Maidan Year Three: Welcome to Ukraine's Revolutionary Cafe
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A jolly middle-aged man with close-cropped beard, Kanishthemko is all too willing to relive the heady days of Maidan. "For me," he remarks over a pot of tea, "the revolution started not on Dec 1st, 2013 when almost a million people rallied in the square, but earlier when students set up shop in Maidan to protest Yanukovych's decision to sign a customs union with Russia rather than an association agreement with the European Union." On the night of November 30th, Kanishthemko found himself at work very late at night. The owner's staff had already left and the only souls remaining at Bar Baraban were Kanishthemko and a Danish journalist surfing the internet.
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