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Sunday, 28 November 2004
RUSSIAN LIBERAL PARTIES PICKET UKRAINIAN EMBASSY
By empty (11/28/2004 issue of the CACI Analyst)
More than 200 protesters from the Yabloko party and the Union of Rightist Forces picketed the Ukrainian embassy in Moscow in support of Ukrainian opposition leader Viktor Yushchenko on 28 November. Wearing orange scarves and waving orange flags, the symbols of Yushchenko\'s presidential campaign, the demonstrators chanted \"We Won\'t Be Overcome.\" A smaller group of counter demonstrators, led by the leader of the Working Russia party, Viktor Anpilov, gathered nearby to support Ukranian Prime Minister Yanukovych.
More than 200 protesters from the Yabloko party and the Union of Rightist Forces picketed the Ukrainian embassy in Moscow in support of Ukrainian opposition leader Viktor Yushchenko on 28 November. Wearing orange scarves and waving orange flags, the symbols of Yushchenko\'s presidential campaign, the demonstrators chanted \"We Won\'t Be Overcome.\" A smaller group of counter demonstrators, led by the leader of the Working Russia party, Viktor Anpilov, gathered nearby to support Ukranian Prime Minister Yanukovych. About 20 police officers kept the two groups apart. (ITAR-TASS)