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Ukrainian crisis: December 30

The latest events from Ukraine.

Ukrainian crisis: December 30
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8:35. Auti-Euromaidan organizer Dmitry Bulatov has been called for questioning at the Interior Ministry of Ukraine.

9:05. More then 50 witnesses were questioned in the case of the brutal beating of Tatiana Chornovol.

10:32. Today the opposition will hold an all-Ukrainian action 'Don't be afraid - a million will come out'. It's devoted to the violent dispersal of Euromaidan activists on November 30.

11:56. Ukrainian diaspora in Canada gathered its own Euromaidan at Niagara Falls. Activists lit up Niagara Falls in the colours of the Ukrainian flag.

Ukrainians at Niagara Falls

12:00. About 30 young people in masks and helmets are picketing Darnitckiy police department demanding the return of items allegedly stolen by police officers from Euromaidan activist Stanislav Krasnov.

12:03. Euromaidan announced an action plan for January 2014.

Thus, in January Euromaidan activists intend to picket the houses of President Viktor Yanukovich, Prime Minister Nykolai Azarov, Prosecutor General Viktor Pshonka, Interior Minister Vitaly Zakharchenko and general secretary of the NSDC Andriy Klyuyev.

The opposition will also publish a list of Special Forces 'Berkut' employees, who used force against the protesters in order to bring this information to the general public (neighbours, friends, parents and friends of these people) about their involvement in these crimes. It also plans to maintain an active social control in areas of law enforcement agencies, courts and prosecutors, make make local of lawbreakers and implement campaign of moral condemnation.

13:52. All-Ukrainian Union 'Svoboda' is going to hold a torch march in Kyiv on the 1st of January on the occasion of the 105th anniversary of the birth of Stepan Bandera, leader of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN).

14:20. Euromaidan activists in Kyiv protest by holding mirrors with inscriptions on them saying 'Is this really me?'.

14:59. Battered journalist Tatiana Chornovol has been transferred from intensive care to a regular room.

15:09. Journalist and Euromaidan activist Tatiana Chornovol identified one of the five suspects in her beating, said her husband Nikolay Berezovoi at a press-briefing. In order avoid police prosecution for disclosure of the secrets of the investigation he did not say who exactly it was.

16:30. Program of the New Year celebrations at Kyiv's Independence Square includes performance of Ukrainian rock bands, but it had been decided not to invite any world stars, said deputy of the Verkhovna Rada Oles Dony.

17:00. The Interior Ministry of Ukraine is looking for a sixth suspect in Tatiana Chornovol's beating.

17:26. U.S. Embassy to Ukraine congratulated Ukrainians with the New Year in the Ukrainian language.

THe U.S. Embassy congratulating Ukrainians

21:40. U.S. mission to the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) has recognized the brutal beating of journalist Tatiana Chornovol as an act of revenge against the organizers of Euromaidan.

22:50. In Kherson 28-year-old city council deputy Stanislav Troshina (opposition party 'Batkivshchyna'), one of the local Euromaidan activists was severely beaten by three unidentified men on Monday night.

23:15. Euromaidan activists on Kyiv's Independence Square held a moment of memory of those killed in the terrorist attacks in Russia's Volgograd.

23:30. Police reported of rape of a resident of Chernihiv region, born 1982, in a tent camp on Kyiv's Independence Square. The victim said that unidentified man invited her to one of the tents located near the central Independence stele metropolitan area, then raped her and ran away.

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