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10:19. More than 10 thousand people took part in a torchlight procession on the occasion of the 105th anniversary of the birth of Stepan Bandera, leader of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN).
10:45. Special Operations Group unit of traffic police (formerly know as 'Cobra') will conduct operational testing in Kyiv and central region during January.
12:00. Poland hopes that Euromaidan demonstrations will return faith of the importance of the European Union project to Western Europe, said Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski.
13:35. Chairman of the Green faction in the European Parliament Rebecca Harms said that the issue of former prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko's release remains on the agenda of the European Union.
15:33. Participants of the torchlight procession threw a smoke bomb in the hotel 'Premier Palace'.
15:57. The opposition party 'Svoboda' said that the incident at the hotel 'Premier Palace' during the torchlight procession in memory of Stepan Bandera on January 1 was provoked by the authorities.
17:05. The headquarters of the national resistance said that the authorities intend to block life support for Euromaidan by disconnecting buildings occupied by activists from the heating system, blocking supply of food, firewood, fuel, cleaning and garbage removal, cleaning and replacement of composting toilets, etc.
18:42. Eurodeputy Rebecca Harms, co-president of the The Greens–European Free Alliance group in the European parliament, said that further development of the European Union depends on the outcome of the protest on Kyiv´s Independence Square.
In my opinion the further development of the European Union, the development of democracy, human rights and freedoms and the rule of law throughout the European continent is also solved here in Kiev. More and more people in Europe understand that citizens of Ukraine advocate for the rule of law, for the normal life in their own country, and not for the 'managed democracy' as it is called by some unreasonable political scientists and which is imposed on Ukraine by Russian President Vladimir Putin', said Harms.
21:21. Activists of the opposition 'Svoboda' fraction picketed the General Directorate of traffic police in Kyiv with demand to 'stop performing criminal orders in the new year'.
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