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About 2,500 people affiliated with nationalist parties and organizations participated in a march they called “A march against oligarchs in Ukraine,” and protested outside the building of Ukraine’s Presidential Administration on April 3.

According to an Interfax-Ukraine reporter, at about 3:00 p.m., activists affiliated with Svoboda, the National Corps and the Right Sector passed a list of demands and proposals to the Presidential Administration. After that, they completed their rally and dispersed.

During the mass rally held in the center of Kyiv on Tuesday morning, about 2,500 representatives of nationalist parties and movements marched along Hrushevskoho Street first to the government building, the Verkhovna Rada, and then came to Ukraine’s Presidential Administration.

During the event, nationalists stated that oligarchs were one of the main problems of Ukraine and triggered the development of corruption in the country. The protesters also said that Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko should stop being an oligarch and fight oligarchy in Ukraine, as he promised during the presidential election.

The rally was held without any incidents. About 1,500 law enforcement officers monitored events the city center.