Cbc spells kyiv correctly, but the article about love hate with Russia is
typical cbc stuff. No mention of genocide. Thanks for sending this, I have
been neglecting Canadian media.
Thank goodness Kuzio wrote a super article. I wish my taxes weren't going
to cbc, I gotta tell you.
On Thursday, 23 January 2014, Michael Kulyk <[email protected]> wrote:
> cbc spells kyiv correctly
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> http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/ukraine-protests-spread-to-western-cities-1.2507674
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> Ukraine protests spread to western cities
> [image: A pro-European protester throws stones towards riot police in Kyiv
> on Jan. 23. Opposition leaders have said Yanukovych must make concessions
> by Thursday evening or face renewed protester clashes with police.]
>
> Enraged protesters stormed government offices in three western Ukraine
> cities on Thursday, forcing one governor to write a letter of resignation,
> as demonstrations against the pro-Russian president and his allies
> intensified outside the smouldering capital.
>
> Kyiv, the capital, has been the epicentre of two months of protests
> against President Viktor Yanukovych that have grown increasingly violent
> this week, after new laws against public demonstrations were passed.
> Opposition leaders had given Yanukovych a deadline of Thursday evening to
> make concessions or face renewed clashes there, and they quenched the
> barricade fires that had coated the capital in black smoke in a tenuous
> ceasefire.
>
> - *Read about Ukraine's love-hate relationship with Russia
> <http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/divided-ukraine-roiled-by-protest-love-hate-with-mother-russia-1.2457433>*
> - *Hear an interview with a Canadian who recently visited the Kyiv
> protests*<http://www.cbc.ca/player/Radio/Local+Shows/Ontario/Metro+Morning/ID/2431943400/>
>
> The president responded by calling a special session of parliament next
> week to discuss the tensions, telling the parliament speaker: "The
> situation demands an urgent settlement." But there was no indication that
> the move represented a compromise, since the president's backers hold a
> majority of seats.
>
> The protests began after Yanukovych turned away from closer ties with the
> European Union in favour of getting a bailout loan from Russia. They turned
> violent this week after he pushed through harsh anti-protest laws,
> rejecting protesters' demands that he resign and call new elections.
> [image: hi-ukraine-senior-protester]
>
> A woman shouts at the the site of clashes pro-European integration
> protesters with riot police in Kiev on Jan. 23, 2014. (David
> Mdzinarishvili/Reuters)
>
> At least two protesters died on Wednesday of gunshot wounds, a grim
> escalation that also galvanized anger in western Ukraine, where support for
> Yanukovych is virtually non-existent and most residents want closer ties to
> the 28-nation EU.
>
> In Lviv, a city in near the Polish border 450 kilometres west of Kyiv,
> hundreds of activists burst Thursday into the office of regional governor
> Oleh Salo, a Yanukovych appointee, shouting "Revolution!" and singing
> Christmas carols.
>
> After surrounding him and forcing him to sign a resignation letter, an
> activist ripped it out of Salo's hands and lifted it up to the cheers and
> applause of the crowd.
> 'Down with the gang'
>
> Meanwhile, hundreds of protesters smashed windows, broke doors and stormed
> into the governor's office in the city of Rivne, shouting "Down with the
> gang!" — a common reference to Yanukovych's government. Once inside, they
> sang the national anthem.
>
> Angry crowds also besieged government offices in two other western regions.
>
> [image: Ukraine protest opposition leader]
>
> Opposition leader and former WBC heavyweight boxing champion Vitali
> Klitschko addresses protesters near the burning barricades between police
> and protesters in central Kyiv, Ukraine, on Jan. 23, 2014. (Sergei
> Chuzavkov/The Associated Press)
>
> The protests have been centred on Kyiv's main square, where demonstrators
> have defended a large tent camp for nearly two months. On Wednesday, riot
> police moved to dismantle barricades erected next to a government district
> nearby and two people were fatally shot in the clashes.
>
> The opposition has blamed the deaths on authorities, but Prime Minister
> Mykola Azarov said Thursday that the two men's wounds were caused by
> hunting rifles, which the police do not possess.
>
> The opposition maintains that as many as five people died in Wednesday's
> the clashes, but say they have no evidence as the bodies were removed by
> authorities.
>
> Azarov, Yanukovych's staunch ally, maintained a harsh stance against the
> protesters, calling their actions an attempted coup.
>
> "It's not the opposition — it's rebels who are acting against us," Azarov
> said at the World Economic Forum in the Swiss town of Davos.
>
> The Interior Ministry said Thursday that 73 people have been detained, 52
> of whom are being investigated for "mass riots" — a new criminal charge
> that carries a prison sentence of up to eight years.
> Western countries weigh in
>
> Reaction from the West and neighbouring Russia has been mixed.
>
> The United States has revoked the visas of Ukrainian officials linked to
> violence and threatened more sanctions. The White House also said U.S.
> Vice-President Joe Biden called Yanukovych on Thursday and urged him to
> immediately de-escalate the standoff in Kyiv.
> Reaction from Foreign Affairs
>
> "Canada condemns the killing of protesters by Ukrainian police forces and
> the widely documented use of force. We stand with the Ukrainian people who
> courageously continue to speak out in support of democracy," a spokesman
> for Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird said in a statement on Thursday.
>
> "We strongly urge the Ukrainian government to find a political solution by
> engaging in a real dialogue with the people of Ukraine," Rick Roth said.
>
> EU Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso said Thursday that if the
> situation in Ukraine does not stabilize, the EU "would assess possible
> consequences in its relationship." Barroso also said he had received
> assurances from Yanukovych that the Ukrainian leader did not foresee the
> need to impose a state of emergency.
>
> German Chancellor Angela Merkel said her nation doesn't think this is the
> time to consider sanctions against the Ukrainian government but added that
> it must comply "with its obligations to secure fundamental democratic
> rights."
>
> "We are extremely concerned — not just concerned, appalled — about the way
> in which laws have been pushed through that raise questions over these
> fundamental freedoms," Merkel said.
>
> Russia, in turn, accused the West of meddling in Ukraine's affairs.
>
> "We feel regret and indignation about the obvious foreign interference in
> the developments in Kiev," Russian President Vladimir Putin's spokesman,
> Dmitry Peskov, told the daily Komsomolskaya Pravda.
>
> The protesters, meanwhile, said they would give peace a chance — a brief
> one.
>
> "We're ready to wait so that new victims don't appear," said 30-year-old
> demonstrator Anatoly Lovchenko. "But if the government doesn't listen to
> our demands, we'll start up again."
>
>
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