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Sheer &#39;Mayhem&#39; Rocks Ukraine
 Sheer 'Mayhem' Rocks Ukraine 
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Feb 18, 2014 3:45 PM CST

Sheer 'Mayhem' Rocks Ukraine

19 dead as Kiev protests explode

(Newser) - "Mayhem" in Ukraine , declares the New York Times , amid reports that anti-government protests have boiled over in Kiev's bloodiest day since President Viktor Yanukovich turned down an EU deal in November. Nineteen were killed in street clashes, including six policemen, reports the BBC , and details are a bit...

Ukrainian Activist: I Was Crucified

He's become the bloodied face of the opposition movement

(Newser) - US and Russian diplomats traded blame over the volatile situation in Ukraine today, but more attention continues to be paid to an anti-government protester who claims to have been tortured. Not just tortured, "crucified." Dmytro Bulatov says he got kidnapped and held for about a week before his...

3 Dead as Ukraine Cops Storm Barricades

Medics say 2 protesters were shot dead, 1 fell

(Newser) - Three protesters have died in clashes with police in the Ukrainian capital today, according to a medic for the protesters, in a development that will likely escalate the country's two-month-long political crisis. One activist died in the hospital after falling from a high altitude at the site of the...

Ukraine Heads to Talks as Riots Injure Dozens

Violence continued overnight

(Newser) - Dozens of protesters and police were injured in Kiev clashes yesterday that came on the heels of new anti-protest laws, the AP reports; a Russian news site puts the number of wounded police at 70. The fighting continued into the night. Protesters used sticks and pipes, hurling large rocks, fireworks,...

Violent Protests Greet Ukraine's Protest Ban

Clashes break out in Kiev

(Newser) - Thousands of protesters are clashing with riot police in the center of the Ukrainian capital, after the passage of harsh legislation banning protests. A group of radical activists began attacking riot police with sticks, trying to push their way toward the Ukrainian parliament building, which has been cordoned off by...

Journo Beaten After Dissing Ukraine Minister

Anti-government protesters call for minister's resignation

(Newser) - A female journalist was battered and bloodied in an "ambush" in Ukraine yesterday, hours after she published a report on the interior minister's opulence—in just the latest attack on anti-government protesters, the New York Times reports. Tetyana Chornovil, 34, was driving home outside the capital of Kiev...

US Voices 'Disgust' as Ukraine Cops Crack Down

Kerry: US 'stands with the people'

(Newser) - Ukraine police poured into Independence Square in Kiev last night, driving out protesters in what the interior minister called an effort to clear the way for traffic and business. The New York Times reports that fights as well as small fires broke out, but police avoided using their truncheons. Police...

Riot Cops Break Up Ukraine Protest Camps

But they're leaving Independence Square intact: officials

(Newser) - Ukraine protesters had been told they had to abandon their Kiev camps by tomorrow—but cops began taking them apart today, the BBC reports. Wearing full riot gear, police surrounded some camps in front of government buildings, the AP notes. They began driving away protesters at a pair of sites,...

Irate Kiev Protesters Rip Down Lenin Statue

Ukraine again sees mass protests against closer Russia ties

(Newser) - Hundreds of thousands of angry anti-government protesters gathered for a third Sunday in a row in Kiev, this time ripping down a landmark statue of Vladimir Lenin and decapitating it in protest of the Ukraine's move toward Russia and away from the EU, reports the BBC . Chants of "...

Shouts of 'Revolution' as Ukraine Government Teeters

But ends up surviving no-confidence vote

(Newser) - The Ukraine government lives to govern another day: Despite an attempt by the opposition to force it out, it survived a no-confidence vote in parliament today, the AP reports. But that just means massive tension remains, as hundreds of thousands of protesters line the streets of Kiev to demonstrate against...

Dozens Hurt as Huge Ukraine Protest Turns Violent

Crowd tries to storm president's office

(Newser) - A protest by about 300,000 Ukrainians angered by their government's decision to freeze integration with the West turned violent late yesterday, when a group of demonstrators besieged President Viktor Yanukovych's office in Kiev and police drove them back with truncheons, tear gas, and flash grenades. Dozens of...

Tens of Thousands March in Ukraine Protests

Protesters unhappy about president's refusal to sign agreement with EU

(Newser) - More than 100,000 demonstrators chased away police to rally in the center of Ukraine's capital today, defying a government ban on protests on Independence Square, in the biggest show of anger over the president's refusal to sign an agreement with the European Union. The protest was led...

Afraid of Heights? Don't Watch This

Teens in Kiev climb suspension bridge

(Newser) - In a vertigo-inducing video posted online, a group of teenagers in Kiev climbs a suspension bridge pylon—without a safety rope in sight. The height of the bridge they're attempting to surmount? 377 feet. One teen is wearing a camera mounted on his head; he passes a friend with...

Kiev Zoo: A 'Concentration Camp' for Animals

Loads of deaths prompt allegations of corruption

(Newser) - Animals die at the Kiev Zoo... a lot. In recent years, zookeepers have done such a spectacularly poor job at keeping their tenants breathing that animal rights groups have begun wondering aloud if it's some kind of plot to destroy the facility, the AP reports. When new management took over...

Biden Gushes Over Ukraine's 'Beautiful Women'

(Newser) - Joe Biden’s visit with the Ukrainian president today in Kiev yielded an addition to the vice president’s foot-in-mouth file, the New York Post reports. “I cannot believe that a Frenchman visiting Kiev went back home and told his colleagues he discovered something and didn’t say he...

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