EuroMaidan Revolution
Nadia Diuk: Ukraine’s self-organizing revolution
Activists of Democratic Alliance party and the others activists of Euromaidan plunge replica of Euros signed \"Stop blood!!!\" to symbolic blood during protest action in front of Deutsche Bank in Ukraine office in Kiev on February 3, 2014. Protesters call the German Bank to stop collaboration with the banks and with the companies owned by the President Viktor Yanukovych's family. Europe and the United States on Monday mulled a financial aid plan as part of a political solution to Ukraine's crisis while President Viktor Yanukovych returned to work after four days of sick leave. AFP PHOTO/ SERGEI SUPINSKY
Jan. 22, the date usually celebrated in Ukraine as the Day of Unity between east and west, will now go down in history as the day the two-months-long Euromaidan movement saw its first fatalities as violence escalated in Kyiv’s city center, with internal troops and special forces pitted against the formerly peaceful protesters in a vicious, at times almost medieval battle. One civic activist was found beaten to death in the woods outside Kyiv, and others were shot as they took part in the standoff.
