A huge rally has been taking place in Kiev over the Ukrainian government’s decision not to sign a deal for closer ties with the EU.

An estimated 250,000 protesters ignored a ban on demonstrations, and filled the streets of the Ukrainian capital en masse with chants of “revolution”. Police used tear gas and stun grenades to slow the advancement of the protesters, but abandoned Independence Square as the huge number of protesters arrived at the scene.

There has been some violence on the fringes of the demonstrations, although political opposition groups have been quick to blame such acts on “provocateurs” in the crowd.

Protesters stormed and now occupy the city council building in the centre of Kiev, and are calling for the resignation of President Viktor Yanukovych’s government and for calling fresh elections. The leader of the opposition Fatherland party, Arseny Yatsenyuk, has said that a no-confidence motion has already been submitted to parliament.

Yanukovych has said that it was pressure from Vladimir Putin and Russia that was behind his decision not to sign the deal with the EU, which would have brought Ukraine further from Russia sphere of influence.

Daily protests have been going on for a week in Kiev, but Sunday’s protests were the largest yet, with protesters impassioned after the failure of their government to sign the deal on Friday, and the violent dispersal of protesters in Independence Square on Saturday. Police abandoned the square on Sunday as protesters

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  1. William H. Depperman on

    The Truth will be blocked by this NSA-operated Website:

    The USA and its Puppets have Decided to Re-Organize their
    “Orange (Colored) Counter-Revolution to try to Overthrow the Ukrainian
    Government and install a USA-Puppet !”

    The United States is Behind the Demonstrations in the Ukraine
    to try to Eventually win

    Support for Joining the
    European Union, which in turn Aims to End the Sovereignty of

    The Ukraine and will Demand
    that the Ukraine accept Population Reduction “Save the

    Euro” Austerity in an
    Economic Warfare Program of “Enforced Social Darwinism!”

    Using
    the same exact FORMULA which it used in Libya, Syria,
    Tunisia, the “Arab Spring” countries of Egypt and Tunisia, and even the Russian
    Federation and WORLDWIDE, the United States uses “social
    networking,” and also a network of USA-operated human rights groups
    and falsely labeled, so-called “NGOs” (Non-governmental Organizations) plus a
    small CORE of Fascist Ukrainians, known as the so-called “Brotherhood,”
    composed of 300 people (BBC, December 1, 2013) to be the public
    face and organize the demonstrations, which the USA-backed leadership
    uses as a mounting provocation, complete with the throwing of huge rocks and
    government building “occupations” (sound familiar?) to try to inflame public
    opinion against the Ukrainian government and against the Russian Federation.
    Many of these demonstrators are indubitably related in some way to those who
    supported the NAZIS when they invaded USSR in 1940!
    Note that “the Brotherhood” never reveals to the masses whom it has managed to
    manipulate to demonstrate against the Ukrainian government and the Russian
    Federation that there is more money in Europe today and in the USA
    today than ever before in all history! “The so-called “Brotherhood” lies
    through omission by failing to inform its manipulated followers that there is
    enough money in both the USA and in Europe for each
    and every person to live like a millionaire this very moment with no exception
    and with no exaggeration! Socialism succeeds when capitalism is first
    overthrown in its center the USA!

    Yet the USA
    and the EU are able to wage economic war of extermination against
    their own people, innocent civilians, which they term Enforced Social
    Darwinism, simply because there is no more Communist Party or
    Communist Movement in the USA or Europe, because of
    Stalin who sabotaged the International Working Class and because of the 1988
    Surrender of the USSR by Gorbachev to the threat of a nuclear war,
    which is deliberately, falsely and repeatedly labeled a “Soviet Collapse” in a
    textbook example of the BIG LIE! We need to get rid of
    capitalism! An idea whose time has come! Ninety-five percent of New
    Yorkers and the overwhelming majority of Americans already agree that we need a
    new system based on human need not private profit! That is actually a Communist
    response but the masses do not understand that due to systematic brainwashing
    by the capitalist dictatorship from earliest childhood against the word and any
    understanding of Socialism and Communism. So we have an organizational problem
    primarily, but also a deprogramming problem very similar to the Scientology,
    Moonie, Jesus Freaks, or Hari Krishna Cults. In this case it involves
    deprogramming the masses from the Cult of Capitalism and its
    false beliefs. Capitalism is destroying the planet with the Runaway Greenhouse
    Effect!

    The takeover ideas behind
    the USA-led Fascist “Brotherhood” organization in the Ukraine are
    very similar to those of the “Islamic Brotherhood,” which the USA
    also controlled and tried to impose on Egypt and Tunisia except that it is not
    Islamic. The Ukrainian “Brotherhood” organization is a Fascist grouping. The
    Fascists are the most FANATICAL defenders of private capital! The
    Brotherhood” is an attempt to revive the loosely organized, reformist,
    Christian “Brotherhood” organizations, which never totaled more than 100
    individuals, of the middle and late Nineteenth Century in the Ukraine who
    opposed the Czar and called for social justice and full autonomy for all
    peoples of the Czarist Empire! That sort of sounds like a 21st
    Century re-write to fit the USA-led world capitalist strategy of Divide and
    Conquer! The USA ultimate objective obviously is to overthrow the
    Russian Federation and install a Pro-Khodorkovskyite, USA-Puppet government
    there. The USA wants eventually to gain direct control of the
    natural resources of all 9 (nine) time zones of the Russian Federation. Note
    that the economic-political-social dynamic or development sequence (or
    dialectic) of capitalism is the driving force for all of these USA-EU-NATO
    programs and policies! Although Obama and the USA dictatorship’s
    “Congress“ are individual Fascists—the most fanatical defenders of private
    capital—we do not yet have Fascism. The USA dictatorship of millionaires and
    billionaires is a hard dictatorship of capitalism short of Fascism known as Rule
    by Decree, a form of Bonapartism, and is expressed as a bureaucratic,
    military police state, which is hardening by the day! The USA capitalist
    dictatorship has lost all legitimacy to rule and all right to sovereignty in
    the United States OR ANYWHERE ELSE IN THE WORLD!

    William H. Depperman, Coordinator

    United Front Against Racism

    And Capitalism-Imperialism

    New York, N.Y. 10003

    December 1, 2013.