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The participants of the World Economic Forum in Davos have announced a boycott of Prime Minister of Ukraine Mykola Azarov.

According to BuzzFeed, the WEF withdrew its invitation to  Azarov,
who had come to the meeting on Friday, against the backdrop of
escalating violence in Kyiv.

A spokesman for the Forum in Davos declined to comment.

Another representative of the Yanukovych government, Deputy Prime
Minister Yuriy Boyko,was besieged by troubled western officials in
Davos. A “No record” session which was planned for discussing the
economic future of Ukraine, has become an emotional to the political
crisis in Ukraine .

It began with a minute of silence dedicated to those demonstrators killed.

The original article in Ukrainian is on the Ukrainska Pravda website at:

http://www.pravda.com.ua/news/2014/01/22/7010788/