In 1991-1992, when Ukraine declared its independence, Zinkevych and Smoloskyp moved to Kyiv. Similarly to its diasporic period, Smoloskyp in Kyiv was embedded into the political texture of transitional Ukraine. The main bulletin of the Smoloskyp publisher, Smoloskyp Ukrainy, and the main informational bulletin of the Museum-Archive, Ukrains’ky Samvydav, covered the Orange Revolution events and expressed the fullest sympathy to the Euromaidan movement. The collection was politicized too, as its curators re-conceptualized the legacy of Soviet-era dissident movement in the context of present-day transitional Ukraine. Widely citing dissident writers and samizdat masterpieces from the collection, Somoloskyp activists represented contemporary political protests in Ukraine as an extension of the Ukrainian liberation movement in the late-Soviet period. They promoted the legacy of Ukrainian human rights activists, political prisoners and dissidents of the 1960s-1990s and their historical contribution to Ukraine’s fight for democracy.