In 2014, a large protest movement developed in Ukraine, which demonstrated on Maidan Square in Kyiev in favour of Ukraine's rapprochement with the European Union. Following the removal of the pro-Russian President Viktor Yanukovych, a power vacuum developed, which the Russian president used to advance into the Crimean peninsula.
Ulrich Schlie on the role of the 2014 Maidan protests in Weltspiegel (ARD) Ulrich Schlie on the role of the 2014 Maidan protests in Weltspiegel (ARD)
In Weltspiegel (ARD), Ulrich Schlie talks about the role of the Maidan protests in the history of Ukraine.
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Ulrich Schlie is director of the Center for Advanced Security, Strategic and Integration Studies (CASSIS) and Henry Kissinger Professor of Security and Strategic Studies at the Institute for Political Science and Sociology.