Euromaidan

• Wikipedia, Euromaidan

• Oleksandra Povoroznyk, “I’m not even gonna list everything this person (or, probably, group of good old balding comrades sitting around in a government building somewhere in Moscow) is hilariously wrong about, but I do want to make this point very clear: Maidan was not a coup.” (thread) (PDF)

• Oleksandra Povoroznyk, “It’s 9 years since the beginning of the Maidan revolution, which began as a protest led mainly by students and journalists, and ended up changing the fate of our country. This is what the early days felt and looked like: November drizzle, ironic posters and earnest students.” (thread) (PDF)

• Oleksandra Povoroznyk, “Alright, I know this definitely won’t get the “but Maidan was a coup!” crowd to stop with that bs, but I do want to remind all of you fine people on twitter what life before Euromaidan was like.”

• Neil Abrams, “According to tankies, the 2014 Euromaidan revolution, in which Ukrainians rose up and ousted kleptocratic dictator Viktor Yanukovych, was a “coup” by the U.S. acting in cahoots with Ukrainian Nazis. Was it?” (thread) (pdf)

• Mariia Kramarenko, “The beginning. 26th of November 2013. Student from my university Kyiv-Mohyla Academy gathered to march through the streets of #Kyiv. We went to Taras Shevchenko park in front of Taras Shevchenko university to call other students to join the strike. After people headed to #Maidan.” (thread) (pdf)

• The Euromaidan protest started 9 years ago to the day.

• Stas Olenchenko, “Exactly 9 years ago today, I was in a pub with my uni pals when we heard the news that then-president Yanukovych would not sign the association agreement with the EU, crushing Ukraine’s European hopes and locking us to Russia.” (thread) (pdf)

• https://twitter.com/DarthPutinKGB/status/1594635517567635456

• https://twitter.com/DecodingTrolls/status/1514119551956496385

• https://twitter.com/DecodingTrolls/status/1507666361299910656

• https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p074j379

Kremlin propaganda

• “Following the 2014 state coup, which the United States and several other countries openly supported, Ukraine has been falling ever deeper into political chaos, corruption, lawlessness and aggressive nationalism”