Injured Ukraine activist &#;dreams of going home&#;
A Ukrainian anti-government activist whose account of torture has shocked the West said Monday he was dreaming of returning home, but has not yet decided to leave Lithuania where he is undergoing treatment.
Dmytro Bulatov said he wanted to visit relatives in Germany but was still considering his options following a meeting with Lithuania&#;s president.
&#;I dream of returning to Ukraine at the earliest opportunity but everything will depend on the situation there,&#; Bulatov said in a statement to AFP.
&#;I want to take a month to consider all my options about the future. I haven&#;t decided anything yet,&#; he said in comments released by a spokeswoman for the Vilnius hospital where he has been staying.
Berlin officials said Monday the year-old father-of-three had been granted a German visa, after local media reported he wants to move to the country.
But Bulatov said he only promised his grandmother he would visit her in a telephone call Monday.
&#;This morning my grandmother called me crying from Germany. I told her that I would visit her as soon as I can,&#; he said.
Bulatov is a leader of the &#;Auto
Stand-off over 'tortured' Ukrainian activist Dmytro Bulatov
Medical workers have blocked police from questioning a Ukrainian protester who says he was abducted and tortured.
Dmytro Bulatov, who went missing for eight days, is being treated in hospital after claiming he was "crucified" by his captors.
He is on a government wanted list. Opposition activists said officers went to the hospital in Kiev to arrest him.
The police said they had opened an inquiry into his abduction and were trying to question him about that.
One interior ministry official said there were suspicions the abduction was faked as part of an attempt at provoking unrest.
Local reports later said the officers had left without questioning Mr Bulatov, but some police guards had been posted at the hospital.
Protests broke out in November, when President Viktor Yanukovych pulled out of a deal with the EU in favour of a Russian bailout.
In mid-January, police and demonstrators clashed after the government passed a law severely restricting protesters' rights.
Mr Yanukovych has since ordered the law repealed, signed an amnesty for protesters and accepted the resignation of his cabine
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At our request, Takuan Seiyo has undertaken an analysis of recent events in Ukraine. The following detailed account is the first part of a comprehensive two-part report on Ukrainian “democracy”.
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Ukraine as Quantum Decoherence
by Takuan Seiyo
Some basics
The maps above show present-day Ukraine on top, its terrain in in the middle, and in at the bottom. There would be no country called Ukraine — there had been several ukraines i.e. “borderlands” in Eastern Europe — until for Eastern Ukraine only, on and off as the Ukrainian People’s Republic. It’s a hint of how convoluted the history of the region is that just in , Kiev’s territory was under the governance of the Ukrainian People’s Republic, German-sponsored Cossack Hetmanate, again UPR, the Bolsheviks, the Russian anti-Bolshevik army of Gen. Anton Denykhin, again UPR, Poland, and fi
Ukraine crisis: Putin adviser accuses US of meddling
Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych is due to meet Mr Putin on Friday in Sochi, on the opening day of the Winter Olympic Games there.
He held talks in Kiev with US Assistant Secretary of State Victoria Nuland on Thursday, at which he said he favoured dialogue and compromise with the opposition.
Meanwhile, an audio recording has been posted online, which is purported to be a hacked phone conversation between Ms Nuland and US Ambassador Geoffrey Pyatt, in which the female speaker dismisses EU efforts to resolve the crisis, using an expletive.
The two speakers also discuss frankly the merits of the three main Ukrainian opposition leaders in the conversation. The US embassy declined to comment on the tape.
Thousands of Ukrainian opposition activists, some carrying shields and baseball bats, marched from their camp on Independence Square in the capital Kiev to parliament in a show of force on Thursday.
They came close to government supporters who are camped next to parliament behind barricades manned by hundreds of police, but the march passed off peacefully.
In another development, a man received a serious hand injury w
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