Protests in Ukraine escalate

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barricades in Lviv





Ivano-Frankivsk regional admin building seized

Supporters in Latvia

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Jan. 24

KIEV, Ukraine (AP) - News agencies are reporting that President Viktor Yanukovych has promised a government reshuffle, an amnesty to detained activists and other concessions, after protests against his rule engulfed Ukraine.


At a meeting with religious leaders Friday, Yanukovych vowed that a special parliament meeting next Tuesday will push through changes to the Cabinet, grant amnesty to dozens of jailed activists and change harsh-anti-protest legislation, the Interfax and other news agencies reported.

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Riot police officers block a street in front of barricades of protesters at the monument to Viacheslav Chornovil, a prominent politician in Ukraine and a former Soviet political prisoner, in central Kiev, Ukraine, Friday, Jan. 24, 2014. Protesters have seized a government building in the Ukrainian capital while also maintaining the siege of several governors' offices in the country's west, raising the pressure on the government.

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Montreal - Joint Memorial Service

for the Innocent Victims of the EuroMaidan

Date: Sunday, January 26, 2014
Time: 5:30pm

Where: Blessed Virgin Mary – Успення Божої Матері, 5520 RUE BELLECHASSE
10TH AVENUE (Rosemont), Montreal

Please join us in prayer for the souls of the innocent victims of the
EuroMaidan and in support of the Ukrainian people and their aspirations
for a free and democratic country.

Ukrainian Canadian Congress (Montreal)

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Commemoration in Kyiv honouring the men killed.

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[Patty Smyth]

Holy cow things are happening very fast .

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Clashes overnight; it was -20 there



Saturday

[Anna Michele]

Unbelievable i was hoping the govt had come to their senses

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Wow, newlyweds show up at protest in Independence Square...

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President Yanukovych has offered positions of prime minister and deputy prime minister to opposition leaders Arseniy Yatsenyuk and Vitaly Klitschko.

That offer has been rejected, they are calling for early elections before scheduled ones in 2015, a new constitution to limit presidential power, freedom given to Yulia Tymoshenko (was twice elected Prime Minister, currently imprisoned - unjustly?), and EU talks.

info on Yulia Tymoshenko

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-15249184

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Support in Netherlands


Germany

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Ukraine House - International Convention Centre in Kyiv, not far from Maidan

Protesters found special troops had been hiding there for days, so they are trying to get them out.