14:31
11.12.2013
Becoming quite the hot topic, the perceived lack of support for President Yanukovych among Ukraine's "surviving tycoons."
For BBC, the Peterson Institute for International Economics author of "How Ukraine Became A Market Economy And Democracy" Anders Aslund argues that -- with the exception of Petro Poroshenko of Roshen chocolate (yes, that Roshen chocolate) -- while Yanukovych "is widely seen as living in symbiosis with Ukraine's tycoons," increasingly "the surviving tycoons now see Mr Yanukovych as the greatest threat to their survival, which has made most of them supporters of the European Association Agreement that the president shelved last month."
Our own @CoalsonR wrote last week about the oligarchs and their place in "Yanukovych's Base Eroding In Ukraine's Russophone East."
For BBC, the Peterson Institute for International Economics author of "How Ukraine Became A Market Economy And Democracy" Anders Aslund argues that -- with the exception of Petro Poroshenko of Roshen chocolate (yes, that Roshen chocolate) -- while Yanukovych "is widely seen as living in symbiosis with Ukraine's tycoons," increasingly "the surviving tycoons now see Mr Yanukovych as the greatest threat to their survival, which has made most of them supporters of the European Association Agreement that the president shelved last month."
Our own @CoalsonR wrote last week about the oligarchs and their place in "Yanukovych's Base Eroding In Ukraine's Russophone East."
13:59
11.12.2013
More from @RadioSvoboda on today's "roundtable." Opposition leaders didn't attend again (they've described them as "orchestrated" and didn't go to the first round). But former Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko also boycotted today's meeting, saying they'd been "compromised" by the overnight crackdown.
13:54
11.12.2013
Tents going back up on Maidan pic.twitter.com/QZQXzEO0MQ
— max seddon (@maxseddon) December 11, 2013
13:50
11.12.2013
"Yanukovych is in office because the oligarchs wanted him there. If they abandon him, he’s toast."
-- Bloomberg, "Ukraine Billionaires Desert Yanukovych After EU Reversal"
-- Bloomberg, "Ukraine Billionaires Desert Yanukovych After EU Reversal"
13:44
11.12.2013
Nuland on her meeting today with Yanukovych, via Reuters: "We also made clear that we believe there is a way out for Ukraine and it is still possible to save Ukraine's European future, and that's what we want to see the president lead, and that's going to require immediate security steps."
13:39
11.12.2013
Ex-President Leonid Kuchma reportedly says the absence of the opposition or protesters invalidates any "roundtable."
Без опозиції і #євромайдан круглий буде не дійсним - #кучма
— Solonyna Yeugen (@SolonynaY) December 11, 2013
13:25
11.12.2013
In her latest statement, EU's Catherine Ashton says police crackdown "makes the launch of a political dialogue more difficult than before" and notes that she'll meet again with President Yanukovych this afternoon.
Catherine #Ashton on recent events in #Ukraine in Kiev's #Maidan Square http://t.co/3WHjttGkuf #EuroMaidan #євромайдан #EU
— Michael Mann (@EUHighRepSpox) December 11, 2013
13:16
11.12.2013
Reuters video of U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Victoria Nuland's trip today to Independence Square:
13:07
11.12.2013
U.S. diplomacy taking a few hits on Twitter:
One day. One name. Victoria Obama. #Barack #Nuland #Funeral #Cookies
Один день. Одно имя. Виктория Обама. #Барак #Нуланд #Похороны #Печеньки
— Иван Магомедович Кац (@nadal7777777) December 11, 2013
12:58
11.12.2013
Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper issues statement on developments in Ukraine, saying his country is "deeply concerned" and stressing that "the decision by Ukrainian authorities to use riot police against peaceful protests in Kyiv's Maidan Square is undemocratic and excessive...particularly...as it follows on the police violence against peaceful protestors, mostly students, only days ago," in reference to the November 30 crackdown.
Full statement here.
Full statement here.