On November 21, 2023, Ukraine celebrates the 10th anniversary of the Revolution of Dignity. In addition, the country celebrates Dignity and Freedom Day every year. It was established by the Presidential Decree of November 13, 2014 in honor of the beginning of this day of two significant events in the latest Ukrainian history — the Orange Revolution of 2004 and the Revolution of Dignity in 2013.
Dignity and Freedom Day can be considered the successor of the Freedom Day holiday, which was celebrated in honor of the Orange Revolution from 2005 to 2011 on November 22, but was canceled, - Ukrinform reports.
Today in Kiev near the memorial of the Heavenly Hundred is not crowded, traditionally the families of the dead came.
It was on November 21, 2013 that the first protests of the Ukrainian public took place in response to the decision of the then authorities to stop the course on European integration and cancel the process of preparation for the signing of the Association Agreement between Ukraine and the European Union.
However, unlike the events of the Orange Revolution, this time the defense of dignity and freedom cost many lives of Ukrainian patriots: 106 people were killed and more than 2,000 wounded. And in the spring of 2014, Russia's armed aggression began, which was accompanied by the occupation of Crimea and certain territories of Donetsk and Luhansk regions.
Vyacheslav Ratynskyi— Ukrainian reporter and documentary photographer. He was born in the city of Zhytomyr. He has been living and working in Kyiv for the last 9 years. Graduate of the Faculty of Journalism of Ivan Franko National University of Lviv. He has been published in many Ukrainian publications (Ukrainska Pravda, Hromadske, Novoe Vremya, Focus, Forbes, Ukrainian Week, Reporters and others), as well as in a number of foreign publications (Time, The Guardian, The Wall Street journal, The Washington mail, The Telegraph, Daily Mail, The New York Times, El Pais, Radio Freedom Europe, BBC, Reuters, Der Spiegel).
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