About 3 months ago in Kiev,
capital of Ukraine
people started to protest against their government, and especially against
their president, Viktor Yanukovych.
He had promised to sign a political and trade
agreement with the European Union, but on November 21rst he decided to suspend
it.
A big part of the population wants more modernization
and an orientation to the western countries. But the country is situated
between the European Union and Russia
and the russian government pressures Yanukovych not to sign the agreement with
the UE.
Many Ukrainians were outraged. They went on the
streets to protest and they put barricades on the Maidan, the main square of Kiev. One of the leaders of the
oposition is Vitali Klitschko, a former world champion boxer They want a change
in the structure of the governments power. The police tries to clean the place
and make people leave and more than 20 have already died but they don’t give up
and go on fighting.
Every time I see the pictures of the burning square in
the news and see that men and women are holding on for their rights, sleeping
on the Maidan, when it is terribly cold in this country I think they must have
very good reasons to insist. They want more democracy. I hope that they will
find a solution soon and that it will not end in a civil war.
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