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Braziers add a few degrees to the ambient air, and their gleams to the street lamps of Maidan, on this night of November 30, 2013. Independence Square, in the center of kyiv, is busy day and night. President Viktor Yanukovych’s refusal to sign a cooperation agreement between Ukraine and the European Union has upset young students. She no longer leaves the pavement. A face, youthful among all, emerges from the hats and signs. Roman Ratouchny is 16 years old, a cinema face, and the protest flame at the bottom of the iris. As a child, he accompanied his poet mother on leaving kindergarten to this same square, during the “Orange Revolution” of 2004. kyiv was already burning to get out of Moscow’s orbit.