rings of the militia and rushed to escape on mykhailivska street. the berkut people pursued them all the way to the mykhailivskyi zolotoverhoho monastery. there the monks let the beaten students in and closed the gate in front of the persecutors. we still do not know who those advisers were, and what passports those advisers had who advised yanukovych to do this. it seems that one way or another he wanted to demonstrate the power, having the confidence that he has it, and it is on his side, and ... discourage the desire to stand up for something, actually we see such things worked in russia, worked in belarus. that night changed everything. the orange maidan and the carnival of the velvet revolution have come to an end. in the morning came the day of wrath. on december 1 , half a million people took to the streets of kyiv. the militia, which initially tried to block the approaches to independence square, simply retreated in front of the sea. on the central square of the capital

, tents were once again deployed, as was the case in 1990, during the student hunger strike on the granite and in 2004 during the orange revolution, on the same day clashes took place under by the presidential administration on banking. from the moment hundreds of thousands of people took to the streets, everything changed, it was no longer a demonstration for some european integration values, it was already a revolution. the maidan in itself is not a revolution, the revolution - what is happening these 7.5 years, the maidan became only the launch, the start of this revolution. this revolution is three-fold, it is an economic revolution, in fact, a bourgeois revolution, for the free market against the closed system, against the privileged economy, against our barons, oligarchs. this is a nationally liberated revolution, an end of the liberation struggles of the ukrainian people, which lasted the entire 20th century, that is, in essence , an anti-colonial, anti-imperialist revolution, which, of course, like all such revolutions, immediately turned into a war for independence, and what was very aptly called the revolution. dignity, a revolution

of values, a revolution of thinking, new thinking, new values ​​against old ones, and that is why such a tripartite character outlines the three main driving forces of this process, it is the middle class, entrepreneurs, creative class, it is ukrainian national conscious citizens, and it is youth and students, glory to ukraine, slogan glory to ukraine to heroes glory became commonplace and even mandatory during the euromaidan. each speech began and ended with these words. this is how the people of maidan greeted each other. in fact, its history is quite old. it was first born among independent students of kharkiv at the beginning of the 20th century. then it spread among the soldiers of the unr. in the interwar period, glory to ukraine became official. issue among ukrainian

nationalists, later in the ukrainian rebel army. in the soviet period for such an exclamation could get a prison term. but from the beginning of the 1990s it returned again with the revival of the national movement. currently, this is the official form of greeting in the armed forces of ukraine. and the slogan of the football team. red and black flags, the slogan glory to the hero. and a huge number of other things that we are now used to, this is actually about distribution. what did the people who at one time marched under those flags and proclaimed those slogans dream of, that is, it means that our ukrainian national liberation revolution simply took the aesthetics of those who fought for the independence of ukraine before us, and it became generally accepted at the level of the entire country. the action of december 8, the so -called march of millions, was the most massive during euromaidan. according to various estimates across the country.

several million ukrainians actually took to the streets of cities. this action culminated in an event that at that time was ambiguously perceived among the participants of the protest. toppling the lenin monument. despite all the efforts of berkut to protect the monument to the communist tyrant. by the way, you can here draw a historical parallel. in 1917 , the ukrainian revolution in kyiv also began with the overthrow of the monument to peter stolypin. i admit when it comes to the fall of lenin. it is difficult for me to remain an impartial narrator, because i had the honor of starting decommunization in ukraine. i am not involved in the overthrow of this particular monument to lenin, but in relation to hundreds of others, yes. if we compare the events of the euromaidan with mass protests in russia in 2011 or belarus in 2020, it is striking how differently they reacted to the actions of the special forces.

