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Russia's revolutionary movie masterpiece
Ukraine today is a scene for political unrest, but almost a century ago it was the setting for one of the greatest films of all time – "Battleship Potemkin," the 1925 silent movie masterwork by Soviet director Sergei Eisenstein.
Click above to hear why "Battleship Potemkin" was more than propaganda.
vanden Heuvel: 'Need some common sense' in Ukraine
Responding to Ukrainian Economy and Trade Minister Pavlo Sheremeta's interview with CNN's Hala Gorani, Editor of The Nation Katrina vanden Heuvel told Gorani that "some common sense" is needed in Ukraine - and neither side is free from her criticism.
Click above to see vanden Heuvel's full conversation with Gorani.
Ukraine and Russian ministers are talking, economy minister tells CNN
By Mick Krever, CNN
Ukrainian and Russian ministers are talking to each other, including Prime Ministers Arseniy Yatsenyuk and Dmitry Medvedev, Ukrainian Economy and Trade Minister Pavlo Sheremeta told CNN’s Hala Gorani, sitting in for Christiane Amanpour.
“It’s not uniformal [sic] rejection of the Ukrainian government,” Sheremeta said from Kiev. “We are communicating, we are talking, and that’s the right thing to do.”
“I think our prime minister talked to the Russian prime minister,” he said, and added that the Ukrainian energy minister had also spoken to his Russian counterpart.
Ukraine: There is dialogue with Russia
Hala Gorani, in for Christiane Amanpour, speaks with Ukrainian Economy and Trade Minister Pavlo Sheremeta
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, as well as other foreign ministers, has urged talks between Russia and Ukraine to negotiate an end to the standoff over the Ukrainian region of Crimea, of which Russian troops remain in effective control.
It is not clear if those discussions constituted real negotiations.
Ukraine’s top negotiator with the Crimean government Petro Poroshenko told Christiane Amanpour on Tuesday that the two countries’ defense ministers had spoken, but it was “not a negotiation, unfortunately.”
“We have lots of common challenges,” Sheremeta said, striking an optimistic tone.
Ukraine invites observers to rebuff Putin ‘neo-Nazi’ and ‘anti-Semite’ claims
By Mick Krever, CNN
Responding to Russian President Vladimir Putin’s allegations that there are neo-Nazis threatening the Ukrainian population, Ukraine’s top negotiator with the Crimean government invited “any international organization” to come to Ukraine and see the situation for themselves.
“We are open for any observers to come to any part of Ukraine and to be absolutely sure that Ukraine now outside of the Crimea is absolutely safe,” Petro Poroshenko, a Ukrainian MP and former Foreign Minister told CNN’s Christiane Amanpour.
“We have lots of the different nationalities including Jews in our government. And I think that [Putin] is simply not [an] understandable position.”
Ukraine rebuffs Putin 'neo-Nazi' claims
Petro Poroshenko, Ukraine's top negotiator with the Crimean government, strikes back at claims made by Russia's Putin.
The Russian president launched the accusation at a press conference earlier on Tuesday.
"We have a request of the legitimate President Yanukovych to protect the welfare of the local population,” he said. “We have neo-Nazis and Nazis and anti-Semites in parts of Ukraine, including Kiev.”
“You don’t find any tiny arguments to confirm the words of President Putin,” Poroshenko said.
Former U.S. Ambassador on what's next for Ukraine
What's next for Ukraine?
CNN's Christiane Amanpour speaks with Former U.S. Ambassador to NATO Ivo Daalder.
Click above to see their full conversation.
Former Ukraine leader calls for 'strongest means' against Russia if diplomacy fails
By Mick Krever, CNN
(CNN) - If diplomacy fails to persuade Russia to withdraw its forces from the Ukrainian region of Crimea, the world should apply the "strongest means" on Russia, former Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko told CNN's Christiane Amanpour in an exclusive interview Monday.
Amanpour asked Tymoshenko if she was calling for the West to use military force against Russia.
She would not directly answer the question, saying that she "cannot solve this issue," but she issued an appeal to help Ukraine.
"I am asking all the world, personally every world leader, to use all the possibilities in order to avoid Ukraine losing Crimea."
Ex-prime minister calls on world to act
Yulia Tymoshenko, former Ukrainian prime minister, says "the world has to apply strongest means" if diplomacy fails.
Russia has complete "operational control" over Crimea, a senior U.S. official has told CNN.
This was Tymoshenko's first international interview since her release from prison just over a week ago, following a truce between then-President Viktor Yanukovych and the opposition. She spent
the last years behind bars on what the West called politically motivated charges.
