Brian Whitmore: The Kremlin’s existential threat

An anti-government protester plays a guitar by the barricade next to the entrance to Dynamo Stadium on Hrushevsky Street in central Kyiv on Feb. 2, 2014 as his comrades, their faces blackened by smoke from the constant fires on the barricades, listen. In freezing temperatures, the EuroMaidan activists build a complex of three layers of defensive barricades across the street, and regularly burned old tires to ward off police attempts to advance.