As Kateryna Kruk walked among her fellow protesters in Kyiv’s central square while checking her phone during the early days of the Euromaidan in December 2013, she noticed an opportunity: Ukrainians shared news of the revolution almost entirely in Ukrainian or Russian. Inspired by the use of social media during the Arab Spring, Kruk started tweeting in English. Within a few days, Kruk had thousands of foreign followers on Twitter, and she became a de facto spokeswoman and go-to source for Western journalists and politicians.Kruk, 24, is emblematic of a group of Ukrainian women activists who played key roles during …read more
Source: Atlantic Council
