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  • Valenki for the protesters
  • A Yushchenko supporter is carrying several pairs of "valenki" (felt boots) to load them onto a handtruck. He has an orange ribbon tied around his arm and a cell phone strapped to his belt. Behind him is a man with an orange bandana around his neck...
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  • Elderly protestor
  • An elderly woman is holding up a bouquet with orange flowers and wheat, a symbol of Ukraine. She is wearing a Ukrainian floral head-scarf and a bright orange scarf around her neck. She is sitting in a passenger seat of an older car being driven...
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  • Tying a shoelace
  • A man is kneeling down and tying a woman's shoelace. She is wearing orange ribbons around both of her legs as well as her neck and her hand. She is also wearing a headband demonstrating support for the Ukrainian youth organization "PORA" and around...
  • Poster reads: Суми ТАК!
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  • Independent cats
  • A woman tied an orange bow around the kittens neck and brought it out to participate in the protests going on at Maĭdan Nezalez︠h︡nosti. She is holding the kitten while its looking around at the protestors near by.
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  • 'When the independents - cats- joined (backed) the revolution, the days of the dictatorship were numbered.'
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  • Independent kitten
  • A woman tied an orange bow around her kittens neck and brought it out to participate in the protests going on at Maĭdan Nezalez︠h︡nosti. She is holding the kitten while its looking around at the protestors near by.
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  • Yanukovych and Yushchenko supporters conversing on Suvorov Street
  • Yanukovych and Yushchenko supporters are mingling outside of the Pechersk District Administration at 15 Suvorov Street. In the foreground, a young Yanukovych supporter with a Ukrainian flag draped around the shoulders is waving a blue and white...
  • Yanukovych flags read: "За Януковича! Вибiр 2004".
  • Bujak's comment: Yanukovych and Yushchenko supporters conversing.
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  • Maĭdan Nezalez︠h︡nosti Woman
  • A woman stands outside at Maĭdan Nezalez︠h︡nosti attentively listening to the protests and demonstrations. She's wearing an orange ribbon around her arm and an orange scarf around her neck.
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  • Yanukovych supporters inside the Central Terminal
  • Yushchenko supporters are mingling inside the Central Terminal of the Kyiv Passenger Railway Station. A group of protesters are standing or squatting in a semicircle around the camera. Several are smiling at the camera; a man in the center is...
  • The train schedule sign reads: "Розклад прибуття пасажирських поїздів."
  • Bujak's comment: "What do those bands signify? – It's a revolution in our heads.“
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  • Orange Revolution street barricades
  • Revolutionaries created barricades such as the one pictured around Maĭdan Nezalez︠h︡nosti. They were often covered with posters and banners that featured names of different cities around Ukraine which were in support of the Revolution.
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  • Crowd gathers around jumbotron
  • Crowd grathers around jumbotron after snowfall waving Ukrainian flags and holding pro-Yushchenko banners
  • Yellow banner reads: "так Ющенко"
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  • Protestor Vehicles
  • Protestors all around Kiev decorated their cars with flags and stickers so that even when they are not standing at Maĭdan Nezalez︠h︡nosti directly they can still demonstrate their support to everyone around.
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  • Young protesters
  • Three young protesters wearing white headbands in kamikaze style to demonstrate their commitment to hunger strike.
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  • Bujak’s comment: "Bands around heads (kamikaze style) symbolize commitment to hunger strike."
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  • Valenok Caricature
  • A Ukrainian felt boot or valenok is hung upside down on a pole in front of a group of protestors. The American flag and the letters USA are drawn on the boot along with a star. Around the boot is an orange ribbon and on top of the boot is an orange...
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  • Valenki: ridiculing the propaganda that the revolution was financed by U.S. (valenki are produced only in Russia).
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  • Maidan Entertainment
  • Protestors are gathered around a man playing an accordion. Famous Ukrainian ensembles came out to Maidan to play music and entertain protestors, making the overall Maidan atmosphere more lively and cheerful.
  • Sign reads: Народний Фольклорно-Етнографічний Ансамбль, Залужанка. Яворівський район: Львівської області
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  • Young protesters
  • Young protesters wearing white headbands in kamikaze style to demonstrate their commitment to hunger strike; a lady talking into the microphone. Some of the protesters wear orange ribbons, scarf, T-shirt.
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  • Bujak’s comment: "Bands around heads (kamikaze style) symbolize commitment to hunger strike."
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  • Barricades in the Orange Revolution
  • Protesters from Sopiv, a region in Ukraine, are sitting behind the barricades. Many protesters are standing around the soup kitchen in the back of the picture. The sign reads: "Sopiv supports Yushchenko!"
  • Sign reads: "Сопів за Ющенка!"
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  • Protesters on the street
  • Protesters on the street; a woman in an orange scarf seriously looking at what happening around.
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  • Young protesters
  • Radical students from Hora, a neighborhood in Kiev, announcing hunger strike inside a club where the press conferences took place.
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  • Bujak’s comment: "Radical students from Hora announcing hunger strike. Inside a club where the press conferences were taken place. Bands around heads (kamikaze style) symbolize commitment to hunger strike."
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  • Cat of the Revolution
  • A woman is holding up a kitten with an orange ribbon tied around its neck.
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  • Distributing Information
  • Crowd gathering around a hearse plastered with fliers and other information. Many are wearing orange ribbons in order to demonstrate their support for the presidential candidate Viktor Yushchenko. The Ukrainian flag is visible overhead.
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  • Funeral vehicle used as moving bulletin board with flyers, current info about protest.

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