Hours after Ukraine’s president and the opposition leaders demanding his resignation called for a truce and negotiations to try to resolve the country’s political crisis, armed protesters attempted to retake Independence Square, sparking another day of deadly violence. A recently leaked audio recording between two top U.S. officials reveals the Obama administration has been colluding with the opposition.

“Democracy Now!” speaks Thursday to Stephen Cohen, professor emeritus of Russian studies and politics at New York University and Princeton University and author of the recent book “Soviet Fates and Lost Alternatives: From Stalinism to the New Cold War.”

‘Democracy Now!’:

— Posted by Alexander Reed Kelly.

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