Tech Protester in Kiev Badly Beaten, Journalist Killed, As ‘IT Tent’ Is Burned

a protest against putin's manipulation was violently attacked by police.

this drew more protesters.

there was a law passed in late december that effectively outlaws protests. this also drew more protesters, and they grew more militant.

I'm not sure it's unfolded quite the way you imagine. The protesters are not "burning down the place", they built a camp in a public square to support their efforts as a base of operation, which is common. My understanding is that riot police chose to invade this space and try to shut down the protest, and that in the process of this, the protester camp has been set afire.

Reckless use of explosive teargas canisters could be to blame, but I wouldn't be surprised to hear that the riot cops are just setting things on fire.

You may have seen some pictures of protesters with molotov cocktails, makeshift firebombs consisting of a bottle filled with explosive liquid and maybe a piece of a torn shirt as a fuse. That's probably a reaction to the behavior of the police and the regime in general. When your buddy just got shot in the face, you are likely to put away the long-game because you are clearly now just fighting for your right to disagree, to be in the street.

Or in other words, you may escalate beyond peaceful / nonviolent tactics to protect the right to assemble and demonstrate peacefully. Or some people might on your behalf, whether you like it or not.

The protesters didn't burn down the place. They lit up the barricades to defend maidan from riot police and this is what we all saw on TV.

The aggressive core of protesters are nazis. I think they had trainings and illegal weapon long time before protests(as well as radical youth / nazis in other countries).

Are you trolling?

to do this government side need to start real shooting. The current government doesn't have enough popular support to do it - the common plague of bad corrupt governments - and may loose what it has or gain much more of it as result of the shooting with predictability of a dice throw.

too fat

Ukrainian paper, not Russian news program. As far as I understand. So no, not by protesters.

there's a video of his beating online, he was severely beaten up by government-controlled thugs with baseball bats and then shot by police