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 …