Ukraine: Taras Shevchenko’s Birthday 5 Years Ago · Global Voices
Veronica Khokhlova

March 9 is the 192nd anniversary of the birth of Taras Shevchenko, Ukraine's national poet. Two translations of his best-known poem, The Testament, are posted at Orange Revolution. Peter Byrne at Abdymok recalls this day five years ago, when opponents of Leonid Kuchma's regime clashed with the police – first by Taras Shevchenko's monument and later near the presidential administration in Kyiv.