>> we never lost maidan. maidan is people powered.nge our country. this is why we never lost maidan again. we lost after the orange revolution in 2004. these guys will change our country. but now, i ink maidan about now, about putin, not about election or change our country. we unite all country. western parts from eastern price of ukraine, north, south, together for this war. i think putin worry about people power. i have bad news for him a few ballon to a putin right now. >> you can. >> that is mr. putin, i think your price will send this statement from the stage. i have bad news for you. we will see you one day when russia's people will switch on lights, russian lights and freedom. i think maidan will when brescia. >> do you think putin was last acting not out of strength, but fear because he saw what happened in maidan and he thought this could come in russia? i could and never chased out of my country? >> it is vital between money, big money, and big putin money. he has a lot of power. nobody can stop him. he has propaganda. but

i think maidan will win in russia.e will see one day that the russian people will switch on lights of freedom. i think maidan will win in russia. [applause] >> do you think that putin was acting not out of a show of strength, but an active fear? he's always happened in maidan and he worried that it could come to russia. >> you have to understand that it is volatile. it is between big money. couldn't -- putin had a lot of power. no one can stop them. he has propaganda. it is bad for all of us. it is a battle between money and truth. between war and peace. ukraine chooses peace. no weapons, no war. >> what do you want us to do? [applause] everyone in this theater would like to ask you what the united states should be doing. you know that we are not going to go to war with russia over ukraine. what should we be doing? >> please, we would ask -- we wait for your help as a guarantor of our independence. that goes back to the budapest agreement. not from russia. it is a bad example. we spoke about you. it is a bad example pu

everybody knows what is happening on the maidan.w, every day, every night, people believe that they will change our country. we will change ukraine. we do not have results right now. yanukovychthat disappear. i am focused on the new election. putin willre that agree with the new president. that is why we understand next month that it is a dangerous time for ukraine. for months, peace protests were everyday and every night. tore were about 5000 people 100 people every night. 100 nice i was on the maidan. [applause] it was cold. it was dangerous. >> at one point you were singing the national anthem. were you not afraid? >> i have two stories. i was on the stage. i was on the stage with a microphone. i was trying to support people with a good song and good words. we wanted to explain what was going on. i remember my friend asked me why? snipers are looking for you. we checked the buildings around. snipers are looking for you. i had a jacket. i took it off. i left. i was not strong enough. snipers can see me. the second story was on the

ukraine.t's start in the prosecutor general says the death of someone hundred protesters during the maidan under then kiev were direct leadership of ousted viktornt viktor -- yanukovych. the charges were made during a news conference by the prosecutor general and the head of the interior ministry and state security. they are planing the shooting deaths of more than 100 on riot police. yanukovych himself fled the day after the worst of those killings by sniper fire on february 20. he was later ousted by parliament. for more on this development, let's bring in gulliver cragg. how are they justifying these allegations against ousted president viktor yanukovych? >> it was mainly the head of the secret service's who made -- secret service who mated most clear that viktor yanukovych, in his view, was directing the whole operation, but the main reason he thought that was because viktor yanukovych was supposedly directing that whichrrorist operation, he himself had declared in conjunction with his ministers. in terms of concrete evidence of contact between people and the government and the special

when we were on the maidan, you have to understand how it would be.ight, people were on the maidan with these lights. it means that we are powerful. we are free. [applause] if you won't support ukraine, switch on this light. everybody has that. it means that we support freedom. >> i see some lights going on here. cell phone lights in the audience. we have a small maidan here. thank you very much. [applause] >> i love it. i will treasure it. thank you so much. you have just come from ukraine. you are on the ground for the last four months. you are an iconic face of the revolution. give us just a sense of the feeling of what it has been like and what it is like now from the inside. >> first of all, allow me to explain more about the situation right now. ukraine is -- the war is about ukraine choosing democracy. they do not want the power of crimean. nd also we have the eastern thing.f ukraine the same you go back ton, back. thank you for this possibility and explain more about it. amazing place, center of kiev. slow place. a lot of people. people was ki

