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Makeshift hospital in Kyiv operates between life, death and barricades (Maclean’s)
by Katie Engelhart and Marta Iwanek Video KYIV – On January 21, Yuriy Verbytsky suffered an eye injury during a violent clash with riot police in Kyiv. He went to Oleksandrivska…
Kyiv’s Euromaidan is a liberationist and not extremist mass action of civic disobedience (petition)
Collective statement by experts on Ukrainian nationalism on the role of far right groups in Ukraine’s protest movement, and a warning about the Russian imperialism-serving effects of some supposedly anti-fascist…
Winning Back Ukraine (The Wall Street Journal)
The EU’s rejected agreement with Kiev had little to commend itself to President Yanukovych, quite apart from Russian pressure. Sir Michael Leign After talks in Munich and Kiev, the European…
Don’t Let Putin Grab Ukraine (The New York Times)
Timothy Snyder As Russian leaders, diplomats and commentators ponder the division of Ukraine, we must begin to ask what this would actually mean. If the present crisis ends with the…
Ukraine stands on the brink – and Europe must bring it back (The Guardian)
This is no velvet revolution, but nor is it an uprising of fascist Cossacks or a zero-sum game with Russia. Europe must intervene on the side of democracy and human…
Guarding the Maidan (Maclean’s)
Video from the front line of Kyiv’s Independence Square protests by By Katie Engelhart and Marta Iwanek KYIV – On Wednesday morning, at 4 a.m., several dozen helmet-clad men were fanned…
Clergy Call for Peace Amid Violent Unrest in Ukraine (Zenit)
Priest Historian Puts Ukraines Protests into Perspective By Ann Schneible ROME, January 29, 2014 (Zenit.org) – What began as peaceful protests have escalated into a violent conflict, pitting government forces…
Euromaidan has constructed a “People’s Hospital” with defibrillators and other sophisticated equipment (Ukrainska pravda)
Due to the manual labor, efforts and support of about a thousand volunteers, a “People’s Hospital” made its appearance on Euromaidan. The hospital is a decentralized structure, providing equipment, materials,…
Helmets with a Cross (Dzerkalo tyzhnya)
Doctors, a modest and largely apolitical category of people, have always been close by the protestors at Euromaidan for the last two months. Doctors, nurses and volunteers have been doing…
Yuri Andruchovych: Love and Hatred in Kiev (The New York Times)
It has been severely cold here lately, with temperatures dipping below freezing night after night. What sustains the protesters at Independence Square in weather this bleak can only come from…