Communist Party of Ukraine
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The Communist Party of Ukraine is a banned political party in Ukraine. It was founded in 1993 and claimed to be the successor to the Soviet-era Communist Party of Ukraine, which had been banned in 199
Activists of the People's Movement of Ukraine picketing the reestablishment congress of the Communist Party in Makiivka, 6 March 1993
A communist demonstration near the Lenin monument in Kyiv, 2009
A Communist meeting in Luhansk, 2014
A congress of the Communist Party in Kyiv's Spartak Stadium, September 2013
Euromaidan
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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
Communist Party of Ukraine
…degenerated into a conservative and pro-Russian rather than pro-working class grouping, gradually losing its voters and membership". During the 2013–2014 Euromaidan protests, the party voted for anti-protest laws. However, it also voted to remove President Viktor Yanukovych from office in 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