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And now use fewer miles to get there even faster with Market Fare Flight Rewards. With these and other new Aeroplan benefits 3 , now you're really flying! Get started with a Welcome Bonus 1 of 15,000 Aeroplan Miles. Learn more at a branch or at td. com/ aeroplan Get away faster with 1.5x Aeroplan Miles. Eggs Milk Gas Makeup Toothpaste New York M EZHIGORYE, Ukraine - The centre of Kyiv was relatively calm Sunday after months of protests that reached their violent apex last week, leaving scores dead in the streets, driving Ukraine's president out of the capital and placing the opposition in tenuous control of this troubled nation. But on the highways leading north of the city, it was a different matter. The roadways were clogged with cars, drivers madly honking, edging their way forward and then parking anywhere they could, leaving people to continue on foot. They weren't in flight from the capital but on an unlikely pilgrimage. On this grey and overcast afternoon, they had come to see the opulent home ousted president Viktor Yanukovich had left behind, even as many of them wrestled with the question of who would take his place. Their destination was a 133- hectare country estate here in Mezhigorye, about 16 kilometres out of the capital. They were drawn by reports of luxury. They didn't see the rumoured golden toilets, but they did find exotic trees and birds. Marble staircases and a steam bath as large as a house. A frigate that houses a dining room and bar overlooking the marvellous expanse of the Dnieper River. A golf course and tennis courts and swimming pool. Streams and lakes adorned with granite, limestone and classic sculptures styled after ancient Greek and Roman works. Until Sunday, all that and much more had belonged to Yanukovich. He fled the capital Friday after signing an agreement with opposition leaders in the wake of a deadly crackdown that had killed more than 100 people, most of them protesters. He said in a video statement Saturday he remained in power and had just taken a trip to eastern Ukraine, the heart of his support, but by then parliament had voted to depose him. On Sunday, parliament reportedly turned over presidential powers to its new Speaker, Oleksander Turchinov. It also nationalized his country estate, estimated to be worth hundreds of millions of dollars and allegedly built on property taken by Yanukovich from the state through the use of front companies. " I didn't know this handsome, humble man I saw on television on a daily basis was a czar," said Alla Petrenko, a 59- year- old pensioner, as she stared Sunday through a French window of Yanukovich's three- storey home at a gilded, winding staircase with marble steps inside. " Our country lives like a beggar, always with an outstretched hand, like myself on a pension of $ 136 a month, and all this time ( Yanukovich) lived here like a padishah ( king)." Petrenko moved on to a more urgent issue, a dominant topic of conservation Sunday almost everywhere in the country: the May 25 presidential election called by parliament. Ivan Dovganyuk, a 26- year- old musician and photographer from the western town of Kolomyya, looked in amazement at the expansive golf course where hundreds of people were strolling, and he shook his head. He had less kind words to say for Yulia Tymoshenko, a hero to many in the opposition. The former prime minister was imprisoned by the government until winning her freedom Saturday. " Dozens of young people from my home western regions and the rest of Ukraine died last week to stop all this corruption, among other things," he said. " But I am afraid the fruits of their heroic sacrifice will once again ( be) snatched by these old Soviet- school people like Tymoshenko, who is also guilty of the bloody crisis our country ended up in. " We need to stop relying on leaders; we need to completely change the existing system," he said. " We need to put all in power under real control of the people, the young people like those sacrificed themselves." With Yanukovich's rule apparently ended and the violence of recent days over for now, Ukraine faces other challenges. One of them, said political scientist Vadim Karasyov, is what to do with several thousand young protesters, still wearing masks and holding clubs and shields, who are patrolling Kyiv and outside roads together with traffic police. Many are conservatives who might not be content with opposition leaders such as Tymoshenko, Arseny Yatsenyuk and former world heavyweight boxing champion Vitali Klitschko. " These young people have made a real revolution and they will not that easily allow their victory to be snatched by the seasoned political professionals like Tymoshenko and Yatsenyuk and even Klitschko," said Karasyov, head of the Institute of Global Strategies, a Kyiv- based think- tank. - Los Angeles Times By Sergei L. Loiko Deposed president lived in palace MARKO DROBNJAKOVIC / THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Protesters guard the Ukrainian government building in Kyiv on Sunday, while other Ukrainians went to see the garish estate ousted president Viktor Yanukovich left behind. A_ 08_ Feb- 24- 14_ FP_ 01. indd A8 2/ 23/ 14 9: 56: 55 PM ;