Data Set
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Protests Ukraine 2013 – 2014: Video Database
Euromaidan 2013 – 2014
Version 1.2, published: July 25, 2025.
Description
The collection “Protests Ukraine 2013 – 2014: Video Database” is part of a larger and ongoing collection of videos on protest events in the post-Soviet region. It contains a database describing 763 videos (mp4) of protests in late 2013 and 2014 (mainly Kyiv area) triggered by the governmental denial to sign the association agreement with the EU. We compiled the material in 2016 and 2017. All data is processed in an MS Excel database with metadata.
For this kind of collections on protest events we take into account all videos that 1) are event related AND show actions of this event, 2) are fully accessible, 3) we can find with our search words during a particular period. We strictly aim at a systematic and unbiased selection and organized processing of protest-related videos. We identify particular event-related search words or phrases after intense research on the event. According to the snowball principle, we then start the search of videos and try to describe as much relevant content as possible. However, we cannot guarantee the completeness of protest videos on the particular event. We search the videos and include them into the collection until a particular degree of saturation has been reached.
The videos have been posted mainly by the participants of the events. Therefore, the material is only an extract and biased by the perspective of the single creator.
Due to data privacy regulations and copyright restrictions, we are only allowed to give access to the database of the collected video files including the hyperlinks with its metadata and not to the videos themselves. YouTube’s user guidelines do not allow us to store copies of the video collection described above.
Countries
Keywords
Maidan Ukraine Euromaidan 2013 2014 Revolution Of Dignity
Language of data
Disciplines
Comparative Politics Political Science
Methods of data collection
Keyword Search Snow Ball Search Systematic Collection Of Videos