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An American who treated wounds in this place was tarred as “Dr. Death” for introducing reforms creating family doctors as health minister. An online press named for this place issued “Reft & Light” reports about “Tradition and Order” nationalists. A video titled for this place’s “puppets” leaked a phone call from Victoria Nuland to fuel “anti” counterprotests. The poem “The Caucasus” was recited in this place by the first of the “Heavenly (10[1])Hundred (10[1])Heroes” killed around it by the Berkut. Berehynia’s column marks this place’s (10[1])renaming after 1990’s “Revolution on Granite.” The film Winter on Fire depicts this place’s (-5[1])2013 protests, (10[1]-5[1])which initially demanded an (10[1])EU free trade agreement (10[2])but attracted (10[1])violence from (10[1])Right Sector “Banderites.” (10[2])For 10 points, (10[1])Viktor Yanukovych (10[2])was forced out of office in the (-5[1])“Revolution (-5[1])of Dignity” around what public (-5[1])square in Kyiv? (10[1])■END■ (10[2]0[4])

ANSWER: Maidan [or Maidan Nezalezhnosti or Independence Square; accept Euromaidan Press, Yevromaidan, Anti-Maidan, Independence Monument, Monument Nezalezhnosti, Shevchenko, Pechersk, Hrushevsky, Square of the October Revolution, Oktyabrskoi Revolutsyi, or Zhovtnevoyi revolyutsii; prompt on public square or plaza until “square” is read; prompt on Kyiv or Kiev until read; prompt on Ukraine or Ukrayina] (The doctor was Ulana Suprun. Serhiy Nigoyan recited a poem by Taras Shevchenko.)
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