Beginning of The Protests
The first and barely noticed action of the campaign took place on 15 December 2000 on Maydan Nezalezhnosti (Independence Square), the main plaza of Kiev (Kyiv), the Ukrainian capital. The protesters sought Kuchma's stepping down and proper investigations of the disappearance of journalist Georgiy Gongadze.
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