Ukraine’s Cabinet of Ministers on Dec. 2 survived a chaotic parliament and a no-confidence vote initiated by opposition parties in parliament as thousands of pro-European supporters of the government’
Dec. 3, 2013
STATEMENT BY SENATOR JOHN McCAIN ON DEMONSTRATIONS IN UKRAINE
Washington, D.C. – U.S. Senator John McCain (R-AZ) today released the following statement on the public demonstrations in Ukraine:
Dec. 3, 2013
In an attempt to calm markets as thousands of anti-government rallies continued across Ukraine, National Bank Governor Igor Sorkin issued a video statement affirming the stability of the Ukrainian ban
Dec. 2, 2013
Ukrainian Prime Minister Mykola Azarov says that the situation around the protest rallies in Kyiv resembles a coup.
Dec. 2, 2013
When baton-wielding riot police outside the presidential offices began to charge, Denys Danko held up the only shield he knows — his journalist’s identification card.
Dec. 2, 2013
Editor’s Note: The Kyiv Post is providing continuous coverage of the protests in Kyiv and other cities following the government’s decision on Nov. 21 to stop European Union integration and end pursuit
Dec. 2, 2013
About a hundred policemen sustained injuries as a result of attacks by the protesters, according to the city police. They are not reporting the numbers of injured protesters, but eyewitness, photo an
Dec. 1, 2013
Unlike the Orange Revolution in 2004, the protests over the past week and a half in Kyiv, which have taken on the name EuroMaidan, have been driven by access to social media.
Dec. 1, 2013
The bells ring.
“It’s 10,” someone says.
Nov. 30, 2013
President Viktor Yanukovych issued a statement, saying he was “deeply
outraged” by the riot police who beat up peaceful demonstrators on Independence Square early this morning.
Nov. 30, 2013
Standing in the yard of St. Michael’s monastery, Igor Mitrov, a 22-year-old Kyiv student talks about how he was betrayed and who betrayed him. He was in the crowd of hundreds of people which was broke
Nov. 30, 2013
Leader of the Ukrainian Choice public movement and former head of the presidential administration Viktor Medvedchuk says he condemns actions by law enforcement officers during a crackdown on Euromaida
Nov. 30, 2013
Ternopil Mayor Serhiy Nadal, who is a Svoboda Party member, says he is outraged at a crackdown on Euromaidan [Independence Square] protesters in Kyiv and calls all concerned fellow citizens to go to a
Nov. 30, 2013
Kyiv police forcefully broke up a large gathering of protesters in Independence Square (Maidan Nezalezhnosti), beating demonstrators with truncheons, according to eyewitnesses and news agencies. There
Nov. 30, 2013
Just being anywhere near Independence Square in Kyiv overnight proved to be dangerous — even for those who did not participate in the ongoing EuroMaidan demonstrations. Police officers seemed intent o
Nov. 30, 2013
Serhiy Lyovochkin, the head of the Presidential Administration, resigned on Nov. 30, just hours after the nation’s police violently broke up a crowd of peaceful protesters on Maidan Nezalezhnosti, acc
Nov. 30, 2013
After riot police stormed Kyiv’s Independence Square early today and used violence to remove 400 peaceful demonstrators, Western diplomats quickly condemned the brutality.
Nov. 30, 2013
Johannes Wamberg Andersen was out late in Kyiv’s center when, close to 5 a.m. today, some of his friends told him that police were raiding Maidan Nezalezhnosti and attacking protesters.
Nov. 30, 2013
Only four days after it was launched, a petition calling for sanctions against President Viktor Yanukovych and top members of his government has gathered more than 100,000 signatures online.
That mean
Nov. 30, 2013
Editor’s Note: The Kyiv Post will be providing continuous coverage of the protests in Kyiv and other cities following the government’s decision on Nov. 21 to stop European Union integration and suspe
Nov. 29, 2013