Sat. Jul 27th, 2024

Maidan Revolution protesters lament enduring corruption in Ukraine, 10 years on<!-- wp:html --><p>Ukraine is marking the 10th anniversary of the shooting of dozens of protesters in Kyiv during the Maidan Revolution, which toppled the country's Moscow-backed president Viktor Yanukovych and led to Russia's annexation of Crimea and a pro-Russian separatist movement in the east. FRANCE 24's Gulliver Cragg spoke with Denys Tarakhkotelik, a protest leader during the revolution who runs Yanukovych’s former estate as a park and museum, and activist Oleh Symoroz about how Ukraine is tackling corruption a decade after Maidan.</p><!-- /wp:html -->

Ukraine is marking the 10th anniversary of the shooting of dozens of protesters in Kyiv during the Maidan Revolution, which toppled the country’s Moscow-backed president Viktor Yanukovych and led to Russia’s annexation of Crimea and a pro-Russian separatist movement in the east. FRANCE 24’s Gulliver Cragg spoke with Denys Tarakhkotelik, a protest leader during the revolution who runs Yanukovych’s former estate as a park and museum, and activist Oleh Symoroz about how Ukraine is tackling corruption a decade after Maidan.

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