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Philly.com: Philladelphia Ukrainian community rallies in support of Kyiv protesters

Published Jan. 27, 2014 at 11:19 am

Anti-government Euromaidan protesters gather in Kyiv during a recent rally. In Philladelphia, several hundred people gathered in support of Ukrainians protesting across the country.

Photo by Kostyantyn Chernichkin

Hundreds of vehicles, some from as far away as New York and Washington, rallied from the Ukrainian Educational and Cultural Center in Jenkintown to Independence National Historical Park on Sunday in support of antigovernment protesters in the beleaguered former Soviet republic.

“I feel I have to be in Ukraine at this moment and I can’t. I feel I have to stand with all those people and I can’t,” said rally organizer Olena Mishchuk, 31, of Northeast Philadelphia.