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Russia: EU, not Moscow, is bullying Ukraine
By Mick Krever and Claire Calzonetti, CNN
Russia said Thursday that the European Union is trying to bully Ukraine into signing a free trade deal against the wishes of the majority of Ukrainians.
Russia itself has been accused of strong-arming President Viktor Yanukovych into rejecting such an agreement. For weeks, thousands of Ukrainians have braved the bitter cold to protest that decision.
“The EU offers a token package, which is not of any interest to the Ukrainian government,” Alexei Pushkov, head of the Foreign Affairs Committee in Russia’s Parliament, told CNN’s Hala Gorani, who was sitting in for Christiane Amanpour.
“That’s why Mister Yanukovych has initially rejected it,” he said. “Then all these demonstrations started with the participation of the European ministers…who were speaking on the Maidan [Kiev’s Independence Square], joining the protesters, and so on.”
This is taking Ukraine by the neck and trying to…bring it forcefully into the paradise.”
On Thursday, there was a hint that Yanukovych may be bowing to the opposition’s pressure and reversing course.
'Ukrainians don’t want to live in [a] police country,' says boxer Klitschko
By Mick Krever, CNN
Champion heavyweight boxer and Ukraine’s foremost opposition leader Vitali Klitschko told CNN’s Christiane Amanpour on Tuesday that “Ukraine is [the] most corrupt country in Europe.”
Large crowds gathered yet again in Ukraine on Tuesday calling for the resignation of their government.
Earlier in the day, the opposition lost a no-confidence vote in parliament in an attempt to topple the government.
“Ukrainians don’t want to live in [a] police country,” Klitschko said from a noisy Independence Square in Kiev. Somebody must take responsibility for police abuse, he told Amanpour.
Ukraine could destabilize if president fails to compromise, opposition warns
By Mick Krever, CNN
Massive protests by Ukrainians against their government – upwards of 300,000 by some estimates – will succeed in forcing political compromise or snap elections, opposition leader and former foreign minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk insisted to CNN’s Christiane Amanpour on Monday.
The opposition’s key demand, Yatsenyuk said, is for the Ukrainian parliament to pass a vote of no confidence in the president, Viktor Yanukovych. He hopes that that would force compromise.
“Otherwise the situation could be not as stable as today,” Yatsenyuk said from Kiev. “And it much depends on this president: Whether is he ready to negotiate and whether is he ready to reach the compromise.”
Putin's mindset, and what it has to do with Ukraine
For days, Ukrainians have been protesting in support of closer ties with the West, and a European free-trade deal. But Ukraine's president has rejected that deal, instead casting his lot with Russia - many say because of pressure from President Vladimir Putin.
What's going on?
Former Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Kasyanov talks with CNN's Christiane Amanpour about the mindset of his former boss, Vladimir Putin, what it means for Ukraine - and Russia.
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CNN’s Claire Calzonetti produced this piece for television.
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