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At Yahoo! News (under 'World', slideshow 'Ukraine Elections')
there is a photo of orange flag. Accompanying text:
"Ukrainians take part in a mass rally in the center of Kiev,
October 23, 2004. Up to 100,000 Ukrainians rallied in the capital
on Saturday in support of opposition leader and presidential
candidate Viktor Yushchenko, on the threshold of the country's
October 31 presidential election. (REUTERS/Gleb Garanich)"
Jan Mertens, 1 November 2004
Now there is an other slideshow at this link, showing a photo. Has anybody seen
news reports showing this opposition flag?
Martin Karner, 1 November 2004
Electoral bloc of Victor Yushchenko (opposition) uses the
orange flags with a red word "Tak!" (Yes!), grey
horseshoe and red motto "Viryu Znayu Mozhemo" (I
beliewe, I know, We can).
Andriy Grechylo, 26 November 2004
I saw also a couple of blue-yellow-red flags.
António Martins, 26 November 2004
Perhaps you saw a blue-yellow-crimsom (MALYNOVYI) flag of
political party "Batkivshchyna".
These flags are present in all meetings of opposition. I didn't
saw any Russian flag during these actions. It is clear, because
Russia supports other candidate - Yanukovych.
Andriy Grechylo, 26 November 2004
At <www.freerepublic.com>,
there are some pictures showing flags used by the Ukrainian
protesters, mostly the orange flags with the "Yushchenko
Yes" inscription.
On the "personal website of Viktor Yushchenko" thte ia
a photo
(with numerous other [flag] photos) with a variant of the
opposition flag, showing a photo of Viktor Yushchenko:
Martin Karner, 26 November 2004
People in Ukraine use various kinds of the Yushchenko's block
flags (light or dark orange, with texts, portrait or without
images).
Andriy Grechylo, 2 December 2004
I saw one flag on the news on TV, which was white and black
horizontal with a red cross in the middle. What could that have
been?
Elias Granqvist, 2 December 2004
At a demonstration for Victor Yushchenko, presidential
candidate in Ukraine, there is, amid the national bicolor and
orange party flags, a Blue-Yellow-Red horizontal tricolor flying
in a photo I saw in The Economist. Any clue what it is?
Albert S. Kirsch, 4 December 2004
It is a flag of the party of "Batkivshchyna"
(= Motherland; leader - Mrs. Yuliya Tymoshenko). The orange flag
isn't a symbol of separate party, but of political block.
Andriy Grechylo, 4 December 2004
I saw flags at the Kiev protest:
1) Orange over black, A cross with pointed bottom in center with
Ukrainian trident. See my photo.
Orange is Yushchenko's color, the color of protest. Black is the
typical winter color of a Ukrainian's clothes.
2) Tak! flag means yes in Ukrainian. Flag of Yushchenko.
Interesting PORA flag. Usually those flags are yellow and black
but this one has a European Union theme. See my photo.
Raul Herrera, 7 December 2004
I remember to have seen in a TV report of the last days a flag
among the opposition's crowd in Kiev which is at least for me an
unknown: two equal stripes horizontally divided, black over blue
or blue over black. What flag could this be?
Martin Karner, 12 December 2004
The miner's organisations (generally - trade union) in Ukraine
used a blue (upper) and black flag.
Andriy Grechylo, 12 December 2004
Two days ago (11.12.2004) I saw in TV-reportage many flags of
Yanukovich supporters in Odessa: blue-white horizontal bicolors
without any inscriptions and emblems.
Victor Lomantsov, 14 December 2004
One of the best heavyweight boxers in the world is currently
the Ukrainian Vitali Klitschko, world champion for the WBC (World
Boxing Council).
In the beginning of December, Klitschko defeated his challenger,
the British boxer Dany Williams, by TKO (technical knock-out) in
the 8th round. A TKO means that Klitschko was prevented to knock
out definitively his opponent by the referee, who stopped the
fight. During the fight, Klitschko knocked down Williams in the
1st, 3rd, 7th and 8th rounds. Klitschko hit his challenger so
hard that he had to have his hands checked at the hospital after
the fight.
