Heard about the "Arab spring"? [1] That was three years ago.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arab_Spring#Social_media_and_th...

If I am not mistaken, the first thing the middle-eastern governments did was try to kill internet access?

In fact it is how people knew something bad was about to happen?

It has pretty decent internet access. Check this out: http://www.helpeuromaidan.info/

I also personally organised 2 Euromaidan hackathons in the last 2 months.