Events at Euromaydan in Kiev in the night of 30th of November stirred up the Ukrainian society. On Sunday, December 1st, in the capital of Ukraine the popular gathering was conducted, part in which took, according to various estimates, from 800.000 to 1.5 million people. People from different regions of Ukraine had gone through the main streets of Kiev and gathered in the crowded strike in the heartland of the capital.
KPI also took part in the peaceful actions. The rector and still very young students, the deans of different faculties and postgraduate students as well as the head of the Students Union and even the older professors had been going side by side in the column under the national flags and banners. After the brief strike at the Knowledge Square, the KPI columns went through the Campus and passed out to the Peremohy Avenue along which a big column of other residents had been going in the direction of the heartland of Kiev. This column was refilling increasingly and on Shevchenko Boulevard it turned into the powerful flow of people.
To prevent any order offences and to avoid provocations amongst the University, the members of the Public Order Protection Formation of KPI also went in the column. This measure was not unnecessary: a stranger wedged in the column and started to urge people to the radical actions. Participants of the column initially didn’t pay attention to him but when they noticed that he was not going to calm down, before the intervention of the securities, gave him such a rebuff that he disappeared amongst people in a minute. However, that was the only incident of a certain tension; in general, all the demonstrators were conducive to peace relative to each other and to other people. From time to time participants were shouting slogans such as “Student for student!”, “Glory to Ukraine!”, “KPI!” and other, and were singing the National Anthem. The peaceful motion of the KPI column ended at Independence Square where the KPI participants took part in the strike.
Inf. “KP”