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10:51. In recent days traffic police has called for interviews Auto-Euromaidan activists who drove to President Viktor Yanukovich's residence Mezhigorie on December 29.
11:31. Verkhovna Rada deputy of the ruling Party of Regions Dmitry Svyatash allowed himself to insult residents of Western Ukraine and the Ukrainian diaspora in Canada and the United States and said that the division of the country in the long term is inevitable.
12:25. Former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko asks civil society, journalists, opposition and all concerned to protect her lawyer Sergei Vlasenko from arrest on accusation of beating his ex-wife Natalya Okunskaya. Tymoshenko believes the case is politically motivated.
12:46. Yulia Tymoshenko appealed to the management of Kachanovskaya colony asking to relieve the conditions of her sentence in connection with the end of the third period for which she was condemned.
'Because a third of her sentence has passed, she is entitled to relief of the punishment serving, including the possibility of free access to Kharkiv', - said her lawyer Sergei Vlasenko.
13:16. Traffic police, according to a secret internal order of the Interior Ministry, pays visits to the owners of the cars that drove to President Viktor Yanukovich's residence Mezhigorie on December 29.
14:42. The opposition demands from the Ukrainian authorities to remove police barricades from the central streets of Kyiv.
15:31. Auto-Euromaidan activist knocked down a traffic policeman on Bohdan Khmelnytsky street in Kyiv and escaped, reported the press service of the Interior Ministry of Ukraine in Kiev.
16:00. About 300 protesters are picketing traffic police building in Kyiv on Bohdan Khmelnytsky street.
16:32. The opposition leaders - Arseniy Yatsenyuk, Vitali Klitschko and Oleg Tyahnibok - demand close up of the criminal proceedings against Yulia Tymoshenko's defender Sergei Vlasenko.
16:45. The opposition fraction 'Svoboda' said that the traffic policeman allegedly knocked down earlier on Friday tore a mirror of Auto-Euromadian activist car and simulated being run over.
17:13. Michael Galer, eurodeputy and member of the Bureau of the European People's Party, said that Europe, particularly Austria and Germany, have started looking closely to the origin of the capital of wealthy Ukrainians close to the Ukrainian government.
18:23. Deputy of the opposition 'Svoboda' fraction Andrey Ilienko and Sidor Kizina, lawyer connected to this party, were beaten at Shevchenko District Department of Internal Affairs in Kyiv.
20:45. Andrey Ilienko was attacked after questioning about the march in honor of Stepan Bandera.
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