MM: Well, you know, as an arabist, as an orientalist, unfortunately I draw many parallels between what is happening in Ukraine with what is called Arab Spring. It started as a revolution; it started as a protest of people who were deceived by Mr. Yanukovych and his party, the Party of the Regions. Mr. Yanukovych and his party were advertising the agreement between the Ukraine and the EU for almost 2 years. They were promoting this idea, explaining that it is the best way of developing for Ukraine and Ukrainian people. And then, they turned in the opposite direction, overnight, and did not explain anything to the people of Ukraine. So, people were outraged, they went out to the streets, and again ? the government, mr. Yanukovych were not able to talk to the people. So, after that, the peaceful protest was handed by the extremists, like it happened in Tunisia, for example, or like it happened in Egypt, when the revolutions were made y western-oriented people who were thinking about modernization of archaic societies, but as a result of the elections, the Islamist forces won. Here ? the similar picture. It all started like a peaceful protest, and then, the extremists, the warlords, the field commanders appeared in Kiev. They started shooting, they started riots, they started real war in the streets of the European capital, and when I saw the pictures on the TV screen I was really shocked. It was not European capital, it was oriental capital.
