POLITICAL ELITE OF UKRAINE IN 2000: "TRIUMPH" AND THE COLLAPSE OF THE MAIDAN DEMOCRACY
Recent political history of Ukraine is shown in detail in the words and deeds of its political class. However, the elite (as the best of the best) could not become it in real. Imitating its exclusivity, the authorities chose the path of confrontation and forcing permanent political conflict. The main features of the ruling political class are corruption, nationalism, active playing “democracy” and backstage flirting with the oligarchy. Populism thereby made maidan the tool of political struggle through which pseudo elite groups tried to solve the question of power and defend the interests of the oligarchs standing behind them.