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No reports of racist abuse in Kiev, as the city centre hosted an anti-racism event.

Ukraine's foreign ministry has tried to downplay a BBC report highlighting racist problems in the country

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Anti-racism organisations come together to organise an event for Euro 2012 fans in Kiev, Ukraine.

Most fans report they have not experienced any abuse.

Football Unites, Racism Divides ran some games for various sets of fans as volunteers from Football Against Racist in Europe gave out leaflets promoting UEFA's anti-racism message.

Mridula Ghosh is the chair of the board of the East European Development Institute:

"The idea is to bring people together and this part of project 'Respect Diversity'. So this (event) is to promote unity of people, of different people, and say no to discrimination and racism."

So far, according to UEFA, there has only been 'isolated racist chanting' during the Netherlands' training session last Wednesday in Poland.

Before the tournament, the BBC screened a documentary allegedly highlighting racist problems in Ukraine.

But Merun Akhmed, Deputy Director of Football Unites, Racism Divides says it's all been a good experience:

"In Ukraine so far, well, before we came we heard a lot of negative press. We saw a lot of things on the news in the BBC Panorama programme. But it has actually been very positive here. We've not felt that anybody has been overtly racist towards us. We are pleasantly surprised."

No fans interviewed said they'd witnessed or suffered any racist abuse during their time in Ukraine. Among them Swedish supporter Ibraghim Mokhammed:

"No - so far I haven't (heard) anything like that (racism). All Ukrainian people are nice. I have only been here two days (but) so far so good.
Reporter: You don't have problem?
IM: "No absolutely no. Very nice people."

Ukraine's foreign ministry has insisted that the racist element in the country is a "smaller problem than was shown in the film."