According to Eastern Rite tradition, the dead are mourned for 40 days. Although deaths are commemorated annually thereafter, after forty days, the lives of survivors are expected to continue. Sunday 31 March happened to be the 40th day after the Yanukovych regime’s sniper safari of Maidan protesters on 20 February. For better or worse, I will consider this day to have been the final day of Phase 2 of Ukraine’s revolution:

Phase 1 – Nov 21 to Dec 1 = 10 days of Euromaidan;
Phase 2 – Dec 1 to March 31 = 120 days of Revolution of Dignity.
Phase 3 – Systemic change has now begun in earnest with the launch of the Presidential campaign, and certainly, there will be many pitfalls before this…