Serzh Shevchenko Excerpt from the brochure "Ukraine in 2014. Challenges and trials. The experience of overcoming post-imperial colonisation At first, the events on the Maidan in the winter of 2013 seemed like a political manipulation of the opposition parliamentary parties in the run-up to the elections, as has often happened in Ukraine. The leaders and organisers of the protests were well-known politicians from the Impact, Solidarity and Fatherland parties: Volodymyr Klitschko, Arseniy Yatseniuk, Yulia Tymoshenko and Petro Poroshenko. These [...]