in fact, we had a long history of the street confrontation with security forces. the first serious clashes between protesters and berkut took place in the summer of 1995, during the burial of the patriarch of the ukrainian autocephalous orthodox church volodymyr. the clashes on march 9, 2001, the culmination of the movement... ukraine without kuchma, were even more extensive. protesters tried to interfere with the president, who was considered responsible for the murder of journalist georgiy gongadze, lay flowers at the shevchenko monument. then the actions were brutally suppressed, hundreds of participants were arrested. it must be understood

that the maidan of 13-14-year-olds is not the first maidan, and it is not the first major public performance. and further into the depths of history behind all of this are the liberation struggles of the 20th century. that is , the willingness to defend one's right to life with violence is an important part of the revolutionary process, no matter how harsh it sounds. after the unsuccessful assault in december 2013, the authorities decided to simply ignore the maidan. yanukovych and his associates hoped that it would be negative the temperature, the long winter holidays, will eventually bring the protesters home. weeks passed, but the maidan did not disperse. dozens of high-ranking foreign politicians visited its stage and expressed their support for the protesters. new year's eve turned into a grand festive concert, but victory was still far from over.

the unprecedented support of euromaidans from the european union and the united states of america caused hysteria in the kremlin. after unsuccessful attempts to disperse the maidan by force, the russian prime minister... declared that the protests against yanukovych threaten the existence of ukraine as a state. these were not empty threats. just 5 years before the events in kyiv, russia attacked georgia, using the separatist movement in the country's two border regions, abkhazia and south ossetia. the real cause of the war was georgia's course to join nato and european integration. the sluggish reaction of the west provoked the aggressor to repeat this scenario in ukraine. draft law, registration number. 35-87 on amendments to the criminal procedure code of ukraine regarding criminal proceedings in absentia for acceptance as a basis and in general. i ask people's deputies to vote. who is for? i ask the head of the counting commission to announce the

voting results. 235 for. the decision has been made. the law has been adopted. meanwhile, kyiv is in a war of endurance. in january, the pro-presidential majority led by the party of regions passed a number of laws in the parliament, which they called dictatorial. as they expanded the punitive powers of the presidential vertical, all protesters were automatically outlawed. on january 19, during a large rally, leaders of the political opposition were not able to propose a plan of actions that were supposed to stop the country's descent into dictatorship. thousands of activists themselves went on the offensive against the police barricades on hrushevsky street. where the parliament is located, these were no longer clashes, real street battles. the maidan entered the phase of force confrontation. on january 22, the first deaths from gunshot wounds

were the belarusian mykhailo zhiznevskyi and the ukrainian serhii nihoyan of armenian origin. the point of no return is not so much the first death on the maidan as the dragon law on january 16, when every person realized that the edge of the regime is directed directly against her, that these are not isolated cases, that this is a system, and every person is under attack. in the end, on february 18, the headquarters of euromaidan, which consisted of a colorful representation of various communities and political forces, decided to hold. action peaceful offensive. according to the plan, the protesters were supposed to surround the parliament, blockade it and force the authorities to make concessions. but this plan failed. the authorities dragged thousands of berkut citizens, soldiers of the internal forces and armed aunts,

hired criminals, into the government quarter. during the street during the fighting, two dozen euromaidan activists were killed, and hundreds were injured. on the night of february 19, the authorities announced. the beginning of the anti-terrorist operation, a new assault on the maidan began, the security forces set fire to the trade union building, where the opposition headquarters and the hospital were located. the fighting lasted two nights and one. the culmination came on the morning of february 20, when 48 protestors were killed by snipers and special forces on institutskaya street. among the dead that day was my friend, with whom we walked the orange maidan together. bohdan solchanyk, he was only 28. yanukovych, through the mediation of international

observers, began negotiations with the leaders of the parliamentary opposition. it was agreed that early presidential elections would be held in the fall, but the people on the maidan did not accept this compromise. a new round of confrontation was supposed to begin on february 22, but it did not. at night , yanukovych and his entourage fled to russia. the special forces left the capital. they protested. occupied the government buildings, this is how the euromaidan, which we call the revolution of dignity, ended. on the maidan in 2013 and 2014, ukrainian independence was proclaimed in 1991, sprinkled with the blood of heroes who gave their lives for freedom, but they did not become the last victims, because the struggle for the freedom of ukraine will continue. and after the victory of the revolution of dignity, it turned into an open war with russia, which continues to this day. this is our century-long

