1. Orange Revolution in
Ukraine
What was the cause of this?

2. About Ukraine
• Capital- Kiev
• Population- 46,008,406
• Basic Geography- Area: 233,000 sp.
mi. The Carpathian mountains are the
highest mountains in Ukraine. The
most notable rivers in Ukraine include
the Danube, Dnieper and Dniester.
There is a sub-tropical climate.

3. Historical Sites
• These are two historic site in
Kiev Ukraine called the Saint
Sophia Cathedral and the
Kiev Pechersk Lavra. These
two religious sites, in a sense,
were the epicenter of the
Eastern Orthodox faith as it
spread throughout the
Russian world from the 17th
to the 19th centuries. In
recognition of its historical
significance, they were both
named as a World Heritage
Cultural Site in 1990.
• These are two sites of the
Seven Wonders of Ukraine.

4. Historical Sites
• The Sofiyivsky Park is one of
the most famous examples of
late 18th/ early 19th century
European landscape garden
design to be preserved to the
present time. It is located in
Uman, Cherkasy Oblast.
• Another historical site is the
Khotyn Fortress. Its a large
castle-like fortress located in
Khotyn, Chernivitsi Oblast.
• These two sites are also two
places of the Seven Wonders
of Ukraine

5. Cause of the Orange
Revolution
• Independent Ukraine's fourth presidential election since the collapse of
the Soviet Union was supposed to reach a final conclusion in the Nov.
21 runoff. On Monday, the Electoral Commission said preliminary
tallies showed Moscow's favored candidate, Yanukovych, ahead by
three percentage points. But immediately, there were widespread
accusations by Ukrainian and foreign monitors of massive fraud that
included voter intimidation, physical assaults and the torching of ballot
boxes. Yet the state-controlled media, which had backed Yanukovych
through the five-month campaign, were reporting no major violations.
Convinced the election was being stolen from the rightful victor,
supporters of Western-leaning opposition leader Yushchenko poured
into Kiev's Independence Square to demand that their man be
recognized as the winner. City residents mixed with swarms of
protesters from across the country, all of them wearing something
orange, the color of Yushchenko's Our Ukraine party. Despite heavy
snow and freezing temperatures, the crowd was in a festive mood,
eager to embrace Yushchenko's orange revolution against the country's
Moscow-backed old guard.

6. Orange Revolution
• "Razom nas bahato! Nas ne podolaty!" The rhythmic chant spread
through the crowd of hundreds of thousands that filled Kiev's
Independence Square on the evening of November 22. "Together, we
are many! We cannot be defeated!" Emerging from a sea of orange, the
mantra signaled the rise of a powerful civic movement, a skilled
political opposition group, and a determined middle class that had
come together to stop the ruling elite from falsifying an election and
hijacking Ukraine's presidency.

7. Orange Revolution
• The election day rally of
many thousands of
supporters grew in the
following days to a rally of
hundreds of thousands, with
some people camping out
along the central street in
the city. The end date for the
Orange revolution was
December 26th 2004. On
that day Ukrainians went
back to the election booths
and a majority of them again
voted for opposition
candidate Viktor
Yushchenko, this time
successfully voting him into
office.

8. Pictures of the Orange
Revolution

9. Orange Revolution
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=PZLmE1OW2nU&NR=1

10. Work Cited
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• McMinn, Daniel. "Orange Revolution." Orange Ukraine.
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