In the East and the South, of Ukraine many people do not speak Ukrainian. Activists organize free courses for everyone who wants to learn, bring book fairs and music bands to cities and towns, organize meetings with writers.
Sergiy Lysenko
Roman Bondarchuk
Journalist Denis Bigus gathered the White Collar Hundred - volunteers, who restored and streamlined documents from "Mezhyhirya".
In a year Illya Lysenko named Hottabych managed to create a team of five crews which rescue the wounded soldiers from the hot spots.
Since its first days, Euromaidan was guarded by Self-Defence, the volunteers who took turns to maintain order and security.
But that was about it: there were no appointments, no committee, and no lustration laws.
Five months a participant of the Maidan self-defense in Kyiv, two months in the National Guard, later the rotation – such was 2014 for Myroslav Hay.
On the first day of Russian occupation of the peninsula, activists Tamila Tasheva, Sevgil Musaeva and Alim Aliyev created the Facebook page Crimea SOS.
The next day after the students on Euromaidan were beaten up, the activists of the Centre for Civil Liberties opened a hotline for the victims and the volunteer lawyers thus providing the protesters with legal services and defence with court.
After president Yanukovych, Serhiy Khadzhynov, one of the founders of Automaidan, directed the activities of the movement to fighting corruption and reforming the law enforcement agencies, the prosecutor’s office and the police.
