The Evolution Of Euromaidan In Photos: Euromaidan started late on November 21, 2013, when up to 2,000 protesters gathered at Kyiv's Maidan Nezalezhnosti (Independence Square). The movement started peacefully but did not end that way. The violence started after the government's crackdown on protesters overnight on November 30.
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Ukrainian opposition leaders Arseniy Yatseniuk and Vitaliy Klychko at Maidan. On December 29, 2013, tens of thousands of protesters participating in the sixth Veche under the slogan "Solidarity against the terror" endorsed a manifesto of the Maidan all-Ukrainian association.
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Pro-European protesters take part in New Year celebrations on Independence Square in central Kyiv on January 1, 2014.
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Pro-EU protesters clash with Ukranian riot police during a rally near government administration buildings in Kyiv on January 19, 2014. Protesters attacked riot police with sticks and tried to overturn a bus blocking their path to parliament, as up to 100,000 Ukrainians massed in defiance of sweeping new laws aimed at stamping out antigovernment demonstrations.
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Protesters clash with riot police in downtown Kyiv on January 22.