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“Self-Defence of the Maidan” adhered to a charter that “promoted the European choice and unity of Ukraine”, [271] and were not officially allowed to mask themselves or carry weapons, although most men in the group did not adhere to such rules and groups of volunteers were mainly fractured under a centralised leadership. The group ran its headquarters from a former women’s shoe store in central Kyiv, organising patrols, recruiting new members, and taking queries from the public.
Jan 16, 2018 · Four years after the Maidan, civil society in Ukraine is exhausted, most of the reformers who served in government are long gone, and the powers that be are distracted by next year’s elections already. “We are very tired,” leading anticorruption activist Daria Kaleniuk admitted in Washington last year. One can count the number of ...
70.) “Everyone here has a strong sense of responsibility for Maidan’s future,” a leader of one self-defence unit said. Tetyana Chornovol, the journalist who was attacked on 25 December, said: “They thought it will end on 30 November, but it didn’t. They gave the order to shoot, torture and arrest, but it didn’t work again.
- Elias Kuhn von Burgsdorff
- 2015
The Revolution of Dignity (Ukrainian: Революція гідності, romanized: Revoliutsiia hidnosti), also known as the Maidan Revolution or the Ukrainian Revolution, [2] took place in Ukraine in February 2014 [2] [1] [26] [27] [28] at the end of the Euromaidan protests, [1] when deadly clashes between protesters and state forces in the capital Kyiv culminated in the ousting of President Viktor Yanukovych, the return to the 2004 Constitution of Ukraine, and the outbreak of the 2014 ...
Mar 20, 2014 · The Self-Defence Groups' priority is the pursuit of "Titushki," men hired by the Yanukovych regime to attack protestors in the Maidan. These men, viewed as traitors by the revolutionaries, are ...
Dec 15, 2019 · It reveals involvement of the Right Sector in violent clashes with the Berkut special police force during the highly publicized dispersal of Maidan protesters on November 30, 2013. The Right Sector and Svoboda had crucial roles in the violent overthrow of the Yanukovych government, in particular, in the Maidan massacre of the protesters and the police.
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Lynn Hunt described the narrative of the Great French Revolution as a Greek drama: it began as a comedy, turned into a romance, and the final act was a tragedy. 105 Considering the Winter Revolution in Ukraine, I suggest that the drama of Maidan began as a romance—in light of the popular participation, the festive mood, and the belief that radical change was possible; then Maidan became a tragedy—the “dictatorship laws” criminalized its efforts, the far-right assumed an ever greater ...
