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Unlike the Orange Revolution in 2004, the protests over the past week and a half in Kyiv, which have taken on the name EuroMaidan, have been driven by access to social media.
Dec. 1, 2013
The bells ring.
“It’s 10,” someone says.
Nov. 30, 2013
President Viktor Yanukovych issued a statement, saying he was “deeply
outraged” by the riot police who beat up peaceful demonstrators on Independence Square early this morning.
Nov. 30, 2013
Standing in the yard of St. Michael’s monastery, Igor Mitrov, a 22-year-old Kyiv student talks about how he was betrayed and who betrayed him. He was in the crowd of hundreds of people which was broke
Nov. 30, 2013
Kyiv police forcefully broke up a large gathering of protesters in Independence Square (Maidan Nezalezhnosti), beating demonstrators with truncheons, according to eyewitnesses and news agencies. There
Nov. 30, 2013
Lesya Gongadze, the mother of journalist Georgiy Gongadze who was brutally murdered in 2000, died Nov. 30 at the age of 69. Her death at 4 a.m. in her Lviv apartment strangely coincided with the star
Nov. 30, 2013
Just being anywhere near Independence Square in Kyiv overnight proved to be dangerous — even for those who did not participate in the ongoing EuroMaidan demonstrations. Police officers seemed intent o
Nov. 30, 2013
Serhiy Lyovochkin, the head of the Presidential Administration, resigned on Nov. 30, just hours after the nation’s police violently broke up a crowd of peaceful protesters on Maidan Nezalezhnosti, acc
Nov. 30, 2013
Ukraine’s Interior Ministry, which runs the nation’s police force, blamed protesters for provoking a violent police response to clear Independence Square of about 400 EuroMaidan demonstrators. However
Nov. 30, 2013
After riot police stormed Kyiv’s Independence Square early today and used violence to remove 400 peaceful demonstrators, Western diplomats quickly condemned the brutality.
Nov. 30, 2013
Johannes Wamberg Andersen was out late in Kyiv’s center when, close to 5 a.m. today, some of his friends told him that police were raiding Maidan Nezalezhnosti and attacking protesters.
Nov. 30, 2013
Only four days after it was launched, a petition calling for sanctions against President Viktor Yanukovych and top members of his government has gathered more than 100,000 signatures online.
That mean
Nov. 30, 2013
Editor’s Note: The Kyiv Post will be providing continuous coverage of the protests in Kyiv and other cities following the government’s decision on Nov. 21 to stop European Union integration and suspe
Nov. 29, 2013
Organizers of the EuroMaidan demonstrations, which are entering their
ninth day on Nov. 29, are trying to decide whether to carry on the
street protests or suspend them and regroup for a strategy sess
Nov. 29, 2013
They already live in the European Union. Some of them went abroad in search of a better life, a better job, a better education. However, hundreds of Ukrainians all over the world couldn’t keep calm as
Nov. 28, 2013
At least two petition drives are circulating on the Internet that take aim at President Viktor Yanukovych and his administration, triggered by the government’s Nov. 21 decision to suspend its drive fo
Nov. 27, 2013
Unlike the Orange Revolution in 2004, the protests over the past week and a half in Kyiv, which have taken on the name EuroMaidan, have been driven by access to social media.
Dec. 1, 2013
The bells ring.
“It’s 10,” someone says.
Nov. 30, 2013
President Viktor Yanukovych issued a statement, saying he was “deeply
outraged” by the riot police who beat up peaceful demonstrators on Independence Square early this morning.
Nov. 30, 2013
Standing in the yard of St. Michael’s monastery, Igor Mitrov, a 22-year-old Kyiv student talks about how he was betrayed and who betrayed him. He was in the crowd of hundreds of people which was broke
Nov. 30, 2013
Kyiv police forcefully broke up a large gathering of protesters in Independence Square (Maidan Nezalezhnosti), beating demonstrators with truncheons, according to eyewitnesses and news agencies. There
Nov. 30, 2013
Lesya Gongadze, the mother of journalist Georgiy Gongadze who was brutally murdered in 2000, died Nov. 30 at the age of 69. Her death at 4 a.m. in her Lviv apartment strangely coincided with the star
Nov. 30, 2013
Just being anywhere near Independence Square in Kyiv overnight proved to be dangerous — even for those who did not participate in the ongoing EuroMaidan demonstrations. Police officers seemed intent o
Nov. 30, 2013
Serhiy Lyovochkin, the head of the Presidential Administration, resigned on Nov. 30, just hours after the nation’s police violently broke up a crowd of peaceful protesters on Maidan Nezalezhnosti, acc
Nov. 30, 2013
Ukraine’s Interior Ministry, which runs the nation’s police force, blamed protesters for provoking a violent police response to clear Independence Square of about 400 EuroMaidan demonstrators. However
Nov. 30, 2013
After riot police stormed Kyiv’s Independence Square early today and used violence to remove 400 peaceful demonstrators, Western diplomats quickly condemned the brutality.
Nov. 30, 2013
Johannes Wamberg Andersen was out late in Kyiv’s center when, close to 5 a.m. today, some of his friends told him that police were raiding Maidan Nezalezhnosti and attacking protesters.
Nov. 30, 2013
Only four days after it was launched, a petition calling for sanctions against President Viktor Yanukovych and top members of his government has gathered more than 100,000 signatures online.
That mean
Nov. 30, 2013
Editor’s Note: The Kyiv Post will be providing continuous coverage of the protests in Kyiv and other cities following the government’s decision on Nov. 21 to stop European Union integration and suspe
Nov. 29, 2013
Organizers of the EuroMaidan demonstrations, which are entering their
ninth day on Nov. 29, are trying to decide whether to carry on the
street protests or suspend them and regroup for a strategy sess
Nov. 29, 2013
They already live in the European Union. Some of them went abroad in search of a better life, a better job, a better education. However, hundreds of Ukrainians all over the world couldn’t keep calm as
Nov. 28, 2013
At least two petition drives are circulating on the Internet that take aim at President Viktor Yanukovych and his administration, triggered by the government’s Nov. 21 decision to suspend its drive fo
Nov. 27, 2013
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