Fifth Floor

Lessons for Hong Kong from Ukraine


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Last week, protesters in Hong Kong organised screenings of a Netflix documentary about Ukraine's Maidan Square protests called ‘Winter on Fire’. Jeff Li and Fan Wang of BBC Chinese met some protesters moved to see their own situation mirrored in past events in Ukraine. And for Diana Kuryshko of BBC Ukrainian, events in Hong Kong brought back memories of 2014.

Image: Masked Hong Kong protester against backdrop teargas

Credit: ANTHONY WALLACE/AFP/Getty Images

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