Ukraine Students Strike as Yanukovych Pledges to Explain EU Snub

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Ukrainian students said they would strike to protest President Viktor Yanukovych’s rejection of an EU trade pact, a decision the former Soviet republic’s leader promised to explain in a television interview. Students from two universities in Kiev said they’ll boycott classes until Dec. 2, with others joining protesters at Independence Square, the scene of the 2004 Orange Revolution, Radio Liberty reported today Students in the cities of Lviv and Ivano-Frankivsk announced strikes a day earlier NO

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