Seven years ago, in preparation of the Ukraine-EU Association Agreement that was to be signed on November 28-29, 2013, at the Eastern Partnership Summit in Vilnius, Ukraine’s Cabinet of Ministers adopted a resolution on November 21 that halted those preparations, sparking large protests in Ukraine on November 24 that became known as the Revolution of Dignity. It was the largest protest action in Ukraine since the 2004 Orange Revolution.
The Cabinet’s decision attracted between 100,000 and 200,000 protesters to Kyiv’s Independence Square (Maidan Nezalezhnosty) to demand the resolution’s cancellation and the Association Agreement’s signing by President Viktor Yanukovych.