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| Protesters who have been occupying city hall in Kiev for months as part of anti-government unrest sweeping Ukraine have started to evacuate the building in a symbolic concession to ease tensions. | Protesters who have been occupying city hall in Kiev for months as part of anti-government unrest sweeping Ukraine have started to evacuate the building in a symbolic concession to ease tensions. |
| "City hall is almost completely evacuated," said Ruslan Andriyko of the protest movement, as people filtered out of the building in the city centre. | |
| He said demonstrators would remain outside the building for now as protests aimed at bringing down President Viktor Yanukovych continued. | |
| City hall became the "headquarters of the revolution" after protesters stormed the building on 1 December following a crackdown on demonstrators the previous night. | |
| The evacuation, a concession from the opposition, comes after authorities made a gesture of their own by releasing all protesters who had been detained since the unrest erupted in November, when Yanukovych rejected an EU pact in favour of closer ties with Russia. | The evacuation, a concession from the opposition, comes after authorities made a gesture of their own by releasing all protesters who had been detained since the unrest erupted in November, when Yanukovych rejected an EU pact in favour of closer ties with Russia. |