The participants of picketing of Embassy of Russia in Ukraine

Participants of action of protest holds a portrait of Russian journalist Oleg Kashyn during an action of protest outside the Russian embassy in Kiev, on November 9, 2010. This day the Kievan independent trade media-union conducted picketing of Embassy of Russian Federation. Participants of picket, which held placards with the portrait of journalist and inscriptions: ”Medvedev and Putin, find the attackers of Oleg Kashyn!”, carried out a symbolic act, putting metallic twigs near an embassy, and called guidance of Russia to hand over twigs on a scrap-metal, and never again to apply them. Two men used an iron bar wrapped in a bunch of flowers to attack Kashin, a political reporter with Kommersant newspaper, near his Moscow apartment at the weekend, beating him into a coma. President Dmitry Medvedev, who has repeatedly pledged to boost civil society and give people more freedom to criticise the authorities, promised for a second time on Monday to catch the attackers of 30-year-old Kashyn. Photo by Oleg Petrasyuk / UNIAN