war with the aggressor, which began after the first attempt of ukrainians to declare independence in 1918. and each subsequent attempt, each of the 10 days of independence is an important step towards our victory in this war. awareness of what has been done on this difficult path is a guarantee that... we'll get through it guys, let's get the bottles. we are coming back. thank you for being with espresso and thank you for donating. those who have not

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enemy and drones, we are asking for your help, glory to ukraine, glory to the heroes, glory to the heroes, yaroslav yurchyshyn, people's deputy of ukraine, chairman of the verkhovna rada committee on freedom of speech, joins us, we have the opportunity to talk, mr. yaroslav, good day, it's a pleasure to welcome you on the air, good. thus, the head of the antimonopoly committee of ukraine , pavlo kyrylenko, who is accused of illegal enrichment, explained how his family earned $300,000 selling raspberries. oksana, people have such a sweet life, i know that you also grow raspberries, can you also earn 300 thousand selling raspberries? i did not know that there was such a method of application, i eat it. you know, mr. yaroslav, an american. success story in ukrainian, but i will remind our viewers that pavlo kirolenko

is suspected of illegal enrichment of uah 56.2 million and declaration of false information, how do you like this version of the origin of such huge fortunes? well, it actually completely shows the general picture that we got from... the investigations of your colleagues, journalists, investigators, which showed that a lawyer spoke with pavel kyrylenko, who directly gave advice on how to avoid responsibility for... unreliable declaration, this lawyer is connected to a person who is known for a very active struggle against either the chechens or the kadyrivs in kyiv, oleg tatarov, who is still remains the irreplaceable head of the direction of interaction with law enforcement and anti-corruption bodies in the president's office, or, simply put, looking after this

area, of course, such an argument in court will not stand up to any... but opportunities to prove it it won't happen, but we remember that we already had scandals about raspberries, about raspberries there, which were shown to be bought for the president's office for almost uah 800 per kilogram, but that was still far before the family mr. kirichenko started selling raspberries, so now we have to watch very carefully that two facts do not come together, because... er, the head of the antimonopoly committee was released on bail, and we have a very negative practice when people are accused of serious corruption crimes or crimes against of national security in a strange way, being born later to the indignation of the general prosecutor, the heads of the border service about

how they managed to do it, well , the main point is... so that he really does not run away, because, unfortunately, the electronic bracelet does not always saves from this situation, and the second point is to monitor the investigation itself and the court, legal proceedings, because now it looks like there are no arguments to explain these inexplicable fortunes, well, all efforts to talk about raspberries mostly lead to only one thing, that others reasonable there are really no arguments, and that's why... the higher anti-corruption court, especially we already have numerous cases in the appeals chamber, where verdicts against such successful raspberry sellers stand. well, actually, the post office from which recommendations were received in the case of the head of the antimonopoly committee korolenko belongs to lawyer vasyl fedytnyk, and since you say that he is related to tatarov, there is

information that vasyl fodytnyk used to work in the bar association tatarov. marynnyk and head, in the 19th year as a lawyer of the same firm, he defended his thesis, but can such close ties explain the actual decision of the court to take him into custody, not to take him into custody, or rather, did it help? and i am far from conspiracy theory, which actually helped, because in fact we have liberal european legislation, which provides even for top... officials that the key element of the actual prevention of evasion is the avoidance of cooperation with the investigation, yes, because actually bail or arrest - this is a mechanism for a person to cooperate during the investigation with the investigation, did not avoid, did not influence witnesses, did not run away and the like. according to european laws, if the crime

