Andriy Kachor (@Ka4or [1]) reports (UKR; #kat_ua [2]) that Khreshchatyk, Kyiv's central street, has been “blocked” by the protesters [3] and that “the number of cops is growing proportionally to the number of the people [3].” Dan Matteush (@Matteush [4]) calls it [5] (UKR) “Revolution 2.0″, alluding to the protests known as the Orange Revolution [6] six years ago. Thousands of people are viewing the Ustream live broadcast [7] from Kyiv's Independence Square (Maidan Nezalezhnosti).
Ukraine: “Revolution 2.0″
· Written by Veronica Khokhlova
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