Beatings in Ukraine as Putin stays defiant (via AFP)

Pro-Russian activists attacked supporters of Kiev’s new leaders with clubs and whips as thousands rallied across Ukraine in rival demonstrations Sunday, while Russian President Vladimir Putin dug in his heels in the escalating standoff with the West…

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