Klitschko's trunks have an orange flag attached, as a sign of
support to Viktor Yushenko. After the fight, the Ukrainian boxer
said: "This is a victory not only for myself, but also for
democracy in Ukraine".
Source: Article by Chris Bronte, 12 December 2004, available on
the NetBoxe website <www.netboxe.com>
(in French).
Ivan Sache, 28 December 2004
The Público newspaper published in 27 December 2004 an
article about the repetition of the presidential elections that
happened in Ukraine the day before that. The article was
illustrated by a large photo
showing lots of flags, and its label mentioned celebrations of
Yushenko's supporters in the Independence Square in Kiev.
By far, the most common flags seen in the photo are normal
Ukrainian flags. I count 6, one of which folded. There are also
some flags from the Yushenko field already known to us: a couple
of "Pora" flags (those yellow flags with the clock logo
- see Opposition Flag no. 5) and a few "Tak Yushenko"
flags - I don't really know how many because some seem to be
simply plain, although they could very well be a plain reverse of
a "Tak Yushenko" flag, or a "Tak Yushenko"
flag too folded to see the design.
There are other flags, though. The strangest is what seems to be
a canadian flag. What is a
canadian flag doing in the middle of an Ukrainian political
celebration?!
Then, there's a flag that seems to be composed of four stripes of blue and yellow.
This could be the result of stitching together two normal
ukrainian flags, but I don't think it is because the flag seems
to be way too long for that. So, I believe it was made originally
like this. Perhaps a football fan flag?
You may have noticed that there's also a Georgian
flag in sight. Also a bit weird, but not too weird, given the
fact that also in Georgia there was a mass movement similar to
the one that put Yushenko in power in Ukraine. This flag is quite visible
(mirrored), behind a Ukrainian flag with a hand-drawn inscription
I can't understand. The two first letters are "VI", and
I thought that it could be the beginning of "Viktor",
but the third one is no K, so I'm stumped.
Lastly, there's a total unidentified
flag, which may even be a sign and not a flag. It shows what
look like numbers along the top and some sort of flower-like logo
below. Any ideas as to what this might be?
Jorge Candeias, 23 August 2005
It was recently reported here that a national flag of Georgia
was displayed in December 2004 during the "Orange
Revolution" in Ukraine. It was also said that the students'
movement Pora was supported by the similar Georgian movement
Kmara!
In a paper dated 11 February 2005 and published on the Café
Babel website, the free-lance journalist Sébastien Daycard-Heid
explains that there is an important Georgian community in
Ukraine, mostly made of students. The Georgian flag was hoisted
on a tent neighbouring the tent commemorating the Georgian
journalist Georgiy Gongadze. The journalist worked in Ukraine,
where he was murdered in 2000. The affair was never elucidated
but video tapes implicating the former President Kutschma and the
former Prime Minister Yanukovitch circulated in the country and
contributed to the uprising. Daycard-Heid reports also that some
demonstrators hold an orange rose, as a symbol of Georgian
solidarity (the Georgian revolution was nicknamed the
"Roses' Revolution") with the Ukrainian revolution.
Ivan Sache, 6 September 2005
I cannot prove with absolute certainty where the orange color
originated, but since yesterday I'm quite confident that it must
be like this:
In February 1970 the Amsterdam Provos (short for provocators)
invented the "Kabouters" (gnomes, little dwarfs), who
lived in "Oranjevrijstaat" (Orangefreestate), that is:
a state coinciding with the Kingdom of the Netherlands, but
Orange-free: without authority! It was another playful action,
but a few months later the "Kabouters" achieved 5 seats
in the municipal council. The movement was disbanded in 1974.
A few years later the Labour Union "Solidarity" was
founded in Poland, and the authorities didn't like it. It seemed
that it was going down, so comic artists in Cracow invented the
Orange Dwarf. It was mainly used in graffitti, but occasionally
it popped up in official presentations. A colorblind general
spotted one and instantly prohibited all red flags and
uniforms...
