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Ukraine’s Facebook Revolution, 1 Year Later


KIEV, Ukraine—Ukraine’s revolution began with a status update on Facebook.
Angered by another high-handed move by an increasingly unpopular government, activist reporter Mustafa Nayyem called for a rally on the country’s most famous square, Maidan Nezalezhnosti — Independence Square.
“As soon as there are more than 1,000 of us, we will start organizing,” Nayyem wrote.
He got hundreds on that damp evening of Nov. 21, 2013, the start of a protest movement that eventually would draw hundreds of thousands into the square, topple the government and propel the world into a dangerous new diplomatic phase.
One year after that status update, Ukraine formed a …read more

Source: The Epoch Times

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