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Several thousand gather for May Day demonstration in central Kiev

The public meeting participants will adopt a package of demands consisting of seven political and seven economic paragraphs

KIEV, May 01. /ITAR-TASS/. Several thousand people have gathered for the May Day demonstration in the centre of Kiev. A march staged by the Justice bloc of left forces started from the Arsenalnaya metro station down Grushevskaya Street to the Verkhovna Rada building and Europe Square, where a public meeting will be held. The march’s promoters told ITAR-TASS “Ukrainian presidential candidates don’t take part” in it.

The public meeting participants will adopt a package of demands consisting of seven political and seven economic paragraphs to the parliament-appointed Ukraine’s interim President and Verkhovna Rada Speaker Oleksandr Turchynov and parliament-appointed Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk. The demands of the meeting participants include an immediate constitutional reform, early elections to the Verkhovna Rada and local councils, as well as a nationwide Ukrainian referendum on determining the Russian language’s status and on Ukraine’s development vector.