The Ukrainian Week

4 March, 2014	Society	Volodymyr Vasylenko: “Government bodies were first and foremost responsible for a civilized regulation and solution of the conflict” The Ukrainian Week speaks to Volodymyr Vasylenko, expert in international law and former Ambassador of Ukraine, about Viktor Yanukovych’s responsibility for crimes against Ukrainian people, grounds for prosecution by the International Criminal Court in Hague and actual assistance the West can provide to Ukraine today
20 February, 2014	News	The Verkhovna Rada votes for resolution to stop the use of force in downtown Kyiv MPs pass a resolution to stop the use force by the police in downtown Kyiv, The Ukrainian Week’s journalist reports from Parliament
20 February, 2014	News	Putin sends his mediator to Ukraine Russian President Vladimir Putin decided to send Vladimir Lukin, the Human Rights Commissioner of Russia, with a mediation mission to Ukraine, Putin’s press secretary Dmitri Peskov reports
20 February, 2014	News	MPs blocked from Parliament. Party of Regions sees no reason for emergency session MPs who gathered to hold a parliament session at 3 p.m. were blocked from the Verkhovna Rada session room
20 February, 2014	News	At least 8 people killed on Maidan today The bodies of eight people shot dead covered with blankets are on Maidan Nezalezhnosti close to the Kozatskyi hotel
19 February, 2014	News	The bloodiest day of the Maidan in Kyiv Clashes between police and protesters continue in Kyiv
19 February, 2014	News	SBU says it is not launching an “anti-terrorist operation”, just preparing for one SBU, Ukraine’s security service, says that the statement of SBU Chief Oleksandr Yakymenko speaks of preparation for an “anti-terrorist operation”, not the launch of one, SBU press center clarifies
19 February, 2014	News	Anatoliy Hrytsenko: Acting Defence Minister sends an airborne brigade in full combat gear to Kyiv Acting Defence minister Pavlo Lebedev has ordered the 25th Dnipropetrovsk Airborne Brigade to head to Kyiv, ex-defence minister and opposition MP Anatoliy Hrytsenko reports on his Facebook page
19 February, 2014	News	Yatseniuk: Yanukovych threatens to put opposition leaders in jail President Viktor Yanukovych threatens to put opposition leaders in jail, journalist Sviatoslav Tseholko wrote on Facebook quoting Batkivshchyna leader Arseniy Yatseniuk
18 February, 2014	News	Three protesters killed in the clashes Oppositional MP Lesia Orobets’ informed that three protesters are killed after today’s clashes. Seven are seriously injured.
18 February, 2014	News	Clashes between protesters and police renewed in Kyiv Clashes between protesters and police renewed on Hrushevskoho Street in Kyiv while the protesters had been moving up to Verkhovna Rada to keep up pressure on MPs to return the Constitution of 2004.
27 January, 2014	Politics	Freedom or Death Loki, the Belarussian who was killed on Hrushevskoho Street, always carried a Ukrainian flag in his pocket. Armenian Serhiy Nihoyan “never asked for anything” and was constantly on duty on the Maidan
21 January, 2014	News	Yuriy Lutsenko: There were no talks, just consultations with Kliuyev Representatives of the Maidan NGO were not present at the talks with National Security and Defence Council Chair Andriy Kliuyev, Advisor to President Andriy Portnov and Justice Minister Olena Lukash assigned to seek a solution to the current crisis in negotiations with the civil society and opposition by President Yanukovych, says ex-Interior Minister Yuriy Lutsenko