ORANGE DYKUN

I again am tooling around on my blog at Insomniac's Hour: I've got a much too busy mind these days. As I wait to dose off, here are some photos from the Pora! action that took place before the first round on Oct. 31 in Lviv. Sorry about the quality of photos, I did not have good camera yet. . .

"Everyone to the Barricades!"

"We are not Terrorists"

This was the time when police raided the Pora! offices in Kyiv, just before the first round, and claimed to find bombs and plans for terrorist actions. This was also the time when beatings and harassment of Pora! activists really intensified. Hence the sign above as well, proclaiming that "We are the same kind of people as you," and the one below:

"Students throw Eggs, but Police plant Bombs."

This is in reference not only to the police provocation mentioned above, but also to the egg that was thrown at Viktor Yanukovych by a student in Ivano-Frankivsk.

Recall this joke:

Recall that first, Ukrainian media reported that then PM Yanukovych was hit in the chest by a dull object:

Why was there no dull object found at the cite of the crime? He was already carried off. . .

The day of the Oct. 31 election, the students and activists had cleared out leaving behind this sign that read "WE HAVE GONE TO VOTE/BECAUSE WE ARE NOT INDIFFERENT/WE ARE READY TO RETURN!"

Return they did the next day for some demonstrations, but when Yushchenko called off mass demonstrations, advising that they be held in reserve for the moment, if and most likely when, the administration falsified the second round.

The students really returned in mass then, after Nov. 21. . .