Ukraine Diaries is acclaimed writer Andrey Kurkov's first-hand account of the on
going crisis in his country. From his flat in Kiev, just five hundred yards from
Independence Square, Kurkov can smell the burning barricades and hear the sound
s of grenades and gunshot. Kurkov's diaries begin on the first day of the pro-Eu
ropean protests in November, and describe the violent clashes in the Maidan, the
impeachment of Yanukovcyh, Russia's annexation of Crimea and the separatist upr
isings in the east of Ukraine.
