[Aaus-list] Seeking Clarity ...

[Max Pyziur]

On Sun, 1 Dec 2013, Oleh Kotsyuba (Harvard Univ) wrote:

> Please follow all update on this Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/EuroMaydan

I don't want to follow a facebook page; there are numerous unauthoritative 
postings there. It is for that reason that I presented my questions on 
these lists, and would hope that someone would reply with reliable 
sources.

> Best,
> Oleh

MP
pyz at brama.com


>
> On Dec 1, 2013, at 11:07 AM, Max Pyziur <pyz at brama.com> wrote:
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>> Greetings,
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>> Does anyone have any reliable information as to what is taking place in Ukraine?
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>> Specifically, it's understood that through a variety of legislative and executive actions as enacted by 11/21 that Ukraine will not be signing an Association Agreement with the European Union (as Moldova and Georgia have, and Armenia will not). At least not at the Vilnius Summit that was held recently (11/28-11/29).
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>> At that point (11/21), protestors began appearing in Kyiv, as well as other cities. Does anyone have a compendium of the number of protestors and the sources of the estimates in order to guage reliability?
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>> Was the motivation for beginning the protests the not signing of the Association Agreement, or something else, or some combination of factors?
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>> These protests have been continuing since 11/21 with participation apparently varying, and seeming to decline? Is this correct?
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>> This decline in participation (if my assumption is correct) changed on Friday evening/Saturday morning when Kyiv's Berkut forces assaulted the (remaining) demonstrators.
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>> Since the Berkut assault on protestors, the participation by protestors has jumped dramatically. Is this a correct assertion? What are the metrics and their respective sources? Are they reliable?
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>> There was mention that possibly one person has died because of the assault; has this been confirmed?
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>>
>> MP
>> pyz at brama.com
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