The volunteer association Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN, banned in Russia) has filed an application with Kyiv City Administration to hold an assembly and a march in central Kyiv on February 18.
“The OUN volunteer association and several other civil society groups will hold a demonstration in commemoration of the heroic events on Maidan on February 18-20, 2014. Sound-amplifying equipment, flags, banners, and other campaign materials will be used during the demonstration,” the application says.
The activists plan to start the assembly on Maidan Nezalezhnosti (Independence Square) at 3:00 p.m., after which the participants should march toward Podil (a neighborhood in the historic center of Kyiv), where the mission of the Russian Federal Agency for CIS Affairs, Compatriots Living Abroad, and International Humanitarian Cooperation (Rossotrudnichestvo) is located, the application says.
It had been reported earlier that the Movement of New Forces party planned an event called the All-Ukrainian March for the Future to demand President Petro Poroshenko’s resignation on February 18. The participants had expected to start the demonstration at Shevchenko Park in central Kyiv at noon, then march toward Maidan and hold an assembly there.
