Monday, November 23, 2009 LVOV: Ukraine celebrated on Sunday the fifth anniversary of “the orange revolution”, marking Freedom Day. It was instituted by a decree of President Viktor Yushchenko in November 2005 “in order to establish the ideals of democracy and to bring up the feeling of national dignity”. November 22, 2004 is regarded as the start of “the orange revolution” (the colour of opposition’s flags) in Ukraine, the campaign of protests, rallies, strikes and other actions of civil disobedience mostly of residents in the country’s western regions who supported Yushchenko. They were organised and conducted in Kiev’s central square – Maidan. Yushchenko was the key candidate from the opposition in the presidential elections in November-December 2004. Protests began when the Central Election Commission announced results of the run-off, according to which Viktor Yanukovich was the winner.The Supreme Court ruled to hold the second voting under the pressure of the opposition, as a resu...
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