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December 12, 2013 03:09 am GMT
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From the Icy Streets of Kiev, Ukraine Spring Goes Global
KIEV, UKRAINE — “This is how storm has started,” Kateryna Kruk, a former parliament press secretary who quit her job on Nov. 21 to join pro-European protests in Kiev, wrote on Twitter. Her tweet included a video of special Interior Ministry troops assembling en masse in the government district of the Ukrainian capital just before 1 a.m. local time on Dec. 11.
Under the cover of night, those troops, along with thousands of Berkut officers — Ukraine’s feared riot police — dressed in their typical blue camouflage and black helmets, with shields, truncheons, smoke grenades and water cannons in tow, moved toward Independence Square and thousands of peaceful demonstrators. Read more...
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