Ukraine’s nation-building journey and the legacy of the Euromaidan Revolution UkraineAlert by Sofiya Kominko
Huge crowds pictured on Independence Square in central Kyiv during the early stages of Ukraine s 2013-14 Euromaidan Revolution. (REUTERS/Inna Sokolovska)
The protest movement that rocked Ukraine in winter 2013-14 has come to be recognized as a consequential event in modern European history. Known as the Euromaidan Revolution or the Revolution of Dignity, the uprising was immediately followed by a Russian invasion that has plunged Ukraine into more than seven years of conflict and left relations between Russia and the Western world at their lowest ebb since the end of the Cold War.