Translated material
Kyiv, December 2
On-line reporting The New Times from the Maidan
21 00 (Moscow time)
On the Maidan, everyone is waiting for Yanukovych's statements. Information about this was already distributed on social networks civil activists. It is said that the president decided to interview the four television channels of the country at once: Inter, 1+1, TRK Ukraine and ICTV. People are waiting for the resignation of the Cabinet and a statement about the resumption of the negotiation process with the EU.
People are afraid that the opposition will arrange this scenario, and therefore rallies will end. “There are no revolutionary sentiments today. Most-sluggishly and disparately hopes that the opposition will present something, some kind of plan. But he is not. We are afraid that today everything will end, ”says Oleg Danilyuk, 28 -year -old transport company manager.
“There is no leader, and we have nothing to do here if they do not announce anything worthwhile today. All hope is only that something will change in an opposition environment. We need a leader, ”a 40 -year -old man supports dialogue in a earpiece.
20 00 (Moscow time)
At a briefing in the “Headquarters of the Revolution”, organized in the Kiev House of Trade Unions, the leaders of the opposition parliamentary parties Vitaly Klitschko, Arseny Yatsenyuk and Oleg Tyagnibok curled up that on the morning of December 3, they would consider the issue of impeachment to the government of Nikolai Azarov.
As the New Times explained to the end of the briefing Yatsenyuk, President Yanukovych “instructed the Rada to vote against the resignation of the government”, however, according to the politician, the deputies will not go to this, since such a step “will cause a new wave of political crisis”. Also, according to Yatsenyuk, the National Resistance Committee has information that Berkut is going to storm the building of the Kyiv city hall occupied by the opposition tonight. “We urge the Berkut fighters and other law enforcement agencies to stand on our side, but if the authorities are storming, we are ready to repulse,” Yatsenyuk said in a conversation with The New Times.
18 25 (Moscow time)
Restaurants in the center of Kyiv began to massively begin to treat people with soups, tea and hot dishes at the expense of the establishment. The rally of solidarity with the protesters was supported by Opanas restaurants in Shevchenko Park, Barban bar on Zhezznoye Street, Barhot cafe on the upper shaft, Prego restaurant on Shevchenko Boulevard, Bardak bar on Tarasovskaya Street and several others.
Yesterday, Kiev residents living in the city center offered a protesters from other cities to stay with their overnight stay. Many residents of the central regions of the capital removed passwords from the Internet access points - in order to use it, protesters with smartphones and laptops.
Residents of the sleeping areas of Kyiv began to bring plastic containers with warm food, tea with tea, cookies and croissants to the Maidan. Some grandmothers even began to carry large three -liter jars with pickles and jam on minibuses and in the metro wagons.
17 40 (Moscow time)
Anti -Russian replicas periodically sound on the Maidan. People are afraid that Bankova’s orders in the costumes of Berkutovites will be Russian special forces. At the same time, the manifestants themselves deny that they are negative about the Russians. “We are not against Russian people. Among them are also full of adequate citizens. We are opposing the regime of Putin and all those Kremlin signs who support him, ”says a 23 -year -old guy from Lviv named Bogdan.
He is echoed by a 65-year-old pensioner living in the center of Kyiv. “Yanukovych himself said that he had deprived our children of a normal future because of Putin. There was still not enough for us to cease to be an independent state. We know that there are many provocateurs at the rally. Perhaps they came here from Russia and were operating here for Kremlin money. I do not believe that our children are able to beat glass in their native Kyiv. Therefore, we will repulse all the Kremlin kite, ”she says. And he adds: “I am not against the Russians as such. How can I mind if I have a cousin under Voronezh ”?
17 00 (MSK)
Dozens of girls gathered under the presidential administration. They hung yellow-blue ribbons on the shields of the Berkut fighters. Markers on some of them wrote “I serve the people of Ukraine” and “We love Ukraine”.
Meanwhile, in Kyiv, real snow went - the first this year. About 5-6 thousand protesters on the Maidan did not frighten: they continue to protest.
A video is distributed on the Internet, which shows how a large number of young people in a sports uniform (the so -called “titles”) go along the Mariinsky Park towards the Cabinet of Ministers. "Golden Eagle" is following them. Obviously, the authorities collect reinforcements and, possibly, prepares the acceleration of the protesters under the government building.
