Blogging The Revolution

Kiev, Ukraine
50° 28' North; 30° 55' East

A first person account of the rising orange tide can be found here.

The following amazing passages are from last Friday when things were still very much in doubt.

"An 18-year-old medical college student from Zhytomyr is running around, distributing medicines and vitamins to the protesters ......

......The boy from Zhytomyr says medics would be the last to leave, and they are prepared to provide first aid in case provocations occur and the riot police are forced to attack the protesters. ......

.....The riot police are based less than 100 meters away, behind two huge trucks ....

..... A group of teenage girls show up with yellow flowers, for the police, and wait for their turn to walk past the trucks: there's a line of ordinary people, the media and even the priests waiting to get close to the police; there shouldn't be too crowded there, though, because it is making the police nervous.....

......When the priests get through the cordon, they stand right by the fence with flowers, icons, orange ribbons and balloons stuck into it, looking right at the police in front of them and chanting for 15 minutes.....

.....It is very, very cold. A girl with a tray walks around, offering hot tea in plastic cups to everyone..... A woman with a plastic bag offers cookies to everyone..... "

And don't miss Veronica's photos; looks like democracy.

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Thanks to FiatLux for the link via kos guestblogger David in NYC, the proprietor of the Swing State Project.