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Maidan revolution

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  2020/12/20 - 12:02 • Ukraine

  Historian Yaroslav Hrytsak: “Ukraine is in a state of permanent revolution”

  Revolution: a virus similar to COVID-19 ─ A sudden surge of public activity ─ street protests ─ victory ─ stagnation ─ social apathy ─ revanchism ─ a new surge of public activity… Can we ever escape this vicious circle?...

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  2018/11/23 - 13:16 • Maidan, Ukraine

  With the Maidan, Ukraine fought off Moscow not when empire was weak...

  This week marks the fifth anniversary of the Maidan in Ukraine, an event that challenged an axiom that almost all analysts of the post-Soviet space hold, Arkady Babchenko says. That axiom holds that the empire’s possessions can escape...

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• 2018/07/11 - 23:10 • History, Ukraine

  Ukrainian history gift to global history – Prof. Snyder

  Historically, Ukraine is not exceptional, but it is “hyper typical” of major trends in the last 100 years, states Snyder. He points out three moments of the 20th century and reveals how they are connected to Ukrainian history:...

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  2018/02/21 - 22:46 • More

  Maidan was an uprising for independence

  But now we have to decide what kind of Ukraine we will have. When Maidan is mentioned today, people speak primarily about its “values”  — a summary of the hopes and wishes that unified the protesters. And also about the...

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  2018/01/28 - 00:08 • More

  Why giving media time to architects of the Yanukovych regime is dangerous

  On January 22, ZIK TV aired a controversial interview with Andriy Portnov, a key member of the Yanukovych regime. Many viewers objected to the channel’s decision to air the program and to the softball questioning by interviewer...

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