Cracow isn't far from Ukraine, and in the Republic of Georgia the
Prime Minister's wife is Dutch - after that it takes little
imagination that elsewhere in the Eastern European world the
Orange color might be the apt symbol for change - after all it
worked in 1688 in Britain, isn't it?
Source: A TV-documentary entitled "Hammer and
Tickle" of the (Dutch) VPRO broadcasting society, as well as
a lot of Dutch links.
Jarig Bakker, 23 January 2007
It is a "second-choice" color, usually "not
taken" in most poslitical arenas
António Martins, 24 January 2007
1) 
image by Victor Lomantsov, 2 December 2004
Flag with slogan "Tak!" (Yes) and motto "I
believe, I know, we can" near the upper hoist.
Victor Lomantsov, 2 December 2004
2) 
image by Victor Lomantsov, 2 December 2004
Flag with slogan "Tak!" (Yes).
Victor Lomantsov, 2 December 2004
3)
image by Victor Lomantsov, 2 December 2004
Flag with logo (I saw it one time in reportage from Kiev).
Victor Lomantsov, 2 December 2004
4)
image by Victor Lomantsov, 2 December 2004
Orange flag without images.
Victor Lomantsov, 2 December 2004
5)
image by Andriy Grechylo, 2 December 2004
Flag of youth movement "Pora". Ligth yellow with
logo (seen in hands of Yushchenko supporters, election 2004).
Victor Lomantsov, 2 December 2004
Official name of this organisation is "Hromadyanska
kampaniya Pora" (= Civic Campaign "Pora" (Time)).
Text is in other side and includes red details.
Andriy Grechylo, 2 December 2004
6)
by Andriy Grechylo, 2 December 2004
Very popular variant (used as small and large flags) with
motto "I believe, I know, We Can" and text "Tak!
Yushchenko".
Andriy Grechylo, 2 December 2004
7)
image by Victor Lomantsov, 2 December 2004
Movement "Clean Ukraine" (Chysta Ukrayina) -
national bicolor, black recktangle with country map and name of
movement in the centre.
Victor Lomantsov, 2 December 2004
Logo
.gif)
image by Andriy Grechylo, 2 December 2004
Here is the logo of the "Hromadyanska kampaniya Chysta
Ukrayina" (= Civic Campaign "Clean Ukraine"). This
organisation was founded in April, 2004 - against Victor
Yanukovych.
8)
image by Victor Lomantsov, 2 December 2004
Flag with photo of Yushchenko.
Victor Lomantsov, 2 December 2004
9)
image by Jorge Candeias, 23 August 2005
Based on photo at The Público newspaper published in 27
December 2004 (see above).
Jorge Candeias, 23 August 2005
At <ak-berdyansk.narod.ru>
there is a very large list of photos taken in the Ukrainian city
of Bedryansk during the "orange revolution" in Ukraine
in the Yushenko side. Many of these photos show flags as follows:
6-12-2004
2 - Flag
of Ukraine and folded orange flag.
12 - A
plain orange flag.
13 -
Ukraine and one "Tak Yushenko" flag.
15 -
This is a "rich" photo. It shows 5 different
flags:
- Ukraine
- "Tak Yushenko" flag with a large horseshoe
- White flag with a blue and yellow logo
- Normal "Tak Yushenko" flag
- Plain orange flag.
18 -
Anothr "rich" photo, shows the same flags as the
previous one.
22 -
Ukraine and normal "Tak Yushenko" (TY from now on)
flag.
23 -
Plain orange flag.
24 -
This is what I call "normal TY" flag. It shows,
however, some major differences to the images above.
29 - The
white flag with yellow and blue logo. The start of the
inscription is visible: "VIKTO".
30 - A
very folded TY flag. part of the slogan is readable at the top
(... AIU MOZHEM...).
1-12-2004
1 -
Normal TY flag.
