Kharkiv’s colorful and controversial mayor Gennady "Gepa" Kernes returned home on June 17, some seven weeks after being shot in mysterious circumstances. He was met at the airport with a hero’s welcome by up to five thousand Kharkiv locals, who had been bussed in specially for the event. A much smaller crowd, eggs and posters in hand, assembled on the fringes. They were there for a different reason-to protest Kernes’ involvement in bloody clashes that shook the city over the winter.
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Kharkiv's mayor Gennady Kernes returned home on June 17, some seven weeks after being shot in mysterious circumstances.
