Revolutions: What's in a Name?
By Kathryn Westcott, BBC News
26 November, 2004
Orange, chestnut, rose, daisy, velvet, singing - peaceful, popular demonstrations in Eastern Europe get the best names. Although no government has been overthrown, the mass protests in Ukraine are already being referred to as the Orange Revolution or Chestnut Revolution, depending on where you live. In the West, the tens of thousands of protesters wearing orange hats, shawls, scarves and bin liners and holding aloft orange flags and banners have captured the attention of the media.
