‘Revolution’ is wearing thin

Fiery Kiev's Independence Square, also known as Maidan, is burning again but this time it is due to clashes between municipal workers clearing tyres and pulling down tents to free the area for traffic, and protests activists who want to retain it as is to remind those in power of the fragility of their position. - AFP

President Yanukovych is long gone, but war-weariness and a sense of politics as usual are fostering whispers of a ‘new Maidan’.

NEARLY six months after the decisive battles between protesters and police on Kiev’s Independence Square, the charred barricades of burned tyres and twisted metal still stand in memorial to the more than 100 people who died in the February clashes.