Europe

Inside the Kiev Crackdown

Euro-lution

Ukraine’s government is busing riot police into the capital as mass protests continue to roil the street and activists brace for violence.

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The eyes that peeped out from the cracks of the shiny black police helmets looked sad. Ukrainian riot police, most of them men in their 20s, lined up under the arch of a building on Lutheran Street in Kiev on Monday night.

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