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EuroMaidan Revolution
“Mezhyhirya”, the huge former residence of ex-Ukrainian president Viktor Yanukovych, has been waiting for its owner for three years. But he never came back. After the bloody events on Maidan in 2014, Yanukovych fled to Russia. His vast luxury house in the Kyiv region, which became a symbol of corruption in Ukraine, is still under arrest, and its legal status has not yet been determined.
Officially, the territory of Mezhyhirya belongs to the Kyiv corporation, ‘Tantalit’. However, it’s just a formality, existent only on paper to keep the house on the balance sheet, writes Ukrainska Pravda.
Recently, on March, 19, the court ruled the transfer of “Mezhyhirya” from state property to a private company illegal. Since Feb. 22, 2014, Denys Tarakhkotelyk, a former Maidan activist, has been looking after “Mezhyhirya”. He was among the first people to enter “Mezhyhirya” after Yanukovych fled to Russia. Now, Mezhyhirya is a museum, where everybody can see the scale of former president’s corruption.
Hromadske traveled to “Mezhyhirya” to see what it looks like after three years have passed since it evolved from the residence of the president into the museum of corruption.
