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Maidan: Year 1 

March 2, 2015 
by Jerome Sessini 
Exactly a year after the bloody events of February 20th 2014, I returned to Kiev. Thanks to my friends, photographers Volodymyr and Mikhael, and also to my notebook, I found four of the people I photographed last year holding the last barricade on Institutska street.
This avenue beginning from the Independence Square and leading to the Ukrainian parliament, has become the symbol of the revolt of Maidan, and a place to honor the victims that fell under the sniper’s bullets.

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