However, even then, today's Khreshchatyk and Maidan Nezalezhnosti (Independence Square) were not part of the city. "Maidan Nezalezhnosti was Kozyn Swamp. It was the outskirts of princely Kyiv.

Kyiv stood when it wasn’t meant to. For three years it has held the line, not just for Europe, but for all of us who still ...

Today’s Maidan Nezalezhnosti is a different place. Barricades still stand, scattered with flowers and white plastic rosaries and photos of the “Heavenly Hundred” who died on the square.

On Wednesday, the great Ukrainian director Sergei Loznitsa came to Cannes to screen his latest film—a documentary entitled Maidan that chronicles the resistance to the corrupt regime of Ukraine ...

The Ukraine National Defense Hackathon Nov 24-26, 2022, took place in the Maidan Nezalezhnosti subway station, in the center of Kyiv. Closed since the start of the war and almost 250 feet ...

From December 20, Kyiv will open the subway stations Maidan Nezalezhnosti and Khreshchatyk, which were closed since the beginning of the large-scale invasion of Russia. The mayor of the capital Vitali ...

That was the day protests broke out on Kyiv's Maidan Nezalezhnosti -- Independence Square -- after President Viktor Yanukovych unexpectedly bowed to pressure from Moscow and rejected a completed ...

When I arrived in central Kiev, Ukraine, on Feb. 1, antigovernment protesters were barricaded in Independence Square, or Maidan Nezalezhnosti, living under siege. Thousands of organized protesters ...

Maidan Nezalezhnosti (Ukrainian for Independence Square), served as the main stage for all the biggest protest movements in the history of independent Ukraine. It hosted a student-driven Revolution on ...

European leaders meet Zelenskiy at the Maidan Nezalezhnosti in Kyiv, to honor fallen Ukrainian soldiers. The leaders of Germany, France, the United Kingdom and Poland have told Russian leader ...

People who had been expecting that signature came out to protest at Independence Square, or Maidan Nezalezhnosti, at the heart of Kyiv. Advertisement. Advertisement. Advertisement.

Maidan Nezalezhnosti, also known as just Maidan, is a square in the heart of Kyiv that has been the site of mass protests over the years. In 2014, a movement based there led to a bloody rebellion ...