NEWSLINK Time: Theft of Ukraine’s ‘Golden Loaf’ Reflects the Revolution’s Failings: The disappearance of a symbol of the revolution comes as President Poroshenko’s approval rating crumbles.

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When revolutionaries stormed the mansion of Ukraine’s President Viktor Yanukovych one year ago, a few of them ran up the winding staircase to the master bathroom, expecting to find the golden toilet that was rumored to be in the house. Instead, as they rifled through the gaudy rooms that day, they found something better, or at least more bizarre: a golden loaf of bread, weighing about two kilograms, that a prominent businessman had given the President as a gift in an elaborate wooden box. …

 

 

 

http://time.com/3748769/ukraine-revolution-golden-loaf-theft/

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