KIEV, Ukraine – On a recent autumn afternoon, Mustafa Nayyem sat in the corner booth of a dark café in the Ukrainian capital, sipping coffee and reminiscing about how the revolution began a year ago.
"It was a real uprising of the people, totally grassroots," he said. "There were no politics, and no politicians to spoil the movement."
In fact, Nayem felt pretty alone when he called on other Ukrainians to join him on Kiev’s Independence Square to protest then-president Viktor Yanukovych scuttling an association agreement with the European Union in favor of another deal with Russia.
It would be the president’s undoing, though nobody knew it at the time. Read more...
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