Ilya Ponomarev: “I returned from Ukraine. I’m reporting”

“Seriously speaking, the new government in Kyiv is exactly the same as in Moscow. A group of oligarchs and representatives of large Ukrainian businesses took advantage of the situation that has developed in recent months and redistributed power and property among themselves. Without a doubt, the Maidan is a real mass popular speeches, and not “paid actions”, as during the Orange Revolution of 2004.

But just like then, all that people have achieved is only a redistribution of power at the top. It’s hard to call it a revolution, because a revolution is a fundamental change of power, a change in the existing system.”