Ukrainian Protesters Topple Lenin Statue

Anti-government protesters in Ukraine have toppled a statue of Soviet state founder Vladimir Lenin in central Kyiv, during the latest in a series of mass protests against the government of President Viktor Yanukovych.Hundreds of thousands of people waved EU and Ukrainian flags as they gathered on Kyiv's Independence Square to protest the government's decision to back away from a trade deal with the European Union in favor of one with Moscow. In a letter read by her daughter, jailed...

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