Angry reformers depart as Ukraine braces for protests
While the faces in power have changed frustration grows over continued corruption
Mikheil Saakashvili, former governor of the Odessa region, describes Ukraine’s political elite as “corrupt filth”. Photograph: Roman Pilipey/EPA
November can be a stormy month in Ukraine. It was in 2004 when hundreds of thousands of people filled Maidan square in central Kiev to overturn the fraudulent election “victory” of pro-Russian presidential candidate Viktor Yanukovich.