“People’s Chamber” on the Maidan has collected about a thousand people – RBC

Anti-government rally in Kiev Photo: Zuma TASS

«The people’s Chamber” at the Independence Square was attended by between 500 and 1,000 people in the city center. Organizers of the rally demanded the resignation of the government and policy tightening in the east of Ukraine

According to the agency “Interfax”, the meeting organized on the main square of Kiev organization “revolutionary right-wing forces” gathered from 500 to 1,000 people. According to eyewitnesses, the rally began peacefully, and brought to the area of ​​the wood was used to heat the protesters.

Earlier, organizers of the rally, which included several members volunteer battalions that participated in the fighting in the Donbass, have voiced their demands to the President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko and the authorities of the country as a whole. They expressed the need for the resignation of Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk, the head of the National Bank, the General Staff and the National Security and Defense Council. In the case of maintaining the current policy does not exclude the radicals and impeach the country’s president Petro Poroshenko.

In addition, organizers of the rally demanded to declare martial law on the territory of self-proclaimed republics of Donbass and the Crimea. Another of their requirement was the abolition of the Minsk agreements, which they called “anti-people”, says Ukrainian edition of “News».

On the convening of “people’s Chamber,” declared people in camouflage, who on the eve of occupied hotel “Kozatskiy” in the center Kiev. After days of negotiations, they promised to leave the hotel upon completion of the meeting. In this part of the radicals is seven army tents erected on the eve of the area.

The speaker of the Ministry of Interior Artem Shevchenko, shortly before the start of the action on the Maidan promised that police will not use force against the protesters. According to him, the people have the right to peacefully put forward their demands to the authorities

Among the leaders of the “Revolutionary Right Forces.” – Former activists of the “Right Sector” (banned in Russia extremist organization) volunteer battalions “Aydar”

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