Editor’s Note: The following is the English-language transcript of Hromadske Radio’s “Ukraine Calling” program on Feb. 24, interviewing Gennady Afanasyev, a Kremlin political prisoner, released in 2016.
Hello and welcome to Ukraine Calling. I’m Tanya Bednarczyk for Hromadske Radio in Kyiv. This has been a difficult week of remembrance in Ukraine. Four years ago, on 18-20 February 2014, the EuroMaidan protests were violently attacked. By the time it was all over more than 100 people had been killed. Two days later, then President Victor Yanukovych disappeared only to resurface in Russia.
