More popular than the president
AT THREE o’clock in the morning on May 25th, guards roused Nadia Savchenko in her prison cell in southern Russia, told her to pack her things and whisked her to an airport. “I didn’t know if I was flying to Ukraine or to Siberia,” says the Ukrainian military pilot, who spent nearly two years in Russian captivity on fabricated charges. Only when she saw yellow and blue stripes on the plane did she realise that she was heading home.
Ms Savchenko descended on Ukraine a ready-made heroine. She tops polls as the most trusted politician in the …read more
Source: The Economist
