KIEV, Ukraine – On a recent autumn afternoon, Mustafa Nayyem sat in the corner booth of a dark café in the Ukrainian capital, sipping coffee and reminiscing about how the revolution began a year ago.”It was a real uprising of the people, totally grassroots,” he said. “There were no politics, and no politicians to spoil the movement.”
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In fact, Nayem felt pretty alone when he called on other Ukrainians to join him on Kiev’s Independence Square to protest then-president Viktor Yanukovych scuttling an association agreement with the European Union in …read more
Source: Mashable
