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2013, from UkrainianЄвромайда́н(Jevromajdán), from Євро́па(Jevrópa, “Europe”) + майда́н(majdán, “square”), named after Майда́н Незале́жності(Majdán Nezaléžnosti, “Independence Square”) in Kiev. Compare maidan.
2014 March 22, Farid Guliyev, Nozima Akhrarkhodjaeva, “Why Ukraine’s Euromaidan is not spreading to other post-Soviet states”, in Washington Post:
Large-scale protests, like Euromaidan or the Arab Spring, tend to occur in waves clustered in time and space through the processes of cross-country political contention or diffusion.
2016, January 7, Taras Kuzio, "Euromaidan Dreams Deferred", in Foreign Affairs Snapshot
At the heart of the Orange and Euromaidan revolutions was a demand by average Ukrainians for justice and dignity.
2016, June 1, Adam Hinton interviewed by Laura Snoad, "Adam Hinton's best photograph: an artist painting amid the Kiev uprising", The Guardian
In February 2014, it felt like the Euromaidan protests in Kiev's Independence Square, demanding closer integration with Europe, were reaching a peak.
Borrowed from UkrainianЄвромайда́н(Jevromajdán), from Євро́па(Jevrópa, “Europe”) + майда́н(majdán, “square”), named after Майда́н Незале́жності(Majdán Nezaléžnosti, “Independence Square”) in Kiev.
