[Cz-L] Demonstrations in Chernivtsi

The demonstrations in Chernivtsi were a response to the demonstrations
in Kiev. Renaming the Ringplatz, Euromaidan is in imitation of what
demonstrators did in Kiev. Here an excerpt from the "Economist":

> On November 30th, at about 4.30am, Ukraine¹s riot police moved in to beat up
> a few hundred students peacefully standing vigil to support their country¹s
> receding European future. The police pummelled them with truncheons, beat
> them, sprayed them with tear gas and then chased them up a hill to beat them
> more. Never in its 22 years as an independent country has Ukraine seen such
> violence.
>
> The next day Mr Yanukovych was said to be hunting in his private grounds as
> hundreds of thousands of people poured onto the streets of Kiev in protest.
> The protest was no longer about an association and free-trade agreement with
> Europe, which Mr Yanukovych had just ditched. It was about an existential
> choice between a post-Soviet system, in which a corrupt and dysfunctional
> state violates its citizens, and a European one, based on the rule of law and
> respect for citizens.

And also from the "Economist":

> Mr Yanukovych has already lost control over the western part of Ukraine
> where police refused to disperse the protesters and local councils threatened
> a general strike. Kiev also showed that it does not respect the government,
> is not scared of it and will not follow its orders, says Mr Poroshenko.

Let's hope it all ends well,

Mimi

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