US Senate committee to hold hearing on crisis in Ukraine on Jan. 15 (VIDEO)

Published Jan. 11, 2014 at 2:00 am

A handout picture released on December 10, 2013 by Ukrainian Union Opposition press services hows US Assistant secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs Victoria Nuland (2ndL) distributing cakes to protesters on the Independence Square in Kiev on December 10, 2013. AFP PHOTO/ PARTY PRESS-SERVICE/ ANDREW KRAVCHENKO

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The U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee is scheduling a hearing on the crisis in Ukraine.

US Senator Robert Menendez (D-New Jersey) will preside. Speakers will include U.S. Assistant Secretary for European and Eurasian Affairs Victoria Nuland and U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary of State Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor Thomas Melia.

Other speakers include Zbigniew K. Brzezinski, the former U.S. National Security Council adviser and a trustee with the Center for Strategic and International Studies

The hearing starts at 2 p.m. Jan. 15 in Room 419 of the Dirksen Senate Office Building.

More information can be found here.

http://www.foreign.senate.gov/hearings/business-meeting-and-implications-of-the-crisis-in-ukraine-hearing

This hearing is scheduled to be live webcast.

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