November 24, 2013. On this date, “about 50,000 demonstrators rallied in the center of Kyiv … to demand that Ukraine’s government reverse course and sign a landmark agreement with the European Union in defiance of Russia,” The Washington Post reported in a brief the following morning.
EuroMaidan Revolution
Washington Post: Recalling the 2013 protests in Ukraine
A EuroMaidan Revolution rally on Dec. 15, 2013, drew a crowd estimated at more than 200,000 people, taking up Khreshchatyk Street and the hillside overlooking Maidan Nezalezhnosti. The revolution came to an end on Feb. 22, 2014, when President Viktor Yanukovych fled power after four years of corrupt, authoritarian rule in which an estimated $40 billion was stolen from Ukrainians.
