Mikhail Minakov: Ukraine from Revolution of Dignity to government of shame
A man walks past a banner depicting Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk with a red mark on his forehead on Independence Square in Kyiv on Feb. 21.
In the two years since Ukraine’s Revolution of Dignity, or EuroMaidan, Ukrainian politics has revealed its worst side: former corruption fighters have established their own financial-political clans; former democrats have created a superpresidential system, hunted the media, and deprived the opposition from having a say; and former reformers have sought to leave the drowning government as soon as possible.