“I have bad news for the hucksters in power: people from all over Ukraine have gathered here to demand change!” Georgia’s ex-President Mikheil Saakashvili shouted passionately from the stage on October 17 in Kyiv. Cheered sporadically by a crowd of protesters under a canopy of party flags, including those of his own Movement of New Forces, he urged those present to demand that President Poroshenko consider resigning if their conditions were not met by the end of the day.Other organizers of the rally were less ambitious, focusing on the original demands they had advertised as the “Great Political Reform.” That …read more
Source: The American Interest