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Article: Kiev Diary: `This is a cheerful but very noisy revolution. Sleep is impossible'
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- The Independent on Sunday (London, England)
- Article date:
- December 5, 2004
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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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