it is very, very insulting to hear maidan. it was the most delightful, the most admirable way of people's self-expression in ukraine. the only question i can ask is how often he travels to ukraine. >> thank you so much. thank you so much for sharing your insights, ma'am. i'm just going to -- tom, if you just to want answer that question real quick, i think we'll move on to another question and just let the woman's comments stand. >> no, nobody wants to denigrate what the people in maidan did. they were demonstrating for what they thought was their own interest. the question i am asking is to what extent are they representative of all of ukraine? we do not know the answer to that question. what i said is that as opposed to a presidential election, i think ukraine needs to conduct a new rada election. they need to re-legitimize the elites across the board, not simply the president. for the ukrainian people, is it just maidan? do the people who did not participate in maidan have a voice? let's re-legitimize through a new election

when we were on the maidan, you have to understand how it would be.ht, people were on the maidan with these lights. it means that we are powerful. we are free. [applause] if you won't support ukraine, switch on this light. everybody has that. it means that we support freedom. >> i see some lights going on here. cell phone lights in the audience. we have a small maidan here. thank you very much. [applause] >> i love it. i will treasure it. thank you so much. you have just come from ukraine. you are on the ground for the last four months. you are an iconic face of the revolution. give us just a sense of the feeling of what it has been like and what it is like now from the inside. >> first of all, allow me to explain more about the situation right now. ukraine is -- the war is about ukraine choosing democracy. they do not want the power of crimean. nd also we have the eastern thing.f ukraine the same you go back ton, back. thank you for this possibility and explain more about it. amazing place, center of kiev. slow place. a lot of people. people was kill

for the ukrainian people, is it just maidan? do the people who did not maid n participate in maidan have a voice? let's religion -- let's re-legitimize through a new election. as opposed to us sitting here deciding which voices we have heard are the genuine voice of the ukrainian people. we do not know that. >> thank you. [indiscernible] i was last in ukraine a year and a half ago. >> david embed this gentleman next to him. fromod evening, david voice of america. i would like to ask tom and andrew about something david said. this is a question my polish friend asked me. troops moved into ukraine, should the u.s. and the nato allies move more troops into the baltics? has said he has the right to assert russian power in defense of russians who do not live in russia. there are a lot of russians in live in riga and lithuania. a lot of people are nervous. do you favor more nato troops in the baltics in the event russians move into ukraine? >> i have no doubt we are heading in that direction. i think it is a question of what presents

coming up, blame for the bloodbath in maidan square. >> the number of syrian refugees in lebanon has passed the one million mark. >> and bea to prepares to launch its sentinel satellite system. it will allow brussels to peer through the clouds. >> the president gave orders to shoot people who protested against him. >> that is one of the blistering accusations levered against ousted ukrainian president viktor yanukovich. >> ukraine's interim government released the first findings of an investigation into the month of unrest and violence that ended in 100 deaths. >> it also accuses russian secret service of bringing in weapons and soldiers to "eliminate protest." russia promptly rejected the claims. >> men in black uniforms opened fire in the ukrainian capital of kiev. they were officially members of the riot police. some 50 people were killed. at least 90 died and three days of carnage. soon after the bloodshed in independence square, president viktor yanukovich fled the country. the opposition maintained from the start be ordered to shoot came from the very top. a preliminary reports

you did not see much movement in dismantling occupied practice can say neither kiev where the maidan protesters have been, or in eastern ukraine where pro-russian forces have taken hold. if anything, it has increased, for example, in this shooting with some members of the pro-russian militants being killed in slaviansk. and there has been a blame game. blamed the west and kiev and raising a special criticism for the government in kiev for entering -- four launching another anti-terrorism operation. at the same time coming of concern coming out of kiev that russia has done nothing to call back the pro-russian separatist moscow that many believe has a direct hand in controlling, or manipulating or directing in eastern ukraine. those forces remain on the streets today in eastern ukraine, just as they had in recent days and weeks and many would place the blame on russia for not implementing its responsibility for the geneva agreements. whatever came out of geneva last week does not have much effect on the ground these days. the question will be, how much longer can the agreement that doe

the obama white house and state department been handling this well since the demonstrations at the maidan flared last fall? >> let me push back to what the other colleagues have talked tad about no doctrine and bipolar world. that's so last century thinking. we're trying to direct the world into the 21st century, there have been bumps but i think we're more on track with that. president putt someone certainly a big challenge. it's not our fault that he's making all the wrong decisions for his country. he's driving the country into some image of a czarist neo neo--czarist world that's not going to work. yes, we were taken by surprise, but for heaven sakes, we missed the fall of the soviet union, too. we're not very good at looking into the crystal ball. but since president putin has repeated this playbook, we know what he's doing this. he did that in georgia in 2008, molly should know about that, and he's doing it again in crimea and i think he's doing it at a huge cost. with the n.a.t.o. forces making it clear that he can't go any further than ukraine is going to work. i think the big cha

