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21 november 2008
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Yushchenko fears Orange revolution anniversary – Taras Stetskiv
Yushchenko doesn’t want to mark the Orange revolution anniversary. The fact that he ruled to mark the Liberty Day on Nov. 22 (the day when Ukrainian took to the streets in 2004) and then, by another decree, set the Remembrance Day for Holodomor victims for the same Nov. 22 indicates that the incumbent is trying to escape from the revolution that made him president. Apparently, he is aware of his failure to deliver on the promises made to his people in 2004, VR lawmaker and Maidan veteran Taras Stetskiv told ZIK Nov. 21. Since 2004, Stetskiv continued, the main initiators of celebrating the Orange revolution anniversaries were veteran activists and common Ukrainians.This year, the veteran activists like Stetskiv himself will come to the Maidan square in Kyiv to mark the anniversary on Nov. 21, not on Nov. 22, because the Orange revolution began on Nov. 21 when activists in the regions started to send Ukrainian to Kyiv by cars, busses and trains.
He said he is not aware of any organizations that will hold festivities on the Maidan on Nov. 22 or of the ban by Kyiv’s district court to hold the events.
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Kyiv’s district administrative court banned 2 organizations to hold Orange revolution festivities on the Maidan on Nov. 22, explaining the ban by the presidential decree not allowing festive events on Nov. 22 due to the Holodomor victims Remembrance Day, UNIAN quotes Kyiv city administration as saying.
An international Reformatsija NGO asked the Kyiv mayor for the permission to install a concert scene on the Maidan to mark the Liberty Day.
A Kyiv-based Narodna varta NGO also asked for the permission to hold a rally on the Maidan on the occasion of the Liberty Day and 120th anniversary of the birth of Nestor Makhno who was commander of the Ukrainian insurgent army in 1920-1922
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