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It's true, about 45% of the ukrainian population speak russian as their first language, but only 17% of the population is ethnic russian. moreover, although the demonstrations in kiev three months ago started about drawing closer to the european union, i think since then they've broadened. you have people out there tired of the corruption that's grown worse in the last four years. they're tired of the authoritarian tendencies. and it's not just a western ukraine thing. i saw a survey a couple of weeks ago that a big demonstration in kiev three weeks ago, 20% of the people came from southern an...

Strategic importance to moscow, its buffer to the west. if you think vladimir putin has taken a hard line on syria, ukraine is more vital to russia's interests, and putin isn't about to let the u.s. call the shots in his own backyard. on wednesday, sergey lavrov took aim at the west, encouraging the opposition to act outside the law. remind what the russians just did with ukraine when it came to giving them new loans. anyway, president putin is putting the onus on the so-called extremists, is who he's calling them, while trying to paint yanukovych as the victim. according to his office, the tw...

We personally saw at least three people killed, all of them demonstrators, and dozens of people wounded. >> the government has evacuated the parliament for fear it would be overrun. the defense ministry is warning it may call out the military. on wednesday, president obama went out of his way to warn embattled ukrainian president yanukovych not to take that step. >> we'll be monitoring very closely the situation, recognizing that along with our european partners and the international community there will be consequences if people step over the line, and that includes making sure that the ukrai...

Different picture. had the european union viewed this strictly as a geopolitical fight, they would have signed the association agreement two years ago, but instead the european union said, no, before we sign the association unit that we'll bring you closer to the european union, you, mr. yanukovych, need to take steps to move back to a more democratic trend. >> and it seems, though, that the other then that's going on here, and i'm curious of your experience there, is that this divide between essentially russian-ukrainians, you know, former russians, and the non-russian-speaking ukrainians, ju...