Peter Pomerantsev: Seeking utopia in the new Ukraine
The father of a late Maidan activist holds a picture of his son as he shouts slougans in front of a line of police officers who guard Ukrainian President's residence in Kiev on July 8, 2014, during the \"Heavenly Hundred\" rally held by Maidan activists.
"The Maidan is a time machine," Valerii Pekar explains, and "during the revolution the space-time continuum seemed to break. We built medieval catapults by glossy shopping centers. Priests in monasteries rang the bells to warn us that special forces dressed like RoboCops were attacking.