“It [Maidan] was a big festival created for the western population”

Janus Putkonen, Finnish geopolitical analyst and investigative journalist with the Patriotic Network who worked in Kiev in April 2014, debunks the pretty picture of a ‘popular uprising’ staged for the Western public

“It was created as a show to make it look like a popular uprising. And in order to to do that, they really used ordinary people,” he added.