Wednesday, November 26, 2014

Scenes from Ukraine, then and now

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KIEV, Ukraine —In the year since the start of the revolution that toppled Ukraine's president and ushered in a pro-Western government, a lot has changed on the streets of Kiev.



A year ago, more than 100 people died in fierce clashes centered around Kreshchatyk, Institutska and Hrushevskoho streets. Now traffic flows freely and the crowds, the barricades and the barrel fires on Independence Square, better known simply as Maidan, are long gone.


Russian photographer Evgeny Feldman, who was present throughout the revolution, returned to photograph the site of the civil uprising as it appears today. Here is Kiev then and now. Read more...


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