EUROMAIDAN
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EUROMAIDAN
Why ?
• Tensions• Corruption• Rape• Murder• No justice
• Bad financial stewardship• No confidence in the government
Great Famine
Second World War
Independence of Ukraine 1991
Yulia Tymoshenko
Viktor Yushenko
Election results
Russian Influence
17% of the population has Russian Origins
The eastern part of the country is Russian-speaking
Ukraine is a strategic place
Russia Naval base in the port of Sebastopol
58% of the gas consumed is from Russia
Viktor Yanukovych- President during revolts and since 2010- 63 years old- Net worth : $12 billion- At 17 he was incarcerated for robbery and assault- At 20 he was sentenced to two years in prison- In 2005 he was accused of tax fraud - In 2006 he was accused for falsification of documents
He had approximately the same politic that Vladimir Putin
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Mykola Azarov
Commercial partnership Customs union
Place Maidan
400 000 to 800 000 people
CALL
To occupy the city hall of Kiev Block the governmental sites Dismiss the mayor of Kiev
Violences on opponents
January
• Anti-demonstration laws
• Restriction of the information
(= totalitarism)
Resigns of the Prime Minister
February
• Maximum of violence
• Police can use snipers, pump-actions
shotguns and AK47
• Most bloody day = 82 deaths,
622 injured
• Yanukovich leaves Ukraine
Place Maidan after EuroMaidan
Protesters on fire because of molotov cocktail
Barricades made by demonstrators to prevent the police to take up the Maidan Place
Kriev in fire
Agreement of exit
• To return to the constitution of 2004
• Early presidential election
• The end of the laws the state of emergency
• A call for a government of National Union
Population in Crimea
After the crisis, the challenge for the new government will be to avoid the separation of its country and also a
conflict with Russia …