One year later, Kiev and Moscow remember Ukraine uprising in very different ways

KIEV, Ukraine — Tens of thousands of Ukrainians flooded central Kiev late Saturday to mark one year since the bloodiest day of last year's Euromaidan revolution that ousted the country's pro-Russian president, Viktor Yanukovych, and installed a pro-Western government, setting in motion the events that have led to a deadly and ongoing war.

Some 49 people died and around 100 more suffered gunshot wounds from police snipers on Feb. 20, 2014, in the worst day of violence against the hundreds of thousands of protesters who hunkered down on Kiev's Independence Square for three months in the freezing cold. Around 100 people died during clashes with riot police around the square between Feb. 18 and 20 last year. They have been dubbed the "Heavenly Hundred." Read more...

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