Article: Kiev Diary: `This is a cheerful but very noisy revolution. Sleep is impossible'

Sunday 28 November: On my second day in Kiev I walk to Independence Square. Tens of thousands of people are still demonstrating against the election result. Others roam between the square and state buildings, trying to stay warm and joining blockades. The whole city seems to be on the move - I have never seen anything like this before.

The Writers' Union has opened its doors to the protesters. Volunteers are handing out plates of potatoes and bowls of soup to exhausted protesters - wearing orange armbands - who are slumped in chairs. Others are asleep on stairs. In a makeshift medical centre, tired doctors hand out medicine. The room is ringed with plastic bags stuffed with clothes and ...

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