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| | 1989: A LOOK BACK: Ukraine: human rights, vox populi (12/31/89) |
 | | Stepan Khmara, a UHU activist, was even nominated on January 20 in the western Ukrainian city of Chervonohrad, but was arrested on the spot by militia and given a 15-day administrative sentence. |
 | | Large public rallies protesting the electoral laws which coincided with Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev's visit to Ukraine took place in Kiev on February 19-21, many of which also called for the resignation of then Ukrainian Communist Party chief Volodymyr Shcherbytsky, called the "mastodon of stagnation" by one Ukrainian activist. |
 | | On September 2, tens of thousands in cities around Ukraine gathered to protest against the draft electoral law: 50,000 in Lviv, 40,000 in Kiev, 10,000 in Zhytomyr, 5,000 each in Dniprodzerzhynske and Chervonohrad, and 2,000 in Kharkiv. |
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