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The participants of a People's Assembly rally in Kyiv on Sunday have decided to create the Maidan council.

It was stated by a resolution that was adopted by people gathered on Independence Square.

“Political parties, public organizations and Ukrainian citizens can
join the composition of the Maidan’s council,” the first deputy
head of the Batkivschyna Party, Oleksandr Turchynov, said.

He said that the union’s council would consist of public figures and politicians.

He said that the council of the Maidan includes Taras
Boiko, Oleksiy Haran, Vasyl Hatsko, Ihor Zhdanov, Andriy Illienko, Irena
Karpa, Serhiy Kvit, Viacheslav Kyrylenk, Ihor Koliushko, Vitali
Klitschko, Ruslan Koshulynsky, Ivan Krulko, Ruslana Lyzhychko, Ihor
Lutsenko, Yuriy Lutsenko, Maria Matios, Andriy Mokhnyk, Valeriy Patskan,
Oleh Osukhovsky, Sashko Polozhynsky, Petro Poroshenko, Vitaliy
Portnikov, Serhiy Rakhmaninov, Yehor Sobolev, Serhiy Sobolev, Oleksandr
Sushko, Viktoria Siumar, Borys Tarasyuk, Yulia Tymoshenko, Oleksandr
Turchynov, Oleh Tiahnybok, Valeriy Chaly, Refat Chubarov, Viktor Chumak,
Zorian Shkiriak, Yelyzaveta Schepetylnykova, and Arseniy Yatseniuk.

Former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko, Batkivschyna faction leader
Arseniy Yatseniuk, UDAR Party leader Vitali Klitschko and Svoboda
faction leader Oleh Tiahnybok became the co-heads of the council of the
Maidan council.

In addition, President of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy Serhiy Kvit, singer
Ruslana and the leader of the Third Ukrainian Republic, Yuriy Lutsenko,
became Maidan co-heads.