It is unlikely that President Petro Poroshenko will veto a law that he has himself lobbied for, but that is precisely what civic activists are demanding. Draft law No. 5610, passed by the Verkhovna Rada on March 16, will not help bring ex-president Viktor Yanukovych to justice, while seriously narrowing Ukrainian citizens’ rights, they warn. Some of the dangerous features originally criticized were removed before the bill was adopted on March 16, but by no means all.
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People commemorate those protesters of the EuroMaidan Revolution who were killed three years ago, at an event on Independence Square in central Kyiv on Feb. 20.
