EuroMaidan Revolution
OP-ED
Anne Applebaum: Ukrainian smears and stereotypes
Mourners gather on Feb. 21 on Independence Square to pay their respects to those protesters killed during clashes with police forces on Feb. 20.
For those who are new to the subject — indeed, for those who have been following it for many years — the Ukrainian crisis can seem murky. The Ukrainians have a president, Viktor Yanukovych, who granted himself dictatorial powers and then repealed some of them; announced a truce and then broke it; claims to enforce the law but employs thugs who haul journalists out of cars and shoot them. The Ukrainian opposition, meanwhile, has three separate leaders who may or may not actually control the Ukrainian protest movement at any given moment.
