Then and Now

Then...Kyiv Dynamo starts their game surrounded by cheering fans, 24 February 2011 (Author's personal collection)

Now...Kyiv Dynamo starts their game with a moment of silence surrounded by empty seats, 21 February 2014 (AP/BBC)

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Then...Kyiv's Dynamo stadium archway after a game, 1 May 2011 (Author's personal collection)

Now...Kyiv's Dynamo stadium archway is the front lines against police, 24 January 2014 (Getty Images)

Now...Tires burning amidst protests, 22 January 2014 (Getty Images)

Now...Priests of all faiths form a front line of prayer near the protests, 20 February 2014 (Getty Images)

Now...Protestors bring one of two makeshift catapults/trebuchets to the front lines, 22 February 2014 (Sky News)

Now...Protestors shoot makeshift Molotov Cocktails with a giant slingshot, 24 January 2014 (The Independent)

Now...Protestor throws rocks at riot police through thick black smoke, 22 January 2014 (Getty Images)

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Then...Ukraine's poet laureate, Taraso Shevchenko, overlooks a calm square in the western L'Viv, 27 February 2011 (Author's personal collection)

Now...European-leaning crowds begin protesting Yanukovych's abrupt turn from the EU to Russia, 24 November 2013 (Kyiv Post)

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Then...Kyiv's Maidan Nezalezhnosti (Independence Square), site of the 2004 Orange Revolution protests, on a snowy night, 24 February 2011 (Author's personal collection)

Now...Kyiv's Maidan Nezalezhnosti was the original front lines of these protests, 12 December 2013 (New York Times)

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Then...Kyiv's patron saint, the archangel Mikhail, overlooks Independence Square, 23 February 2011 (Author's personal collection)

Now...Mikhail overlooks throngs of Ukrainians gathering after the latest tenuous peace agreement, 21 February 2014 (Reuters)