Leaders of Ukraine’s month-long anti-government demonstrations on Wednesday accused senior authorities in President Viktor Yanukovich’s administration of standing behind a series of violent attacks against their allies.
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Activists of the pro-EU opposition guard a barricade at Independence Square in Kiev on December 24, 2013. Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Tuesday that the final pieces were in place for the 2015 launch of an economic union with Belarus and Kazakhstan that Moscow hopes can also be joined by Ukraine. Putin said following talks with Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev and Belarussian leader Alexander Lukashenko that the so-called Eurasian Economic Union would turn into a new source of economic growth for all involved.. AFP PHOTO / SERGEI SUPINSKY
