We didn’t have any revolution - Ukrainian professor

The revolutions of 2004 and 2014 in Ukraine were only called such, but in fact they were not revolutions. Ukrainian linguist, lecturer at Columbia University Yuri Shevchuk stated this at a press conference in Kyiv.

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According to him, the names “Orange Revolution” and “Revolution of Dignity” were given rather as a catchphrase.

“For poetry, we could beautifully call the “Orange Revolution”, “Revolution of Dignity” a revolution, but a revolution is when the system fundamentally changes, those who are in power. If we apply this to the events that occurred in one and the other case, then revolutions as such did not happen, the oligarchy was in power and remained,” Shevchuk said.