28 January 2014

Parliament voted 361 to 2 to re­peal the law. Ukrainian Prime Minister (Mykola Azarov) resigned. Yanukovych offered the post to one of the op­pos­i­tion leaders, Arseniy Yatsenyuk, who re­fused. The op­pos­i­tion leaders only agreed to meet Yanukovych after the ap­proval was given by those as­sembled on the Maidan. This was not the time for con­ceding to Yanukovych and the Party of Regions. In a sim­ilar spirit, an am­nesty bill to drop the charges on those ar­rested if protestors left the square/​occupation of gov­ern­ment build­ings, was pro­posed. The op­pos­i­tion re­jected the law.

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