FINANCIAL TIMES: President Viktor Yanukovich will “fight to the last bullet” to keep his job and is being backed by a Russian leadership that wants to reabsorb Ukraine into a “modern USSR”, warned Arseny Yatseniuk, one of the country’s main opposition leaders.
But Mr Yatseniuk, who last week turned down an offer from Mr Yanukovich to become prime minister, said the president might still end the crisis and keep his job until scheduled elections in 2015 if he gave opposition leaders control of a national unity government and accepted curbs on his powers.
In an interview with the Financial Times, Mr Yatseniuk said he had turned down the president’s offer because the position did not involve having full control of the government. To anti-government protesters who have camped on Kiev’s frozen streets for the past two months, it would have appeared a sellout… (more)
