"March 9 Case": Completion of Investigation

April 7, 2006, Kyiv.

The plot is dedicated to the completion of the investigation and the passing of sentences regarding the detention of 18 protesters at the "Ukraine without Kuchma" protest.

On the video: archival footage from March 2001, the "Ukraine without Kuchma" protest, various plans for the rally, waving Ukrainian and UNA-UNSO flags, clashes with the police; the Prosecutor General's Office of Ukraine, the session, judges in the hall.

Comments: Deputy Prosecutor General of Ukraine Viktor Kudryavtsev; lawyer for the detained protesters Andriy Mamalyga; participant of the "Ukraine without Kuchma" action Mykola Lyakhovych.

Journalist — Maksym Drabok.

Reference: On March 9, 2001, the security forces of Ukraine suppressed the "Ukraine without Kuchma" protest, which ended the mass opposition demonstrations. In the "March 9 case," the court sentenced several dozen participants, including representatives of UNA-UNSO, to terms ranging from several years of suspended sentences to actual prison terms (up to 5 years). The repressions led to the political isolation of part of the opposition and the strengthening of the authoritarian practices of Leonid Kuchma's regime.