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Throngs of anti-government protesters remained in control of parts of central Kiev on Monday morning, as police kept their distance and Viktor Yanukovych's government pondered its next move.

After huge protests on Sunday,
during which several hundred thousand people took to the streets of
Kiev to call for the president’s removal, protesters erected makeshift
barricades around Independence Square – the hub of the 2004 Orange
Revolution. Nearby, the main City Hall building was taken over by
protesters without police resistance on Sunday evening. 

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