Remarks by Dr. Taras Kuzio, Research Associate Centre for Political and Regional Studies, Canadian Institute for Ukrainian Studies, University of Alberta, Toronto, Canada, 7 February 2014. - 'Civil war' is a very easy catch phrase to use compared to 'interregional conflict' or 'regime versus population' but it's not the right way to understand Ukraine today. - 0:26 Leonid Kuchma, Leonid Kravchuk, Viktor Yuschneko, Viktor Yanukovych - 0:55 2004 was close to a civil war between east and west. Consultants, some from Russia working for Yanukovych, deliberately inflamed regional tensions. - 1:24 Today Yanukovych's supporters are placid, passive, no fire in the belly of the voters of east Ukraine as in 2004. Viktor Yanukovych has lost a lot of support in his own region. - 1:49 Ukraine Chief Loses Support in Stronghold, The New York Times, By ANDREW HIGGINSFEB. 5, 2014 http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/06/world/europe/ukraine-chief-loses-support-in-stronghold.html?_r=0 - 2:01 Not a case of east versus west, but the population as a whole, probably 60-70%, versus a kleptocratic, violent regime. - 2:26 Not the case of Russian speaking east Ukrainians versus Ukrainian speaking west Ukrainians. - 2:37 Euromaidan videos have many Russian speakers. The west Ukrainian domination of the 2004 Orange revolution was far greater than today. - 3:03 People all over Ukraine are participating. Lebanese restaurant owners from Kharkiv were at Maidan. Two of the people killed were an Armenian and a Belarusian. - 3:15 Serhiy Nigoyan (Сергій Ніґоян) Սերգեյ Նիգոյան - 3:16 Mikhail Zhyznevskyi (Михайло Жизневский) Михаил Жизневский - 3:25 Zaporizhzhia Oblast (Запорізька область), Odessa Oblast (Одеська область), Dnipropetrovsk Oblast (Дніпропетровська область), Luhansk Oblast (Луганська область) - 3:35 Not like Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, or Russia. - 3:55 Yanukovych leads a party of anti-nationalists, Party of Regions (Партія регіонів). He attacks the opposition as nationalists. He has nothing to offer the population except lies. - 4:20 'Civil war' is the wrong way of putting it. At the same time it provides an indication of the dangerous situation in the country. Leonid Kuchma, Leonid Kravchuk, Viktor Yushchenko (Леонід Кучма, Леонід Кравчук, Віктор Ющенко) were not willing to use violence while in power. - 4:56 Post Yanukovych era within 12 months. Viktor Yanukovych (Віктор Янукович) will have two choices: stay in jail in Ukraine, or leave Ukraine for Russia. He will not be able to stay in Ukraine with an immunity deal. - 5:25 I fear bloodshed is still down the road. Thank you to St. Vladimir Institute (Lidia Smilka) at the University of Toronto for the recording venue. http://www.stvladimir.ca Taras Kuzio http://taraskuzio.net This video was not sponsored. #Euromaidan / #ЄвроМайдан http://maidan.in.ua http://euromaidan.com http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2013_protests_in_Ukraine http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ukrainian_oligarchs

• published: 08 Feb 2014
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