My Ukraine: A personal reflection on a nation’s dream of independence and the nightmare Vladimir Putin has visited upon itA personal reflection on a nation's dream of independence and the nightmare Vladimir Putin has visited upon it. May 12, 2015 On March 24 last year, I was in my Toronto kitchen preparing school lunches for my kids when I learned from my Twitter feed that I had been put on the Kremlin's list of Westerners who were banned from Russia. This was part of Russia's retaliation for the sanctions the United
