UKRAINE CRISIS

HOW IT BEGAN

• It began by the president promising trade to europe
• But then he suspended talks woth the EU

President Yanukovych

• From being elected president of Ukraine in 2010 to being removed from office by Parliament
• and charged with mass murder over the past week,
• President Viktor F. Yanukovych has been at the center of the Ukrainian crisis since the beginning.

WHO IS PROTESTING

• Camped out in Kiev’s main square since November, protesters endured police brutality and bitter cold nights
• At times the throngs swelled to hundreds of thousands.
• Then this past week the tension exploded with the deaths of dozens of protesters and the president’s disappearance.

THE PAST 2 WEEKS

• Protests in Kiev began in November when it became clear that
• President Yanukovych had turned his back on an agreement with the EU.
• Yet at critical moments since then, the rallies seemed to taper off,
• as when Russia gave Ukraine a $15 billion lifeline to stem the economic crisis
• Last week the world watched in shock as the protests erupted into violence

WESTERN AND RUSSIAN INFLUENCE

• The civic unrest in the Ukraine is in many ways an outgrowth of the Cold War,
• with Russia on one hand, and the European Union and the United States on the other,
• jockeying for influence in this former Soviet republic.

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