they focused, and we got carried away with the euphoria of the moment, of the protest in maidan.t was a spectacular event, and was people power to some what theut we lost russians were up to, how the russians were going to react to this, and we did not do sufficient contingency planning. that is, figure out what the other options were. plan a did not work, what plan b and plan c do they have? >> rank you for joining us. we endure, we overcome, and we own the finish line. the words of vice president joe biden today as he addressed boston on the one-year anniversary of the marathon bombing. many gathered near the site of last year's explosion for a moving tribute. >> a moment of silence for a city still hurting. it was a chance to remember those who died and were injured in the boston marathon bombings. an emotional anniversary for many. >> we will always remember our guardian angels. lingzi, sean, krystle, and martin. we will carry them in our hearts. >> today, crowds braved the rains to pay respect. i year ago, they came to cheer on runners until the of and -- event took a tragic

wish to emphasize the strong interlinkages between chronic human rights violations in ukraine, the maidan protests and the current situation in the east. almost a third of the population in ukraine reportedly lives under the poverty line. huge disparities in standards of living and inadequate access to base being social services attributed to corruption and mismanagement were amongst the underlying factors that led to the made dan process -- maidan protests. protests that started started ie kiev and swept across the rest of the country from november 2013 to february 2014 revealed a deep rooted dissatisfaction of the people of ukraine. vie learns bit security forces against pro-european peaceful protesters in kiev on 30th, november, 2013 created outrage and led to radicalization of the protests and clashes between protesters and police. legislation that curtailed freedoms of expression and assembly and enhance ad sense of impunity by the police was rushed through mid-january and led to violent actions by some radical protesters as well. progress is still to be made in bringing to just tis

but, in fact, because what the people for the most part represented in maidan reflect our interests.we don't want ukraine to join the west and orient itself to the west to the exclusion of good relations with russia. geography alone dictates that ukraine has to have good relations with russia. about f ukrainians were led to believe by their democratically elected president, by the way, who is not permanently endowed with legitimacy through an election in 2010, he forfeited it for many reasons. we can get into that. but what the people and protesters are representing reflected u.s. interests, and so we did wake up belatedly and supported what they called for. they were lied and manipulated, and then yanukovych ordered the use of force against them on november 30, december 1. that's when we should have hit yanukovych with tough, hard-hitting sanctions, which i think would have brought his regime down like a house of cards, may have saved over 100 lives in february if we had acted more firmly then, and perhaps wouldn't have this whole crisis that we have right now. >> can i jump in here

the maidan protesters had many grievances. one of the most galvanizing across ukraine was the pervasive corruption that has infused every aspect of ukraine society, economy, and politics. as secretary kerry highlighted at the munich security council is -- conference, we are seeing a similar disturbing trend to too many parts -- into many ,arts of europe and the balkans where the aspirations of citizens are being trampled beneath corrupt, oligarchic interests, who use their money and influence to stifle political opposition and dissent , to buy politicians and media outlets, to weaken traditional -- traditional independence and the rights of ngos. we are seeing politicians working together, including across nationalist -- international lines to keep the cash flowing that feeds their preferred oligarchical system. corruption of this kind doesn't simply rocked democracies from t democracies roc from the inside. it makes them vulnerable to influences outside. ofother words, in many parts europe, fighting corruption needs to be a h

erupted in ukraine's capital after members of the far right national assembly attempted to march on the maidan, and they were blocked by protesters who currently occupy the square. and meanwhile, the war of words continues. secretary the of state john kerry says that the elections are being undermined by separatist separatists. and remember, they are scheduled for may. and putin may retaliate against the u.s. and europe with their own energy companies. we will see. >>> and 9,000 candidates are running for 328 seats in the iraqi parliament. they head to the boxes as they hold the first election since the u.s. troops left the country in 2011. the elections come at an extremely turbulent time in the country, and 160 people have been killed in iraq just in the past week. and the current iraqi prime minister neuri alma law ki is hoping to win a third term in office. >>> and trivia time, 1976, the last time that new jersey voted republican in a presidential election but saw the country going another way and put the democrat in the white house. the garden state went for ford, but the country picked j