Ukraine is just "one step" away from war, Tymoshenko said.
The Russian Duma, or parliament, has started debate on "the draft of the law of annexation of Crimea from Ukraine," she told Amanpour.
The Duma website confirms that a draft law has been put forward on defining the process whereby a country or territory can seek to be annexed by Russia.
Putin phone call convinced Yanukovych to change attitude, says Polish foreign minister
By Mick Krever, CNN
A phone call between former Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych and Russian President Vladimir Putin may have been the deciding factor in the Ukrainian leader changing his "attitude" towards the protests in Kiev, Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski told CNN’s Christiane Amanpour on Wednesday.
Sikorski was intimately involved in the negotiations that brought a truce between Yanukovych and the Ukrainian opposition, and gave Amanpour an insider’s view of the talks.
“President Yanukovych left us several times to talk to [U.S.] Vice President Biden, [German] Chancellor Merkel, and indeed President Putin,” Sikorski said. “One of the breakthroughs was when we said, ‘Well look, Mr. President, you have to declare to the opposition by when you agree for new presidential elections to be held, by when do you intend to shorten your term of office.’”
“He was very reluctant, as you might imagine,” Sikorski said. “His attitude changed after one of the conversations, we think, with President Putin.”
Polish FM on Ukraine future
CNN's Christiane Amanpour speaks with Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski about Ukraine's future.
Putin has no reason to interfere in Ukraine, says former Kremlin adviser
By Mick Krever, CNN
Russian President Vladimir Putin has no incentive to interfere militarily in Ukraine and cannot be blamed for “inflaming the situation” that led to the ouster of President Viktor Yanukovych, former Kremlin adviser Alexander Nekrassov told CNN’s Christiane Amanpour on Tuesday.
“Why would Putin want to have instability in Ukraine, which is bordering Russia?”
“The infighting has started” in the new interim government, Nekrassov said. “It will continue.”
Nekrassov worked for President Boris Yeltsin during the massive upheaval of the 90s, and more recently he's been an advisor to the Russian Government on closer ties with the west.
Ukraine remains in the grip of crisis three days after a popular uprising drove President Viktor Yanukovych from power.
The opposition has again delayed naming a new interim government after pledging to do so Tuesday.
There are discouraging reports of political disarray and parliamentary squabbling, and the ousted president is still missing.
Yanukovych “had only one year left in office,” Nekrassov said. “He would have probably lost that election. Why was there need for sudden change of power?”
“You know, President Hollande of France is even less popular. We don’t call on him to be removed.”
Yanukovych, more popular than Hollande?
Former Kremlin Adviser Alexander Nekrassov tells CNN's Christiane Amanpour being unpopular is no reason to be ousted.
Ukrainian member of parliament ready to work with her allies to unite country
By Mick Krever, CNN
The former Ukrainian opposition is “ready to the unite a country,” Member of Parliament Lesya Orobets told CNN’s Christiane Amanpour on Tuesday from Kiev.
“We Ukrainians do not feel scared with the unrealistic tasks,” Orobets said. “Three months ago no one could have told that such Maidan can happen, and that [the] Yanukovych regime will be over.”
Ukraine remains in the grip of crisis three days after a popular uprising drove President Viktor Yanukovych from power.
The opposition has again delayed naming a new interim government after pledging to do so Tuesday.
There are discouraging reports of political disarray and parliamentary squabbling, and the ousted president is still missing.
For the first time, Orobets said, Ukraine is “transparently” discussing a new government “before it is actually appointed or elected.”
Even Ukraine’s own diplomat blasts Yanukovych government
By Mick Krever, CNN
With surprisingly undiplomatic frankness, Ukrainian Ambassador to the U.N. Yuriy Sergeyev criticized the man who just days ago was President of his country, Viktor Yanukovych.
“The main direction is to be associated with European Union,” Sergeyev told CNN’s Christiane Amanpour from New York. “This is what the previous government and the president tried to [persuade] the population, and they betrayed [them].”
He was referring to the sudden decision by Yanukovych last November to call off a trade deal with the European Union. That move set off months of protests and ultimately the removal of the president.
Ukraine issues arrest warrant for ousted President Viktor Yanukovych
During the protests, Sergeyev said, Yanukovych was presented as a “pure Christian,” visiting churches and “praying for the people.”
Ukraine's U.N. envoy on the way forward
Yuriy Sergeyev, Ukrainian Ambassador to the U.N., speaks with CNN's Christiane Amanpour.
“But as we know now,” Sergeyev said, “he prayed for them but did absolutely different.”
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