Maria Shapiro, 

freelance photographer

“I consider the Orange Revolution good in the sense that Ukrainians united for a moment. I would say people closed ranks and protested as a single whole. Though they supported the person who finally became president, he didn’t absolutely justify people’s confidence.”

Makar Taran, 

historian

“I see the Orange Revolution as the revival of ideals, an attempt for some rotation of the political elite, some political romanticism that the nation should bear and without which the political process in the country is uninteresting, boring. That was not a revolution in the classical sense, because the political system in Ukraine wasn’t changed. Though it was a surprise that must be kept in mind by both the authorities and the people who do not believe in it repeated.”

Galyna Nesmykh, 

pensioner

“Today I think those events were the confrontation between two competing political camps. And it hasn’t stopped yet. It’s a pity I feel today my hopes were disappointed. But now people are not afraid of expressing their opinion, protesting anymore.” 

Volodymyr Solovar, 

pensioner

“I felt cold those days but I feel disgusted today. I didn’t support Victor Yushchenko personally because he was a former banker. He had never been one of us. But I went to the protests in the name of justice and order in the country.” 

Anna Kara­shchuk, 

unemployed

“I’m sure radical changes in the nation like the Orange Revolution lead to no good.”