16 55 (Moscow time) Acting mayor of Kiev, Alexander Popov, called on people who occupied the city administration building immediately leave him. According to the official, “blocking the work of the city administration may threaten the delays in payments to salaries to employees of the budget sphere, interruptions in food in the city, heat, energy and water supply, etc.”. Despite the fact that the administration is working normally in its offices (their protesters did not capture), Popov did not come to the city hall today.
Along the way, the Crimean parliament demanded that President Yanukovych introduce a state of emergency in the country, "if the situation requires it." A similar call sounded at an extraordinary session of the City Council in Donetsk.
Meanwhile, there are more and more opinions regarding what is happening in power. Viktor Yanukovych is silent. However, according to political scientist Alexei Bluminov, yesterday, December 1, a "fight of the bulldogs under the carpet" took place:
“In the end, as often happened in history, a failed palace preceded a real coup. In addition to their will, the people of the "family" became the architects of the current Maidan. "Family" decided to arrange a palace coup and rely on the twisting of the nuts, but the script failed. From the very beginning, everything went wrong as it was planned. The Ministry of Internal Affairs authorized the acceleration of Euromaidan, made a “leak” in advance about the upcoming personnel rearrangements, but Levochkin (the head of the presidential administration - The New Times) outplayed them, making a way and using acceleration as a reason to blackmail the president with self -consumption. It turned out that he was not fired, but he resigned. Naturally, in such conditions, Yanukovych did not dare to accept the resignation, ”the expert explains.
“The responsibility for acceleration went to the“ family ”Zakharchenko [Minister of the Interior Vitaly Zakharchenko - The New Times), Personally Yanukovych in the ass, and people on the streets became a luxurious trump card in the arms of the oligarchy, which leads the game to the transfer of power by returning the 2004 Constitution. The Maidan acceleration teams were never received. The power group is now receding now, ”adds a political scientist.
“Memo for a rally”, distributed in Ukrainian social networks: 
14 30 (MCK)
The Ministry of Internal Affairs officially recognized the fact of tightening the internal troops in Kyiv. “As of 10 a.m. on December 2, about a thousand internal troops who serve near administrative buildings of state authorities were involved in Kyiv,” the department said.
The Ministry of Internal Affairs emphasizes: this order was personally given by the head of the department Vitaly Zakharchenko. According to him, such a decision was made "in connection with large -scale protests in the capital to ensure public order in the city of Kyiv."
14 15 (Moscow time)
In the courtyard of the Cabinet of Ministers, the opposition hung the flag of the European Union. The authorities responded with the strengthening of the protection of the Government House and the Verkhovna Rada.
The protesters are afraid of provocations. There are calls to Maidan participants to remove the mask from faces. “It is these goats in masks and sticks that can ruin everything. Let them remove (masks). Both in 2004 and in 1991. We won without masks and sticks. We will win this time too. Who allegedly puts on them due to the fact that he is afraid of the SBU (the Security Service of Ukraine - The New Times), let him sit at home and does not climb anywhere. All the provocations are arranged precisely by these bastards in masks, ”says 37 -year -old furniture designer Alexander.
13 30 (Moscow time)
The deputy of the City Council of Sevastopol Sergey Smolyaninov called for the Russian troops to introduce Russian troops into Ukraine. With this request, he had already addressed Russian President Vladimir Putin.
The protesters on the Maidan call Smolyaninov “senmar”. “Yanukovych will never go for it. Whatever it is an idiot, no one wants a civil war. And even more so the wars between Ukraine and Russia. Yanukovych now, obviously, will try to use the internal troops. But we are sure that they will not shoot at people. Maybe someone thinks that as soon as there are soldiers, we will disperse. But we will not leave, and no one will shoot, ”says Oleg, 26 -year -old member of the rally.
13:07 (Moscow time)
Three western regions - Ternopol, Lviv and Ivano -Frankivskaya - announced a strike. Only kindergartens, doctors and transport workers went to work. Everyone else supports the strike.
Meanwhile, five buses with soldiers of the internal troops are moving towards Kyiv, according to eyewitnesses. The bus is accompanied by a field kitchen and two cars "bob".
The former Minister of the Interior, as well as the former political prisoner Yuri Lutsenko, said that yesterday in the center of Kyiv, 800 thousand people gathered to support the opposition. According to him, the situation is seriously different from the "orange" revolution in 2004. “Then we came and waited for the president to come and do everything for us. Now we must do everything ourselves, ”he says.