2 -
Another "rich" photo, it shows:
- Part of the white flag with blue-yellow logo
- An orange flag with large inscription (probably home-made)
- Plain orange flag
- A flag showing Yushenko's face (also different from the
equivalent image above)
- Ukraine.
3 - The
flag with inscription.
5 - A
great view of the flag with large horseshoe.
10 - A
small handheld plain orange flag.
11 -
Ukraine and normal TY flag.
13 -
Flag with inscription and flag with big horseshoe.
14 -
Ukraine, white flag with a bit more of the inscription visible
and orange flag with inscription.
16 - All
of the flags above, unfortunately quite small.
17 -
Plain orange flag.
19 - Big
horseshoe and inscription.
23 - Big
horseshoe.
24 -
Ukraine.
25 -
Ukraine and orange with inscription.
27 - The
best view yet of the white flag with blue-yellow logo. The
inscription includes "Ukraina" and "Viktora
Yushenka".
30 - Big
horseshoe and orange with inscription.
32 -
Couple flags barely visible and Ukraine and flag with Yushenko's
face on.
33 -
Parts of the orange flag with inscription and of the white flag.
29-11-2004
3 -
Normal TY flag.
4 -
Plain orange flag.
7 - Two
big horseshoe flags and a sign that is apparently of the same
design as the flag with Yushenko's face seen previously.
8 - One
big horseshoe and one normal TY flag.
10 - Big
horseshoe and white flag with logo.
12 - A
great view of two big horseshoe flags.
14 -
Same as above plus sign with Yushenko's face.
16 -
Normal TY, big horseshoe and plain orange flags.
18 -
Great view of the orange flag with inscription. It reads, in
russian, "Blazhen narod u kotorovo gospod - est'
bog", which means in english something like "lucky is
the people whose lord is God".
21 - Big
horseshoe.
29 - A
small handheld flag vertically divided in blue and white reading
something in the canton and "VIBIR 2004".
27-11-2004
1 -
Plenty of flags, all pretty far. The ones better seen are two
Ukrainian flags and the white flag with logo.
2 - Same
as before, a little closer.
3 -
Plain orange flag and a good view of the Yushenko poster.
4 - Same
as #1 and #2, but the better view yet of the white flag with
logo.
10 -
Plain orange flags.
13 -
Another good view of the white
flag with logo. The logo consists of a stylized rising sun
over two lines mimicking the Ukrainian flag and the full
inscription seems to read "Nasha Ukraina za Viktora
Yushenka", i.e., "Our Ukraine for Victor
Yushenko".
15 -
Close-up of the big horseshoe, plus a few other interesting
objects.
20 -
Apparently, a yellow version of the big horseshoe flag.
26-11-2004
3 -
Normal TY flags that look more yellow than orange.
4 -
Normal TY flags and, to the far right, what looks like a Coat of
Arms on blue. A flag?
30 -
People holding blue and white Yanukovitch skarfs, which explains
the handeld flag mentioned above.
25-11-2004
5 -
Polish flags with eagle. A bizarre sighting in this context.
11 - One
of the Ukrainian flag seen in these photos includes the trident
in the canton.
12 - The
inscription in the white flag is in italic. And the flag with
Yushenko's face does not seem to have the same photo as the
poster after all...
20 -
Great view of a normal TY flag.
22 - A
better view of the Coat of Arms mentioned above. It is the Coat
of Arms of Berdiansk. Its background,
however, does not seem to be a flag.
Jorge Candeas, 22 and 24 April 2005
1)
image by Victor Lomantsov, 2 December 2004
Flag of supporters of V.Yanukovich - blue-white-yellow.
Victor Lomantsov, 2 December 2004
2) 
image by Andriy Grechylo, 6 December 2004
Here is the main flag of Victor Yanukovych's electoral block.
Text in Ukrainian: "ZA YANUKOVYCHA!" (= for
Yanukovych!) and bottom - "VYBIR 2004" (= choice 2004).
Andriy Grechylo, 6 December 2004
