Score one for the political freedom that is freedom of speech:

With Ukraine’s political crisis deepening, protesters left the ministry after Justice Minister Olena Lukash warned that she would call for a state of emergency. But at the end of the day, Lukash said the anti-protest laws that went into effect on January 16 would be repealed and the protesters who occupied her ministry would receive amnesty — as long as they cleared out of “all seized premises and roads.”

Ukraine bends on protest law, offers amnesty – CNN.com – 1/27/2014

American colloquial observation: “Without the First Amendment, all of the others are worthless.”

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