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Ukrainian acting Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk (right) welcomes U.S. Vice President Joe Biden before their meeting in Kyiv today.
Ukrainian acting Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk (right) welcomes U.S. Vice President Joe Biden before their meeting in Kyiv today.

Live Blog: Ukraine In Crisis (Archive)

17:29 28.3.2014
A little bit of historical symmetry? Today is the 160th anniversary of Britain and France officially opening hostilities with Russia, thereby entering the Crimean War:
16:28 28.3.2014
Dissent in Putin's Russia:
15:00 28.3.2014

14:39 28.3.2014
So, if Russia cancels its basing agreements with Ukraine because it considers Crimea part of Russia, the presence of troops in Crimea is now illegal? Wasn't it already? And then there's the annexation of the region itself...
14:33 28.3.2014
13:44 28.3.2014
News agencies are reporting that families of the people who lost their lives during antigovernment protests in Kyiv will receive financial compensation.
The Ukrainian government on Friday approved a proposal from Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk that the family of each victim be given the equivalent of $10,000.

In additional, survivors, including children, will be given monthly payments of 5,000 hryvnyas ($440) as of April 1.

The payments will be given to the families of all victims of the violence, including both demonstrators and police.

According to the latest data, 104 people died in the three-month standoff that led to ouster of President of Viktor Yanukovych in late February.
13:23 28.3.2014
Possibly not really relevent to anything at all.... From the Kyiv Post:
A rock version of Ukraine's national anthem popped up on YouTube on March 24. The video featuring musician and Kharkiv EuroMaidan activist Nikita Rubchenko got some 300,000 views in just the first three days.

A new version of the "Ukraine Has Not Yet Died" ("Shche ne vmerla Ukrayina"), Ukraine's national anthem, includes guitar sound and drum beats.

"It was made to support the country and Ukrainian citizens," Rubchenko wrote on his Facebook page.

Watch the rock video here.

This is the non-rock version.
13:15 28.3.2014
12:47 28.3.2014
Masaryk University in Brno, Czech Republic has offered a professorship to Andrei Zubov, an academic and political commentator who compared Putin to Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler.

Zubov wrote a scathingly critical piece in "Vedomosti" of Putin's actions over Crimea a few weeks ago and was hauled in front of the university authorities. According to Reuters, Zubov was fired on Monday:
The Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO), a diplomatic school with ties to the foreign ministry where Zubov has worked since 2001, said it had dismissed him for criticizing Russia's foreign policy.

After he wrote the piece, Claire Bigg spoke to Zubov. The interview is here.
11:35 28.3.2014

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