 by DRenegade

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rogerunited
rogerunited
11 years ago

You know they’re protesting in favor of joining the EU, right?

“Soon after Yanukovych spoke in a televised broadcast, top opposition leader Arseniy Yatsenyuk told demonstrators on Kiev’s central square that the protest leaders were still insisting on their key demands: that Yanukovych fire the government, appoint a new one committed to signing an association agreement with the EU, release all the arrested protesters and punish the police who beat peaceful demonstrators.”

http://www.foxnews.com/world/2013/12/10/western-envoys-head-to-ukraine-hoping-to-defuse-crisis/

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DRenegade
11 years ago
Reply to  rogerunited

I know that the original protest was the decision to start an alliance with Putin instead of Russia. I do not know if this is still the reason for the protests even though the opposition leader states that as one of their objectives.

It appears that the current Ukrainian government has forgotten the Holomodor:
http://www.holodomorct.org/history.html

rogerunited
rogerunited
11 years ago
Reply to  DRenegade

Reading Taki’s Mag a week ago, a commenter with a Russian name said that the Ukraine is divided East/West with ethnic Ukrainians (I forget what they are called, google it if you’re interested) in the East who want more seperation from Russia, and ethnic Rus in the West brought in after the Holodomor who are pro Russia.

Not the most trustworthy source, I know, but it does fit with current events.

rogerunited
rogerunited
11 years ago
Reply to  DRenegade

An article just came out on Takimag about this very thing

http://takimag.com/article/pity_the_poor_ukrainians_scott_locklin/print#axzz2nMnS3sGu