Young protest: faith in the future can be restored when you create it yourself

In 2013, I told my students: "This is not your Maidan. This is our Maidan, our generation's Maidan, the Maidan of civic activists, entrepreneurs, blue and white collar workers. It is our responsibility to finish what we did not finish in 2005. To realize what we have been planning since 2010. And to hand over the country to you without the "scoop" – a democratic country with strong inclusive institutions. A country of opportunities and justice. European".

Today, when the vast majority of young people have lost faith in Ukraine's bright future and prefer to go to the West, I have to say this: "Friends, my dear students and those whom I do not know. This is your Maidan now.".

The only way to restore faith in the future is when you create it yourself.