Russia Backs Off Ukraine Union After Lenin Statue Falls

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9. Ukrainians Keep Up Protests As Special Troops Sent In

Pro-EU Ukrainian demonstrators on Monday kept up their protest against President Viktor Yanukovych as the authorities sent internal troops and riot police into central Kiev in an increasingly tense showdown.

Upping the stakes after more than a fortnight of protests over the government’s rejection of a pact with the European Union, the protesters the day earlier symbolically toppled the statue of the Soviet Union’s founder Vladimir Lenin in Kiev.

Meanwhile, thousands braved sub-freezing temperatures to maintain the open-ended demonstration on Independence Square in Kiev while others guarded barricades thrown up the day earlier around key government buildings.

Raising fears of a possible looming showdown with protesters, dozens of interior ministry troops and anti-riot police were sent into central Kiev and could be seen moving in columns through the streets.

http://www.nationalmemo.com/ukrainians-keep-up-protests-as-special-troops-sent-in/

Sure can't call them 'fair-weather' protesters as the weather is anything but fair. Passions must really be high to maintain massive demonstrations in the face of this weather.