Here's some big news for you. The police found the body of Georgiy Kirpa, the Ukrainian Minister of Transportation at his dacha last night. He was killed by a bullet wound to the head. Here is the Gala news article I'm referring to on this matter. (sorry folks, only got it in Russian for now)
The police aren't offering any suggestions about whether it was suicide or murder as of 12 noon today.
A quick thought now before I go home and ponder this: Kirpa was a pro-administration guy who toed the line up until late in the Orange Revolution. He broke with Yanukovych around the time of the Supreme Court ruling and the rumor was, when he tried to weasel out on Yanukovych, Yanu kicked him in the balls. (It is a rumor because Lesya and I heard about it on television, but it's not the kind of stuff print media puts down for reasons of decorum)
He is a figure of significance in a corrupt organization that recently lost an election, so there is a motive for suicide as well as murder. The Gala article dredged up a quote from him that sums up his personality nicely: "Do you know what rules the world? Fear and money. My money and your fear." Sounds like the older brother in Brat 2 to me. (Quote from the famous, if schlocky Russian action movie: "You know what's important in this world? Money, brother. He who has money controls the world." - "And if you had money what would you do with it?" - "Buy everything."
Kirpa was part of a nasty regime, so if that nasty regime starts running into troubles, lets hope they continue to turn their murderous intent inward, rather than outward on the brave protesters and on the citizens of Ukraine.