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Thousands of protesters block downtown Kiev seeking European quality of life

The protesters unfolded a huge poster saying, "See, we are fed up"
Police in Kiev Maxim Nikitin/TASS
Police in Kiev
© Maxim Nikitin/TASS

KIEV, April 23. /TASS/. Some 4,000 protesters have blocked Grushevsky Street in downtown Kiev demanding a "European quality of life" for Ukraine and Prime Minister Arseny Yatsenyuk's dismissal, a TASS correspondent reported on THursday.

The protesters unfolded a huge poster saying, "See, we are fed up."

They approached the parliament's headquarters where some 1,000 miners are rallying to demand repayment of wages debt.

Kiev police have cordoned off the parliament's building.