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chapter 1 arriving in kiev
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chapter 2 peaceful protests
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chapter 3 revolution
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arriving in kiev
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God rays.
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Mother of the motherland.
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Morning light.
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Unique in their own way.
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Coffee from a snail.
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Get your eggs here!
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Flowers by night.
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Breakfast time.
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From another era.
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Metro morning.
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.026 Flats upon flats.
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Four omens stood above the fateful door.
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The ol’ schoolyard.
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The perfect haunted house.
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Crossing the tracks.
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Waiting for the overnight train.
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A football neighbourhood.
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Babushkas hawk their wares.
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A woman and her pigeons.
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The last metro home.
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A fleeting silhouette in the night.
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Down the long escalator.
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Protesters come in all shapes and sizes.
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Ukrainian optimism.
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.057 Police faceoff with protesters.
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Waving the nationalist flag of Ukraine.
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Militsia at the ready.
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A sense of calm wearing body armour.
Both sides of the wall.
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Get off the sofa, Join Evropa!
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.069 The great divide.
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Ukraine’s riot police.
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Many people have to go to work during the day, but older men and women make sure there are always people to hold the flags.
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Standard bearer for Batkivshchyna, Ukraine’s “Fatherland” opposition party.
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A common chant by protesters “Police with the people!�
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A regular policeman observes the crowd while on the phone.
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The pain of direct pepper spray to the face.
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European Ukraine on the EU flags.
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Hands off!
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Some notice the camera, some don’t.
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Svoboda (Freedom) party flag.
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A veteran watches the speeches through his binoculars.
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Riot policeman unmasked.
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Everyone loves to interview Ukrainian girls.
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Forming a line.
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Shout it out!
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Sitting on the founders of Kiev.
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Demonstrations in Kiev are bringing all types of people, not just the politically aligned.
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Even I saw the light in the end.
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Catching a smile through the crowd.
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Yanukovych, the clown.
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Masked men look on as hooligans provoke the riot police.
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Police respond with stun grenades and tear gas.
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Militsia.
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The flames from afar.
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c ha pter 3
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Protests on Grushevskogo Street continue into third night.
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Pr otesters sta n d on t h e b u rn ed out hus k s of min ibuses.
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.125 Facing the riot police.
On the other side of the defenses.
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Priests with the protesters.
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A look out over the wall of fire.
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Protesters look on as others stoke the fires.
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Appraising the situation.
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Running through the fires.
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The flames allow protesters to advance under relative safely to throw stones.
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Apocalyptic scenes on Kiev’s streets.
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Grushevskogo Street burns.
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Burned out husk of a minibus.
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Toss another one on.
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Police helmets are visible between the smoke through the burned out bus.
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Police spotlight through the smoke.
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Watching it burn.
Tire fires are hard to put out; good for protesters, bad for police.
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Preparing more fuel for the flames keeping the police at bay.
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Maidan in the cold.
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Entrance to Dynamo Stadium smolders as dawn breaks.
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.162 Remains of tire fires burn low at dawn on 25 January 2014.
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The press hard at work.
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.167 Scars on the entrance to Dynamo stadium.
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A Ukrainian anti-government protester stirs the remains of a tire fire.
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Ukrainian riot police remain lined up on the hill in Mariinsky Park.
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Mourning the protesters who have died.
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