i was there on the second maidan, andi maidan.here on the second maidan, and i stayed after second maidan, and i stayed after second maidan, even if the leader decided to do the same thing as poroshenko is doing to me now, to declare me persona non grata. so part of the ukrainian landscape and history for the last 25 years. no offence, but you are not ukrainian, you are georgian. i am georgian. you are not ukrainian, you are georgian. iam georgian. iam you are not ukrainian, you are georgian. i am georgian. i am proud to be georgian. but there are at intertwined stories of georgians and ukrainians. there were ukrainians fighting for georgia in the 90s against russian immigration, there we re against russian immigration, there were officers only front, on the eastern front. there are many people of georgian origin in ukraine. in the ukrainian political spectrum. there is a ukrainian minister in the georgian government. so if you will just talk about ethnicity, these countries are interconnected. and you are countries are interconne

i was there on the second maidan, and i stayed after second maidan, even if the leader decided to do to me now, to declare me persona non grata. so part of the ukrainian landscape and history for the last 25 years. no offence, but you are not ukrainian, you are georgian. i am georgian. i am proud to be georgian, but there are intertwined stories of georgians and ukrainians. there were ukrainians fighting for georgia in the ‘90s against russian immigration. there were officers on the front, on the eastern front. there are many people of georgian origin in ukraine, in the ukrainian political spectrum. there is a ukrainian minister in the georgian government. so, if you'll just talk about ethnicity, these countries are interconnected. and you're exactly right, i've got lots of enemies, but i would be very unhappy if they don't consider me theirfriend. but what we have in these countries is that oligarchs took over. and things are not as they look, because georgia is controlled by one oligarch, moldova is controlled by another, ukraine is controlled by several oligarchs, that control the

adherents of the pro-western maidan movement had chased them here.im papura was on the pro-russian side. his mother still has a helmet, deformed by the incredible heat of the fire in the union building. fatima papura: [speaking ukrainian] here, the hammer and sickle and red legion. i know it's his helmet. he had written that on it. there were lots of helmets like this there. reporter: vadim had joined the "communist youth" and opposed the government in kiev and its pro-western course. tetjana sojkina was on the pro-western side. even today has little pity for the pro-russian people who died in the union building. tetjana sojkina: [speaking ukrainian] a lot of aggression had built up. i didn't feel sorry about anything. i understand that they were human beings, and maybe they weren't personally to blame. but they wanted to destabilize the situation in odessa. they wanted russia here. they wanted war. they were our enemies. reporter: ukraine was on the verge of civil war. the violence in odessa acted as a signal to the separatists in the donbass region