A Ukrainian City Divided Over an Occupation Without End

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THE NEW YORK TIMES
By David M. Herszenhorn
Independence Square in Kiev has become a living monument and is hallowed ground for many. Credit Sergey Dolzhenko/European Pressphoto Agency
UKRAINE---The summer tourists, in shorts and sundresses, walk the steep slope of Institutska Street, toward Independence Square, pausing to snap pictures of themselves in front of the fortresslike mounds of tires, cobblestones, twisted metal and hunks of wood that still stand as barricades, as if the riot police could return at any moment. While a war against Russian-backed insurgents rages in eastern Ukraine, the capital, Kiev, is serene. Yet as the tourists reach the square, the monuments to the Ukrainian uprising known as Euromaidan come back to life. [link]

To some, the barricades in Kiev are an essential reminder of the price Ukrainians paid in blood to protect their freedom, but others want them gone.

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