Update on the Ukrainian revolution

In spite of the  PM resigning and in spite of concessions made, the protestors remain in the streets. 

From TheEconomist:
... On Shovkovychna Street,   beyond the first of three police checkpoints on the way to Ukraine’s parliament, a row of portable toilets presents a truly grotesque sight. Evidently it has not been possible to admit a sewage truck to the area. Kiev’s government district has been sealed off for weeks to prevent protesters from occupying it. Police officers’ assorted waste had overflowed, apparently some time ago. Yesterday morning it was frozen solid, like plastic. No smell. Something, the sight seemed to say, has gone seriously wrong here.

Ukraine’s crisis is lurching into chaos. The atmosphere in the camp on Independence Square (known simply as Maidan or Square) is often superficially jolly, but suspicion and confusion are everywhere. It is as though everyone thinks everyone else is a Russian spy. Even so, after the sight of the toilets, plus the decidedly un-European siege security, the atmosphere inside the parliament’s extraordinary crisis meeting was remarkably civilised.

There was none of the brawling for which the house is notorious. Members voted calmly and almost unanimously to repeal nine out of 11 recently passed laws that were seen as putting unacceptable limits on freedom of assembly and expression: laws the opposition had dubbed “dictatorial”. They also effectively re-introduced four of them, and no-one seemed to mind.

Before proceedings got under way, however, they had been interrupted by a message from Mykola Azarov, the prime minister (pictured below), announcing his resignation. According to Ukraine’s constitution, that implies the departure of the entire government (though not the president), which fulfils one of the main demands that the opposition movement has been making ever since the government reneged on its promise to sign an association agreement with the European Union on November 29th...........

From VoiceOfRussia:

....PACE to hold urgent debate on Ukraine's situation Jan 30. 

The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe will hold an urgent debate on Ukraine's situation on Thursday, January 30. Such a decision was taken at a meeting of the PACE Bureau on Monday, head of the Russian delegation to PACE and chairman of the State Duma international affairs committee Alexei Pushkov said.

"This will be a fierce discussion," Pushkov said. "We hope that reasonable voices realizing that it is impossible to shake the situation "for the sake of democracy" endlessly will also be heard."...