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Maidan Nezalezhnosti
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Kyiv’s central square has undergone major changes in recent years, both above ground and below. The square is now referred to as “the big greenhouse”, that’s not a botanical compliment but rather an indictment of the Globus Shopping Centre’s glassy domes. At least it’s no longer October Revolution Square with a big Lenin statue as it was in Soviet times. Maidan is famous for the events of the Orange Revolution. Downtown Kyiv was in the headlines all over the world. When you walk on Maidan and Khreschatyk, just imagine the whole square and surrounding streets filled with people and tents all decorated in orange.