13:06 (Moscow time)
Cars that blocked the entrance to the house of the Government of Ukraine
12:49 (Moscow time)
The House of the Government of Ukraine in the morning is surrounded by demonstrators. On both sides of Grushevsky Street, the passage was blocked by private cars, about 2,000 people gathered right in front of the entrance to the building. The speakers require the resignation of the government of Nikolai Azarov and President Yanukovych.
The entrance to the building is guarded by police officers, rumors about the parts of the “ Berkut ” , which are in the courtyard of the Cabinet of Ministers, go in the crowd.
12:41 (Moscow time)
Protesters at the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine
12:38 (Moscow time)
Political strategist, President of Berta Communications Tarasovets believes that the opposition now needs to not succumb to provocations and prevent the dispersal of demonstrators by force. And this scenario is possible: the expert recalls that Sergey Levochkin left the post of head of the Presidential Administration, and his opinion will be hearing the Minister of the Interior Vitaly Zakharchenko. Yanukovych’s closest encirclement may begin to push him to a power scenario, ”the expert warns.
As the correspondent of The New Times, Sergei Khazov, the Cabinet building is now temporarily blocked. According to The New Times, about 2 thousand people are near the government building. They require the immediate resignation of the Cabinet. The situation is tense, but calm: there are no clashes with law enforcement officers yet. *12: 09 (Moscow time) in the KSGA building distribute homemade sauerkraut. Surprisingly, there is not a single drunk person. Many go into the building as a tour: someone comes with children, someone himself, someone in the company.
*12: 01 (Moscow time) The column hall of the City Hall of Kiev. Here they give out free tea, coffee, sandwiches with cheese and sausage, sauerkraut, medicines. People sleep on the floor - they spent the night here.
*11: 59 (Moscow time) in the building of the Kyiv City State Administration, which the protesters captured yesterday, everything is also calm. Despite the fact that the police yesterday promised to take the building storm and disperse the invaders by the special forces forces, no one began to do this.
*11: 51 (Moscow time) This morning, about six thousand manifestants lined up in front of the rows of Golden Eagle near the building of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine in the center of Kiev. The opposition is led by the column, requiring the authorities of the government.
At the Cabinet of Ministers, the Prime Minister of Ukraine Nikolai Azarov, said that the issue of introducing a state of emergency in Kyiv was not raised. Last night in the opposition ranks, this topic was widely executed, but experts warned: if President Yanukovych decides to take such a step, this may threaten him with great consequences.
In general, everything is calm in Kyiv. None of the law of law enforcement at night attacked the tent town on the Maidan. The New Times correspondent Sergei Khazov says that right now on the Maidan is an absolute lull: the demonstrators are awake and fed with cookies.
True, there were a lot of injuries and victims yesterday: over the past day, 165 people came into the emergency rooms of Kyiv, 109 of them were hospitalized.
Political scientist Alexei Bluminov, in an interview with The New Times, however, says that Ukraine is on the verge of a civil war. “No one intends to retreat. The opposition, along with the oligarchs, who supported Yanukovych a couple of days ago, will try to dump Azarov and seek the help of the EU. On the side of the opposition is an influential pro -Western group in power, the mobilization resource of the capital plus the support of Washington and the EU. There is no media behind Yanukovych, and Russia will be silent until it becomes clear whose takes, ”he says.
“Most likely, today and tomorrow the Eregovornoye process on the peaceful transference of power will start. Obviously, the instrument of this will be the return of the 2004 Constitution (in this edition, the powers of the president are very cut, and Ukraine is considered the parliamentary republic - The New Times). This will be done on one day, as lightning speed as its cancellation in 2010. The sponsor of the new Kyiv redistribution of power will be Brussels with the technical assistance of Warsaw and with the approval of Washington, ”the expert emphasizes.
11:33 (Moscow time)
Women from nearby stores carry cookies
*11: 10 (Moscow time) *
Dismantled wreaths on brooms - New Year's Christmas tree for barricades 
10:00 (Moscow time)
The night in Kyiv passed calmly. The Smallness Maidan is surrounded by barricades, which the protesters erected at night from the New Year's decorations. The approaches to the area are also blocked by trucks. There are several hundred people who spent the night on the square, many of them came from other regions. According to the protesters, the Kiylyan who have gone to sleep should return to continue protests.
The mayor of Lviv Andrei Sadovy, who previously expressed support to the protesting, wrote on the eve on his Facebook page that all measures were taken in Lviv to ensure peaceful demonstrations. In the Sunday rally, up to 50 thousand people took part for European integration in Lviv. “People continue to go to Kyiv,” wrote Andrei Sadovy.
Photos: Sergey Khazov