Another attempt to make some kind of sense of what's going on east of the Dniester. Ukraine, Russia and Kazakhstan come in for special attention.

Saturday, April 07, 2007

A couple of photos of today's Maidan, around noon

I took these today, as I ambled down to the Main Post Office to check my mailbox.



The first shows what looks like a pretty even split between the supporters of the Party of Regions and Socialists.

This one shows the Yanukovich supporters drawn up in ranks, getting ready to march off somewhere (I think they went to the Central Electoral Commission.) They were well marshalled by party activists, who had them moving off in sections. One older fellow was well drunk, but he was the only one I saw. All in all, I found it very hard to tell them from the supporters of BYuT or NSNU that one sees, as a great many seemed to be of university age.

Most importantly, it seems as though the supporters of all sides have been very well behaved.

I couldn't tell what was happening on the stage, but there were sounds emanating from it akin to Tuvan throat singing. From where I was standing, the sound quality was very poor, but if that was a speaker, he should be nominated for Boring Drone of the Year.

2 comments:

Masha said...

Hi Blair,

sorry for posting offtopic, but didnt manage to find any other contact of you here.

I represent www.HowToManage.In.UA project.
I see you are posting a lot about Ukraine. So I would like to ask you if you could post a link to our web-site on your blog?

We can post the link to your blog at the "Blog" section of our web-site if you like.

Best regards,
Mariya Novak
Project Manager
mariya@howtomanage.in.ua
www.howtomanage.in.ua

Blair Sheridan said...

Dear Mariya,

Looks like a good site, so I'm happy to add a link.

Blair

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