"Turchynov said that he open to changing the country's political system from a republic," he writes, "with power centered in the capital Kiev, to a federation with considerable autonomy for the regional districts".
The first, a confederacy of princedoms with its center in Kiev, was invaded by the Tatars, in the thirteenth century.
"It was a very fascinating system," said Mr. Pinchuk, whose center in Kiev exhibits works he has collected by Mr. Murakami, Damien Hirst and others.
His friend Kostya Hnatyuk, who headed Zhuk's software development center in Kiev, was calling to say that the center had had visitors that day and not very welcome ones.
As he campaigns again for the post in an election scheduled for May 25, Klitschko is gaining more support, according to a recent poll by an analytical research center in Kiev, Institut Goroda.
Those two companies won inflated contracts with a state-run agricultural company, and also acquired a business center in Kiev with a helicopter pad on the roof that would ease Mr. Yanukovych's commute from his country estate to the presidential offices.
"Yushchenko thinks he is God," said Mikhail Pogrebinsky, a political analyst at a research and polling center in Kiev, pointing to Mr. Yushchenko's visit last week to Istanbul, where he gave Patriarch Bartholomew I of the Eastern Orthodox Church a specially minted coin with his image on it, while at home his country's currency plummeted.
The company bought more than half of the space in Ocean Plaza, the biggest shopping center in Kiev, for $280 million.
"ОКеshkin Jazz" - Improvisation for the benefits of children KYIV, 1-2 June 2013 - On the occasion of International Children's Day, Jazz producer Center Jazz in Kiev, Dom Master Klass Education and Culture supported by UNICEF organized the 4th International children's jazz festival "Okeshkin Jazz".
At the height of the crisis, when it seemed that everything was going to hell, they created an "open university" at Maidan Square (or Independence Square as it was named after Ukraine broke from Russia in 1991), the center of protests in Kiev.
