EUROPE means different things to different Ukrainians. One vision is on display at Mezhyhirya, the gaudy palace complex erected by Viktor Yanukovych, the ex-president, on the outskirts of Kiev. Just as he plundered the country he ruled for four years, here Mr Yanukovych ransacked the history of European design, housing himself in an oversized Finnish-style chalet surrounded by faux-Roman statues and stuffed with fake French antiques.
A rather different idea of Europe was expressed by the men and women who occupied Kiev’s Independence Square, known as the Maidan. Waving European Union flags, they gathered on the streets in November 2013 after …read more
Source: The Economist
