Natalie Schturyn

Ostensibly a protest against the abrupt cessation of talks between the corrupt Ukrainian president and the European Union negotiating Ukraine’s entry into the EU, the “Euromaidan” at Independence Square (maidan means “square”) in Kyiv, Ukraine has blossomed into a determined gesture of non-confidence in the government of Viktor Yanukovych. Since November 21, hundreds of thousands of citizens have shown their dissatisfaction with what they perceive to be Yanukovych’s capitulation to pressure from Russia’s Vladimir Putin by demonstrating and occupying the central square of Ukraine’s capital. . . . Continue Reading »