EuroMaidan Revolution
Jim Hoagland: US must react to ‘a world awash in change’
Ukrainians on Feb. 25 mourn the nearly 100 protesters killed allegedly on orders of Viktor Yanukovych, ousted on Feb. 22 as Ukraine's president.
The thrill of witnessing angry Ukrainians chase a larcenous tyrant from his palace had brightened this leaden winter before yielding to war clouds gathering over Crimea. But the Kiev moment of liberation — long may it endure — represents a final shovel of earth on the grave of a client-state system the superpowers built for the Cold War.
