Mykola Mirnyj
Ten years of occupation of Crimea: memories of Crimean journalists on how it began
Taras Shevchenko’s birthday і Taras Shevchenko is a famous Ukrainian poet and artist from the XIX century. is significant in civic resistance to the occupation of Crimea. In 2014, on March 9, Crimeans came to the monument to Taras Shevchenko in Simferopol with flowers and posters to declare that they did not support the war and the armed Russian military on the streets of their hometowns. The Crimeans were in danger because even then, every protest was accompanied by attacks by aggressive Russian figures, pro-Russian activists, and militants.