Pryvit!

At work this morning. First problem: banks weren't working for the first half of the day which makes cashflow um… a little difficult at work.

Note; Tristan a British friend of ours has posted a short film that captures some of the feeling of being here right now. It's on http://www.brama.com in the lower right section:
'The Revolution' - Film by Tristan Brotherton, Kyiv

No photos today as it was really cold and dark and my time was spent walking around maydan trying to stay warm and listen to the speeches. It was voice recorder day, and I recorded a poem that Vitaly a guy from Lviv, standing next to me, wanted to recite to me.

Energy was high at maydan when at around 17:30 it was announced that Yushchenko was still in meetings with parliament people and would speak in and hour or so. The speech went on to say that all political moves were exhausted. That the parliament tried to reverse it's last decision nixing the election results. That the govt was simply stalling to kill time. It was clearly stated that if nothing comes of the VR meeting tomorrow at 10:00am then political maneuvers will no longer be used. Effective immediately the blockades were resumed at the Cabinet of Ministers and Presidential Admin. (They were removed last night). There was a call to action to come to Maydan at 9:00am and then to proceed to VR at 10:00 tomorrow. In one part of the speech the guy said that it's easy to take any building in this city. But it's not easy to "make it ours", thus it's a process that must go its course. As it turned out, Yushchenko never came out to speak. Still in a meeting I guess. Oh, the band that does "Razom nas bahato…." Came on stage and did the song. Everyone went nuts. Including the old-timers in the audience jamming away bobbing their heads.

It was probably the coldest night yet. It was really frigid. Ukrainians have an amazing tolerance of the cold. Able to stay outside for hours and hours it seems…unlike me, a soft American.

Decisive day tomorrow…I hope, for the sake of all those masses braving the cold night.

Petro out.

PS. Everyone in Kyiv now knows the word "Pomarancha", I think the word "Apelsin" is history. The Ukies we work with that used to look at us incredulously when we use the word "Pomarancha" have a new found linguistic respect for us! :-)