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10:07. Police received two reports of alleged mining of the tent camp on Kyiv's Independence Square and a building of Kyiv City State Administration (KCSA) in the evening on Saturday, January 4.
10:16. The opposition cancelled a traditional National veche on Kyiv´s Independence Square on Sunday, January 5, due to the preparation for the Christmas holidays.
10:27. Chairman of the opposition 'Batkivshchyna' faction Arseniy Yatsenyuk said that Euromaidan should stand till the presidential elections in 2015.
11:11. Vice President of the European Parliament Gianni Pittella urged the European Union to take steps to release former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko.
11:31. Interior Minister Vitaly Zakharchenko took personal control over the investigation into the attack and beating by unidentified men of deputy of the opposition party 'Svoboda' Andrey Ilienko and of lawyer Sidor Kizina.
13:33. Chairman of the 'Batkivshchyna' faction Arseniy Yatsenyuk that there is a legal possibility to hold an early presidential elections in October 2014.
13:50. Despite the abolition of the National veche, tens of thousands of people gathered on Kyiv's Independence Square on January 5th.
14:25. Protesters on Euromaidan staged prayer for battered journalist and activist Tatyana Chornovol.
14:40. Leader of the opposition party 'UDAR' Vitali Klitschko called on Ukrainians to organize an All-Ukrainian strike to the authorities of the country.
14:56. Euromaidan activists are going to celebrate Christmas in the center of Kyiv, said the press service of the opposition 'Batkivshchyna' fraction.
17:15. The opposition demands to reduce maintenance costs of the Ukrainian government by $20 billion.
17:28. Chairman of the opposition 'Batkivshchyna' faction Arseniy Yatsenyuk announced a hunt for corrupt officials in the government of Nykolai Azarov, the presidential administration and the entire Ukrainian authorities.
18:00. Nearly 200 hundred people held a rally in support of Kyiv's Euromaidan in Odessa.
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