'Maidan Generation' pushes on with reforms despite setbacks Five years ago, Ukraine's Maidan pro-European uprising prompted many entrepreneurs, activists and journalists to get involved in politics. Today, a stubborn handful are still pushing through reforms despite setbacks and disappointments. As what is expected to be the first round of a highly unpredictable presidential elections takes place Sunday, those who entered government or parliament after the 2014 election of President Petro Poroshenko, who is now struggling in polls, they underestimated the difficulty of changing a power structure largely inherited from the Soviet era at the time of national crisis -- Russia's annexation of Crimea and the start of a war with Russia-backed separatists. IMAGES of Maidan square in Kiev AND SOUNDBITES of 'Maidan generation'