A newly published poll by Russia Public Opinion Research Center (VTsIOM) suggests that some 80 percent of Russians believe Western media are trying to divide their country through critical coverage of President Vladimir Putin.
The video -- shot by a policeman -- of Havrilyuk (also Gavrilyuk) being abused, beaten, and stripped naked in the January snow at an antigovernment protest -- provided momentum to the Euromaidan movement.
Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk has suggested he'll continue in his role when a new coalition government is formed. Speaking at a news conference in Kyiv today, he also said ministers in the new government should face public hearings broadcast live on TV. With nearly all votes counted, Yatsenyuk's People's Front was the strongest single party with 22.17 percent of the vote.
A leader of self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic in the east of Ukraine, Aleksandr Zakharchenko, speaking to residents of the eastern Ukrainian town of Makiivka today, as he campaigns ahead of November 2 poll rejected by Kyiv and in defiance of Ukrainian national elections held on October 26, which were won by pro-Western parties:
"I want our pensioners to be able to travel to Australia at least once a year and to shoot 15 or so kangaroos on a safari. I want my compatriots to work to live and not live to work. That's what I want. [I want] an average salary to be higher than in Poland and in Poland it is $1,370. That's what I want. I want to live in a big, rich, free country."
"If you want to say there is peace tomorrow -- I hope for that. I am preparing for peace very hard: I am rearming troops, forming new units, digging trenches, and preparing for peace because peace is the main goal we need to achieve. Which road we take to get there -- sorry, but that's the road we are compelled to walk down."