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  Protesters in Lviv, who took over the building of the Lviv region's administration on Thursday, are keeping the region's administration officials from entering their workplaces.

Several dozens of the region’s administration officials gathered near the barricades, walked to the main entrance to the building and asked to be allowed to get to their workplaces on Friday morning, an Interfax-Ukraine correspondent has reported.

However, the people who occupied the building shouted “Shame!” to them.

After that, a man named Andrei Sokolov, who calls himself the commandant of the building, walked out and said the region’s administration officials will not be working in the building until a new administration is elected in Ukraine.

Oleh Salo, the head of the region’s administration, has not come to the building yet.

The barricades near the building of the Lviv the region’s administration have grown, the Interfax correspondent reported. There are car tires reinforced with wooden sticks on the bags containing sand and snow, which are lying on the ground.

There are two entrances to the building, which are guarded by young men from the self-defense units. They are not letting anyone into the building except for the region’s administration officials, the region’s council deputies, and journalists.