UKR-TAZ

The Center for Society Research has released its extensive report analyzing protests taking place in Ukraine between November 21 of last year and February 23, 2014. The report, according to its authors,

“is the first attempt to analyze Maidan based on the results of systematic research on protests, repressions and concessions of protesters in Ukraine.”

They continue,

“Since the end of 2009 the Centre for Society Research has been creating a unique database of all protest events taking place on the territory of Ukraine based on the monitoring of almost 200 national, regional and activist web-media sources. The database now allows us to answer some topical questions about the most important event in the recent history of Ukraine, which are [sic] still the subject of numerous political speculations. In particular, who exactly participated the most in Maidan protests? What was the real role of the far right in Maidan (the Svoboda party and the Right Sector)? Was Maidan really a nation-wide rebellion? What was the contribution of Maidans outside of Kyiv, in the West and in the East of the country? What was the impact of the violent struggle on Maidan’s victory?”

A press release summarizing the major results can be read here. The full report (including methodology) can be found here.

The Center for Society Research is an “independent non-commercial think tank for analysis of social problems and collective protests in Ukraine” founded in 2009. Its deputy director is Volodymyr Ishchenko, a left-wing sociologist at the University of Kyiv Mohyla Academy whose writings have been featured before on this blog.