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MOSCOW — Protesters in Ukraine’s capital, Kyiv, used the charred shells of police vans burned in a riot the night before to erect new barricades on Monday on a street leading to the city’s government quarter. Fighting between protesters and the police continued through the day, after the weekend rally, called in part to protest new laws limiting public assembly, turned violent. 

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