Kurkov, Andrey, Ukraine Diaries: Dispatches From Kiev , London, Harvill Secker, 2014, pp. 272 Account by an enthusiastic Russian Ukrainian novelist, best known for his surreal Deat of a Penguin, who was a symphatetic observer of protests, and stresses popular anger at the systematic corruption of Yanukovytch regime and the spontaneous self-organising nature of the Euromaidan movement.