Protest against the ratification of the "Kharkiv agreements"

Kyiv, April 27, 2011, opposition rally, the main demand is to terminate the "Kharkiv agreements".

The video shows an opposition rally (14 parties joined), people with flags and banners near the monument to Taras Shevchenko, the national anthem is played, a man holds a poster "No to the sale of land! No to raising the retirement age", an inflatable boat with the slogan "Putin, take your navy and Yanukovych's puppet!", paper boats are sunk in the boat, police are patrolling.

Speeches are delivered by public figure Yevhen Nyshchuk, Anatoliy Matvienko (MP from the Our Ukraine - People's Self-Defense Bloc), Oleksandr Turchynov (First Deputy Head of the Batkivshchyna Party), Anatoliy Hrytsenko (Head of the Civic Position Party), Viacheslav Kyrylenko (Leader of the For Ukraine Party), and Pavlo Zhebrivskyi (Leader of the Ukrainian Platform Party),

On April 27, 2011, representatives of 14 opposition parties at a rally in Kyiv adopted a resolution demanding the immediate cancellation of the so-called "Kharkiv agreements" on the extension of the temporary stay of the Russian Black Sea Fleet on the territory of Ukraine until 2042.

The Party of Regions, on the other hand, called the Kharkiv agreements "an unconditional victory for Ukrainian diplomacy" and "the first real and convincing success" of the government in defending Ukrainian national interests in the last 5 years.