On November 22, 2019, students of the Law Faculty PR-101 group, led by their mentor Olena Makeieva, visited historical sites related to the memory of the heroes of the Revolution of Dignity.
November 21 in Ukraine commemorates as the Day of Dignity and Freedom, set in honor of the beginning of two significant and fateful events in recent Ukrainian history: the 2004 Orange Revolution and the 2013 Dignity Revolution. The purpose of this event is to promote ideals of freedom and democrac in Ukraine and to preserve and convey to the present and future generations objective information about fateful events in Ukraine at the beginning of the 21st century.
During the excursion, students visited the first exhibits of the Museum of the Revolution of Dignity on the Independence Square and learned about these stormy pages of history. Exactly on that place on November 21, 2013 the first protest actions of the Ukrainian public began in response to the decision of the authorities to suspend the course for European integration and to cancel the process of preparation for signing the Association Agreement between Ukraine and the European Union. The suspension of Ukraine's foreign policy priorities, which was the Association Agreement between Ukraine and the EU, has caused outrage among Ukrainians. On the night of November 29, the security forces brutally dispersed activists, mostly students, on Independence Square. Authorities explained this by wanting to make room for the Christmas tree. The use of brutal force by the authorities, in turn, caused an even greater wave of protests that escalated into the Revolution of Dignity.
Future lawyers visited the Heavenly Hundred Heroes Walk and honored the memory of the fallen. According to the Prosecutor General's Office, 2.5 thousand people were injured during the Euromaidan, 104 of them were killed. The fallen members of the Dignity Revolution were called Heavenly Hundred.
Suche events create an ability for students to get acquainted with the events in Ukraine during the Revolution of Dignity, to form the national consciousness and patriotism of modern youth.