Orange Revolution
Democracy Emerging in Ukraine

MAIDAN NEWS: http://eng.maidanua.org/
In Memory of its founder Gregory Gongadze
 
Victorious Freedom of Speech

Maidan - is a landmark example of how free speech 
disseminated via Internet has impacted the fate of 
50 million Ukrainians - but at a cost - the life of a 
heroic Journalist, Mr. Georgiy GOngadze, murdered by 
those engaged in fraud and corruption.
 

“Maidan” was started on Internet on Dec 20th 2000 as a 
reaction to government's efforts to block information 
distribution about the political opposition activities 
... civil protest actions, caused by the disappearance of 
the journalist Georgiy Gongadze. (a murder that remains 
to be resolved).
 

The site "Maidan" has been initially created by Georgiy 
Gongadze's friends, journalists, programmers and the 
activists of "tents protest action" that had been held at 
central maidan ("the Square" in Ukrainian) of Ukrainian's 
capital city Kyiv. "Maidan" was an official information 
site of "Ukraine without Kuchma" protest action. 
 

At that time the Ukrainian officials had tried to obstruct 
the free information flow of other Ukrainian internet 
publications. That helped the decision to move the site 
“Maidan” to a server outside of Ukraine. In cases of other 
sites downtime, information about the protests was 
distributed exclusively by "Maidan" which made it 
impossible for authorities to hide the facts about the 
protests completely. 


Maidan news is orgnized by the civil resistance movement 
in Ukraine to protest Government corruption and fraud. 
Support Maidan with a donation! 
http://maidan.org.ua/donate/index.htm

 

OTHER SOURCES IN UKRAINIAN AND RUSSIAN
 

http://www.gazeta.lviv.ua/articles/ 
http://www2.pravda.com.ua/archive/2004/ 
http://www2.pravda.com.ua/ - in Ukrainian.
http://www2.pravda.com.ua/en/ - in English.

IBIS: International Birth Defects Information systems 
Pandora's Word Box: Medical Etymology and Terminology 

 

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