Ukrainian MPs vote to disarm all protest groups in the country, from UNIAN and AP via our newsroom:
The decision, passed with 256 votes in favor, came after radical nationalists earlier Tuesday surrendered their weapons and left a Kyiv hotel. Interior Minister Arsen Avakov said members of ultranationalist Right Sector movement left the Dnipro Hotel they had commandeered as their headquarters, got into buses and headed to a suburban camp. Their departure followed a shooting spree in the capital in which a Right Sector member shot and wounded three people, including a deputy mayor of the capital. Earlier reports said Tuesday that police had detained a suspect in the shooting incident in the hotel located not far from the city's central Independence Square. Right Sector played a key role in the ouster of Ukraine's President Viktor Yanukovych in late February but fell out with the new government following the killing of one of their leaders last month.
From our news desk, the standoff in Kyiv with Right Sector has ended:
Ukraine's interior minister says radical nationalists have surrendered their weapons and left a Kyiv hotel.
Arsen Avakov wrote on his Facebook Tuesday that members of ultranationalist Right Sector movement left the Dnipro Hotel they had commandeered as their headquarters, got into buses and headed to a suburban camp.
Their departure followed a shooting spree in the capital, in which a Right Sector member shot and wounded three people, including a deputy mayor of the capital.
Earlier reports said Tuesday that police had detained a suspect in the shooting incident in the hotel located not far from the city's central Independence Square.
Right Sector played a key role in the ouster of Ukraine's President Viktor Yanukovych in late February but fell out with the new government following the killing of one of their leaders this month.
09:521.4.2014
Ukrainian parliament reportedly votes to disarm all nongovernmental groups, via @MaximEristavi.
Ukraine's parliament has voted to dissarm all non-govt groups, following yesterday's shooting spree by Right Sector in Kyiv
Russia's state-controlled gas giant, Gazprom, announces it will hike the price Ukraine pays for natural gas in the second quarter to $385.5 per 1,000 cubic meters, from a previous rate of $268.5. Gazprom Chief Executive Officer Aleksei Miller said in Moscow that Ukraine's unpaid gas debt stood at $1.7 billion as of today. The decision to raise the price by more than 40 percent ends a discount agreed before the political crisis in which Ukraine has ousted its Moscow-backed president and Russia has annexed the Crimea region from Ukraine.
07:521.4.2014
Police in Kyiv are reported to have detained a suspect in a shooting incident not far from Independence Square. According to local reports, three people were wounded in the shooting late last night, including a senior official in the mayor's office, Bogdan Dubass. The suspect is reported to be a member of the far-right nationalist Right Sector movement.
07:351.4.2014
RFE/RL correspondent Robert Coalson notes that political scientist Aleksandr Dugin -- a leading public proponent of the new Russian conservatism and head of the International Eurasian Movement -- has urged the closure or blocking of a list of "biggest bastard" media that includes RFE/RL, Radio Moskvy, "Novaya Gazeta," "Vedomosti," Dozhd TV, and on and on. It's on Dugin's Facebook page:
Here's politonline.ru sharing its criteria for ranking those media based on their level of "anti-Russian" sentiment, support for U.S. position, and support for the Ukrainian government and Euromaidan.
21:0631.3.2014
Barring major developments, that concludes our live-blogging for March 31.
