Ukrainians March After Cabinet Snubs EU in Turn to Russia
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More than 100,000 Ukrainians marched against a decision by President Viktor Yanukovych’s government to cut off preparations for a free-trade pact with the European Union and seek closer ties with Russia.
In the biggest protests since the 2004 Orange Revolution, throngs of demonstrators, many of them families with children, flowed through downtown Kiev, the capital. Opposition leaders, including Arseniy Yatsenyuk, the head of jailed ex-Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko’s party, led the march after the former prime minister urged people to take to the streets.