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2 - Klitschko for screening candidates ahead of elections
3 - Yanukovych stepping in Kuchma’s shoes
4 - Russia wooing Ukraine to join Customs Union
5 - Hacktivists explain their attacks of official websites
6 - Tymoshenko’s daughter addresses US Congress
7 - Patriarch Kiril advises believers not to join protests but pray at home
8 - Yanukovych expects PACE monitoring of Ukraine to be lifted after October elections
9 - “Yanukovych brags about his refusal to comply with PACE recommendations,” says Yulia Tymoshenko
10 - Yury Lutsenko denied pain-killing injections in prison
11 - Talks between Ukraine and Russia on BSF starting today
12 - United opposition against rewriting Constitution to let Yanukovych cling to power
13 - Regions lawmakers to spurn promises made in Davos by Yanukovych
14 - Vitali Klitschko should run for Kyiv mayor, says Arseny Yatseniuk
15 - Lviv opposition politicians forecast gerrymandering by CEC
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Evidence confirming Tymoshenko’s innocence disappear from case materials, Vlasenko says
17 - Journalists want Speaker Lytvyn’s role in murder of Gongadze investigated
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United opposition waves off Yanukovych proposal to participate in Constitutional Assembly work
19 - Kyiv turns down Russia’s present of monument to Stolypin
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Thugs with knives and chains attack peaceful demonstration in Donetsk and Kyiv
Addressing the 48th Munich conference on security, Pres Yanukovych said a solar power plant, the largest in Europe, has already been built in Crimea and its capacity will treble in 18 months, Ukrayinska Pravda reports Feb. 4.
The leader of the UDAR party, Vitali Klitschko, has again urged opposition parties which will put up single candidates in the majority constituencies to give the distribution of candidates according to quotas and use a kind of primaries for selection, Klitschko writes in his blog on Ukrayinska Pravda Feb. 3.
First deputy head of Verkhovna Rada foreign relations committee Taras Chornovil doubts Pres Yanukovych’s trip to Germany to attend a conference on security will be a success. Yanukovych faces increasing international isolation following his refusal to deliver on his promise to free Yulia Tymoshenko and other opposition leaders, Radio Svoboda reports the lawmaker saying Feb. 3.
Members of the Russia-led Customs Union of Russia, Belarus, and Kazakhstan are ready to offset Ukraine’s likely losses if Kyiv gives up its WTO membership for CU, Valery Muntian, Russia’s representative for cooperation with CIS, said, speaking on the 1st National channel, Ukrainian News reports Feb. 2.
Ukrayinska Pravda received a letter from an anonymous hacker who explained why Internet users had attacked the sites of the president, SBU, interior ministry, Verkhovna Rada and the ruling party of Regions, UP reports Feb. 2.
Feb. 1, the daughter of Yulia Tymoshenko took part in hearings on Ukraine run by the US Congress. Addressing the legislators Yevgenia called on them not to forget about political prisoners in Ukraine and exert pressure on the administration of Viktor Yanukovych to get Ukraine back on the track of reforms and democracy, Radio Svoboda reports Feb. 2.
Moscow’s Patriarch Kiril, who carries a lot of weight with Eastern Ukrainians via the Moscow-affiliated Orthodox church, says true believers do not go on demonstrations – they pray in the quietness of their churches and homes instead, UNIAN reports Feb. 1.
Ukraine FM spokesperson Oleh Voloshyn said Feb. 1 he expected the PACE monitoring on how Ukraine observes the human rights would be completed after the October parliamentary elections, Radio Era reports the same day.
Yulia Tymoshenko is against any PACE sanctions unless they are focused on Ukraine authorities, BYUT’s Feb. 1 website report runs.
Yury Lutsenko’s wife, Iryna, says he is not given the pain-killing drugs prescribed to him by doctors because there are no such medication in the prison hospital, Gazeta.ru quotes Iryna as saying Feb. 1.
A round of talks on the deployment of Russia’s Black Sea Fleet is to open today. Ukraine wants the inventory of land and infrastructure in Sevastopol be done and discussed.
Major opposition parties - members of the Committee to Oppose Dictatorship, COD, have issued a statement today on their refusal to participate in the constitutional assembly created by Pres Yanukovych to draft a new constitution, UNIAN reports Jan. 31.
Despite the promises made by Pres Yanukovych in Davos about decriminalizing the article under which Yulia Tymoshenko was charged, Regions Rada lawmakers are not going to deliver on their boss commitments, Mykhailo Chechetov, deputy head of Regions faction, told Deutsche Welle Jan. 31.
Arseny Yatseniuk believes Vitali Klitschko should be a joint opposition candidate in the mayoral elections, Tyzhden reported Jan. 30.
The number of single mandate constituencies in the Lviv oblast may be reduced from 14 to 10. Lviv politicians began to sound the alarm bells in the wake of an unofficial letter from the ex-Lviv governor to the presidential administration asking not to reduce the number of constituencies in the Lviv oblast, runs a statement by the Lviv Choice-2012 independent public press center on Jan. 31.
Serhy Vlasenko, Yulia Tymoshenko’s defense lawyer, says important evidence confirming Tymoshenko’s innocence in the UESU gas company case disappeared from case materials DT.UA reports Jan. 31.
Media NGOs have urged the Pechersk court to make the trial of Olexy Pukach more open. Pukach admitted strangling Georgy Gongadze. The NGOs have called the prosecution to clarify the roles of Speaker Lytvyn, Eduard Fere and Leonid Derkach in the murder of G. Gongadze, UNIAN reports Jan. 30.
The Committee to Oppose Dictatorship, COD, uniting major opposition parties rejected an offer by Pres Yanukovych to take part in drafting Ukraine’s new constitution, Interfax-Ukrayina quotes Arseny Yatseniuk as declaring Jan. 30.
Kyiv council commission on culture and tourism turned down a proposal by the Russian authorities to install in Kyiv a monument to Petr Stolypin, a symbol of tsarist Russia, commission head Oleksandr Bryhinets said.
During the late Jan. 29 march to remember the 300 Kyiv students who died when repulsing the attack of Bolsheviks in 1918, thugs armed with knives and chains attacked the demonstrators in Kyiv and Donetsk UNIAN reported late Jan. 29.
In Donetsk, mobsters attacked marchers and journalists, shouting “Donbas is Russia’s territory” and “Death to Banderites and fascists.”
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