it would violate the spirit of the maidan in which ukrainians articulated their desire to be part of your. those wings should not be clipped at this point. we could not trust putin to live up to any agreement regarding a neutral country, because it would encourage him to pick away at them. let me conclude by saying the most effective way to counter their operations -- the presence of a secure and prosperous to miami in their neighborhood is not threatening, but can help their focus toward resting internal problems. it may provide momentum to russians who have grown wary of authoritarianism. in central and eastern europe has always been essential to the forging of a true hardship between europe and russia, and between washington and moscow. thank you. >> thank you. we will turn the panel over to mr. chow. >> thank you, mr. chairman, ranking member johnson, senator cardin. i am honored to return to this committee two years after testifying before you on a serious and growing energy vulnerability of ukraine. this is much in the news today. my fellow panelists have covered the various ha

we'll be playing in the theater and also try to do a short shea in maidan square where a protest is going on. that's when theater is most exciting and best when it can talk to people in a very current and live political moment. so it will be a real privilege. >> brown: so this is a two-year project. you've got the actors, the crew, the money to pull this off? >> we haven't reall real -- we'e already started. we've done two shows. we've done one at the "globe" itself and we sail to holland, which is the first stop. we can always do it normally. there's a kick start campaign we're running and everyone wants to help along the way, but we're comfortable we'll be able to manage it. >> brown: dominic dromgoole, artistic director of the globe theatre in london. thanks so much and good luck. >> pleasure. thank you very much. >> woodruff: again, the major developments of the day: pro-russian separatists in eastern ukraine detained a team of european military observers, as ukraine claimed russia is trying to start world war iii. and bombs tore through a campaign rally in iraq, killing at least 31 p

they immediately began to remove barricades from the maidan. even now in the last 24 hours or so they've vacated an entire building in the maydan because that was a specific complaint of russia. they proposed a specific amnesty bill in the legislature in order to follow through on the amnesty for protesters so that they could leave buildings with sense of security about the justice system. they withheld their legitimate right to use their power of the state to remove people from buildings. instead, stood pack and canceled -- stood back and canceled their ct operation over the course of the easter weekend. they actually took a trip, the prime minister himself, out to the region to indicate a willingness to listen to people in order to shape the constitutional reform, and in every respect began to open up the dialogue ares which even today they are pursuing throughout the region in order to discuss constitutional reform. that's what ukraine did starting on day one. meanwhile, i have to say to you not one single step has been taken by russia in an

my units were in kiev when the maidan activists took power over from yanukovych.e were being fired at. people threw stones at us, fired shots at us. we got dozens of people injured and killed. but there was an order to avoid bloodshed. but then we were betrayed. so i have got a question. you have long been in contact with victor yanukovych in the coverage, especially when he was president of ukraine, has he always been such a traitor? [applause] >> you know, in russia we have this expression that any czars -- of head of any state bears a huge burden of responsibility. at critical times, a person acts according to his experience and his values. as for viktor yanukovych, he did his duty as he felt necessary. of course, i spoke with them many times during the crisis and after he ended up in the russian federation. we spoke about the possibility of the use of force. you can think what you want about it, but this is what he told me, in response. as he put it. i thought many times about using force. and then he said, i could not make myself do it. sign that kind of orde

my units were in kiev when the maidan activists took power over from yanukovych.e were being fired at. people threw stones at us, fired shots at us. we got dozens of people injured and killed. but there was an order to avoid bloodshed. but then we were betrayed. so i have got a question. you have long been in contact with victor yanukovych in the coverage, especially when he was president of ukraine, has he always been such a traitor? [applause] >> you know, in russia we have this expression that any czars -- of head of any state bears a huge burden of responsibility. at critical times, a person acts according to his experience and his values. as for viktor yanukovych, he did his duty as he felt necessary. of course, i spoke with them many times during the crisis and after he ended up in the russian federation. we spoke about the possibility of the use of force. you can think what you want about it, but this is what he told me, in response. as he put it. i thought many times about using force. and then he said, i could not make myself do it. sign that kind of orde

