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Tens of thousands of irate Ukrainians rallied on Sunday amid rising anger over the brutal beating of a pro-European reporter who exposed the lavish lifestyles of President Viktor Yanukovych and his ruling elite.

The angry crowd of more than 50,000 also planned to drive dozens of cars toward Mr Yanukovych’s heavily guarded Mezhygirya residence on the banks of the Dnipro River that journalist Tetyana Chornovol accused the Ukrainian leader of illegally “privatising” in one of her exposes.

“We plan to come out here until the day the authorities make changes to the constitution and limit the powers of the president,” said Kiev pensioner Tetyana Kornienko amid a sea of Ukrainian flags fluttering across central Kiev’s iconic Independence Square.

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