When thousands of protesters battled police in Kiev’s Maidan last year, Giorgio Bianchi spent weeks capturing the clashes. What did he witness?• Beyond Kiev’s Barricades – in picturesMaidan Nezalezhnosti – or Independence Square – is the central square of the Ukrainian capital, Kiev. The scene of mass popular protest since the birth of the country’s independence movement in the late 1980s, in November 2013 it became the focal point of Euromaidan, a wave of demonstrations against the decision by the president, Viktor Yanukovych, to pull out of a deal aimed at closer integration with the EU. Amid increasingly violent crackdowns, …read more
Source: The Guardian
