ST. PETERSBURG, Russia — The masked men, one of whom was waving the Ukrainian flag, beat out a defiant rhythm on large sheets of corrugated metal, while black, acrid smoke from a nearby stack of burning tires drifted steadily into the early morning sky.
This chaotic scene took place in February, 2014, and would have been a typical picture at Kiev’s Maidan protest camp where demonstrators drove Ukraine’s president, Viktor Yanukovych, from power early last year. But, despite the blue and yellow flag, the men weren’t Ukrainian revolutionaries and the staged scene took place not in Kiev, but in the historical …read more
Source: European Voice
