Euromaidan en · PROPN
Etymology
2013, from Ukrainian Євромайда́н (Jevromajdán), from Євро́па (Jevrópa, “Europe”) + майда́н (majdán, “square”), named after Майда́н Незале́жності (Majdán Nezaléžnosti, “Independence Square”) in Kyiv. Compare maidan.
Meanings
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A series of antigovernment protests in Ukraine that started in November 2013.
Large-scale protests, like Euromaidan or the Arab Spring, tend to occur in waves clustered in time and space through the processes of cross-country political contention or diffusion.
2014 March 22, Farid Guliyev, Nozima Akhrarkhodjaeva, “Why Ukraine’s Euromaidan is not spreading to other post-Soviet states”, in Washington Post:2016, January 7, Taras Kuzio, "Euromaidan Dreams Deferred", in Foreign Affairs Snapshot At the heart of the Orange and Euromaidan revolutions was a demand by average Ukrainians for justice and dignity.
2016, June 1, Adam Hinton interviewed by Laura Snoad, "Adam Hinton's best photograph: an artist painting amid the Kiev uprising", The Guardian In February 2014, it felt like the Euromaidan protests in Kiev's Independence Square, demanding closer integration with Europe, were reaching a peak.
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Translations (25)
tt Евромәйдан (series of anti-government protests in Ukraine) · ru Евромайда́н (series of anti-government protests in Ukraine) · de Euromaidan (series of anti-government protests in Ukraine) · az Avromeydan (series of anti-government protests in Ukraine) · nl Euromajdan (series of anti-government protests in Ukraine) · pt Euromaidan (series of anti-government protests in Ukraine) · fa یورومیدان (series of anti-government protests in Ukraine) · mn Евромайдан (series of anti-government protests in Ukraine) · de Euromajdan (series of anti-government protests in Ukraine) · ar أُورُومَيْدَان (series of anti-government protests in Ukraine) · he יברומאידאן (series of anti-government protests in Ukraine) · ko 유로마이단 (series of anti-government protests in Ukraine) · tr Yevromaydan (series of anti-government protests in Ukraine) · be Еўрамайда́н (series of anti-government protests in Ukraine) · ar اَلمَيْدَان اَلأُورُوبِّيّ (series of anti-government protests in Ukraine) · kk Еуромайдан (series of anti-government protests in Ukraine) · ja ユーロマイダン (series of anti-government protests in Ukraine) · nl Euromaidan (series of anti-government protests in Ukraine) · pt Revolução da Maidan (series of anti-government protests in Ukraine) · th ยูโรไมดาน (series of anti-government protests in Ukraine) · es Euromaidán (series of anti-government protests in Ukraine) · uk Євромайда́н (series of anti-government protests in Ukraine) · fr Euromaïdan (series of anti-government protests in Ukraine) · pl Euromajdan (series of anti-government protests in Ukraine) · az Авромејдан (series of anti-government protests in Ukraine)