Ukraine

NOVANEWS Ukraine’s opposition leader Yulia Tymoshenko The United States has hailed the release of Ukraine’s jailed opposition leader Yulia Tymoshenko, saying that the Ukrainians must determine their own destiny. "We wish her a speedy recovery as she seeks the appropriate medical treatment that she has long needed and sought," the White House said in a statement issued on Saturday. "The unshakeable principle guiding events must be that the people of Ukraine determine their own future," the statement added. Earlier in the day, Tymoshenko was released from the hospital where she had been held under prison guard in the northeastern city of Kharkiv after the Ukrainian parliament voted to free her. Ukraine has been rocked by anti-government protests after President Viktor Yanukovich refrai...

NOVANEWS  Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovich has called the latest developments in the country a coup d’etat, denying speculations of his resignation. He also accused international mediators of not fulfilling their obligations. Follow RT's LIVE UPDATES “I'm always threatened with ultimatums. I'm not going to leave the country,” Yanukovich said in an interview with local UBR TV channel. “I'm not going to resign. I'm a legitimately elected president.” The interview with the embattled president was broadcast right after the opposition claimed it had received verbal assurances that Yanukovich was resigning. But as parliament deputies said they were waiting for the written confirmation on his resignation, the president announced his plans to travel across the country's southeast, whic...

NOVANEWS The story we're told about the protests gripping Kiev bears only the sketchiest relationship with reality. Seumas Milne The Guardian, Wednesday 29 January 2014  ‘The Ukrainian faultine has the potential to draw in outside powers and lead to a strategic clash.' Illustration by Matt Kenyon We've been here before. For the past couple of months street protests in Ukraine have been played out through the western media according to a well-rehearsed script. Pro-democracy campaigners are battling an authoritarian government. The demonstrators are demanding the right to be part of the European Union. But Russia's president Vladimir Putin has vetoed their chance of freedom and prosperity. It's a story we've heard in one form or another again and again – not least in Ukra...

NOVANEWS by Will Bunch Anti-government protesters protect themselves behind shields as they clash with the police on Independence Square in Kiev early on Wednesday. (Photograph: Sergei Supinsky/AFP/Getty Images)Holy (bleep)! What the hell is going on over in the Ukraine: KIEV, Ukraine — Mayhem gripped the center of the Ukrainian capital on Tuesday evening as riot police officers moved on protesters massed behind barriers raised throughout Independence Square, the focal point of more than two months of protests against President Viktor F. Yanukovych. As the attack began just before 8 p.m. local time, the police tried to drive two armored personnel carriers through stone-reinforced barriers outside the Khreschatyk Hotel in the square. But they became bogged down and, set upon by proteste...

NOVANEWS A protester pictured demonstrating in support of Ukraine's integration in the EU in the center of Kiev on November 23, 2013. By Dr. Paul Craig Roberts A number of confirmations have come in from readers that Washington is fueling the violent protests in Ukraine with our taxpayer dollars. Washington has no money for food stamps or to prevent home foreclosures, but it has plenty of money with which to subvert Ukraine. One reader wrote: “My wife, who is of Ukrainian nationality, has weekly contact to her parents and friends in Zhytomyr [NW Ukraine]. According to them, most protesters get an average payment of 200-300 grivna, corresponding to about 15-25 euro. As I additionally heard, one of the most active agencies and ‘payment outlets’ on EU side is the German ‘Konrad Aden...