30-01-2014, 11:32 AM
Quote:Ukraine's president Yanukovych takes sick leave amid calls for resignation.
No indication of how long Viktor Yanukovych will be on leave after statement on presidential website
- Oksana Grytsenko in Kiev and agencies
- theguardian.com, Thursday 30 January 2014 10.11 GMT
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Ukraine's Viktor Yanukovych, who has taken sick leave 'due to an acute respiratory illness and high fever', according to the presidential website. Photograph: AP
Ukraine's embattled president Viktor Yanukovych is taking sick leave as the country's political crisis continues without signs of resolution.
A statement on the presidential website on Thursday said Yanukovych is on sick leave due to an acute respiratory illness and high fever. There was no indication of how long he might be on leave or whether he would be able to do any work.
Yanukovych is under pressure after two months of major protests seeking his resignation, early elections and other demands.
In one of a series of moves aiming at resolving the crisis, Ukraine's parliament approved a law on Wednesday that would grant an amnesty to arrested protesters but to the opposition's fury depended on the demonstrators vacating all occupied government buildings.
After 12 hours of negotiations the amnesty law was passed amid applause from the ruling party and angry shouts of "shame!" from the opposition.
Protesters are holding three administrative buildings in Kiev, including the building housing the city administration.
Yuri Miroshnychenko, President Viktor Yanukovych's representative in parliament, said the protesters would now have to leave the buildings. But he insisted the opposition headquarters in Trade Union House, as well as Independence Square and Khreschatyk Street, where the protest camp is located, would not be touched.
The offer was quickly greeted with contempt by opposition protesters. Vitali Klitschko, leader of the opposition UDAR party, said the law "will only increase temperature in society", while Andriy Parubiy of opposition party Batkivshchyna called the demands unacceptable. "No one will comply with them," he said.
The shadow is a moral problem that challenges the whole ego-personality, for no one can become conscious of the shadow without considerable moral effort. To become conscious of it involves recognizing the dark aspects of the personality as present and real. This act is the essential condition for any kind of self-knowledge.
Carl Jung - Aion (1951). CW 9, Part II: P.14