UKRAINE CONFLICTS 

Pro-Russian separatists in Eastern Ukraine have started an offensive in order to extend their domains, which on Saturday the 24^th of January in the morning, reached the city of Mariúpol (second most important locality in the region of Donetsk). The explosives charges, which fell on one of this city neighborhoods, have caused 30 deaths among the civil population and 97 injured. 

Ukraine 1922 

To understand the current situation in Ukraine we must go back to December of 1922, when this country together with Russia and other thirteen more republics formed part of the USSR (United Socialist Soviet Republics) which had a one-party and communist government. However, the 24^th of August 1991, the Ukrainian parliament approved the Declaration of Independence of Ukraine, establishing it as an independent and democratic state. It was in November of 2013, when  rejecting its president joining with the European Union (having a democratic state) and wanting to establish closer links with Russia, protests and riots began in the country, leading to a very conflicting situation and finding ourselves daily news as the one shown above. 

Ukraine protests: Pro- Russians against Pro- Europeans

• WEBGRAPHY: 

http://internacional.elpais.com/internacional/2015/01/24/actualidad/1422104100_114430.html

http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ucrania

http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uni%C3%B3n_Sovi%C3%A9tica