Ian Bateson: Ukraine’s forgotten revolutionaries
People walk past a makeshift memorial in tribute to the slain Maidan activists, during a memorial rally in Kyiv on Feb. 20.
Last July, Zoryan Kis was sitting on a bench in the center of Kyiv with his boyfriend on his lap when a group of right wing teenagers came up to them. They asked the couple if they were patriots, and then emptied a can of pepper spray in to Kis’s face.