Shooting of Maidan Protesters from Maidan-Controlled Locations (2018)

This six minute-long online video appendix shows shootings of Maidan protesters from Maidan-controlled buildings and areas during the Maidan massacre in Kyiv in Ukraine on February 20, 2014 and a massacre of Maidan protesters in Khmelnytskyi on February 19, 2014. It uses content analysis of brief segments of well-known videos of these massacres and unbroadcast segments of a widely broadcast Belgian VRT News TV video of the Maidan massacre to reveal such shooting. This video appendix also matches manifest and latent content of this shooting of Maidan protesters from Maidan-controlled locations with evidence of such shooting in the same place and time in testimonies of wounded Maidan protesters at the Maidan massacre trial and investigation, government investigation findings, an interview of a VRT News journalist, photos, and American and German documentaries of the Maidan massacre. It is created for academic research purposes from brief segments of videos, including unbroadcast video segments provided by the VRT News, and from photos. They are cited in the video appendix. This is a video appendix of papers presented at the 2018 Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association in Boston and the “Regimes and Societies in Conflict: Eastern Europe and Russia since 1956” conference by the Institute for Russian and Eurasian Studies at Uppsala University and the British Association for Slavonic and East European Studies in Uppsala in 2018. Katchanovski, Ivan (2018a). “The Maidan Massacre in Ukraine: Revelations from Trials and Investigations.” Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Boston, Katchanovski, Ivan (2018b). “”Snipers’ Massacre” on the Maidan in Ukraine and Revelations from Trials and Investigations.“ Paper presented at the “Regimes and Societies in Conflict: Eastern Europe and Russia since 1956“ conference by the Institute for Russian and Eurasian Studies at Uppsala University and the British Association for Slavonic and East European Studies, Uppsala University, Uppsala.