KYIV POSTS LATEST CONTINUING COVERAGE - WELL BE ON THE SCENE AS LONG AS EUROMAIDAN LASTS kyivpost/content/ukraine/euromaidan-rallies-in-ukraine-live-updates-332341.html What todays scuffle was all about Nov. 25, 4:19 p.m. Viktor Andrusenko, a 56-year-old retiree from Nikopol in Dnipropetrovsk Oblast. (in the middle of the photo) described what led up to the scuffle between police and demonstrators this morning outside teh Cabinet of Ministers building: “It was around 9 a.m. We came from European Square to support the students, who were already here. And then the car started moving out of the Cabinet of Ministers courtyard, probably it was some officials, so that the young people here were in its way. So, the police started clearing up a way for the car, and then used tear gas and then the clash started, with some young people knocked off their feet.” Students plan rally on Nov. 27 at noon Nov. 25, 4:10 p.m. Who else has more free time and energy on their hands than students? And who are more interested in having their nation turn towards the West, specifically the European Union, than young people? It is for for these reasons that students, like they often do the world over, are key foot soldiers in protests and demonstrations. They were pivotal during Ukraines 2004 Orange Revolution, which overturned a rigged presidential election that year, and they are proving to be important to EuroMaidan, the protests launched on Nov. 21 to press the government to sign an association agreement with the European Union later this week in Vilnius, Lithuania. Many students came to join the rally in front of the building of the Cabinet of Ministers this morning. They were chanting “Youth of the nation is for European integration,” “Ukraine is Europe.” “We are maintaining our position and will be coming to the streets until (Nov.) 28th at least,” said Olena Kushnirchuk, a first-year student of the Kyiv Mohyla Academy. “It was great to see a lot of students near Cabinet of Ministers, despite the weather. I believe our protest will help to show the will of young nation,” Ivanna Telniak, another student of Kyiv Mohyla Academy said. Roman Rybakov, a graduate of Taras Shevchenko University in Kyiv, said students should be more organized: “While most of those who promised to come to Maidan didn’t do it, we still have big crowd here and we’ll keep on demanding a European future for Ukraine. It will be better if universities can offer their students a place to warm up.” All of them plan to join a big students’ rally as part of the EuroMaidan drive. It is supposed to take place at Maidan Nezalezhnosti (Independence Square) on Nov.27 from 12 p.m. to 2 p.m., the day before the summit in Vilnius, Lithuania. -- Anastasia Forina, Olena Goncharova Why one student came from Lviv -- and is staying Nov. 25, 3:56 p.m. Uliana Kyrch, a 20-year-old history student from Lviv, was sitting on a stone fence in front of the Cabinet of Ministers this mornig. We came from to Kyiv (on Nov. 24) in the morning. A lot of us stayed in Lviv, but I decided I’d be of more use here. We came because we want normal education, we don’t want to have any borders. We slept in the tent city on E It wasn’t scary – just cold. There was a lot of people staying there overnight. The police wouldn’t be able to remove the tents. So there was nothing to be afraid of - they’d have to kill everyone to do it. I lived in Switzerland for one year. And actually bringing Ukraine closer to that standard of life is what we are fighting here for. I studied and worked in Zurich, but returned to Ukraine to help create same kind of a country here. When I have kids, I don’t want to move them somewhere abroad. I hope (the government) will sign the association agreement. If they won’t, we’ll keep fighting and protesting against it. Also, we’ll do some protest work at our universities.
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