(Global Post/AFP) The Ukrainian opposition and President Viktor Yanukovych are now locked in a high-stakes tactical game to resolve Ukraine's crisis after the president made his first offer of concessions, analysts said. Yanukovych appeared to give some way over the weekend by offering top government posts to opposition leaders but protesters have said they will keep applying pressure until all of their demands are met. […]
Olexiy Haran, a political science professor at Kyiv Mohyla Academy, said Yanukovych sees the protests as "a real threat" and has shown he is prepared to negotiate "only when he is up against a strong adversary." Yanukovych's resignation "would be the best solution for the country", Haran told pro-opposition Gromadske Radio.
"I think there is a chance of this happening," he said.
Haran suggested Yanukovych could be persuaded to leave if he is offered some kind of amnesty to him and his son, a leading businessman accused by the opposition of having profited from his father's time in power.
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