What began as a few small isolated public protests in 2013 against former Ukrainian president Viktor Yanukovich, for his about-face on a trade agreement with the European Union to pursue closer relations with Russia, turned violent when protesters clashed with police.
Public support for the protesters soon grew and their numbers swelled. By December, Kiev’s city hall was occupied and over 300,000 were camped out in the capital’s Independence Square.
In “Maidan. Ukraine. Road to Freedom,” at the The Ukrainian Institute of America on 5th Avenue and East 79th Street in New York City, Ukrainian artists who participated in the uprising present …read more
Source: Newsweek