on the maidan you have military camps, no one has been disarmed. these democrats, having established no democracy in enforcee now trying to democracy and law and order through the deployment of armed forces. iny are trying to forces southeast ukraine. this is virtual reality. colleagues referred to the elections of may 25 as being prepared. we don't know how this will pan out. what is our concern here? what i do have to agree with my ukrainian cogley, i don't member his exact words. there has to be an in-depth change as compared to the past. there has to be a break with the past.the ukrainian people are being asked to buy a pig in a poke. got elected a president, it is unclear what sort of authority he will possess. what sort of government will he preside? significant authority, or will the prime minister have more authority and more power? the elections will take place on may 25. no, this has been all reversed. now these elections are deemed push forward. members of parliament are going to be elected as of democracy. is this building a new democra

when i was in kiev walking the street down towards the maidan recently where the snipers have protesters, ise was struck by one man who came up to me. a ukrainian who said to me i just came back from australia. i was motivated by what i saw there. i want people here in ukraine to be able to live the way they are living in australia. it was a personal witness to the possibility of how life can be because of jobs and business. and the ability to create a larger and larger middle class. wherever i go, whether it is the middle east or asia or africa, where i will be next week. i am engaged in efforts to ensure that the rise of the global model class helps advance opportunity here at home. that is what is about. as i said at my confirmation hearing last year, and as i tell our team at the state department every single that, economic policy is foreign policy. and foreign policy is economic policy. abroad, toto invest build businesses, to help people be able to export and import, all of that is the way you tap into the potential of people in the world. and that has never mattered more to our st

there's some debate in european capitals right now about the eu's approach in the run up to the euro maidan summit. the association agreements. what was your take on ukraine's process of negotiating association an agreement with the european union, and hearing from moscow, concerns that would mean a weakening, a setting of the economic ties that are deep with russia? >> the problem is, the yanukovych have made the right thing just announcing one of the goals of the policy would be having an association agreement with the european union. he even managed to ensure people supporting him in eastern ukraine that it was the right thing. majority of population supported that. but then two weeks prior to signing this agreement, he started to study documents and understood from the documents and also signals from moscow from mr. putin that this document would kill the whole economy. he started to say, i will not sign this. it's not the behavior of the leader of the state and a national army when it just two years negotiations and then after that, initialize everything just to say i wouldn't sign it.

on the maidan you have military camps. no one has this -- know has been disarmed.nd the democrats, having established no position in kiev, are now trying to enforce democracy, law and order, through the deployment of armed forces. they are trying to enforce this in southeastern you carrying. -- ukraine. a number of colleagues approvingly referred to the elections of may 25, being prepared. we don't know how this will pan out but what is our concern? and what i do have to agree with mike ukrainian colleague with, i don't remember what his exact words were, but there has to be an in depth change as compared to the past. there has to be a break with the past. the ukrainian people are now being asked to buy a page in the poke. -- a pig in the poke. what sorts of governments will be presided? significant authority or perhaps with the prime minister had more authority and more power? but the election will take place on may 25. they will reform and then prevention election. all will be reversed and that the elections are being pushed forward when members of parliaments ar

once that happens then it's very clear that the message for the maidan is if you don't work with europea rough one. it's not in putin's best interests. he knows that. he's put himself between a rock and a hard place. >> let's turn to steve grasso, fast money trader. you heard governor dean talking about the sort of foreboding situation in ukraine. how big a calculation is it in what you're doing with your money these days? >> has to be a huge calculation. just look at yesterday. we had every reason to focus on apple. we had every reason to be positive about the market. and they ran with a couple of headlines on ukraine, and that's what sent the market lower. tyler, the biggest issue is we're caught in this trading range. where are the new buyers coming from? you have hedge funds that are basically trailing their averages already. mutual funds are going to get hurt if we go lower. they have very little dry powder. there's not a lot of people that are left to invest at these levels. >> i agree with steve, by the way. the real problem i think the trading community has is it's not clear wha

this week saw launching a military crackdown on protesters seeking to curb the anti-maidan rallies in the east but the attempt fell flat take a look at how the events have been unfolding recently the deadline kiev set for protesters to disperse expired at the end of last week dissent started sprouting in new areas across the east and south of the country by last monday ministry of buildings and police stations were occupied by activists in at least ten towns and cities one of the fiercest confrontations happy in that happened in the town of where people were demanding the police chief step down they seek his headquarters and the town hall afterward he had made good on threats and started a military crackdown tuesday saw first casualties for protesters died when the army stormed and seize an airfield near the town of kramatorsk three more were killed wednesday as they attacked a military base in the city of mariupol on the same day ukrainian soldiers refused to shoot at their own people and switch sides joined protesters in the town of slovyansk after the deescalation deal struck struc