Protests in Ukraine have been going on for more than two months,
with up to a million protestors marching and camped out in the
street and clashing with police armies, but in the last two
days, it’s gotten a lot darker. Watching the reportage of
journalists on the ground is the closest thing to tracking
military clashes… with pyrotechnics.  Protesting fervor
increased since Kiev’s passed a law making protesting illegal.
There were tens of thousands protesting the law in the Kiev
streets on Sunday, hitting cops with giant sticks and
overturning riot buses.  What’s even more surreal is that police
have apparently been using cell phone networks to intimidate
protestors. People in the “protest zone” actually received this
text message a bit after midnight: “Dear subscriber, you are
registered as a participant in a mass disturbance.” As per a law
that was officially passed Tuesday, participants in protests
will be arrested and imprisoned as violent criminals.  The law
also limits journalist activity, or at least,