An estimated 32,000 people turned out for an “anti-Maidan” rally in Moscow on Saturday, February 21. The Russian march, condemning the Ukrainian government and its war in the country’s east, began on Moscow’s central Petrovka Street and ended at Revolution Square. The demonstration, which had been approved by the authorities, was designed to celebrate the end of the “year of the Maidan.” It has now been a year since the pro-European revolution in Kyiv that replaced the corrupt regime of former president Viktor Yanukovych, but which was followed almost immediately by the Russian annexation of Crimea and the current conflict …read more
Source: The Jamestown Foundation
