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Several hundreds of street protesters from Kyiv Maidan are standing outside the building of Verkhovna Rada (Ukraine's parliament).

People, who came here, are waiting for the decisions the parliament is to take on Saturday, a correspondent of Interfax-Ukraine reported.

As MP Vyacheslav Kyrylenko reported at the parliament’s sitting in the morning, employees of the State Guard of Ukraine together with the activists of Maidan self-defense unit are guarding the entrances to the parliament.

Another several thousands of people continue to pay last respects to the killed compatriots.