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Ukrainian crisis: January 14

The latest events from Ukraine.

Ukrainian crisis: January 14
blockpost near Viktor Yanukovich's residence
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Ukrainian crisis: January 13

Ukrainian crisis: January 12

8:43. AutoMaidan broke through the blockade set by the traffic police on the road to President Viktor Yanukovich's private residence 'Mezhigorie'.

8:59. The Verkhovna Rada deputies at the plenary session on January 14 will consider a draft resolution number 3832 on the establishment of the temporary investigative commission in the Parliament to investigate the actions of the police during the mass protests in Kyiv.

9:10. Euromaidan activists have established checkpoint in New Petrivtsi village on the turn off the main road in the direction of the entrance to Viktor Yanukovich's 'Mezhigorie'. At this bend the road is blocked by three trucks, police, traffic policemen and 'Berkut' special forces fighters.

9:39. About 600 opponents of the authorities picket Presidential Administration in protest against the adoption of the state budget for 2014.

9:51. The opposition factions deputies have blocked the rostrum and presidium of the Verkhovna Rada.

10:04. About one thousand supporters of the authorities are holding rally in Mariinsky Park near the Verkhovna Rada building.

The Party of Regions lawmaker Vadym Kolesnichenko called on the the protesters to support the adoption of the state budget for 2014.

10:25. The Verkhovna Rada Speaker Volodymyr Rybak opened a parliament being surrounded by a few opposition lawmakers. After that the speaker said that his office continues consultations on unblocking of the parliament and suspended the parliamentary session until 16:00.

11:10. Commission of the administration of Kachanovskaya penal colony will consider the application of Yulia Tymoshenko on commutation of prison regime at the end of this week.

11:30. Lawmaker Anatoly Gritsenko announced his exit from the opposition faction 'Batkivshchyna' in the Verkhovna Rada. He promised in the status of individual deputy to remain in opposition to President Viktor Yanukovich and his policies, perform 'Batkivshchyna' electoral program, and coordinate his actions with the opposition lawmakers.

Gritsenko has repeatedly criticized the leadership of the faction, in particular its leader Arseniy Yatsenyuk.

12:44. The opposition faction 'Batkivshchyna' expects lawmaker Anatoly Gritsenko, who announced his exit from the faction earlier this day, to relinquish his deputy powers.

13:29. Kyiv Court of Appeals upheld the detention of Sergei Kotenko, one of the suspects into the beating of journalist Tatiana Chornovol.

13:49. Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaite said that the EU 'has lost the Ukrainian leadership, but got Ukrainian people'.

'After this summit Ukraine will not be as it was, Ukrainian people won't be the same. Indeed, we have lost the current leadership of Ukraine, but we got Ukrainian people, we got their fight for the future', said Grybauskaite at a press conference on Tuesday in Strasbourg, speaking on the results of the Eastern Partnership Summit, which was held in Vilnius on November 28-29.

She also added, that 'the political will of Ukrainian people and our governments in Europe will depend on help of the country that wants to move closer to the EU'.

14:10. The Foreign Ministry of Ukraine has opened a hotline for citizens about the prospects of signing an Association Agreement with the European Union and the liberalization of the visa regime for entry into the EU.

14:23. The opposition under no circumstances will vote for the state budget of Ukraine for 2014, said the 'Svoboda' faction leader Oleg Tyagnibok. He believes that there should be 'a full restart the government', followed by the presidential and parliamentary elections.

'If those people on whom now depends the solution of this problem do not understand, they will bring the situation to the civil war. They will be responsible for what might happen in the Ukrainian state', he stressed.

14:50. Mayor of Kharkov Gennady Kernes says he's not afraid of U.S. sanctions, because he's not going to leave the city and his country.

'When they (the opposition - ed.) call on U.S. or Europe to impose some kind of sanctions, there are special rules of international law, and if they do not know these rules and constantly boast of their impunity, and are doing what they are doing, I think that there should be certain sanctions in regard to them...', he said.

