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Ukraine is marking the Day of Dignity and Freedom, a holiday commemorating the 2013 beginning of the Euromaidan protests that ousted former President Viktor Yanukovych. Government officials, Maidan protest participants, and ordinary citizens will hold ceremonies in Kyiv on Nov. 21, and will place flowers at a monument to the “Heavenly Hundred” — protesters who were killed in clashes with security forces during the protest.

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