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176 World Affs. 9 (2013-2014)
Euromaidan: Ukraine's Self-Organizing Revolution

handle is hein.journals/wrldaf176 and id is 521 raw text is: EUROMAIDAN Ukraine's Self-Organizing Revolution Nadia Diuk January 22nd, 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 pit- ted 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. The demonstrations that shook Ukraine throughout November and December 2013 reached a critical turning point on December 17th, when the country's embattled president, Viktor Yanukovych, struck a surprise deal with Vladimir Putin in which Russia bought $15 billion in Ukrainian bonds and slashed the price on natural gas by a third. This news flash came as blunt confirmation that Yanukovych had no intention of giving in to the innovative protest movement that had put his government in crisis by demanding that the country look west toward Europe instead of becoming a Russian ally once more. As the protesters digested what seemed to be a significant coup by Putin, the question of what would come next hung in the air. But by New Year's Eve, hundreds of thousands of demonstrators were in the streets again, stronger than ever. A few days Nadia Diuk is a vice president of the National Endowment for Democracy. MARCH/APRIL 2014 9

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