{"id":2317,"date":"2020-12-15T15:35:17","date_gmt":"2020-12-15T15:35:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.radiofree.org\/?p=139578"},"modified":"2020-12-15T15:35:17","modified_gmt":"2020-12-15T15:35:17","slug":"entrepreneurs-clash-with-police-in-kyiv-while-protesting-pandemic-measures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2020\/12\/15\/entrepreneurs-clash-with-police-in-kyiv-while-protesting-pandemic-measures\/","title":{"rendered":"Entrepreneurs Clash With Police In Kyiv While Protesting Pandemic Measures"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img src=\"https:\/\/www.radiofree.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/dbc60a2a-fe1c-406f-9e2b-fd41a62ab315_w1200_r1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"wsw\">\n<p>KYIV &#8212; Thousands of individual entrepreneurs have <strong><a class=\"wsw__a\" href=\"https:\/\/www.radiosvoboda.org\/a\/news-fopy-protest-v-centri-kyieva\/31001763.html\">clashed with police<\/a><\/strong> in Kyiv&#8217;s central Maidan Nezalezhnosti (Independence Square) as they protested against state restrictions imposed over the coronavirus pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>The demonstrators, who are demanding that lawmakers approve tax cuts for owners of small- and medium-sized businesses, tried to erect tents on the square on December 15 when police intervened.<\/p>\n<p>The protesters lobbed stones and firecrackers at the police, while law enforcement responded with volleys of tear gas.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the police efforts, protesters managed to set up several tents at the site, according to RFE\/RL correspondents reporting from the square.<\/p>\n<p>The Interior Ministry said 40 police officers were injured in the clashes.<\/p>\n<p>Ambulances were seen at the scene, providing assistance to some protesters.<\/p>\n<p>It was not clear how many demonstrators were injured.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.radiofree.org\/2020\/12\/15\/entrepreneurs-clash-with-police-in-kyiv-while-protesting-pandemic-measures\/\">Radio Free<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KYIV \u2014 Thousands of individual entrepreneurs have clashed with police in Kyiv\u2019s central Maidan Nezalezhnosti (Independence Square) as they protested against state restrictions imposed over the coronavirus pandemic.\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,23,106,376],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2317"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2317"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2317\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2318,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2317\/revisions\/2318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}