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Kyiv seems to be a scene for a new and dramatically different type of protest against the government. It involves dummies, uniforms and their hanging on bridges. 

A new dummy, dressed as a judge and with a plastic bag over its head, hanged on Tuesday, July 23 from the Industrialny Bridge in Kyiv. A photograph of it first surfaced on Facebook.

A sign, reading “Your honor?” and an image of the Guy Fawkes mask, widely used by the Anonymous movement around the world, were both attached to the dummy’s gown.

Yesterday, July 22, two unidentified men hanged a doll dressed in a police uniform off the Povitroflotsky Bridge in Kyiv.

Ukrainians have been increasingly shown their outrage over the actions of the country’s officials after an incident in Mykolaiv Oblast in which a woman was brutally raped by police.