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In the Ukraine...
We love Europe. Long live Europe. We want to be in Europe. Get out Yanukovytch.
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What are they talking about? Europe, bah! It's not of our generation.
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pro-European protests – so-called because they have been based in Kiev's Independence Square (Maidan in Ukrainian) – continued to attack President Viktor Yanukovych and his government on December 9.
Amid rumours of an impending assault by Ukrainian special forces on the demonstrators, anti-government activists set up medical facilities around Kiev, a stronghold of opposition.
The EU's High Representative for Foreign Affairs Catherine Ashton is due to arrive in Kiev on December 10 to try and help defuse the political crisis.
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