world was discovered wearing a bulletproof vest in full parliamentary session. It was January 28: MP Lesya Orobets and opposition colleagues were beginning, for the first time in two months that a serious crisis shakes the Ukraine, and after harsh street clashes between police and demonstrators, negotiations with the camp of President Viktor Yanukovych. The next day, hoping to quickly reach a peaceful resolution of the conflict seemed gone.

Lesya Orobets is, at age 31, the youngest elected to the Rada, which she had been six years in the ranks of the party Batkivchtchina of imprisoned former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko. It is one