Europe

Inside The EuroMaidan’s Circle Of Trust

Ukraine

They’re fighters, not politicians—and the revolutionaries who tossed out kleptocrat Viktor Yanukovych are now having trouble adapting to the new political reality of an occupied Crimea.

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Kiev’s luxury Intercontinental Hotel seemed an anomalous place to meet a firebrand who has inadvertently contributed to triggering the most dangerous standoff between the great powers since the Cold War—but then Ukraine’s Maidan uprising has been turning the country upside down and defying conventions since it erupted at the end...

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