Between classes in Kolkata, India, 17-year-old Svyatoslav Yurash was glued to a video stream of almost a million of his compatriots rallying in Ukraine’s capital when he decided to join the protest that would soon swell into a revolt.
The night before in Kyiv – on Nov. 30, 2013 – hundreds of demonstrators, most of them students, had been bludgeoned by riot police. The idealistic Yurash couldn’t stand by any longer. He flew home and rushed to Independence Square — better known as simply the Maidan. Soon, he would launch the influential EuroMaidan PR agency that amplified voices from the barricades in half a dozen or so languages across almost as many platforms.
