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In the rarefied world of central bankers, Stepan Kubiv stands out.

A couple of weeks ago, Mr. Kubiv was one of the leaders of Ukraine’s protest movement, called Maidan. He spent months organizing supplies for thousands of protesters, taking on police and occasionally shouting “death to the enemies” from a stage in Kyiv's Independence Square.

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