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Kyiv: Euromaidan-2013
Probably, each generation should have its own Maidan, and the new Euromaidan, which finally took shape yesterday in Kyiv, is not much like the legendary Maidan-2004: in geography, demography, and in energy sensation and semantic filling, this is a completely different action.
Actually, on Sunday of November 24, everything became clear with geography and demography. It all started a few days earlier, on November 21, when, after the Ukrainian Cabinet of Ministers on the suspension of the course for European integration, the journalist of Ukrainian Pravda Mustafa, the hire urged everyone to go to the Maidan (through Facebook, of course) and several hundred people gathered that evening at the Independence Monument. Since then, for three days, the impromptu rally on the Maidan has not stopped, but on Sunday the situation has changed.
Firstly, spontaneously or not-it seems, nevertheless conceptually-the geography, or rather, a deployment has changed. The main events have moved to European Square. At noon, the multi -thousandth column passed from the Shevchenko monument, that on the Boulevard of the same name opposite the university of the same name, through Khreshchatyk to the European Square, sweeping the tent of the Communists on the road at the Lenin monument at the beginning of the boulevard and passing the participants of the old Maidan and Pseudomidan, which the Party of Regions hastily gathered on Mikhailovskaya Square. For clarity: European Square is located a hundred meters from the Maidan, along Khreshchatyk, and Mikhailovskaya Square - in the same hundred meters, but higher. Less than a hundred meters from the same European square, along Grushevsky Street, is the Cabinet building is the main goal of the protesters. On Monday morning, it was stated that the rally participants intend to picket the Cabinet and “block” the work of the government of Nikolai Azarov. Technically, this has already happened, despite the intervention of the Berkut (Ukrainian riot police): the fact is that, unlike the real Maidan (Independence Square), European Square is a real transport interchange, the audience has no other place there except the roadway, and they wanted it or not, but they blocked the movement in the center of Kyiv.
All this rather close geography (literally cramped, European square is much more compact than the Maidan, it consists of almost all of the roadway, it is much easier for people to displace on the slopes and alley) determines the conditional demography. Whatever they talk on both sides about the number of protesters, the opposition counted from 200 to 500 thousand, the Ministry of Internal Affairs - 25 thousand, - “stationary” there are not many people there. At the same time, the protesters have practically no maneuver: the Maidan in the morning was blocked by the same “golden eagle”, the construction of the New Year tree began officially there and, no matter how funny it sounds, a winter rink (in Kyiv, meanwhile and rainy).
It seems to be too early to talk about the further development of events, it is only known that the opposition plans to hold out “to Vilnius”, and it will be seen there ... But now it’s clear that the real leaders of this new Maidan, not system politicians, not Alexander Turchinov, and not Arseny Yatsenyuk (“Fatherland”), who did not be late by Vitaliy Klichko (his plane did not accept the capital's metropolitan. Airports, he arrived in Kyiv in the evening from Krivoy Rog, but the Facebook public arose a natural question: why, in fact, could Klichko fly on Saturday?), And not even the galvanized Yuri Lutsenko and writing letters from the prison, Yulia Tymoshenko. This time no one chanted "So!" The conditional "Yushchenko". Apparently, we took into account the lessons of that Maidan, no Yushchenko is expected here, and the “speakers” were perceived on the improvised rostrum at best as DJs. And really people wanted to hear those whom they are used to listening to the same Facebook: Mustafa Vyuma (journalist) and Andrei Bondar (poet), Ivan Semesyuk (artist) and Alexander Roitburd (also an artist). It seems that they understand more in what is happening than politicians with analysts, and they really stand (or rather, live) on this earth.
And so, in fact, what was supposed to be said on the Maidan, but said on Facebook: “So, our“ Maidani ”is similar to the Vistavi with actors of the pro -Vincyny corpse. OK. Ale stench in us є. The very fact itself, the health of the agro -alphabet of his own Dupy, pounded with the transparents on the Maidan, the yak is a meaning factor with the prisoner of the tactical schemes in half -first distillations - to be. BO MIG BI I do not go well, ALE is divorced. Niyaki shock will not wake up (build up), ale is quiet Evolutsiya Triva. I good, Shanovni. Well xs, karoch. "
(“Yes, our“ Maidans ”are often similar to theatrical productions with actors from provincial corpses. But we have them. The very fact that the agricultural sectors are able to raise their asses and get to the Maidan banners, is taken into account as a serious factor when building tactical schemes in election campaigns - and this is pleasing. Because it could not be taken into account, but there are no accounts. There will be no shocks (it seems), but the peaceful evolution continues.