When thousands of mostly middle-class Ukrainians flocked to an open-air festival at an aviation museum here over the weekend, they did so in mock defiance of the economic crisis gripping their cash-strapped country.For the past year, Ukraine has been fighting a war with Moscow-backed insurgents and struggling to hold together a country still reeling from revolution. That's resulted in a sputtering economy almost entirely dependent on Western loans. But you wouldn't quite know it just by hanging around the country's capital Kyiv, the birthplace of last year's pro-democracy uprising and the cradle of Ukraine's fledgling middle class, which experts say makes up 14 percent of society. Read more at http://theweek.com/
