Ukraine marks Euromaidan's 3rd anniversary:
By RFE/RL
Ukraine is marking the Day of Dignity and Freedom, a holiday commemorating the 2013 beginning of the Euromaidan protests that ousted former President Viktor Yanukovych.
Government officials, Maidan protest participants, and ordinary citizens will hold ceremonies in Kyiv on November 21, and will place flowers at a monument to the "Heavenly Hundred" -- protesters who were killed in clashes with security forces during the protest.
A "revolution march" was also organized in the capital by nationalists from 7 p.m. local time.
Commemorations are to be held in other cities as well.
The Euromaidan movement began when protesters gathered in central Kyiv after Yanukovych announced he was postponing plans to sign an Association Agreement with the European Union and would seek closer economic ties with Russia.
Three months later, in February 2014, Yanukovych fled to Russia and was removed from office.
Obama wants Ukraine deal:
By RFE/RL
U.S. President Barack Obama says he wants to reach a negotiated peace settlement in Ukraine before he leaves office in January.
Obama, during a wide-ranging press conference in Peru on the sidelines of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit, also criticized Iran and Russia's role in Syria’s brutal civil war.
Obama said he talked with Russian President Vladimir Putin on November 20 about Ukraine and the "need for us to get things done."
"I urged him to instruct his negotiators to work with ourselves, with France, with Germany, with Ukraine to see if we can get that done before my term is up," Obama added.
Moscow has backed pro-Russia separatists fighting government forces in eastern Ukraine, where the conflict has killed nearly 10,000 people.
U.S. President-elect Donald Trump's shock election victory has been met with trepidation in Kyiv because of the billionaire's praise for Putin.
Obama also said he was "not optimistic" about the immediate future of Syria, where government forces backed by Russian warplanes have been bombarding rebel-held parts of the northern city of Aleppo.
The president said once Russia and Iran backed the Syrian government it was "very hard to see a way in which even a trained and committed moderate opposition could hold its ground."
Obama also insisted that he would allow Trump to "put forward his platform and his arguments," but suggested he would speak out if core U.S. values were threatened.
Obama also urged Trump to retain U.S. support for a liberal world order, warning world peace and prosperity depended on it.
"The main advice that I give to the incoming president is the United States really is an indispensable nation in our world order," Obama said. (w/ AP, AFP)
That concludes our live-blogging of the Ukraine crisis for Sunday, November 20. Check back here tomorrow for more of our continuing coverage.