Editor’s Note: EuroMaidan participants and political opposition leaders held a Jan. 19 rally to protest new laws that restrict freedom of speech and peaceful protest. The rally turned violent between police and protesters with more than 100 people injured. The standoff is continuing.

EuroMaidan started Nov. 21 on Independence Square in opposition to Yanukovych’s foreign policy U-turn away from the European Union in favor of Russia and has since broadened into calls for the president’s resignations and a snap presidential election ahead of the scheduled 2015 vote.