The first Orange Revolution in Ukraine occurred in 2004.
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The Pete Quiñones ShowOct 1, 2026
The Orange Revolution in Ukraine took place in late November 2004 to January 2005, which supports the claim's 2004 date. The claim's 'first' is trivially satisfied because there was only one Orange Revolution, though PolitiFact notes Georgia's 2003 Rose Revolution came earlier as the first 'color revolution', so the wider framing is not what the claim asserts.
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… So, uhm, what are your thoughts on all this? Well, for those of you listeners who don't know, I'm an academic specialist in Russo-Ukrainian, both history and, to a lesser extent, politics and theology. I have many, many books out on this topic. So, back in 2004, when the first Orange Revolution happened, I got this flurry of activity then, 10 years later, when Maidan occurred, and then since 2022, when I went away my first day of my honeymoon, the war broke out, which didn't surprise me. It didn't surprise a lot of people. …
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Supports. Reuters' timeline places the Orange Revolution in 2004, when protests over vote-rigging forced a re-run of the presidential vote.[1]
Supports. DW's chronology dates the start of the Orange Revolution to Nov. 22, 2004, after the Nov. 21 runoff.[3]
Supports. The Wilson Center and Wikipedia both date the protests to late November 2004, with the election rerun in December 2004 and inauguration in January 2005.[4][5]
Context. PolitiFact's 2014 fact-check on Bill Kristol notes the Orange Revolution is commonly listed as the second of three color revolutions, after Georgia's Rose Revolution in 2003, so 'first color revolution' is inaccurate, though this does not affect the 2004 date.[2]
Sources
5 sources: 2 fact-checkers, 3 not rated
- 1Timeline: Ukraine's turbulent history since independencereuters.com · fact-checker · cited for: supports
- 2Bill Kristol says Ukraine's 2004 revolution was the first ' ...politifact.com · fact-checker · cited for: context
- 3Ukrainian Chronologydw.com · not rated · cited for: supports
- 4Orange Revolution - Wikipediaen.wikipedia.org · not rated · cited for: supports
- 5Orange Revolution: Ukraine Votes for Change - Wilson Centerwilsoncenter.org · not rated · cited for: supports
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