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Members of the European Parliament, most of them holding an Ukrainian and European Union flags, vote in the European Parliament in Strasbourg, eastern France, on December 12, 2013, on procedures to take after Ukraine rejected a European Union association at the Vilnius Eastern Partnership summit. Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych's refusal to sign an integration deal with the EU sparked protests in Ukraine on November 21, and on December 12, Ukrainian demonstrators celebrated holding three weeks of protests, notably occupying Kiev's iconic Independence Square, in the ex-Soviet country's deepest political crisis in a decade. AFP PHOTO/FREDERICK FLORIN (Photo by Frederick FLORIN / AFP) (Photo by FREDERICK FLORIN/AFP via Getty Images)