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The Kyiv City Council building remained occupied by protesters. [51] [nb 2] Workers at Kyiv City Council were still allowed to enter and work. [47] [nb 3] On 3 December the Azarov Government survived the vote of no-confidence with 186 MPs supporting the motion, and all but 1 Party of Regions MP abstaining from the vote; at least 226 votes were ...
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 ...
Meanwhile, Donetsk City Council pleaded with the government to take tougher measures against Euromaidan protesters in Kyiv. [252] Reports indicated a media blackout took place in Donetsk. [citation needed] In Lviv on 22 January, amid the police shootings of protesters in the capital, military barracks were surrounded by protesters.
Kyiv City Council renamed a part of Instytutska Street into Heavenly Hundred Heroes Avenue on 20 November 2014. [151] President Poroshenko decreed on 11 February 2015 that 20 February will annually be commemorated as "Day of the Heavenly Hundred Heroes". His decree established [an action plan to accomplish] a museum in Kyiv dedicated to Euromaidan.
Popov and three top officials of the Kyiv police are since of 14 December 2013 suspected of abuse of power and since under home arrest. [61] [62] On 14 December, President Yanukovych suspended Popov of his duties. [61] [62] On 2 December 2013, the Kyiv City Council condemned the police crackdown and riots of 30 November - 1 December. [63]
The opposition occupied the Kyiv City Council (City Hall) and the Trade Unions' Building. They still remain under control of the protesters. [37] At the city council building, protesters broke windows to get inside the building and occupy it. They chanted "Kyiv is ours" and hung a Ukrainian flag in a window. [23]
In Cherkasy Oblast about 500 residents of the town Mankivka, city of Uman set up a checkpoint on the highway from Odesa to Kyiv, near Podibna. [164] After a jeep ran over a 40-year-old person, killing the victim, [ verification needed ] an angry crowd attacked a bus transport carrying Interior Troops; the crowd smashed its windows and slashed ...
Maidan Nezalezhnosti (Ukrainian: Майдан Незалежності, IPA: [mɐjˈdɑn nezɐˈɫɛʒnosti] or Independence Square is the central town square [1] of Kyiv, the capital city of Ukraine. One of the city's main squares, it is located on Khreshchatyk Street in the Shevchenko Raion. The square contains the iconic Independence Monument.