Ukrainian students in Kiev protest against Russian 'propaganda' Ukrainian students staged a protest against Russian propaganda outside the Dutch embassy in Kiev on Friday. They unfurled a large banner of a self portrait by Van Gogh, with their slogan being that it is better to cut off your ear than to listen to Russian propaganda. The protest comes a few months before the Dutch referendum on the EU-Ukraine Association Agreement between the EU and Ukraine, to be held in the Netherlands on 6 April. IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES