Anti-government protesters gather at a barricade at the site of clashes with riot police in Kiev, Ukraine, on January 25, 2014. Ukraine's Prime Minister Mykola Azarov has resigned amid violent protests, and most of the deeply unpopular recent anti-protest laws have been repealed. #

A supporter of anti-government protesters wears a pot decorated with national colors and a portrait of jailed opposition leader Yulia Tymoshenko in the camp at Independence Square in Kiev, on January 24, 2014. Ukrainian protesters responded to laws against wearing helmets in public by donning pots and pans instead. #

Orthodox priests pray as they stand between demonstrators and police lines in Kiev, on January 24, 2014. As a barricade of blazing tires belched thick black smoke, a line of priests stood between angry protesters and ominous riot police. Every freezing morning, priests sing prayers to demonstrators gathered on the Ukrainian capital's main square, a solemn and soothing interlude to vehement speeches calling for revolution. #

Ukrainian protesters carry the coffin of Belarussian protester Mikhail Zhiznevsky, who was killed in recent clashes with riot police, as demonstrators pay their respects outside Mikhaylovsky Cathedral in Kiev during a funeral service for Zhiznevsky, on January 26, 2014. Thousands in Kiev mourned Zhiznevsky, shot dead during clashes, as a rebellion against President Viktor Yanukovych's authority spread. An emotional crowd packed Saint Michael's Cathedral and spilled into a square outside to pay their last respects to 25-year-old Mikhail Zhiznevsky, with many waving Ukrainian flags with black ribbons. #

A protester uses tear gas against riot police during clashes in Chernihiv, about 150 kilometers (94 miles) north of Kiev, on January 25, 2014. Protesters seized government buildings in scores of other cities in the European-leaning western part of the country. #

Anti-government protesters mass outside the regional administration headquarters as they attempt to take over during a rally, with Interior Ministry members standing guard inside the building, in the town of Chernivtsi in southwestern Ukraine, on January 24, 2014. #

Anti-government protesters clash with Interior Ministry members at the regional administration headquarters as they attempt to take over in the town of Vinnytsia, some 200 km (124 miles) southwest of Kiev, on January 25, 2014. Thousands stormed regional administration headquarters in Lviv, Ternopil, Ivano-Frankivsk and Khmelnytsky in western and central Ukraine, as well as parts of the northeast, the Party of the Regions said. #

Protesters stand guard inside the Justice Ministry in Kiev, on January 27, 2014. Ukraine's justice minister threatened to call for a state of emergency unless protesters left the ministry building, which they occupied during the night. #

Protesters guard the barricade in front of riot police in Kiev, on January 28, 2014. The prime minister of protest-torn Ukraine submitted his resignation on Tuesday, saying he hoped the move would help bring peaceful resolution to the crisis that has gripped the country for two months. Mykola Azarov's resignation would remove one of the figures most despised by the opposition. It came as the parliament opened a special session that repealed most of the harsh anti-protest laws that were imposed this month. #

Ukrainian opposition leader and former WBC heavyweight boxing champion Vitali Klitschko (center) smiles as he talks to lawmakers in the parliament session hall, in Kiev, on January 28, 2014. In back-to-back moves to try resolving Ukraine's political crisis, the prime minister submitted his resignation Tuesday and parliament repealed anti-protest laws that had set off violent clashes between protesters and police. #

Photo taken on January 28, 2014 shows an anti-government protester's shield and baton near a road block in Kiev. Ukrainian lawmakers scrapped draconian anti-protest laws that have angered the opposition, in a move aimed at bringing a deadly two-month standoff to an end. #