is economic, it is measured in financial indicators, then in financial indicators... a preventive measure is established, in this case bail, it would be used in the united states, and in britain, and in france and in poland, why, because in this case financial damage was caused, probably caused, financial damage was caused to state interests, and accordingly, a person, and when a preventive measure is chosen for her, then she should have, but so finance itself to ensure that she will cooperate with the investigation, but in the parliament, in particular, for a reason... the authorship of a bill that prohibits the use of bail, at least during the war, for top officials, has been in the works for a long time, why, because we have a repeated case, when it actually destroyed the investigation, it created conditions for escape, in the end, it definitely does not guarantee justice, because a person

whose family earned 56 million there, and here in malin, but... i am an average citizen , there is no such opportunity, how many he would have raspberries did not grow and no matter how much the whole family invested in actually getting such resources, that is, there is a certain inequality between the powerful, especially those involved in corruption, and ordinary citizens, because a person i do not know stole something from a store , most likely she will be arrested, and the person who probably defrauded the state for... tens of millions, if not hundreds, and she will most likely post bail, well, but again, they overlap with european standards, forgetting that we during war and forgetting that... for us to show society and the international community that we are really seriously interested in preventing corruption, and not simulating

the fight against it, but the majority is not ready to remove such an opportunity as financial bail for major corruption crimes, because in my opinion, it is quite funny , when the state says, well , look, we found, recorded that a person defrauded the state for hundreds of millions, but we release him on bail for a tenth of that amount, well, in the end, there is enough money left to hire lawyers to drag process, in the end to bribe, unfortunately, we see in the case of dmytrouk that this is possible, there the executor who will be allowed to cross the border, well , then he is looking for wind in the field, of course, then the assets that remained in ukraine can be seized, so, well, but, again , justice is given. we can achieve this very hard, mr. yaroslav, i would like to ask about some other issues , in fact, a huge amount of information from

official, from official structures, in particular, from the media, not only from those about whom we do not know from from anonymous channels, we draw with a telegram, and now, against the background of the detention , they have already released him, but still under close control and have him twice a week. to the police to appear in france durov, in the background of all these events, how should we react, is it possible to transfer to other social networks if necessary, to other platforms, i'm not talking about anonymous channels, i'm talking about at least the official ones, now all from the ministry of defense to various military observers, communicate with people and provide information as quickly as possible, actually via telegram. you are actually quite right that there are all opportunities to use other

social networks, they are probably not so convenient and not so popular at times, well , but during the war to choose the dangerous but convenient is to expose yourself to danger, we do not have any guarantees that the telegram servers will not are in russia, and if they... are in russia, then any information that you, as a private or public institution, have poured into this network, it immediately ends up in the hands of the aggressor country, and we can fool ourselves there for a very long time that that the open cat and everything else somehow protects, no does not protect, we can see it now from the cries that are happening in the swamps, which, when the first members of the state duma are included in order to try to take durog from france, why, because they are afraid that... that everything they did in the telegram and everything , what they charged from the telegram, may end up in the hands of french, european, and i really hope

ukrainian investigators, since we cooperate as a state and in this case with european special and law enforcement services as well, aaa channels, reports about air the alarm is caused by whatsapp itself, it is caused by bots of sites, not by bots of telegram channels, all... mechanisms that are necessary, they really exist. another problem is that we rather, let’s say this, going where it is wrong, but popular, a lot of bots, centers, tsnaps, the ministry of defense and the like, really made a telegram on the site, thank god that the army plus and the reserve plus are on the site action, but this also shows that if you get bored and if you take care of safety. you can always find an alternative, and i don't get information about arrivals, missiles, movements, dangers in airspace from telegram, although earlier

