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Opposition ready to vacate seized Kiev building

By Maria Danilova
Published February 15, 2014 12:15pm ET
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Opposition ready to vacate seized Kiev building
A protester in a balaclava and a flak jacket plays the piano in Kiev's Independence Square, the epicenter of the country's current unrest, Ukraine, Friday, Feb. 14, 2014. A Ukrainian opposition group says that all the protesters detained during nearly three months of opposition demonstrations have been released under an amnesty law. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky) | Efrem Lukatsky

KIEV, Ukraine (AP) — A top Ukrainian opposition leader said Saturday that protesters are ready to vacate the Kiev City Hall they have occupied for nearly three months — if the government drops all charges against the demonstrators.

This week, the last of the 234 protesters were released from jail as part of an amnesty. The amnesty law also calls for the opposition to vacate seized government buildings in Kiev and elsewhere in Ukraine.

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