Ukraine Revolution 2014

1991 The Break-up of the USSR

Orange Revolution 2004

Kuchma/Yushchenko/ Tymoshenko/ Yanukovych

Orange Revolution 2004Dioxin Poisoning

Ukraine Demogrphics

Russian Interests in Ukraine

2010 Elections

East v. West

Merkel/Tymoshenko Yanukovych/Putin

21 Nov 13 - Yanukovych announces rejection of EU agreement

24 Nov – 100,000 people take to the streets in Kiev1 Dec – Protesters take control of City Hall8 Dec – 800,000 protestors clash with police17 Dec – Putin gives Yanukovych 15 B bailout22 Jan 14 – After passage of a draconian “anit-protest”

law, 2 die of gunshot wounds from police in Kiev28 Jan – Parliament grants amnesty if protestors vacate

government building. Protesters leave by 16 Feb

Protests Ignite in Kiev

18 Feb - 25,000 protesters remain in Independence Square. In a clash with police, 18 people including 7 policemen are killed. Insurgents retake City Hall

19 Feb – Truce negotiated, but lasts only 24 hours, the next day 77 people die over the next 48 hours when police try to recapture the square

21 Feb – Yanukovych signs a compromise agreement with oppostion leaders brokered by France, Germany & Poland

Revolution

22 Feb – {rotesters take control of presidential administration buildings without resistance and opposition leaders call for elections on 25 May. President Yanukovych is nowhere to be seen and reports emerge that he has left for Kharkiv in the north-east. Parliament votes to remove him from power with elections set for 25 May. Mr Yanukovych appears on TV to insist he was lawfully-elected president, and denounces a "coup d'etat". His arch-rival, opposition leader Yulia Tymoshenko who was jailed for seven years in 2011, is freed and travels

23 Feb - Parliament names speaker Olexander Turchynov as interim president. Mr Turchynov, a close associate of freed former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko, tells MPs they have until Tuesday to form a new unity government. Meanwhile, the whereabouts of President Yanukovych remain unclear.

Revolution

22 Feb – Protesters take control of presidential administration buildings without resistance and opposition leaders call for elections on 25 May. Yanukovych is nowhere to be seen and reports emerge that he has left for Kharkiv in the north-east. Parliament removes him from power with elections set for 25 May. Mr Yanukovych appears on TV to insist he was lawfully-elected president, and denounces a "coup d'etat". His arch-rival, opposition leader Yulia Tymoshenko who was jailed for seven years in 2011, is freed and travels

23 Feb - Parliament names speaker Olexander Turchynov as interim president. Turchynov, an associate of Tymoshenko, tells MPs they have until Tuesday to form a new unity government. Meanwhile, the whereabouts of Yanukovych remain unclear.

Revolution

27 Feb – Vladimir Putin announces Russian military exercises along the Ukrainian border.

Armed and masked Yanukovych supporters seize Crimean government buildings

Yanukovych appeals to Russia to protect “his personal safety:

Revolution

Revolutionary Theory & The Future