In the aftermath of the revolution, Ukraine's police have disappeared from the streets
Riot police kneel as they apologise to Lviv residents for taking part in an operation against anti-government protesters in Kiev (Reuters)
By David Blair, Kiev
11:54PM GMT 26 Feb 2014
The Telegraph
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The task of controlling entry to a European capital with almost 3 million people has fallen to a 30-year-old electrician called Andreiy, who mans a motorway checkpoint made of old tyres.
Along with four other revolutionaries clad in motley camouflage, he stands guard on the north-eastern fringe of Kiev, watching a vital link between the city and the outside world.
In the aftermath of the revolution, Ukraine's police have disappeared from the streets and handed their duties over to revolutionaries.
In other capitals, the sudden withdrawal of the police would risk a general collapse of law and order. But Kiev is different: shops and offices have reopened and traffic fills the streets. Even banks and jewellers feel confident enough to open their doors despite the absence of a functioning police force.
Andreiy and his comrades keep watch for buses packed with "tituskhi" - the young criminals hired by the old regime to harass protesters. "If we see a suspicious vehicle, we take the registration number and contact the revolutionaries in the centre of Kiev and ask them to stop it. If they call us and tell us to stop a car, then we do," he said.
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Andreiy also enforces good behaviour at a nearby junction, although elsewhere in Kiev a few traffic police have reappeared. "If somebody crosses a red light, we say 'please don't do that'. We can't make them pay anything, but we just warn them," he said.
Whether all the revolutionaries are so restrained is open to question. But Ukraine's police were so notorious for taking bribes that few miss their absence.
The revolutionaries, meanwhile, have shown their ability to enforce order.
The area of central Kiev which they have controlled for months is packed with expensive shops, including branches of Gucci and Louis Vuitton. These businesses have closed their doors, but their windows are unbroken and there is no visible sign of looting.
Anna Grygorenko, who serves at a jewellery counter in Komod shopping centre, had no qualms about placing a glittering array of earrings and necklaces on display. "We had the revolution because there was no law and people wanted to control the police. There was no trust in the police - people were afraid of them," she said.
"So it's the opposite: if we don't have police and people try to control things themselves, it makes me feel safer."
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