A student writes inscriptions "Fight - Win" on a placard. On Independence Square in the Ukrainian capital, more than 50 students recreated the events of the 1990 "Revolution on granite". The Revolution on Granite was a campaign of large-scale actions of non-violent civil disobedience organised in advance by Ukrainian youth, mostly students. The protests lasted from 2 to 17 October 1990 in the Ukrainian SSR. The core of the protest events was a student hunger strike on October Revolution Square in Kiev (now called Maidan Nezalezhnosti). The protests ended with the signing of a resolution of the
A student writes inscriptions "Fight - Win" on a placard. On Independence Square in the Ukrainian capital, more than 50 students recreated the events of the 1990 "Revolution on granite". The Revolution on Granite was a campaign of large-scale actions of non-violent civil disobedience organised in advance by Ukrainian youth, mostly students. The protests lasted from 2 to 17 October 1990 in the Ukrainian SSR. The core of the protest events was a student hunger strike on October Revolution Square in Kiev (now called Maidan Nezalezhnosti). The protests ended with the signing of a resolution of the Supreme Soviet of the Ukrainian SSR, which guaranteed the fulfilment of the protesters' demands.
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