Scenes from Ukraine, then and now

Christopher Miller

on November 26, 2014

Euromaidan self-defense volunteers stand guard on the Institutska Street barricade last winter. The street cuts directly through central Kiev, from Independence Square, known simply as Maidan, to the city's government district. Perhaps the biggest and most menacing barricade was erected beneath a skybridge over the street to prevent the government's security forces from storming the protester's tent city. Credit: Evgeny Feldman

KIEV, Ukraine --In the year since the start of the revolution that toppled Ukraine's president and ushered in a pro-Western government, a lot has changed on the streets of Kiev.

A year ago, more than 100 people died in fierce clashes centered around Kreshchatyk, Institutska and Hrushevskoho streets. Now traffic flows freely and the crowds, the barricades and the barrel fires on Independence Square, better known simply as Maidan, are long gone.

Russian photographer Evgeny Feldman, who was present throughout the revolution, returned to photograph the site of the civil uprising as it appears today. Here is Kiev then and now.

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