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ЕНЦИКЛОПЕДІЯ МАЙДАНУ ENCYCLOPAEDIA OF THE MAIDAN
Encyclopaedia of the Maidan is a series of short stories about the outburst of civic activity in Ukraine. The films’ heroes are human rights
activists, volunteers, military doctors, journalists, bloggers, common people, who changed the reality of today’s Ukraine. Every hero or
heroine has their own story, but all of them join together into a single narrative.
AUTOMAIDAN
Automaidan – civic activities on four wheels. It started as an association of car owners
who patrolled the streets, blocked government buildings, and helped the activists on
the Maidan.
EUROMAIDAN SOS
The day after the students on the Euromaidan were beaten up, the activists of the Center
for Civil Liberties opened a hotline for the victims and the volunteer lawyers, thus
providing the protesters with legal services and defenders in court. Today, they monitor
war crimes, engage in international advocacy, and struggle for the release of Ukrainian
political prisoners in Russia.
SELF-DEFENSE
From its first days, the Euromaidan was guarded by Self-Defense – the volunteers who
maintained order and security by working in shifts. Now most of them serve in the
National Guard of Ukraine, and the rest have created self-defense squads in cities and
villages all over Ukraine and maintain public order. The Odessa Self-Defense revealed
a scheme for smuggling fuel via the sea port to the occupied territories of the Donbas.
CRIMEA SOS
On the first day of the Russian occupation of the peninsula, Crimean activists created a
Facebook page with this title to provide up-to-date and reliable information about the
situation in Crimea. Today, Crimea SOS provides urgent humanitarian, legal, psychological
aid to internally displaced persons, and is fighting for the return of Crimea to Ukraine.
LUSTRATION
Lustration – a story of the struggle of Yehor Sobolev, the ‘chief lustrator of the country’,
to pass the Ukrainian bill on government lustration, and the importance of creating the
Lustration Committee.
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