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Feb 24, 2024 · by Ed Verona. Amid the full-scale war that has engulfed Ukraine, Kyiv is now commemorating the tenth anniversary of the uprising known as the Maidan Revolution of Dignity. The name comes...
Feb 18, 2024 · The Orange Revolution in 2004 and the Revolution of Dignity in 2014, exactly 10 years ago, made Maidan Nezalezhnosti an iconic symbol of the Ukrainian nation’s invincible spirit. by Andriy Bondar | February 18, 2024, 2:08 pm
The Revolution of Dignity (Ukrainian: Революція гідності, romanized: Revoliutsiia hidnosti), also known as the Maidan Revolution or the Ukrainian Revolution, took place in Ukraine in February 2014 at the end of the Euromaidan protests, when deadly clashes between protesters and state forces in the capital Kyiv culminated in the ...
Street protests erupted in Kyiv, and Lutsenko and Klitschko emerged as the leaders of the largest demonstrations since the Orange Revolution. Police violently dispersed crowds in Kyiv’s Maidan Nezalezhnosti (“Independence Square”), and, as the protests continued into December, demonstrators occupied Kyiv’s city hall and called on ...
- Why Did Ukraine’s Euromaidan Protests Begin?
- What Were The Euromaidan Protests About?
- What Happened in Crimea and How Has It Affected People Living there?
- What Is Happening in The East of Ukraine?
- How Did The Open Society Foundations React to The Euromaidan Protests?
- What Is The Role of The Open Society Foundations Today in Ukraine?
In late November 2013, Ukrainians took to the streets in peaceful protest after then-president Viktor Yanukovych chose not to sign an agreement that would have integrated the country more closely with the European Union. As the protests in Kyiv’s Independence Square, or Maidan, continued into 2014, the government began cracking down on the demonstr...
The protests were more than a demand for closer EU relations; they were a rejection of injustice as a way of life and of the post-Soviet politics of corruption and nepotism. Ukrainians took to the streets to denounce the country’s endemic corruption, from the grand corruptionpracticed by ex-president Yanukovych and his peers, to everyday corruption...
On February 27 and 28, pro-Russian gunmen seized key buildings in Crimea and took control of the Crimean Peninsula, which has an ethnic Russian majority. On March 16, in a disputed referendum that Ukraine and the West deemed illegal, a section of the Crimean population chose to secede from Ukraine. On March 18, Russian and Crimean leaders signed a ...
In April 2014, pro-Russian separatist activity spread to other eastern Ukrainian cities like Donetsk and Lugansk in the Donbass region. This escalated into an armed conflict between the Ukrainian government and the separatist forces of the self-declared Donetsk and Lugansk People’s Republics, whose demands range from self-rule to union with Russia....
The International Renaissance Foundation, part of the Open Society family of foundations, has supported civil society in Ukraine since 1990. For 25 years, the International Renaissance Foundation has worked with civil society organizations defending human rights and justice, tackling corruption, supporting Ukrainian minorities including Tatars and ...
Today, the Open Society Foundations and the International Renaissance Foundation continue to work with civil society in Ukraine to achieve essential reforms in governance, law enforcement, justice, economic development, health, and education. 1. We support civil society organizations like the Center for Civil Liberties, which seeks justice for crim...
Nov 21, 2023 · A war-battered Ukraine on Tuesday commemorated the 10th anniversary of the so-called Maidan revolution, the popular uprising that toppled a pro-Russia president, showcased the nation’s...
Feb 23, 2015 · These photographs, taken by the Journal’s Senior Editor Lydia Tomkiw, illustrate what remained from the revolution in the Maidan, the central square of Kyiv, as well as in Lviv, in May 2014, a few months after the height of the protests.
