sauseschritt wishes to thank ostracised for the reference to neeka, who blogs exciting politics from kiev: it snowed all night and all day, so khreshchatyk is a real mess now. very slippery, too, which is the mayor's fault (it was his idea to lay those crazy bricks/tiles/whatever-it's-called everywhere). 2o many people by the tents, they stand with posters every few meters or so, facing the passer-by. on the posters there's information on where they are from (many many regions of ukraine) and slogans, some quite funny, others straightforwardly pro-yushchenko. many buses are now lined up for a whole block on both sides of khreshchatyk - some must be from the regions, others are probably local. I was glad to see the buses - it means these people will have a place to get warm during the night. I saw a woman with a huge poster of yushchenko pasted on her back scrawling the name of the town she must've arrived from - vinnytsya - on one of the buses, dirty as hell. the protesters have also moved into the european House (former lenin museum) – there are about 3,000 of them inside – they can sleep and eat there, and there are also doctors there in case someone needs help.