1 December 2013

The Maidan in Kyiv is com­pletely oc­cu­pied by protestors. An im­mense tent city springs up, and grows in num­bers throughout December, in spite of the cold, the snow, and the on­going po­lice raids of the tent city and also of people’s homes. University pro­fessors, Doctors, Church leaders were fol­lowed home on a reg­ular basis by un­der­cover Berkut or po­lice. Some are awakened in the middle of the night by loud knocking on their door, fol­lowed by verbal threats that if they con­tinued their sup­port (by which ‘sup­port’ meant non-​condemnation) of anti-​government protests, there would be trouble. 

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