EuroMaidan Revolution
Hanna Kozlowska: Torches lit, Ukrainians celebrate an inconvenient hero
The pro-Western protests on Kiev's Independence Square turned into a New Year's celebration on Tuesday, transforming the world's biggest ongoing protest into a huge party. But after some 200,000 people looked hopefully to the upcoming year amid fireworks, dancing, and mass singing of the national anthem at the "Euromaidan," the dawn of 2014 saw a different kind of torch-lit protest.