When Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych rejected the comprehensive Ukraine–European Union Association Agreement on Nov. 21, 2013, a number of citizens spontaneously gathered on Kyiv’s Independence Square that same night in protest. The impromptu rally sparked a wave of large-scale protests against Ukraine’s corrupt, oppressive and pro-Russian rulers, who were eventually driven out of the country several months later.
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Bernd Johann: Ukraine’s stalled revolution
A woman weeps at the memorial for Maidan activists or 'Heroes of the Heavenly Hundred', who were killed on the Maidan during anti-government protests in 2014, not far from Independence Square in Kyiv on Nov. 21, 2018.
