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.

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.

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 ...

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 ...

Maidan Nezalezhnosti sits in the middle of Khreshchatyk, and Khreshchatyk cuts through the middle of the Maidan. To get from one half of the square to the other, one has to use an underground tunnel.

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, the Independence Square in the centre of Kiev, leaves mixed impressions of courage and uncertainty. It has become a symbol of determination among ordinary Ukrainians to push for ...

In 1991, it was renamed Maidan Nezalezhnosti — Independence Square. And in 2013, it was the center of nationwide demonstrations that eventually helped topple the government of President Viktor F ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...