Andriy Volodymyrovych Parubiy was a Ukrainian national-democratic politician who was a People's Deputy of Ukraine from 2007 until his assassination in 2025, and chairman of the Verkhovna Rada from 201
Parubiy in 2016
Parubiy at a meeting of the Verkhovna Rada, 14 April 2016
Parubiy with Ukrainian counterintelligence officer Roman Chervinsky after Chervinsky's release on bail, 18 July 2024
Euromaidan, or the Maidan Uprising, was a wave of demonstrations and civil unrest in Ukraine, which began on 21 November 2013 with large protests in Maidan Nezalezhnosti in Kyiv. The protests were spa
Andriy Parubiy
…in 2004 and actively participated in the Orange Revolution. In 2007, he was elected to the Verkhovna Rada on the Our Ukraine electoral list. During Euromaidan, he was in charge of the Maidan self-defense, commanding more than ten thousand people by February 2014. After the victory of the Revolution of Dignity…
Clockwise from top left: a large European flag is waved across Maidan on 27 November 2013; opposition activist and popular singer Ruslana addresses the crowds on Maidan on 29 November 2013; Euromaidan on European Square on 1 December; plinth of the toppled Lenin statue; crowds direct hose at militsiya; tree decorated with flags and posters.
Protesters in Kyiv, 29 December 2013
Opposition leaders Vitali Klitschko, Arseniy Yatsenyuk and Oleh Tyahnybok, addressing demonstrators, 27 November 2013
Euromaidan protestors on 27 November 2013, Kyiv, Ukraine