Maidan in Kyiv, Ukraine. 25 Dec '04 - 4 Jan '05. Photos by Larysa Melnyk Dyrszka
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Maidan Nezalezhnosty and Nametove Mistechko 12/25	Maidan Nezalezhnosty and Nametove Mistechko 12/25	Maidan Nezalezhnosty and Nametove Mistechko 12/25	Tribute to assassinated journalist Georgiy Gongadze.
Maidan Nezalezhnosty and Nametove Mistechko 12/25	Maidan Nezalezhnosty and Nametove Mistechko 12/25	Zhytomyr	Zhytomyr
Young revolutionaries from Nametove Mistechko	Young revolutionaries from Nametove Mistechko	Young revolutionaries from Nametove Mistechko	Young revolutionaries from Nametove Mistechko
Zhytomyr tent	Zhytomyr tent	Night on the Maidan	8pm--Dec 26th balloting is concluded. Maidan is packed with people awaiting the election results.
Maidan and the tent city	Maidan and the tent city	Lviv/PORA
2am following the elections. Yushchenko and entourage come on stage to the theme from Braveheart.	Ruslana (of Eurovision fame) is onstage to present to Viktor a 15-meter scarf which she began. It continued to be knit by supporters from all over Poland and western Ukraine...	Presentation of the shawl
The whole group is entwined in the orange scarf of friendship.
	EU officials from Great Britain, Poland and Denmark presented an orange tree to the people on Independence Square. The tree is decorated with 25 ornaments, each bearing the name of an EU country.		The representative from Poland produced an ornament with the blue/yellow Ukrainian colors and places it on the tree. It symbolizes the 26th country of the European Union.
		The revolutionary guard.
Dr. Larysa from Zhytomyr tends to patients in the tent city 'shpytalyk' (little hospital).		Tent city
'My people are, My people always will be!' - V. Symonenko	'The truth will rise! Freedom will rise!' - T. Shevchenko
	'Zapovit' (Testament) by Taras Shevchenko, poet and revolutionary from another time.		'Fight--and you'll defeat, God helps you!' - T. Shevchenko
Members of the revolutionary guard	Maidan		Spoof of administration candidate Yanukovich's campaign, which falsely accused the Yushchenko opposition of being equipped with US supplied boots and funding.
A poet, Yaroslav, from Morshyn', with the Ukrainian flag.	This photographer brought the American flag to Maidan after seeing the flags of other nations flying in solidarity with the Orange Revolution.
	A band from Ternopil
	Tent city kitchen.		Another boot, this one with a hypodermic needle stuck into an orange, a reference to Mrs. Yanukovych's 'speech' decrying the 'drug-filled oranges' on Maidan.
Flower power?