Hello, I am from Latvia, Ventspils, and I am currently working on my ZPD (research paper). My research focuses on the Euromaidan protests and Ukrainian national identity. I am looking for individuals who personally took part in the Euromaidan protests and would be willing to complete a short survey. The survey is anonymous and will be used only for academic purposes.
Survey in Ukrainian: https://forms.gle/f6yQNRj2ac4P854C8
Survey in English: https://forms.gle/d4zhZN6k6BtPnQuh6
I would be incredibly grateful and genuinely happy for every single response I receive, as each answer is extremely valuable for my research
Hi! I just answered it. I would like to mention, that Euromaidan wasn’t about Ukrainian identity or symbols, it wasn’t about Ukrainian language, flag, songs, singers, or Yuliya Tymoshenko. Euromaidan was about fighting with corruption, oligarchs, and justice. Police brutally beaten up students at night in Kyiv, and government didn’t explain why and who made that happened. So after that protests started to be very huge. During protests people were only focused on justice and changing the government, everybody was fed up with current government, police, law system, etc. That’s it. Also majority of people wanted Ukraine to become part of EU so police can’t act this way and in general life could get better with less corruption and etc. People used national symbols, or songs, etc just as a protests tools, but it was not about it. I would suggest to change some questions in survey since Euromaidan wasn’t about Ukrainian identity, it was about the desire for justice, changing government, and Euro integration. Ukrainians didn’t feel themselves as less Ukrainians or didn’t have a need to prove that they are Ukrainians during Euromaidan, it wasn’t the topic of Euromaidan. And nowadays unfortunately because of the invasion they need so they do it in Ukraine or overseas so the world can see the identity and culture. Also, nobody really cared for Yuliya Tymoshenko, the fact that she left the jail didn’t bother anyone really. Ukrainians wanted to have the election and change to someone else who would make Ukraine join EU. She didn’t win election, because by that time she already was quite long in politics so there was nothing new.
Agree to this! I was Russian-speaking at that time, and so my whole surroundings were with few exceptions. But everyone I knew was a supporter or active member of the protest because the root of Maidan was against the mentioned above problems, and much later it became tied with Russia’s influence when they involvement in anti-Maidan movement became obvious and political/media stance hostile.
I have already addressed these topics in the theoretical section, including specific events and the Association Agreement. The theoretical part of my research is primarily approached from a historical and political perspective. Nevertheless, thank you for your engagement and suggestions they are very helpful to me.
Thank you too, for making a research about Ukraine and Euromaidan! It means a lot for all of us Ukrainians 💕I also would like to say, that sometimes in eastern cities of Ukraine during the Euromaidan, police were also beating up some people,usually men and once it was getting very late during the night… and after that many people weren’t going to hospitals, because they knew in hospitals police can be there and identify the patients, and record them… they were trying to find doctors/nurses at home through friends to get treatment… this is why protests were becoming bigger and bigger… many people were even driving to Kyiv from all over the Ukraine and sleeping there in tents during cold winter…because we wanted it to stop and be able to have peaceful protests, have opinions, and etc
The last two questions are a bit out of place really. Руслана Лежічко, Тімошиха? Like wat. You could put Іво Бобул and Batman there too for same effect.