Indeed, 15 years after the disintegration of Soviet Union, a new catharsis seems underway, and Ukraine s Orange Revolution was part of that.

Given the city's rich cultural history and the oppressive regime it endured from 2012 to 2013, these workshops could prove to be a catharsis for many residents, still living with the trauma of Timbuktu under al Qaeda.

By 1998, Russia already had achieved a critical mass of markets and private enterprise, while the financial crash of that year worked like a catharsis, forcing the government to abolish enterprise subsidies that underpinned a devastating budget deficit of some 9 of GDP.