ABSTRACT
“I felt it my duty to protect the city,” said Anatoly when he was telling me the story. At the start, he believed that the pact he signed with Valery could last and that managing the crowds was possible. “A day, two, it actually worked, and situation was calm. Our role was to manage our guys [Ultras and Iskrennost] and we did. But the others, they wanted the opposite and they outnumbered us. Things got scary very quickly.” The “others” were Antimaidan pro-testers and new-coming agitators. They appeared in the context of the Russian takeover of Crimea.
