Ukraine Agreement Was Only a Start, Activists and Analysts Say

The agreement brokered by European leaders and signed by Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych Feb. 21 was not enough to placate the Ukrainian public after over 80 people were killed, activists and analysts told a packed conference room at Central European University (CEU) the same day. Since the roundtable discussion, two of the protesters’ major demands have been met: former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko has been released from prison and appeared on Independence Square, known as Maidan, or Euro-Maidan, and the Parliament voted to remove Yanukovych from office.
“Euro-Maidan is a revolution of dignity,” said Kateryna Kruk, an activist who spent months living on the Maidan, where she tweeted about developments in the square. “Euro-Maidan is not just about European values, about changing the government, it’s about survival. We want a better life for our families, a president who doesn’t have the blood of our people on his hands.”
Former Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Balazs, director of CEU’s Center for European Enlargement Studies, which hosted the event, called the developments of Feb. 21 encouraging,  but merely first steps on a long road in a large country suspended between Europe and Russia.
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The agreement brokered by European leaders and signed by Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych Feb. 21 was not enough to placate the Ukrainian public after over 80 people were killed, activists and analysts told a packed conference room at Central European University (CEU) the same day. Since the roundtable discussion, two of the protesters’ major demands have been met: former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko has been released from prison and appeared on Independence Square, known as Maidan, or Euro-Maidan, and the Parliament voted to remove Yanukovych from office. - See more at: http://www.ceu.hu/article/2014-02-23/ukraine-agreement-was-only-start-activists-and-analysts-say#sthash.cDUWSzjF.dpuf

The agreement brokered by European leaders and signed by Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych Feb. 21 was not enough to placate the Ukrainian public after over 80 people were killed, activists and analysts told a packed conference room at Central European University (CEU) the same day. Since the roundtable discussion, two of the protesters’ major demands have been met: former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko has been released from prison and appeared on Independence Square, known as Maidan, or Euro-Maidan, and the Parliament voted to remove Yanukovych from office. - See more at: http://www.ceu.hu/article/2014-02-23/ukraine-agreement-was-only-start-activists-and-analysts-say#sthash.cDUWSzjF.dpuf

The agreement brokered by European leaders and signed by Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych Feb. 21 was not enough to placate the Ukrainian public after over 80 people were killed, activists and analysts told a packed conference room at Central European University (CEU) the same day. Since the roundtable discussion, two of the protesters’ major demands have been met: former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko has been released from prison and appeared on Independence Square, known as Maidan, or Euro-Maidan, and the Parliament voted to remove Yanukovych from office. - See more at: http://www.ceu.hu/article/2014-02-23/ukraine-agreement-was-only-start-activists-and-analysts-say#sthash.cDUWSzjF.dpuf

Professors and Activists from Central European University discuss the events at EuroMaidan and what the future may hold for Ukraine.

"The developments of February 21st are encouraging, but merely first steps on a long road in a large country suspended between Europe and Russia."
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the developments of Feb. 21 encouraging,  but merely first steps on a long road in a large country suspended between Europe and Russia. - See more at: http://www.ceu.hu/article/2014-02-23/ukraine-agreement-was-only-start-activists-and-analysts-say#sthash.cDUWSzjF.dpuf 
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In the eastern region of Ukraine, tensions between Euro-Maidan supporters and pro-Russia demonstrators are building. 

"Many, like Valentina Morder, 68, a pensioner in a wooly hat, worry that the parliament, now in the hands of the opposition, will now restrict the rights of Russian speakers.

"Everyone should be able to speak in the language that their mother sang to them as a child. My mother sang in Russian. She worked here before the war and after the war. I've worked [here] for over 40 years," Morder says. "Why should someone tell me that I have to live a certain way."

The parliament has already scrapped a law that gave minority languages in select regions official status, a move that touched a nerve in predominantly Russian-speaking cities like Kharkiv." Read the full article here.