Kiev Agreement Won't Hold

Kiev Agreement Won't Hold

After days of bloody street battles in central Kiev that may have left as many as 100 people dead, protest leaders signed an agreement Friday with Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych to end the stand-off. The deal curtails the powers of the president, sets the stage for a national unity government to be formed within 10 days, and establishes that constitutional reform will begin immediately. Upon the adoption of a new constitution, presidential elections will be held, no later than December 2014.

But the very conditions that have made this agreement possible -- a level of violence on the streets of Kiev that had been previously unimaginable -- also places this agreement on extremely shaky ground.

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