KIEV, Ukraine (AP) — In the capital of Ukraine, a country gripped by a separatist war in the east and an excruciating recession, squats are flourishing and expanding in dozens of historic buildings in the city center.
Nearly a decade ago, Miroslav, a gas industry engineer who declined to give his last name, and his friends put locks on a couple of apartments in an abandoned two-story early 20th century apartment building.
Miroslav and Dasha, who studies Turkish literature, say they are investing their own money in the squat and probably would not have managed if they were penniless students with no …read more
Source: San Francisco Chronicle
