By Charlotte Alfred
KIEV, Ukraine (AP) — In Ukraine, trashing a politician isn’t a metaphor. It’s literal: Find a suspected shady official, grab him and throw him into a dumpster.
Online videos of several public figures receiving the treatment from gangs of rowdy activists have provoked both glee and revulsion.
The fad is part of a broader coarsening of the political climate in Ukraine as anger simmers over the snail’s pace of reforms and persisting corruption since the overthrow in February of former President Viktor Yanukovych.
“People are seeing no real changes … people see no fairness,” said Maxim Latsyba, head of the social development program
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