On January 12 All-Ukrainian Union 'Maidan' asked U.S. Senate to impose sanctions against a number of Ukrainian officials, in particular - Kharkov mayor Gennady Kernes and Head of Kharkov Regional Administration Mikhail Dobkin.

15:12. The Verkhovna Rada deputy from the opposition 'Batkivshchyna' faction Andriy Shevchenko believes that if a member of parliament Anatoly Gritsenko leaves the party, it will weaken both the fraction and the deputy.

15:22. Video of former Interior Minister Yuriy Lutsenko taking a hit by riot police last Friday, January 10. 

Yuriy Lutsenko taking a hit

15:35. The European Union must not renounce obligations to Ukraine and other neighbouring countries that want freedom, said President of the European Commission Jose Manuel Barroso at the European Parliament session in Strasbourg.

15:38. Opponents of the Customs Union in Ukraine are people who are very far from the economy. Many of them are guided by political myths, and some work for the money from sponsors, said Russian Presidential Aide Sergei Glazyev

16:14. The opposition factions lawmakers continue blocking the rostrum and presidium of the Verkhovna Rada.

16:23. Ukraine's economy has been considered the least free in Europe in the ranking of free economies complied by the Heritage Foundation, ranking 155 out of 178 and once again showing the worst result among the European countries.

16:27. The Cabinet of Ministers intends to approve a program of cooperation between Ukraine and the member countries of the Customs Union for the period until 2020 at its meeting on Wednesday, January 15.

16:48. The Verkhovna Rada Speaker Volodymyr Rybak opened the evening session of the parliament and immediately closed it until tomorrow morning.

17:35. Heads of diplomatic missions in Ukraine visited former Interior Minister Yuriy Lutsenko in the hospital, where he's been staying since January 11, when he had taken a hit by 'Berkut' riot police in a crackdown on Euromaidan activists under Kyiv Svyatoshinsky court.

In particular U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Geoffrey Pyatt, Ambassador Yang Tombinsky European Union, as well as the ambassadors of Germany and Sweden Christoph Weil and Andreas von Bekerat payed visit to Lutsenko.

18:02. Kyiv Court of Appeals upheld the detention of Andrey Nasikovsky, one of the suspects into the beating of journalist Tatiana Chornovol.

18:22. The ruling Party of Regions demands the opposition to unlock the Verkhovna Rada and allow to adopt the state budget for 2014.

18:32. The Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine already has the results of examinations into the case of the brutal beating of Tatiana Chornovol, but doesn't intend to publish them right now.

19:09. The Interior Ministry has stopped looking for one of the missing Euromaidan activists due to the fact that a person with these personal data does not exist.

19:22. Dneprodzerzhinsky human rights activist Vitaly Kupriy filed a complaint about a criminal offense by a judge of the Supreme Administrative Court Alexander Vedenyapin, who refused to begin the trial of President Viktor Yanukovich.

19:38. Former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko asked the administration of the Kachanovskaya to provide her an opportunity to communicate with the media.

19:55. Vice-President of the European People's Party and a member of the European Parliament Jacek Saryusz-Wolski strongly condemned the beating of the 'Third Ukrainian republic' movement head Yuriy Lutsenko, which took place during clashes between protesters and 'Berkut' riot police on January 10.

21:10. State Penitentiary Service of Ukraine declares that the meeting of ex-premier Yulia Tymoshenko with the media is impossible and there is no reason for it.

21:20. Euromaidan guard Nazariy Lyudkevych has been kept in Shevchenkyvskyi district police department for about two hours by now.

21:26. Opposition lawmaker Anatoly Gritsenko, who announced his exit from the opposition 'Batkivshchyna' faction earlier this day, accused the faction's leader Arseniy Yatsenyuk of collaboration with the government.

22:21. Shevchenkyvskyi district police department released the detained 17-year-old Euromaidan guard Nazariy Lyudkevych. Tomorrow a court will hear his case.

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