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How Kiev’s Maidan Changed Ukrainian Society

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  • Where: Václav Havel Library, Ostrovní 13, Prague 110 00
  • When: February 20, 2020, 19:00 – 21:00

On February 20 it is six years since the bloody events of the revolution of dignity at Kiev’s Maidan square. Its primary outcome was not political change in the country but first and foremost the birth of a strong civic society that has been an active participant in, or even initiator of, positive change in recent years. How did Ukraine change during and after the Maidan? How did former revolutionaries turn into reformers of their country, and how successful have they been?

Taking part in the debate will be historian and journalist Oleksandr Zinchenko, one of the most important Maidan activists (who also pushed through the renaming of a Kiev street as Václav Havel Street) and David Stulík, an analyst at the European Values think tank who served as press spokesperson of the European Commission in Kiev at the time of the Maidan.

Interpretation into Czech provided.

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