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New York Times: A dangerously divided Ukraine
Ukraine’s president, Viktor Yanukovich, took a tentative step toward defusing his country’s political turmoil earlier this week by convening a “round table” with former Ukrainian presidents to discuss possible responses to the protests engulfing the capital, Kiev. But he promptly negated any value in that gesture by ordering security police to clear the demonstrators’ encampment in Independence Square early Wednesday morning. Though the police appeared to pull back by midday, the confrontation plunges Ukraine deeper into crisis.