Vidsich is an active Ukrainian

Ukraine

Ukraine is a country in Eastern Europe. It has an area of 603,628 km², making it the second largest contiguous country on the European continent, after Russia...

 nonviolent social movement created in 2010 as a reaction to the policies of Victor Yanukovich and "anti-Ukrainian

Russophilia

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" tendencies connected with his presidential administration. Vidsich focuses on a proactive defense of human rights, civil liberties and constitutional freedoms

Constitution of Ukraine

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Vidsich unites activists who are convinced that people cannot be neutral with regard to the political and social situation in Ukraine. Vidsichs aim is in creating a strong national movement which can protect the interests of Ukrainians and Ukraine in general.

Vidsich was created by former participants in the "Ukrayina bez Kuchma/Ukraine without Kuchma

Ukraine without Kuchma

Ukraine without Kuchma! or UbK was a mass protest campaign preceding the Orange Revolution that took place in Ukraine in 2000–2001. Unlike the Orange Revolution the UbK was effectively extinguished by the government enforcement units followed by numerous arrests of the opposition and the...

" movement, the "Za pravdu/For the truth" social committee, the social campaign "Pora!", and other socially active citizens.

Principles of the movement

• Nonviolence
  Nonviolence
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• Absence of leaders
• Openness
• No party affiliation / Non-partisan
  Nonpartisan
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• Consensus in decisions
• Sacrificion
• Copyleft
  Copyleft
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Actions and protest campaigns

Activists of Vidsich have participated in more than 100 protest actions over the whole of Ukraine. Vidsich organized the "Campaign Against Tabachnyk" against Dmytro Tabachnyk, the Minister of Education of Ukraine and a fiercely pro-Russian politician; they took part in the organization of the protest campaign "Work not talk!" to protect the Ukrainian language from the law "On languages in Ukraine"; the "Protests Against Tax Law" (November-December 2010); the campaign "Against the Degradation of Education" against the law "On Education in Ukraine"; the campaign "No Police State" , against the violence of Ukrainian police; a campaign against the law No. 2450 "On Peaceful Assembly", which is aimed to restrict the freedoms of protest actions; a series of actions to support independent television channels; and many others.