Protesters dance to techno music at a rally in front of the government’s headquarters in Kyiv on Sept. 1, 2020. They demanded that the government allow nightclubs to work after midnight with more visitors, to create a working group on managing the quarantine that includes representatives of the entertainment industry and to give financial aid or tax cuts to venues affected by the quarantine.
Two protests last week were like nothing that Ukraine’s government has ever seen before.
Hundreds of people danced to techno music by the Cabinet of Ministers building with top DJs spinning records on Sept. 1. Two days later, the government headquarters were artistically besieged by Ukrainian musicians – both famous and lesser-known.