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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 ...
The scope of the protests evolved over subsequent months, [5] and by 25 January 2014 the protests were fueled by the perception of widespread government corruption, abuse of power, and violation of human rights in Ukraine. [6] By February 2014 the protests had largely escalated into violence, resulting in the Revolution of Dignity and the ...
The first events narrated are the expected EU-Ukraine trade agreement being promised as a way to elevate Ukraine's future, but this agreement is suddenly discarded in favor of one with Russia. Pro-Europe citizens organize protests and occupations, centered on and around Kyiv's Maidan Nezalezhnosti. After 4 months, the standoff between the ...
Anti-government protesters clash with riot police outside the parliament building in Kyiv, Ukraine, on February 18, 2014, during the Maidan Revolution. - Efrem Lukatsky/AP
2014 - Maidan Revolution ousts pro-Kremlin government over stalled European Union association deal. Russia then seizes Crimean peninsula and launches insurgency to occupy parts of eastern Ukraine.
In 2014 Belarusian-Ukrainian filmmaker Sergei Loznitsa released the documentary Maidan. It was filmed by several cameramen instructed by Loznitsa during the revolution in 2013 and 2014 and depicts different aspects, from peaceful rallies to the bloody clashes between police and protesters. [387]
A Ukrainian court on Wednesday handed a former police officer a life sentence and gave two others 15-year prison terms over the deaths of dozens of people shot dead in 2014 during protests that ...
In response to anti-protest laws in Ukraine (announced on 16 January 2014 [14] and enacted on 21 January 2014), a standoff between protesters and police began on 19 January 2014 that was precipitated by a series of riots in central Kyiv on Hrushevsky Street, outside Dynamo Stadium and adjacent to the ongoing Euromaidan protests.