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Over the past few days, protestors launched counter-attacks against the police. In what looks like a scene from "V for Vendetta," protestors in Ukraine have battled the police with sticks while disguised by balaclava hoods and Guy Fawkes masks. This one-minute video is really crazy:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lGaR7-9yq...2fcc142df2


Excerpts from a BBC article:

Quote:The mass demonstrations were initially triggered by President Yanukovych's last-minute rejection of an EU deal under heavy pressure from Russia in November. The protesters' demands later widened to include the fight against what they said was widespread government corruption and abuse of power.

Sunday's rally in Kiev, attended by tens of thousands, heard calls from opposition politicians to disregard the new laws curbing protests that pro-EU demonstrators have been staging for the past two months.

The new curbs on protests, which have been signed into law by the president, include:

A ban on the unauthorised installation of tents, stages or amplifiers in public places

Provision to arrest protesters wearing masks or helmets

A ban on protests involving more than five vehicles in convoy

Hefty fines or jail for breaches of law


They pelted police with flares, thunder flashes and petrol bombs, the BBC's Daniel Sandford in Kiev reports.

They overturned a bus used by riot police and interior troops and set it alight. Other vehicles were also set on fire.

The police could be seen behind buses sheltering under their riot shields, and occasionally throwing their own thunder flashes and gas canisters to try to force the crowd back, our correspondent says.

Police also used water cannon to try to disperse the demonstrators.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-25798320