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The Right Sector is a loose grouping of ultra-radical elements that led confrontations with riot police in Kiev, throwing molotov cocktails and wielding baseball bats.

In Germany last month, molotov cocktails were lobbed into the Bergische synagogue in Wuppertal – previously destroyed on Kristallnacht – and a Berlin imam, Abu Bilal Ismail, called on Allah to "destroy the Zionist Jews … Count them and kill them, to the very last one".

The rioting at Ardoyne also involved dozens of molotov cocktails being thrown alongside every conceivable piece of debris the violent protestors could dig up around them.

The Czech boys say "thank you" and the musicians look them straight in the eye and wish them "luck", which is the sort of thing you tend to do and say in Prague, when somebody has just whispered that the skinny youth who has asked for hash was throwing bricks and molotov cocktails at the tanks last year.

More than 100 people have been killed in molotov cocktail attacks amid a political deadlock.

"Groups with guns come out to protect demonstrators now and sometimes they get used," says one young man who had been making molotov cocktails.

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By 1981, when joblessness stood at 2.7m, police were battling Molotov-cocktail-throwing protesters on many city streets in Britain.This was Mrs Thatcher's low-water mark.

A comrade with a huge bush of facial hair proposes Molotov-cocktailing a mosque for each liquor store or cinema torched.The battle of the beards dates back 45 years.

A Polish minister once likened it, perhaps intemperately, to the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact of 1939.An Estonian member of the European Parliament, Andres Tarand, claims that the pipeline will also disturb Soviet war graves dating from naval battles in 1941, when forces occupying Estonia fled Hitler's advance.

If you like closely reasoned historical monographs, you may spend your evenings examining the interplay between the Munich agreement (when Britain and France betrayed Czechoslovakia) and the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact (when Hitler and Stalin carved up Europe).

Few Russians see the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact that way.

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