we are speaking to nicolai petro from odessa. we are also speaking to timothy snyder, a at the university, in vienna, austria. 's 18ths democracy now! birthday. went on air february 19, 1996. we are now broadcasting on over 1200 public collision and radio stations around the world. if you want to send in your photo holding him why you need democracy now!, that is what we are showing on the brakes. , we areracynow.org streaming the pictures. you can also send us video to democracy now! means to you. we are back with timothy snyder. he is in vienna, austria. his latest piece is entitled "fascism, russia, and ukraine." with us from odessa, ukraine is nicolai petro. i want to turn to statements made by yulia tymoshenko, following her release from jail. she was undressed and protesters in kiev. >> i know that all together we will be able to do it and i will never allow anyone to let you down. a singlet not politician or official to touch or lay one of their fingers on your life. nothing in my life will be more important. may god give

we can now see and go live to our deaths in eastern ukraine and discuss the latest events with nicolai petro from the department of political science at the university of rhode island mr petro welcome to r.c. is so a at this point also people on the streets of kiev fighting for and what are their demands. well one continues to hope that it is not just the extreme radicals but that there are still people there who are hoping to be with the government in a go she added political solution and if indeed the political opposition political opposition reach an agreement thanks to the e.u. thanks to the intercession was also. the former russian human rights. chair or you were lucky and it was now and you if they do reach an agreement that this will indeed suffice to. lead to an end to the violence in the street but does the rebels actually controlled by the political opposition of ukraine that's always been the question on the one hand. the answer to that question seemed to be yes. as far as a brewery seventeen away and the amnesty agreement was reached with members of the with the leaders the polit