Acts of protest in Ukraine

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Since the dawn of time people had disagreements on different topics and, as all people are different, there was variety of ways to show those disagreements. When it came to the larger groups of people, the disagreements became protests, and more often those protest took place in the center of the cities or in some open spaces, seen to everybody. Based on the specific problems faced by the opposition, it is necessary to competently and adequately choose the format of the street protests.
There are the following best-known forms of street protest actions.

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    The next was for Ukraine Bosnia and Herzegovina. Iran took just 27 steps ahead by two points of Belarus. Traditionally, the "senseless and merciless" in the near future is unlikely to threaten Russia, which occupied the 40th place. And the most peaceful country was Sweden. Ranking of countries where the protests may happen, is based on three criteria - social injustice, the tendency to revolutions and then what part of total costs in the family is spent on food.

    It is not known from the beginning of the year evaluation of the Ukrainians has changed about social justice in the country, but spending on food increased, which affects the "revolutionary impulse" of the population.

    1. “Eating issue”

    It is associated with eating perhaps the most colorful Ukrainian protest action. It happened at a time when our country was known as the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic. On Christmas Eve, January 6, 1990 in Chernihiv on the crossroads of Dotsenko and Rokossovsky "Lada", waiting for green light, drove "Volga". In the representative (on the framework of the USSR), the car was sitting besides the driver, an official of the regional executive committee. But it is not turned upside-down provincial town - from the impact in the "Volga" opened the trunk, in which fellow "servant of the people" saw the sausage, ham, canned food and other eatables, then does not get on store shelves. Officer disappeared very quickly, which saved him, if not life, it really just health. Mere mortals, remember that, apart from seaweed and birch sap, there are many more delicious foods turned "Volga", arranging from her soapbox. After a brief rally, the crowd moved "to speak with authority." Then Chernigov bosses were saved by a miracle that has now become household word complacency Ukrainians. Ironically, the message of Chernigov event got even in the mainstream media. The result of a mini-revolution was short-filling of the regional center stores at least what some food.

    1. “On Sundays should go to church”

    In 1997, the product was slightly higher than in developed socialism, and buying them was more appropriate to the markets. It is at these outlets swung deputies of the Lviv city council made the decision to forbid merchants to conduct their activities on Sunday. "On Sunday should go to church" - this was the main argument of the deputies.

    This opinion was not shared by traders, and in unison several thousand "bazarnikov" block City Hall. Trying to leave the building then Mayor of Lviv Vasyl Kuibida, who had a "brilliant" but irrelevant decision, was overtaken by maddened women, who constituted the vast majority of Protestants, and was nearly beaten. The deputies, having understood that shop assistants are the most revolutionary force, quickly canceled their order.

    1. No efforts for political acts of protest.

    In well-fed "zero" the people came out onto the streets for purely political reasons. The action "Ukraine without Kuchma" has become a kind of rehearsal and a harbinger of the 2004 Orange Revolution. But come, "Pokraschennya Zhittya vzhe sogodnі", and citizens of Ukraine have started again take to the streets with a purely economic demands.

    1. September the 1st

    September 1, the Ukrainian cities planned protests against the reforms of Minister of Education and Science, Youth and Sports, Dmitry Tabachnik.

    Organizer of the action was Vіdsіch civic movement. "September 1 has its own traditions: festively dressed children, white bows schoolgirls, many colors, and hope. And in the center of attention of journalists - Minister of Education with the traditional statements about past achievements and future reforms," ​​- said the move Vіdsіch.

    To convince the organizers, in contrast to other countries, where students and citizens have no idea who they led by the Ministry of Education, Minister of Education in Ukraine - "a real star - enjoys" popular "among students and even has a personal character in the form of a bearded, bovine animal that has a passion for cabbage. "

    It should be noted, that on October 25th the protest of students from KPI took place first on the territory of the university, and later – under the windows of Tabachnik. Students are against of pointing a new rector, who is going to be named by the Minister of Education.

    1. On the verge of new mass protests.
 

 It is possible that we are now on the eve of truly mass protests. "Tax" and "entrepreneurial maidan" has gone down in history, the storming of "Afghans" and "Chernobyl" Parliament continued. The situation could explode, for example, clumsy actions of the tax, which was conducted yesterday searched the premises of the organization of soldiers-Afghan "Nobody but us" in response to the request of the tax police investigation department of the STA in Donetsk Oblast and district court decisions Tsentralnogorodskogo Makeevka. The search was conducted within the framework of a criminal investigation, brought up on charges of tax evasion in especially large amounts of art. 212 part 3 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine. Later in the tax said they were simply wrong door

    1. Protest set over arrest of a leader in Ukraine

    Already over the month, her allies had erected tents in downtown Kiev, the capital, in the hope of gaining traction for a broad-based protest. By next week, a few hundred people had turned up.

