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The crisis in Ukraine shows no sign of abating. As the authorities have deployed massive police force to clear the barricades around Kiev’s government quarter and on the Maidan, the protesters have no intention of leaving the streets. The opposition’s rigid conditions for further negotiations – punishing the perpetrators of a violent police clampdown, releasing the arrested protesters and sacking the government – have fallen on deaf ears. Despite the presence of foreign mediators, early on Wednesday police moved in to try to disperse the protests in the heart of Kiev.
President Viktor Yanukovich, in remarks after a makeshift round-table with three former presidents on Tuesday, seemed to have acknowledged the first two demands of the opposition. He implied that both protesters and police would bear responsibility for the clashes. And he hinted at the possible release of some detained protesters. The subsequent police action, however, showed it had been just a game of words."
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