Voice of Russia: Yanukovych, Putin discuss strategic partnership agreement

Police block pro-European protesters during a picket outside a district court in Kiev on December 6, 2013. Protesters have since December 1 controlled Kiev's main Independence Square in response to Yanukovych's decision to bow to Russian pressure and reject a historic deal with the European Union that would have pulled Ukraine out of Moscow's orbit for the first time. Thousands have surrounded government ministries and held pickets outside parliament where opposition deputies have paralysed work. Demonstrators have also seized and occupied the Kiev city hall, with dozens spending the night there. AFP PHOTO / VIKTOR DRACHEV