    Ms. Tymoshenko, a former prime minister and a leader of Ukraine’s 2004 Orange Revolution, was arrested on August 5th, 2011 in a Kiev courtroom where she was on trial for exceeding her authority as prime minister, a charge her supporters dismiss as politically motivated. During the hearing, the judge ordered her arrested for contempt; she had refused to rise for the judge and was accused of mocking witnesses.

    In one prominent show of support, Vitali Klitschko, the World Boxing Council heavyweight champion and one of Ukraine’s best-known athletes, announced that Saturday that he would delay a title fight planned for September to focus on drawing attention to Ms. Tymoshenko’s arrest.

    Mr. Klitschko, who had been in Austria training for a match against Tomasz Adamek of Poland, said he returned to Ukraine after learning of Ms. Tymoshenko’s detention.

    “I understand that the real fight for democratic values is unfolding exactly here, in Ukraine,” he said, according to the Interfax news agency. “These events could well lead to Ukraine’s international isolation, which would absolutely dash Ukraine’s desire to live in a free, democratic country where European values are professed.”

    Ms. Tymoshenko’s detention, coming on the heels of the arrests of dozens of other politicians, has alarmed Western rights groups, which fear it is part of a purge of political opponents by the government of President Viktor F. Yanukovich.

    Freedom House, which tracks political freedom around the world, condemned the arrest, saying in a statement that it “lacks any credibility in the eyes of the international community.”

    The Foreign Ministry responded with a statement saying the judge had acted in accord with established judicial practice in punishing Ms. Tymoshenko for contempt because she had been refusing to rise to address the judge as an act of protest.

    “Demonstrative disrespect for the court on the part of the former prime minister makes one think that a widely promoted politician can do things in the court which no rank-and-file citizen would allow himself to do,” the statement said. “The court put an end to this.”

    Mr. Yanukovich has also said that he is pursuing an anticorruption inquiry, and that most of the politicians arrested or under investigation are not members of the opposition.

    The charge of exceeding authority concerns Ms. Tymoshenko’s order to the state gas company to sign a natural gas deal she had negotiated with Russia in 2009.

    So Y.V. Tymoshenko was convinced to seven years in prison , also she was banned from positions in government agencies related to the implementation of organizational and administrative and housekeeping duties for a period of three years. Moreover, the court ordered Tymoshenko to reimburse the company "Naftogaz Ukrainy" loss of $ 1.5 billion UAH.

    It is good to mention that before and after the conviction different disgusting acts of protests took place in Kyiv. One of them was just right after the conviction of Tymoshenko. To protest this blatant act of abuse of power, FEMEN have chained themselves naked to the central mall in Kiev's downtown district . After being chained to the sign for a short period of time, Ukraine's police force arrested the activists who are now, once again, about to face their own trial.

    FEMEN's chief complaint about this isn't so much that Tymoshenko is innocent, there is no question of her guilt. Their complaint is that Yanukovich has created a distinct rift in the country, which if not quelled could eventually lead to civil war, or at the very least serious civil strife. This act does nothing for the people of the country, it only solidifies Yanukovich's reign. However, as already mentioned, Yanukovich is a substantially worse crook than Tymoshenko, making this entire situation a joke on the people of Ukraine.

 

Conclusions in Statistics.

    A third of Ukrainians, 34.3% of respondents Centre for Economic and Political Studies named after Alexander Razumkov ready to take part in protests in the event of a significant increase in the prices of essentials.

    According to a study on the question whether you could take part in lawful protests, 25.8% of respondents said they would come out to protest in case of nonpayment of salaries.

    At the same time, being able to name a few options, 24.2% of respondents are willing to protest against massive job cuts at some enterprise or a branch.

    The Center Razumkov also estimated that 22.5% will go to the protests because of low wages, and 19.8% - in protest against the arbitrariness of local authorities. At the same time 19.4% - in protest against crime and lawlessness.

    Also, the results showed that 11.9% are willing to protest for the rights of people whose rights have been violated, and 8.3% - to support the requirements of impeachment. 8.1% - in protest against foreign interference in the internal affairs of Ukraine.

    However, 6.9% of respondents willing to participate in environmental rallies and 4.9% - in defense of the historical and cultural monuments, and 2% - in protest against discrimination based on race or ethnicity.

    In addition, 2.3% of respondents said another reason that they can get out to protest on the street, while 27.3% of respondents said that they do not come in any case. 11.4% - were undecided.

    In addition, respondents were asked what they think is better: to suffer financial difficulties in order to preserve order in the country or in the event of a significant deterioration in living conditions to the streets to protest.

    The survey showed that 55% of respondents said that in case of deterioration of living conditions better than to take part in the protests, 17.4% - to suffer financial difficulties, and 27.6% - were undecided.

 

Literature:

  1. Journal Korrespondent, issue 31.
  2. http://www.mizozo.com/ -- information portal
  3. http://www.nytimes.com/ -- New York Times
  4. http://minprom.ua/ -- information agency
  5. http://polka-knig.com.ua/ -- non-profit online library for a student

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