in 22-23 i used this network, why? because similar mirrors in whatsapp provide basically the same information with the same efficiency, they are just not popular, not so popular, and here is the question of the state’s responsibility, so the state should be the first to leave the russian one, but... we understand that when the president says right at the press conference: well, you know, the question is so ambiguous, it must be studied, i apologize, it must be studied, our partners are arresting the owner of the network for i don't understand the popularization of children's pornography, promoting the popularization of child pornography, and calls for terrorism and other criminal crimes. but i understand why we are delaying the adoption of a regulation that would limit the activities of pro-russian networks in ukraine, because it is very popular among certain

representatives of the authorities. that is, i understand that there is no political will, yes, if you say that it is all simple, it can be done quickly, our partners do it, but we don’t, that is , those representatives of the authorities simply don’t want it, our partners, on the one hand, don’t have such a risk as we do, and, that is, here we should , on the contrary, show leadership, yes, in france telegram is not they use it the way they use it in ukraine, but in ukraine it is the most popular network, thank god that it is now trusted. and most people, even those who use, understand that this is an unreliable network, and at least the information that comes in the report should always be checked, but, well, there are two types of political will: the first is present, when people understand the responsibility that their position has placed on them, and really do not what is popular, and, because yes, 80% use telegram, so of these 80% , at least 10% there, these are people who earn on telegram,

very often. well, let's say, not in a very honest way, for example, the vast majority of tobacco smuggling in ukraine takes place with the help of this legalized dark-net, so it is clear that people a part of what they exposed actually from the state, so they will invest in discrediting everyone who fights against this network, there mykola knyazhytskyi, nikita, potoraev, there fyodorov, anyone, and, in other words, they will simply slander, because if they try to take away the illegal business, here is a clear straight line. interest, but there is political will stimulated, for example, did the authorities want to ban and religious organizations with ties to russia, no, they did not want to, but the public inquiry very clearly showed that we have to do it and we are doing it. in this case, it seems to me that the president himself is very clearly said how our situation will develop. ukraine, unfortunately, will wait until europe, aa, regulates it more clearly, yes. the criminal

liability of those social networks that do not moderate their content, respectively contribute to crimes. by the way, back in february, france adopted a law that criminalized and implemented the responsibility of the owners of such social networks that popularize pornography and the like there, and 20 years in prison, well, february 24th, not ukraine, which is in a state of war, actually france, in which there is no war, and here it is clear. how will it be if the situation in ukraine continues to develop, most likely europe will introduce stricter regulation, and we, as candidates for the european union, after europe, will also conduct this regulation, the only thing we will lose is how much we will lose, and very often not money, although for tobacco smuggling, we can already see that money is being lost, and by the way, the tax office cannot clearly identify how much taxes telegram pays, well , we don't have an official representative office of telegram, we have incomprehensible structures that

have in the name. the actual word telegram, whether in latin or cyrillic, well, it is information, which was provided at my request, but the tax department says that we do not know who telegram is in ukraine, well, they are right, because legally we do not have an official representative office, so, unfortunately, we will, please summarize, we have 30 seconds, well political will will have to be stimulated, at the moment you are right, there is none, they are above the cabinet, yaroslav yurchyshyn, people's deputy of ukraine and head of the committee of the verkhovna rada with... the day of freedom of speech was with us on the air of the tv channel, so what, one draft law , which refers to religious organizations that have their own roots and the heart in russia seems to have already figured it out, its draft law has become legal, so all is not lost here either, and we hope that this regulation will also be reached, and our journalists already know that there in ukraine and the world, and literally in a matter of minutes , khrystyna parobiy

will tell. we, so christ, congratulate what has changed there, what is the operational situation in ukraine, the world, and also what is heard there from russia. thank you, colleagues, about the work of our air defense this night, as well as about the situation in ukrainian cities after the russian shelling, i will tell you in a moment, wait news on the air espresso. i'm khrystyna porubii, i'll tell you about the most relevant things at the moment. details of the night attack on sumy. nine people were injured. the russians carried out an airstrike on an enterprise that manufactures packaging for baby food, juices and household chemicals, the regional prosecutor's office reported. on the spot.