World Affairs Journal: Kyiv city authorities capture downtown
Visitors to Kyiv will notice that the Regionnaire-controlled city administration has “captured” the downtown area, encompassing the capital city’s Broadway, the Khreshchatyk, and Independence Square, the site of the Orange Revolution and all other popular protests since the late 1980s. And small wonder. Ever since the Entrepreneurs’ Rebellion of late November 2010, President Viktor Yanukovych has been terrified of a second Orange Revolution. And those fears have only been amplified by widespread recognition in Ukraine that the sultan—Yanukovych—has no clothes and that his regime has been a complete bust. Read the story here.