New Ukraine - A Terra Firma Divided

With the province of affairs changing roughly daily it is difficult to rest abreast of events inwards Ukraine. However a moving painting is worth a one thousand words as well as a real-time moving painting is worth a one thousand more. Therefore I accept spent this morn exploring Ukraine on EchoSEC.

The EchoSec application displays social media messages as well as photos from Instagram, Twitter as well as Foursquare roughly whatsoever location. The link inwards a higher house has a bounding-box roughly Independence Square inwards Kiev. Beneath the map y'all tin laissez passer the axe stance a serial of the latest photos submitted to Instagram, many of them showing the protests inwards Kiev.

H5N1 map is besides worth a one thousand words as well as both the Washington Post as well as Big Think accept created maps that assistance explicate the huge political split inwards Ukraine. The Washington Post has mapped the 2010 Ukraine election results as well as Big Think the 2004 election results.

Both maps demo a province roughly split inwards one-half inwards their back upwardly for President Viktor Yanukovych or the Pro-European party. The president is pushing for always to a greater extent than closer ties alongside Russian Federation whilst the Pro-Europeans want closer integration alongside the European Union. The Washington Post map besides attempts to demo where the protests against Yanukovych are taking place, showing that at the minute the protests are roughly merely inwards the areas where the Pro-European Party accept most electoral support.