January 01, 2015

Ukraine: 2014 at a glance

Украина-2014 одним глотком - только заголовки

Ukraine-2014 at a glance by "Digests and Analytics – Ukraine" News Agency


  • Activists fighting with the police on the Grushevskogo street.
  • Verkhovna Rada adopted the “dictatorial laws of Yanukovych”.
  • There was a massacre near the Parliament. Special forces killed "The Heavenly Hundred".
  • President Yanukovych had fled.
  • Constitution of 2004 have been reinstated.
  • Turchinov became the head of the state and the parliament. Presidential elections have been scheduled.
  • Russia invaded the Crimea and held a "referendum" there.
  • The West gave financial aid to Ukraine .
  • Separatist movements are launched in the South and East of Ukraine along with the "New Russia (Novorossia)" project.
  • The Ukrainian army was revived.
  • Volunteer movement started. Volunteer battalions created.
  • The attempt on the mayor of Kharkiv Kernes failed.
  • Pro-Russian protesters died in a burning building in Odessa.
  • Poroshenko became the president in one round. Tymoshenko lost.
  • Klitschko elected a mayor of Kiev.
  • Poroshenko started to build a presidential republic.
  • Center of military actions has moved to Donetsk.
  • Russian troops shelled Ukrainian army units from across the border.
  • Malaysian Airlines flight MH-17 shot down by insurgents in the Donbas.
  • Anti-terrorist operation turned into military action.
  • Authorities broke up Maidan. A military parade held.
  • Full-scale Russian aggression launched. Ukrainian army have been defeated near Ilovaysk.
  • Poroshenko dissolves the Verkhovna Rada.
  • Collusion between Poroshenko and Putin in Minsk.
  • Combat operaions continue in Eastern Ukraine during the "truce".
  • Part of the territory of Donbass has received a special status.
  • Putin put some brakes on the Association Agreement between Ukraine and the EU.
  • Russia opens a second, energy front against Ukraine.
  • Western sanctions against Russia have been introduced.
  • National currency hryvnia fell.
  • Early parliamentary elections held. The democratic coalition created.
  • "The cyborgs" hold the defences of the Donetsk International Airport.
  • Yatseniuk remains Prime Minister.
  • Non-aligned status of Ukraine has been cancelled and the way toward the NATO membership opened.
  • The IMF will give money only if reforms are launched by Kyiv.
  • The Verkhovna Rada adopted laws, which impose a regime of severe frugality.
  • The adopted state budget will be reviewed in a month.

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