Political Tourists

So, my neighborhood is crawling with 'political tourists' - people bussed in from around Ukraine to set up tents as protest against the President's (legally contested) decision to call early partlimentary elections. I lived in Ukraine before and after the Orange Revolution, but I missed the show back then. Now I'm knee-deep in civic participation and am completely underwhelmed. It would be so much more exciting if I was just reading about it on the BBC instead of looking at it out my window. I would have thought reality would be much more exciting than this, but it's not.
Ukraine is always interesting, and I love this place for it. But in this instance I would prefer media sensationalism from afar than the humdrum reality out my window.