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By Richard Balmforth KIEV (Reuters) - Ukraine's President Viktor Yanukovich, battling mass unrest against his rule, faced demands from the opposition on Tuesday for a constitutional change that would seriously curtail his powers. Yanukovich was still weighing whom he might name as his new prime minister to calm the crisis on the streets - though rumors swirled that he could be considering a hardline ally who at the moment heads his administration. As the Ukrainian central bank intervened again to stop panic demand for dollars weakening the hryvnia currency, Ukraine sharply criticized EU heavyweight Germany after comments by its foreign minister that sanctions should be used as a threat unless a political solution was found soon to end the crisis. At least six people have been killed in the past two weeks in unprecedented politically-linked violence in Kiev, whose center is now a heavily-barricaded fortified protest zone.
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