Ukraine Opposition Rallies Protesters to Maidan as Holidays Loom
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Ukraine’s opposition urged protesters at a fifth straight Sunday rally to join its new political movement and keep pressure on President Viktor Yanukovych for accepting a $15 billion Russian bailout over European integration.
Opposition leaders today announced the creation of the Maidan political movement, using the Ukrainian word for public square, that will target “a new constitution and removal of corrupt judges and prosecutors,” said Arseniy Yatsenyuk, the head of imprisoned ex-Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko’s party.