I Am a Ukrainian

At the woman's request, British photographer Graham Mitchell filmed her speaking on the Maidan, and her friend, Ben Moses, edited the material into video he posted on her behalf on YouTube.

The woman in the video was initially not named[1] in order to keep her safe,[2] but was eventually identified as Yulia Marushevska, a Kyiv Ph.D. student of Ukrainian literature at Taras Shevchenko National University.

[3] Marushevska conceived, wrote, and produced the video after the death of five people, three of whom died of gunshot wounds, on January 22.

[6] Moses has now completed a feature-length documentary, Witness to a Revolution, about Yulia's and Ukraine's progress in the year following her viral video.

According to Mikheil Saakashvili Yulia Marushevska had previously spent a year of training at Harvard and Stanford universities.