Nearly 300,000 Ukrainians rally after EU halts talks

Easy to understand Ukrainians not wanting to be bullied by Putin's thugocraship, but the EU is destined to implode under it's own bureaucracy. The collapse of France will ignite the overnight, USSR-inspired collapse of the EU, watch this space....

@Madverts

How has Putin bullied Ukrainians? They've been independent for over 20 years now. You'd think they'd get their act together and stop blaming others for their misfortunes, and rather start building a proper country, a home to live in. But instead they seem to be looking for a nice master who'd feed them and keep them warm, rather than doing anything themselves. The vast majority of people in these protests expected to be admitted to EU or at least to get a visa-free policy, so they could migrate into EU for work. Very few actually knew what the whole agreement was about and what consequences it would have for Ukraine's economy. In any case, with Russia they have cheap hydrocarbons and free hand to conquer the huge Russian market with whatever they produce (food, metals, etc). While in EU they would become the net importers and their own industry would die off. EU countries do not want another competitor, they only need a new market for THEIR goods.

Russia uses anything it can to bully anyone not bending over for Putin's dictatorship. Gas, fruit and vegetables...I mean where do I start ? Russia has put embargos on Ukrainian chocolate, Lithuanian cheese, Georgian wines, the list of bullying measures are enormous - all in an attempt to influence the outcome of the European Union’s negotiations with its eastern neighbors.

I'm nothing sure if you know but the few people out in support for President Viktor Yanukovych in the capitalt right now are those that were bused in by the regime and paid to do so. It has been rather amusing watch them hide their faces and refuse to answer questions from the BBC....

With hundreds of thousands of protesters still braving the cold and police brutality, and the opposition banged-up in gaol, I'm not sure how anyone can support this regime to be honest.