COMM UNIAN ARCHIVE Opposition activists clash with police in downtown Kiev, Ukraine, Friday, March 9, 2001. Mass violence occured on the occasion of the 187th anniversary of Ukrainian poet and national symbol Taras Shevchenko at the time when Ukraine's President Leonid Kuchma laid flowers to the poet's monument. Numerous protests have occured in the country recent months with demands of Kuchma's ouster. Photo by Dmitry Gavrish / UNIAN