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Flowers being laid at the Maidan activists “Heavenly Hundred Heroes” memorial in Kiev. Photograph: Sergei Supinsky
Justice elusive for victims of Ukraine’s Maidan massacre

Ukraine has been lambasted for failing to achieve justice for more than 100 protesters killed during its Maidan revolution, which reached its bloody c(...)

Father Mikhail at St Michael’s monastery in central Kiev, which served as a refuge and hospital for protesters during the 2013-14 Maidan revolution. On February 20th, 2014, the bodies of demonstrators shot dead by the police were brought there
Ukraine: Return to monastery that became a morgue

St Michael’s monastery in Kiev stands on high ground between the Dnieper river and Maidan square, and its blue-and-white walls and golden domes are be(...)

People attend a commemoration ceremony at the monument to the so-called Nebesna Sotnya (Heavenly Hundred), the people killed during the Ukrainian pro- EU mass protests in 2014, in Kiev on Tuesday. Photograph: Valentyn Ogirenko/Reuters
US urges Ukraine to redouble reform efforts on revolution anniversary

The United States has urged Ukraine’s leaders to revitalise their halting reform drive, as the country marked four years since the deadliest day of i(...)

Former Georgian president and ex-Odessa governor Mikheil Saakashvili with supporters during Sunday’s rally in Kiev, Ukraine. Photograph: EPA/Sergey Dolzhenko
Ukrainian protesters clash with police as rallies continue

Protesters tussled with police in central Kiev on Sunday, as thousands of people joined a rally led by former Georgian president Mikheil Saakashvili a(...)

Former Georgian president Mikheil Saakashvili greets supporters outside of a courthouse in Kiev, Ukraine. Photograph: Genya Savilov/AFP/Getty Images
Saakashvili plans new protests in Ukraine following his release

Former Georgian president Mikheil Saakashvili is planning new protest rallies in Ukraine following his release from custody, and wants the West to put(...)

A photographs of Volodymyr Topiy at memorials at Kiev’s Maidan Square to more than 100 protesters killed during 2014 anti-government protests. Photograph: Dan McLaughlin
Ukraine’s Maidan massacre: Two years on a survivor remembers

For more than two months, Ivan Rapovyi’s wife forbade him to go to Maidan, the Kiev square protesters called their “island of freedom” as they sought (...)

Ukrainian school girls painting slogans for peace on Independence Square in Kiev earlier this week. A memorial ceremony for about 100 protesters who were killed in and around the square in the final days of president Viktor Yanukovich’s rule takes place on Sunday. Photograph: Robert Ghement/EPA
Kiev Maidan’s demand to know who killed ‘Heavenly Hundred’ falling on deaf ears

For months now, an army surplus tent has been their home, and a split log the place they sit and smoke, as history unfolds in their backyard – (...)