From Serhiy Zhadan, author of “Big Mac and Other Stories,” “Anarchy in the UKR,” “Capital,” “Ballads of the War and Reconstruction,” “The Very Best Poems, Psychedelic Stories of Fighting and Other Bullshit,” “History of Culture at the Beginning of the Century,” and other works:
“The main cause of violent confrontations is the passing of the January 16 laws. They have eliminated any space for maneuvering for the protestors. Wittingly or unwittingly, the government is pushing civil society into a corner, from which there’s no exit except to break the system.”