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Ukraine: Far-right thugs go on the rampage in Kiev

FAR-RIGHT demonstrators rallied in Kiev’s Maidan Square yesterday to call for the government’s overthrow, the day after fascist thugs rampaged through the streets.

About 1,000 people gathered to demand that Prime Minister Arseny Yatsenyuk quits.

They set up six tents in an echo of the 2014 coup d’etat against the elected government of Viktor Yanukovytch after he turned from Europe to Russia.

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